Statistics Canada says the rate of crimes reported to police in Canada reached its lowest level in 40 years in 2011.

http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/07/24/...cs-canada-says/

so why the need for more prisons, tougher crime legislation?
answer: THEY NEED SLAVES. The ones on the inside are called inmates, these they can pay SLAVE LABOUR RATES. the ones on the outside are called the employed, these are TAX SLAVES, forced to accept ever lower paying jobs and taxes force these into paying to house PRISON SLAVES.

Public Safety Minister Vic Toews, who has been heavily criticized for his tough-on-crime agenda despite the year-after-year evidence that shows crime rates lowering in Canada, said the latest report suggests his government’s policies are working.

http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/07/24/...cs-canada-says/

take the credit vic, you deserve to be deluded.

That included changing the amount claimed for meals from $22.30 to $595.26 on a trip to Haiti in January to mark the second anniversary of the devastating earthquake

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/polit...-spending-story

another shot at oda: this is just plain gluttony, i recall a cbc news article showing haitian children EATING DIRT PANCAKES. instead of oda wolfing down in decadence, she should have had the decency to spring for a feast for a few hundred hungry children.

alas, her version of christian charity is a bit askew, no?

Senior Obama administration officials say they are angered by suggestions that the Harper government was duped into a diplomatic agreement to transfer Guantanamo prisoner Omar Khadr to a Canadian jail.

http://www.thestar.com/specialsections/o...tanamo-prisoner

vis's just gotta see the video, eh? gotta get his ego stroked.

Carson had been convicted of five counts of fraud and received court-ordered psychiatric treatment before becoming a senior advisor to Stephen Harper.

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Former+staffer+charged+with+influence+peddling/7000507/story.html

captain blah qualified him for work within PMO. the pirate ranks are filled with these types: convicted criminals, spendthrifts, liars, fraudsters, deceivers, adulterers. these are pre-qualifications for pirate membership and open doors to the gravy troughs. wait, maybe they're "saved" and that explains it.

“Requiring somebody who's been a citizen for 40 years to confirm residency for that period, to find landing papers or plane tickets is incredibly silly ... The government should assume this burden, given that it already possesses, or ought to possess, the records they seek from the applicant.”

http://www.thestar.com/news/investigatio...esidency-proofs

its okay to take the income taxes and other source deductions for a 40 yr career but when it comes time to collect pensions? time for the beat down. what a shitty ass excuse to deny a pensioner: WANT TO COLLECT YOUR PENSION? find your original landing papers when 40 yrs of income tax returns should suffice.

Labour force participation among people with disabilities is low, with 59.6 per cent active in the workforce. That's much lower than among people with-out disabilities, where 80.2 per cent of working-age adults are participating in the workforce

Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Ottaw...l#ixzz2270sNmNj

you're not dead yet, so drag your sorry ass to work. The feds are trying to squeeze every last drop of life out of the disabled. desperate to get every cent possible into EI so they can squander the funds elsewhere. LESS THAN 50% QUALIFY TO COLLECT EI. so why do we continue to pay it?

Lawyers expected dozens of women to contact them with allegations after Janet Merlo, a 19-year veteran of the force, filed suit in March but attorney Jason Murray said Monday that more than 200 people have called his firm in Vancouver.

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/...-164295226.html

nicholson knows that there is a culture of sexual abuse within the ranks of RCMP, the scope of which is sickening. COPS FUCK AND DRINK ON THE JOB AND ITS ACCEPTABLE.

The group has been instructed to identify best practices and successes in the participation of persons with disabilities in the labour market, and to identify barriers and disincentives to their employment.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2012/07/30/pol-finley-disabilities.html

well one disincentive: CLAWBACKS. persons receiving disability benefits get EVERY DOLLAR CLAWED BACK, so what is their incentive? limp to work, pay source deductions for which you will never benefit, expense out travel for work then PAY BACK THE GOVERNMENT EVERY DOLLAR EARNED?? pirates are desperate for $$$ and are exploiting our indigent, sick.

Embattled former cabinet minister Bev Oda offered no explanation Tuesday for her decision to resign as she prepared for her life as a private citizen — one who will garner nearly $700,000 in benefits by age 80 despite contributing only about $130,000 to her pension.

http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/08/01/...k-contribution/

SLURRRP!