Canadian PM Stephen Harper's government wants to spend billions on prisons for nonexistent cirminals

[marmar]

from the Toronto Star:



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* Why is his government replacing Canada’s mandatory detailed census form with a voluntary survey that will cost taxpayers $30 million more and provide lower-quality information to hundreds of thousands of users? Does he share Industry Minister Tony Clement’s view that Canadians who want statistically accurate data can gather it themselves?
* Why is it embarking on a review of Ottawa’s 24-year-old commitment to boost minority participation in the public service, after one aggrieved Caucasian job applicant complained to the local media?
* Why is it spending billions on new prison facilities, when the police reported crime dropped by 3 per cent last year and it now stands at a 25-year low? Does he share Treasury Board Stockwell Day’s view that “people simply aren’t reporting (crime) the way they used to?”
* Why did it award a $9 billion contract for 65 new fighter jets (with a $7 billion to $8 billion maintenance contract to follow) without a competitive bidding process? ............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.thestar.com/article/845338--pm-has-some-explaining-to-do

[BolivarianHero]

1. The Tories are in their death throes...Polling below 30%.

The next non-Tory government needs to implement PR ASAP. The only reason these fucks are even in power now is that the Liberals have been bleeding support on their LEFT flank (NDP, BQ, Green in order of left to right). Why should Canadians get a more reactionary government as they become more progressive?

[applegrove]

2. At least the Liberals are now neck in neck with the neocons. Canadians it seems

do not like unscientific science. They don't fall for that hypocritical bullshit the neocons try and socially engineer. But how do we get the left to vote liberal?

[BolivarianHero]

4. We don't...

We form a caretaker coalition government on the condition that the Liberals implement the recommendations their own cronies made in 2004 and fast-track MMPR through Parliament in such a way that would not require electoral reform.

The Liberals bash fundamentalists with one side of the mouth while allowing their party to be a haven for clique of Evangelical misogynists with the other. They claim to be for human rights and social justice abroad while committing our countries soldiers to bring tyranny back to Haiti. I don't see anything from the Liberals during their 4 years in opposition that suggest that they are willing or capable to form a progressive alternative to the Harpocons. They're in it for themselves, they have no vision, and They about as much to offer this country as Tony Blair or Kevin Rudd had to the UK.

[kenny blankenship]

3. Finding criminals to fill new prisons is no great trick. Just change the laws.

Or change the laws about how laws can be enforced and how long sentences must be. You can have a flood of criminals if that's what you want -- more than you could ever house humanely.