🚀 go-pugleaf

	I'm going to add can.general and man.general to this conversation since 
it has national implications.

On 11-12-08 11:30 AM, GM homepc wrote:
> Can anyone explain how Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz will be allowed
> to push Bill C-18 though a PC dominated Senate when the matter has been
> ruled against the law by a Federal Court decision?

	I'll try.

	The theory they are using is the government can change the law any time 
they wish. Therefore they can never break the law.

> Granted the ruling
> will be appealed.

	Irrelevant (to them).

> But in the mean time, wouldn't Senate involvement in
> passing a bill that is presently ruled illegal by Canada's own justice
> system make them an accessory to a crime, or at least in contempt of court?

	Not if they unilaterally rewrite the contract and define their actions 
as legal.

> If our ruling government truly believes in the rule of law and
> democracy, why is Gerry Ritz so dismissive of a Federal Court decision
> and so vehemently opposed to allowing and open vote by prairie farmers
> to decide the fate of the CWB?

	You're making some fairly big assumptions here. Like the Liberals of 
the 70's and 80's they believe they are ruling by divine right. They are 
just as arrogant.

	Still, people have to realise the Conservatives are doing exactly what 
they have said they'd do for years. Is anyone really surprised they'd do 
what they said they'd do. If you vote for someone who says they'll kick 
you in the backside if they get elected and you get kicked in the 
backside after voting for them then you get what you deserve.

> Could it be that there are other more
> powerful interests at play here, and that prairie farmers' rights are
> nothing more than a red herring?

	Of course. The Conservatives are doing everything they can to become 
Americans. Even our dollar is backed by the American Dollar. We no 
longer have any gold reserves. I wouldn't say farmers rights are a red 
herring. I'd say they are being sold to the highest bidder in order to 
put our economy on an equally bad footing as the American economy. 
Unlike the Americans who the Conservatives love to brown nose to, we 
can't recall bad politicians until the next election. Otherwise the 
Tories would be gone next May.

				Later
				Mike