Today at 4 PM we will have part 2 of our look into the report into the death of Gage Guimond under the "watch" of Sagkeeng CFS.
The financial reports we will detail, expose an agency that was used to advance the personal agendas of power-brokers -- at the expense of child safety and human life, all done with under the aegis of the NDP government devolution policy.
As well we will also tell you about the report into the Cree Nation CFS, which contained 21 recommendations. Already one of them- that the Board of the agency curtail excessive spending - was rejected out of hand because, well, they have some sort of sense of entitlement. We'll tell you who these people are, later today.
Our request for an interview with Family Services Minister Gord Macintosh has been forwarded to his office, and we await his response.
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On August 3rd, in an op-ed piece in the Free Press, representatives of True North defended their original financing agreements with governments, after the Freep published a piece entitled "This Time Full Disclosure" written by Rocky Kravetsky on July 13th.
Buried deep in their rebuttal was the following gem (our observations in italics):
"... In fact, some of Winnipeg's most cherished locations and institutions have been developed and have flourished on the basis of some variation of this public/private model including The Forks (loses money), Assiniboine Park ( financial disaster pending), the Manitoba Theatre Centre, the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra ( bailed out how many times?), the Winnipeg Blue Bombers (speaking of bailouts), the Winnipeg Art Gallery, Canwest Global Park and the Winnipeg Goldeyes. "
Having ignored the checkered track record of some of their examples, they try to cap their argument with this:
"The Canadian Museum for Human Rights will be another shining example of such an initiative."
AHEM.
For the moment, let's leave aside the dubious nature of the publicly claimed costs which have not risen in 4 years, various government subsidies and "contributions", or the use of taxpayers dollars for Premier Gary Doer to trot around the country at the side of Gail Asper to practice the Museum's unique version of corporate panhandling in the guise of "world class destination".
Focus instead on the question of, what will the Museum pick and choose as the causes and issues to be featured?
Today, Canada's leading blog, Small Dead Animals, picked up a story about the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons, which has conducted a shameful attempt to secretly change their rules without giving doctors a fair chance to respond.
The new rules would see doctors targeted for following their morals, hauled before a kangaroo court in the name of "Human Rights".
http://www.consciencelaws.org/Conscience-Archive/News-Releases/News-Releases-2008-01-to-12.html#Freedom_of_Conscience_and_Religion_Not_a_Defence
"The document responds to legislative changes, which, according to the Chair of the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal, will see a twenty-fold increase in hearings before the Tribunal - from 150 to 3,000 cases per year.
According to the College, the Tribunal may take action against a physician who refuses to provide or refer for procedures that he finds morally objectionable. The College strongly suggests that the physician’s freedom of conscience and religion will be ignored because “there is no defence for refusing to provide a service” in such circumstances.
In addition to the possibility of prosecution by the Human Rights Tribunal, the College states that it will consider the Human Rights Code in adjudicating complaints of professional misconduct, even though the College admits that it lacks the expertise and authority in human rights.
The College also plans to force objecting physicians to actively assist patients to obtain morally controversial services. ..
The College posted the draft policy for consultation near the end of June, with a response deadline of 15 August. The Project, noting that there was no news release about the draft and that “the mid-summer timing of the consultation is less than satisfactory,” has asked the College to extend the deadline by 90 days.
“Commentators like Rex Murphy, Mark Steyn and Ezra Levant have condemned Canadian human rights commissions for suppressing freedom of expression,” noted Sean Murphy, Administrator of the Protection of Conscience Project. “Perhaps we should not be surprised to see them now being used to suppress freedom of conscience and religion among medical professionals.”
Listeners will recall that 7 days ago, the Winnipeg Free Press ran to defend the CMHR after publication of the true results of "focus groups (which) served as the basis for the report of the ministerial advisory committee on the museum, released earlier this year..." ( which, we note, did not mention the lack of enthusiasm for the project.)
In a True Northian moment of trying to prove their point the wrong way, the paper stated:
"The focus groups also revealed that there is tremendous interest across the country in human rights issues".
It will be very interesting to see if and when the Free Press and Madame Asper finally acknowledge the issues that are generating that "tremendous interest" are not Louis Riel or Nellie McClung or The Winnipeg General Strike, but the offensive actions in the name of their favorite cause such as:
- the illegal actions of the Canadian Human Rights Commission against Mark Steyn and Macleans magazine ,
- the abuse of the Alberta Human Rights Commission process to attempt to silence Ezra Levant, and
- this slimy attempt to hoodwink and intimidate doctors in Ontario and to refuse them their rights to follow their private beliefs, under threat of a government-mandated punitive, exhausting, expensive show trials.
But don't expect to see anything in the Museum about the world-class abuse of human rights, in the name of human rights, by bureaucrats who claim to administer human rights legislation.
Right, Gail?
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Thanks to James Turner of the Free Press for his outstanding discussion with us yesterday about the types of juvenile violence cases coming before Youth Court, the devastated morale of Manitoba Youth Centre staff, and the prevalence of the crack and cocaine trade found in the case files of gang-bangers who are running wild in the city.
James' blog can be found at
http://www.winnipegfreepress2.com/blogs/jturner/
