In Striking the Right Balance for Transparency, published in March 2015, the Information Commissioner of Canada stated: “(My) predecessors and I have documented multiple challenges and deficiencies with the (Access to Information Act). The Act is applied to encourage a culture of delay. The Act is applied to deny disclosure. It acts as a shield against transparency. The interests of the government trump the interests of the public.”

Canada slides to 59th of 102 nations on information freedom

http://thechronicleherald.ca/letters/1313332-canada-slides-to-59th-of-102-nations-on-information-freedom

Charles. The article states that similar problems occur at the Provincial and Municipal levels. In addition they wrote letters to the Leaders running in this election and have not received any response.

Soooo. What are you doing about this situation other than posting articles that support your political view.

Have you approached the City, or the Province, to change their access to information laws, and make them more accessible. You should note from the article that Newfoundland made great gains in this area.

Perhaps you are working with all levels of Government to get some changes made, if so please let us know how you have made out so far.

Remember that **Action** speaks louder than **Words**

I have to say Trent Derrick has the most signs up.

I really want to hear what bob z has to say…..anyone heard from bob???

tliotg if you google 13 conservative MPs drone on like robots you will find him saying all he is allowed to say.

Yes Hartly ..the go bots have nothing to say we have not heard.. ABC…..Just get out and VOTE ….

My vote has swayed from Liberal to NDP, from NDP to Liberal. I would prefer to support the Liberals at this point, but will likely vote for whoever has the best chance to beat Todd. Either the NDP or Liberals are a better choice than the Tories IMO. Tracy is the most impressive candidate in Cariboo-PG though.

tliotg, Bob Zimmer has been a very busy boy in the past week or so. He attended all candidate debates in McBride, Tumbler Ridge and Fort Nelson!

Besides posting some very kinda sorta weird posts on this site, what have you done in the past week or so?

The good news for you is that I suspect that you will have ample opportunity to hear what Bob has to say over the next 4 years!

Cheers!

So Bob Z has been busy this week, election was called around 9 weeks ago. But its all good he’s busy now.

But the real question is what has he done for the last four years.

Nothing he has done nothing.

I’ve spoken with lots of people who voted conservative last time. But they are not going to do it again. The fact that Dick, didn’t care about our riding the conservative party allowed his crazy travel expenses and he hand picked Todd are just too much for them. Don’t even get them started on Harper.

They don’t want to vote NDP, or Conservative and are liking what they hear from Tracy Calegheros.

Time for change

I have said this before it doesn’t matter who you voted for unless the individual enter cabinet the rest will all just be back benchers worming their seat.

I have always voted for the party that has the best leader and platform forget about personal consideration by the person you voted for to represent you in parliament it just doesn’t happen.
Cheers

R2, even entering the cabinet is not a guarantee that the input from individual ministers will have any impact on any micro-managing control freak of a PM who additionally manned a PMO (office) with dedicated non-elected yes men/women spin doctors.

Prince George, who you see as a “micro managing control freak of a PM” heads a Party that would have had a far more difficult time ever achieving office, and retaining it, if what regularly happened to the Reform Party had been allowed to continue. Every time any Reform MP opened his or her mouth on any issue to express the feelings of the majority of the constituents who had elected them, particularly in rural ridings, the big city Liberal favouring media took whatever was said completely out of context and made a headline out of it to try to make these people look like buffoons. Lets remember, Prince George, in Canada, as elsewhere, the control of the media and the control of finance are concentric, and the Liberals have traditionally been the Party of the big city debt dealers of high finance. Who will no doubt be salivating at the prospects of how much Justin will be ‘borrowing’ to fund all that infrastructure, and all the tax money they’ll collect in interest from it.

I might add to that, Prince George, that the main reason so many Liberals and other left wing fellow travellers hate Harper so intently is because he’s largely spoiled their little racket of using their long time domination of the media to manipulate voters. The
Conservative candidates learned from the mistakes made by the early Reform MPs, and how the ‘news’ media would use anything it could against them. So they simply denied them the opportunity. And it worked. And likely will again.

“Who will no doubt be salivating at the prospects of how much Justin will be ‘borrowing’ to fund all that infrastructure, and all the tax money they’ll collect in interest from it.”

Well, if lending out money and collecting interest on it makes them drool they are already standing up to their armpits in saliva because Stevie borrowed another 160 billion dollars (in 10 years) and added that vast sum to the federal debt, remember?

It appears that this is about the amount by which the debt had been reduced by his predecessor, so what exactly is your point?

“It appears that this is about the amount by which the debt had been reduced by his predecessor, so what exactly is your point?”
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Well, if you want to talk about the debt that Stevie has wrung up, lets remember that was done in a period of global recession. And if the Conservatives had maintained a ‘balanced Budget’ throughout that period they would have had to further remove purchasing power from the hands of Canadians that was ALREADY insufficient for many to live on. That would’ve led to a further downward spiral of the whole economy as more businesses closed and unemployment levels rose. They couldn’t have got anywhere near enough in taxation from the ‘wealthy’, simply because many in that category do not receive incomes in ways readily taxable. (Or Justin wouldn’t be proposing taxing the wealthy, of which, as one of that class, he knows full well won’t cut into his trust fund revenues, or cause Mrs. T to have to take in the neighbour’s laundry to make ends meet.)

And further to that point, you wrote:-“Well, if lending out money and collecting interest on it makes them drool they are already standing up to their armpits in saliva because Stevie borrowed another 160 billion dollars (in 10 years) and added that vast sum to the federal debt, remember? “. But Stevie did this in a way and at a time that DIDN’T cause interest rates to rise. We DIDN’T go back to double digit interest rates on home mortgages, and business loans, etc. Like what happened when daddy Trudeau went on a spending spree financing ‘social programs’ and running up debts like there was no tomorrow. Now junior is going to wrack up billions in deficits to fund infrastructure. At a time when a mere 2% rise in the cost of mortgage interest could put many Canadian homeowners in a spot where they couldn’t make their payments. What he’s proposing is pure ‘inflation’. And we’ll get taxes, not on the 1% who are super wealthy, but across the board, on all of us, to try to contain it. How many time are we going to be sold this worthless prescription before we wisen up to what it really is? Sure, we want to have nice new infrastructure. But how many time over do we want to pay for it? Isn’t once enough?