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The Liberals want our prisoners to get taxpayer-subsidized tattoos in prison. For $5.
If I recall correctly, and a review of my past blog entry about this from January of this year verifies it, this was originally a $3.7-million, six-year pilot project. Now they’re talking about $700,000 for this year. That’s $4.2 million over six years. At least.
Does anyone really care? No. Apparently few do. So carry on, vote liberal. Nothing to see here.
OTTAWA – The government has opened tattoo parlours in federal prisons and is looking at handing out clean needles to inmates who inject drugs.
For $5, federal prisoners can now get their favourite design or phrase—but nothing racist or gang-related—etched into their skin by a fellow inmate. The project is the first of its kind in Canada and believed by some to be the only one in the world.
It is a contentious pilot project that began in August at five federal prisons across the country, with the sixth parlour scheduled to open this month.
[…] Sites for tattoo parlours were chosen from each federal region. They are operating at Atlantic Institution in Renous, N.B., Cowansville Institution in Cowansville, Que., Bath Institution in Bath, Ont., Rockwood Institution in Stony Mountain, Man., and Matsqui Institution in Abbotsford, B.C.
A parlour was scheduled to begin operating at the Fraser Valley Institution for Women in British Columbia, but it has been delayed by construction.
[…] The total cost of the program is estimated to be $700,000, she said. While the parlours are scheduled to operate only until March 31, the Public Health Agency of Canada plans on applying for funding to extend the program.
Meanwhile, Canada’s military is so completely desperate for hardware that General Hillier is trying to persuade the government to take the extremely unusual step of forgoing the usual years-long bidding process among aircraft suppliers in favor of simply getting the desperately needed military aircraft ASAP.
Bidding may be bypassed in $12.2B military deals
Ottawa — On Monday key cabinet ministers will discuss plans to bypass much of the traditional competitive bidding process for a $12.2-billion purchase of 50 military aircraft—including 15 Chinook helicopters for the mission in Afghanistan and 16 Hercules transports—because the need for new planes is so urgent, sources say.
The proposal, driven by Chief of Defence Staff Rick Hillier, has tacit approval from Defence Minister Bill Graham and Prime Minister Paul Martin, sources say.
[…] Gen. Hillier, a former commander of allied troops in Afghanistan, has mounted an intense personal lobbying effort to sell the fast-track plan to a reluctant political and policy establishment, sources say. His argument, in essence, is that the military’s need for hardware is so urgent that it would be irresponsible to stick to the old decision-making process, which often took several years.
“Hillier’s basically saying, we’re getting this because I know what we need,” said a defence department official familiar with the situation. “It’s leadership. We haven’t had that before.”
[…] Senator Colin Kenny, who heads the Senate defence committee, said the dilapidated state of the Canadian military’s planes and helicopters requires urgent solutions. He said few in the military would find fault with either new Chinook helicopters or new Hercules transports. “Few people understand the extent of the rust-out,” he said.
Does anyone really care? No. Apparently few do. So carry on, vote liberal. Nothing to see here.
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