Liberal media reporters were seen scurrying about looking for bottles of whiskey in the Senate Chambers, but found none. Then they looked in the Senators’ lounge area behind the official Senate La-Z-Boy recliners (that’s pronounced “Lay-Zed-Boy”, apparently, in Canuckland, in order to make it “not American”) hoping to find “Bush”. Or “Rumsfeld”. Or any other “American-style” “war criminal”.
There’s simply nothing more enjoyable these days than reading liberal media articles on things like Liberal Senate reports which totally endorse and underscore the rightness of conservative talking points (like mine), and put a lie to their own.
Today, the Liberals’ Senate division which is obviously dominated by patronage-appointed Liberals and sundry leftist-Liberal Party suck-ups, have issued a report, yet again, demanding that the government join the U.S. Ballistic Missile Defence system which they swear is a bad idea during elections, and to raise defence spending immediately because it’s currently wholly inadequate.
Allowing time for rightful snickers.
As we know but are too afraid to say because it just ain’t liberal and therefore must be American-style or Bush-like, the liberal-left chopped spending over the past years in power and caused a near rust-out of our military.
Senators endorse missile defence, want more money for defence, foreign aid
OTTAWA (CP) – A Senate committee says Canada should sign on to the U.S. missile defence program, while doubling per-capita foreign aid and raising defence spending again.[…] It’s the latest in a series of Senate reports which have called for a stronger military and more defence spending.
In a report from the liberals’ Globe and Mail:
A Senate committee says Canada should sign on to the U.S. missile-defence program, while doubling per-capita foreign aid and raising military spending again.
The Senate committee report says the country’s current attitude towards U.S.-Canada relations is “immature” and that the security and prosperity of Canadians is reliant on an improved working relationship with the U.S. The report notes that Canada has been invited in as a partner in the U.S. ballistic missile plan – at no cost.
“The Liberal Government declined last year. The current government should definitely not decline,” the report says. It also notes that the plan’s technology is sound and that the system has the potential to be a very useful, non-nuclear defence for all of North America.
“It is in Canada’s interest to begin discussions once more with the United States with a view to becoming a partner in the U.S. ballistic missile defence program,” Senator Michael Meighen said at a press conference in Ottawa on Thursday.
The wide-ranging 323-page report doesn’t pull any punches, calling Canada’s armed forces a “one-trick pony” that is ill-equipped to deal with multiple threats.
“Canada does not have the military tools in place to deal with more than one major threat at a time (at best) in an era when Canadians may be called upon to counter multiple threats in different places and simultaneously – both domestically and abroad,” the report states.
It also estimates that the government’s projected $20-billion military budget could be up to $15-billion short of what would be required by 2012. […]
If the sober second thought set stays sober long enough, maybe they’ll even suggest we do our duty and send troops to Iraq to help win that part of the war too, rather than continue to “cross our fingers” as a matter of official state defence policy.
I’m sure it’s a coincidence, yes that’s what I’m calling it. But just moments after writing all of the above, I got the latest email from my friends at the Conservative Party of Canada, from whence smart-talk emanates on an alarmingly frequent schedule (and as we know, liberals are against that). Here’s some of it:
“The Government is not looking for a report. We are seeking action. Honourable Senators, years of delay on Senate reform must come to an end. And it will. For the Senate must change.”– Prime Minister Stephen Harper, September 7th, 2006
Dear Mr. Johannesen,
With those words on the subject of Senate reform, Prime Minister Stephen Harper made history, becoming the first sitting Prime Minister to testify before a Senate Committee.
It has become a right of passage for aspiring leaders and prime ministers to promise Senate reform on their way to the top, only to abandon the issue upon taking control of the government.
No more.
Canada’s New Government has begun the long-overdue process of Senate reform. The introduction of Bill S-4, An Act to Amend the Constitution Act, 1867, an Act that proposes to limit Senate terms to eight years for new Senators, is the first practical and achievable step toward that reform.
Prime Minister Harper also pledged before the Senate Committee to introduce, in the future, a bill in the House of Commons that would seek to create a process to choose elected Senators.
Ordinary taxpayers and families applauded the Prime Minister’s efforts to bring about reform to an institution badly in need of it. Liberal elites, however, scoffed. They like the Senate the way it is: unelected, unaccountable, and increasingly obstructionist.
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