Monday, July 05, 2010

Epoch Times - Canadian Spymaster Criticized by Alleged Beijing Front Organization



Epoch Times - Canadian Spymaster Criticized by Alleged Beijing Front Organization

Apparently, some of the criticism of the teller-of-inconvenient-truth about foreign spies in Canada influencing Canadian politicians, some of this criticism is coming from Chinese Communist Party-linked front groups. Thus helping to make Mr. Fadden's case.

3 comments:

Canadian Sentinel said...

Hmm. Seems that the NCCC is the Chinese-Communist CAIR.

Jen said...

O/T,

Who’s to blame for G20 mess? Unions

By ERIC DUHAIME,QMI Agency

Last Updated: July 6, 2010 10:00pm

While Toronto gradually picks up the pieces in the wake of violent protests and excessive police repression at the G20, ask yourself who paid for these activists to have a free-for-all in the Ontario capital.

Unionized workers, I’m looking at you.

Various labour groups financed and sent thousands of people to Toronto to protest against banks, conservatives, globalization, lowering the deficit and capitalism, just to name a few.

Your union dues pay to express and protest in favour of political opinions that are at best controversial, regardless of whether you agree with them.

Labour laws in Canada, and particularly in Quebec, protect this ideological monopoly for the unions. At 39%, unionization levels for workers in Quebec are the highest in North America.

Studies show that higher levels of unionization lead to more unemployment, slower economic growth and less private investment. It’s not hard to imagine that this leads to more protests and destruction in the streets.

In comparison, there are 22 American states that give workers the choice over whether they want to unionize. No one is forced to belong to a union or pay dues.

Unionization is mandatory in other parts of the United States, but workers in these jurisdictions only have to pay the portion of the union dues that directly finance collective bargaining involving their work conditions. These workers are not forced to pay a cent for any union-backed political propaganda.

Here, however, not only do labour laws give unions leverage over your freedom of association, but they also prevent you from finding out what part of your dues goes towards political activism.

By law, any publicly traded company is held to higher standards of financial transparency than unions. That said, the big labour groups are richer than the majority of publicly traded companies and are financed by mandatory union dues, even while buying stock remains a personal choice.

In the United States, the government requires unions to open their books and disclose internal information on 47 financial and 21 non-financial items, in addition to requiring them to separate regular expenses from those linked to political propaganda.

In Canada, on the other hand, labour bodies manage hundreds of millions of dollars in dues without us knowing where the money goes. Because of this, you’ll never know what percentage of your dues went to finance the destruction at the G20.

One thing is for sure: As a Canadian taxpayer, on top of the undisclosed amount spent by unions, you can expect to be on the hook for the indecent sum of almost $1 billion to cover G20 security, not to mention the cost to clean up the mess left by vandals.

Keep this in mind the next time you take a look at the huge hole that taxes and union dues make in your paycheque. Remind yourself that one not-insignificant percent of your money went to protest against your interests.

— Duhaime is a freelance writer

http://www.edmontonsun.com/comment/2010/07/06/14629161.html

Jen said...

O/T,

Who’s to blame for G20 mess? Unions

By ERIC DUHAIME,QMI Agency

Last Updated: July 6, 2010 10:00pm

While Toronto gradually picks up the pieces in the wake of violent protests and excessive police repression at the G20, ask yourself who paid for these activists to have a free-for-all in the Ontario capital.

Unionized workers, I’m looking at you.

Various labour groups financed and sent thousands of people to Toronto to protest against banks, conservatives, globalization, lowering the deficit and capitalism, just to name a few.

Your union dues pay to express and protest in favour of political opinions that are at best controversial, regardless of whether you agree with them.

Labour laws in Canada, and particularly in Quebec, protect this ideological monopoly for the unions. At 39%, unionization levels for workers in Quebec are the highest in North America.

Studies show that higher levels of unionization lead to more unemployment, slower economic growth and less private investment. It’s not hard to imagine that this leads to more protests and destruction in the streets.

In comparison, there are 22 American states that give workers the choice over whether they want to unionize. No one is forced to belong to a union or pay dues.

Unionization is mandatory in other parts of the United States, but workers in these jurisdictions only have to pay the portion of the union dues that directly finance collective bargaining involving their work conditions. These workers are not forced to pay a cent for any union-backed political propaganda.

Here, however, not only do labour laws give unions leverage over your freedom of association, but they also prevent you from finding out what part of your dues goes towards political activism.

By law, any publicly traded company is held to higher standards of financial transparency than unions. That said, the big labour groups are richer than the majority of publicly traded companies and are financed by mandatory union dues, even while buying stock remains a personal choice.

In the United States, the government requires unions to open their books and disclose internal information on 47 financial and 21 non-financial items, in addition to requiring them to separate regular expenses from those linked to political propaganda.

In Canada, on the other hand, labour bodies manage hundreds of millions of dollars in dues without us knowing where the money goes. Because of this, you’ll never know what percentage of your dues went to finance the destruction at the G20.

One thing is for sure: As a Canadian taxpayer, on top of the undisclosed amount spent by unions, you can expect to be on the hook for the indecent sum of almost $1 billion to cover G20 security, not to mention the cost to clean up the mess left by vandals.

Keep this in mind the next time you take a look at the huge hole that taxes and union dues make in your paycheque. Remind yourself that one not-insignificant percent of your money went to protest against your interests.

— Duhaime is a freelance writer

http://www.edmontonsun.com/comment/2010/07/06/14629161.html