Sand in the Shorts: Good Jack Will Be Missed

By James Phieffer - also published in the Intelligencer (Tuesday August 23, 2011)

"I'm going to fight cancer now so I can be back to fight for families when Parliament resumes."

That line says it all: Jack Layton was a fighter. He was also a good and caring man.

Known as someone with a pragmatic side, he was willing to work toward compromise if that would help his constituents.

It was this pragmatism that has allowed him to enjoy the success he has had as the leader of the New Democratic Party.

Mr. Layton came from a political family, from his father, Robert Layton, who served in the government of Brian Mulroney, all the way back to his Great-Grand Uncle, William Steeves, a Father of Confederation from New Brunswick, and later a Liberal Senator.

He was very active in political affairs as a youth in Quebec, and later involved himself in local politics after he moved to Toronto.

More about his biography will be printed over the coming days; what I wish to consider is the impact he had on Parliament Hill.

Jack Layton was an optimist, according to those who knew him, and that optimism was evident in how he approached his work.

This was part of how he impacted the NDP, as the party became a voice for optimism and possibilities.

He saw possibilities in a province that had only elected one NDP MP in its history, leading the party to a Quebec landslide in the 2011 general election when the NDP took 59 of 75 seats.

It was as much a victory for Jack Layton as it was the NDP. Across the province, unknown 'placeholder' candidates were elected, with the majority of votes being cast for Jack Layton. They didn't know who their candidate was, but they liked Jack.

His "Orange Crush" victory also swept aside the separatist Bloc Quebecois, something for which all Canadians should thank him.

Jack Layton was both a man of principle but also a pragmatist. There are stories about his time on Toronto City Council, where he brought together disparate points of view to form a workable, but principled, compromise.

He demonstrated his hold to his principles in matters such as his opposition to Toronto's bid for the 1996 Olympics as part of the "Bread, Not Circuses" coalition. This may have helped defeat him when he later ran for mayor of Toronto.

I was not a supporter of Jack Layton. He and I stood on different sides of a multitude of issues. But there is no question I respected him then, as I do his legacy now.

He helped build the NDP into a vital party in Ottawa, ensuring Canada has that which is essential to any democracy — a strong opposition.

He believed in standing up for those who could not stand up for themselves. He was a proud Canadian.

Maybe the best way to summarize Jack Layton is to use the words of popular Quebec television host Guy A. LePage. After having him on his show, Tout le monde en parle, he called him "un bon Jack" - good Jack.

He will be missed.

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Huffington Blows into Canada

Remember the outcry over Sun News Network – the supposed “Fox News North” was accused by the hysterical left of being everything from a waste of space on your tv dial to the harbinger of Armageddon itself.

So imagine how surprised I was to see that the Huffington Post has a new Canadian version. The oddly popular apparent love child of the National Enquirer and Earl Browder, contributing relatively little to intelligent discourse south of the border, has spawned a clone now in the Great White North. In taking a look at it, I found the original HuffPo with a smattering of unsurprisingly left-wing Canadian commentary. Oh – and they stuck a Maple Leaf on the title. I'm shivering.

But where then is the outcry over the American intrusion into the Canadian media sphere that there was with the idea of an actual Canadian version of Fox News, let alone the outrage cultivated by American Avaaz.org over the creation of Sun News Network?

I mean, surely those voices decrying the idea of the Americanization of Canadian media coverage when they jumped on Sun would just as vigorously denounce this intrusion from the opposite end of the political spectrum? They wouldn't have been opposing only because they wanted to restrict the ability of those who hold to a different political ideology to have the same media access as the left currently has through the CBC?

I should say I have absolutely no problem with the Huff n' Blow coming to Canada. I am a firm believer in freedom of expression, and a free marketplace of ideas. If they can jump over the border and find a solid readership amongst the soft of logic amongst us, then more power to them.

I just still hold to the absurd hope that the left might own up to their own hypocrisy.

iPOLITICS WITH DON NEWMAN: Why Mark Carney should head the IMF | iPolitics

By Don Newman - from iPOLITICS.ca

The man who should be the next managing director of the IMF observed last week in a speech to the Canadian Club of Ottawa that the world is at a hinge point just as it was a hundred years ago.

The emergence of China and India is influencing wealth, work, and trade in the same way the emergence of the United States changed Great Britain and the major powers of Europe during the early part of the 20th century.

Economically, at least, we now live in a multi-polar world. Will security and strategic power follow the money? He didn’t say it wouldn’t.

The speaker was Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney. In the policy deficit world in which Canadians now live, his remarks didn’t receive the attention they deserve. One can only hope people in the political and financial capitals of the world were paying attention.

To find someone running a central bank of a G-8 country who can articulate the stated facts clearly and positively is important when now is certainly the time to notice. Why? The International Monetary Fund needs a managing director.

The problems Dominique Strauss-Kahn brought upon himself last weekend in a New York hotel suite mean his tenure is over no matter how the sexual assault charges are disposed.

The job of secretary general of the IMF ebbs and flows in importance. It has never been more influential than right now as the international economy struggles to get back on its feet, and the G-20 emerges as the steering group of advanced and developing nations.

So the jockeying is on. Since its founding as the world’s economic policeman, the managing director has been a European by consensus. The quid pro quo is that the president of the World Bank is always an American.

So the Europeans are lobbying frantically for the IMF’s top job.

However, the rising power of the emerging economies has changed the governing and financial structure of the IMF, and a number of those countries are saying it’s time to put an end to the cosy deal on the fund’s top jobs.

The problem is there is no clear-cut emerging economy. Even if there were, it is not clear rivalries among those countries allow agreement on who that person should be.

Enter Mark Carney and Canada.

Regular dad was crack WWII code breaker | Features | National Post

By Joe O'Connor - from the National Post

To his four kids, he was a regular dad with some irregular talents. Cliff Stewart could fix the family toaster in a blink. Radios, television sets, family cars — anything with wires that went on the fritz, and out came the tools.

“His ability to solve problems — his technical skills — he could always figure something out and make it work. He could literally fix anything,” said Tom Stewart, his eldest son.

To his family, Cliff Stewart was Dad, the super-whiz. But to his World War II comrades, Cliff Stewart was something else. Behind the extraordinary technical talents around the house was an extraordinary secret, a tale of intrigue and espionage that featured Mr. Stewart at the centre of it as a super spy and code breaker.

It was an occupation he never, ever, spoke about, not until the last years of a long life that ended when Mr. Stewart passed away at his home in suburban Charlottetown last weekend.

He was 91.

At his funeral Wednesday he will be remembered as a grandfather, a good friend, a colleague and loyal employee in the auto shop at D.C.D Auto Electric, a water-skiing coach and a volunteer fire captain.

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Regular dad was crack WWII code breaker | Features | National Post

Gabriel Latner: How Canada can force China’s hands on human rights | Full Comment | National Post

By Gabriel Latner - from the National Post

In his victory speech, Prime Minister Harper spoke of making Canada “truly strong and free”, and the “best country in the world, but always striving to be better.” It makes for nice rhetoric, but if the Prime Minister truly believes in freedom, and its pre-eminence in Canada’s culture, he will publicly demand China release Dr. Wang Bingzhang.

Wang Binghzhang represents the kind of immigrant Canada’s successes have been built on. He studied hard at McGill, eventually earning a PhD in pathology — all while raising a family. Dr. Wang is dedicated to the Canadian values of freedom, democracy and peace. According to his daughter, it was this dedication that lead him to try bring these values to his native land of China. He co-founded the International Pro-Chinese Democracy Movement, and played a key role in organizing the Tienanmen Square protests in 1989. For these actions, he is hated by the Chinese government. That raises the question over how much China can truly claim to respect Canada — it treats our values as threats to its own existence.

When Dr. Wang was in Vietnam in 2002, China “disappeared” him — they sent a team to kidnap him and take him to China, where he was held secretly for months. When Dr. Wang’s family finally found out where he was, the news only got worse. Dr. Wang had been convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment — without any evidence or witnesses to condemn him. He is currently in solitary confinement. All this for the “crime” of preaching the merits of democracy and human rights, the birthrights of all Canadians.

So far, Canada’s official response has been lacking. In 2003, a parliamentary standing committee submitted a report, noting that the standing committee — not even Parliament — “Calls upon the Chinese Government to release Dr. Wang Bingzhang from prison, and permit him to be reunited with his family and colleagues.” Nothing further has been said in the eight years since.

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Gabriel Latner: How Canada can force China’s hands on human rights | Full Comment | National Post

Thin-film flexible 'Paperphone' created

By Ben Coxworth - from Gizmodo.com

The Snaplet's Wacom tablet function

Researchers from the Human Media Lab at Canada's Queen's University have created a fully-functioning floppy E-Ink smartphone, which they also refer to as a paper computer. Like its thicker, rigid-bodied counterparts, the Paperphone can do things like making and receiving calls, storing e-books, and playing music. Unlike them, however, it conforms to the shape of its user's pocket or purse, and can even be operated through bending actions.

"This computer looks, feels and operates like a small sheet of interactive paper," said its creator, Roel Vertegaal, who is also the director of the Human Media Lab. "You interact with it by bending it into a cell phone, flipping the corner to turn pages, or writing on it with a pen."

Researchers have created a thin film flexible smartphone, known as the Paperphone (Photos: Queen's University)

The device has a 9.5-cm (3.74-inch) thin film flexible E-Ink display, underneath which is a flexible printed circuit incorporating resistive bend sensors. Those sensors allow it to be programmed to recognize different types of bending gestures, which will subsequently result in it doing things such as navigating menus, making calls, selecting songs, or any other function. A built-in Wacom tablet also allows users to draw on its screen – making it even more paper-like.

When not actually being operated, the Paperphone consumes no electricity. Vertegaal's team have also created a similar device, the Snaplet, which can be worn like a wristband. It operates as a watch when in a convex state, becomes a PDA when flat, and can be used as a phone when turned concave. Read more...

The Paperphone's sister device, the Snaplet wearable computer

Thin-film flexible 'Paperphone' created

Jonathan Kay: Why I’m grateful that Britain’s immigrants chose Canada | Full Comment | National Post

by Jonathan Kay - from the National Post

When my father-in-law was a small child growing up in Leeds, his father George would take the family to the movies on weekends. Money was scarce. (George was an underpaid draftsman at the time.) But on the way home from the theatre, as a rule, they would splurge for fish and chips, a fast-food delicacy that, in those times, invariably came sheathed in day-old local newspapers.

But on one fateful occasion in late 1952 — my father-in-law was nine at the time — the family unwrapped their fish and found that the covering was not the Yorkshire Evening Post or the Wetherby News, but something more exotic: Ontario’s own Hamilton Spectator.

No one can explain how that steel-town newspaper travelled across the Atlantic to take its place around these Loiners’ battered haddock. But it changed all their lives — and, in time, mine as well. Read more...

Jonathan Kay: Why I’m grateful that Britain’s immigrants chose Canada | Full Comment | National Post

Libby Davies as a Minister in a Layton government?

    Tim Powers published an article today in the Globe and Mail speculating on who might be in the cabinet if Jack Layton were to form a government.  I just about choked when he mentioned Libby Davies as Minister of Foreign Affairs.  This is, after all the NDP MP who demonstrated a remarkable ignorance of history when she stated that the Israel has been occupying Palestinian territories since 1948 (the year Israel came into existence) and that "it’s the longest occupation in history".  She was caught on video making these comments at an anti-Israeli government protest in Vancouver on June 5, 2010.


    Now, were Ms. Davies to have checked her history, she would have found the Israeli military didn't move into the West Bank and Gaza until 1967, as a result of an imminent threat of attack by Jordan, Egypt and Syria.  So, for example, Tibet, which has been occupied by communist China since 1950, has been occupied far longer.  In history, other longer occupations include the German annexation of Alsace-Moselle (from 1871-1918), the Russian (Soviet) occupation of the Baltic states (Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia)(1940-1991, broken by the German occupation of the area from 1941-1944), and the Allied occupation of Berlin (1945-1990).


    She also would have found that from 1948-1967 the West Bank and East Jerusalem were occupied by Jordan. 


    The key point here is that, for all that Jack Layton wants to show his party as being ready to lead, this is a party which has not yet shown itself to be "a government in waiting".  Had a member of the Liberal or Conservative caucus displayed such blatant bias against the existence of the state of Israel, along with a ridiculous lack of knowledge in the areas of history and geo-politics (and an apparent unawareness of the existence of Wikipedia, where she could have checked her facts before embarrassing herself), said member would have at the very least been publicly admonished and demoted by the leader of their party.


   
Instead, the only member of her party to call her out was Thomas Mulcair, who earned the enmity of other NDP MPs and supporters for his efforts.  And the question also must be asked - was Jack Layton's refusal to remove her from the post of deputy leader (a position she holds to this day) a sign of tacit agreement on his part with her basic views (if not her blundered exposition of same)?  Is an NDP government one which would take the side of Palestinian radicals (aka Hamas) against Israel, for all the talk of "even-handedness"?


    The fundamental question the voter is led to is this:


Is the NDP under Jack Layton fit or competent to lead Canada as Prime Minister?  The evidence says not.

Will Layton raise your mortgage payments? - The Globe and Mail

By Andrew Steele - from the Globe and Mail

The prospect of an NDP government remains remote, but the election of an NDP government in Ontario in 1990 seemed impossible a week out as well.

The recent Angus Reid poll, showing the NDP just five points behind the Tories, raises a frightening spectre for anyone with a mortgage.

What would the election of an NDP minority government mean for interest rates?

The markets have made little movement so far, but Doug Porter with BMO Capital Markets thinks “we could see a significant shift next Monday if these polls are remotely accurate.”

Already, there is some speculation that the polls are hurting the dollar. During this morning’s rally of major currencies against the U.S. greenback, the Canadian dollar was notably sluggish.

It’s unlikely the dollar will swan dive immediately if the NDP is elected. There is still a five-cent cushion over parity, and U.S. fiscal policy, oil prices and interest rate speculation tend to be bigger drivers of the loonie’s trajectory than politics in the short term.

But some wobbling is likely over the next week, especially if the markets had already priced in a Conservative majority and tougher fiscal policy in their earlier buying decisions. Another round of polls showing continuing NDP strength will only exacerbate that uncertainty.

The real test for the economy would come with an NDP budget. Read more...

Will Layton raise your mortgage payments? - The Globe and Mail

Kevin Libin: U.S. group crosses boundaries in urging Tory defeat | Full Comment | National Post

by Kevin Libin - from the National Post

This election may go down as the one where the Internet broke Elections Canada’s control over our electoral process. It’s already fairly certain that social media users will make hash of s. 329 of the Canada Elections Act: defiant Facebookers and Twitterers are promising to flout the ban on reporting eastern poll results early, despite the risk of fines.

But a U.S.-based Internet activist group is also shaking up traditional boundaries on the influence that foreign groups can bring to bear on Canadians’ voting intentions.

The Avaaz Foundation, a left-wing non-profit organization registered in New York and Delaware, isn’t hiding the fact that it’s crusading to defeat the Conservatives, buying ads urging Canadians to “vote strategically” in their riding to ensure “all the opposition parties together … win a huge majority of Parliament.”

And on Tuesday, the group announced it was bankrolling a lawsuit demanding the release of the Auditor General’s report into G8 spending, that might show the previous government “illegally handed 50 million taxpayer dollars to a Conservative riding and covered it up.” It’s even using Canada’s Charter of Rights to back its argument, claiming access to certain government documents are guaranteed.

Avaaz has turned up before in the midst of an election to campaign against Stephen Harper’s Conservatives. But its reappearance highlights how our elections laws seem increasingly ill-fitted to the digital era. In 2008, Avaaz registered as a third-party with Elections Canada, subletting space in Ottawa, only to decamp back to New York after the vote. It ran ads in ridings across Canada encouraging readers to vote strategically for whichever candidate stood the best chance of beating the Tory incumbent.

One target, former environment minister John Baird, called the group a “shadowy foreign organization” and complained to Elections Canada that Avaaz was demonstrating “possible” violations of restrictions on ad spending and foreign interference. Avaaz’s third-party returns did reveal some curious items: what the Tories alleged were breaches of spending limits by riding; ads bought in Halifax newspapers seemingly allocated to allowances for B.C. ridings; and while its American tax return reported US$137,724 of “political expenditures” in Canada in 2008, an Elections Canada third-party filing listed just $57,733.83. Nothing came of the complaint. Read more...

Kevin Libin: U.S. group crosses boundaries in urging Tory defeat | Full Comment | National Post

Hébert: Why Gilles Duceppe has overstayed his welcome - thestar.com

By Chantal Hébert - from the Toronto Star

Danny Williams had it. So did Lucien Bouchard. It turns out that Gilles Duceppe did not.  When it comes to their exit from the political scene, few successful leaders have a reliable sense of timing.  Intoxicated by repeated victories, many end up staying past their prime and taking their party an election bridge too far.

On that score, the former premiers of Newfoundland and Labrador and Quebec are notable exceptions. Perhaps because they had more fire in the belly to begin with and little natural inclination to fade gently into the night, Williams and Bouchard had the instinct to bow out before they had exhausted their welcome.

Duceppe, on the other hand, has missed his cue. Over the past four weeks, he has been finding out the hard way that his deal with Quebecers was not open ended after all.  Even leaders who never have to wear the scratch of a single unpopular decision ultimately exhibit corrosion from the passage of time.

For the best part of the last year, the Bloc and its leader have been on a lengthy 20th anniversary celebration. In hindsight, that celebration was ill-advised. Read more...

Hébert: Why Gilles Duceppe has overstayed his welcome - thestar.com

Jack Mintz: The campaign’s top corporate tax myths | FP Comment | Financial Post

by Jack M. Mintz - from the Financial Post

After the May 2 federal election, some politicians should sign up to a boot camp on corporate tax policy. Our election banter reminds me of the 1960s, with populist views that corporations only benefit the rich and powerful and should therefore be taxed to the hilt. The many myths about corporate tax policies being propagated are deplorable.  Read more...

Jack Mintz: The campaign’s top corporate tax myths | FP Comment | Financial Post

John Sainsbury: Rewriting history for political gain | Full Comment | National Post

by John Sainsbury - from the National Post

In a televised town hall-style infomercial, paid for by the Liberal party and aired on Sunday, Michael Ignatieff assures us that he is not “a standard-issue academic.” In sharp contrast to that tedious breed, he portrays himself as an interesting man who has led an interesting life. He’s been “out where it’s mucky and dirty and violent and scary,” dodging bullets as a war correspondent.

In 1993 he related one of his tales of derring-do in the introduction to his book Blood and Belonging. The setting is the war-torn Balkans, in the conflict zone between Serbian and Croatian territory. Our intrepid correspondent describes what happens when he and his film crew try to cross a UN checkpoint into Serb-held territory. Two Canadian infantrymen, whom Ignatieff dismissively refers to as “anxious adolescents,” man the checkpoint.

The Canadians wave Ignatieff’s party through, but their van is immediately surrounded by 15 Serbian paramilitaries, drunk from a wedding in a neighbouring village. They accuse the crew of being Croatian spies. The drunkest one (“with dead eyes and glassy, sweat-beaded skin”) seizes the van’s steering wheel and starts to drive off.

One of the Canadian soldiers, “breathing heavily,” attempts to stop him. “We’ll do this my way,” he says, pulling and cajoling the drunken Serb out of the driver’s seat. But the Canadian soldier is in turn pushed aside by a young Serb in combat gear, who seizes control of the van, arrests Ignatieff and his crew and takes them to a Serbian police station. There they wait anxiously, until an order for their release arrives, apparently from “a local Serb warlord.”

The anecdote captures Ignatieff’s thesis in Blood and Belonging, a thesis he summarizes as follows: “The key narrative of the new world order is the disintegration of nation-states into ethnic civil war; the key architects of that order are warlords; and the key language for our age is ethnic nationalism.” International agencies such as the United Nations are powerless to intervene and Ignatieff is contemptuous of their attempts to do so. Read more...

John Sainsbury: Rewriting history for political gain | Full Comment | National Post

Tory majority could hinge on where votes bleed to NDP in final week - The Globe and Mail

By Eric Grenier - from the Globe and Mail

There is only a week left in this unexpectedly surprising election campaign and the final outcome is still unpredictable. But when the votes are counted May 2, where the surging New Democrats make their gains and whether the Liberals can hold on to their own seats could mean the difference between minority and majority government for the Conservatives.

According to ThreeHundredEight.com’s updated seat and vote projections for The Globe and Mail, the Tories are still on track to fall short of a majority, with 150 seats and 38.6 per cent of the national vote. The Liberals are likely to place second with 27.4 per cent and 76 seats (a loss of one since last week), while the New Democrats follow with 19 per cent and 36 seats (a gain of two). And the Bloc Québécois has dropped two seats to 45 in Quebec.

But the final week of the election campaign will almost certainly see these vote and seat numbers change significantly. Read more

Tory majority could hinge on where votes bleed to NDP in final week - The Globe and Mail

Matt Gurney: Liberals love democracy, except when it’s ‘unprincipled’ | Full Comment | National Post

by Matt Gurney - from the National Post

For a party that’s running in large part on the fact the the Tories hate democracy and don’t respect Parliament, the Liberals sure have a weird way of staying on message. Rattled by the surge of the NDP in the polls, which has made it possible (if unlikely) that the NDP will form the official opposition atop a decimated Liberal caucus, the Liberals have shifted their attack ads to focus on Jack Layton’s NDP. This will of course take some of the pressure off of the Tories, leaving them to stay focused in a final week of campaigning while the parties on the left savage each other. But if the Liberals want to hold onto their remaining influence and legacy, they need to strike back — hard — at the party that’s threatening to become the left-wing alternative for Canadian voters.

Hence their new attack ad, “Not so fast, Jack.” The Liberals use the 30-second clip to attack the NDP on a variety of issues: Inexperience, nonsensical economic policies and, intriguingly, not being principled on the long-gun registry vote. So, apparently, the Liberal Party of Canada, God’s gift to democracy, consider allowing free votes in Parliament to be … unprincipled. Good thing they’re here to make Parliament work and counter the Tories’ disrespect for our democracy. Read more

Matt Gurney: Liberals love democracy, except when it’s ‘unprincipled’ | Full Comment | National Post

Harper promotes religious freedom - Belleville Intelligencer - Ontario, CA

By Bryn Weese, Parliamentary Bureau, QMI AGENCY

MISSISSAUGA, ONT. - Conservative Leader Stephen Harper is kicking off the final leg of the election campaign Easter weekend by promoting his party's promise to create an Office of Religious Freedom.

Later Saturday, Harper is to travel to B.C. where the party hopes to quell the rising NDP surge there.
Before a very ethnically diverse crowd at a Coptic Christian centre in this west-end Toronto suburb, Harper said a re-elected Conservative government would make defending religious freedoms a "priority" for Canadian foreign policy.
The new Office of Religious Freedom, which would be part of the foreign affairs department, would cost about $5 million a year.
Harper said in a statement Saturday that just because Canadians enjoy freedom at home, "we must not let our comfort be an excuse to shirk our commitment to the cause of freedom."
Invoking the memory of slain Pakistani Minister of Minorities Shahbaz Bhatti, Harper said, "(he) had asked us in Canada to shine a light on the persecution of religious minorities in Pakistan and around the world."
Bhatti, a Catholic, was gunned down in March of this year for his defence of Christians in Pakistan. Read more

Harper promotes religious freedom - Belleville Intelligencer - Ontario, CA

Elections Canada’s Twitter ban shows why bureaucrats and social media don’t mix

BY KATHRYN MARSHALL - from CANADA.COM

Elections Canada has decided to take on the Twitterverse. It has announced that it will apply a law from the 1930s to prevent election results from Atlantic Canada being posted on Twitter before the polls close in the rest of the country. Elections Canada claims that it is merely enforcing the law, but it applies it so unevenly that its argument does not hold water. This is why bureaucrats shouldn’t be let anywhere near social media—their instinct is to control it.

Section 329 of the Elections Act states that “no person shall transmit the results” from one riding to another before the polls are closed. The fine for breaking this can be up to $25,000 – and Elections Canada has a history of prosecuting people under this section. After the 2000 election it raided the home of a man who had posted the early results on his website, fined him and seized his computer.

So posting results on a website is taboo, but Elections Canada says it is ok to share them by email, phone call or even a Facebook message. Still sounds like transmitting to me. But it is forbidden to post the results to your Facebook profile or on your Twitter feed. Read More

Elections Canada’s Twitter ban shows why bureaucrats and social media don’t mix