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Bush Reaffirms North American Union Agenda At Leaders’ Summit
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Steve Watson
Infowars.net
April 24, 2008
President Bush yesterday reaffirmed a commitment to progress the much maligned Security and Prosperity Partnership agenda, amid intensified opposition from commentators and critics concerned that the plan constitutes an undermining of national sovereignty.
At a private party to open the fourth North American Leaders’ Summit in New Orleans, Bush referred to recently encountered "setbacks" and told bureaucrats and business leaders "the meeting gives three friends the chance to come together to discuss our commitment to security and prosperity, to reconfirm the need for the three of us to work in harmony together for the good of our peoples. It’s a chance to talk about how we can best protect our people and extend prosperity."
Bush told leaders from Canada and Mexico "Tomorrow, we will be meeting with the business leaders of the North American Competitiveness Council to listen to their specific recommendations… The United States has an opportunity to continue the trading agenda."
The North American Competitiveness Council (NACC) is an advisory Council Comprised of 30 senior private sector representatives of North American corporations that were selected by the American, Canadian and Mexican governments at the June 2006 trilateral meeting in Cancun, Mexico.
Recently uncovered documents detailed how these corporate representatives have been urged to "humanize" North American integration, promote NAFTA success stories to employees and unions and evolve the harmonization agenda "without fueling protectionism".
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The documentation consists of internal memos from Canada’s Foreign Affairs and Internal Trade ministry, which were obtained by the World Net Daily reporter Jerome Corsi under an Access to Information Act request.
Business leaders have been beseeched by bureaucratic working groups to launch public relations campaigns in order to counter critics of the secretive Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP) and to report back to senior government officials with advice on an ongoing basis.
The memo highlighted how those advancing the North American integration agenda are concerned about the exposure and subsequent public backlash they have encountered recently.
Meanwhile one prominent critic of the SPP agenda, Congressman Ron Paul has vowed to intensify opposition towards the alliance and the intrinsically linked Trans-Texas Corridor and proposed NAFTA “Super Highway.”
“As we all know, there have been significant moves recently to expand the Security and Prosperity Partnership initiated by President Bush and his Mexican and Canadian counterparts in 2005. One such plan is to construct a so-called “NAFTA Superhighway” running from Mexico, through Texas, and up eventually into Canada,” Paul said yesterday.
“I have opposed this project from the beginning, signing on as a co-sponsor of House Concurrent Resolution 40 expressing Congressional disapproval of the NAFTA Superhighway and any moves toward a North American Union.”
“More recently, I introduced an even stronger piece of legislation, H.R.5191, which would prohibit the use of federal funds to carry out this highway project. The federal government has no business being partner to this outrageous plan, according to which countless landowners would have their private property confiscated under eminent domain,” Paul said.
“This prohibition of funds, if passed, would go a long way toward derailing this ill-conceived project and would send a clear message that further attempts to undermine U.S. sovereignty would not be unchallenged in Congress. It is long past time the United States House and Senate start taking our constitutional oversight roles seriously.” The Congressman concluded.
The initial Security and Prosperity Partnership agreement was signed by President Bush, Mexican President Vicente Fox and then-Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin in Waco, Texas, March 23, 2005. It established working groups, under the North American Free Trade Agreement office.
Jerome Corsi brought attention to the SPP two years ago when he obtained SPP documents, under the freedom of information act, showing that a wide range of US administrative law is being re-written in stealth under a program to "integrate" and "harmonize" with administrative law in Mexico and Canada, just as has become commonplace within the EU.
The documents contained references to upwards of 13 working groups within an entire organized infrastructure that has drawn from officials within most areas of administrative government including U.S. departments of State, Homeland Security, Commerce, Treasury, Agriculture, Transportation, Energy, Health and Human Services, and the office of the U.S. Trade Representative.
Related: Dear Deluded Mass Media, North American Union Agenda Exists
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April 24th, 2008 at 6:43 am
The NAU has existed for years already. Just think about how long it has been since all electronic items purchased in the USA come with instructions/manuals written in the three languages of Canada, US, and Mexico, namely French, English and Spanish. I admire Ron Paul’s attempts to stop this Nazi bulldozer from reaching its full fruition, however I do not believe it will be stopped anymore than the NWO has been stopped. I strongly believe this war is primarily a spiritual one, and therefore must be fought with the weapons of spirit, PRAYER! We must pray for God’s will to be done on earth as it is in heaven and spiritually prepare ourselves for the great CHASTISEMENT.
This country and indeed the world has increasingly left God out of its agenda; now God will allow the evil the world has permitted and sought to flourish and destroy all that is good. The remnant must remain faithful to God, sing His praises, worship and glorify Him, beg His forgiveness and His protection for the worse of times are ahead of us. God bless us all with His love and mercy.
April 24th, 2008 at 6:44 am
Gee how many success stories do you think are going to be from America? I say a whopping ZERO! Keep up the great work Ron Paul, I’m calling my Rep. right now and ask them to support HR5191. Everyone please do the same!
April 24th, 2008 at 6:51 am
(douchbag kid on the web @ the debate) “so tell us congressman Paul, do you really beleive in this conspiracy theory that the three countries are being merged into one” What a little dipstick. I would love to put that kid on the Truth’s most wanted list. No really I would love to run into that little douche and tell him a thing or two. “they” probably paid him to say that, or worse he probably thought that it was cool to sell out his country because he was going to be on TV.
April 24th, 2008 at 7:09 am
i completely agree Miriam!
2 Chronicles 7:14
If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
April 24th, 2008 at 7:41 am
You guys really need to make an effort to get Ron Paul into office or you are all dead meat.
I do my best in Norway informing main newspapers of infowars.com news stories but they are all bought by the same corrupt group.
You should all enlighten 5 people and have them enlighten 5 more.. you got to act.
April 24th, 2008 at 7:47 am
Have any of us read the articles on the Lisbon Treaty? When they had references to it a couple of weeks ago, I did.
It took a while, but in it it had info on these “working groups”. They are the new secret gov’t agencies. Their conclusions and decisoins are secret, reportable to no one, either in government or the public.
We should be very supportive of Ireland, since they are the only ones who can block it now, and they are hard after the leader who is opposed to passing it. I forgot his name-Bertie something.
Lately we hae been reading more & more about Bush’s “working groups”. If we don’t really get behind what Ron Paul is trying to do in Congress, we will be TOTALLY SCREWED.
Please go, sign up and follow thru @ “www.kickthemallout.com”. It is a Ron Paul National Meetup site. This could be the first assault on the NWO gangs, and it will be effective to remove those Congressmen and House of Representatives who are drinking the Kool-Aid, and taking the bribes in the form of Lobbist money.
Cut off their monthly paycheck of $14,000, and make them get a real job out here in the world. We are paying them $14,000 to SERVE OUR BEST INTERESTS, but they are only looking out for #1 (themselves).
April 24th, 2008 at 7:49 am
This transunion agenda is some serious shit, so serious that we should block any entrence for these assholes if they tried to come thru, I am more than sure every american trucker would be backed by firearms if need be, This is is the only way we the american people can make a change is to enact and serve the constitution. Obviously voting these assholes in and out does not help, we should do it the old fashion way with a modern twist, Go down there and start busting heads if any one gets in the way and i mean everyone.
April 24th, 2008 at 7:59 am
the NAU stinks. but, what really bothers me is that now i am starting to believe the movie Zeitgeist. a ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT is coming and so are the RFID chips.
charlton hesston used to say, “from my cold dead fingers” will they get my guns”
i say, “in my cold dead arm will they put an RFID chip”
April 24th, 2008 at 8:00 am
Keep waking up the People, post on Blogs, send Txt Links, Messages on your Car, Money.
April 24th, 2008 at 8:02 am
Lou Dobbs commented on CNN that Calderon’s encouragement of illegals was an admission of economic neglect by Mexico. Has Calderon no pride at all? Is he just a dupe for the NAU agenda without the slightest feelings of responsibility for the disaster his feudal policy in Mexico has had on his own people? The man might as well have lay down and licked Bush’s boots like a trained dog.
Our illegal immigration problem is NOT about people like Calderon’s relatives being in the US illegally, it is about the US supporting ultra rich tyrants who have held Mexico and Latin America back from growing into a BOOMING ecoenomy like India and China have. Steve Forbes has stated this as well.
Why are we in a “race to the bottom” as Jerome Corsi has said? Why are they deliberately destroying all the hope and hard work of Latin America’s citizens and then encouraging them to come to the US illegally? It’s all about driving us all down to slavery together. Stop the NAU! Visit http://www.WriteToRedress.com and stop the New World Order.
April 24th, 2008 at 8:10 am
Could someone please find the Executive Order that George Bush passed that said that in the event of a major disaster he could become dictator? Please post it on here, I need to prove it to some people. Help a truther out.
April 24th, 2008 at 8:16 am
National Security Presidential Directive/NSPD 51 puts the President in charge of ensuring constitutional government for all three branches of government in the case of a catastrophic emergency.
April 24th, 2008 at 8:17 am
to Miriam #1
Of course, this is a spiritual war too. And, along with praying……….. get involved. so many christians think that all they are obligated to do is Pray. GOD said “OCCUPY” until I come. Occupy means just that. to be in control. It’s time for the righteous to take back what has been stolen by evil, degenerate people. We are not instructed to stand by and idly watch and then excuse it by saying………. well I’m just waiting for the LORD to return. There’s too much of this type of cowardness coming out of the pulpits today. are we warriors or sissy’s?
April 24th, 2008 at 8:48 am
Right on Miriam. God will not be mocked. We reap what we sow. So all you so called Christians keep on rationalizing the Word of God right into the pit of hell. I will not pray for you. I pray that God’s will be done.
April 24th, 2008 at 9:33 am
Enhanced police state for Montreal game tonight.
There will be more police , a helicopter and help from the S.Q. Police are also asking any citizens with cameras or video recorders to catch and report ANY crimes or foolery to the local police and NOT THE LOCAL MEDIA!! Earlier in the week the Montreal police presented a warrant to ALL media outlets in Montreal to hand over ALL pics and vids handed in by citizens ( supoposedly to catch guilty parties). CBC and Radio canada handed over the material in protest. The announcer on CBC this morning did bring up the question of people spying on each other , but tried his best to stay away from that subject and suggested if people don’t like the idea of reporting on each other , mabye WE SHOULD ALL ACCEPT close curcuit camera surveillance downtown from now on. Oddly enough , the Montreal police didn’t go to any local courts like north shore Laval or south shore Longeuil to get the warrant. They went to a town 550km northwest of Montreal to a small mining/forestry town called Val D’Or to get the court warrant. Strange!?! I certainly don’t condon the foolery that apssed for celebration earlier in the week , especially since it’s greatest impact appears to be a forwarding of the Globalist’s agenda for police state and public surveillance. But no one asked on radio this morning mentioned the fact that , yes , great , with vids and pics we can catch bad people. What will happen to pics or vids that MAY SHOW police provoking or doing something bad? Is this why they want people giving in evidence to go directly to the police and NOT the media??? Early report from the riot had one filmer stating ‘They started moving forward in a line and shouting for us to move. I stopped filming and turned to start walking when the cops started beating people in the legs! The cop shouted again at me to move and I shouted back ‘HOW WHEN YOU’RE BEATING MY LEGS????’. Somehow I doubt very much we would ever see abuses by the police if the media were circumvented.
Another little tidbit that ties in with this is another story this morning that TQS , the black sheep of Quebec TV , known for it’s individuality , is having it’s entire news service shut down. The station was bought out recently and the new owners say the news division is loosing too much money.
TQS about to get even crappier
October 31, 2007
TQS, the least-favourite of Quebec’s three french-language TV networks, is cutting 40 jobs across the province to get costs under control. With about 600 employees, that represents about 7% of their workforce.
It’s the same old story: Mainstream media, stocked up on vice-presidents and lots of overhead for journalistic operations, respond to their escalating costs by cutting journalists. The quality drops significantly, people tune out, and the spiral continues.
In TQS’s case, the network was losing quite a bit of money (CP says $1.5 million loss on media operations, which also include Rhythme FM radio stations), and now its owner Cogeco (which is swimming in profits from cable operations, by the way) is trying to figure out what to do with the network by getting CIBC to do a “strategic review”
CTV News (CTVglobemedia owns 40% of TQS, Cogeco owns the other 60%) has speculated that “a decision could be made to sell TQS”.
From CBC today
TQS layoffs rattle Quebec media circles
Last Updated: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 | 6:43 PM ET The Canadian Press
TQS will close its news service this year and lay off 270 people, the new owner of the Quebec TV network said Wednesday in a move that was widely condemned by all parties in the provincial legislature.
The news, which was first announced by a union leader and then by Remstar Corp., will mean job losses in five cities: Montreal, Quebec, Sherbrooke, Trois-Rivières and Saguenay.
The layoffs will take place in two phases. Beginning June 2, TQS will have only two news broadcasts — one in the afternoon and the other in the evening.
As of Sept. 1, they will disappear altogether.
TQS, which faces tough competition from larger rivals Radio-Canada and TVA, was placed under creditor protection last December amid mounting financial woes.
“We believe the financial recovery measures contained in this plan are the right ones and we are confident the new cost structure will allow TQS to become a major player once again in the Quebec TV landscape,” Remstar co-president Maxime Rémillard said in a statement.
Remstar said the plan “may seem severe” but pointed out that TQS lost $18 million last year and has an accumulated debt of $71 million.
If the plan goes through, 209 permanent jobs would remain at TQS.
This has happened because all media is owned by 5 people across the world. So ANY TV OR RADIO station is biased and tainted in its reporting. TQS doesn’t want to play the game by BIG MEDIA OWNER Rules ( dummy down the masses and hide the important stuff) so they have to go. Why stay and spew the same line towing garbage as everybody else. We have enough repetative robots even here in Quebec.
So all in all , a good day for the NWO agenda here in good old Freemason Montreal.
April 24th, 2008 at 9:38 am
NotAChickenNeck, Jason Bermus did not explain the absence just that he was here all 4 hours.
April 24th, 2008 at 9:44 am
we’ve been taken on a very long ride.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V5iCUBEUx4
“dont be stampeded and bewildered”-
April 24th, 2008 at 10:07 am
Here in Chicago,Il, they have announce that they will soon have SWAT teams in full gear patrolling “high crime” areas. This is in response to the 39 murders over one weekend. The media has been shoving child shootings down everyones throat, everyday, reminding us to live in fear. To me it seems to be one step closer to a military police state. I understand that there IS a lot of crime in Chicago, HOWEVER, there has ALWAYS been crime in Chicago and its hard to believe that this has just now been deemed mandatory.
April 24th, 2008 at 10:13 am
A couple of years ago when all of this leaked out about the NAFTA Super Highway and
the NAU, The Minutemen Civil Defense Corp was keeping close eye on the border since
our own government was not. Then finding out they were planning an Expressway right thru the middle of our country and having no check point at the borders seemed like an IDIOTIC PLAN!
BORDERS WIDE OPEN? Terrorists coming thru un checked? Border Patrol Agents put in prison for
doing their job? Wait a minute, looks like something fishy here! The subject was pursued by the
Minutemen Civil Defense Corp. They contacted the Congressmen of the States that this Super Highway was going thru, these people representing the people denied anything about this plan!
They knew nothing which was a LIE! They had been meeting behind closed doors about it and we
had proof! Finally last year someone addmitted it on camera and the cat was out of the bag!
Of course MSM would not promote it so we would all know about it, it was the BIG SECRET of the CENTURY! Still today people do not know what is going on! If we were all well informed we would
not be in this situation ready to lose everthing we hold dear! Thank GOD there are still some PATRIOTS out there who are fighting for our FREEDOM here at home! The soldiers over seas, well,
they are fighting for our greedy government and it has nothing to do with OUR FREEDOM! It has
everything to do making this corporate run government rich so when it comes crashing down they will take the money and run! Guess WHO will be left holding the empty bag!
By the way, The Minutemen are PATRIOTS who care about this country and what is happening!
They are not the enemy or vigilanties, but our government is trying to make them so!
VIGILANTE = A watcher, a protector GOOD LUCK TO ALL!
SAVE AMERICA! SAVE THE WORLD! RON PAUL ~ 2008
April 24th, 2008 at 10:13 am
THE CONSTITUTION OBLIGATES YOU TO PROTECT THE CONSTITUTION AND THE UNION, NOT DISSOLVE IT.
YOU ARE A ROGUE LEADER BUSH, TRAITOR.
YOUR FUTURE GENERATIONS IN THE BUSH FAMILY WILL CARRY YOUR STAIN ON THEM FOR GENERATIONS TO COME.
FOR THIS TIME FORWARD, THE WORD “BUSH” WILL ENVOKE CRITISISM AND SHAME.
April 24th, 2008 at 10:22 am
i just watched a documentary on george washington. he was our 1st president and the man who led this country in the revolutionary war against the british. he was a soldier and a farmer. he was very well off. had a nice farm and extra money. being wealthy didn’t stop him from revolting. it seems like the only reason most americans will revolt is if they are starving. then it is too late. the revolutionary war in 1776 was started when a group of men burned a statue of king george(of england). then george washington led them to victory.
April 24th, 2008 at 10:34 am
When Bush says “our people” he’s NOT talking about you and me, folks. He’s talking about he and his NWO buddies and about protecting themselves from US.
April 24th, 2008 at 10:48 am
Anarchyisking # 21,
Man, they didn’t take any crap back then whether rich or poor.
We’ve gotten soft.
Hope it changes before it’s too late.
April 24th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
To Marine guy, The directives that Give Bush dictatoral powers, Are NSPD-51 And HSPD-20
You can look these up for I don’t have time to type it all up.
Ha Buddy you should really change your handle, You know why.
April 24th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
“we will fight the heathens we will fight the heathens”
somtimes I THINK PART OF THE REASON NO ONE DOES ANYTHING about any of this
is because weve all become anti social we see a thousand people a day but we are not connected
or unified were all plugged in to some electronic device somewhere that we cant wait to get back to . brainwashed? probably, but maybe we just need to wake the fuck up!
{ these days it takes a tragedy to unite us pretty sad though.}
but fortunatlly we got all these wars to look forward to for food and oil and drugs lets see oil
oh yeah terrorism ….. cant forget terrorism uhm water yeah that one is pretty important maybe somehow in all the chaos we can get back to being humanity
April 24th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
the USA is gone, collapsed, and is little by little being replaced with the NAU.
Under the NAU you will not even have the ‘illusions’ of a Constitution/ freedom/ or liberty.
welcome to the NAU.
13*
April 24th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
Dan – It ain’t over till it’s over brother We must fight the good fight, intellectually, physically if need be, and spiritually.
April 24th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
No commentary needed on my part:
http://www.bushorchimp.com/
April 24th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
Jerry #13: We don’t have to wait for the Lord to return. The Lord is taking it away for his reasons of glory. He will return it when He sees fit…not necessarily at the end of the age. The quickest way to get it back is to repent and ask the Lord for forgiveness for any iniquity you might be party to.
April 24th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
Yooo, spam the wiki of that Neocon Zionist Feith http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Feith
I tried editing the post and obviously went off on him being a traitor and a Zionist with an Israeli agenda they deleted my edit. Let’s fuck with these assholes.
April 24th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
Most of the world wide suffering and starvation which is to come has been preplanned and actions were taken over the past several decades that would make sure an economic superstorm would hit the world and bring about chaos…. and then from the chaos a NEW WORLD ORDER.
Great wars and unspeakable cruelty has been done by a very nasty group of people who Jesus himself confronted. These people call themselves Jews and are the spawn of Satan. Anyone of any faith that supports these nasty leaders are supporting evil doers.
These International Bankers declared war on Germany and manipulated the Christians in Germany to do terrible things while they planned and schemed in the shadows…..
The Truth is that the Holocaust was an event orchestrated by Zionists against fellow Jews as a necessary “sacrifice” for the creation of a Zionist State.
There are plenty of Jews who will openly accuse them of this EVIL. Check out http://www.NKUSA.org
Zionists have no problem in murdering thousands of innocent people as a “sacrifice” on the alter of evil for their Antichrist state.
9/11 was a Zionist inside job by Neocons and other dual American/Israeli citizens in our Government.
Zionists attacked us on 9/11 so as a response against the “evil arabs” we invaded Iraq, and spent our treasure and blood to fight Israeli wars against middle eastern people who correctly believe that the Zionists will usher in the rise of the Antichrist.
The bottom line is that the Israelites do not believe Jesus was the Messiah so they are still awaiting “their Messiah”. When he comes, the Jews will declare him KING OF THE WORLD and the efforts of 300 years of resource and political consolidation will pay off when they hand the world over to HIM. Christians and Moslems will declare him the False Messiah/Antichrist and will be targetted as terrorists of the New World Order ruled by the most EVIL leader in the history of mankind.
Until then, the deception will be neck deep and yes, the Jews have a motive in acquiring all the worlds power and resources for their soon to come Messiah…..
April 24th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
Is that really what the Jews believe? Their Messiah will come and they will crown him? That is some sick shit!!!!!!
April 24th, 2008 at 7:00 pm
President Bush is probably the most treasonous leader in the history of the entire world.
April 24th, 2008 at 7:05 pm
http://www.whatreallyhappened......aelis.html
April 25th, 2008 at 7:17 am
Something I like to call ‘CANADA’S DRUG WAR!’. See , we got the SAME problem. The REAL dealers are from within:
In Depth
Toronto police
CBC News investigation: The report that led to the charges against Toronto’s finest
April 24, 2008
By Dave Seglins
Beating up drug dealers and stealing their money. Shaking down bar owners for protection money. Extortion, obstructing justice, assault, theft, perjury, corrupt practices. The allegations that were levelled against a small but influential group of Toronto police officers were stunning in their breadth.
Now, of course, with the result of an equally stunning judicial decision, those accusations of corruption may never be resolved.
In January 2008, Ontario Superior Court Justice Ian Nordheimer tossed Canada’s biggest-ever case of police corruption out of court, ruling it took Crown prosecutors too long to bring six veteran drug squad officers to trial. The Crown has launched an appeal.
Crown to appeal police corruption case
What went wrong? What else did an internal special task force into Toronto’s drug squads find? What corruption has never been fully investigated — or explained to the public?
CBC News has been following this story closely for almost a decade now and has recently unearthed some documents and other information that shed new light on the scope of the investigations and the nature of the charges that were originally contemplated.
This new information includes the confidential final report of the special, internal task force that had been probing the initial allegations against a number of Toronto officers.
It is being brought forward at a time when the Crown is appealing the Nordheimer decision and when the attorney general of Ontario, Chris Bentley, is reviewing the case to decide whether there should be a full public inquiry.
Not all of the allegations in the task force report, it should be noted, resulted in charges. And, of those that did, nothing has been proven. Given the current legal circumstances, they may never be.
All six officers who were originally charged in 2004 with criminal offences have pleaded not guilty and have said that the allegations against them come from drug dealers making up stories to try to win lighter sentences. Some of the officers have sued the Crown and the police force for malicious prosecution.
The Special Task Force
The origins of this case go back to the lated-1990s, a period when Toronto police were fending off widespread accusations of internal corruption on several fronts.
Julian Fantino, who was Toronto’s police chief until 2005, repeatedly said during this period that any such incidents were isolated and urged the public to keep faith in the 7,200-member force.
But in 2001, after an outcry from defence lawyers that their clients were being unfairly treated and robbed, Fantino quietly established an internal task force to investigate specific allegations stemming from a five-year period in the late 1990s. According to some, the task force was set up to try to avoid a full public inquiry and assure the people of Toronto that only a small group of officers might be involved.
News story: Toronto police tried to dodge bullet of public inquiry
The main target was one team of undercover drug officers in particular, a team led by now-retired Det. Sgt. John Schertzer and which happened to have one of the best arrest records at the time.
The special task force was led by RCMP Chief Superintendent John Neily, now an assistant commissioner.
The task force grew to include 26 senior Toronto police investigators, five Mounties, including Neily, and a handful of civilian support staff. Its work went on for three years and has cost more than $8 million.
In the spring 2004, shortly after the six Toronto drug squad officers were charged with an assortment of criminal offences, Neily handed in his final report to Toronto’s then chief Fantino. In it, he pulled no punches and wrote that the task force had found evidence of a “crime spree” by “rogue officers.”
He then went on to say “that the real victim, while initially portrayed to be drug dealers who may have lost cash, was indeed the justice system and the police service because by means of the courts, affidavits, search warrants and so on were being utilized as tools for the potential gain of the suspects,” who were all police officers.
Neily recommend criminal charges against 12 Toronto police officers, not just the six who were charged in January 2004: John Schertzer, Ned Maodus, Joe Miched, Raymond Pollard, Steven Correia and Richard Benoit.
The task force report also points to two additional teams of drug officers that were investigated but never charged.
Throughout his report, Neily also says that much of the information pieced together by investigators is circumstantial and that many of those who say they were robbed would not be reliable witnesses even if they were willing to come forward at all.
April 25th, 2008 at 7:19 am
Ca va bien (all’s well?) TXGIRL , fellow truthers.
April 25th, 2008 at 7:30 am
#36, barbar, this is my total conversational French: Com se va? haha
April 25th, 2008 at 7:51 am
ya know it’s luggs. I’m good. Nice to see ya.
Ongoing media strife in Quebec.
TQS will close its news service this year and lay off 270 people, the new owner of the Quebec TV network said Wednesday in a move that was widely condemned by all parties in the provincial legislature.
The news, which was first announced by a union leader and then by Remstar Corp., will mean job losses in five cities: Montreal, Quebec, Sherbrooke, Trois-Rivières and Saguenay.
The layoffs will take place in two phases. Beginning June 2, TQS will have only two news broadcasts — one in the afternoon and the other in the evening.
As of Sept. 1, they will disappear altogether.
TQS, which faces tough competition from larger rivals Radio-Canada and TVA, was placed under creditor protection last December amid mounting financial woes.
“We believe the financial recovery measures contained in this plan are the right ones and we are confident the new cost structure will allow TQS to become a major player once again in the Quebec TV landscape,” Remstar co-president Maxime Rémillard said in a statement.
Remstar said the plan “may seem severe” but pointed out that TQS lost $18 million last year and has an accumulated debt of $71 million.
If the plan goes through, 209 permanent jobs would remain at TQS.
Layoffs caught journalists by surprise
TQS journalists were visibly upset after hearing the news.
“They told us the news division was no longer part of their vision for the company to survive,” reporter Marie-Claude Julien said in an interview.
“We were expecting something, but when you put your whole heart and passion into a job you love and you’re told from one day to the next that it’s all over, it can’t help but be heartbreaking.”
Colleague Jean Sawyer said people were just devastated. “You can imagine the shock in the newsroom,” he said.
“Nobody saw this coming. There’s incredible sadness. Some people were crying. Others were completely in shock, gobsmacked, because they weren’t expecting it.”
Quebec politicians will fight decision, premier says
In Quebec City, the Liberal government said it would try to persuade Ottawa to get the CRTC, the federal broadcast regulator, to prevent the closures from going through.
The Liberals, the Action Démocratique du Québec and the Parti Québécois adopted a unanimous motion in the national assembly calling on the government to “demand that the CRTC maintain the news operations” of TQS.
“I say to the CRTC there has to be an unconditional commitment to regional information,” Premier Jean Charest said in an interview.
The CRTC is expected to hold public hearings in June into Remstar’s acquisition of TQS
April 25th, 2008 at 7:59 am
So…mabye it’s not ‘GENIUS’……..but I’m back.