Author: Stephen Taylor

The Rotary Club of Chatham is giving away a Hummer H2 in order to raise $100,000 for the French Fort Cove Eco-Centre.

Thumbs up for the environment!

The Rotary Club of Chatham believes the Eco Center, will be informative and educational for youth through interactive and fun displays. This will be an excellent tool for teaching about our flora & fauna, inland waterways, environmental concerns, heritage, and historic events. Imagine learning about the Miramichi Fire of 1825 in a room where you can feel the heat, smell the smoke, hear the crackling of the flames and feel as if you are running alongside the survivors to plunge into the river!

Once the goal is reached to support the French Fort Cove Eco-Centre, additional monies will go towards other worthwhile projects on the Miramichi.

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The Quebec daily newspaper, Le Soleil is reporting this morning that Paul Martin’s sons will be called to testify before the Standing Commitee on Finance this October.

Their involvement in Martin’s company, Canadian Steamship Lines is being called into question, specifically the profitability of using Barbados as a tax haven.

CSL has been the greatest source of Paul Martin’s significant wealth and we’ve always known that our Prime Minister pays his corporate taxes to a foreign country, at a tax rate of about 2%, to avoid paying into social programs as a corporate citizen. Now his sons, which hold the company in a “blind trust” have been called before the committee to answer questions its questions concerning CSL.

Watch CTV news tonight with Lloyd Robertson and you’ll see a story concerning a confidence vote coming next week on the NDP budget C-48.

Craig Oliver said that Conservatives are upset on the Liberals reneging on promising to delay the SSM bill C-38 in exchange for support for the budget bills.

This is dishonest

The Conservatives said that they would allow C-48 to come to a vote before the summer break in exchange for delay on a vote on the SSM bill. Conservatives have never said that they would support C-48. Craig Oliver should know this detail. He’s on the Hill each and every day and sure pays more attention to these kinds of things than I do.

Another point of bias comes when Oliver and Robertson muse that the Conservatives believe they have a better chance now at electoral success than after Gomery, because they believe that Martin will be found to have no connection to Adscam, which “many Canadians believe”. How dishonest.

Finally, Robertson echoes a Liberal talking point when he underlines that the Conservatives are inconveniencing everyone by potentially defeating the government next week.

“There goes our summer vacation”, Robertson laments as he closes the report.