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What Is Happening To Choice?
Freedom's fundamental principles are choice and the lack of coercion. When you are free you make the choices in your life and you're responsible for the consequences of your choice. In an authoritarian regime, someone else makes the choice for you and you're left to obey or be punished. In some cases, you don't even have the choice to obey – you are forced to comply.
And it is the latter of which this reminds me:
Public health officials are considering promoting routine circumcision for all baby boys born in the United States to reduce the spread of H.I.V., the virus that causes AIDS.
No. Huh uh. No way.
"Public health officials" don't get to make those decisions if a free country. There they'd be limited to offering the surgery as an option for the reasons stated, but no more. But "routine circumcision" doesn't mean it will be offered as an option – routine means it will be done as a part of the birth procedure with or without the parent's permission.
But Dr. Peter Kilmarx, chief of epidemiology for the division of H.I.V./AIDS prevention at the C.D.C., said that any step that could thwart the spread of H.I.V. must be given serious consideration.
"We have a significant H.I.V. epidemic in this country, and we really need to look carefully at any potential intervention that could be another tool in the toolbox we use to address the epidemic," Dr. Kilmarx said. "What we've heard from our consultants is that there would be a benefit for infants from infant circumcision, and that the benefits outweigh the risks."
Now, let's take a broader view of what is being said here by Dr. Kimarx in relation to the health care insurance reform now being considered.
Remember, we're told, almost daily by proponents of this reform that decisions on care will be left to you and your doctor – correct?
So whose advice is Dr. Kilmarx basing his treatment recommendation on? That's right his "consultants". Where are you and your doctor in this decision making process?
Left out. Despite all the rhetoric to the contrary, Kilmarx is talking about keeping both you and your doctor completely out of the loop.
What Dr. Kilmarx is saying is the recommendations of the "consultants" outweighs your concerns and puts you out of that decision making cycle. Or, said more succinctly – they don't care what you or your doctor want, they're going to direct that "routine circumcisions" be a part of the birth procedure and they invoke an "epidemic" as the reason for this "intervention".
So, given this is just the CDC, imagine what those government officials charged with providing "evidence-based medicine" for everyone will be putting out as directives that get between you and your doctor. And don't forget, Obama is a great fan of "evidence-based care" as he noted at one of his pep-rallies townhalls on health care insurance reform.
What you're seeing from the CDC is only the very tiniest of tips of the iceberg if government is put in charge of health care. Allowing the government to dictate forced circumcision would only set the precedent for what we all fear government run health care would bring. It may not seem to be that important of an issue, but it is.
This isn't the government's choice to make or direct. And it never should be.


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Escalon products (Stanislaus' largest competitor) do not contain citric acid. For instance, Escalon 6 in 1 tomatoes contain only crushed tomatoes and salt.
Tom, there are those of us who feel differently
Can anyone address the subject of how to remove the water from the sauce made with crushed tomatoes. I notice it at the edges of my baked pizza, only when I use fresh crushed SM tomatoes from the can. I am sure this is not a new subject, but I can't find a link or comments. I am not sure if I am doing the straining correctly or if I need to let the sauce set in the fridge more before using, etc.. I am asking this because i will be opening up the #10 can of SM tomatoes that I picked up the other day at the new Pizzeria in my above posting. Thank you.TomN


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Skip to comments.'Huge Food Shortage In North Korea'(people in Pyongyang start starving)
Posted on 03/25/2008 2:24:40 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
'Huge Food Shortage In North Korea'
By Sky News
SkyNews - Thursday, March 20 03:18 pmA dire food shortage across North Korea has become so acute it has started to affect the country's elite in the capital, Pyongyang, reports say.
Aid agency Good Friends says food rations for some parts of the city have been cut by up to 60%, while others have seen their supplies cut off completely.
Only citizens who show absolute loyalty to leader Kim Jong Il and his regime are allowed to live in Pyongyang and are considered better off than their fellow countrymen.
But the food situation, which has mostly been felt in rural areas where rations have been suspended since November, has now spread to the city, according to the South Korean aid agency.
"Even ranking officials have run out of their (rationed) food supply, while a ban on (private) trade is strictly maintained," said an unidentified city official quoted by Good Friends.
"It is nothing but a death sentence."
The agency also said farm labourers were staying away from work because they were not getting any food. This was said to be affecting the planting of new crops.
South Korea's Hyundai Economic Research Institute has warned that the rising international cost of grain would impact further on the north's desperate situation.
A famine gripped North Korea during the 1990s, reportedly killing up to two million people. Since then, the country has accepted food aid to feed the population.
But South Korea's new conservative government has signalled it would stop providing unconditional aid to the north.
However, the US government this week sent an humanitarian expert to Seoul to discuss North Korea's food situation.
Last month, the UN's World Food Programme reported that close to a quarter of North Korea's 23 million people are affected by a lack of food.
I knew it was coming, just not this soon.
How sad for the innocent people of North Korea !
Why delay the inevitable? Without outside food aid I doubt if Kim Jung Il could last a year. Of course, chaos would probably be the result, as well as mass starvation, but they're already starving according to the article. China and the ROK would have a mass refugee problem, but they're both rich nations. The DPRK needs to go, just as East Germany did.
With the Expansion of North Korea's Jangmadang, Possibility of a "Mass Starvation" Reduced
By Kim So Yeul
"The reason for the mass starvation that occurred in late 90s is that North Korea faced natural disasters without expanding the markets capability to substitute for the broken planned economy capability, and so the damage to North Korean citizens was inevitably large."
Dong Yong Seung, the Samsung Economic Research Institute's Economic Security Team Chief, speaking at the 19th Expert Forum sponsored by the Peace Foundation on the 19th, explained that, "The market in North Korea has expanded in the last 10 years. The supply and demand structure of daily necessities, including food items, has been formed."
Continued Mr. Dong, "Because the market capacity has expanded, the possibility of a mass-scale starvation occurring is no longer high. In actuality, the change in food prices is being monitored at the market."
He explained, "If South Korea sends food aid to the North, food provision increases, because the intermediary wholesalers will bring out a lot of the food items that have been held. As a result, there is a decline in the food price. In the areas of trade, a similar phenomenon has been taking place. North Korean trade organizations can achieve their quota due to the plan of the authorities."
Further, he revealed, "Within North Korean factories, there are family enterprises that were allowed, as affiliated laborers, to produce necessities using the by-products of the factory. Therefore, the market-connected family enterprises were recently supporting factories."
He explained the result: "Thats why these kinds of family enterprises, which manufacture products through purchasing materials from markets and the factory were raising their profits, even when the factory has not been operating due to the paralysis of the capacity of the planned economy.
Simultaneously, Mr. Dong advised, regarding the North Korean policy of the Lee Myung Bak administration, "There is a need to maintain consistency by reestablishing the basic principles of economic policy towards the North."
He said, "The reason for pursuing economic cooperation with the North is to promote change in the North and to improve its economic situation through its entry into the international economy. There is a need to reestablish basic principles such as helping to activate the South Korean economy while improving the quality of the North Korean citizens' lives."
He put severe restriction on private trade/business activities. He let people fend off for themselves after the massive famine in mid 90's. However, he apparently does not like what he sees. His vaunted state control has been gradually eroding. Now he want to stem the tide even if it leads to creating some civilian starvation victims.
Yep, that'll teach them.
But I just read the other day NK was looking to strengthen ties with Namibia. Maybe they can help...
24 Mar 2008 press release from ReliefWeb
Jefferson Award: 'Hero' helps North Koreans find new lives
Grrrr. Let Putin and Hu feed them. They created the mess.
Food shortages, famines, floods, bad harvests...
These have been going on for almost two decades now, with no end in sight.
The humanitarian thing would be to offer fat pensions, immunity from prosecution and luxurious mansions to all the big brass in North Korea if they will just agree to peaceful reunification.
Too bad it will never happen. I don't see the end in sight any time soon, either.
Has Chia Pet rationed this thing out for food?
The last time they had a shortage like this they went in for Soylent Green in a big way.... The older South Korean people still remember their relatives in the north and will want to help ... I hope they send bullets instead of rice...
If he can't feed the military, he is all done. Somebody is going to knock him over fairly soon.
Can't believe some military type doesn't take control in N.Korea and march out chi pet and his ruthless gang.
You have to know that some of the military have been to the south and seen the differences in conditions.
However, the US government this week sent an humanitarian expert to Seoul to discuss North Korea's food situation.
lol. Of course.
Is uranium edible?
But yet we can flip the bill for trips to Africa for Uranium. I bet Chia's plate is full at every setting also.
What? No Yellow Cake?
I'll send em a case of White Castles.
Anybody got the address of a peasant in NK?
Hillary and Obama and McCain - this is what government of the government by the government and for the government looks like. Do not bring it here.
Also, the grain that would have been eaten is being burned in our vehicles by government edict.
Hillary and Obama and McCain - this is what government of the government by the government and for the government looks like. Do not bring it here.
Also, the grain that would have been eaten is being burned in our vehicles by government edict.
It was the horrible food shortages which originally started the fall of the Soviet Empire. We need to send satellite transmissions over there showing Americans stuffing their faces at those great Tennessee buffets or people looking at which steaks to choose from the tray at a Ruth Chris Steak House.
At least they got to hear the orchestra before they die of starvation.
This is a necessary part of Kim maintaining power. If people are busy staying alive, they don't have the time or energy to revolt.
China is the only reason North Korea still exists. They want a weak/easily controlled buffer-state on their border. They don't care how brutal the regime.
"We need to send satellite transmissions over there showing Americans stuffing their faces at those great Tennessee buffets or people looking at which steaks to choose from the tray at a Ruth Chris Steak House."
Well I'll be, it sounds like fat people will be useful for the first time in a long time.
Huh. Wonder how that works.
It's amazing that people can be so pacified that they do absolutely nothing to rise up and overthrow this Satanic regime.
The Army gets first call on the food...
Not to worry! We will happily borrow money from China to buy food for North Korea.
We now have the largest corn surplus in the history of North America.
What should we do with our mountains of surplus crops?
I say, burn 'em.
What do you say?
Time to have a coupe of Aegis cruisers standing by in Korea and Japan to blast the next missile "test" chia head runs to try to extort more aid.
Bumper sticker:
"Obesity reduces crime. Fat people are harder to kidnap."
So that was the plan. Turn all the food into alcohol to burn as fuel, and then watch our enemies starve to death.
What a sad picture. That says it all!
All due respect Tiger that news?
Whenever I read one of these stories I always think of MASH, and the pomposity of Alan Alda. Everyone on that show was so SURE Korea would be wonderful if the Americans just left. Check out S. Korea. Check out N. Korea.
Talk about the law of Unintended Consequences. Imagine a bio-diesel initiative sparking a second Korean War.
oops ... sorry ... not bio-diesel ... ehtanol.
And how are the nuclear negotiations going? In the meantime, let the bastards starve.
Let them eat missiles.
IMO,a much more effective mover would be to transmit TV and radio signals from *South* Korea to ordinary North Koreans.As "Michael81Dus" (a German) knows from personal experience the fact that many ordinary East Germans were able to listen to/watch West German radio and TV played a *huge* role in the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Seeing how South Koreans live day to day (through TV and radio broadcasts) would be far more powerful for their North Korean cousins to see than any photos from this country would be.
You´re right GSC - and pictures are better than radio. Problem is, that maybe just 10% of N Koreans have TV access. And power must be for rich only, as we can see that there are no lights on at night. The people of N Korea is too weak to stand up against their prison-guards. And we can hardly do a thing as long as China supports that - and does almost the same in Tibet.
Tibet, Myanmar (formerly Birma), N Korea - when will freedom prevail?
"What should we do with our mountains of surplus crops?
I say, burn 'em.
What do you say?"
And just let the hungry people die?
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Over 250 men died in avalanches in Rogers Pass between 1885 and 1911. The worst incident occurred during the night of March 4, 1910. A crew of 58 men were shovelling a previous avalanche from Cheops Mountain off the track. While they were working another ripped off the aptly named Avalanche Mountain on the opposite side of the valley. All but one man perished.
While our understanding of avalanches remains incomplete, we have come a long way since the early days of the Canadian Pacific Railway in Rogers Pass. This was Canada's first contact with avalanches on a large scale. While there was no attempt to predict periods of high avalanche hazard to avoid exposing workers to this threat, miles of snow sheds were constructed to protect the railway. The completion of the Connaught Tunnel in 1916 removed the railway from the most dangerous portion of the pass.
Derived from the French verb "avaler" (to swallow), a snow avalanche is among the most wondrous sights in nature, so long as it can be appreciated from a safe distance. Snow avalanches are the single greatest threat to winter recreation in the mountains.
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While no one can absolutely determine the stability of snow on a mountainside, there are some strong clues as to what is happening in a snowpack. The multitude of indicators for assessing snow stability range from the subtle (the shape of snow crystals) to the obvious (a meter of freshly fallen snow). Other factors include temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction, and underlying terrain. All must be considered relative to the intended route of travel. Knowing what is safe is just as important as recognizing a dangerous situation.
Avalanche hazard evaluation is most often accomplished by digging a snow profile. A smooth sided snow hole on a representative slope is dug carefully as to not disturb possible weak layers. Here the primary concern is to determine the relative strength of the layers of snow, which represent a recent history of past snowfalls. Each layer maintains some of the characteristics of that storm and bonds more or less well to the previous layer. How easily these layers can be separated is referred to as shear strength. Snow profiles must be done frequently in order to develop a sense of comparison. The strength of snow is relative.
Following the development of a snow pack over a winter helps us to stay in tune with conditions. A pattern will emerge depending on climate. The Coast Range and the Columbia Mountains have relatively mild temperatures and heavy snowfalls. Stability problems are usually in the upper part of the snowpack, a result of heavy recent precipitation or a buried weakness waiting to be overloaded.
The most notorious of these is a surface hoar layer. These feathery crystals form on the surface of the snow during a period of cold weather. Subsequent snowfalls bond poorly but manage to persist, sometimes building up to the thickness of a meter before rippingout as a slab avalanche.
A Rocky Mountain snowpack is usually much shallower and subject to much colder temperatures. This causes sublimation at the base of the snowpack creating depth hoar crystals, a process where larger crystals grow at the expense of smaller ones, changing snow to a sugar-like consistency. This weakness grows slowly over months, making it difficult to predict when it has deteriorated enough to release a slide. Intervening snowfalls and temperature changes complicate matters, making avalanche prediction as much an art as a science.
While not everyone needs to become a snow scientist, all backcountry users should be attuned to avalanche information. Professional evaluations of conditions are available. Glacier National Park issues a daily avalanche bulletin for backcountry users as part of the avalanche control work conducted to protect Trans-Canada Highway traffic through Rogers Pass. Call 250-837-MTNS for a report that also includes backcountry travel conditions.
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I used to manage a Pizza Hut in the late 70's, early 80's and the Thick & Chewy was entirely different from the Pan crust. The Thick & Chewy was a 'bread' type crust, that I still make at home.
This is my interpretation, since PH had recipes for 25Lb and 13-1/2 lb batches, I just trimmed it down to a smaller batch.
Pizza hut baked all their pies in pans, when I was there.


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The law says $400,000 collected by a nonprofit foundation was to be used to educate poor children. But some may have gone for other uses at a strapped private school.
TALLAHASSEE - Federal bankruptcy court documents show the link between a private school and an Ocala foundation under investigation for its use of $400,000 that was supposed to go to educate poor children, a newspaper reported Thursday.
James K. Isenhour is the chief financial officer of Cambridge Academy, a for-profit "distance learning" school in an Ocala strip mall.
He is also the head of Silver Archer, a nonprofit foundation that is supposed to give scholarships to poor children under a state law that gives businesses a tax break for funding the scholarships.
Silver Archer collected more than $400,000, but state officials say they don't know if the money ever was used as intended.
The Department of Financial Services is investigating the use of the money, assisted by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. After an internal investigation, the state Department of Education has referred the matter to FDLE for handling.
Cambridge Academy, which sought bankruptcy protection in March, failed to submit payroll taxes for more than a year, the Palm Beach Post reported Thursday.
But Isenhour still asked for permission to pay himself $1,000 a week. He told the bankruptcy judge he could afford a pay raise because Cambridge Academy had found a new source of revenue: the corporate tax credit program.
After reviewing the books, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Jerry Funk agreed on July 31 to the salary request.
Federal court papers list Isenhour as chief financial officer of Cambridge Academy and his daughter, Taylar Butler, as owner and chief executive officer. But all court filings were handled by Isenhour, who was open about the links between Cambridge Academy and Silver Archer.
In a court filing on May 5, Isenhour's lawyer, Robert Altman, said Cambridge Academy expected an influx of state dollars over the summer.
In the school's monthly financial filing to the court, Isenhour and Altman wrote that the Cambridge Academy began receiving money from the Silver Archer Foundation in May.
"We believe that starting with the last quarter of 2003, the foundation will increase funding substantially," the two wrote.
Cambridge Academy had assets of $12,000 and total liabilities of more than $577,000 when it filed for bankruptcy protection in March. Most of its debt was back taxes owed the federal government.
Isenhour did not return a phone call for comment Thursday.
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House of Commons Hansard #127 of the 37th Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was benefits.
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Scott Brison Kings—Hants, NS
On the idea of individualized EI accounts, it would not simply grow based on one's contributions because, clearly, one's contributions would be used to top up those who draw more frequently. There would be a growth in one's account over a period of time if one did not draw or draw from the account infrequently. It would be as large an amount as the hon. member suggested, the $580,000, but it would represent a significant amount that would, over time, reward people for not drawing EI.
There was a study that I would reference for the hon. member in The Economist magazine in 1998. The Library of Parliament has the study which was conducted by a U.K. group of academics on this idea of individualized EI accounts.
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1:50 p.m.
Paul Crête Kamouraska—Rivière-Du-Loup—Témiscouata—Les Basques, QC
Madam Speaker, as I was preparing to speak on Bill C-48, I wondered where such a bill might have come from. In the journal of the Chartered Accountants of Canada, in an article by Neil Smith, who is a senior tax manager, core tax practice, with Ernst & Young LLP in Calgary, we read:
The release came on the heels of a significant lobbying effort by the resource sector for federal corporate tax rate reductions—
We might wonder whether the resource companies really were winners in this respect. For example, it is interesting to read extracts from oil company annual reports regarding their semi-annual performance. For example, on page 1 of Petro-Canada's second quarter report to shareholders, we read:
Petro-Canada announced today second quarter earnings from operations of $455 million, which include a positive adjustment of $96 million for Canadian income tax rate changes.
Therefore, these measures have already netted Petro-Canada $96 million in tax savings.
The shareholders' report issued by Shell Canada Limited for the second quarter states:
Shell Canada Limited announced July 23,2003, second-quarter earnings of $178 million... Earnings included a one-time benefit of $54 million from a future income tax revaluation following announced income tax changes.
Petro-Canada apparently paid $96 million less in taxes, over the first few months of the year, which is a very short period. In the case of Shell Canada, that figure is $54 million. The same goes for Esso Imperial, which reported the following:
During the second quarter of 2003, tax rate reductions enacted by the Federal government and the provincial government of Alberta and settlement of various tax matters benefited results, mainly in the resources segment, by $109 million.
So, the three largest oil companies have declared additional future profits of $250 million. This is a direct consequence of the federal government's decision to lower the taxes applicable to oil and gas companies. They are not the companies suffering the most; they are companies that made astronomical profits in early 2003 and that introduced quite significant price hikes.
In the meantime, the federal government continues to collect 1.5 cents in excise tax per litre of gas. This tax is to pay down a deficit that has not existed since 1998. So, in a few short months, the oil and gas companies have pocketed hundreds of millions of dollars. It is not clear why they need this advantage.
Meanwhile, the federal government continues to pocket money because of a tax designed to pay down a deficit that no longer exists. We are talking about $2.8 billion in five years. No wonder taxpayers think this is ridiculous. Indeed, according to chartered accountants, the bill came "on the heels of a significant lobbying effort by the resource sector for federal corporate tax rate reductions."
In other words, this government, which prides itself on helping the less fortunate and ensuring a better distribution of wealth, is granting $250 million in tax cuts to oil companies, and at the same time telling us it cannot give the provinces the $3 billion it owes them for health. This is a big problem. It shows an unacceptable lack of professional and political ethics. We cannot allow a bill to create this kind of situation.
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Pursuant to order made Tuesday, September 23, 2003, the motion to concur in the 45th report of the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs regarding membership of committees is deemed moved, the question deemed put and agreed to.
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September 25th, 2003 / 1:55 p.m.
Bernard Patry Pierrefonds—Dollard, QC
Madam Speaker, the three Prix Galien awards were presented at a ceremony in Toronto on September 18. The Prix Galien are awarded annually to highlight the accomplishments of Canada's pharmaceutical industry and research community.
The Prix Galien Canada Innovative Drug Product Award, for the medication considered to have made the most significant contribution in terms of innovation, efficacy and safety, went to Gleevec, a product of Novartis Pharmaceuticals for the treatment of patients with chronic myeloid leukemia.
The jury selected Dr. Mark Wainberg, director of the McGill AIDS Centre and director of research at the Lady Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital in Montreal, to receive the Prix Galien Research award.
The Prix Belleau-Nickerson went to Evista. This drug produced by Eli Lilly Canada belongs to a new generation of estrogen-like but non-estrogen-containing drugs. It is used to treat and prevent osteoporosis in premenopausal and menopausal women.
Congratulations to the prize winners.
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Paul Forseth New Westminster—Coquitlam—Burnaby, BC
Madam Speaker, recently we had votes which were not administrative but reflected basic societal structure and had moral implications for many in my community.
My electoral pledge requires me to engage the local marketplace of ideas and ultimately be guided by community consensus. That is our Canadian Alliance commitment to grassroots representative democracy.
We believe that a high level of citizen participation in the democratic consultation process is vital to ensuring the legitimacy of Parliament. MPs must ensure major issues receive a full and fair public hearing so that an informed democratic decision can be made by the community. Where an MP finds that a clear consensus can be obtained, it is his or her responsibility to vote accordingly over party or personal view.
I urge all parliamentarians to be better representatives and aspire to the higher standard of the Canadian Alliance Party.
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2 p.m.
Diane Marleau Sudbury, ON
Madam Speaker, the Franco-Ontarian flag is an emblem dear to the hearts of the French-speaking community of Ontario. Today is its 28th birthday.
It was on September 25, 1975 that the Franco-Ontarian flag was raised on a flagpole for the first time, at Laurentian University in Sudbury.
In 1977, the community adopted it as its official flag. In 2001, the Legislative Assembly, in a unanimous vote, recognized it as one of the official emblems of Ontario. Today, Franco-Ontarians fly it proudly in all corners of the province.
This flag symbolizes our pride and our membership in our community. It is an expression of the linguistic duality of Canada.
September 25 is an opportunity for all French-speaking Ontarians to show how much they care about keeping our beautiful language alive.
Beef Industry
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
Canadian Alliance
Philip Mayfield Cariboo—Chilcotin, BC
Madam Speaker, just when the Canadian public thinks things cannot get worse with the government's spending habits and department investigations, it is hit with another slap in the face. This time it is the beef industry.
Yesterday, when the government was given an opportunity to actually do something by supporting a motion regarding opening the U.S. border for our beef, what did the Liberals do? They voted against sending a delegation to Washington to get the border fully open to Canadian cattle.
The Leader of the Opposition did this in July. Why will the Prime Minister not do it now? What does yesterday's vote mean? It means that the Canadian beef industry will continue to lose $11 million a day in exports, with an added $7 million a day as the price of beef falls.
Cow-calf operators in this country are not covered by the latest compensation package, meaning a whole sector of that industry could be indefinitely, if not permanently, in decline. About 80% of this industry is dependent upon the United States market, and the Prime Minister and his party are content to fine dine in Ottawa restaurants while this vital industry is crippled.
Canadian Women's Soccer Team
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
Geoff Regan Halifax West, NS
Mr. Speaker, I want to congratulate the Canadian women's soccer team, which has given us some great moments of excitement and emotion.
Yesterday, during the team's second World Cup soccer match in the United States, it beat Argentina by a score of 3-0.
Congratulations, in particular to Charmaine Hooper who scored the first goal off a penalty kick, and Christine Latham who, late in the game, scored the other two goals in three minutes.
Saturday afternoon, Canada will face Japan to determine which team will advance to the quarterfinals. We have high hopes that our team will repeat its win.
Our Canadian athletes, no matter what sport they play, make us proud and are an example of perseverance. We encourage them to pursue their dreams and continue to do their best.
Human Rights
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2 p.m.
Yolande Thibeault Saint-Lambert, QC
Mr. Speaker, it was a huge relief to learn this morning that Amina Lawal, who had been sentenced to death by stoning for adultery by the lower court, was acquitted by the Islamic appeals court.
This 32-year-old mother was found guilty in March 2002 of having a child out of wedlock. Her daughter Wasila is now nearly two.
I want to congratulate Pierre Brun from Lawyers Without Borders, who helped defend Ms. Lawal. Mr. Brun travelled to Nigeria to defend her right to a fair and just hearing.
His unfailing dedication and tireless efforts will serve as an example to others concerned with the right to life.
World Forestry Congress
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2 p.m.
Gérard Asselin Charlevoix, QC
Mr. Speaker, this week, the largest international meeting on forestry is being held in Quebec City. The XII World Forestry Congress, under the theme of "Forests, Source of Life", will provide an opportunity to take stock of the state of forests around the world, to raise awareness among decision makers and to provide them with recommendations, the application of which will depend solely on governments and international or other organizations.
Last week, the papers reported the release of a study on Canada's wild forests. On Monday morning, Greenpeace held a demonstration in front of the Quebec City Convention Centre. Ecologists and scientists gave warnings.
The same thing applies here. We have to work on the protection and health of forests to ensure that they are here for future generations.
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Canadian Alliance
Cheryl Gallant Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke, ON
Mr. Speaker, I wish to congratulate the Ottawa Citizen and its volunteers for the second annual Raise a Reader Day to help fund literacy programs in eastern Ontario and western Quebec.
Unfortunately, while the federal government has publicly stated that literacy is a priority, recent changes to the operational guidelines of HRDC's summer career placement program has penalized libraries across Canada.
Programs that operated for years have been cancelled because the government has the mistaken notion that public libraries make money. By revoking their non-profit status some rural public libraries were forced to cut their book budgets in order to continue their reading programs. Libraries in small Ontario communities provide an important service, and in the case of places like Douglas, Killaloe and Sterling, scarce summer employment.
Small rural communities do not have the funds to make up the loss by this arbitrary change in funding criteria. It is time for the government to stop this attack on public libraries and support literacy in Canada.
Thomas Roussel-Roozmon
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Raymonde Folco Laval West, QC
Mr. Speaker, allow me to acknowledge in this House the perseverance and talent of Thomas Roussel-Roozmon, a young man of 15 from Laval, who is currently battling for the highly coveted title of international chess grandmaster.
Thomas Roussel-Roozmon is currently ranked third in Canada in the junior division and he is number one in Quebec in the under 20 category.
Last summer, he also won his very first international match, a feat he will have to achieve many times to earn the title of international grandmaster.
Thomas Roussel-Roozmon is an example to us all of tenacity and I join the people of Laval in wishing him good luck. We all hope he earns the title of international chess grandmaster in Greece.
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Progressive Conservative
Rex Barnes Gander—Grand Falls, NL
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to speak about a very serious medical condition in our country, that is the alarming number of cancer cases. An estimated 140,000 new cases of cancer and 67,000 deaths from cancer will occur in Canada in 2003. Right now there are more than 710,000 Canadians living with cancer.
In my riding of Gander--Grand Falls, Mr. Gerald Higgins has been on a one man crusade since his wife was diagnosed with cancer in May 2000. Mr. Higgins' crusade is about transformers and cancer. What is the connection? For example, in one community, 49 of 51 people were diagnosed with cancer; in another, 16 of 21 people were diagnosed with cancer; and in another, 21 of 23 people were diagnosed with cancer. In one community 35 residents have died from cancer.
What is the connection with transformers? All have transformers in close proximity to their homes. Is there a relationship--
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
The Deputy Speaker
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NEW LONDON (WFRV) -- New London police are searching for a suspect in the armed robbery of a gas station.
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