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Debates of Sept. 30th, 2003
House of Commons Hansard #130 of the 37th Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was representation.
- Point of Order
- Privilege
- Office of the Privacy Commissioner
- Petitions
- Questions on the Order Paper
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Point of Order
10 a.m.
Don Boudria Minister of State and Leader of the Government in the House of Commons
Mr. Speaker, yesterday in the House, the hon. member for Charlesbourg—Jacques-Cartier asked a question and I promised to provide an answer as soon as possible.
In fact, I have reread the text of the question carefully. It asked the government whether an RCMP investigation was being carried out. As we all know, the government does not comment on whether or not RCMP investigations are being carried out. I cannot therefore provide any additional information, because we do not, of course, comment on whether or not investigations of this kind are under way.
Point of Order
10 a.m.
The Speaker
I am sure the House appreciates the intervention of the hon. government House leader.
10 a.m.
The Speaker
I am now prepared to rule on the question of privilege raised by the hon. member for Ancaster--Dundas--Flamborough--Aldershot on September 15, 2003, concerning remarks by a judge which have since been quoted by other judges and which he regards as contemptuous of this House.
Let me start by thanking the hon. member for Ancaster--Dundas--Flamborough--Aldershot for raising this important issue, as well as the hon. member for West Vancouver--Sunshine Coast and the hon. member for Mississauga South for their interventions.
The hon. member for Ancaster--Dundas--Flamborough--Aldershot stated that a remark made by Mr. Justice Iacobucci in his 1998 ruling on the case of Vriend v. Alberta, which has since been cited by two other judges, infringes on the supremacy of Parliament and is contemptuous.
Mr. Justice Iacobucci was quoted on page 7342 of Debates of the House of Commons of September 15, 2003 as follows:
In my opinion, groups that have historically been the target of discrimination cannot be expected to wait patiently for the protection of their human dignity and equal rights while governments move toward reform one step at a time. If the infringement of the rights and freedoms of these groups is permitted to persist while governments fail to pursue equality diligently, then the guarantees of the Charter will be reduced to little more than empty words.
The hon. member for Ancaster—Dundas—Flamborough—Aldershot asserted that, by his reference to "governments", the judge was actually referring to Parliament. However, as I read them, the judicial comments of which the hon. member complains suggest that the courts should not wait for the government or Parliament to introduce legal reforms as this can take too long or be incomplete in the end result.
Seen in this light, in my view, the judge's comments would seem to focus on the parliamentary process rather than on Parliament itself. To be sure, the comments are critical of the process where it may be slow to provide remedies in respect of legal rights, but this is the sort of comment any Canadian might make and one that the judge might have considered appropriate given the facts of the case before him. Cases may occur where comments made by a judge are so egregious as to require your Speaker's comment but it does not appear to me that this is such an instance.
In this case, in the context of the privileges of the House, where the dignity of this parliamentary chamber may be offended in the minds of some hon. members, my task is to weigh the character of the judicial comments against the freedom that must be allowed to a court, and to this chamber, to explain its actions as it sees fit. In my view, there is no animus against the House or its dignity in the remarks of which the hon. member for Ancaster—Dundas—Flamborough—Aldershot complains.
A regime of mutual respect ought to govern the relationship between the courts and the House. Each must be free to discharge its responsibilities without criticism from the other. In this case, the observations complained of by the hon. member do not, in my view, amount to a contempt of the House.
Accordingly, I do not find a prima facie breach of privilege in this case.
Office of the Privacy Commissioner
10:05 a.m.
The Speaker
I have the honour to lay upon the table, pursuant to subsection 8(2) of the Auditor General Act, a special report on the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.
Pursuant to Standing Order 108(3)( g ), this report is deemed to have been permanently referred to the Standing Committee on Public Accounts.
Routine Proceedings
10:05 a.m.
Canadian Alliance
Garry Breitkreuz Yorkton—Melville, SK
Mr. Speaker, it is with honour that I present petitions with the signatures of 10,679 Canadians who are asking for Parliament to support Private Member's Motion No. 83.
Motion No. 83 asks the health committee to examine whether abortions are medically necessary as defined by the Canada Health Act and to compare the health risks for women undergoing abortions to those for women who carry their babies to full term. I would like to thank the 10,679 Canadians who signed the petitions. As members will see, the number of petitions is quite large and I submit them.
Questions on the Order Paper
Routine Proceedings
September 30th, 2003 / 10:10 a.m.
Halifax West
Nova Scotia
Geoff Regan Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons
Mr. Speaker, I ask that all questions be allowed to stand.
Questions on the Order Paper
Routine Proceedings
10:10 a.m.
The Speaker
Is that agreed?
Questions on the Order Paper
Routine Proceedings
10:10 a.m.
Some hon. members
Government Orders
10:10 a.m.
Lorne Nystrom Regina—Qu'Appelle, SK
That this House call upon the government to hold a referendum within one year to determine whether Canadians wish to replace the current electoral system with a system of proportional representation and, if so, to appoint a commission to consult Canadians on the preferred model of proportional representation and the process of implementation, with an implementation date no later than July 1, 2006.
Mr. Speaker,the debate today in the House is on the idea of appointing a parliamentary committee or commission to study the various methods of proportional representation and then to put the idea to the Canadian people in a national referendum, whereby the people themselves choose whether or not they want to have this new system of proportional representation or the status quo.
The vote this afternoon will be an historic vote. The House last voted on the idea of PR in 1923, some 80 years ago. I believe that it is time we had a good look at our voting system.
To me, a fundamental principle of democracy is how we represent the will of the people in our parliamentary institutions. All voters deserve to be represented equally in the Parliament of Canada. What proportional representation does is empower the people so that every vote counts, no vote is wasted and all votes are represented equally here in the House of Commons of Canada.
Our system does not do that. All we have to do is look at the present Parliament. In November 2000 in the federal election campaign, the Liberal Party took barely 41% of the votes and yet has an overwhelming majority in the House of Commons.
The motion looks at the various modes of proportional representation that would be relevant to our country. As I said, this will be the first vote since 1923 on PR. It is about time for us to do this, because our country is suffering from what I call a democratic deficit.
I believe we are literally sleepwalking toward a crisis in democracy in our country. In the last election campaign, about 60% of the people participated. In the campaign before that it was 67%. Years ago, 75%, 80% and more than 80% of people participated in elections.
People are losing faith in the parliamentary system, in the voting system, in terms of it representing their issues in the House of Commons. I believe that it is time to catch up with the rest of the world. Most Canadians are not aware that there are now only three countries in the world with more than eight million people that use the pure first past the post system: Canada, India and the United States of America.
In the United States in the last campaign for president, George W. Bush got 550,000 fewer votes than Al Gore, but who is the President of the United States? It is George W. Bush, not Al Gore.
Those are the kinds of distortions that we have in a first past the post system. Even in the British system, the mother of our parliamentary system, there is now a measure of proportional representation in the Welsh parliament and in the Scottish parliament. All MPs are elected to the European parliament through proportional representation, and there is a commitment from the Prime Minister of Britain to have a referendum on the idea for Westminster itself.
We are one of a few countries in the world that uses a system invented before the telephone, a system that is archaic, a system that does not represent or mirror the voting intention of the people of the country in the Parliament of Canada. In fact, I think a lot of people would be scandalized to realize that most of the majority governments we have had have been elected by a minority of the people.
We have had 16 majority governments since 1921, including today's. This Prime Minister has had three majority governments, all of which were elected by a minority of the people. In fact, of the 16 majority governments, only four had a majority of the people voting for them: Mackenzie King in 1940 and 1949, Diefenbaker in 1958, and then Brian Mulroney, who had almost exactly 50%, about 49.99%, in 1984.
Most majority governments in the country have been elected by a minority of the people. We are one of the few countries in the world left using this archaic system whereby the minority can elect a majority, this country and the United States.
As I have said, Parliament does not mirror how the people vote so it is no wonder that people are giving up and losing faith in the voting system. I was elected in 1968 and I was out of politics after 1993 for four years. Before I lost in 1993, I used to think that the first past the post system was a wonderful system. It treated me very well. It treated all of us very well; that is why we are here. But after four years with the ordinary people and hearing what they had to say, I realized that people in the country are losing faith in the voting system.
When I came back here in 1997, I looked around Parliament and saw a majority government across the way that was elected by 38% of the people. I saw the Reform Party and the Progressive Conservative Party. I looked at the results. They both had 19% of the votes. Then I looked at the seats. There were 60 Reform MPs and there were 20 Conservative MPs in that corner of the House.
I looked at the number of votes cast in favour of the Bloc Quebecois and the NDP. Each party received about 11% of the vote, which elected 21 New Democrats and, I believe, 43 or 44 Bloc Quebecois members.
We had a Parliament that did not represent or reflect how the people had voted.
There is a real democratic deficit in the Parliament of our country. Even though, in the last federal election, they did not even get 41% of the vote, we now have a government with a strong majority.
The number of votes cast for two parties, the Progressive Conservatives and New Democrats, represented about 21% of Canada's population, but taken together, these two parties have only 25 or 26 seats, which is 8% of the seats in this House.
On the provincial level, we see exactly the same thing. I remember the Quebec election five or six years ago. Jean Charest, the leader of the Liberal Party, received more votes than Lucien Bouchard. But who was elected premier of Quebec? Lucien Bouchard.
At about the same time in British Columbia, there was an election in which the Liberal Party received more votes than my own party, the NDP. But who formed the government? The New Democratic Party, with a majority government. There are distortions everywhere in our electoral system.
However, under proportional representation, if a party were to receive 20% of the votes, the party would receive 20% of the seats in the legislature or in Parliament.
Yesterday, there was an election in Prince Edward Island. The Liberal Party—the party of the leader of the federal government sitting opposite—received some 43% or 44% of the votes, which translates into less than 15% of the seats in the Prince Edward Island Legislative Assembly.
The distortions are all over the place.
I ask members of the House to look at the reasons for proportional representation and why countries around the world have adopted a system of PR. First, the question of fairness, where every vote counts and every vote counts equally regardless of where one lives in the country.
Today that does not happen. One would think almost all the people in Ontario are Liberals because they have almost all the seats in Ontario and yet they receive only half the votes. One would think almost everybody in the west was for the Alliance or the former Reform Party and yet the Alliance or the former Reform Party, with an overwhelming majority of the seats, has less than half the votes in the west and remain a minority party in western Canada.
What is important about proportional representation is that people can vote for their first choice and their first choice would count. How exciting that would be. We would have a different voting configuration across this country. People could actually vote for the Liberal Party in rural western Canada and their vote would count, vote for the NDP in Alberta or Quebec and their vote would count, vote for the Alliance in Newfoundland and their vote would count or vote for the Conservative Party in the province of Quebec and their vote would count. People could vote for their first choice and their vote would count here in the House of Commons.
Systems of proportional representation all over the world have provided women with much greater representation in the parliaments and legislative assemblies and provided minorities with a much greater representation for the simple reason that under proportional representation, if a party does not have a team of candidates that reflects that region, then that party will be judged harshly by the electorate. It is a way of involving more women and more minorities.
I think the Liberal Party should think about the question of national unity. We have, in essence, five regional parties in the House of Commons, including the Liberal Party. If we had proportional representation it would force every party to have a national vision. For every party the vote in Chicoutimi, Quebec would be worth the same as the vote in Bathurst, New Brunswick, Kamsack, Saskatchewan or in Kamloops, British Columbia. It would force all parties to have a national vision about where this country should go.
At the same time it would provide the flexibility where there could be regional parties, because any vision of PR in a big federation, whether it be one based on province by province rights or region by region breakdowns, where we can have a party like the Bloc Quebecois which would have a vision for Quebec and yet do very well in the province of Quebec, or any other province, for a party of a different political ideology or stripe. Those are some of the reasons for proportional representation.
I want to look at some of the arguments made by the government and people across the country who are skeptical of changing our voting system. One of the silliest arguments I have heard ever from the government House leader was when he said last week that we were a federation. I can only think of one federation in the world which has proportional representation and that is Germany. A little bit of research shows we have some 25 federations in the world. Some 14 of those federations have a measure of PR and seven of those are in Europe. Being a federation does not preclude or exclude the possibility of having a system based on proportional representation.
Second, some people say that we will lose the direct election of our local members of Parliament. That does not have to be the case. I believe in a system of PR called a mixed member proportional, where we elect some MPs riding by riding and some MPs on a proportional list. Germany is the best example of a mixed member proportional system where half the MPs are elected riding by riding, so they have their local representative and half of them are on the list. There are 13 countries in the world that have the German system with the mixed member proportional.
People in Germany get two ballots. They vote for their candidate of choice in their own riding, be it Vancouver East or elsewhere, and then they vote for their party of preference. The preferential list determines the proportion of the seats for each party in the House of Commons, the Parliament or the legislative assembly. In the end we get our local member of Parliament but if our party gets 20% of the votes we also get 20% of the seats.
The government House leader would say that the people who are elected proportionally do not represent anyone in particular. That does not have to be the case. They can represent the province or the region from where they are elected. Our present senators are supposed to be representing the province from which they are chosen, so why could these regional MPs not represent the province?
My vision is to have a mixed member proportional done on a province by province basis across the country. The regional MPs from Saskatchewan, B.C. or Newfoundland would represent their province as an entity. The local MP, the member for Vancouver East, would represent her riding, as she does today.
The mixed member proportional system is a system that would provide the best of both worlds: local representation and proportionality. If someone received only 5% or 10% of the votes, his or her party would have 5% or 10% of the MPs rather than no MPs. That is why this system is used in almost every country around the world.
Some people say that it will be unstable and that there will be nothing but minority governments. What is stable about our system today where with 37% or 38% of the votes there is a majority government and 63% of the people who voted for opposition parties are in the minority? Does that create stability?
I have been around this place for a while. I have seen minority governments and I have seen them work well. I remember in 1972-74 when Pierre Trudeau had a minority Parliament and it worked well. There was a working relationship at that time between the Trudeau government and the New Democratic Party.
Before I arrived here in the 1960s, Pearson, one of our best prime ministers, never had a majority government. Lester Pearson, who was prime minister from 1963 to 1968, and was one of the best prime ministers we ever had, ran one of the most productive Parliaments we ever had. Minority governments do work well. They are more representative and reflective of the people.
I know this may lead to a radical idea and may send shivers through the government House leader's body. We may end up having what is called a coalition government. I see he is already shaking, shivering and quivering. I know it is radical in our country but coalition governments exist all over the world. There is one today in Saskatchewan which is doing very well. It is a coalition government with a majority of NDP members and a minority of Liberals. That government has governed now for four years.
If that is the way people vote, then that is the way people vote. We would then have a Parliament that would reflect the voting intentions of the people.
People may also say that it may not be as democratic, that the leaders would have too much say and that the party hierarchy would choose the candidates on the lists. Any system of PR would never have my support unless it included an open and democratic election of candidates by all parties on the preferential list. We could do that through a big convention, through a primary or through a one member one vote process. It could be done in many ways but it would have to be open, democratic, accessible and visible for each and every Canadian.
Now we hear the argument: Why should we not try it at the provincial level? My answer for the minister across the way is that we should show some leadership in the House of Commons. Some of the provinces are showing leadership.
In his throne speech Premier Jean Charest said that there would be a measure of PR in the Quebec national assembly in the election after the next. British Columbia and Prince Edward Island are studying the issue. The leader of the Liberal Party in Ontario, Dalton McGuinty, has said that there will be a chance for the voters of Ontario to make a decision on changing the voting system if he becomes the premier of that province. He has told voters that they will decide how elections will work. He said:
The time has come for a full, open public debate on voting reform. When almost half of the public does not see the point in heading to the polls, we have already had a non-confidence vote in our democracy.
A number of Liberals and a number of people of all political stripes at the provincial level are now saying that the time has come to change the voting system and that we should allow the people to have a say as to what kind of system they want.
When we look around the world we find that our voting system is very archaic. As I said, we are only one of three large countries that use first past the post. Most countries use a form of proportional representation.
I watched with interest when the Soviet Union fell apart and the political leadership in Russia, the Ukraine, Poland and many other countries in the old Soviet Union were looking for a voting system that would best represent the people of their countries. They looked at our system as well as other systems around the world. The interesting thing was that not one of those countries chose our first past the post system of voting because they felt it was not democratic and would not reflect the voters' intentions in the parliaments of those particular countries.
New democracies, old democracies, New Zealand, and many democracies have switched to a system that has a measure of proportional representation.
What I am excited about is that proportional representation empowers the people. Every vote counts and every vote would be represented in the House of Commons. Many systems have a threshold where a party must receive 3% or 5%, so every vote for a party preference of 3% or 5% is represented. Other countries have systems without a threshold.
These are issues that a parliamentary committee can study and make recommendations on. Those are the things that make the proportional representation system a much better one in terms of empowering and exciting people about the political process.
Finally, we have today a motion before the House that says we should study the various forms of proportional representation that can be relevant to our unique federation. We should propose the model that the committee comes up with to the Canadian people in a national referendum so that people will have a chance to choose between the new model and the status quo, first past the post, as people did in New Zealand.
I ask the government House leader, and government members across the way, what is wrong with letting the people of the country have their say?
If Dalton McGuinty, who is about to be the premier of Ontario, is saying that the people should have a say in a referendum on the democratic deficit and on the voting system, what is wrong in putting the question to the Canadian people at the appropriate time so that they decide what is the best way to reflect their views and represent them in the House of Commons?
This is not a decision for politicians. It is not a decision for a government, particularly a government that represents a minority of the people. It is a decision for the people of Canada to make at the time of a national referendum.
We had a referendum on the Charlottetown accord and we can also have a referendum on the voting system.
I wish to conclude by saying that what we must do is represent the will of the people in this chamber and the way to do it is by changing the voting system in Canada.
Government Orders
10:30 a.m.
Paul Szabo Mississauga South, ON
Mr. Speaker, I want to compliment the member for yet again raising this issue for debate. It is important that we debate matters which may not at first blush fit in with our set ways.
Many countries have proportional representation or some form of it. There are many hybrids of this.
With regard to the one that the member is proposing as one that we might want to consider, I looked at it in one of his previous speeches. It is a system whereby there would be candidates in every riding but there would not be as many ridings as there are today. We would probably have 200 ridings in Canada instead of 301 or 307 as the case may be.
That effectively means that all members of Parliament who are elected in a riding would have 50% more constituents than they do today which makes it extremely difficult for them to have that intimacy with constituents in terms of serving their needs.
The second aspect is that the balance of the seats in the House of Commons would be represented by those on lists in the proportion of the votes that they received in the second balloting.
This would create a second class of member of Parliament. Some would be directly elected and have all these constituents to take care of, and others could very well be those who could not get elected on their merit. Quite frankly it raises some concern about whether or not the homogeneity of the House of Commons in terms of the common bond of association would cease to exist.
Could the member comment on those two points?
Government Orders
10:30 a.m.
Lorne Nystrom Regina—Qu'Appelle, SK
Mr. Speaker, all the motion says is that we should have a committee or commission study the form of proportional representation that might be most appropriate for our country and have a national referendum. It does not prejudice Parliament by saying we want system A, system B or system C.
I have my preference. My preference is a mixed member proportional system like in Germany or in 13 countries around the world because that system combines both local MPs and proportionality. But that is not part of the motion. We should have a study as to what system would be most appropriate for our country, even though I believe and hope that the German system is probably the one we would most likely accept in Canada, if we do accept proportional representation.
My vision also includes abolishing the unelected Senate and bringing the checks and balances right into the House of Commons by empowering the House, by having stronger and more independent committees, committees to initiate legislation, timetable legislation and so on.
Regarding second class MPs, under the mixed member proportional system, half the MPs would be elected riding by riding and the other half proportionally in order to represent the regions. Yet we vote directly by regions in this country so that we have some elected representatives in Saskatchewan as a whole, British Columbia or New Brunswick. The senators are supposed to represent those regions now.
We have six Saskatchewan senators who are supposed to represent Saskatchewan, but they are not accountable and democratic. The people elected on a PR list would have to face the people again in four years and be elected, be accountable and have democratic scrutiny as to whether or not they should return. In that way we would not have two classes of MPs. Both would be elected and be accountable, both would have constituencies and constituents, and both would have to face the electorate every four years. That system is used in 13 countries around the world.
It does not have to be fifty-fifty. It could be that 60% represent ridings and 40% are elected on the list. These are details that should be studied. That is why I want a parliamentary committee or a parliamentary commission to study the appropriate system of PR for our country. We are one of the few countries in the world that uses an outdated first past the post system.
Government Orders
10:35 a.m.
Canadian Alliance
Jay Hill Prince George—Peace River, BC
Mr. Speaker, I support the hon. member and his party in this initiative that they have undertaken to draw attention to what he described as an archaic system. It is well known across the land. I also support his initiative that would result in a referendum where the people would decide upon what system they want to see.
However, I do have a concern when he talks about fairness. He talked about the fairness of the proposal or the model that he is putting forward that would see some MPs selected as representatives of ridings and others selected from a list. He said, if I heard him correctly, that there could be a convention to actually have the parties put forward a slate of names and then have them elect people at a convention that would ultimately be on the list.
I wonder, given the present party discipline of the various parties and their leaders, what would lead him to believe that the leaders would give up that type of power?
My concern is that we would see a system whereby the parties' proportional lists, that some MPs would be selected from, would be controlled by the parties themselves and by the leaders. I only need to draw attention to the need for free votes in this House of Commons.
Supposedly we just had a free vote. His party was the only party where the leader brought down the heavy hand and said that none of his members were going to be allowed to vote freely to represent their constituents or to represent their own conscience on the issue of redefining traditional marriage. Instead, they would have to vote the party line.
What would lead him to believe that his party and his leader would give up the power to ensure that the people on the proportional list were people that his leader wanted?
Government Orders
10:35 a.m.
Lorne Nystrom Regina—Qu'Appelle, SK
Mr. Speaker, I would not support any system that did not have an open and democratic selection process for people on the proportional list. Parliament would have to write the rules and draft the legislation to ensure the process was democratic.
It was not long ago in this country when people said that parliamentary leaders would never agree to an election law that would outlaw corporate and union funding. I never thought I would see my party agree to a law that would prohibit us from getting trade union funding for election campaigns, but we did. Things change and people evolve. A democratic system should be in place where candidates are democratically chosen.
It does not have to be just one member-one vote or a convention. We could use the single transferrable ballot. There are many different systems that are democratic, open and transparent. Those conditions would have to be met for me to support it. Ballots must be secret. We should have a system where party leaders do not control the voting process; it must be controlled by the people themselves. I would not support any other system unless it had that component in it. I sincerely mean that in terms of my answer to the member from British Columbia.
Government Orders
10:35 a.m.
Libby Davies Vancouver East, BC
Mr. Speaker, I want to congratulate the member for Regina—Qu'Appelle because he has taken the lead, in this Parliament and in other Parliaments, to bring forward this issue of democracy and parliamentary reform and proportional representation. He has been a real champion of that.
In listening to the arguments that he has laid out, it strikes me that the single greatest impediment to bringing forward democracy in PR is the Liberal government. It has huge vested interests in keeping the system as it is and preventing some sort of measure of proportional representation.
I would like the member to talk about how this should also be debated in Canadian communities. We have seen groups like Fair Vote Canada and other organizations. This is a massive campaign outside of Parliament to bring forward PR. Would he comment on that?
Government Orders
10:40 a.m.
Lorne Nystrom Regina—Qu'Appelle, SK
Mr. Speaker, the member is absolutely right that the opposition to this idea is in a large extent motivated by what I call political greed. The government across the way has a majority with 40% of the votes. Under PR it would not have a majority. The majority of people have voted for the opposition parties.
Governments that have majorities are not interested in changing the voting system because it works well for them. It worked well for me for many years. That is why politicians who are incumbents are wedded to the system. When they are thrown out of office, the same is true of the NDP, this is not a left-right type of issue. We have the Alliance, the NDP and the Bloc together on this.
I had a press conference once with some of the most right wing members of the Alliance and the leader of the Marxist-Leninists in British Columbia. It is not a left-right issue. It is a question of the who is in and who is out, whether it is the NDP or the Conservatives or the Liberals or whomever. If we get a big majority, we tend to like the system that brought us there. Parties are usually committed to this idea when they are out of office.
I make an appeal to have a referendum. Let the people of this country decide because there is growing interest in the community. There is a national organization called Fair Vote Canada. People want change. They want democracy. They want their will represented in the Parliament of Canada.


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Microprocessors and servers developed and manufactured by Sun Microsystems are widely adopted throughout the world for a lot of applications, including many mission-critical tasks, such as telecommunication company's databases. One of the advantages Sun CPUs and servers provide is that they are considered as absolutely reliable; this opinion has its ground since Sun has long history as CPU and Solaris operating system manufacturer. Sadly, it appears that even legendary reliable microprocessors and systems may have some problems.
In the recent article, published as part of Sun Alert program, Sun Microsystems warns its customers about possible problems with Floating-Point Unit (FPU) of its UltraSPARC III family of processors and their derivatives. Sun claims that due to an electrical degradation effect FPU may produce inaccurate or "unpredictable" results. However, the main problem is not in this fact lonely, but in the fact that Solaris OS will not detect such problem in the FPU and will not issue an error messages and reboot the system. Since FPU results are unpredictable, it may be a problem even for most simple applications, not talking about mission-critical tasks.
Sun claims that this error may occur only in 1 of about 83 000 CPUs and only after long period of operation. Additionally, diagnostic tool, called SunVTS, which ships with Solaris 8 and 9, is able to detect this error, so it is recommended to run it regularly. Hopefully, system administrators will listen to Sun's recommendations.
This is not the first time when glitches are found with CPUs designed for mission-critical applications. Earlier this year Intel notified its customers about a glitch that causes some of its Itanium 2 processors at 900MHz and 1000MHz to behave erratically or crash in certain cases. According to Intel's spokesperson, errors with Intel Itanium 2 processor 900 and 1000MHz only occur with a specific set of operations in a specific sequence with specific data. Reportedly, the electrical glitch had been found by a PC maker with only 900 and 1000MHz processors during stress-test. 800MHz chips were unaffected.
You can read the full description of the problem on the Sun web-site over here.

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Can the Humans be stopped? Will we end a 200 million year run, just because we can? I know we are the dominate species on the planet, we prove that all the time. We love proving it. We are genius at making deadly devices large and small. Amazing robot aircraft which can kill entire villages at will. Nothing has ever lived, as deadly as us. But the real question is, do we have to be? Can't we grow out of this? Do we have to kill everything and everyone? Do we have to turn everything into a weapon? Must the ocean it's self be a weapon against the animals which call it home? For example, the Leatherback sea turtle has lived on this planet for 200 million years. They survived massive asteroid impacts, dinosaurs, sharks, and things we can't even imagine. But as soon as we show up.. bye bye, it's end of the ride for you Mr. Turtle.
Can we be stopped? Will we save the oceans from ourselves? Obviously, we can do anything, we just need to put our minds to work.
The seven species of modern sea turtles have changed very little from their ancient ancestors. They include: Green Turtle, Hawksbill Turtle, Kemp's Ridley Turtle, Olive Ridley Turtle, Loggerhead Turtle, Flatback Turtle and the Leatherback Turtle. All seven species are listed by the IUCN Red List as either endangered or critically endangered.
One of the most threatened is the Leatherback the largest turtle and largest living reptile in the world, weighing up to 2,000 pounds. Leatherbacks differ from all other sea turtles in that they don't have a hard bony shell. They get their name from their distinct carapace a thin layer of fragile skin overlaying tiny bone plates which has a leathery appearance. Due to their large body size, high oil content, and a counter-current heat exchange system, Leatherbacks have the ability to keep their core body temperature at about twenty-five degrees Celsius higher than most ocean waters. This allows them to tolerate colder water and migrate more expansively.
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After the Civil War ended in 1865, the U.S. government embarked on a plan called Reconstruction to rebuild the South and reunite the nation. Reconstruction lasted from 1865 to 1877. During Reconstruction, the southern states set up new governments and revised their constitutions. All of the former Confederate states were readmitted to the Union by 1870, but many northern Republicans objected to the efforts made by the legislatures of southern states to restrict the freedoms of African Americans. Reconstruction governments, however, founded new social programs and organizations, such as public school systems. Southern states also spent a great deal of money repairing their infrastructure—railroads, bridges, and public buildings—which had been destroyed during the war.
At first, African Americans were optimistic about their futures. In 1866, Congress passed the Fourteenth Amendment, which extended equal citizenship to African Americans, and a few years later, passed the Fifteenth Amendment, which guaranteed that the right to vote could not be denied because of race. African Americans took an active part in government, serving as delegates at state constitutional conventions and in Reconstruction legislatures.
Despite this greater equality, as early as 1866, southern states began passing Black Codes, which were laws that greatly limited the freedom of African Americans. Many African Americans were also still tied to the land through the system of sharecropping, by which a sharecropper worked a parcel of land in return for a share of the crop. Under this system, most African-American sharecroppers (as well as white sharecroppers) remained in poverty. African Americans had few economic opportunities to better their lives. Many were also threatened by the Ku Klux Klan, which opposed African Americans obtaining civil rights and used violence to discourage them. By the late 1800s, many African Americans felt the New South was beginning to look very much like the Old South. As Democrats regained control of southern state governments, they began to overturn the Reconstruction reforms. For instance, they devised methods of keeping African Americans from voting by implementing poll taxes and literacy tests. Southern states also passed Jim Crow laws, which called for the segregation of African Americans. In 1896, the Supreme Court ruled in Plessy v. Ferguson that the standard of ''separate but equal'' facilities did not violate the...
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Men are minimalists.
Why, then, Shannon, are we forced to absorb the decadence of our women? Whether it's in the bedroom closet where your shoes and dresses runneth over, or even in our own pockets, it's hard to ignore the footprint you make on our space.
You and I have addressed the bathroom dilemma before. And everyone knows how fast a woman's stuff takes over a bedroom.
But on our own person? That's too much. Are we expected to be the mode of transportation for all of your lady-tools? Come on, we gotta draw the line there.
Let me clue you in: (A) Men like to be as comfortable as possible at all times. (B) That starts with our pants. Which leads to (C): Just because we have pockets doesn't mean we want them full of your stuff.
Are we to believe it is by happenstance that your keys, lipstick and/or eyeliner ends up in our pockets every time we go out? It's not our fault you went out with a purse that looks like it was meant for Barbie.
This is my constant scenario: I go out. I've got the pants, shirt, shoes. The outfit is looking tight and I've got just the bare essentials - I.D., cash and the car key. Then my girl asks me to hold her cell phone, her lipstick, her I.D., a mirror and who knows what else. So now I'm supposed to go into the club with my pant pockets all jacked up, looking like I just robbed a Mini-Mart?
I don't think so.
We love you ladies, and your beauty provides us with the very sustenance by which we live and breathe. But it's time to carry your own damn stuff.
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Boo hoo, poor Dave.
His "tight" little outfit gets all messed up because he has to carry a little tube of lipstick in his pockets.
Tough life. The ladies of Tampa Bay weep for you. Not.
First off, that kind little gesture of carrying your hot little mama's fire-red Maybelline could make her very grateful. In other words, the little tube putting a bulge in your pants might later seem like ... well, like foreshadowing.
Bet you wouldn't complain then about having to be lipstick carrier.
And how many times have I gone somewhere with my husband and he asks me to stick his sunglasses or his wallet or his keys into my purse?
I oblige him, and if we're out at a bar or something, he holds my lip gloss - without complaint.
You might try it, Dave.
Of course, you have other options, too.
You could stop wearing such tight pants. Then her cell phone would fit just fine.
You could try to tell your girl about the virtues of being "low-maintenance." You know, the whole "less is more" mantra.
Tell her she doesn't need that lipstick because you'll just kiss it away anyway.
Tell her the cell phone will just distract her from dancing the night away with you.
And if that fails, buy her a very fashionable, mid-sized purse. Who knows? Maybe she'll even be so nice as to hold on to your crap.
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Where does Molina rank among the top Cardinals catchers?Posted Tuesday, July 3, 2012, at 1:13 PM
By COREY NOLES
As St. Louis Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina continues his record-setting pace in 2012, conversations are heating up about his place in the storied franchise's history.
Molina is on pace to break some of his career best numbers even before the All-Star break.
Hitting his third home run of the week on Sunday afternoon against the Pittsburgh Pirates, he now stands just one short of the most he has ever hit in a season, 14 in 2011.
In truth, Molina is on pace to crush several of his own personal records this year.
His career high RBI total is 65 and he is well over half way there. As of July 1, he is on pace to drive in 88 runs. He also sits two shy of his best single-season stolen base total of nine.
If his growing offense continues to catch up with his stellar defense, he could secure his place among the game's elite.
Continue reading to see where Molina currently ranks among the Cardinals' best catchers.
5. Tom Pagnozzi
Tom Pagnozzi was drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals in 1983 in the eighth round. That turned out to be quite a pick.
In 12 years with the Cardinals, Pagnozzi was a defensive force to be reckoned with. While he only won three Gold Gloves, he did manage to catch 293 potential base-stealers.
He wasn't a major threat with a bat, but he was definitely a solid man behind the plate for the Cardinals for more than a decade. He spent 827 games behind the plate as a Cardinal.
4. Mike Matheny
While today he manages Yadier Molina, there was a time when Mike Matheny was his mentor.
Aside from that, he was possibly the best defensive catcher the Cardinals had ever seen.
Matheny earned three of his four career Gold Gloves in St. Louis over a five-year span.
Much like Molina, Matheny was a catcher one didn't dare try to steal on. In 13 seasons as a catcher he threw out 298 runners who thought they were fast enough to beat him.
In the year 2000, he actually threw out 53 percent of all base-stealers to earn his first Gold Glove.
The only thing keeping Matheny this far down the list was his bat. As a Cardinal he averages a modest .245 batting average with a 20 percent strikeout rate.
3. Tim McCarver
While many today may know him only as a Fox Sports sportscaster, Tim McCarver once spent a lot of time behind the plate for the Cardinals.
In 10 seasons as a Cardinal, McCarver managed two World Series championships (1964-1967) and a pair of All-Star berths.
While he wasn't the best hitting catcher in the world, he did lead the league in triples in 1966 and had a .272 career average with the Cardinals. His bat is the reason he ranks above Matheny.
In five of his 12 seasons with the Cardinals, McCarver had a caught stealing percentage of more than 37. In 1967, when he finished number two in MVP voting, he shot that number up to 55 percent.
2. Yadier Molina
Yadier Molina has been a defensive force throughout his nine season MLB career with the Cardinals.
He has an average caught stealing percentage of 43 percent and in 2005 he threw out an impressive 64 percent. Three times he has led the league in this category and with good reason.
Molina has won four consecutive Gold Gloves and is on pace to win plenty more throughout a contract that locks him up as a Cardinal through 2018.
Until 2011, Molina had good spells with his bat, but had never been amazing. Over the past two seasons, he's begun to show us what he is really capable of doing.
He finished 2011 with 14 home runs, four stolen bases and a batting average of .305. Those are big numbers for a catcher. He's not setting MLB records, but he is definitely breaking new ground for Cardinals catchers.
If he continues in the direction he is headed, the time may come when he holds the next spot in this list.
1.Ted Simmons
Ted Simmons was good with his glove to that extent that he was the favorite catcher of Cardinals Hall of Fame pitcher, Bob Gibson.
His glove isn't the only thing that put him at the top of this list.
Simmons was the first Cardinals catcher to offer a serious threat from the catcher's spot in the lineup. He even led the league in intentional walks in 1976-77.
In 13 seasons as a Cardinal, he had a .298 batting average and hit 172 home runs. That's a number Molina still has a little ways to reach.
Simmons won seven of his nine All Star berths as a Cardinal, including one Silver Slugger award for being the best hitting player at his position.
Defensively, Molina is a step above Simmons already. Simmons' consistency on both offense and defense over such a long time are why he still sits at the top of the list.
With that said, if I were him, I wouldn't get too comfortable there.
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I think you are pretty much right on. I would switch Matheny and McCarver, simply because i can't stand McCarver's game calling now. But i totaly agree with putting Simmons at number one right now. Like you, i think Yadi could be the number one by the end of his career.
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Your prayer life has a significant impact on your spiritual growth. Prayer submits your will to the Lord's, it aligns your desires with His purposes, and it cements His truth in your heart. In the end, it's much more than simply bringing your requests and concerns before the Lord.
Over the last several weeks here on the GTY blog, we've been weighing the biblical and practical merits of some popular methods of stimulating your spiritual growth, commonly referred to as spiritual formation. In particular, we looked at how to get the most from your study of God's Word by comparing some modern patterns of spiritual formation to time-tested principles of Bible study and interpretation.
But if you've heard or read anything from proponents of spiritual formation, you know that prayer figures heavily in their methodology. In fact, it was several questions about a specific method of prayer—contemplative prayer—that prompted this blog series in the first place.
Contemplative prayer isn't really prayer at all—at least in an active sense. It's essentially a form of passive meditation. Usually it involves repeating a few words from a verse of Scripture, a spiritual phrase, or a name for God, all the while anticipating some special guidance, insight, or a word from the Lord.
The model for contemplative prayer isn't found in Scripture. It's a hybrid of rituals adopted from the Catholic church and Eastern mysticism. And most critical, it lacks a mechanism to differentiate between the voice of the Lord and your own emotions and imagination.
Make no mistake—God has spoken, once and for all, through His Word. You don't need to sequester yourself in solitude or practice some mystical incantation to receive His truth and grow spiritually. You simply need to submit yourself to His will as revealed in Scripture.
Any pattern for prayer that uses your emotions or imagination as a receptor for God's revelation is an invitation for theological error and spiritual confusion to take root in your life.
Instead of trying to manufacture some momentary, mystical experience with God, believers must cling to the unchangeable truth of His Word. Rather than searching for subjective personal insight, we need to reinforce our knowledge of Scripture and our dependence on the Lord through a consistent, biblical prayer life.
Tomorrow we'll look at a key figure in Scripture—a true prayer warrior, whose faithful prayer life should be a model for our own.
For now, we want to hear from you. What prayer methods have you used in the past? Have you been encouraged to try contemplative prayer? What were the results?
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John's teaching hit me a few weeks ago when he said that the longest prayer in the Bible can be read in less than seven minutes (Psalm 119 notwithstanding). My prayers almost exceeded an hour every night, but that was the only time I ever did it. I'd literally pray the same thing every night, too. It was all my own formula, but now I'm learning to speak from the heart, albeit ever so slowly.
I struggle with prioritizing my prayers as Jesus taught; I almost always jump to confession, rather than starting with worship, but I usually feel unworthy to utter the high praises of God when my heart needs to be cleansed. Every night it seems, I'm always focusing on how short I come, how far I am from arriving at the perfection of the image of Christ Jesus. I know He is able to save to the uttermost, I know he is the author and perfecter of my faith, but I never love enough, I'm never kind enough, and my thoughts are always terribly distracted from God.
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You say you're Christian
But really
You're a contemplating mystic
You're just like your father
amazing miraculous talent - Counterfeited
What I have come to realize
when God open my eyes
is that your lies - aren't restricted
You are in the church
infecting people with your sickness
asking them to be silent and listen
"Listen for the voice of God"
but We Have the Holy Spirit!
So get this!
He is always speaking and we're obedient / We listen
We are transformed / bearing fruit / and forgiven
So what do we need with your pagan spiritual discipline?
This is nonsense given to us
by seducing demonic spirits
The Lord says, DO NOT DO WHAT PAGANS DO!
These 66 Books are TRUE!
Jesus said, "Watch out that no one deceives you."
Be alert, sober minded so you can pray!
Spiritual Discernment is what is needed today!
We must cast out these demons and pray the way
Jesus taught us to pray!
1 Timothy 4:1, 2 Corinthians 11:14, 1 John 4:1, Deuteronomy 18:9, Matthew 24:4, Matthew 24:24, 1 Peter 4:7, 1 Peter 5:8, Colossians 4:2, 1 John 2:27, 1 Corinthians 12:4-11, Ephesians 6:10-18, Matthew 28:18, Philippians 2:9-11
Please Note: If one is required to take spiritual disciples or spiritual formation courses at the university level - Be diligent in prayer. I would like to encourage you to pray scripture and study Matthew 6:9-13 and John 17. Cry out to Jesus for more indwelling of the Holy Spirit and plead for the spiritual gift of discernment. May you have the eyes of Christ, in Jesus' name, I pray.
May you be blessed by Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, who sits at the right hand of God and is to be forever praised! Amen.
I agree that prayer is much more than simply bringing your requests and concerns before the Lord. The Lord does not need to be told what to do, as the lord already knows what must be done, so if we try to use prayer to tell and direct the Lord to do our bidding, are we not making an error? Instead shouldn't we be giving our thanks, love and reverence to the Lord for all that we already have?
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The dusky dolphin is a highly social species, sometimes found in herds of over 1,000 individuals, although groups of 20 to 500 are more common (3). Large groups often come together to cooperatively hunt prey, which is quite varied and includes anchovy, squid and shrimp. The species may also feed at night. The dusky dolphin frequently associates with other cetaceans (2) (3) (6), and is said to be one of the most acrobatic of all dolphins, readily approaching boats to bow-ride, and often leaping high out of the water and tumbling in the air (3).
Mating is believed to occur in spring, with a single calf born after a gestation period of 11 months (6) and measuring around 55 to 70 centimetres at birth (3) (6). Births usually peak in summer (November to February) around New Zealand and Argentina, and in winter (August to October) around Peru (2). Calves are weaned at around 18 months (6).


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April is Court Appointed Special Advocate month and there will be activity in the form of fundraisers for CASA and public awareness exercises said Trina Irwin, executive director for Saline County CASA.
There will be a series of "Dine To Donate" events at local restaurants. The restaurant sets aside time on a single day on which they will donate a percentage of every bill to CASA. The following list contains the names of participating restaurants and the dates and times at which they will be donating:
- April 4 — Tequilas, Harrisburg, 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
- April 18 — Liz's Cafe, Eldorado, 6 a.m. to 1 p.m.
- April 18 — Morello's, Harrisburg, 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
- April 18 — Dad's Barbecue, Eldorado, 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Perhaps the most high profile awareness enhancing event is "Hands Around The Courthouse." From noon to 1 p.m. participants will join hands and try to circle the Saline County Courthouse to draw attention to CASA and its funding needs. This community outreach is hoped to increase awareness of child abuse and what is being done by CASA to minimize the effects of abuse.
CASA advocates are appointed by the courts to work as liaisons between the court system and the victims of child abuse who are sometimes testifying against their own parents. As liaisons, CASA volunteers humanize the system somewhat for the child.
On June 29 there will be a young people's pageant titled "Mr. and Ms. Peanut Pageant" open to children age 2 through 13 at the SIC Foundation Building. The children will wear costumes with a circus theme.
Registration for the pageant will be held at the SIC Foundation Building 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. April 23 and May 15.
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Relaxing on the golf course is only one attraction of the inaugural Golf and Wine Academy, which will be held October 16 through 19 in California's Livermore Valley, a 45-minute drive from San Francisco. Hosted by Cork & Tee, a company that specializes in golf vacations, the event is designed to deliver a good time but also to teach participants something about subjects of interest to them. As such, the long weekend combines golf coaching and competition with sommelier-led wine instruction and tasting.
The most convenient airport for those arriving by business jet is Livermore Municipal, which has a 5,255-foot runway, jet-A fuel and rental cars. Cork & Tee can arrange transportation to the event for those who fly into San Francisco or Oakland.
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A resourceful hacker was able to create a fake PayPal account to gather sensitive financial information that bypassed Microsoft Internet Explorer, Apple Safari, and Google Chrome security. The hack was designed to pop up a PayPal page with an artificial SSL certificate prompting users to submit sensitive information to the hacker without warning.
Noticeably missing from the list is Mozilla Firefox, which does not seem to be affected by the hack. Dan Gooden of The Register stated that "Even though the certificate is demonstrably forged, it can be used with a previously available hacking tool called SSL Sniff to cause all three browsers to display a spoofed page with no warnings, even when its address begins with 'http.'"
To make matters worse, Microsoft apparently knew about this problem back in June when a hacker attending the Black Hat Security Convention exploited the weakness. A spokesman from Microsoft stated "Microsoft is investigating a vulnerability in SSL in Windows presented during Black Hat, Once we're done investigating, we will take appropriate actions to protect customers." Until the issue is resolved experts recommend that anyone using PayPal go to the site directly rather than risk getting duped into putting your information of a fake web page.
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Debates of Oct. 7th, 2004
House of Commons Hansard #4 of the 38th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was producers.
- Committees of the Whole
- Code for Public Office Holders
- Access to Information Act
- Petitions
- Questions on the Order Paper
- Resumption of Debate on Address in Reply
- Business of the House
- Resumption of Debate on Address in Reply
- Lowering of Flags to Half-Mast
- Resumption of Debate on Address in Reply
- Chris Saunders
- Intergovernmental Affairs
- Speech from the Throne
- Saint-Émile Knights of Columbus
- University of Prince Edward Island
- Agriculture
- Status of Women
- Yves Tessier
- Public Service
- Health
- Lupus Awareness Month
- Chris Saunders
- Hmcs
- Edmonton
- Breast Cancer
- Official Languages
- Child Care
- National Defence
- Speech from the Throne
- Municipalities
- Sponsorship Program
- Health
- The Environment
- Canada Post
- Public Service
- Industry
- Canada Post
- Royal Canadian Mounted Police
- Canadian Heritage
- National Defence
- Health
- Infrastructure
- Canadian Heritage
- Presence in Gallery
- Business of the House
- Resumption of Debate on Address in Reply
- Business of the House
- Resumption of Debate on Address in Reply
- Committees of the House
- Resumption of Debate on Address in Reply
- Agriculture
Intergovernmental Affairs
Statements By Members
1:55 p.m.
Rona Ambrose Edmonton—Spruce Grove, AB
Mr. Speaker, the recent first ministers meeting will not be remembered for any great innovations by the federal government with respect to health.
The Prime Minister claimed he had a vision of national standards. Instead, he turned his back on the shared legacy of Jean Chrétien and Pierre Trudeau and endorsed asymmetrical federalism.
Asymmetrical federalism is not a bad thing. In fact, it is the way federalism should work: provinces exercising their jurisdictional authority within the framework of our Constitution. It is not a new thing. It is just not a Liberal thing.
The Conservative Party has always believed strongly that areas of provincial jurisdiction must be respected. We were very impressed by the Prime Minister's endorsement of our policy, but this era of intergovernmental enlightenment did not last long. The throne speech mentioned no such commitment to asymmetrical federalism or to respecting the constitutional authority of the provinces.
What are the provinces to think? Is it asymmetrical federalism or Liberal politics as usual?
Speech from the Throne
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
Mark Holland Ajax—Pickering, ON
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to speak for the first time in the House to commend the Prime Minister for a throne speech that lays out the foundation for a strong and progressive vision for this nation.
It builds upon other recent successes: the first ministers meeting on health care, a bold speech at the United Nations, and the deftly executed first offering of Petro-Canada. It demonstrates clearly that our government is ready to make this Parliament work for Canadians.
What is of concern to me is the cavalier way in which this Parliament is being regarded by some members of the opposition: as a game of chicken, a game that will put the priorities of Canadians in a train wreck in the name of ego and partisanship.
While the opposite side of the House plots and schemes and engages in games of chicken, we on this side of the House are ready to govern. We are ready to make this Parliament work and achieve great things for Canadians and nothing will deter us from that course.
Saint-Émile Knights of Columbus
Statements By Members
October 7th, 2004 / 2 p.m.
Richard Marceau Charlesbourg, QC
Mr. Speaker, this fall will mark the start of the celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Saint-Émile Knights of Columbus in the riding of Charlesbourg—Haute-Saint-Charles.
In the coming months, a number of special activities will take place in the community, reflecting the dynamism and vitality of this group.
The Saint-Émile Knights of Columbus are recognized as leaders and their commitment to the community has been acknowledged for the past 50 years. I could not, of course, begin to list all their wonderful accomplishments, but the commitment of these men over the past half-century is a fine tribute to their founder, Father Michael McGivney, and continues his example.
As the group prepares to begin its celebrations, I join with my colleagues in the Bloc Quebecois in extending our most sincere fraternal wishes to the Sainte-Émile Knights of Columbus. Congratulations.
University of Prince Edward Island
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
Shawn Murphy Charlottetown, PE
Mr. Speaker, it is my honour to rise today to pay tribute to Mr. Norman Webster, who will soon be completing an eight year term as the distinguished chancellor of the University of Prince Edward Island.
Chancellor Webster has had an exciting and diverse career in a variety of roles, ranging from Rhodes scholar to political columnist. He served as Beijing correspondent for The Globe and Mail during China's cultural revolution and went on to become editor-in-chief of both The Globe and Mail and the Montreal Gazette .
Appointed chancellor of the University of Prince Edward Island in 1996, Norman Webster brought a love of education to the job and has contributed enormously to UPEI's development as a world class institution. I have always been impressed with the astounding energy with which Chancellor Webster conducted his affairs. His enthusiasm for students will be sorely missed.
I ask members to please join me in expressing our gratitude to a remarkable gentleman who served our university with optimism, grace and generosity.
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
Leon Benoit Vegreville—Wainwright, AB
Mr. Speaker, the closure of the American border to Canadian beef has caused the worst crisis seen in beef and related sectors in the past 30 years.
These industries had done well in an almost ideal free market environment, which included the United States, with very little in the way of subsidies. This has all been destroyed by U.S. protectionism, which is simply wrong.
Not only has our government's undiplomatic treatment of Americans contributed to our border remaining closed, but the Liberals have done little to deal with the problem.
The government must do better. It has to figure out that simply having the border open will not solve the problem, because the industry will remain vulnerable to future closures. What must happen is the quick expansion of packing and processing capacity to allow processing of all of our beef and related animals here in Canada. This will re-establish a competitive market and allow us to take control of the industry once again.
It is long past time for the government to act. Talk is no longer enough. Our cattlemen need action today.
Status of Women
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Anita Neville Winnipeg South Centre, MB
Mr. Speaker, the establishment of a Standing Committee on the Status of Women is an important step forward for women parliamentarians and indeed all Canadian women.
The national Liberal women's caucus has called for this initiative several times over the past years and is extremely pleased to see the request realized. Having a national all-party committee will strengthen and build upon the progress that has been made by the women's movement across the country.
I know that my colleagues on this side of the House offer full support to this committee and look forward to working in a positive manner with colleagues from all parties to further the equality of Canadian women.
Yves Tessier
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Diane Bourgeois Terrebonne—Blainville, QC
Mr. Speaker, I rise to pay tribute to a resident of Blainville who has recently returned from Nevada's International Police and Fire Games with a gold medal in shot-put.
This international event brought together more than 600 competitors from 25 different countries. Yves Tessier is considered the best shot-putter in Quebec. A motorcycle policeman, he still finds time to lobby in connection with the lack of facilities for his sport in the region and to act as the spokesperson for the Blainville athletic association.
This 37-year-old policeman won a bronze medal in Indianapolis in 2001, a silver in Barcelona in 2003, and another gold this summer in Calgary at the Canadian Masters Athletic Association championship in Calgary. A role model for the young people of Blainville, Yves' perseverance has earned him the honours we are proud to share with him.
The Bloc Quebecois joins with the residents of Blainville—
Yves Tessier
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
The Speaker
The hon. member for Malpeque.
Public Service
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Wayne Easter Malpeque, PE
Mr. Speaker, the threat of a widespread public service work stoppage is of concern to all Canadians. Any work stoppage has a dramatic and negative impact not only on the economy but also on the lives of Canadians in a most direct way.
It is therefore critical that both parties, the Treasury Board and representatives of PSAC, make a renewed and sincere effort on their return to the bargaining table. Both sides, and I emphasize both, must in good faith seek a fair and equitable resolution to the outstanding issues.
Public service workers of Canada perform a key function and have demonstrated a high degree of professionalism in conducting government business.
For collective bargaining to work, both Treasury Board and PSAC must negotiate with the objective of finding a settlement and must stay at the table until they get the job done.
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
David Anderson Cypress Hills—Grasslands, SK
Mr. Speaker, health care in my riding has become like housing in communist Russia: it's free, but there isn't any.
The government has supposedly rescued the health care system. That is not true.
This summer the Saskatchewan government decided to shrink health care in my riding by closing down facilities and removing ambulance service. One affected area involved the communities of Val Marie, Bracken, Climax, Frontier and Claydon, an area of about 2,500 square miles. The government in its wisdom decided to lay waste to the only health care facility in the area and make it an eight hour a day clinic.
The local people have responded. They tried to negotiate with the provincial government. No chance. They have appealed to the federal minister. No response. They have now raised hundreds of thousands of dollars privately to keep their public health facility open. What we need is a commitment from the federal government to protect our right to access and a commitment from the provincial government to keep the facility open.
Is it not ironic that health region number one, the birthplace of medicare, will be using private money to keep the public health system operating?
Lupus Awareness Month
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Beth Phinney Hamilton Mountain, ON
Mr. Speaker, October is National Lupus Awareness Month. In recognition of this, I would like to remind the public and the members of this House of the devastating nature of this disease.
Lupus is an autoimmune disease that prompts the body to attack its own muscles, kidneys, joints, skin, brain, lungs or heart. Lupus is a potentially fatal disease for which no good diagnostic test exists.
It is estimated that lupus affects more than 50,000 Canadians, of which 90% are women and 20% are children.
I also want to recognize the courage of people with lupus, who must struggle with this disease, and the help provided by their families and friends as they do so.
Finally, I would like to thank the countless individuals and organizations that work toward improving the quality of life for those affected by lupus.
Chris Saunders
Statements By Members
2:10 p.m.
Alexa McDonough Halifax, NS
Mr. Speaker, all Canadians today are shocked and saddened by the death of Lieutenant Chris Saunders, an officer on board HMCS Chicoutimi .
On behalf of my caucus I extend deepest sympathy for this tragic loss to Lieutenant Saunders' wife Gwen, their two young sons and to his family, friends and colleagues.
As the member of Parliament for Halifax, I know the resilience of military families and how supportive they are of one another in the face of adversity. Lieutenant Saunders died serving Canada. For that, his community and his country express deep gratitude and extend our heartfelt sympathy.
We extend to Lieutenant Saunders' injured colleagues best wishes for a swift recovery and our prayers for all HMCS Chicoutimi crew to return home as speedily and safely as humanly possible.
Chris Saunders
Statements By Members
2:10 p.m.
Rob Moore Fundy, NB
Mr. Speaker, on behalf of the constituents of Fundy Royal and citizens of New Brunswick, I would like to take this opportunity to express our heartfelt condolences on the passing of Lieutenant Chris Saunders. His loss of life was the result of a fire aboard the HMCS Chicoutimi .
Lieutenant Saunders was a truly distinguished servant of Canada, who started his military career in the 31st Service Battalion in Saint John while still in high school. As an outstanding student, he received several honours while in school and won a scholarship to military college in Saint-Jean, Quebec.
Earlier today I had the privilege of speaking with Debbie Sullivan, Lieutenant Saunders' mother, who remembered her son as a strongly committed young man dedicated to his job, his country and his family. We owe a great debt of gratitude to Lieutenant Saunders and will not forget the ultimate sacrifice that he made.
Statements By Members
2:10 p.m.
Gilles-A. Perron Rivière-des-Mille-Îles, QC
Mr. Speaker, on Monday, when they set out for Halifax from the port of Faslane, Scotland, on their maiden voyage, the 57 crew members of HMCS Chicoutimi could not have imagined the tragedy that awaited them on the first leg of their Atlantic crossing.
The fire on board the submarine on Tuesday turned into a nightmare yesterday when one crew member, Lieutenant Chris Saunders, a combat systems engineer from Saint John, New Brunswick, succumbed while being transported to hospital.
In this time of grief, our thoughts are with the family and friends of Lieutenant Saunders.
We also salute the courage of all the crew members and their families in the difficult times they are going through. Your sense of duty is commendable and exemplary; we are very grateful to you.
Statements By Members
2:10 p.m.
James Rajotte Edmonton—Leduc, AB
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to the great city of Edmonton on the occasion of its 100th birthday.
In 1795 the Hudson's Bay Company established a trading post on the banks of the North Saskatchewan River called Fort Edmonton. The railway arrived in 1902. It was incorporated as a city in 1904 and designated the provincial capital in 1906.
Edmonton quickly became known as the gateway to the north, a phrase that has held true since the Klondike gold rush when prospectors venturing northward stopped in Edmonton to trade their goods and gather supplies.
Edmonton has long had a diversified economy, historically driven by the fur trade and agriculture.
Then, in 1947, oil was discovered just south of Edmonton at Leduc No. 1. The pipeline and petrochemical industry were established and the economy and population began to boom.
Edmonton is a city whose quality of life is second to none. We have a vibrant arts community and our citizens are renowned for their charitable leadership and community fellowship.
I ask all of my colleagues here in Parliament to wish the city of Edmonton a wonderful 100th birthday.


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Shooting victim ID'd
By NIKKI YOUNK
Staff Writer
NEGAUNEE – The Marquette County woman who was shot by a Michigan State Police trooper on Thursday has been identified.
Lori Lee Lee, 50, died of a single, fatal gunshot wound to the chest.
Troopers from the Negaunee post of the Michigan State Police said that an autopsy performed Friday at Marquette General Hospital confirmed the cause of death.
The incident occurred at about 6:05 p.m. Thursday on County Road FS in Humboldt Township.
Troopers and other officials were dispatched to Lee's residence in response to a 911 call from Lee reporting a domestic dispute.
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