Yes, yes. Whatever you say, Jack. Of course.
Baglow: the Librocon coalition
October 29, 2010 – 9:23 am
Thanks to the sleazy Librocons, private member’s Bill C-300 went down to defeat. Former human rights advocate and American ex-pat Michael Ignatieff arranged to be out of the House of Commons for the vote, and he took twelve disciples with him.
That was sufficient to kill the Bill: even if the four absent New Democrats (and I’d like an accounting here) had been present, the Bill would have lost 140-139. Liberal Whip Marcel Proulx is reported to have told Liberal members to stay away.
The Bill was meant to ensure that Canadian mining companies guilty of human rights or environmental abuses would be denied funding by Ottawa. Bankers and the mining industry cried bloody murder, of course, and their Librocon shills dutifully fell into line.
We can’t have human rights and the environment getting in the way of corporate profits–don’t the bleeding hearts realize that? Who cares if a bunch of Third World types are assaulted or killed for trying to form unions? Who cares if their countries are buried under toxic mine tailings? Not our problem, and there are no voters in that neck of the woods.
October 29, 2010 – 9:23 am
Thanks to the sleazy Librocons, private member’s Bill C-300 went down to defeat. Former human rights advocate and American ex-pat Michael Ignatieff arranged to be out of the House of Commons for the vote, and he took twelve disciples with him.
That was sufficient to kill the Bill: even if the four absent New Democrats (and I’d like an accounting here) had been present, the Bill would have lost 140-139. Liberal Whip Marcel Proulx is reported to have told Liberal members to stay away.
The Bill was meant to ensure that Canadian mining companies guilty of human rights or environmental abuses would be denied funding by Ottawa. Bankers and the mining industry cried bloody murder, of course, and their Librocon shills dutifully fell into line.
We can’t have human rights and the environment getting in the way of corporate profits–don’t the bleeding hearts realize that? Who cares if a bunch of Third World types are assaulted or killed for trying to form unions? Who cares if their countries are buried under toxic mine tailings? Not our problem, and there are no voters in that neck of the woods.
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