just came across this article this morn.
this issue has been going on for a bit now here in canada,and it seems our govt. is following in the footsteps of the U.S.

Saturday is the one month anniversary of the introduction of the so-called omnibus budget bill, a 425-page bill that amends 60 different acts, repeals a half dozen others and adds three more. In addition to the changes to employment insurance, Bill C-38 includes controversial changes to old age security, more than 100 pages of new provisions to environmental regulations, an important alteration to the oversight of CSIS and significant amendments in laws related to fisheries, food safety, national parks and natural resource projects.

exactly what we need,more amendments,more laws,more bigbrother telling us whats best!

While Canadians haven't hit the streets en masse yet, they are showing their dislike for the bill even one month later. On June 4, 13,000 website owners across Canada, including the NDP, PSAC and even Margaret Atwood, will be darkening their websites in protest of Bill C-38 as part of the 'Black Out Speak Out' campaign.

even the church is against this bill!


well it seems some people are speaking out - thats a start!

"In the last 12 months I have seen clearly the rise of tyrannical policies and the application of such mind and state control that the people of Canada , unless they soon react, will find themselves not only slaves to a corporate and political domination they never chose but they will experience the extinguishing of any of the hopes and dreams that they once had for a nation firmly based upon the foundations of compassion, justice and peace," he wrote.

you can find this story at yahoo.ca

excellent start!....i support this 100%.

flag the hell out of this story so more people will be informed and maybe jump onboard

All that needs to happen is for the red square revolt to latch onto this and spread it across canada.
Its already starting, Toronto is now going to be holding rallies ('casseroles: banging pots and pans as symbolism for their dislike of draconian law )

And they are springing up all over canada,
We need to fight this bill, and it will be fought. Sorry, but the people make the decisions here Harper, Not you. He wants to privatize our water, he has all but destroyed environmental science in canada, He's wasted our money on stupid # for the last time. We will get ours.

Note: I said several months ago (during the beginning of the occupy movement), that nothing will happen really until Canada loses its cool. And Canada is losing its cool. People are tired of this charade and having these laws forced down our throats. I didn't vote for harper. Neither did anyone i know, or anyone they knew.

The cons have been accused of voter suppression as well, why are these laws still being passed?!, the legitimacy of his government is in question, and yet laws can still be passed that are opposite to the interests of all canadians? Its like a giant circus.

Here's a flag of support!

Democracy has gone out of the window!

Best of luck to you Canadians in resisting this atrocity.

And some lessons from Iceland! Iceland i think is the country we need to follow in. They did it right

And yes, Canadians are really funny with information. Its not their fault, our political system has sucked the will out of the people so they no longer care about it and just ignore it and hope it goes away.

Me and a few others in NS here are starting a plan now, going to be setting up a FB page, Twitter account. One of us is a graphic designer so some posters are going to be coming and we have plenty of feet to get the posters out there. Considering making a pamphlet as well.

The only problem i have is with actually being in the frontlines. I do not like police. And i do not like being touched in a threatening manner. Those two things do not add up for me. *aka: i would go ballistic*. And the time to go ballistic on the government is currently not here, but soon

Harper dismantling Canada. Democracy is dead- Google any of these references for the article sources to pop up.

☑ Stephen Harper called Canada a dictatorship, Google it.
☑Stephen Harper met secretly with communist propaganda minister
☑ Stephen Harper renamed the Government of Canada after himself. (The Harper Government)
☑ Harper Government broke the law when dismantling Canadian Wheat Board
☑ Harper Government broke election laws
☑ Harper wants police to spy on ALL Canadians with no warrants
☑ Harper secretly allowed U.S troops full access into Canada.
☑ Harper secretly allowed U.S police full access into Canada.
☑ Harper Government Building $9 Million Barricades for Parliament Hill
☑ Harper Government building $46 Million glass dome for parliament
☑ Found in Contempt, first time in Canadian history
☑ Harper has Majority in Parliament
☑ Harper has Majority in the senate
☑ Approx. $1 Billion spent for Harper's G20 3 day security summit
☑ Harper paid the RCMP $500 million at the G20 summit
☑ Harper's personal security costs $47 million in just under two years
☑ Harper government $2 million fake lake, and $9.4 million dollar G20 fence
☑ Largest mass violations of civil rights and largest mass arrests in Canadian history at Harper's G20, Harper chose downtown Toronto
☑ Harper's Omnibus crime bill estimated to cost $19 billion
☑ $25 Billion contract for Lockheed Martin F-35 fighter jets
☑ Canadian census contracted to Lockheed Martin for $81 million
☑ Harper spending $35-billion for new ships
☑ $9 Billion for New super Jails when crime rates are the lowest in 40 years
☑ Canadian loss of Sovereignty in secret border deal with US
☑ Prorogued Parliament (twice shut down parliament in face of opposition)
☑ Harper government illegal $50 Million dollar "G8 Legacy fund"
☑ Harper Government hires $90,000-a-day 'cuts' consultant firm
☑ Harper government covered up afghan torture
☑ Harper adviser Tom Flanagan called for the assassination of Julian Assange
☑ Harper adviser Bruce Carson fraud x5/prostitute scandal/Native water contracts
☑ Harper adviser huge segal, a senator wants to erode Canada into a "North American community" giving control to private bankers and corporations.
☑ Harper spent $23 million on a media centre for the G8 leaders 3 day summit.
☑ Federal spending up 22% since Harper took power
☑ Harper spending $28 million for the War of 1812-1814 commemoration
☑ $226M in proposed veterans cuts by the Harper Government
☑ The Harper government dropped more than $10 million on news conferences over the past five years
☑ Harper cuts over $200 million in environment spending
☑ Harper defends asbestos exports despite cancer risks
☑ "Ordinary folks don't care about arts": Harper
☑ "People don't care about Afghan detainee issue": Harper
☑ "Canadian people don't care about contempt" :Harper
Feel free to add to this list..

Here is a list of things that came across my FB wall, thought it would be okay to add this to the thread. These are some of the things the harper government has done. And is doing. Along with these new draconian laws he is trying to pass in the budget, and with the internet privacy bills and etc.. the list grows each day.

Append: Largest arrest happened recently in Quebec, 2500+ arrests.

The whole EI thing is dumb. I agree. We pay into EI, we should be able to USE IT. We PAY for it so we can USE IT when we're having a hard time. The government has no right to tell people that they have to work at a severely underpaying job.

Seriously. If the government tried to tell me i need to travel 100km to work a min wage job. I would refuse. What are they going to do about it? Its not in my better interest to do the above. Most of the money would go to paying for wear/tear and gas for the vehicle to get to work. Its even worse if you have kids.

This country is going down the tubes.
Our Canadian name is tarnished by our bull# government
Our country(government) supports terrorism and genocide (Israel)
Our country supports the financial cartel with our tax dollars
Our country(government) has cut off needed supplies to poor countries because 'of our budget'

As you've seen above, most of our money is wasted on bull#.