Ottawa Actively Participated in Haiti Coup d’Etat: Canadians Apologize to Haiti, Ten Years after the Coup
Global Research
Feb 8, 2014
apologytohaiti.ca/
Unelected coup Prime Minister Gerard Latortue speaks to Canadian soldiers.
We sign this statement to tell the world, and especially the Haitian people, that we are ashamed and outraged by the Canadian Government’s active participation in the February 29, 2004 Coup d’Etat that toppled the duly-elected Government of Haiti led by President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
An RCMP officer training Haitian National Police recruits in 2005.
Ten (10) years after the Coup, we sign this statement because there is disturbing and compelling evidence that:
1) Canada was centrally involved in planning the Coup. A year in advance, on January 31 and February 1, 2003, Canada hosted the Ottawa Initiative on Haiti. This controversial meeting was held at the Meech Lake Government Resort, near Gatineau, Québec, to plan and consolidate the Coup.
2) Canada took an active part in the actual forced removal from Haiti and exile to Africa of President Aristide. Canadian soldiers, notably those serving in Joint Task Force 2, were assigned by Canadian government leaders to join local paramilitary mercenaries and U.S. troops illegally deployed to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to conduct the Coup d’État.
Militè Kanadyen, 28 fevriye 2004. A Canadian soldier at the Port-au-Prince airport on February 29, 2004.
3) The Coup was followed by several documented massacres and arbitrary arrests of pro-democracy activists. It dismantled Haiti’s entire elected government structure, and U.S.-appointed post-coup regimes — backed financially, militarily and diplomatically by Canada — are marred by serious human rights abuses.
4) One of the most disastrous consequences of the Coup and subsequent U.N. tutelage is that Haiti, a country with no known cases of cholera for the past 100 years, now has one of the worst cholera epidemics in the world. The cholera death toll has already reached 8500 and as of January 2014, more than 700,000 have gotten sick from the deadly bacterium.
Several independent scientific studies unequivocally implicate the UN for introducing cholera to Haiti. According to these studies, UN soldiers stationed near Haiti’s La Mielle and Artibonite Rivers contaminated these major water sources in October 2010 with improperly disposed feces.
To date, the UN refuses to assume responsibility for this grave act of criminal negligence. We support the worthy efforts of human rights groups Bureau des Avocats Internationaux (BAI) and the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti (IJDH) to seek redress from the UN for the thousands of victims of cholera in Haiti.
A Canadian helicopter flies over the Presidential Palace as the coup unfolds.
Canada’s role in planning and carrying out the February 29, 2004 Coup d’État, and in the equally disastrous and illegal U.N. tutelage our government imposed on Haiti to consolidate the coup, is an ongoing source of misery and injustice for the Haitian people. We urge all Canadians, their organizations and representatives to take effective action to compel the foreign occupation forces to acknowledge and to make adequate amends for the harm they have caused the People of Haiti.
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VIDEO — Dan Dicks On Globalization And The Growing Resistance
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Jan 21, 2014
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The Destruction Of Ontario Part 1: The Job Market
by Terry Wilson
Canadian Awareness Network
Jan 31, 2014
Ontario, the once “economic powerhouse” of the nation is facing some of the biggest economic woes that one could imagine!
Since the signing of NAFTA (North American Trade Agreement) in 1993, Ontario’s manufacturing base has been devastated! As seen in the below chart.
Now the current provincial government headed by Dalton McGuinty and Now Kathleen Wynne has been working extremely hard to change Ontario’s energy production under the long-term energy plan. Which includes a move towards “green energy”. That has sent hydro prices through the roof! Costing the province a loss of an estimated 300,000 manufacturing jobs since 2010.
Sadly this trend is just beginning. As highlighted in this article from Barrie Ont. for December 2013.
“Kevin McCaughen’s business pays an average of $325,000 per month for electricity and he’s preparing to see that number increase.
McCaughen, plant manager at Sigma Stretch Film, said news that Ontario’s hydro costs are going to continue to grow by an anticipated 42 per cent over the next five years could be seen as the death blow for manufacturers in the province.
The Ontario Liberals released their Long Term Energy Plan Tuesday with a projected outlook of hydro costs continuing to balloon in the coming years.
That balloon may pop and leave Ontario’s manufacturers deflated.
“I’ve looked at hydro rates and the actual cost of hydro hasn’t really gone up that much, it’s the new Liberal green initiatives,” said McCaughen. “We use about $60,000 worth of hydro and our bill can be as high as $325,000 a month. You get all those fees on there and the adjustments and it’s just going to kill industry.””
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The massive losses in the industrial sector will mean (and have already shown) a large demand increase for service sector employment. Lets take a look at what is happening in the service sector.
Since the vast majority of the service sector is made up of low paying minimum wage positions. Many people who previously held higher paying industrial jobs, are struggling to get by on minimum wage. The provincial government is not responding to this logically by creating a plan to save industrial jobs or heaven forbid create new industrial opportunities. Their solution is to raise the minimum wage levels to $11 an hour, and an minimum wage increase every year on Oct. 1st based on inflation rates.
The main problem with this plan is summed up pretty well by Karl Littler, a vice-president at the Retail Council of Canada.
“The Ontario decision could lead to some job losses and reduced hours of work as retailers struggle in a hyper-competitive climate, warned Karl Littler, a vice-president at the Retail Council of Canada. Already some retailers are feeling the squeeze: Best Buy Canada, with increasingly savvy online and discount rivals, announced on Thursday it is cutting 950 jobs at its namesake and Future Shop stores. The previous day, Sears Canada Inc. sliced 624 jobs on top of thousands last year.”
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The plan to increase minimum wage will result in job losses and reduction in hours for the employed. Not creation of new jobs to cover the losses in the industrial industry. Or for students getting out of school, unable to find employment in their fields and turning to the service sector just to get by.
A second new initiative from the Liberal government is the Ontario pension plan. It is being billed as a way to help correct the short comings of the Canadian pension plan.
“Premier Kathleen Wynne on Tuesday appointed a panel of academics, finance experts and pension advocates to recommend the specifics of the fund, which will be unveiled in the budget this spring and could become a top issue in a snap election.
And for the first time, she revealed some details on what the plan will look like. For instance, it will oblige both employees and companies to pay in.
“We need to set up a structure so that people can save their own money and they can make an investment, along with their employers, in their future,” she said. “There needs to be a mandatory aspect to this to have the number of people involved that makes this a viable plan.””
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On top of the wage increase, companies will be “obliged” to pay into their employees pension plans.
This is a recipe for disaster! But it is not by chance or by accident. It is planned. Stayed tuned for part 2 to see how.
Attention fliers: Canada’s electronic spy agency is following you
End the Lie – Independent News
Jan 31, 2014
A United Airlines plane takes off at the Calgary International Airport in Calgary. (Reuters / Todd Korol)
Documents released by US whistleblower Edward Snowden show the Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC) used airport Wi-Fi to track passengers from around the world.
Travelers passing through a major Canadian airport were potentially caught up in a vast electronic surveillance net, which allowed the nation’s electronic spy agency to track the wireless devices of thousands of airline passengers – even for days after they had departed the terminal, a document obtained by CBC News revealed.
The document shows the spy agency was then able to track travelers for a week or more as the unwitting passengers, together with their wireless devices, visited other Wi-Fi “hot spots” in locations across Canada – and even across the border at American airports.
The CBS report said any place that offered Wi-Fi internet access, including “airports, hotels, coffee shops and restaurants, libraries, ground transportation hubs” was vulnerable to the surveillance operation.
After reviewing details of the leaked information, one of Canada’s leading authorities on internet security says the secret operation was almost certainly illegal.
“I can’t see any circumstance in which this would not be unlawful, under current Canadian law, under our Charter, under CSEC’s mandates,” Professor Ronald Deibert, an internet security expert at the University of Toronto, told CBC News.
It remains unclear from the leaked data how CSEC was able to infiltrate so many wireless devices to see who was using them — both on Canadian territory and beyond.
Ontario To Raise Minimum Wage
by Terry Wilson
Canadian Awareness Network
January 28, 2014
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Ontario’s lowest paid workers will likely get a raise this year when the $10.25 an hour minimum wage is hiked for the first time in four years.
Sources say a special panel set up to look at ways of adjusting the minimum wage will recommend it be tied to the inflation rate, and that businesses get four months warning of any increases.
The panel did not say what the new rate should be, but sources say the minimum wage will be increased retroactively back to 2010 based on the rate of inflation since then.
Business groups warn a hike in the minimum wage will only hurt the very people it’s supposed to help by driving up costs, resulting in fewer jobs. However, the Ontario Chamber of Commerce last year called for future changes in the minimum wage to be tied to the rate of inflation.
Premier Kathleen Wynne says businesses and individuals should be pleased at having a more predictable system in place.
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Raising the minimum wage in Ontario has been a top priority amongst the political “left” for the last few years and has been heavily scrutinized by economists and business owners. Below is an example of why they oppose the move. (it is an American video but does highlight the issues of raising minimum wages)
The move is more likely to hurt the workforce in Ontario rather than helping workers. In fact many see that this move will only encourage businesses to replace workers with computerized stations.
This move is also coming on the heels of a huge spike in hydro costs for the province. Media has been reporting a 46% increase on hydro prices over the next five years, and the Ontario NDP is stating the increase will be in the 74% range.
A move that is driving the remains of Ontario’s manufacturing base out of the province. Why would a manufacturer set up shop in Ontario, when they can do so in another province or country while having less power charges?
It seems that every move this provincial government makes is just another nail in the Ontario job market’s coffin.
NAFTA and the Next Phase of North American Integration
BE YOUR OWN LEADER
Jan 27, 2014
By Dana Gabriel
In preparation for the upcoming North American Leaders Summit which will be held in Toluca, Mexico on February 19, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry recently held a meeting with his Canadian and Mexican counterparts. Over the last number of years, not as much attention has been given to the trilateral relationship. Instead, the U.S. has essentially pursued a dual-bilateral approach with both Canada and Mexico on key issues including border and continental perimeter security, as well as regulatory and energy cooperation. On the heels of its 20th anniversary, there once again appears to be renewed interest in broadening and deepening the NAFTA partnership as part of the next phase of North American integration.
On January 17, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry hosted the North American Ministerial with Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird and Mexican Foreign Secretary Jose Antonio Meade. The discussions centered around topics such as regulatory, energy and trade relations, along with border infrastructure and management. The meeting was used to lay the groundwork for next month’s North American Leaders Summit which will include the participation of U.S. President Barack Obama, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto. During a press conference, a reporter asked about reopening NAFTA in order to update it. Secretary Kerry answered, “the TPP, is a very critical component of sort of moving to the next tier, post-NAFTA. So I don’t think you have to open up NAFTA, per se, in order to achieve what we’re trying to achieve.” Minister Baird added, “we believe that NAFTA’s been an unqualified success, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade negotiations, which all three of us are in, offer us the opportunity to strengthen the trilateral partnership.” Secretary Meade also chimed in, “We do not think it is necessary to reopen NAFTA, but we think we have to build on it to construct and revitalize the idea of a dynamic North America.”
In December 2013, the Miami Herald reported that the Obama administration, “is exploring a regional trade plan for the Americas that would be the most ambitious hemispheric initiative in years.” It went on to say that Secretary of State John Kerry, “would like to first seek an agreement to deepen the existing North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with Mexico and Canada, and to expand it afterward to the rest of Latin America.” According to some of Kerry’s top aides, “the plan to relaunch NAFTA could come as early as February, when President Barack Obama is scheduled to meet with his Mexican and Canadian counterparts at a North American Leaders’ Summit in Mexico.” The recent article, U.S. lays out goals for NAFTA cautioned that, “the shared goal of a NAFTA 2.0 that wins fresh, sustainable gains for Canada, Mexico and the U.S., the Americans warn, is unlikely to come in a single, dramatic and easily digestible sound byte.” It further noted that, “Instead, the Americans are urging a more realistic approach aimed at reviving trilateral momentum, with a dogged diplomatic effort that aggressively fine-tunes, streamlines and expands the trade pact.”
Last year, business leaders from across North America released a set of policy recommendations designed to increase continental economic integration and competitiveness. In a letter issued to President Barack Obama, Prime Minister Stephen Harper and President Enrique Pena Nieto, the Business Roundtable, the Canadian Council of Chief Executives and the Consejo Mexicano de Hombres de Negocios called for greater trilateral government action in the areas of intelligent border systems, regulatory standards and practices, as well as North American energy security and sustainability. The business organizations explained that, “More can and should be done to promote regulatory cooperation between our three countries, to facilitate the legitimate movement of people, goods and services.” They emphasized that the time to act was now and that their specific proposals would, “help deepen our economic ties, strengthen the international competitiveness of Canadian, Mexican, and U.S. companies and their workers, and realize North American energy self-reliance.” Their goal is to create a seamless North American market.
VIDEO — Bursting Bubbles – Dan Dicks interviews Peter Schiff
Press For Truth
Jan 28, 2014
While attending the Resource Investment Conference in Vancouver Dan Dicks of Press For Truth interviewed Peter Schiff of Euro Pacific about the Canadian housing bubble as well as the current state of the US economy and how it may effect Canadians in the very near future!
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