Posts Tagged ‘Senate’
PM prefers to look away
Sunday, October 3rd, 2010
Oct 02 2010
There is ample evidence that far too many Canadians are falling through the cracks of existing income support and housing programs; yet Harper’s government evidently prefers not to think about new ways to help the 3.4 million Canadians the report identified as still living in poverty. Worse still, the Senate report concluded that, far from lifting people out of poverty, many of our existing programs are so badly designed that they hold people down.
Tags: featured, ideology, poverty, Senate, standard of living
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Not even a crumb from Harper
Friday, October 1st, 2010
Oct 01 2010
This week, the government delivered its response to the Senate’s 2009 report, In From the Margins: A Call to Action on Poverty, Housing and Homelessness. It rejected every one of the report’s 74 recommendations. It ignored the senators’ evidence that Ottawa is spending $150 billion a year on social programs that merely perpetuate poverty. It concluded with these all-too-familiar words: “The best long-term strategy to fight poverty is the sustained employment of Canadians.” The glimmer of hope… went out.
Tags: featured, ideology, poverty, Senate, standard of living
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Senate Report on Poverty Shelved by Harper Government
Friday, October 1st, 2010
September 28 , 2010
Earlier this year, the Senate of Canada unanimously endorsed In from the Margins: A Call to Action on Poverty, Housing and Homelessness, a landmark report containing 74 recommendations to help lift Canadians out of poverty. Yesterday, the Government of Canada issued essentially a non-response to the report, instead choosing to list its apparent accomplishments in reducing poverty in Canada without directly commenting on a single recommendation contained within the report.
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Mental health: Footdragging by prisons
Monday, September 27th, 2010
Sep 27 2010.
We know that an increasing portion of Canada’s prison population has a mental health disorder. We also know that the federal government has given correctional services more than $50 million to provide programs and services for mentally ill offenders. What we don’t know is what they’re doing with the money. Despite launching its “mental health strategy” six years ago, the Correctional Service of Canada still cannot produce an official document that outlines standards to meet.
Tags: crime prevention, mental Health, Senate
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End run to an Americanized Senate
Sunday, May 2nd, 2010
May 1, 2010
…Mr. Harper’s recurring legislation is a clear attempt to circumvent the Constitution in the service of a radical change to the distribution, structure and dynamics of political power. Following on the legal principle that a government cannot do through a second channel what the Constitution prevents it from doing through the first, you would think such a manoeuvre would be widely dissed and dismissed as ultra vires. But it has not been so in the legal community… Nor has this initiative been clearly examined for its significance in our media…
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Soft on truth, not tough on crime
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
March 3, 2010
…an honest examination of the record compels one to acknowledge that the greatest delays to implementation of the government’s justice agenda resulted from the government’s own actions — sitting on bills and not bringing them forward for debate, delaying bringing legislation into force, and ultimately, of course, shutting down Parliament.
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