<strong>Written By:</strong> 4Canada
<strong>Date:</strong> 2006-12-16 13:32:41
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"This government is involved, in Afghanistan, in a military mission, in economic development and in humanitarian aid. The Bloc Québécois is changing its position simply to play games on the backs of our soldiers. That is unacceptable," he said during Question Period.

Speaking to reporters afterward, Bloc Leader Gilles Duceppe said that his party still sees a need for the Canadian Forces in Afghanistan, but that the government and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization have to do more humanitarian work in the country.

"We've never said there is no role for the military," Mr. Duceppe said, comparing the situation to the recent criticism of the American mission in Iraq by a study group led by former U.S. secretary of state James Baker. "What we need now is to rebalance the mission to ensure that we won't have a Baker report in three years for Afghanistan," Mr. Duceppe said.

In a speech in Quebec City two days ago, Mr. Duceppe said his party could attempt to defeat the minority government on the issue of Afghanistan, which is less popular in Quebec than in other parts of the country.

The New Democratic Party has been calling for a withdrawal of Canadian troops in Afghanistan, while the Liberals under new leader Stéphane Dion have been more forceful in criticizing the current mission. The three opposition parties have 182 votes in the Commons, compared with the Conservatives' 124.

Mr. Duceppe said yesterday he simply laid out in his speech the fact that his party will not compromise on its call for a rebalancing of the Afghan mission, the need for a $12-billion settlement to the fiscal imbalance and support for the Kyoto Protocol.

"If it comes to a question of confidence, we won't be scared of having an election on that," he said.

The Liberals blasted the Tories for chopping programs to fight climate change, releasing a document obtained under Access to Information law that showed the Tories nixed $584.5-million of spending on measures from energy-efficient retrofits for houses, home-heating cost relief aid and a fuel-pricing watchdog.

<a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20061213.BLOC13/TPStory/National">http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20061213.BLOC13/TPStory/National</a>

   

A new, major offensive against the Taliban, including Canadian forces has been announced by the NATO comander.

Another typical military PR gimmick and waste of human lives. It will accomplish exactly nothing, apart from killing people on both sides, then withdrawing into the safe compounds, leaving the countryside wide open for reoccupation by the Taliban.

Ed Deak.

   

from the article:
""Canada is about to buy expensive flying lemons. The minority Conservative government chose to buy without any real competitive process Lockheed Martin's C-130Js as a favour to their buddies in Washington," Liberal MP Denis Coderre said. "The technology in the flying jalopy has been ruled obsolete by the U.K. and unsafe by a U.S. military auditor."

Mr. Harper jumped in to defend the purchase, saying it does not matter what the Americans think of the latest version of the Hercules aircraft."

It's no secret that I am pro-peace but why is it that if and when my tax dollars are spent on military equipment those making the decisions purchase what amounts to a pile of money being burned? Harper defending buying planes that have obviously been tested by the US and found wanting is another lets buy rotten submarines from the UK.

Is there a conspiracy by smarter wiser war-mongering countries to keep the war-ignorant Canadians defenceless with useless machinery? It certainly would apprear that way to me.



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people talk anout "my tax dollars" as if they some how have a hand in the medium of exchange used <br />
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I dont know where you are, but out in a OP for 40days is no safe compound? I leave for my next tour in Feb.

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27 yrs in the military, 10 tours now and I hope another in Feb

   

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You have a Frenchman crying, well most Frenchman are cowards. 5 Bge has only been there once and never left the KAV, so that tells you something. And a NDP gay lover. What can you say. dick all.

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27 yrs in the military, 10 tours now and I hope another in Feb

   

There's a bit of that racism again.

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