federal budgets

GOVERNMENT OF CANADA FINANCIAL YEAR: APRIL 1 TO MARCH 31

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Monday, February 28, 2000
Finance Minister Paul Martin
******************37th Canadian General Election. November 27, 2000

Monday, December 10, 2001
Finance Minister Paul Martin

2002 Federal Budget - MIA

Tuesday, February 18, 2003
Finance Minister John Manley

Tuesday, March 23, 2004
Finance Minister Ralph Goodale
******************38th Canadian General Election. June 28, 2004

Wednesday, February 23, 2005
Finance Minister Ralph Goodale
******************39th Canadian General Election. January 23, 2006
In and Out scandal; Chuck Cadman; David Emerson; Gomery Commission

Tuesday, May 2, 2006
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty

Monday, March 19, 2007
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty
******************[An Act to amend the Canada Elections Act, S.C. 2007, c. 10] Fixed election dates

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Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty
******************40th Canadian General Election. Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty

Thursday, March 4, 2010 after a 2-month prorogued parliament
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty

Tuesday, March 22, 2011 and Monday, June 6, 2011
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty
******************41st Canadian General Election. Monday, May 2, 2011

Thursday, March 29, 2012
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty

Thursday, March 21, 2013
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty

Tuesday, February 11, 2014
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty 

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Tuesday, April 21, 2015
Finance Minister Joe Oliver
******************42nd Canadian General Election. October 19, 2015

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Canadian_federal_general_elections

OTTAWA – Public servants spent a full month...

OTTAWA – Public servants spent a full month, at the “urgent” request of Public Safety Minister Vic Toews, preparing two splashy announcements heralding the destruction of the long-gun registry data—only to have the events cancelled at the last moment without explanation. macleans.ca

Prorogorama. Government bills that have been scrapped by prorogation and 20 sitting days eliminated.

hockey, hockey, hockey, football

1. Canada’s Sochi 2014 Olympic hockey team camp, Calgary Alta. (No on-ice work-outs, insurance.) Starting long journey to Bolshoy Ice Palace or somewhere like that. Hockey Canada HQ, Canada Olympic Park (COP), Cowtown. Sochi Games Feb 7, 2014 – Feb 23, 2014.

2. NHL preseason tickets go on sale today (first game Sept 14). Regular season begins Tues Oct 1, 2013.

3. Setphen J. Hapner's hockey book, sneak preview. Hockey, the Product, Players, The Product, well-compensed MMA gliderators, The Industry: A fan's pissant. Ken King's New Empire vs Daryl Katz. BIFF! ZOW! CONFEDERATION AND WORLD WAR I! ZAP!

4. Football, The Halftime Show, like 41st Parliament, scheduled to return post-July-shuffle (Gerry Ritz, stays) on September 16th, now postponed until October. Sometime. After the Australian federal and Alberta municipal elections. Maybe. The 2013 Grey Cup in Regina, Saskatchewan on Nov 20-24.

Hedley (2010 Olympics, Parks Canada) to perform but, more importantly, 2012 Grey Cup Halftime Show, incl Diamond Jubilee Medal.for UK Head of State.Instead. Yo, nothing says CFL fans better than a 10-17 year-old demographic for 100th Grey Cup.

dustup at jails & fires

Calgary Prison Guards Rally At Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Calgary Constituency Office on Sat/September 15, 2012 -- "Mallette says the union has been trying repeatedly to meet with Public Safety Minister Vic Toews, but hasn't had any success." (After various protests at Harper's office, like Prorogue and Idle No More, no more of that youse... and Shoppers Only.) Calgary prison guards corrections officers protest at Solicitor General Jonathan Denis' office in Fri/ February 01*.

Grass fire - Calgary, Alberta

Edmonton officers are now on a wildcat strike with lockdown and riot police after the suspension of 2 union executives who on Fri/ April 26 relayed 'health & safety concerns' to management.

Fish Creek Park, dry & windy on Fri/April 26

*Russian student kicked into coma/ permanent brain damage by other inmates, Calgary Remand Centre.

Full moon: Thurs, April 25, 2013 1:58 PM

UPDATE: Associate Chief smartAssinine Justice John Rooke about the $100,000+ fines for province-wide strikers: "Banks are open tomorrow, last I checked." (Monday, Apr 29)

Amnesty ends strike.  Strike ends. Redford confirms pledge but

best of 2010

*VAN 2010: dead dogs*
{tourism cate/gory}

The Whistler, B.C., sled dog massacre, after their "17 action packed days" by the manager of Outdoor Adventures.

The Facebook Page, "Boycotting Outdoor Adventures in BC, Whistler" 

Fawcett, who was then general manager of Howling Dog Tours, claimed he was following corporate orders for a mass cull because of depressed demand for dog tours after the 2010 Olympic Winter Games. theprovince.com

lisa raitt: strikes are sexy

Never mind about the AECL Candu binder; it wasn't the same as Maxime Bernier (Beauce) and the tits cleavage biker chick NATO files. Never mind about the sexy isotope shortage for cancer patients. Never mind about no one signing off on the CEO, Toronto Port Authority expenses or a $9000 lunch. And just never mind about proroguing (and even more proroguing, forty days and forty nights). btw, are MPs 'essential services'?

Geez. Electro-Motive plant in London (now closed) and its Caterpillar parent strike in Joliet, Illinois. Canada Post. Air Canada flight attendants. Pilots. Mechanics ("flying coffins" & Aveos outsourcing), baggage handlers, cargo agents. Canadian Pacific Railway and Pershing Square's 14.2% equity stake.

Welp. Saskatchewan essential services legislation deemed unconstitutional (07 Feb. 2012).

Recalibration: On January 19, 2010, Raitt moved from the Ministry of Natural Resources to the Labour Ministry.

The house was beginning to shake,
And good press it just did not make.
So Steve shut it down, Caused the country to frown. But then he was
saved by a quake.  

Nuclear workers: 900 scientists, engineers, technologists and technicians said 94+ per cent of members sanctioned the strike action on Thursday, May 3rd 2012: a stinging indictment of SNC-Lavalin's cavalier management style and brinkmanship bargaining. A union spokeswoman said Candu is looking to gut most parts of the collective agreement.

Ongoing: RCMP officers want to end a ban, in place since 1918, on Mounties forming a union or police association and having the right to collectively bargain. (Toronto Star, Nov 20, 2012.) "Toxic workplace": Mounted Police Professional Association of Canada (MPPAC), a merger of BC and ON associations, is expecting a ruling from the Ontario Court of Appeal in spring 2012.

Lay-offs: Canadian Space Agency. 100 staff and more to come? Speaking of SNC-Lavalin Defence Programs Inc. (AECL) and MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates Inc., there's now a signed contract "to extend operational services for up to eight years for the Canadian Department of National Defence’s twelve Kingston-class Maritime Coastal Defence Vessels...Although their primary mission is coastal surveillance, the vessels perform a wide variety of operational tasks including search and rescue, fisheries and environmental monitoring, disaster relief, mine countermeasures and scientific research."

Does this make sense? The entire program of lay-offs in the public service is expected to cost Canadian taxpayers more than $2 billion.

Weird: Health care workers in Alberta have not had the legal right to strike since 1983.

mister canada gov - $26m economic caption plan

Clearly, ... Friends

Holy mcLuntz-and-disruption-manuals Jobotomy bobblehead meme! Now, after the $26m 3 month radio and TV campaign for the party, a record-breaking $1.2b G20 summit, and even a dispute with the Pentagon about the double cost of 200 F-35 jets (or their not often talked about Mulroney Winnipeg's Bristol Aerospace 1986 expensive maintenance contract)(and... no engines...?) and $300m prorogue, 2008, which all of course are someone else's fault like a wife batter's alibi, there's a new caption in TV town.

Friends. Listen. It's probably better, let me be clear, for the time being, and abandon the fact of the matter. Luntz's current company, The Word Doctors ("It's not what you say, it's what they hear"), specializes in message creation and image management for commercial and political clients.

on Fokus Pokus groups

Lemme guess: Harper is finger-pointy synonymous with "government of canada" (see:  "re-branded" "harper" "canada" "government"), which is reverse synonymous with Adanac (see: satanism or reverse speech or libtards or Taliban jackoffs, Ali Kaida, green terrorisms), which is synonymous, no antonymous, with TheTeaPotParty™ (see: perpetual campaigning), which is

reverse speech/ hceeps esrever

synonymous, maybe, with contempt (just made-up)(see: parliament), which is synonymous with canlit, no, hockey lit or water bottles for kiddies, which is synonomous with [insert US president] Administration and harmonization... (etcetera).(ca 2003: "National myth? Hockey?? -  write a goddamn hockey book!"} New logo for Canada? Forward-moving font, momentum, "on-the-move" parallelogram, Go-team,-go!™

And from the University of Pennsylvania, no less.

the caption plan - cost: $26m

Read on to find out how Environment Minister Ambrose is using Frank Luntz's tactics almost to the letter these days ("Bush's Chief Climate "Spinmaster" Tells Harper How It's Done"). New Conservative Party of Canada logo? Canada logo? Hard to no, it's mixed up. Strong Staples government, and oops, PM know longer taking questions on local campaigns. It's the Klein Public affairs bureau, all over again.

A manual of "key messages" produced exclusively for Alberta Progressive Conservative MLAs by the Public Affairs Bureau verges on propaganda, is a partisan misuse of taxpayers' money and provides the governing party with an unfair advantage, a panel of political scientists says.

"This manual is a straight-up abuse of taxpayers' money because it is money that is being used to communicate what the Tory party is doing, not what the government is doing," said Jonathan Rose, a Queen's University professor.

Leader™ with PeoplePaper™

Words That Work: It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear. It seems they can't tell the difference, just don't get it, mister fixed election dates. Kind of like national debt (up) and a GST reduction, lollipops for the kids, like Ralph Klein's election bucks when the deregulation fiasco didn't reduce consumers' energy bills and things got hot. Presto! The Prosperity Bonus! public pacifier. It's getting kind of funny: "the world will go wrong if I-me-me don't get majority. We need STABILITY!™ Luntz frequently tests word and phrase choices using focus groups and interviews.

party promo, former canadian government

Martin gained an important ally in GOP pollster Frank Luntz, whose polling revealed that "death tax" sparked voter resentment in a way that "inheritance tax" and "estate tax" couldn't match. Brampton whistle stop (March 27 2011 - the 4th federal election in less than 7 years!), where another booger drops out of the body politic. Giulio Maturi, who was a top official in the campaign of disgraced former Montreal mayoral candidate Benoit Labonté in 2009, was listed as late as Wednesday afternoon as the campaign manager for a Montreal Conservative candidate. [Agop Evereklian, Pierrefonds-Dollard riding]  The other: Sebastien Togneri, former aide to Christian Paradis, was helping with Ryan Hastman's campaign.[Edmonton-Strathcona] There is no consequence for Contempt of Parliament.

prorogue olympics 2010

This Strong™ Stable™ Leader™ gets a new fucking™ sign™ The Olympic jacket.™ Jesus Christ. True North Sports and Entertainment.

"... they cannot, apparently, cope with Parliament's deliberations while dealing with the country's economic troubles and the challenge of hosting the Winter Olympic games. This was the argument put forward by the spokesman for Stephen Harper." from The Economist, walking and chewing gum at the same time.