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June 24, 2012- Harper Government secrecy on $5.2 BILLION in budget cuts could lay groundwork for future ECONOMIC CRISIS, Canada's chief parliamentary budget officer Kevin Page warns.

Harper's criminal government has kept secret on $5.2 billion in government-wide cuts which could lead to an economic crisis in Canada, says Canada's chief parliamentary budget officer Kevin Page. Page’s office issued a legal opinion that Harper's Conservatives who have not been transparent on budget cuts are breaking the law.

The latest source of contention: Page’s repeated and intensifying attempts to access information about how departments and agencies plan to implement $5.2 billion in cuts set out in the federal budget. Of the 84 departments queried, 64 did not share the requested details. Last week Page’s office issued a legal opinion that those departments and agencies are breaking the law.

Source: http://www.globalnews.ca/government+sec ... story.html


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June 23, 2012- Stephen Harper created his own worst enemy in the parliamentary budget officer

The Harper government’s refusal to cooperate with the parliamentary budget officer is a disgrace.

Source: http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editoria ... et-officer

June 18, 2012- Tories breaking law by holding onto budget information, lawyer says

Source: http://www.globalnews.ca/tories+breakin ... story.html


SECRET HARPER GOVERNMENT KEEPS FEDERAL BUDGET CUTS UNDER WRAP UNTIL 2013

Its a secret government, Federal budget cuts withheld from public until late 2013, federal budget cuts twice as deep.

Harper government the most secretive, say Canadian Association of Journalists. The federal government was named for keeping information out of public hands on files such as the F-35 program, avoiding questions at media events and for restricting both public and media access to contentious information.

Source: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/nat ... le2417147/


May 29, 2012 - Harper's Federal budget cuts are actually twice as deep as advertised, says a new report from the Parliamentary Budget Office.

Source: http://thechronicleherald.ca/canada/101 ... ing-deeper


Details of federal cuts not coming until 2013

As Treasury Board president Tony Clement trumpets Canada's plan for open government at a meeting overseas, back home, the Conservatives are facing criticism for being secretive about thousands of federal job losses, government program cuts and taking control of pipeline approvals.

Source: http://www.nationalpost.com/related/top ... story.html


Handcuffed’ Tories won’t reveal full details of cuts till next spring

Canadians will have to wait until the spring of 2013 to get a full accounting of what programs and services have been cut to balance the federal books. That’s the timeline Treasury Board President (G8 legacy $50 million dollar fund fraudster) Tony Clement reluctantly confirmed Wednesday during a conference call from Brazil, where he’s taking part in a conference on "open government."

Source: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/pol ... le2406714/

Government secrecy over details of spending cuts in the 2012 budget is unnecessary and prevents MPs from performing their constitutional role as watchdogs of the public purse, the Parliamentary Budget Officer warns. In two new reports released Wednesday, Kevin Page touches on a wide range of current economic issues.

The reports urge departments to address the lack of transparency over spending cuts. The first report takes issue with the fact that the government, as recently explained by Treasury Board President Tony Clement, is of the view that existing rules prevent departments from fully detailing the cuts until as late as spring 2013.

The minister’s comments appeared to contradict a pledge he made before the March 29 budget was released, when he promised to provide MPs with “timely and accurate” information on spending cuts.

Source: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/pol ... le2413714/


***PUPPET HARPER WILL PRIVATIZATE PRISONS FOR U.S COMPANY GEO GROUP INC.

The cost of the federal prison system has RISEN 86% since the Harper government took over in 2006, government reports show.

When the Conservatives came to power in 2005-06, Canada’s federal corrections system cost nearly $1.6-billion per year, but the projected cost for 2011-12 has increased to $2.98-billion per year.

Source: http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/07/18 ... ive-years/


April 19, 2012 - Is Canada headed towards privatized prisons?

Fair questions since the Conservatives on election campaign trials have talked of spending billions on building more prisons. But it’s even more fair when you consider that registered as a lobbyist in Ottawa on crime bill issues is none other than The GEO Group Inc., a $1.3-billion dollar American private for profit prison company that trades on the New York stock exchange.

Registered with the Office of the Commissioner of Lobbying of Canada as registrant 779026-278825-2 is the THE GEO Group Inc, One Park Place Suite 700, Boca Raton, FL GEO is also listed as the client of The Parliamentary Group, a registered lobbying organization which lists former Reform Party MP Deb Grey as a partner. Grey was the Reform’s first election member of parliament whose legislative assistant is now Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

Source: http://www.torontosun.com/2012/04/19/is ... ed-prisons


The Harper government plans to spend another $158 million on new prisons with the current crimes rates at an all time low

Source: http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/arti ... money-away


The omnibus crime bill is a crime

Source: http://www.thestar.com/news/article/114 ... is-a-crime


Crime rate falls to lowest level since 1973

Canada's crime rate is the lowest in nearly 40 years, according to Statistics Canada, as the volume of crime dropped five per cent in 2010 from the year before.

Source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/201 ... rates.html


Canada's homicide rate declines to 44-year low

Public safety minister pleased, but says Tories won't change crime approach

Source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/ ... tscan.html


**Omnibus Crime Bill: Mental Illness Not A Consideration.**

Justice Minister Rob Nicholson ignored questions Thursday about how a massive new crime bill will deal with Canadians living with mental illness, including young offenders who find themselves being sentenced as adults.

Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2011/12/01 ... 24184.html


Controversial crime bill to cost Canadians $19 BILLION: study

Source: http://www.vancouversun.com/Controversi ... story.html


Keeping a male inmate in jail per year cost tax payers $109,699 according to a 2009 corrections Canada report: in 2011 it rose to $113,974 a year.

Recent government reports on the cost of Canada’s jails show costs rising on all fronts. For instance, the cost of keeping a male inmate in prison rose from $88,067 per year in 2006 to $109,699 in 2009, according to the most recent data from Corrections and Conditional Release Statistical Overview.The cost of staffing Canada’s federal prisons has also increased significantly, with 5,745 more staff hired at Corrections Canada since the Conservatives took power. Staffing numbers have risen from 14,663 in 2005-06 to 20,408 full-time equivalents in 2011-12, according to Reports on Plans and Priorities.

Source: http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/07/18 ... ive-years/


$312 per prisoner, per day

Land a bed in jail via rape, murder or any other heinous criminal act, and you’re suddenly worth $113,974 a year to the federal government — nearly ten times as much. Fair? Hardly. But that’s annual average cost for keeping an inmate incarcerated in Canada, according to the latest report from Corrections Canada.

It means the federal government is paying $312 per prisoner, per day, to keep Canada’s worst citizens healthy, happy and secure in the penitentiaries our killers and cretins chose to live in.

Source: http://www.calgarysun.com/2012/02/28/ca ... ners-soars


Americans shocked Harper crime bill gives more time to pot growers than pedophiles

Source: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/canada-p ... 36154.html


Texas conseratives to Stephen Harper: Omnibus Crime Bill a huge mistake

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jdw2YJb7Hw


**Texas conservatives** reject Harper's crime plan

'Been there; done that; didn't work,' say Texas crime-fighters

Source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2 ... crime.html

Crime bill unfairly targets women, aboriginals, critics say

Soruce: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/ ... 23703.html


The Ontario government says the omnibus federal crime bill will cost the province's taxpayers more than $1 billion in increased police and correctional service costs.

Source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/s ... -bill.html


Quebec, Ontario won't pay costs of federal crime bill

Source: http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TopStories/20 ... z1oxR05oU3


Federal prison closures blasted by union

The federal government is closing two facilities in Kingston, Ont., and one in Laval, Que.

Source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/201 ... toews.html


Vic Toews’ bizarre plan to introduce his own personal inflation rate to prison.

He wants them to contribute 32% of their income. At 32%, it’s higher than the top federal tax rate of 29%, which applies to incomes over $132,000. So, under the Tory plan, prisoners making $260 a year will hand over more of their income than people making 500 times that much. This, says Toews, will “restore balance” to the system.

Source: http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/201 ... to-prison/


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