SaggyBalls

That's not Kelly Gruber.

850 out of over 140,000 checked is NOT effective.

NOT.effective.

24 out of nearly 16,000 is NOT effective.

It's passing the buck to say end-users bear no responsibility.

It's passing the buck to say the end users are the only ones to be made responsible via fines for being 'bad'.

We live in a time where the atmosphere is thick with retribution. This is certainly unhealthy.

I don't think that's the point. I think they're mostly passing the responsibility down to the garbage producer.

The problem is not the end polluter but the producers of things to be set out on the curb.

They sure are passing the buck.

+1. We could make some use of our refuse.

Ahem?

It's a nice thing to feel good about doing your part but there's a huge difference between deterring and encouraging and fines are nothing but a cash grab deterrent.

Bag tag programs are great, composting initiatives are great, and so are programs that get people to buy fewer wasteful items.

Every garbage day crows get into garbage left out by our 'neighbours' and that's far worse than a couple of cans not being recycled.

These fines will do nothing to improve any sort of standard of living afforded to the people of Gatineau.

It's going to take a city actually being supportive of people in this transitional phase from wasteful to respectful to make any real impact: offering muncipal tax incentives for bulk or non-packaged purchases and more significant focus on supporting local business that helps people be less wasteful or other non-deterrent type of action.

This get tough bullshit never works and I'm amazed by how many fools get roped into thinking it does.

Quit poking around in our garbage!

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Me too.

Chances are I won't see you till after Boxing Day and New Year's, so Happy Holidays, assholes.

Fantastic.

I have just one Ox record and it's a real gem.

douche?

Anybody from Ottawa into this and up for a psych-folk field trip?

Maybe these will work for some people.

1. disposable (recylcable) cameras with developing included. Film is great and should be shared and cherished. It's a real chemical reaction's moment stayed indefinitely.

1.a photofinishing gift cards

2. high quality reusable writing implements (with extra refills or a bottle of ink for fountain pens) if the person doesn't already have these.

3. velcro cable ties for musicians (they're great bu how many people really get them?)

4. Foot-specific socks

Do unto others like you want them to undo you.

Who've I gotta blow to get a drink around here.

Just be careful you don't confuse it with Libertarianism again.

That's often how politics reels the individualists in.

On the list in a big way?

Let's hope that your dosage isn't reflected by that.

I look forward to google maps for pedestrians! (i bet it's only steps away)

Remind us of this more often willya?

"people that would otherwise believe..." and "people that wouldn't otherwise believe..."?

It's a pretty strong distinction.

you're confused?

I thought that I summed it up rather well.

nhppa.org

For Immediate Release- November, 2010

HEALTH CANADA’S NEW POWERS PUT CANADIANS AT RISK OF TRESPASS AND RAIDS

- WILL BE CHALLENGED IN COURT

CANADA --A federal bill purporting to make Canadians safer will actually make them less safe and - if passed -will likely face a barrage of constitutional challenges in the courts, according to a leading constitutional lawyer and a growing number of concerned citizens, health consumer groups and legislators.

Bill C-36: The Canada Consumer Product Safety Act gives Health Canada sweeping new powers, shifts control to bureaucrats, and puts Canadians at risk of trespass and raids by Health Canada--without requiring government officials to go through the courts. The bill has passed 3rd reading in the House of Commons and is now before the Senate.

Shawn Buckley, Kamloops-based constitutional lawyer and president of the Natural Health Products Protection Association (NHPPA), originally challenged earlier versions of Bill C-36 (Bills 52 & 6) that died due to widespread opposition from health consumers and vendors of natural health products and/or when earlier parliamentary sessions were dissolved or prorogued. Responding to outrage from consumers and vendors of natural health products, the government and MPs from all parties backed off, specifically exempting natural health products in the latest version - Bill C-36.

In spite of the exemption, Buckley remains concerned that Bill C-36 is still a 'Trojan horse' that will ultimately pave the way for government to re-introduce the same sweeping provisions that by-pass the rule of law to apply to Canada's natural health industry, which has been under siege since natural health products (NHP's) were included under the Food & Drug Act in 2004. As a result of Natural Health Product regulations, thousands of products have become unavailable to consumers, restricting access to healthcare alternatives.

"Bill C-36 is sold to us as necessary for our safety," says Buckley, "but if I'm correct, this bill represents one of the most unsafe legal moves - certainly in my lifetime."

Senators Elaine McCoy (PC), Joseph Day (Lib), Celine Hervieux-Payette (Lib), George Furey (Lib) and Tommy Banks (Lib) - all lawyers - have expressed concern that the bill is a breach of civil liberties and will probably not stand up to what will likely be many court challenges, should it pass. Banks says “it is undoing 400 years of common law."

Fasken Martineau, one of the country's leading law firms, has also expressed concern about the impact of Bill C-36. Peter Pliszka, a partner with Fasken Martineau's Toronto office, says "Bill C-36 will introduce a revolutionary upheaval in product regulation in Canada", and says it goes against 140 years of Canadian history.

Buckley is giving a cross-country lecture tour--Freedom in Crisis---November 18 to December 7 to alert the public about the potential threat to rights and freedoms that Bill C-36 poses, as well as to the negative impact the Natural Health Product Regulations will have on NHP businesses and consumers as the regulations come into full force. Buckley will also be providing a guide for NHP businesses to help vendors understand their rights and protect their businesses in the event of a Health Canada raid.

The tour begins in Nelson BC, November 18, and will include Toronto, Moncton, Winnipeg, Penticton, Vancouver, Calgary and Edmonton.

The Natural Health Products Protection Association (NHPPA) is dedicated to protecting access to Natural Health Products and Dietary Supplements.

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See tour schedule on www.nhppa.org. For more information or interview contact Julia Rickert at 416.906.6974 or email jrickert@nhppa.org

Though unfortunate at the time, I'm glad to have found out that escargots don't taste as great out of the can as Pacific Salmon.

Isn't it useful to be able to separate the masses into sheep and realistic objective thinkers?

If the people that would otherwise believe that Homosexuality is different than Heterosexuality (aside from the 'lifestyle' that often overshadows the orientation) were to accept it then what's going to happen when the genetic stock mixes?

I think that'll be a potentially awful and scary thing.

Rights and freedoms will come around before that happens...I hope anyway.