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Liberal Party is also allowing Marc Emery to be sent to the USA to possible life in prison for selling cannabis seeds while in Canada. Something that is effectively legal in Canada. For more info:
http://gallery.marihemp.com/marc-emery
Now the ruling Liberal Party wants to fire workers who use cannabis!
The Liberal Party is in power in Canada, and claims that it is for decriminalization. It was pushing a bogus decrim bill that would end criminal penalties but would end up encouraging more fines. For the "crime" of possession that is also effectively legal in many places in Canada. Now the Liberal Party is actually trying to fire people for something that they are claiming to decriminalize - cannabis. VOTE NDP! They promote REAL cannabis decrim: http://www.ndp.ca/page/1277 and they do not want a U.S. drug war, nor do they want to make Canada the 51st state of the USA.
 
 
 
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Liberal Party of Canada to Staff: Stop Smoking Pot or You're Fired!
 


by Marc Emery (16 Dec, 2005)
 
 
Cannabis users' rights to privacy
 
An Executive Assistant to a sitting cabinet minister up for re-election came to Cannabis Culture with this Confidential Memorandum to all employees of the Liberal Party of Canada.

Confidential Memorandum to Employees.

On 12-09-2005 an executive motion from the leadership of the party was adopted that may or may not affect you. The executive motion is as follows:

(i) Sanctioned by the Executive Committee of the Liberal Party of Canada and put into effect by an executive motion; pursuant to the party's constitution and bylaws. Put into effect now, with a grace period until 01-26-2006. Employees and "paid members" of the Liberal Party of Canada shall refrain from consumption; in any form, of the narcotic substance called cannabis (marijuana).

(ii) This executive motion allows for in-office testing for the said substance. In addition employees suspected of other narcotic substance use may also be tested for the suspected substance.

(iii) Employees who have tested positive for scheduled substances may be terminated. Employees who have been terminated may appeal their termination.

(iv) If terminated under this executive motion he/she is entitled to full salary renumeration owed by the party.

I have scheduled testing at LPCBC for 01-26-2006 between 12:00 PM and 5:00 PM. Thank you for your time.

Sincerely,
Jamie Elmhirst, President
Liberal Party of Canada (BC)

The person who brought in this memo says "I smoke every day and it's going to force me to choose between my Party and my lifestyle. I've smoked pot with my minister, so I'll be curious to see if Cabinet Ministers are to be tested also."

Considering the Young Liberals overwhelmingly endorsed a pro-cannabis resolution at the last Liberal Party of Canada convention, it seems to go against the consensus of the Liberal Party. It will be these young Liberals – many of whom are often assistants, executive assistants to Ministers, secretaries, Members of Parliament – who will now be weeded out of the Party.

During elections, all former Liberal Party staff and employees are considered volunteers, and then re-hired on January 26, after the election. It is then that urine analysis of all Liberal Party employees begins.

Many Liberals are known alcohol drinkers, and Paul Martin himself has admitted to eating pot brownies baked by his wife, Sheila Martin, in the late 60's and early 70's.

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The Conservative Party leadership is equally subservient to U.S. wishes:
 
 
 
 
Stephen Harper's Address to Ultra-Right-Wing American Think Tank



Conservative Leader Stephen Harper delivered a speech in Montreal to a secret ultra-right-wing American think tank, the Council for National Policy (CNP), in which he denounced Canada as a “Northern welfare state in the worst sense of the term.”
“Your country, and particularly your conservative movement is a light and an inspiration to people in this country and across the world,” Harper told the American audience in his June 1997 speech.
 
Yesterday, a spokesperson for Mr. Harper tried to excuse this piece of his history, saying it was intended to be “tongue-in-cheek.” This is simply not credible, given the serious topic and the audience he addressed.
 
Mr. Harper’s speech, billed as a discussion of “Developments in Canada’s Political System,” not only disparaged every major political party, but also universal medicare, women’s rights, the unemployed and francophone Canadians.
 
The speech begins with a diagnosis of Canada as a “welfare state in the worst sense of the term, and very proud of it.” Mr. Harper then turns to the jobless, who he says the audience should not feel bad for, since “they don’t feel bad about it themselves, as long as they’re receiving generous social assistance and unemployment insurance.”
 
Harper then goes on to describe Canada as “basically an English-speaking country . . . not a bilingual country. It is a country with two languages. And there is a big difference.”
 
Next on the agenda are Canada’s political parties. He describes the NDP as “a branch of the Canadian Labour Congress and” the Bloc Quebecois as an “ethnic separatist party.”
 
He then talks about some of the policies of the Liberal government, saying it introduced “a constitutional package which they put to a national referendum. The package included distinct society status for Quebec and some other changes, including some that would just horrify you, putting universal Medicare in our constitution and feminist rights and a whole bunch of other things.”
 
This is very serious. These are the words and views of a man who aspires to be Prime Minister of Canada in 40 days. And this is the way he describes our country to a gathering of Americans.
 
Even more alarming is that Mr. Harper’s comments were never meant to be made public. They were made to a secret ultra-right organization composed of U.S. conservative leaders, financiers and religious right activists. Founded in 1981 by three Texas conservative millionaires, the group meets three times annually with council meetings closed to the public and off-limits to the media.
 
Other speakers who have addressed the CNP include televangelist Jerry Falwell , who spoke on Christian conservatism on Aug. 25, 2004; U.S. Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld; former U.S. Attorney general John Ashcroft; Founder of Focus on the Family James Dobson, who spoke on abortion in February 1998; and Reagan-era Secretary of Defence Casper Weinberger, who spoke on national defence under Bill Clinton in January, 1999.
 
Stephen Harper’s words reveal a deep contempt for the Canadian political system and Canadian values, such as universal medicare. In this campaign, Canadians have seen a very different Stephen Harper. The question is: which one will govern if elected Prime Minister?
 
 
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MMM (Global Million Marijuana March):
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Newsweek, Nov. 14, 2005, page 36:
"The most recent evidence comes from autopsies of 44 prisoners who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan in U.S. custody. Most died under circumstances that suggest torture. The reports use words like 'strangulation,' 'asphyxiation' and 'blunt force injuries.' ...  A few months before the [Abu Ghraib] scandal broke [spring 2004], Coalition Provisional Authority polls showed Iraqi support at 63 percent. A month after Abu Ghraib, the number was 9 percent. Polls showed that 71 percent of Iraqis were surprised by the revelations."

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