It's Official. Stephen Harper is Privatizing Our Water

The Council of Canadians for Social Justice is concerned with the AbitibiBowater NAFTA settlement, that has opened the door to the privatization of Canadian water.

The above video came from a Committee on International Trade meeting in Ireland, when Irish MEP Joe Higgins, came to the defense of Canadians. He is concerned with the Harper trade deal that fuels our "race to the bottom", and will have an horrific impact on our labour market.

He also broaches the subject of the privatization of Canadian water.

AbitibiBowater was given $130 million of our tax dollars, in a settlement, that had it gone to the courts, would have been thrown out for the ridiculous challenge that it was.

But in Harperland, the multinational corporation will always come first.

And there are other concerns with our water and waters being sold off and traded away. The absolutely useless fisheries minister, and I say that with great affection, because the word I would prefer to use for Gail Shea is unprintable, prefers to flit around at trade shows, rather than work for the people paying her salary.

This time she has been reducing halibut quotas in B.C., threatening tourism. But here's the kicker:

"... a pilot project in which sports fishers, should they want to extend their season, could lease unused quota from the mostly large corporations that own the commercial halibut licences."

So it has nothing to do with "quotas", just another chance for multinationals to feed off the Canadian taxpayer.

This makes me so damn mad. Every time I even hear Gail Shea's name my blood boils. What human being would order the shooting of 560 Narwhal whales simply because she was having her nails done and couldn't be bothered working with the American Humane Society to rescue them?

She's beyond despicable.

However, it's pretty bad, when an Irish Parliamentarian has to come to our defense. We are the ones who should be fighting back.

A New Group is Asking to Please Fire Gail Shea

A young lady, Alishia Fox sent me links to two videos that she has made about Department of Fisheries and Oceans Minister, Gail Shea.

Alishia is frustrated with Shea, not only for her incompetence, but also her blatant disregard for protecting our oceans and their species.

She reminds us that Shea has no qualifications for this job, having worked in administration, with no background in science.

This is actually a tactic used by the neoconservative movement. Since their main goal is selling us off to multi-nationals, if they placed experienced people in cabinet posts, they may protest their actions.

Things like the selling of fish plants, slaughtering of Narwhals, salmon and shrimp farming that are destroying our shorelines; would go against the grain of someone who actually studied marine biology, environmental science, or in fact came from any scientific field.

But Gail Shea was just so tickled pink that she'd get a huge salary and perks, like a limo and driver; she'll let them do what they want.

I am always so inspired when I see young people getting involved. This land and it's future belongs to them, and we need to pay attention.

Alishia has set up a Facebook group: Please Fire Gail Shea, and plans to create more videos, which I will share. So please help her out.

Catch 22 Conservatives has adopted this riding, so you can check them out as well, and join the conversation. Canadians Against Proroguing Parliament (CAPP) is still going strong and Canadians Rallying to Unseat Stephen Harper (C.R.U.S.H.) have started running our newspaper ads. Our website is here.

It will be grassroots movements like this, that will get our country back, while there is still a country to fight for.

Thank you Alishia for reminding me why I do this.