Omar Khadr Documentary: CBC violates Canada's Rights to Freedom of the Press

If there is any doubt in our minds that the CBC is in service to Stephen Harper and the neoConservative government, lay that to rest.

Airing on CBC on October 16th - just two days after the Canadian federal
election, The US vs. Omar Khadr, a documentary by Terence McKenna, which is openly critical of Harper and the Canadian government for failing to act in the best interests of this Canadian child, who has been imprisoned, tortured and abused FOR YEARS in Guatanomo Bay.

It is the grossest abuse of the responsibility and duty of the press to freedom, justice, liberty and democracy that the CBC, our taxpayer funded media, chose to supress the showing of this important documentary. This is an abuse of the human rights of all Canadians.

If the leadership of the CBC will not reform themselves and remember whose interests they are there to serve, Canadians, then it is time for the leadership of the CBC to resign.

Omar Khadr Project

Canadian Charter of Rights & Freedoms

Fundamental Freedoms

2. Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms:
a) freedom of conscience and religion;
b) freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication;
c) freedom of peaceful assembly; and
d) freedom of association.

Enforcement of guaranteed rights and freedoms

24. (1) Anyone whose rights or freedoms, as guaranteed by this Charter, have been infringed or denied may apply to a court of competent jurisdiction to obtain such remedy as the court considers appropriate and just in the circumstances.

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Canada re-elects Stephen Harper

Murray Dobbin: Harper will continue to dismantle social democracy

Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper was re-elected this week, as his Conservative Party won its second minority government. Harper called an early election last month after accusing the Canadian Parliament of being dysfunctional. Observers called it a calculated political move, meant to take advantage of his lead in the polls, with the aim, to secure a majority for his party.

With another minority parliament Murray Dobbin thinks Stephen Harper "will really hate this situation" and ultimately feels Harpers move for an early election could be the cause of his own demise. If Harper doesn't work with the other parties which has been the case in the past Dobbin claims "We'll go in to a recession…..he'll start cutting things and that will bring about his defeat."

Dobbin says with Harpers reluctance to use government spending as a way to stimulate the economy and his "60 billion dollars in tax cuts which completely ties his hands, we'll be in a deficit position by December or January unless he goes back on his tax cuts."

"The future of Canada has been in trouble for 20 years ever since the free trade agreement" according to Dobbin, with Harper back with his minority government the dismantling of the social democratic system will continue.

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