The Betrayal of Canada's Unemployed Continues Under Alberta Tories

Written by Paul Fromm

Saturday, 23 July 2011 06:25

*The Betrayal of Canada's Unemployed Continues Under Alberta Tories* Thomas Lukaszuk, Alberta's Minister of Immigration and Employment, just can't get foreigners into his province fast enough. His latest bright idea is to press the Dominion Government to let the more than 30,000 short term visa workers in the province gain landed immigrant status and bring in their families. And don't think that the concern of him or his corporate pals is the 7.4 per cent of Canadians who are unemployed. His goal, other than to flood the province with immigrants, most from the Third World " is to make sure Canadians in under-employed groups, such as First Nation and the disabled, are 'fully engaged' in the workforce.“ So, let's see: Look out for the Indians and the disabled, but apparently he feels little concern for the able-bodied, mostly White unemployed. "With another boom just around the corner, it’s time to shift away from reliance on temporary foreign workers and concentrate on immigration, says Thomas Lukaszuk, Alberta’s minister of immigration and employment.Lukaszuk is ready to push the federal government to allow more immigrants from among the 30,000 temporary workers now in the province, offering them a chance to settle with their families.Employers facing labour shortages would also be happy because they could keep workers they spent the last few years training, he said. ... 'The federal government took in 280,000 new immigrants this year, the highest number ever, and that’s great,' he said.“But that record intake didn’t make a dent in the 360,000 temporary workers in the country. 'Since that number has been steady in recent years, it’s clear the demand for workers isn’t just short-term,' he said. At the height of the boom in 2006, Alberta had more than 60,000 temporary foreign workers — the highest per capita of any province. Many worked on oilsands projects but a lot of them left when the economic downturn hit in December 2008." (*Edmonton Journal 17 *, July, 2011) Those on temporary work visas can work for up to four years in Canada. A union source tells us: "There are more than 30,000 Canadian trades’ workers unemployed in Alberta and Canada. There are still 30,000 temporary visa workers in Alberta and and they want to bring more." Among Alberta's 6.500 unionized electricians, nearly 3,000 are unemployed. Apparently, the last thing Mr. Lukaszuk wants to do is entice unemployed Canadians in other provinces or train unemployed Canadians. As always, the simple solution is bring in more immigrants. This heartless policy also has the unfortunate result of keeping large numbers of Canadians out of work and keeping wages low.

 

Great Holocaust Trial Defence Attorney Doug Christie is Ailing

Written by Paul Fromm

Friday, 22 July 2011 06:05

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This email newsletter was sent to you in graphical HTML format. If you're seeing this version, your email program prefers plain text emails. You can read the original version online: http://ymlp41.net/zLftOR -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Great Holocaust Trial Defence Attorney Doug Christie is Ailing By Michael Hoffman ([email protected]) Thursday - July 21, 2011 The "Battling Barrister": Canada's Doug Christie According to his wife, Keltie writing in her June, 2011 Friends of Freedom newsletter, 65-year-old Canadian Attorney Douglas Christie, the fearless barrister who so ably defended Ernst Zundel in two historic thought crime trials in Toronto in 1985 and 1988, has “prostate cancer of an aggressive grade that has already spread locally outside the prostate.” Doug is one of the finest men and purest souls it has been my privilege to know. He went far beyond being Ernst’s attorney. He became his friend and a defender of the German people as a whole. In the course of the two trials he had to absorb thousands of facts, hundreds of books and dozens of maps, models and diagrams in order to defend Ernst to the best of his ability. He spent hours in court and then hours at night and on weekends studying with the Zundel defence team, led by Dr. Robert Faurisson of France. A lesser man would have been broken by the stress and the media libel. Doug relished the challenge and stepped into history’s spotlight chasing destiny. With the brilliant and thorough organization so typical of Mr. Zundel, Doug’s daily after-court briefings in the basement of Zundelhaus were preserved on video. I have included highlights of those briefings in my documentary film, “The Great Holocaust Trial,” (not to be confused with the book of the same name). After the Zundel trials, Doug continued his career as “the Clarence Darrow of Canada,” although he stands head-and-shoulders above Darrow, who in some respects was an opportunist (Darrow’s finest hour was his defense of Bill Heywood and the IWW in Idaho in 1907; his nadir was the 1924 Leopold-Loeb case). Mr. Christie went on to represent dissidents, the marginal and the nearly defenseless. Among his most spectacular victories was the 1990 acquittal of Hungarian-Canadian restauranteur Imre Finta, who had been arrested on trumped-up war crimes’ charges. This was a huge setback for the same “Never Forgive” gang that on July 20, 2011, under color of law, desecrated the grave of Rudolf Hess in Germany (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14232768 ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14232768 )). Talmudic vengeance knows no bounds! Doug was ably assisted in the Finta case by the equally courageous attorney Barbara Kulaszka. Christie defended newspaperman Doug Collins, a heroic British-Canadian soldier who escaped ten times from German POW camps in World War II. Mr. Collins testified for and wrote columns on behalf of Mr. Zundel. Those columns led to his prosecution. Christie has also defended high school English instructor Paul Fromm, fellow teacher and Christian anti-Zionist Malcolm Ross, English anti-Talmud campaigner Lady Jane Birdwood, Internet activist Bernard Klatt, Marc Lemire, and dozens of other indigent and media-libelled victims of the new inquisition. The Zionist lobby has had Mr. Christie in its sights for more than a quarter-century, but his record for probity was so impeccable they could find no pretext by which they could disbar or financially cripple him until 2007, when they were able to exploit a minor procedural technicality related to a law pertaining to “subpoena for documents.” The Law Society of masonic Canada ruled that this most honorable of all Canadian lawyers, in “improperly” processing the documents had been “dishonorable.” He was fined $20,000. He could not be disbarred on that basis alone however, and he continued his law practice. Doug has given his life to the nearly thankless task of fighting for the free speech rights of everyone from Indian Chief David Ahenakew to a coterie of Christians, Germans, East Europeans, revisionists, skeptics and individualists who refused to be commissared. He has continued to press for justice in the case of Jeff Hughes, a confused and possibly mentally ill unarmed skinhead who was shot to death in 2009 by Canada’s “Mounties” for no discernible reason other than his politics. A case like this does nothing to burnish Christie’s career or fill his wallet. At the risk of sounding maudlin, Doug did it out of love for the memory of this young man who he met once and only briefly at the George Orwell Awards Dinner, which he and his wife host annually in British Columbia. Doug Christie is a traditional Catholic who cares more about living the Gospel than talking about it. The cause of justice for Jeff Hughes is but one example of his Christ-like conduct. While I do not speak for or represent Ernst Zundel, I will venture to say that if he were not under a de facto gag order in Germany and barred from traveling in the US and Canada, he would use that organizational genius of his to put together an international testimonial dinner for Doug which would be attended by hundreds. There is no one like Ernst on the scene today, but that is no excuse for us to fail to express our gratitude to Mr. Christie for his life of sacrifice and idealism. Send him a get well card of encouragement and appreciation: Mr. Douglas Christie Box 101 255 Menzies Street Victoria, BC V8V 2G6 Canada [I have slightly edited Mr. Hoffman's excellent summary and entirely endorse sending cards and notes of prayerful support and solidarity to Doug in this difficult time. -- Paul Fromm, Director, Canadian Association for Free Expression] _____________________________ Unsubscribe / Change Profile: http://ymlp41.net/u.php?id=gmjhqsqgsgbbqghy Powered by YourMailingListProvider

 

Great Holocaust Trial Defense Attorney Doug Christie is Ailing

Written by Paul Fromm

Friday, 22 July 2011 04:09

*Great Holocaust Trial Defense Attorney Doug Christie is Ailing * *By Michael Hoffman (**[email protected]*<[email protected]> *) *Thursday - July 21, 2011 The "Battling Barrister": Canada's Doug Christie According to his wife, Keltie writing in her June, 2011* Friends of Freedom*newsletter, 65-year-old Canadian Attorney Douglas Christie, the fearless barrister who so ably defended Ernst Zundel in two historic thought crime trials in Toronto in 1985 and 1988, has “prostate cancer of an aggressive grade that has already spread locally outside the prostate.” Doug is one of the finest men and purest souls it has been my privilege to know. He went far beyond being Ernst’s attorney. He became his friend and a defender of the German people as a whole. In the course of the two trials he had to absorb thousands of facts, hundreds of books and dozens of maps, models and diagrams in order to defend Ernst to the best of his ability. He spent hours in court and then hours at night and on weekends studying with the Zundel defence team, led by Dr. Robert Faurisson of France. A lesser man would have been broken by the stress and the media libel. Doug relished the challenge and stepped into history’s spotlight chasing destiny. With the brilliant and thorough organization so typical of Mr. Zundel, Doug’s daily after-court briefings in the basement of *Zundelhaus* were preserved on video. I have included highlights of those briefings in my documentary film, “The Great Holocaust Trial,” (not to be confused with the book of the same name). After the Zundel trials, Doug continued his career as “the Clarence Darrow of Canada,” although he stands head-and-shoulders above Darrow, who in some respects was an opportunist (Darrow’s finest hour was his defense of Bill Heywood and the IWW in Idaho in 1907; his nadir was the 1924 Leopold-Loeb case). Mr. Christie went on to represent dissidents, the marginal and the nearly defenseless. Among his most spectacular victories was the 1990 acquittal of Hungarian-Canadian restauranteur Imre Finta, who had been arrested on trumped-up war crimes’ charges. This was a huge setback for the same “Never Forgive” gang that on July 20, 2011, under color of law, desecrated the grave of Rudolf Hess in Germany ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14232768). Talmudic vengeance knows no bounds! Doug was ably assisted in the Finta case by the equally courageous attorney Barbara Kulaszka. Christie defended newspaperman Doug Collins, a heroic British-Canadian soldier who escaped ten times from German POW camps in World War II. Mr. Collins testified for and wrote columns on behalf of Mr. Zundel. Those columns led to his prosecution. Christie has also defended high school English instructor Paul Fromm, fellow teacher and Christian anti-Zionist Malcolm Ross, English anti-Talmud campaigner Lady Jane Birdwood, Internet activist Bernard Klatt, Marc Lemire, and dozens of other indigent and media-libelled victims of the new inquisition. The Zionist lobby has had Mr. Christie in its sights for more than a quarter-century, but his record for probity was so impeccable they could find no pretext by which they could disbar or financially cripple him until 2007, when they were able to exploit a minor procedural technicality related to a law pertaining to “subpoena for documents.” The Law Society of masonic Canada ruled that this most honorable of all Canadian lawyers, in “improperly” processing the documents had been “dishonorable.” He was fined $20,000. He could not be disbarred on that basis alone however, and he continued his law practice. Doug has given his life to the nearly thankless task of fighting for the free speech rights of everyone from Indian Chief David Ahenakew to a coterie of Christians, Germans, East Europeans, revisionists, skeptics and individualists who refused to be commissared. He has continued to press for justice in the case of Jeff Hughes, a confused and possibly mentally ill unarmed skinhead who was shot to death in 2009 by Canada’s “Mounties” for no discernible reason other than his politics. A case like this does nothing to burnish Christie’s career or fill his wallet. At the risk of sounding maudlin, Doug did it out of love for the memory of this young man who he met once and only briefly at the George Orwell Awards Dinner, which he and his wife host annually in British Columbia. Doug Christie is a traditional Catholic who cares more about living the Gospel than talking about it. The cause of justice for Jeff Hughes is but one example of his Christ-like conduct. While I do not speak for or represent Ernst Zundel, I will venture to say that if he were not under a de facto gag order in Germany and barred from traveling in the US and Canada, he would use that organizational genius of his to put together an international testimonial dinner for Doug which would be attended by hundreds. There is no one like Ernst on the scene today, but that is no excuse for us to fail to express our gratitude to Mr. Christie for his life of sacrifice and idealism. Send him a get well card of encouragement and appreciation: *Mr. Douglas Christie Box 101 255 Menzies Street Victoria, BC V8V 2G6 Canada* ** [I have slightly edited Mr. Hoffman's excellent summary and entirely endorse sending cards and notes of prayerful support and solidarity to Doug in this difficult time. -- Paul Fromm, Director, Canadian Association for Free Expression]