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Barack Obama: Bravely taxing the future. Barack Obama, presidential candidate and time traveller, said he has seen the future and its taxes were much, much too low. Obama, his financial adviser, and a time portal keeper named, Rolf, have recently returned from a fact-finding mission 11 years into the future and bravely raised social security taxes on this future world. "This is about fairness," Obama said. "The rich people in the future are out there with their suitcase cars and phasers locked on stun, paid for by the middle class American people of the present." Frank Tarleton, Obama's future tax...

Mayor Ray Nagin told the City Council this morning that the city has found 90 properties where storm remediation work that was supposed to be conducted by taxpayer-financed contractors was not done. Nagin said his staff visited all 870 properties enrolled in a now-defunct home remediation program run by the nonprofit New Orleans Affordable Homeownership Corp. Of the 90 properties where "discrepancies" were found, contractors involved with the program billed the city for work on 46. The city has notified those contractors of the problems and asked for reimbursement or documentation of work, Nagin said. While Nagin acknowledged that his...

Mary Easley's 88 percent pay raise questionedWednesday, July 02, 2008 | 6:41 PM By Ed Crump Wife of N.C. Governor Mike Easley.RALEIGH (WTVD) -- There is more controversy surrounding First Lady Mary Easley in the wake of expensive taxpayer funded trips abroad by both the first lady and Governor Mike Easley. Eyewitness News has learned that Mary Easley got an 88 percent raise at her job at N.C. State University. Until this week, Mary Easley got paid $90,000 a year to recruit speakers to come to campus. Now her job duties have expanded to include directing a public safety program...

Cheap Tomatoes And Cheap Labor CHEAP TOMATOES? This should make everyone think, be you Democrat, Republican or Independent. From a California school teacher - - - 'As you listen to the news about the student protests over illegal immigration, there are some things that you should be aware of: I am in charge of the English-as-a-second-language department at a large southern California high school which is designated a Title 1 school, meaning that its students average lower social economic and income levels. Most of the schools you are hearing about, South Gate High, Bell Gardens , Huntington Park , etc.,...

Facts Please, Just the Facts : Politicians should use taxpayer funds to inform, not self-promote by Clint Bolick, In a state with subsidized elections and draconian limits on campaign contributions, every advantage counts. One in particular is a whopper: self-promotion by elected officials at taxpayer expense. The abuse is ubiquitous and transcends party lines. Publications and public-service announcements that happen to prominently bear the name and likeness of an elected official are all too frequent. The officials defend the need for the publications, which misses the point. However legitimate a particular publication, the photo and name are wholly gratuitous, providing...

One of the most significant taxpayer lawsuits is about to go to jury-trial in Austin, but Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst has thus far refused to be deposed -- despite being a defendant in the case.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has announced that U.S. taxpayers will be footing the startup costs of a program to install satellite tracking technology on vehicles taking part in the Mexican Truck Demonstration Program. The announcement confirmed the U.S. government would "initially spend approximately $367,000 to outfit all trucks from the United States and Mexico that take part in the program."

Spitzer hiring city lawyer on taxpayer expense in TroopergateBY JOE MAHONEY DAILY NEWS ALBANY BUREAU CHIEF Saturday, October 13th 2007, 4:00 AM ALBANY - Gov. Spitzer has lined up a Manhattan lawyer - at taxpayer expense - to help him quash subpoenas sent to his office by a GOP-controlled panel investigating the Troopergate scandal. Spitzer's office confirmed that Dietrich Snell, a former deputy attorney general, will help the administration as it seeks to block the Senate Investigations Committee's push for e-mails and other documents related to an effort by the governor's aides to discredit Senate GOP leader Joe Bruno. An...

by Steven ErteltLifeNews.com EditorOctober 2, 2007Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Rudy Giuliani has tried every trick in the book in order to persuade pro-life voters to consider him for the Republican nomination for president. Now a congressman with a long record of opposing abortion has labeled the former mayor pro-life and said he would have voted mostly pro-life if he had been a congressman as well.Rep. Pete Sessions, a Texas Republican, says that if Giuliani were a member of Congress today, he'd be considered pro-life."In a hypothetical comparison of congressional votes, Mayor Giuliani's voting record would mirror the voting record of...

Philippine Population Control Groups Launch Suit Against Pro-Life Manila Former Mayor By Hilary White MANILA, Philippines, October 2, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Lito Atienza, the former mayor of the Philippine capital Manila, who has earned the wrath of abortionists and population control groups for his opposition to the killer abortion drug RU-486, is facing a lawsuit by those same groups. According to Elizabeth Pangalangan, executive director of the Reproductive Health, Rights and Ethics Center at the University of the Philippines, the suit aims to "hold [Atienza] liable for acts which caused injury to women." Atienza, who is now the Environment Secretary...

The push is on Planned Parenthood mounts campaign to pressure Gov. Schwarzenegger into signing bill that would provide millions more in state funding for family planning Planned Parenthood affiliates across California have geared up their PR machines once again, this time in an effort to persuade Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to sign a bill that could result in the state spending another $3.2 million a year on “family planning services.” Planned Parenthood, whose California affiliates typically end each fiscal year with budget surpluses in the millions, want the governor to sign SB-94, sponsored by Sen. Sheila Kuehl, D-Los Angeles. The...

Catholic Pro-Abortion Ontario Premier Confronted at Campaign Debate by Pro-Life Candidate Pro-life singer David MacDonald runs against Premier Dalton McGuinty in Ottawa South By Paul Lauzon and John-Henry Westen OTTAWA, September 28, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In Ottawa South, Liberal Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty's riding, well-known pro-life singer David MacDonald is running for the Family Coalition Party. MacDonald has posted numerous signs and delivered over 10,000 pro-life and pro-family flyers in the riding. In a moving and dynamic presentation at an all candidates debate Wednesday - with Premier Dalton McGuinty looking on - MacDonald spoke of his experiences as a Broadway...

Abortion Debate Enters Ontario Election - Premier McGuinty "I fully support" Abortion By John-Henry Westen TORONTO, September 26, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A lengthy article published in the Ottawa Citizen Monday, which is being seen by some as a crassly one-sided pro-abortion propaganda piece, decried wait times for abortions in the city.  The article points out that the Ontario Liberal Government has given the private Morgentaler abortion centre in Ottawa enough taxpayer dollars to pay for thousands abortions this year alone.  "A.G. Klei, spokesman for the Ontario Ministry for Health and Long-Term Care, says the ministry provided enough money for the...

U.S. Christian Camp Loses Tax-Exempt Status over Same-Sex Civil-Union Ceremony By John Jalsevac OCEAN GROVE, N.J., September 19, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) announced on Monday that it was stripping the Methodist Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association of its tax-exempt status for part of its property. The Methodist camp made the news earlier this year after it refused, for religious reasons, to allow a lesbian couple to hold a "civil-union" ceremony at a pavilion on the camp's property. The pavilion, said Scott Hoffman, the camp's chief administrative officer to LifeSiteNews, "is a facility we...

"Pro-Life" Casey Votes Twice to Enable US Funding for Abortion Overseas By Meg Jalsevac WASHINGTON, DC, September 14, 2007, (LifeSiteNews.com) - Last week Senator Bob Casey, Jr. (Democrat-Pennsylvania) actively contradicted his largely pro-life campaign promises by voting to approve a funding appropriations bill that would provide US funding to foreign organizations that promote and provide abortions.       The funding bill (HR 2764) would effectively overturn the Mexico City Policy, a foreign aid policy which expressly prohibits the funding of overseas agencies involved in abortion.  The policy was first adopted by President Ronald Reagan and continued in the presidency of Bush, Sr. ...

Democrat Dominated US Senate Votes to Resume Funding to International Abortion Agencies President Bush has warned he would veto any attempts to fund abortion By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman WASHINGTON, September 12, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com)--The US Senate voted last week to resume funding to international groups that conduct abortions, rejecting the "Mexico City policy" that disallows such funding. Although the Bush administration hasn't made a formal statement about the measure, president Bush has publicly warned the Democratic leadership in the Congress that he will veto any attempts to fund abortion. "After witnessing their good sense on the Kemp-Kasten provision, I am extremely...

For Sixth Year in a Row Bush Denies Funding to United Nations Population Fund Democrats almost defeat Kemp-Kasten Amendment that has prohibited such funding By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman WASHINGTON, September 13, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com)--White house Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte announced last week that the Bush Administration would deny funding to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) for a sixth year in a row, on the grounds that the program cooperates with forced abortion and sterilization in China. The decision follows a congressional vote narrowly approving the Kemp-Kasten Amendment, a measure that prohibits funding for coercive population control programs.  The...

Conservative Leader John Tory: Evolution Must be Taught in Science Class; Creation only for Religion Classes Tory plan seen by some as first step to forcing all private schools to absorb Ontario government's full secular curriculum By John-Henry Westen and Elizabeth O'Brien TORONTO, September 6, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Conservative Leader John Tory's election promise to give public funding to faith-based schools began to unravel at the seams yesterday as he spoke about evolution in the classroom.  Asked by a radio interviewer if creation would be permitted to be taught in the classroom, Tory replied, "The Christian-based school would have to...

Britain Set to Approve Human/Animal Hybrid Clones By Hilary White LONDON, September 4, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The UK's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), the government cloning and stem cell research regulator, published its public consultation on the creation of human/animal hybrid clones, in which it claimed the majority of people were "at ease" with the idea. It is expected to rule tomorrow on the proposal to create cytoplasmic hybrid cloned embryos from animal ova and human DNA. The HFEA had its consultation period open for a year, during which time it was subject to intense lobbying by research organisations...

Chris Meney | Friday, 31 August 2007 Marriage deserves more because it gives more The continued provision of preferential support for parents and children over other types of unions is vital for society. The ongoing debate in Australia over the access of same-sex couples to social benefits and so-called entitlements is a distraction from the real issue at hand. The real issue is not one concerning any infringement of rights. Rather, it is about what heterosexual marriage can offer society that other forms of relationships cannot. Married heterosexual unions are not simply a legal invention with an associated bunch...

Jewish Leaders Demand Retraction of Ontario Premier's Attack on Faith Schools McGuinty's comments are flip-flop from his previous support for religious schools By Hilary White and Steve Jalsevac TORONTO, August 30, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Bernie Farber, chief executive of the Canadian Jewish Congress, in comments to the National Post on Tuesday, accused Ontario's Premier Dalton McGuinty of doing "a complete about face" from his previous position of support for limited funding of independent religious schools.  Last week, the Liberal premier of Ontario, Dalton McGuinty, called faith-based schools "segregationist" and harmful to Ontario's "social cohesion." "I don't think that Ontarians believe...

by Steven ErteltLifeNews.com EditorAugust 29, 2007Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Gov. Rod Blagojevich on Tuesday signed a bill that would force taxpayers there to spend money on embryonic stem cell research. His signing the measure is the latest action going against the views of pro-life advocates on whether unborn children should be sacrificed to advance scientific research.The measure would set up an institute under the Illinois Department of Public Health to award grants for the research, which has never helped any patients.It also makes embryonic stem cell research legal and establishes procedures for couples to donate their "unwanted" human embryos for...

by Susan ArmacostAugust 29, 2007LifeNews.com Note: Susan Armacost is the legislative director for Wisconsin Right to Life.The Democrats promoting the 'Healthy Wisconsin' plan are trying to 'sell' it to the public by proclaiming that the plan's coverage would be the same as the coverage state employees currently receive. However, Wisconsin taxpayers need to know that state employee health insurance includes virtually unrestricted abortion coverage.State employees currently have a choice of plans from which to choose. In the state employee Standard Plan, all "legal abortions" are expressly covered and paid for by the state. Thus, the Standard Plan for state employees...

Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Blasted for Support of Embryonic Stem Cell Research WASHINGTON, D.C., August 29, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - "It is ludicrous." That was the reaction of Douglas R. Scott, Jr., president of Life Decisions International (LDI), to a statement by The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (L&LS) in defense of its support for embryonic stem cell experimentation. LDI, which publishes a list of corporations that fund the abortion-committing group Planned Parenthood, recently updated the "Dishonorable Mention" section of The Boycott List. The section identifies nonprofit organizations that "are linked to Planned Parenthood and/or its agenda." Like Planned Parenthood, L&LS actively...

by Steven ErteltLifeNews.com EditorAugust 28, 2007Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society is getting heat from a pro-life organization because it backs embryonic stem cell research that requires the destruction of human life. The crux of the debate between the groups revolves around a letter LLS signed in favor of a bill to require taxpayer funding of the research.After learning that the Planned Parenthood watchdog group Life Decisions International had LLS to a group of charities pro-life advocates should boycott, a pro-life advocate wrote the organization.LLS spokesman Doug Lubbers wrote to the pro-life person, saying "This is a...

by Steven ErteltLifeNews.com EditorAugust 27, 2007Camden, NJ (LifeNews.com) -- Pro-life advocates in New Jersey are upset that a Planned Parenthood center is operating from a taxpayer-funded public building. The center does not do abortions -- though it will make abortion referrals -- and local pro-life activists have started a petition campaign to get the county government to make the group move.Planned Parenthood of Southern New Jersey has operated in the Camden County regional health center facility for years, and pro-life advocates say that's too long.Pastor Vincent Kovlak Jr. of Bellmawr Baptist Church has sent a letter to other area churches...

Complaint Filed on Behalf of Firefighters Forced to Participate in San Diego "Gay Pride" SAN DIEGO, August 28, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Thomas More Law Center, a national public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, announced today that its West Coast Director, San Diego area attorney, Charles LiMandri, filed a sexual harassment and freedom of speech complaint in California state court on behalf of four respected San Diego firefighters. Charles LiMandri was also the Thomas More Law Center's lead counsel in the successful Mt. Soledad Cross case in San Diego. In July, four San Diego firefighters were ordered,...

Poll: Presidential Candidate Backing of Tax Payer Funded Abortion Decreases Support Among 68% of Women WASHINGTON, D.C., August 23, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A national survey of women voters this week revealed that Hillary Clinton has a long way to go before she can claim the "women's vote." In fact the poll, commissioned by the Susan B. Anthony List (http://www.sba-list.org/), found that while Clinton enjoys support among women voters, her support is underwhelming at best. "Women may be ready to vote for a female president, but Hillary Clinton doesn't fit the bill," said Marjorie Dannenfelser, President of the Susan B. Anthony...

Brazil Government Will Use Taxpayer Dollars for Sex Change Operations By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman BRASILIA, August 22, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) -- The Brazilian Ministry of Health has announced that the government will begin to provide free sex-change operations the public, in compliance with a government initiated court order. The decision, rendered by Brazil's Fourth Regional Federal Court, decreed that sex-change operations are a "right" covered by Brazil's constitution, which guarantees "health care" to all citizens. The approval of free sex change operations was largely a staged event by the socialist administration of Luiz Lula, who has been Brazil's president since 2003....

BOISE, ID, August 3, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Federal district Judge Mikel Williams ruled on Friday that the Idaho Department of Correction must provide an inmate with estrogen therapy. The inmate believes that he is a woman trapped in a man's body. The man, who castrated himself using a disposable razor blade while in prison, demanded female hormone therapy, and also changed his name from Randall Gammett to Jenniffer Spencer. After prison officials refused estrogen therapy, but instead offered testosterone therapy to replace the hormones lost to castration, the inmate sued, alleging he was subjected to cruel and unusual punishment and...

Should individual states use tax dollars to help homeowners with risky mortgages refinance into more affordable loans? Yes No Not Sure

SEAN HANNITY, CO-HOST: Some of the '08 presidential candidates are talking health care. And in the case of John Edwards and Barack Obama, they both want to offer universal coverage for abortions. Now, the proposal is not sitting well with many conservatives and pro-lifers. ... Congressman, explain to somebody — I guess we could have a disagreement on abortion. Explain why somebody that finds that morally repugnant and reprehensible should see their tax dollars go to pay for something that they believe, in many instances, is murder?HAROLD FORD, FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR: Well, you know ... there are a lot of...

Canadians, that are hyper-sensitive because I wasn't being "fair" about our grand accomplishment need to take a good long look at themselves before they start pointing a finger. Consider the absurd mythology about America's health care that many have come to embrace as fact...and now that you know all this...consider who the real "sicko" is...

WASHINGTON, June 22, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Democrats in the US House of Representatives lifted a prohibition yesterday on allowing government donations of abortifacient and other contraceptives to abortion-promoting foreign aid organizations. President Bush has twice said he will veto any legislation that weakens protection for life in the Mexico City Policy. The policy dates to the Reagan administration and prohibits any funding for any purpose to abortion providers in developing countries. The amendment passed by a vote of 223-201, with 207 Democrats and 16 Republicans voting to allow the contraceptive funding. Rep. Nita Lowey, the New York Democrat who wrote...

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Voters last November decided to give abortion advocates control of Congress and the results of those elections came to bear on Thursday. That's because the House of Representatives voted 218-205 to overturn a policy of President Bush that prohibits international abortion funding. One his first day in office, the president restored a pro-life policy that had been in place under Presidents Reagan and Bush and rescinded by President Clinton. Known as the Mexico City Policy, the provision prevents taxpayer dollars from going to groups that promote or perform abortions in other countries. Rep. Nita Lowey, a...

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The House will vote soon on a pro-life amendment to a federal spending bill that helps ensure taxpayers don't have to fund groups that promote or perform abortions overseas. Pro-life lawmakers have been working at the committee level to try to stop abortion funding and the House will vote as early as June 20 on the amendment. Representatives Chris Smith, a New Jersey Republican, and Bart Stupak, a Michigan Democrat, are behind the bipartisan amendment to the State-Foreign Operations appropriations bill. Their language is needed because pro-abortion Rep. Nita Lowey put language in the bill overturning...

Sacramento, CA (LifeNews.com) -- A Planned Parenthood watchdog says the California affiliate of the nation's largest abortion business should return millions of taxpayer dollars to the Golden State. Jim Sedlak has recently reviewed PP's annual report and says the non-profit group is getting millions in tax money despite making a healthy profit. "It is incredible that Planned Parenthood affiliates in California routinely receive more taxpayer money than they need and put the excess in the bank," Sedlak said. "It should be required to pay it back." Sedlak is the head of STOPP International and he recently reviewed Planned Parenthood's financial...

Civil rights attorneys are on a national crusade to force Medicaid to pay for abortions when the mother's health is in jeopardy. Monday, they took that years-long fight to the Georgia Supreme Court. Currently, Georgia women who have abortions must foot the bill unless their life is in danger. So doctors at health clinics across Georgia are seeing poor women who can't afford abortions risk their own health by continuing dangerous pregnancies, argued New York-based attorney Louise Melling, director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Reproductive Freedom Project. The ACLU filed a lawsuit in Fulton County in 2003 on behalf...

It appears that Rudy Giuliani, intelligent man that he is, understands the damage he did to his efforts to connect with conservatives in his CNN interview yesterday. As Kathryn Jean Lopez posted at The Corner, Giuliani has started to climb down from his support of funding abortions with tax dollars: MAYOR GIULIANI: "What I said yesterday is what I've been saying throughout, I think in the last number of months publicly and privately for quite some time, which is I'm against abortion, I hate it, I wish there never was an abortion and I would council a woman have an...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA), a candidate in contention for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination, has signed the Presidential Taxpayer Protection Pledge sponsored by Americans for Tax Reform (ATR). The Pledge commits signers to “oppose any and all efforts to increase the marginal income tax rates for individuals and/or businesses … and oppose any net reduction or elimination of deductions and credits, unless matched dollar for dollar by further reducing tax rates." Rep. Hunter signed the pledge Jan. 30th, 2007 as a presidential candidate expressing his strong commitment to free-market principles. Rep. Duncan also signed and kept the...

WASHINGTON - President Bush said Tuesday that Americans will now be able to "Google their tax dollars," as he signed a law to create an online database for tracking about $1 trillion in government spending on grants and contracts. The law is aimed preventing wasteful spending by opening the federal budget to greater scrutiny. The information is already available, but the Web site would make it easier for those who aren't experts on the process to see how taxpayer dollars are being spent. "Information on earmarks will no longer be hidden deep in the pages of a federal budget bill,...

New Mexico governor and presumptive presidential candidate Bill Richardson recently joined the ranks of governors who have proposed significant changes to their state’s Medicaid systems. Starting with passage of Mitt Romney’s groundbreaking and controversial universal-coverage plan in April, states from West Virginia to Idaho and from Florida to Maine (to name just a few) are taking steps to improve care while cutting costs. Richardson, however, despite his national image as a “moderate,” has taken a different path, namely the path of least resistance. Rather than making tough decisions and prioritizing as most other states are doing, Richardson plans to leverage...

Taxpayers who have fallen behind on their paperwork -- way, way behind -- have a $2 billion incentive to get caught up. The IRS owes more than $2 billion to more than 1.7 million people who never filed tax returns for 2002. Half could get checks worth more than $570. To collect the refunds, taxpayers must file a 2002 tax return before this year's April 17 filing deadline. The IRS urges taxpayers to check their records and seize the opportunity to claim their money. The IRS gives people three years to claim a refund before it becomes the property of...

MINNEAPOLIS - The U.S. Census Bureau reports that overall taxes in Minnesota are high, but the taxman has a light touch on smokes, gambling and booze. The state has the fourth heaviest tax burden in the United States, but so-called sin taxes are less than the national average. The overall ranking is because incomes are higher in Minnesotan than most other states and because Minnesota relies more heavily on a progressive state income tax. Nan Madden of the nonprofit Minnesota Budget Project says it's no surprise that sin taxes are lower-than-average. She says when the national economy slowed down in...

The taxpayer advocate at the Internal Revenue Service told Congress last week that since 2001, the I.R.S. has labeled as fraudulent the tax returns of 1.6 million people and has frozen their refunds without notice, although most appear to have done nothing wrong. Overwhelmingly, the taxpayers are poor and are simply applying for a break created for them.

This is a just a little story about something that happened today in my classroom. It wasn’t a big deal, actually, just something that happened to bring into focus the problem our nation is facing. You see, we are told that our children are the future. Well, I’m a teacher in an inner-city middle school in Los Angeles, and I have seen the future. It’s not pretty. Let me clarify a little: when I say inner-city, I should probably qualify it a little. My school gets students from the Armenian section, a few from the nicer areas of Los Feliz…...

Please sign this petition to audit $9 Billion in Cdn gov't funds to help remove the shackles placed on the Cdn taxpayer by France's puppet gov't in ottawa http://www.petitiononline.com/cdsmith/petition.html

SCOTS taxpayers had to fork out £445,000 to monitor a vicious rapist dumped here from England, it was revealed yesterday. Police in Cambridgeshire put Steven Beech on an £80 flight to Aberdeen after he said he wanted a quiet life by the sea. Beech was so dangerous that he had to be watched round the clock throughout the 16 months he stayed in Scotland. And Aberdeen Council figures, released under the Freedom of Information Act, have now revealed that the bill came to £445,058.51, or £912 per day. Beech has 115 convictions. He raped a 70-year-old vicarage housekeeper in London...

Asylum rejects cost taxpayer £300m By Philip Johnston, Home Affairs Editor (Filed: 19/07/2005) The taxpayer picked up a bill of more than £300 million last year to support failed asylum seekers who should have been removed from the country, spending watchdogs report today. The National Audit Office says most of this sum was spent looking after an estimated 18,500 families with dependent children who are entitled to continuing support until they leave the country. A further £285 million was spent to support the voluntary repatriation of some failed asylum seekers or to enforce the deportation of others. The number removed...

Please sign this petition to help end corruption by the Canadian government. The Canadian government has put nearly $9 billion into "foundations" that are beyond the reach of the auditor general. Given the corruption that exists in other government programs that ARE in sight of the auditor general we must recognize the likelihood that these funds may be subject to government misuse too. Please sign this petition urging Paul Martin to open these foundations to the auditor general... http://www.petitiononline.com/cdsmith/petition.html