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Canadian court has 'no jurisdiction' to overturn NAFTA ruling in Digby quarry case, lawyers argue
CBC.ca
Free Trade Agreement, which allows foreign companies to sue governments over unfair treatment.
Bilcon is now seeking more than $500 million in damages. The case is seen by some as a test of
sovereignty
on whether Canada has the right to enforce its own environmental rules on foreign investors.
�Big Five� in Alberta�s oilpatch suspected of sitting on a $2 trillion liability
Is tongue rolling down to genes?
A tale with a surprising twist
NAFTA: A Primer for the Montreal Round
BELOW(30)(30)(30)(30)(30)(30)(30)(30)(30)(30)(30)30)(30)(30)(30)(30)(30)Subject: Our forgotten casualties
Canadians pride themselves on their compassion and care for the less fortunate in our society, but is that more myth than reality?
We pay homage to the brave women who spearheaded the emancipation movement, but we focus on women acquiring the right to vote. Emancipation was far broader as it required the government to recognize females as �persons� with all the attendant rights and privileges. That was really the first step down the long road to female and male equality.
Since then, there have been several skirmishes such as �equal rights� and �equal pay for equal work� that are not yet settled. Along the way, we have given up respect for one another. We are less polite and less willing to deal with one another respectfully. We don�t respect those we consider enemies.
Push leads to shove and actions create reactions. We have shot off in many wrong directions and fought the wrong battles because we have drifted away from the principle that each person in our society is entitled to respect from others. As an example, an employer would not pay a woman less than a man doing the same job if he respected the woman.
Now, we are dealing with casualties of sexual assault and harassment who have remained silent for years. It started with accusations of misconduct by very high-profile men and is spreading rapidly. The storm has moved from the entertainment industry into politics and is spreading into business.
Prime Minister Trudeau�s claims to be a feminist and his strident cries for promoting women in politics and business are an attempt to change society without creating the tools to do that. Promoting a woman because she is a woman is as wrong as promoting a man because he is a man. Individuals bring a skill-set, experience and thinking capacity to the table. They need to be measured by the abilities, experience and enthusiasm they bring for consideration without gender bias.
Some men and women enjoy the level of occupation they occupy. They do not want a promotion for any number of valid reasons. They have outside interests they wish to continue to pursue, of family obligations they value, and a promotion would interfere with their pursuits. Others don�t want increased responsibility, in particular, the responsibility to supervising and evaluating others.
Others, both male and female, impatiently fret over opportunities for advancement but lack the knowledge and experience to qualify. Finally, we must deal with the pyramid structure of most organizations. There are fewer people at each level of the organization, which limits promotions to those levels. Our governments have solved the problems by creating a massive upper and middle management system. That works so well that every government is deeply in debt.
We need a reset on how we interact with one another and how we assess a person for employment and promotions.
Victims of sexual misconduct are not the only ones we are leaving behind. We are only beginning to come to grips with victims of the horrors that our military personnel and first responders are forced to face. It is recent that we have recognised PTSD as an illness that plagues these people. We are dreadfully short of treatment facilities and specialists. We have ignored the problem for too long and are poorly prepared to deal with it.
We have a mental health problem that is reaching crisis proportions because symptoms are ignored, and we again lack the treatment facilities and specialists needed to allow a person to regain good mental health. We can�t keep ignoring significant social problems and hope they will go away.
Homelessness is talked about endlessly, but we don�t create solutions to the problem. We are making minute headway with some isolated programs, but our overall response is unacceptable.
Our veterans are facing diminished compensation for injuries and reduced pensions which is intolerable.
Our Indigenous people are suffering continued lip-service to their real problems, but minimal action in addressing their issues. That is not tolerable.
Female sexual abuse is coming out of the closet, and again we are caught flat-footed. Victims need support, but we are not moving to make that support available other than through scattered NGOs who do their best to help, but most are overwhelmed with victims. More importantly, we have no venue in which to bring a perpetrator to justice in a sexual harassment case. When our government moves to create safety from retaliation to females who speak out about abuse and provide a venue to deal with abusers, we will know they are paying more than lip service to protecting victims.
Perhaps our Prime Minster will pause in his efforts to fix the world, come home, put on his work clothes and focus his attention on solving real internal problems. He may be able to get away from them but we can�t.
John Feldsted
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