Will the bush league activities of Canada's Greatest Government (TM) never cease?
One day the head of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission is accused of playing politics (Harper calls her a Liberal hack), the next day the head of AECL is gone, then Minister (I build houses!) Lunn fires the head of the CNSC hours before she was supposed to testify on the Hill. Now three weeks after the fact the head of technology at AECL claims that CNSC never told AECL to upgrade the power back up on the NRU. This is after the AECL claimed that they told CNSC that they did the back ups as requested; apparently lying as they spoke, cause they did not do the back up power connections. I suppose that the new Chairman of the CNSC shoud be called a Conservative hack since he was appointed by Harper!
If you are confused; join the crowd! Is this anyway to run a government and especially a nuclear industry?
Can you say investigation?
Showing posts with label drugs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label drugs. Show all posts
Monday, January 21, 2008
Monday, January 7, 2008
Cure to the drug problem
The Ontario provincial government has found a cure for drug addiction. Give the addict more drugs!
The Government announced that they will fund a "needle exchange programme" for IV drug users, a program that Ottawa councillors rejected. The province and the special interest groups that lobby them see the issue as a public health one and therefore see free needles as curbing the spread of HIV/AIDS. The city, on the other hand, sees the issue as public security; the drug trade and user population are disproportionately involved in crimes against person and property in this region.
Who is right? Nobody and both! It is a public health issue and a public security issue all in one.
You can't have a safe-site programme without a rehabilitation program. It is akin to trying to cure alcoholics by giving them free booze. Without treatment the alcoholic will just continue until she/he dies. Maybe that is the idea?
If the province wants to help addicts, let them go all the way instead of taking tiny steps. A drug rehab programme and centre is mandatory to achieve the goals of both the province and the city.
The Government announced that they will fund a "needle exchange programme" for IV drug users, a program that Ottawa councillors rejected. The province and the special interest groups that lobby them see the issue as a public health one and therefore see free needles as curbing the spread of HIV/AIDS. The city, on the other hand, sees the issue as public security; the drug trade and user population are disproportionately involved in crimes against person and property in this region.
Who is right? Nobody and both! It is a public health issue and a public security issue all in one.
You can't have a safe-site programme without a rehabilitation program. It is akin to trying to cure alcoholics by giving them free booze. Without treatment the alcoholic will just continue until she/he dies. Maybe that is the idea?
If the province wants to help addicts, let them go all the way instead of taking tiny steps. A drug rehab programme and centre is mandatory to achieve the goals of both the province and the city.
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