Canada

That place from which I ponder the global peace.

May 2015

All month long … The Great Granny Gathering. You are invited. May 2015. Gloucester County. New Brunswick. Canada.

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This is recycled from an out-of-date publication. I thought I might make prints and offer them for sale as a fund-raiser for the Great Granny Gathering 2015. Anyone? Comments?

Hmmm …
Fancy Hats anyone? I would take commissions for wild hats to wear to the Great Granny Gathering in 2015. First come, first served. Price to be negotiated. I charge by the hour. You supply a recycled hat that I will transform into an original creation using whatever recycled supplies I have on hand. No two hats will be identical.

Senate … Too Late?

First Woman Senator in Canada or would that be the  First Woman Speaker of the House?

These adjustments do take time. Ah but what is 10 years, more or less? What can possibly go wrong in ten years? … or 50 years … What difference does 50 years make?  Well for one thing the Old Grey Mare is seldom very grey anymore.  … then again … Does anyone really care about their colour? “If reformed wisely … ” And if not ? Imagine … All that money … 10 Senate salaries … all those perks … How much? … Must be considerable … All that money saved that would then be freed up to go into the new GAI-Canada FUND … Oh didn’t someone ask where the money was to go if the Senate melted away? Ten in New Brunswick alone. Imagine how many GAI incomes that would cover! Get the Senators working in it? Form a standing Senate Committee to determine how many potential GAI dollars would be freed up if the Senate were to be abolished? While they are at it the Senators could also decide on the dollar amount of the individual GAI salary that would be disbursed, which incidently would be the amount that the Senator would be entitled to once there were no more Senate jobs. Of course the Senators might just decide to keep the Senate going as a volunteer organization. That is, after all what some people are suggesting, that anyone receiving a GAI cheque turn their spare time over to community service.

Are any senators speaking out for Canadian people?

Senator Segal

New Brunswick Senators

Senator Day

Senator Kinsella

Senator Lovelace

Senator McIntyre

Senator Mockler

Senator Poirier

Senator Ringuette

Senator Robichaud

Senator Stewart Olson

Senator Wallace

Almost fifty years have passed since 1968 when the The Senate of Canada put together the Special Senate Committee on Poverty.

 

Senators who served on the Special Senate Committee on Poverty

The Honourable David A. Croll, Chairman, Ontario

The Honourable Edgar E. Fournier, Vice-Chairman, New Brunswick

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