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June 2004 A
special experimental issue of the APM-RAM paper, please send
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Before you vote
Voting is a right and an obligation
It is your right and duty to vote in any election, it is your
right to choose your representatives who are going to speak in
your name, and it is a moral obligation to help in shaping the
future of our country.
We try to illustrate to you the positions of the main four
parties not from their misleading election promises but rather
from their real positions as seen through the last 4 years.
We are not recommending any party or any candidate, we
recommend that you read, listen and choose. Your decision to
vote for any candidate or whether you participate or not, is
affecting the future of all of us. Therefore, you are invited
to choose the best for a better future for all of us and for
our children.
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Bloc Québécois |
Conservatives |
Liberals |
New Democratic Party (NDP) |
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Undemocratic Laws (Security Certificate, Bill C-36,
proposed Bill C-18),
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Opposed undemocratic laws and Pushed for sunset clause for
Bill C-36 |
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Supported Security Certificate, Bill C-36, proposed Bill
C-18. |
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Issued the so-called anti-terrorist laws which legalize
the use of secret evidence and proposed a law that could
strip Canadian citizenship under the secret evidence act. |
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Opposed undemocratic laws and Pushed for sunset clause for
Bill C-36 |
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Media concentration and free speech
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Limit ownership in media corporations |
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Generally supportive of large corporations
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Does not see a problem with media concentration
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Calls for limiting the ownership in media corporations |
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Health Care:
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Federal government should give up the idea of a Canada
wide Healthcare standard
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Doesn’t object to the idea of a two-tier healthcare system |
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No mechanism to protect the public system and health
funding became less than what it was 12 years ago! |
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Believes in the importance of a Canada wide standard and
one tier public healthcare system. |
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Education
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Quebec should decide on its own education system.
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Not ready to increase spending on education. |
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Little energy directed towards the issue of education and
there were no increase in education funding. |
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Increase educational budget and help repay student loans. |
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War on Iraq and the United Nations
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Did not support intervention in Iraq without UN approval.
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Supported the war on Iraq and called for participation
with the USA with or without UN approval. |
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Refused to participate in the USA’s war on Iraq, but
allowed individuals participation. |
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Opposed the war on Iraq with or without UN approval. |
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Space militarization program “Star Wars” |
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Against participation in the space militarization program
“Star Wars”. |
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Supports participation in the USA space militarization
program “Star Wars”. |
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Plans to participate in the USA space militarization
program “Star Wars” . |
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Against participation in the space militarization program
“Star Wars”. |
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Palestine
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Called for Canada to act in conformity with its own
politics of refusing to recognize Israeli control over
occupied lands and concerned about the USA denying the
Palestinians the right of return. |
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The most pro-Israel (Pro-Zionist) federal party in Canada
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Recognizes the right of the Palestinians to a state but
without pressuring the occupier (Israel) and refuses to
refer the apartheid wall issue to the international court
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Supports the Palestinians’ right for self-determination
and their right of return and opposes Israeli practices as
well as the wall |
Samples of your candidates positions on the Palestinian issue
Why the Palestinian issue?
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The worst human tragedy in the recent history is the
Palestinian issue.
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It is the issue that is completely neglect in our media and in
the election campaign for a government that should represent
us internationally.
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Canadian are the people that start the campaign against the
apartheid regime in South Africa.
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Israel's justice minister, a Holocaust survivor, May 24, 2004,
attacked Israeli on the ingoing demolishing of Palestinian
homes and said “I did think, when I saw a picture on the TV of
an old woman on all fours in the ruins of her home looking
under some floor tiles for her medicines - I did think, 'What
would I say if it were my grandmother?' “http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/24/international/middleeast/24gaza.html”
Zionism
represents injustice
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Palestinian people have been living since 1947 in refugees
camps, while Zionists enjoy living on the homes and lands
they stall from them.
This woman is from Rafah, Palestine, this is all what was
left for her after the Zionist destroyed her home. Her
home is among hundred of others destroyed in just one week
in may 2004.
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Liberal candidate Mr. Jacques Saada stated in the parlement:
[…] As a teenager or young adult and a member of a Zionist
organization, the “hachomer
hatzair”,
the young guard, I was a volunteer during the 1967 six day
war, and I lived in a kibbutz […]
Mr. Jacques Saada (Brossard_La Prairie, Lib.)
From the Canadian House of Commons Debates “Volume 137, Number
164, 1st session, 37th parliament official report on Tuesday,
April 9, 2002”
http://www.parl.gc.ca/37/1/parlbus/chambus/house/debates/164_2002-04-09/han164_2150-e.htm
In the same hand Mr. Saada was one of 13 Liberal
parliamentarians who asked the CRTC to deny a broadcast
license to Al-Jazeera, the Qatar-based satellite news channel,
because of its anti-Israeli content. He was also part of a
Canada-Israel Committee-sponsored parliamentary mission to
Israel in 2002
Bloc Quebecois candidate Mr. Marcel Lussier stands for:
Pressure from the international community should concentrate
on ending the Israeli occupation[…] nothing should be
excluded, including the deployment of international forces […]
the occupation is the fundamental cause behind the crisis[…]
It is not up to Israel to determine if they will or will not
respect UN Security Council resolutions.
Mr. Marcel Lussier position paper on several issues
including Palestine, May 2004
NDP candidate Mrs. Nadia Alexan is committed to the party
Platform:
Ensuring Canada plays a leading role with like-minded nations
in working for peace and justice in the Middle East within a
framework of respect for UN resolutions and international law,
including the right of both Israelis and Palestinians to live
in peaceful co-existence in viable, independent states,
negotiated, agreed-upon borders, no settlements remaining in
the Palestinian state, an end to the Israeli occupation of
Palestinian land, an end to all killings of innocent
civilians, and an international peacekeeping presence.
From the NDP Plate form:
Conservative candidate Mr.
Robert Nicolas:
We, the APM-RAM were not able to find a clear position from
the party or the Candidate in regard to this issue.
Never again, please vote with conscious
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