Bill C-38 passed Senate -Budget bill should be called the Lobbyists’ Bill, it’s a gift for oil and gas lobbyists.

"Just in time for the Canada Day long weekend, the Senate ended this session of Parliament by approving the government's omnibus budget bill — which promptly received royal assent — making changes to the environmental review laws and social assistance programs.

By a vote of 49-31, Bill C-38 passed through the Senate Friday afternoon, with the Tories using their majority to get approval for the government's budget implementation bill."

source: http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Budget+bill+passes+Senate+Parliament+closes+summer/6861980/story.html

Budget bill should be called the Lobbyists’ Bill, it’s a gift for oil and gas lobbyists
source: http://www.hilltimes.com/pre/column/Political%20Reporting#.T-MA52KmPSc.facebook

Budget Bill References:

The omnibus Budget Bill C-38, includes among other things:

-Allows livestock that have died due to sickness or injury prior to being slaughterd to be butchered & sold to the public anyway; this will breed inhumane animal conditions.

-Eliminates the national spy agency CSIS watchdog;

-Allows American agents with the DEA and FBI to operate in Canadian territory;

-Moves the age of retirement to age 67, as if age 65 wasn't old enough;

-Makes it difficult for people to receive EI, and if they do become unemployed, to accept wages as low as 70% of their true potential and in fields that their training is not utilized in;

-Eliminates regulation over freshwater waterways, for the sake of industrial potential (eliminating environmental regulations meant to protect - thus opening the door to major oil pipelines.)

-Eliminates regulation in rare fish habitat.

Sources:

On fish and pipelines: http://www.trurodaily.com/News/Local/2012-06-03/article-2995061/Residents-unhappy-with-Bill-C-38,-picket-outside-of-MPs-Truro-office/1

On Processing Dead animals: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/05/15/ottawa-to-allow-slaughter_n_1518028.html

On FBI in Canada: http://404systemerror.com/does-your-mp-know-c-38-allows-fbi-agents-to-operate-in-canada/

Factsheet on everything else:
http://www.jeancrowder.ca/post/federal-government-budget-implementation-bill-c-38-factsheet-and-resources-may-2012

Canada's Budget Officer warns cons secret $5.2 billion in cuts may lead to Economic Crisis
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yx81rhx_jKo

June 24, 2012- Harper Government secrecy on $5.2 billion in budget cuts could lay groundwork for future economic crisis, Canada's chief parliamentary budget officer Kevin Page warns.

Harper's criminal government has kept secret on $5.2 billion in government-wide cuts which could lead to an economic crisis in Canada, says Canada's chief parliamentary budget officer Kevin Page. Page’s office issued a legal opinion that harper's conservatives who have not been transparent on budget cuts are
BREAKING THE LAW.

The latest source of contention: Page’s repeated and intensifying attempts to access information about how departments and agencies plan to implement $5.2 billion in cuts set out in the federal budget. Of the 84 departments queried, 64 did not share the requested details. Last week Page’s office issued a legal opinion that those departments and agencies are breaking the law.

Source: http://www.globalnews.ca/government+secrecy/6442667368/story.html


June 23, 2012- Stephen Harper created his own worst enemy in the parliamentary budget officer

The Harper government’s refusal to cooperate with the parliamentary budget officer is a disgrace.
source: http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/1216127--stephen-harper-created-his-own-worst-enemy-in-the-parliamentary-budget-officer

June 18, 2012- Tories breaking law by holding onto budget information, lawyer says
source:http://www.globalnews.ca/tories+breaking+law+by+holding+onto+budget+information+lawyer+says/6442663696/story.html