Letter to Governor General

His Excellency the right Honorable David Johnston

Governor General of Canada

Rideau Hall

1 Sussex Drive

Ottawa Ontario  K1A 0A1

Monday, February 27, 2012

Dear Sir

Like you I was born in Canada and have lived 69 years in Canada. I implore you, no I demand that you dissolve parliament and call an election to rid Canadians of this illegitimate disaster of a government. In all my years I have never seen such blatant disrespect and outright distain for the laws and traditions of Canada by any government. 

You pledged to the Canadian people when you became Governor General that you would Quote 
“ be a stalwart defender of Canada’s heritage, institutions and people, I want to believe your sincerity in that pledge.  

The Canada I was so proud of is disappearing at an alarming rate. 

The canada I loved was a respected world peace keeping country not a pathetic doppelganger extension of American gunboat diplomacy, the Canada I loved was a world respected democracy not a country that has fraudulent corrupt American style elections, where the party’s and big money are allowed to slander, lie, cheat, buy their way into power, and get a majority government with the support of 16 percent of the population.  

We obviously need a new proportional voting system but as we can all see most people are so disgusted with the present system and the resulting government’s they produce people don’t even bother to vote any more. 

The Canada I loved had respect for citizens rights and freedoms they didn’t enter into agreements with paranoid bankrupt country’s and cultures like America that effectively strip and subvert all our Canadian guaranteed freedoms, with obscenities such as the Patriot act and the draconian American national defense authorization act. 

The canada I loved had respect for Canadians privacy and did not have the need for unrestrained spying on honest people’s privacy without proper warrants. 

The Canada I loved was respected around the world as progressive world leader in all areas even if we bit off a little more than we could chew at times at least we tried to move the world in the right direction and were loved and respected for that quality. Canadian’s were at the forefront on most issues all the way from  human rights, democracy, science and the environment, and the natural world, now it is all about pleasing big business period.

Canadians don’t even rate a seat on the UN Security council anymore and I can understand why, they don’t even want us at the table anymore.

The Canada I loved had more lofty goals than wanting to make the penal system Canada’s biggest growth industry to rival America as to the percentage of Canadians we put in jail, once again mimicking a tragically failed American doctrine, suppressing everything from science to the freedom of the Canadian people.  

This government in no way represents the vast majority of Canadian’s, in fact they do not even attempt to hide the fact that they are a pure and simple dictatorship only interested in forcing their Americanized right wing ideology on Canadians whether they like it or not. 

Canadians deserve better, but Canadian’s have been complacent as is their very nature somehow believing this could never happen to us, after all this is Canada but we have allowed our democratic system to deteriorate to the point that it is literally no longer a democracy and quite likely not even capable of producing a true democracy under the present system, Mr. Johnston you could be Canada’s only hope to survive as anything but a subjugated slave resource territory for America.

You might want to reread “The Devils Advocate by Taylor Caldwell” and just replace a leftwing dictatorship with a rightwing dictatorship, it rings uncannily familiar.

Sincerely Wayne Clark

PS to this day October 13 2013 I have never had a reply to this letter to the Governor General not a say nothing form letter or even a F--k you. Canadians have to get away from this Royal bullshit it is a relic of a bygone age it is redundant and useless as a check to excessive government power and illegal government actions and needs to be replaced with a proper and effective check to an out of control government.

NeoCon Agenda

It seems the Gordon Campbell agenda of privatizing all profits and socializing costs is not a thing of the past, it would seem privatize at any cost is still alive and well in BC.  The Clark government obviously hasn’t learned any lessons on how to properly govern a democratic province and are once again about to make major changes to BC without a proper mandate from the voters of BC.  The hundreds of millions of liquor board profits that usually go to social programs, etc. will instead go into the sweet smelling pockets of a chosen few fat cats. 
You might ask who is going to make up all that money when liquor profits are privatized ( any guesses ) let’s us not forget, private businesses pay minimal taxes in BC. 

The harsh reality is that yet more workers will lose half their income and drop unceremoniously out of the middle class and the taxes from their reduced incomes will drop drastically also. 

This money shall be made up one of three ways, first it will be taken from other cash cows such as ICBC or BC Hydro and guess who is going to pay more for these services as a result, don’t forget the Lieberals already siphoned off a billion dollars from ICBC last year to pay for their financial ineptitude, not counting all the extra taxes they got from the HST. 

The second way will be to simply raise your income taxes.

The third way these shortfalls will be dealt with is simply by cutting social or other programs these profits go to support, period.

If you think that liquor will be cheaper when it is privatized better think again, the fact is that private liquor stores already pay 16 percent less for their liquor than government liquor stores do and they pay their employes about one-half what government liquor store employees earn, that is why that tip jar is on the counter because like all minimum wage jobs you the customer are expected to supplement their income, and I have yet to see anything cheaper in a private liquor store.

This like the HST is definitely an election issue and if the government insists on doing it an election should be called to get a proper mandate from the people of BC.

Wayne Clark

Mystery of Main Steam Media

Re: This is huge news MR News Feb 17/2012

Cheryl your point is well taken, but I am sure the reason is no real mystery to you or anyone else. 
The mainstream media is the stepchild of the 1 percent and it is more a means of steering the debate than furnishing the unwashed masses with relevant information, for instance if you were to just read the mainstream media you would think the occupy movement is over and done even though none of the issues it was about have been addressed, in fact it has gotten decidedly worse on all fronts, with our very civil rights and personal freedoms now being assailed on every front. 

As you point out is it any wonder why the government now wants to control social media and the internet as well, they have seen the power of these communication tools unfold around the world over the last few years, china has already dealt with it and now it is our turn, big brother is here and we have seen his face, and all felt King Stevens oppressive hand every day of his rule, especially for the last few years since getting a majority.

Quote Steven Harper 
“ You won’t recognize Canada when I am through with it ”. 
Those dismal words are the only words that have ever come out of his mouth that I truly believe he meant, he is dismantling the Canada that we were all so proud of and the rest of the world not only respected but envied brick by brick. 

Wayne Clark
Maple Ridge

Peaceful exercise of Power

Is anyone other than the usual out to lunch right-wing apologists surprised that there is violence in most serious protests. First it is usually the government that either uses violence or instigates violence using their imbedded agents in the protest movement to discredit the movement. 

This is standard procedure all the way back to the Luddite revolt and resulting mayhem of 1811-1812 in Lancashire England which Samuel Whitbread an MP said of the event Quote "As to the persons who had blackened their faces, and disfigured themselves for the purposes of concealment, and had attended the meeting on Deanmoor, near Manchester, it turned out that ten of them were spies sent out by the magistrates... These spies were the very ringleaders of the mischief, and incited the people to acts which they would not otherwise have thought of. [Parliamentary Debates, lst Series, Vol. 23, Col.1000, (l8l2)”. 

This is the same tried and true tactics used to this day to corrupt demonstrations, so even if it were possible to get all demonstrators to remain nonviolent there will always be government or corporate fifth-columnists to instigate violence and property damage to discredit the protesters message, such as took place at the G20 where these infiltrators even proposed using Molotov cocktails and the police were ordered to stand down to allow the maximum damage that could then be blamed on the protesters. 

Here is a perfect example of a flawless nonviolent civilized by the letter of the law protest, the anti-HST referendum that had the backing of 91 percent of the population of BC initially and even after relentless government lies, threats, misdirection not to mention $20 million dollars of tax and corporate brainwashing still lost  to the anti-HST people in a referendum vote. I guess you would have to say 

“ so much for a legal, peaceful, democratic protest as the government still collects the hated HST tax and will continue to do so until the next election and probably beyond”. 

So much for the government listening to the voters of a peaceful democratic exercise in grass roots democracy and the obvious contempt they have for the people they work for. 


Sad to say but the only thing governments react to is violence.

Wayne Clark

Cassandra revelation

Re: entity is threatening environment The News Jan 27/2012

Mr. Emberly thank you for your well researched, informative article some people reading it will undoubtedly call it bombastic paranoia or some similar drivel, but the reality is even more sinister than pictured and in my opinion is the most immediate clear and present danger that humans face at this time. 

If you google just one name from Mr. Emberly’s article Monsanto you will find it reads like a James Bond film complete with giant evil corporations trying to control and corrupt the worlds food supply, completely oblivious to the consequences of their actions on the very earth we grow our food and to the effects that has on our food supply and ultimately the people that consume it. The consequences are many innocent deaths and sick, not counting 125,000 Indian farmers that have committed suicide by swallowing Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide because Monsanto went around India buying up all the traditional seeds and burning them forcing the farmers to buy Monsanto's GM seed's and as a result been consumed in debt and bankruptcy. 
Canadian scientist's were bribed with one and two million dollars each, threats, intimidation, fraud, abuse of the legal and justice system, buying whole governments such as America, India, in Indonesia at least 140 government officials were bribed. 

Monsanto is responsible for 56 super-site highly polluted areas including the worse super-site in America, Anniston Alabama that they had to pay out $700 million in restitution. 

These products or unreasonable food facsimiles are all the way from literally poisons to non to low nutrient fill, empty calories at best, poison at worst.

This is a company that uses the most heavy handed predatory business practices imaginable and states that "our job is not to make sure products are safe but to sell product, it is the FDAs job to make sure the product is safe”, which is very scary when the FDA and many politicians are in your pocket. 

The simple fact is that “YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT" and just because it looks like a potato or a steak or a glass of milk doesn’t mean it will supply your body with the proper nutrients to sustain or grow a healthy body, or not give you some strange new disease or make you sterile, 30 percent of the people that consume GM foods will have an allergic reaction to one degree or another. 

No wonder the American government doesn’t want public health care.

Quote from George Wald, Nobel Laureate in Medicine. He said for genetic engineering - "The results will be essentially new organisms, self-perpetuating and hence permanent, once created, they cannot be recalled" and "Up to now, living organisms have evolved very slowly and new forms have had plenty of time to settle in. Now whole proteins will be transposed overnight into A wholly new associations, with consequences no one can foretell, either for the host organism, or their neighbours” unquote.
Powerful words worth pondering.

Thank god that Europe has had the sense to stay away from this biological nightmare, to bad we can’t say the same about Canada. 

But good news boy and girls all these wonderful Franken food products will soon be available at your local Canadian grocery store as soon as bill C-18 becomes law and Mr. Harper signs the bill to enter into the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).

Wayne Clark

HST TREACHERY

Why Christy Clark would put Kevin Falcon in charge of cleaning up the HST fiasco or for that matter anything else is beyond me, first he truly believes that the voters of BC must be punished for rejecting the HST. 

It seems Mr. Falcon has accomplished what he set out to do in typical NeoCon fashion, first 

the Lieberals can continue to collect their ill gotten spoils for another 1 1/2 years or until the next election and then pass the whole mess to the next government which is unlikely to be the Lieberals, if it is the NDP they will get hammered with a 1.6 billion screw you present and then the Lieberals can commence with the  usual, how financially incompetent the NDP are rhetoric. 

This man is a pathetic joke he snivelles about a difficult protracted negotiation about the HST and the truth is he didn’t even bother returning any calls from Mr. Flaherty for 3 weeks and in true Conservative form instead of dealing with his mess he just passed the problem to the next government he has learned his trade well from his mentor Gordon Campbell. 

This so reminds me of the mess George Bush and the Republicans passed on to the Democrats and then without a blink shifted the blame for the whole mess to the Democrats and Americans being such instant gratification fools totally accepted the right wing rhetoric and immediately vote back in the incompetent fools that caused the problem in the first place. 

It is clear Mr. Falcon has no intention of acceding to the voters of BCs wishes to get rid of the HST, he is working diligently at this very minute to replace the HST with his very own reasonable facsimile of the hated tax it will be the new improved even more revenue neutral SST or Synchronized Sales Tax.

I can only hope that the voters of BC are not quite that stupid. 

Wayne Clark