Concerns about Canadian Law Enforcement

The International Anti-counterfeiting Coalition (IACC) based in the United States wants to add Canada as a priority foreign country to investigate Canada's lack of copyright piracy enforcement. A recent Globe and Mail article states: "The IACC also despaired that the RCMP is surrounded by government agencies and authorities unwilling to do anything positive about enforcement."

This isn't just about international copyright protection. The lack of domestic enforcement of our own laws because our law enforcement agencies don't want to act is stifling. Why is that? Is it because they are surrounded by government agencies and authorities unwilling to do anything positive about enforcement? This bothers a lot of Canadians including this author.

The federal Liberal Party cons are using the Gomery Inquisition as a smoke and mirror show to achieve the appearance of justice. While the commission's mandate is used to collect facts to ensure the system that spawned it is changed, it doesn't necessarily mean indictments will be made once those facts come out.

The Liberal Party is playing up on the fact that most Canadians don't understand the process and believe justice will be served by criminal charges being laid at the end. Of course, it will be the because the "hands of the Liberals accomplished it". If any further indictments occur, it will be at the hands of all parties that are being pressed for accountability because their constituents demand it. The Liberals don't want to acknowledge their responsibility and are eager to blame whomever they can to take the heat off themselves.

Warren Kinsella muses on his website:

"The sponsorship program was the right thing to do. Was it properly managed? No. Obviously not. That's why Jean Chrétien personally called in the Auditor General, and then the RCMP. (And those two phone calls, by the way, aren't the actions of a guy who is trying to cover up anything.)

Those of us who loudly opposed the creation of the Sponsorship Inquiry did so because we felt, one, there was nothing Justice John Gomery could do better, or weren't doing already. And, two, the inquiry's rules of evidence would open the door to an avalanche of unproven hearsay and innuendo. We were right. The result? The reputation of federalism Liberal or Conservative has been destroyed in the Province of Québec for a decade. "

Hearsay and innuendo? If the Gomery Inquisition is just hearsay and innuendo then the facts that Justice Gomery is basing his decision on are ghosts. Therefore, according to Kinsella's musings, the Gomery Commission has no value. He thinks the R.C.M.P could do a better job. Why is that?

The R.C.M.P itself has told the Quebec leadership that they don't believe they can investigate for corruption in Quebec due to a conflict of interest because they are also accused of wrongdoing in the sponsorship scandal. Does Kinsella know something that we don't? Was he so sure that the R.C.M.P would do a half-assed job or nothing at all so any charges will be quietly brushed under the rug?

It's the Attorney General of Canada that has to act to press criminal charges. The Minister of Justice and the Attorney General of Canada is a member of the Liberal Party so why would he be expected to press criminal charges against his own party members? We are talking about the administration of law and justice, which is expected to be upheld by the Attorney General. How can that be done if there is a conflict of interest of such a magnitude hovering over justice and the appointment policies of judges like the stench of slag over Stelco?