The RCMP has confirmed that the complaint was lodged March 7 by a lawyer representing the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU).
Larry Kowalchuk said on behalf of the union in Regina that he took the action in response to long-standing concerns that surplus EI funds are being diverted to uses other than providing unemployment benefits.
Sheila Fraser, the federal auditor general, denounced the former Liberal government repeatedly for running EI surpluses beyond what was needed to meet payments to the unemployed, even during the most difficult economic times. Federal officials say the outside limit for this purpose would be a maximum surplus of about $15 billion.
Despite accusing Liberals of using the fund as a "partisan piggy bank," the Conservatives are now controlling a much bigger EI surplus as they embark on an unprecedented multi-billion-dollar spending spree in preparation for an election.
http://www.nupge.ca/news_2007/n09ma07c.htm
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And exactlly who do you suggest to have accountability, Mary? <br />
It is the job of the citizens to be vigilant on this and other topics of democracy!!<br />
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<a href="http://www.quotedb.com/quotes2283">http://www.quotedb.com/quotes2283</a>. The price of Freedom is eternal vigilance - Thomas Jefferson<br />
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That each and every one of us has either dropped their guard of never had it up in the first place allows what is bleated about.<br />
Bringing attention to these and other issues is admirable, as far as it goes. The real work though is the action required to establish the changes to actually HAVE a democracy, and few have the stomach for that.<br />
I have been beaten up too many time to put my ass on the line for lay-about, so suck it up it lookks good on you!<p>---<br> [juris ignorantia est cum jus nostrum ignoramus]<br />
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"If only I could steal enough, to become honest"<br />
Peter Seller in some or another movie role
To BC Mary:
You know darn well that the Libs and Cons are conjoined twins.................
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"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."
-Max Planck
As you can see, G.W. Bush has done everything he can to tear up the US's Constitution because it legitimizes whatever means are used to oppose those who try and assume absolute power.
In Canada, the Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms was vigorously opposed and made extremely weak by placing in it clauses that legitimized at least 3 different means of nullifying either parts of the Charter, or the entire thing all at once by those who have assumed power.
The Charter was supposed to protect us from the government most of all, yet it fails to do this because it was designed to fail.