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In short: best half sroundIn full: my 2nd clowne half marathon, and for me it still remains the best on the half marathon circuit. well organised, well marshalled, great water stations, good parking, good community centre at the start providing all you could want for pre and post race hospitality. free lucozade and flapjacks outside, very reasonably priced (and massively portioned) cakes and bacon sandwiches inside. i am not being sarcastic when i think that the price for entry to this race should go up - its one of the cheapest around at the moment, and clowne road runners deserve the extra couple of quid per person for the super efforts they put in to making the simple things work so well - and no, i'm not their treasurer! Even the mementos are great - shirt last year, good quality water bottle this!!!Date of review: November 25, 2012
In short: Great raceIn full: the only improvement to this race would be chip timing! very well organised, friendly and lovely route here! Date of review: November 25, 2012
In short: Great value, well-organised half marathonIn full: Congrats and thanks to everyone at Clowne Road Runners for putting on a really well-organised event. From parking up to crossing the finish line, everything was how it should be in a road race. Date of review: November 25, 2012
In short: toughIn full: do this race every year and this time got 1h37 the wind was awful in places so just took my time i was the one in all black with wooly hat onsince the school was redone there is good parking there now well done to allDate of review: November 25, 2012
In short: Splendid race. Thanks very much to Clowne RR and all the volunteers. Course is scenic and undulating, a fair challenge. Date of review: November 25, 2012
In short: DissapointedDate of review: December 5, 2011
In short: Starts out easy.....In full: Tough mix of slopes and proper hills. The first 3 miles are gently uphill and an easy way to warm up, but no matter what the wind direction the course loop means at some point you must run at least 2 miles into headwind. A great race that takes more out of you than you'd think.Date of review: November 29, 2011
In short: A very tough course but lovely scenery and fantastic organisation.In full: This is definately the hardest, hilliest half I have done, made worse by the wind. I was thrilled with 2nd female but a little disappointed not to get a prize. That said I will be back next year, aiming for 1 better!Date of review: November 28, 2011
In short: Fantastic organisation, well done Clowne!In full: The toughest course I have done, undualating/hilly is spot on and yes I ache in new places! The scenery and bright sunshine made up for the hills. Extremely well organised, excellent marshalling, well manned water/sponge stations with bottles, great crowd support and a fab t-shirt at the end.Many thanks to everyone who helped with the organisation of this race.Date of review: November 28, 2011
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SUBJECT 1: WIC HANDS Training On-the-Job (OTJ)
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SUBJECT 5: National WIC Association (NWA)'s 2008 WIC Calendars
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SUBJECT 8: Multi-user Electric Breast Pumps
- WIC HANDS Training On-the-Job (OTJ): This training was announced at the WIC Conference in August 2007. Some of the criteria has been changed because of comments and suggestions received at that conference. The state WIC office is pleased to announce that the HANDS training can now be done on-the-job as an alternative to sending new employees to Jefferson City for the regular three (3) day HANDS training. An agency wanting to do HANDS OTJ must name a preceptor (person who will do the training) and the preceptor must meet the following criteria:
- Successful completion of the HANDS training given by the state office.
- Successful completion of a refresher training given by the state WIC office. This training will take half of a day and will be given at a location (to be announced) in the districts. This training must be done before starting the OTJ and is specific for the preceptors who will be teaching HANDS OTJ.
- At least one-year experience with all aspects of HANDS (keying/updating data and printing FI's) on a regular basis in the agency.
To sign your agency up for this option, please e-mail Michael Murphy at firstname.lastname@example.com and provide the name of the preceptor; preceptor's years of HANDS experience; when you expect to start training and how many people you will train. Please note, if you do not currently have any new staff to be trained, you can still sign up for this option. Michael will then contact you with more information regarding the training.
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- HANDS Help Desk Coverage: The WIC state office will be closed and there will be no HANDS Help Desk coverage from 8:00-5:00 on October 8, Columbus Day. Also, there will be no HANDS Help Desk coverage because of staff meetings from 1:00-5:00 on October 17 and from 8:30-3:00 on October 18.
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- Food and Formula Reference Sheet - New Information: The State WIC office is resending the updated WIC Reference Sheets for the WIC Formulas, Foods, and Food Packages, effective October 1, 2007. Mead Johnson and Nestlé Nutrition announced discontinuation of the following items: a) Good Start Supreme (Nestlé Nutrition) and b) Kindercal and Kindercal with Fiber (Mead Johnson). The food packages and food items for these have been inactivated in the HANDS system and are no longer available for issuing food instruments. The Kindercal products can be direct shipped. You will need to contact the State WIC office for Kindercal to be approved and direct shipped. The attached reference sheets included these changes. Please share the updated reference sheets with your staff. If you have any suggestions and/or questions, please contact Takako Tagami at 1-800-392-8209 or e-mail email@example.com.
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- FIPS County Codes for H201/H202 HANDS screens: The H201/H202 screens require a county code to be keyed that is valid for the zip code. To assist with finding the correct code, DHSS has a website that you can go to and search by city to find the correct county and county code.
Also attached below, labeled "11 - FIPS County Codes", is a one page summary of just the counties along with the county codes. The website has more detail than the attached listing.
If you have questions, please call the HANDS Help Desk at 800-554-2544.
- Multi-user Electric Breast Pumps: Local agencies need to make a reasonable attempt to retrieve multi-user electric breast pumps that have not been returned by participants. This includes contacting the participant by phone, and if that is not successful, mailing a certified letter. If all reasonable attempts have failed, please complete the Missing or Damaged Multi-User Electric Breastpump Form, which is attached, and submit to the state. If the State WIC office in unable to retrieve the breast pump it will be removed from inventory. If you have any questions please contact Kathy Mertzlufft by email at email@example.com or by phone at 573-526-4792.
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Dell on Thursday finally announced its highly-anticipated Adamo XPS notebook, which is currently the world's thinnest laptop. Measuring just 9.99mm in thickness, Dell Adamo XPS packs in 4GB of memory and relatively powerful fully-fledged dual-core microprocessor. The new system utilizes rather unique engineering solutions in order to enable the thinnest notebook ever.
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A cartographic history of why North, not East or South, is up
How the north ended up on top of the map is an article by Nick Danforth, author/curator of (The/Mid) Afternoon Map blog, detailing how the north-up orientation came to be the default orientation, looking beyond Eurocentrism to Byzantine monks and Majorcan Jews who set the path for modern cartography. If you want more information, you might enjoy the Wikipedia article on the history of cartography, or you can really dig deep with the three-volume text, The History of Cartography, which is available in full from the University of Chicago Press online, split into individual PDFs for each chapter. [more inside]
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Skip to comments.Seeking opinions about Lee Child's Reacher novels
Posted on 04/23/2012 6:01:48 PM PDT by hampdenkid
Have any of my fellow Freepers read Lee Child's Reacher novels, and if so, did you feel like he had a political agenda? The first two I read seemed to have a definite bias against mid-America, but I thought maybe it was coincidental. The one I'm reading now -- "Echo Burning" -- goes out of its way to slam white people, Protestants, and Texans.
If Child is a liberal bigot, I want ditch his novels. Anyone here have a feel for the guy?
I've never really detected much liberalism. Not much deep meaning just a guy trying to get along and when he finds injustice he kicks it's ass.
I love the books and I've never had the sense that they were overly political, but I do get the feeling Child, a Brit, is catering to his leftist neighbors in NYC.
Good. Thank you. I love Reacher's kick ass attitude. But, I hate it when Child seems to paint anyone from anywhere other than the East or West coasts as a bunch of bumpkins.
Just want to make sure I'm not getting attracted to a guy who can't keep leftwing messaging out of his prose. Towards the end, Robert Parker's Spenser books became little more than screeds against whites and straights.
I love the stories, and can't wait for the next one.
Lee's a product of our schools...
I find the stereotyping doesn't interfere with the story, though I haven't read his latest works. Maybe it gets worse.
This is a big help. I knew i could count on my fellow Freepers for straight-forward analyses. Thanks to all who have responded.
Here, I guess, is my take.
Reacher is a guy who knows, uses, understands guns and their purpose. He doesn't hesitate to use one on someone who deserves it.
He also loves liberty, freedom, and the right to do what you want, including just walking through the country without being hasseled.
He defend the weak, protects the innocent, and doesn't cower from those who would harm them.
He takes action where needed but doesn't butt into peoples business.
Nah, doesn't sound liberal at all.
Have read them all, am usually very sensitive to left-wing propaganda, and haven't noticed it at all in his books. The one about the religious cult you mentioned I dismissed as so over-the-top that it wasn't really a slam on Christians. And his latest — which is actually a pre-quel to the others — involves a corrupt Senator (always a popular subject in my book) and emphasizes Reacher's military background. I love these books.
Yeah, you're right — Reacher is probably a libertarian. Which is fine with me.
By the way, i was real disappointed to see that Tom Cruise is going to play Reacher in the movie coming out in December. Reacher is 6'5", Cruise barely reaches 5'7". Reacher is 225 pounds, Cruise tips the scales at 150 soak and wet.
What the heck kind of casting is that?
You're right — he sticks up for the little guy and isn't afraid to deal with the bad guys. Not my definition of left-wing, at all!
BTW..I had the good fortune to meet him a few times, and get to know him personally. When the first one was published, I'd read it, ( and loved it) before it became a hit..and in reading the author's note at the end, noticed that he was living in PoundRidge, NUY. Back then I was still living in Chappaqua, which is the the next town over, and I wrote him a note on his website telling him how much I enjoyed the book, though I did offer a few gentlescritiques ( which he gracioiusly accepted when he wrote me back. We exvchanged a few emails, then he invied me to an author's night at the local bookstore in Pound Ridge, and we went out after for a beer. He 's a thoroughly nice guy..he thought he had a book in him, decided to try and write it, and was astonished at the success he's enjoyed. I told him that IMO, Reacher was the 21st century version of Travis McGee..at the time, he hadn't read any of MacDonald's books, but he read them all after I mentioned them..
I've read just about all of them. Usually if I pick up on a bunch of BS I just put them away until I get more liberal in my outlook. I have some really really dusty books.
The Jack Reacher series will not offend your conservative sensibilities.
Tom Cruise is going to play Reacher in the movie coming out in December . . . .
I don't think Lee Child is liberal bigot. Maybe he leans left a little bit. Jack Reacher is the man. I've read all of the books. The only problem is that Tom Cruise will be playing him in the movie? Really? I would have cast the actor named Chance Kelly. He played Godfather in HBO series Generation Kill. Not Tom Cruise.
The books are awesome. Depends on what you mean by liberalism. If you see Iraq as liberal nation building, then yeah, probably a little liberal. If you see Iraq as a mistake in retrospect, then it reads libertarian.
I guess I never saw that bias - he does occasionally have a small-town sheriff character, but there's also always a "good guy/gal" in the same mold, it seems. I like the novels, they're a good 2 plane rides when I go TDY.
I've read every one and always look forward to his next one. It takes Lee 18 months to write one and I read it non-stop in three days. I'm on his web site.
Tom Cruise???? Reacher is like 6'5 weighs about 250 and they're going to use Cruise??? What stupidity!!!!! Jason Statham is the guy to use. Or at the least Sylvester Stallone.
He sucks when it comes to writing about guns. All the stupid he puts in his books could be fixed by 5 minutes of even Google about calibers and ballistics.
I think he's a pandering hack.
I have read all but the latest one. I love them. Jack Reacher does the right thing every time. My son loves them also.
That pi$$ed me off...Reacher gets in a lot of physical scrapes and part of the solutions is that Reacher is bigger or equal in size to the bad guys...and he kicks butt...Chuck Norris would run from Jack Reacher.
There is no way Tom Cruise can pull it off and even though I have the entire series in hardbound (love 'em), I won't go to see the movie.
I like his books and have detected no agenda except individual responsibility and the desire to be left alone.
I will say Child does not know about firearms and should get a proof reader who can help him with obvious errors. That would increase the enjoyment for me and other savvy gun owners without compromising the stories at all.
Studio magic, I guess. My thought on who would make a good Reacher... Liam Neisen, Tom Selik (maybe too old), Maybe even the guy who played Aragorn in LOTR.
BUt NOT Tom Cruise!!! no way no how!
Any more thoughts???
He doesn't ask them why, he just takes care of them.
He's not preaching liberal tripe, but sometimes I get the feeling he is not far from wanting to do it. Again, I put it down to his being a Brit and not understanding the basis for some American viewpoints.
Stallone is only 5'9".
The movie is based on the novel One Shot.
Here's the IMDB page: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0790724/
Nominations to play Reacher: Brock Lessner.
"Echo Burning" is my favorite Reacher book, perhaps because it was the first one I read. I absolutely love the scene in the beginning of the book where he messes up that cop at the bar (not knowing he was a cop—just thought he was a regular creep) and sneaks out of town.
I've read them all now. His latest is excellent; he's had a couple clunkers, too, IMO. In fact, I told myself if his latest book wasn't better than the last two, I wasn't going to read any more of them. But he was back in form and I'm still a fan.
I absolutely understand where you're coming from about the liberal bias of some authors these days. I've erased several authors from my read list because they just couldn't keep their liberal idiocy out of their fiction. Guess they have enough readers and don't need me.
While I agree with Jason Statham, I also like Hugh Jackman.
Okay, Stallone at 5'9 vs fancy pants Cruise???? I go for Mel Gibson if they want to use short guys too. But Cruise????
My only thing with Stratham though would be his accent. Reacher is American so that would be a problem. I'm still gagging over the fact that Cruise will play the part. Leave it to Holly-gag to totally mess up a good character/story. "Shooter" comes to mind - based on the book "Point of Impact"
They may as well have cast Pee Wee Herman. What a horrible decision.
Maybe with enough people writing to complain they might change. Nah, don't think so. Even Arnie sounds good.
Plus the fact that he also doesn't have the size.
Jack Reacher is a 6'5", 250 lbs bad ass that will throw a piece of furniture at your head if nothing else is handy.
It's the very essence of his character; he's huge, intimidating, and uncontrollable. He is a force of nature.
I just cannot believe that Lee Child supports this choice.
I think the guy that played the Comedian in Watchmen could do it if he bulked up. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0604747/
Cruise must have bought the rights. Or, Child wants a "name" for his movie to do well. Neither one will fill Reacher's shoes.
The movie's already made.
The movie will be based on "One Shot" — which I thought was outstanding.
Here's a pretty good piece on Cruise playing Reacher. Apparently Child has no problem with it.
I would have selected Jason Statham. Or Tim Tebow. :)
Rats. Well it's one I won't go and see.
My mind has been polluted. I can't read another Reacher book without comparing Cruise in there as him.
As another poster wrote: Cruise may have bought the rights to the movie or Lee Child wanted a name. I remember watching an old movie with the family titled "Von Ryan's Express" - In the book, Von Ryan, an American pilot captured by the Germans steals a train, etc, etc. In the book, Von Ryan is a 6' blond haired, blue eyed guy. who played the part??? Frank Sinatra.
I would have selected Jason Statham. Or Tim Tebow. :)
But Tom Cruise? If they go that route, why not Dustin Hoffman?
I found out the name of the movie is "One Shot" - I could see Cruise as the shooter but not as Reacher. Good Grief!!!
I don't see Reacher as overly muscled. He is just tall and big. Cruise is short and buff, but that won't make Reacher. That and the stupid grin he has. I have a feeling that Reacher doesn't grin to often.
I was really enjoying these books until echo burning. Clearly Lee knows nothing about Texas and nothing about the brave men and women who risk their lives every day protecting our borders. He should be ashamed of portraying them in such an evil light. Not one more dime will he get from me.
I have read Reacher novels- always considered to be modern Macdonald Travis Mcgee type- minus houseboat and water
The latest Reacher novel "wanted" had so many bad reviews I passed it up and I was a fan of all the earlier Reacher novels.
Same thing with Randy Wayne White who I would say is closer to a Travis Mcgee figure. Just a couple of years ago his name was very popular, and then he went down hill.
Its a shame when a noted author loses his or her appeal.
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ok, so when is it better to use :include and better not to?
I have a very complex page that queries many tables. I tried :include-ing all the data (14 associations), and it generated a 4096 character long query, and the page took 2 full minutes to process at 100%cpu and 600M ram usage! D: Ok, bad idea.
I've read that it's better to use :include so that rails doesn't have to do so many queries, which supposedly helps a lot with overhead. Obviously not the case here. So when is it not better to use :include?
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If a vendor sends in a tea that a number of people consider subpar, how exactly do you propose they should criticize it in a "tactful" manner, Chip?
What if that person then goes out and buys another sample of the same tea, and then proceed to trash it?
The point is, if the vendor, knowing what this is, sends in a tea that is nevertheless inferior, then why are people not allowed to criticize it for its awfulness?
I do agree that if you compare A with B, where B costs way more (and is better) then it's not really fair. Although, that does put the tea in perspective, and anyone with half a brain should be able to figure that out. Maybe rules about "if you compare OTTI teas with others, please list the unit price for the other tea you're comparing again" will be fair. I fail to see how avoiding negative criticism is helpful in any way, shape, or form.
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According to the report, FDIC-insured financial institutions earned $34.7 billion in net income in the fourth quarter down from $37.6 billion in the third quarter. Earnings continue to be buoyed by the reduction of loan loss provisions and rising noninterest income, not by a significant increase in interest income from new loan issuance as tight credit standards continue.
Year over year net income was up 36.9%, but net interest income, the life-blood of the banking system, registered a $2.7 billion (2.5%) decline. This is a sign that the "Great Credit Crunch" continues.
I will drill down into the FDIC data in subsequent posts focusing on the impact to the housing market, money center and regional and community banks. I will say that community banks remain reluctant to lend to developers and home builders as legacy C&D loans remain elevated at $203.9 billion at the end of 2012.
On Tuesday, the stock market regained some of Monday's lost ground, as Fed Chief Ben Bernanke re-iterated his pledge to continue QE3 and QE4 until the unemployment rate declined to 6.5%. Bernanke concluded that Fed policy was helping the housing market recovery and Tuesday's housing data supported his opinion.
Tuesday began with the January readings for the S&P Case-Shiller home price indices. The 20-City Composite, the one I focus on, showed that home prices rose by 6.8% in 2012. The index shows that home prices are still down 30% from their June/July 2006 bubble peak, despite an 8% to 9% gain since the March 2012 low. If you bought your home at the beginning of the new millennium your home has appreciated by 46.0%.
At 10 a.m. as Bernanke began his Congressional testimony and subsequent Q&A we learned that new home sales surged 15.6% in January to an annual rate of 437,000, but this is old news given the slippage in home builder confidence in February.
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BEIJING (AP) French teenage world champion Teddy Riner lost a close overtime bout in the quarterfinals to end his chances at an Olympic judo gold in the men's over 100-kilogram division Friday.
Riner, a judo sensation since he took the world championship last year at age 18, started off cautiously, winning his opening bout on points. He blasted through his second match, flipping Kazakhstan's Yeldos Ikhsangaliyev shortly after their bout began.
But he slowed down again in the quarters, going into the final minute at 1-1 with Uzbekistan's Abdullo Tangriev. The two then went into overtime, and again neither was able to find an opening.
Tangriev was declared the winner on a penalty against Riner for passivity just before time ran out.
Russia's Tamerian Tmenov - who lost to Riner in the world championship final - took an early lead in his first bout over Athens bronze medalist Dennis van der Geest, but the match never turned into much of a rivalry because the Dutchman hurt his right arm and spent most of the second half on the defensive.
Tmenov then scored two waza ari on China's Pan Song to make the quarterfinal against Japan's Satoshi Ishii, who is making his Olympic debut after coming out of the shadow of longtime champion Kosei Inoue.
Ishii won that bout on a yuko point, sending Tmenov into the loser's bracket. Ishii meets Georgia's Gujejiani and Tangriev fights Cuba's Oscar Brayson.
In the women's 78-kg, China's heavyweight judo champion, Tong Wen, breezed into the semifinals.
A three-time world champion, she flipped her first opponent and pinned her second and third to make the semifinal, where she will fight Cuba's Idalys Ortiz.
Athens gold medalist Maki Tsukada fell behind to France's Anne-Sophie Mondiere, who is ranked second in the world, on a koka point, but came back with an ippon to clear her first fight. She pinned Mexico's Vanessa Zambotti for her semifinal berth.
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Nintendo said that it would not ship its much-anticipated 3DS portable game console in 2010. This contradicts to earlier information based on which the launch time-frame of the 3DS was in October '10.
"Nintendo 3DS will not be arriving in 2010. 3DS won't be appearing until next year" said Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime during the Late Night with Jimmy Fallon talk show, reports Venture Beat web-site.
Nintendo 3DS comes with a 3.53" top screen and a 3.02" bottom touch screen. It has three cameras – one inner and two outer – to deliver the stereo-3D effect and take stereo-3D pictures. It includes a motion sensor, a gyro sensor, Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n controller, a Slide Pad that allows 360-degree analog input and so on. The device also has a special slider that can increase, decrease or disable stereoscopic 3D (S3D) effect. The 3DS comes in form-factor that is similar to the predecessors and is fully compatible with Nintendo DS titles. The console uses DMP Pica 200 graphics processor.
The decision seems to be rather strange, considering the fact that in the U.S. and Europe the Q4 is the season of increased sales in general.
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Concerns about medication and medication adherence in patients with chronic pain recruited from general practice
- 1The Leuven Center for Algology and Pain Management, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
- 2Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
- Correspondence to Susan Broekmans
University Hospitals Leuven - The Leuven Center for Algology and Pain Management, Weligerveld 1 Pellenberg 3212, Belgium; susan.broekmans{at}uzleuven.be
Implications for nursing practice and research
■ Patient concerns and beliefs about medication are associated with overuse and underuse of medication.
■ Identifying and addressing these concerns may improve adherence.
■ Further research is needed to examine whether training of healthcare practitioners (including nurses) has an effect on patients' concerns and medication adherence.
Chronic non-malignant pain is a long-lasting condition, with a complex pathophysiology, often accompanied with dysfunctional pain behaviour. Chronic pain affects about 19% of the population in Europe.1 Due to the complex nature of chronic pain, its treatment needs a multidisciplinary and multimodal approach. Still, medication remains a cornerstone of chronic …


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Debates of April 6th, 2005
House of Commons Hansard #77 of the 38th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was students.
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Lucienne Robillard on behalf of the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons
moved that Bill C-30, an act to amend the Parliament of Canada Act, the Salaries Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts, be read the third time and passed.
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4:05 p.m.
New Brunswick
Dominic LeBlanc Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons
Madam Speaker, it is a pleasure for me today to speak to Bill C-30 on compensation for parliamentarians.
Bill C-30 fulfills a commitment by the Prime Minister to delink compensation for parliamentarians and judges and to allow parliamentarians to receive salary increases in line with those of Canadians in the private sector.
Parliamentarians, under the proposed legislation, Bill C-30, would receive salary increases adjusted yearly according to what is called the major wage settlement index. This is a highly respected index used by governments, businesses and unions. It is published annually and measures the annual salary increases negotiated by collective bargaining for private sector units with 500 or more employees. Accordingly this index represents more than 800,000 private sector employees in Canada.
As members will have noted during report stage of this legislation, our colleague from Prince George—Peace River indicated that the official opposition supported the bill because future salary increases would be tied to those in the private sector. He called this initiative commendable. I thank him and his party for their support of the legislation.
Similarly, the member for Timmins—James Bay told the House that his party, the New Democratic Party, found the index fair and supported the bill as well. I also thank them for their support of what we believe to be fair and reasonable legislation.
The bill has been recognized as a fair and reasonable way to deal with the salaries of parliamentarians. I believe that when we vote on this legislation, we will find it receives the very broad support of members of the House.
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4:10 p.m.
Jay Hill Prince George—Peace River, BC
Madam Speaker, as the parliamentary secretary noted in his brief remarks a moment ago, I have indicated that the official opposition will be supporting Bill C-30 and, I might add, we have always maintained that we should not place ourselves in an ongoing conflict of interest by having to debate and decide our own remuneration. Indeed, this bill's predecessor, which linked us to the judges' remuneration, was actually the reason that the House went down that road before. This is a fairer way to go about setting our remuneration and I indicated that during my remarks at report stage as well.
As was indicated, Bill C-30 proposes to amend the Parliament of Canada Act and the Salaries Act to establish a new method of indexation of salaries and allowances for members of Parliament and ministers. It will come into effect from April 1, 2004. Salaries and allowances will no longer be adjusted by reference to the increase in the annual salary of the chief justices of the Supreme Court of Canada, but rather in accordance with the index of the average percentage increase and base rate wages for each and every calendar year resulting from major settlements negotiated with bargaining units of 500 or more employees in the private sector in Canada, as published by the Department of Human Resources and Skills Development.
The original objective for linking compensation for members of Parliament to that of the chief justices, which is determined by the Judicial Salary and Benefits Commission, was to discontinue the practice whereby members themselves legislate their own compensation. However when the commission recommended an 11% increase in pay, an unjustified increase I might add, the government changed its position that compensation for MPs should not be linked to judges.
On that point, I think the general public will recall the debate that took place just before and during last spring's election campaign. We and others raised the issue of the impending judges' increase which would have the ripple effect on our remuneration as well. To the government's credit, at that point in time it agreed with us and said that an increase of that amount would be unacceptable. Therefore last fall it brought in Bill C-30.
When the bill was introduced it created a public issue regarding compensation for judges as well. While the government has indicated that amendments regarding compensation for judges is forthcoming, we believe, and I have stated it repeatedly, that the government ought to have accompanied Bill C-30 with that, since it was the 11% pay hike proposed for judges that triggered the need for a new method to determine compensation for members of Parliament.
The link between compensation for judges and compensation for members of Parliament and the excessive pay hike proposed for judges led to the need for legislative change. Bill C-30 solves only half the problem by establishing a new mechanism for MPs only, leaving judges with a process that provides them, potentially, at least at this point, with that 11% pay hike, which is almost four times the Canadian average increase in wages.
Therefore the Conservative Party calls upon the government, as we have in the past, to forgo the 11% pay hike for judges and immediately introduce legislation to establish a new mechanism for compensating judges similar to what has been proposed for members of Parliament in Bill C-30. That would ensure that significant salary compensation adjustments would only occur when it can be demonstrated that responsibilities have changed accordingly.
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4:15 p.m.
Michel Guimond Charlevoix—Montmorency, QC
Madam Speaker, I would begin by saying that my colleague, the hon. parliamentary leader of the Bloc Québécois and member for Roberval—Lac-Saint-Jean had indicated that our party would be voting against this bill, for a number of reasons which I would like to explain in the few minutes available to me.
We know that the compensation of parliamentarians is the perfect subject when it comes to grandstanding. We have had proof of that here in the comments made on this by the Prime Minister of Canada, which once again reflected his attitude.
I have just heard the Conservative House Leader say that it is not right for MPs to determine their own remuneration. That is true, and that is why a committee on the modernization of Parliament, which was struck in January 2001 and made up of the parliamentary leaders, reached the following conclusion: we should stop discussing whether MPs ought to vote on their own salary increases. After that came the idea of linking increases to those given to judges.
If it is decided in an independent committee that judges get a salary increase, by that very fact, due to their linking, the MPs also get an automatic increase under this legislation, not because they have taken any action themselves. We cannot decide to raise our pay 25% or 30% simply because we have had no increase for the past seven or eight years. That is totally unacceptable.
I want this to be clear: the Bloc Québécois is opposed to Bill C-30, as it is to any increase in MPs' salaries. We want to retain the status quo. We want to continue to receive the fair and proper salary we are currently receiving. This is where the hypocrisy lies in the mechanics of Bill C-30, which disengages us from the judges' salary increases, although this has been settled since June 2001.
The underlying principles behind the linking with judges' remuneration were as follows: Is it normal and acceptable for the Prime Minister to earn the same amount as the highest official he appoints? Is is normal and acceptable for an elected representative to earn less than a public servant? Take the example of a minister, who is earning less than a deputy minister. Is that acceptable? No it is not.
The first principle was established by the House leaders of all the parties, the leader of the Conservatives, the hon. member for West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast—Sea to Sky Country; the former Liberal House leader, the hon. member for Glengarry—Prescott—Russell; the NDP House leader, the then hon. member for Winnipeg—Transcona; and my colleague, the Bloc Québécois House leader. The basic principle was that the Prime Minister should earn the same salary as the highest ranking official he appoints, not a penny more, not a penny less. Who is the highest ranking official appointed by the Prime Minister? It is the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, a position currently held by a woman. That was the first principle.
Second, do we agree that a minister should earn a certain percentage less than the Prime Minister? The answer is yes.
Third, is it normal for an MP with no ministerial responsibility to earn half the Prime Minister's salary? It was established that, yes, this is normal and the ministers' salaries should be somewhere between the two.
So that we do not discuss our own salary increases, there is an independent committee in charge of reviewing judges' salaries. As an aside, I do not want anyone watching to think that the Bloc Québécois wants to be mean to the judiciary. The Bloc Québécois is a party of law. It has enormous respect for the courts, judges and their decisions. People should not think the Bloc Québécois wants to be mean to judges. On the contrary, we think that instead of elected representatives voting on their own salary increases, those increases should be tied to salary increases for judges.
So we have Bill C-30 and the Prime Minister takes a cheap shot at parliamentarians. I am going to make a non-partisan comment on that unfortunate remark. I think that, basically, we parliamentarians take our jobs to heart. We take it to heart that we need to properly represent those who trusted us enough to elect us.
I would ask each of the 135 Liberal members over there whether they think they earn their salaries, whether they are doing their jobs and deserve what they are paid? We have had some informal discussions and many of the members of the Liberal caucus do not agree with the comment, the mean-spirited, partisan and vengeful comment, made by the Prime Minister, who is incidentally a millionaire. He owned a shipping company and some of its ships were under foreign registration in order to escape having to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes. It is easy for the Prime Minister to make comments like that.
These are the reasons that we in the Bloc Québécois cannot agree with this bill. It delinks MPs' salaries from judges' salaries, yet that question was settled back in January 2001.
Why reconsider that decision in Bill C-30, when it was made with the unanimity of all the parliamentary leaders? Does denying work that has been done correct the democratic deficit? Does it mean that all consensual decisions reached by the parliamentary leaders before this PM was here no longer count?
Does parliamentary consensus only date from the arrival of this Prime Minister? I regret to say this, but we do not need any lectures on morality from this PM. I am certain, I repeat, that many of the 135 Liberal caucus members across the way agree with me. I even know that they told their caucus that this was not right.
I may seem to be repeating myself, but it is to be sure there is no ambiguity. The Bloc Québécois does not want to be mean to judges, nor to the workers who will serve as reference points for this new legislation if it is passed. That is why we are saying that, if they want to delink us from the judges, they ought to maintain the salary. If the present salary is not maintained, then the link ought to be.
Do you know what lies behind this? The independent committee on judges' remuneration has set the increase for the next four years at approximately 10.8%.
The aim was to avoid having to respond to those who might say: "That makes no sense. The MPs have just voted and given themselves 10.8% over four years based on the cost of living index." If we do not think this 10.8% makes sense, we need only say: "It is true it makes no sense. While it may make no sense for parliamentarians, it makes no more sense for judges."
There is a saying that a woman cannot be just a little pregnant. Either she is pregnant or she is not. The government should clue in. If it makes no sense for parliamentarians to be paid this—the government has an obligation to be consistent—the government should set the same criterion for the judges. If a 10.8% increase makes no sense for parliamentarians, it does not make any more sense for judges.
So, logically speaking, as parliamentarians—this is what the Bloc would like, and we made our position very clear on the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs, where we opposed all government amendments to this bill—we should just reject Bill C-30 and have a policy of no salary increase.
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4:25 p.m.
Paul Szabo Mississauga South, ON
Madam Speaker, I listened to the member, but I have heard this argument before. I think it is important that the public also understand where we are right now. Maybe the member would like to comment.
He is quite right that the increase according to the former bill linked to judges would have been around 10% plus over four years, which is 2.5%. But the proposed increase linking it to an industrial wage index is already giving us about 2% for the current year and presumably will be 2% and 2% plus over the four years, which will almost be 10% if the level of inflation stays the same.
The differential between the link to the judges' salaries and what is being proposed is actually quite small. It is not 10%. It is the difference between the average industrial index over the next four years compared to 10%. Perhaps the member would like to comment.
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4:30 p.m.
Michel Guimond Charlevoix—Montmorency, QC
Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague from Mississauga South for his question.
In January 2001, when we adopted the principle of linking the salaries of MPs and judges, the consensus was that the Prime Minister should earn as much as the highest official he appoints, namely the chief justice.
I do not want to get into mathematical formulae because, first, math is not my strong suit and second, I do not want to confuse the public. However, if, based on the industrial index that will serve as the reference for Bill C-30, this results in a maximum increase of 8% for the next four years instead of 10.8% spread over the same period, this means that at the end of that four-year period, starting in 2005-06, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada will earn more than the Prime Minister.
This violates the principle. This means that, ultimately, the Prime Minister will earn less than the highest official he appoints. I am not defending the Prime Minister and his salary increases. He has no need of his salary. With all the perks he gets, he does not need his salary.
However, this is about the principle and we fight for principles. After four years, the chief justice will earn more than the Prime Minister and that makes no sense.
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4:30 p.m.
Jay Hill Prince George—Peace River, BC
Madam Speaker, my question is quite simple. It relates to my very brief remarks on third reading of Bill C-30 today.
The main contention that my hon. colleague from the Bloc has, for which there is some argument to be made, is that the Prime Minister should not be making less than the people he appoints, especially the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.
In my remarks, I put forward an idea that I believe would certainly be supported by the majority of people in Canada, and not only the majority of people in Canada but also the majority of people in Quebec. That idea is that members of Parliament should not be in a position where they get what I think would widely be viewed as an exorbitant raise.
If there is no increase in our responsibilities, why should we be getting 2% per year, or 10% per year, or 10% over four years, or 11% or whatever it is, if people out in the real world are getting substantially less? That is the whole point of tying our future salary increases to this index of the average increase that Canadians will be getting in what I refer to as the real world outside this place.
Having said that, my contention is that the government should have brought in amendments to the Judges Act to ensure that the judges would likewise be tied to that same index. I still believe the government should bring forward those amendments to do away with the commission that sets the salary and compensation for judges and should likewise tie the judges in Canada to this same index that Canadians in the real world face.
Would that not solve the problem? I know that my hon. colleague is really anxious to get up and have his say on this, but why that would not solve the problem? Instead of raising our compensation, our remuneration, up to the 11% that it is rumoured we would get if it goes ahead and stays the same way, why not bring judges down to the same salary increase that real Canadians out in the real world get?
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4:30 p.m.
Michel Guimond Charlevoix—Montmorency, QC
Madam Speaker, the reply I have in mind is going to displease the hon. parliamentary leader of the Conservative Party with whom I sit on various committees and for whom I have a great deal of respect.
I said that it is a perfect bill for grandstanding. We will be marching here on Wellington Street holding signs that say, "Do you think MPs earn too much?" We will take a poll of the people who sit in the galleries. We will hand out sheets asking, "Do you think MPs earn too much? They should work for nothing." It sets the stage for grandstanding.
I will bring up some bad memories for the hon. member for Prince George—Peace River. When the members of the Reform Party were sitting here, Preston Manning sent out a memo objecting to the large number of Christmas lights on Parliament Hill. He said it was costing the taxpayers too much in electricity. Of course, that was popular.
When the Bloc Québécois was the official opposition, he said that Stornoway should be transformed into a bingo hall. But as soon as they became the official opposition, they jumped on Stornoway. Preston Manning once said that the free lunches, which make us fat—look what it has done to me, with the lunches we eat in the lobby—cost the taxpayers too much. But when the lunch comes, the Conservatives eat it. We could say that is not logical because it is the taxpayers who pay.
Once again, I say it is a fine bill for grandstanding, and I say with respect that my colleague from Prince George—Peace River has done just that.
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4:35 p.m.
Marcel Gagnon Saint-Maurice—Champlain, QC
Madam Speaker, it is not the first time that I have been involved in a debate on members' salaries. I was a member of the Quebec National Assembly and, before Mr. Lévesque—who was the premier at the time—found a formula, the issue would come up every year. As the hon. member said, this issue always leads to some grandstanding. We can have anyone say just about anything on MPs' salaries.
I agree with the hon. member. At some point, we have to find a basic principle, so that we stop talking about our salary. This does not make sense. In my view, the act that was passed made sense to some extent, because it was based on the principles that my colleague just mentioned.
I want to ask him if he thinks this is simply some kind of political pettiness.
It is easy to deal with a journalist's question by saying "This 10.8% increase over four years does not make sense. We will cancel it". However, a Liberal member just said that we will get the equivalent, or some 2% annually, but that is grandstanding. I wonder if my colleague could comment on this way of managing things.
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4:35 p.m.
Michel Guimond Charlevoix—Montmorency, QC
Madam Speaker, I thank the hon. member for his question. I will try not to get too passionate in replying to my colleague, but I am just as passionate whether the questions come from one side or from the other side. I simply want to answer the question of the hon. member for Saint-Maurice—Champlain.
This is why I said at the beginning that this was a perfect issue for grandstanding. I want to go back to my colleague and to the Conservative member and ask them this question: What will be the position of each of the parties in this House when we will deal with the 10.8% salary increase for judges? If 10.8% is too much for MPs, it is probably too much for judges also.
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April 6th, 2005 / 4:35 p.m.
New Brunswick
Dominic LeBlanc Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons
Madam Speaker, I rise on a point of order. There have been discussions among all parties and I think you would find unanimous consent for the following motion. I move:
That, notwithstanding the extension of government orders due to the recorded divisions taken earlier today, private members' business shall begin at 5:30.
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4:35 p.m.
The Acting Speaker (Hon. Jean Augustine)
The House has heard the terms of the motion. Is it the pleasure of the House to adopt the motion?
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4:35 p.m.
Some hon. members
(Motion agreed to)
The House resumed consideration of the motion that Bill C-30, an act to amend the Parliament of Canada Act and the Salaries Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts, be read the third time and passed.
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4:40 p.m.
The Acting Speaker (Hon. Jean Augustine)
Is the House ready for the question?


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