Hey Padme, Jar Jar Binks says Hi!

I should have voted for Sebulba!

Say Hi to Luke and Leah for me.

I hope Obiwan and Master Yoda aren't too upset.

I never said the managers might become subject to discipline. That is false. I told them how to get around the block Moya Greene put on my web site by using a third party proxy. Everyone with a brain knows that if you get an e-mail from George Bush at hotmail dot com, it isn't really from George Bush. It was a joke.

They failed to mention I won my E.I. Appeal, which was appealed and the reason the grievance lost was because John Bail withdrew it like he did other discharge grievances in the Pacific Region. The seizing my computer decision was indeed shocking but the fact that my personal journal would have solidified my case and proven my remorse and would have greatly helped my case but the Union refused to submit it didn't help. "The Union is god. They can do what they want with your grievance when they want." But even this god is subject to elections at convention.

If I surrender something voluntarily it doesn't establish a bad precedent. The Arbitrator did not want to put his decision about my personal computer in writing which would have established a precedent. Pat Bertrand insisted he do so. I was there.

Yes I complained to the Labour board about the Union withdrawing my grievance without a hearing and yes I lost because I was told from the beginning I'd have a 2% chance of winning a failure to represent because the union owns the grievance. John Bail and Pat Bertrand refused to refer it to Arbitration before the seized computer decision. Philippe Arbour and National referred it.

John and Pat said to me at the time they rather go against me at the Labour board on a failure to represent than argue the grievance because winning the failure to represent would be easier. Indeed it was but that is shameful. Look at the self serving direction the Union is going in. Is the union's apathy and the corporation's ruthlessness not reminiscent of 1965? All I could do was record my dissent.

Yes what started off as a practical joke ended up as a life changing event. Look what Moya Greene did to CN and look at what she's doing to Canada Post. Now Google Moya Greene and see what comes up first. My Moya Greene web site. The one she was so determined to shut down. Those my friend are the facts. Stop pissing on a soldier's grave. Is the New Girls club any better than the Old Boys club? Time will tell.

So tell me is this headline article part of Pat Bertrand's reelection campaign or has John Bail decided not to pull a David Emerson after all and run again? Please advise.

Pat Bertrand sure was vocal against the contract when we gave up our severance pay so the Rural Routers could join the Union and start getting some kind of representation. Strange how he was so silent about the change to our pension he negotiated away for us in the following contract. That was way worse than Appendix AA.

Meet the Spartans? Yo bro, we already met the Spartans. That was history. Now we have to listen to Darren and the Wilcox group.

You're supposed to be trying to decrease the derailments not increase them. That's what happens when you throw away public accountability. You get bankers out of their field who don't give a rat's a*s about anyone else and think everyone else is stupid.

This is why TILMA and the SPP are so dangerous. It gives power hungry Corporations absolute power. It gives them the right to sue any government - federal, provincial or municipal for creating any law that would impede their ability to make a profit. That would include protecting the environment.

Let's look at the nature of the Corporation. They are concerned with one thing only - profit. Instead of trying to decrease the number of derailments by doing the proper brake maintenance and not making the trains so much longer, they send in the Wilcox group to spin the truth with propaganda. 'Well, the Americans are doing it" they say.

That makes a lot of sense. Maybe the Americans have straighter tracks, did you ever think about that? This would be fine for the Prairies, but whole problem is the curved tracks in B.C. navigating through the mountains. Longer trains and reduced brake maintenance cause more derailments when cornering. Are the weights of the containers posted on them? What happens when a heavy container is placed on a light container?

This is the irony of greed. The obsession for more and more profits shoots themselves in the foot. When their service becomes unreliable with increased derailments, then customers take their business somewhere else. It's a shame. The railway could help the transportation industry greatly. The company I work for stopped using CN because they were unreliable. If it's not broken, don't fix it. If it's making money, don't change it.

Brian Canfield burnt that bridge after he crossed it. Most managers at Canada Post are competent. Unfortunately you still see the famous walking disaster emerge who has a chip on his shoulder and is determined to make everyone's life miserable. Surrey Depot 1 and Station A Cloverddale are prime examples. This is the old empire of confrontational management that Moya Greene is resurrecting. So much for progress.

There is no question and no doubt Canada needs judicial review when it comes to violent crime. It is not a left versus right debate, it is common sense. Mandatory minimum sentences for violent crime are long over due. Mandatory minimum sentences for the possession of Marihuana is insane as is mandatory Statutory Release.

Canada also needs judicial review when it comes to Corporate crime. Conrad Black was tried in the United States. Gordon Campbell's sale of B.C. Rail is still being swept under the carpet. Darren Entwistle and Moya Greene wield a different kind of axe but it is just as heinous because it is done for personal gain with no regard for others.

Likewise, TILMA is just the tip of the Iceberg. Buyer Beware.