Wednesday, May 04, 2005

DO YOU WATCH HIS SHOW????

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You must know this guy? His name is Dennis Melanson and he had his own show on Rogers for the last few years. I appeared on his show on two different occasions? I phoned the program last night and wondered what was the ratings of Melanson Live?
I might add that Rogers have been very patient with me on the issue and Ritalin and will allow me to speak on different issues! I will also say that the staff are very friendly!
I am just sending out the question? What do you think of Melanson Live? Let me know? Do you watch his show???

THIS IS MY SPEECH TO THE SENATE ABOUT THE IRVINGS MONOPOLY NEWSPAPERS IN N.B!!!

Many of you asked me what happened at the Senate hearing in Moncton???

Well? Guess what? I received this email a few days ago from Ottawa!!! I was surprised they would write every words of my little speech on April 21st!

Now? You must read this with a French accent and it wasn’t written before hand. I only had 4 minutes and I was not amused. I spoke from what was on my mind.

Let me warn in advance? Be prepared for a straight forward Anti Irving little speech! Enjoy nut I missed a lot of issues!

I might add that none of my presentation was printed in any of the Irving's Newspapers! I wonder why??...lol


Mr. Charles LeBlanc, As an individual:

I just want to apologize. I am what you call a blogger, so I was in and out on the computer down the hallway. There are hundred people in the information Highway who want to know what is going on in here?.

I have a point of concern before I start.


I made a phone call about a month ago or two months ago, I said that I wanted to make a presentation.

In the past, I made presentations in front of standing committees in New Brunswick.

They told me yesterday I only have four minutes.

I was disallowed to make a presentation like everybody else. Could you tell me why?

The Chairman: Essentially, sir, the problem is we only have a little over a day and a half. We would like to have more; we would like to have a week, but we do not.

Mr. LeBlanc: Who chooses these people?

The Chairman: The Steering Committee of the Transport and Communications Committee has spent a long time looking at all the long list of witnesses, and I am very sorry if you feel you have not been treated justly, but we are doing the best we can.

Mr. LeBlanc: I just wanted to go on record because I was told this morning that B.C. has four minutes, and also New Brunswick. You cannot compare the population of New Brunswick to B.C. I mean there is more media, there are more newspapers in B.C. than here. Here we have a major problem because we only have one major owner.
But I have ADHD, attention deficit hyperactive disorder. I like to take my time on issues, but this morning I apologize for the way I am. I hitchhiked a ride from Fredericton. Sorry, I should take my hat off, but I hitchhiked from Fredericton to be here. So I just want to go on record that I have been, as the Senator from Sackville knows, that I have been very outspoken. I am the most outspoken citizen in this province for this issue. So what I will try to do, I would like to relax so I can concentrate on the issue at hand, but I have four minutes.


The Chairman: I will give you five minutes, how is that?


Mr. LeBlanc: Thank you very much.


The Chairman: Because you hitchhiked all the way here.


Mr. LeBlanc: I hitchhiked, yes, and believe me, I had to listen to two drivers who were complaining about what I am talking about. They agree with me 100 per cent.
Okay, here we go and I will try to put everything that I can. I hate to rush, but when I was told yesterday four minutes, I said, “Oh my God, that is almost impossible.”

I was born in Memramcook. I lived in Saint John for 18 years.

I have worked at the Irving Shipyard, and I am now living in Fredericton.

I started to write letters to the editor l’Évangéline, that is a French paper, and I enjoy writing.

I enjoy spreading my views with other people. I have a column in the River Valley News.

It has not been Irving bought yet, maybe, I do not know why? Maybe it’s because the Irvings knows what is going on through this paper.

That is why they are not buying it. I am allowed to write anything I want. I will leave you a copy.

It is a bi-weekly paper that is NOT owned by Irving.

During the frigate program, I was very well-known in Saint John to write my letters to the editor.

I wrote and got printed 500 letters to the editor. Not too many people in this province can say that.

If I wrote letters supporting the Irvings, they would turn around and say, “Oh, what a suck-up.” If I wrote against them, they would say, “Hey, don’t you know who your boss is?”

Well, on both sides, I could have vent, but I had the right to condemn the Irvings, had the right to praise the Irvings.

Then the Telegraph Journal, then something happened, I was working for a company, then I had a protest going on in front of the Golden Ball and the next thing you know there was a story in the Evening Times Globe stating that Charles LeBlanc was fired three times.

That was not true, and they allowed me to write a little letter to the editor, but the damage had already been done by Saint Johners to know the truth.

That is how the Irvings run it.

We heard a lot about Jamie Irving.

Jamie Irving is a nice kid.

I met Jamie, a very nice guy.

When I found out he was the editor, the publisher of the King’s County Record -- I am talking fast because I only have four minutes, I am trying, there are some many issues -- when I found out that Jamie was the publisher of the King’s County Record, I said “Okay, he is a good kid.”

Then I walked by through McAllister Place and then I saw a used picture on the King’s County Record, “J.D. Irving Sawmill record production.”

On the front page of the King’s County Record, that should have been in the workplace.

What was it doing on the front page of the King’s County Record that J.D. Irving Sawmill produced record products?

Then there was a big pollution spill in West Saint John on Christmas day. I wrote a letter to the editor about it. It was denied.

So I do not know what was going on? There were changes made. I made a complaint to the Atlantic Press Council and what happened, Ken Simms from Halifax was surprised once I told him I wrote 500 letters to the editor.

He said “500?” “My God,” he said “there is a procedure here. Then suddenly they stop. We will investigate this.”

So Peter Haggard, he is from Ontario, he is the publisher of the Telegraph Journal.

He called me and he told me, “We will not print critical letters of the Irvings by former employees.” So I turned around and I said, “Okay, so that means if there are 6,000 people in the shipyard that are former employees, they cannot write letters in the paper.”

Then, Rob Link from the Evening Times Globe, I wrote a letter, he told me, “We have to investigate what you wrote.” I said, “Investigate? I wrote 500 letters to the editor. Why do you suddenly have to investigate?”

In the summer of year 2003, Peter Haggard from the Telegraph Journal, wrote a column and told the readers, “We will only print one letter by one writer on any issues once a month.”

So I was shocked.

Now, they are stopping people from writing letters to the paper?

Three weeks later they announced that Saint John ShipBuilding was closed.

So, those three regular writers that wrote about the shipyard, they had their say, then they had to wait a whole month.

I mean, that is not right.

New Brunswickers’ rights are being denied, and that is what I am very concerned about.

In the summer of 2003, I decided to set up a tent in front of the legislature and I was protesting against the use of Ritalin for ADHD, stopping young kids, five years old, from being forced on these drugs, and next thing you know, it took 50 days for the press, the Daily Gleaner, to cover this story.

The Irving press never covered this story.

We are not talking about a tent that was in a cow field. On parle pas de une tente dans un parc a vache?

It was in front of the legislature.

The citizens of Fredericton -- I am sorry I am talking so fast, I am just going fast -- the citizens of Fredericton were wondering, “How come we have never seen this in the Gleaner?”

It took 50 days.

So what happened, suddenly, they stole my tent.

To make a long story short, I got good coverage at the end, but it took 50 days.


I turned around and came here to Champlain Place to collect names for my petition.

I collected 10,000 signatures and the Acadians, les Acadiens, they knew who I was because l’Acadie Nouvelle covered this story totally.

The Moncton Transcript, they never did. The English side. See, this is what I am talking about.

The Chairman: I do not like having to cut anybody off.

Mr. LeBlanc: It is a damn shame.

The Chairman: I do not like it; we do not like it. But you are not the only one that we need to hear from.


Mr. LeBlanc: No, I made a presentation.


Senator Trenholme Counsell: Mr. LeBlanc, I think there is no doubt that in the end you have made a very important point about Ritalin and ADHD, but your main frustration in this case, and I do not want to go back regarding your employment with the Irvings and all those other things. I know you as a person who has taken a very strong and valid and important position on ADHD. Do you feel satisfied in the end? It is like Terry Fox, you do not get recognition right away. Do you feel now that you have achieved your goal?


Mr. LeBlanc: No, I understand your question, but like I said, I had to speak so fast.

It had nothing to do if I reached my goal on Ritalin. My goal for freedom of speech, that is the problem.

When you have Frank McKenna come to me when I was protesting, I met him in Fredericton, I have known him for a long time, he came to me and he said, “Charles, how come we have not seen any letters from you lately?”

It is the freedom of speech.

I do not want to compare the Irvings to this province to Germany.

We do not go around and execute people.

But do not forget, when Hitler took power, he took power of the media.

The media here, they call it Brunswick News, It’s call Irving News.

I mean, my issue of Ritalin, okay, did I succeed? I do not know, but this is not the point.

The point is to have people, New Brunswickers, be allowed the freedom of speech and they are denied big time.

Like I said, I wish I could have made my presentation in whole.

We were talking about advertising. I heard one person from the Telegraph Journal say, “If you do not pay your bills, we own all the newspapers.” The Senate, this committee must - see, I am just trying to answer a question and trying to get some more comments in here.

Quickly, the Irvings gave St. Thomas University $1 million to study journalism, to train journalists. Why did the Irvings give $1 million to St. Thomas and l’Université de Moncton? These people, when they go out, they are not going to write critical stories of the Irvings.

Look, it is freedom of speech.


The Chairman: Mr. LeBlanc, I am going to give Senator Munson a chance to ask a question if he wants, but I am also going to ask you please, because we are running out of time, but you do a blog so, you know how to do email. Could you send us a letter outlining your difficulties? In the meantime, I will undertake tomorrow, when we have representatives of Brunswick News here, to ask if they have a written policy on letters to the editor.


Senator Munson: If there is another message you want to give us, I would certainly accept that. I would throw out the easy question for you if you missed one or two things in a minute or so.


Mr. LeBlanc: I really appreciate that.

One thing that I was concerned of is that during the 1997 federal election, J.K. Irving wrote a letter to the editor and it was printed on the front page. I did not know what was going on, but maybe it was good because Paul Zed lost. Maybe that is why he lost because J.K. Irving told the public to vote for his son-in-law, but we will never know. The question is still there.

I was allowed a week later to condemn J.K. in his letters to the editor, and I have seen him face to face and trust me, he just looked at me and said, “I own the paper and I will put the damn letter anywhere I want to.”

But anyhow, that is his point. But the bottom line is, personally I respect the Irvings.

I respect J.K. Jack, Arthur, Kenneth and Jamie but James???

James Irving, J.K. Irving’s son, is totally out of control.

He’s like Mr. Burns on the Simpsons. “I will crush you with my bare hands.”


The Chairman: Thank you, Mr. LeBlanc. You made your point for us here.


Mr. LeBlanc: My blog is Charles LeBlanc, ADHD.


The Chairman: Thanks very much.
(French follows - continuing with The Chairman -- J’invite ...)

NO P.C.'S MLA'S AROUND BUT THE HORSES ARE PAYING CLOSE ATTENTION!!!

May 4-2005-T & C-2

IF YOU DON'T AGREE WITH THE POLICIES OF BERNARD LORD? MENTAL HEALTH WORKERS WILL PAY YOU A VISIT???

I was going to wait till the evening to write about this one but I can’t wait that long.
I left the Legislature and I noticed this woman having a chat with Tim Smith.




Of course being nosy Charles? I had to know what was going on????

She was a worker from Mental Health and they received an anonymous phone call saying there’s a protester out front of the Legislature who’s overwhelm and might have suicide tendencies?

Once I hear this? I said - Ohhh I got to blog this one!!!!

Mind you? She wasn’t impressed and she begged me not to write about this issue because it’s confidential!

Tim Smith quickly told her that he’s going to tell the MLA’s and the media about this one so let Charles write it!

I asked the worker- How long have you been with mental Health?

She answered - 5 years!


I quickly replied - I was in a tent for six months in front of the Legislature? Where were you people when I was protesting?

They must know that I’m nuts anyway!!!..lol….

Where were these workers from mental Health when Tim was protesting in front of the Legislature in the cold windy month of January?

That would have been the perfect time to chat with the guy because he was indeed down to the dumps!

These days? Tim is fine!!!What I find very disturbing is that mental Health would act on an anonymous caller!

That’s very scary!

Is this the Lord new Policies? If someone don’t agree with the Lord Government policies?

Send them to Mental Health!!!!

..... AND THEY SAY THAT I’M MAKING UP THESE STORIES!!!!

There’s always something doing on in front of the Legislature during the warm months of the year!

BY THE WAY??

Tim Smith will give a live interview with Steve Murphy on ATV news tonight at 6:30pm! This guy is a professional speaker when it comes to the issue of VLT!!!

Take the time to watch tonight at 6:30pm!!!

Please excuse my grammar because I just write the darn thing and send it along the information Highway!!

CLOWN WITH RED NOSE???? IN HIS OWN WORDS!!!!

Bon jour Charles!

I am the foolish fellow Clown who has been having a few small jokes with the guards at the government house.... the people's house, where the people's representatives take care of the people's concerns.

07061 Balloon Clown




Let me assure you I have done or said nothing that could be considered a threat to the security of either persons or property. My tactics are always non-violent.

I was in the government building a few days back. It was late in the afternoon and real quiet. I found my way up the stairs and to the visitors quarters. Not a soul in the place. So I leaned over the back rail and watched the show down below. Everybody pretty laid back and easy.

Well the guard on duty told me I could not stand and watch, I would have to take a seat. So I moved right down to front and centre and chose a seat. It took only a minute for the guard to come back to me. He said I could not sit in the front row. So I moved back one row.

This action caught the attention of one member down below. We made a few winks to each other and I showed him a big smile. I guess the clown nose on my face made him curious. He smiled a big smile right back. I motioned with my hands to the room full of empty chairs and shrugged my shoulders. The member caught my meaning and smiled. What was the guard thinking by asking me to move from one seat to another in an empty room? It would be different if some important people were present and needed the front row seat.

Well the guard comes back again. He tells me I cannot communicate with the persons down below. I explain that I am only responding to the member who was noticing the little drama in the gallery. Guess it was more interesting than the business in hand.

The guard lets me know that he can get me arrested if I continue to act as a free person in a free society. I did not want any trouble with my wife at the dinner table and so I decided to leave without any further drama. Lots of questions about the use of guards to keep innocent and harmless people from getting too close to the government.

Yesterday I saw Tim on the front steps of the government house. He had a nice outfit on. Looked a little bit like a priest of the money religion. I think he is making a point about government serving money at the expense of people.

We had a small conversation. I asked why his bag was out in the rain. He said it was not allowed on the step and under shelter of the porch. I thought maybe I could ask the folk inside a question about that. Guess the clown nose on my face scared them a bit and there were about six security persons circled inside the entrance. At the centre stood the sargent at arms. I think he has a bit of a short fuse.

Well he comes right up to my nose and tells me I cannot come into the building. I ask why? He gives no reason but crowds closer. I know pretty much how to handle myself in a dance and so stepped back to avoid getting my toes stepped on. In my own time I walked just outside the doors. A police officer followed to make sure I did not try anything funny.

On the step I turned to address the escort. In voice loud enough to be clearly heard by anyone nearby I asked if he was concerned about the increasing use of police powers to keep citizens from asking hard questions of the government. He told me there were channels for this. I answered that those channels were tightly controlled and make it almost impossible for an ordinary person to get close enough to be heard.

Tim watched quietly and probably wondered who the heck this clown might be. Guess I am just another member of the loyal opposition who doesn't mind sticking my neck out a bit to get the attention of the large numbers of people who are tired of governemt abuse but too discouraged to say or do anything about it.

After all, getting busted by the police for expressing a political opinion in a public place, can put a damper on spirits around the family table for supper.

Keep pushing Charles!

Keep pushing Tim!

Keep pushing Clown!

LNG PROTESTER DOING IT FOR POLITICAL GAIN???

I received this email this morning

This morning on the news there was an Irving Oil Employee putting down
Christopher Court saying that he is only doing this
because he wants his brother to be Mayor.




Well whatever I thought of it before
doesn't matter because I think that its just Corporate Bullying using
their Irving Owned Media to pass whatever they want people to think.

irving



There has been a hugh loss of respect for the Irvings lately and you hear it
everyday by alot of people who normally wouldn't even care.

I would Love to see Christopher Courts brother be Mayor, and Norm MacFarlane put out of there and so would alot of other people.

Norm was no good as an MLA, proven in the last election, so why would he be different as a Mayor.

I also think that Bernard Lord made another major mistake by agreeing with the Mayor for the people of Saint John to pay the tax break for the Irvings. Why
wouldn't Bernard agree with the Mayor, it wasn't his City of Moncton
that was made to pay.

I heard the Calais radio station when they were debateing whether to have an LNG plant and it was nothing like it was here.

In the USA they had their say and choice and they choose NO., here we
had an idiot Mayor who made a VERY BAD DECISSION FOR THE PEOPLE. OUT WITH
THE MAYOR OF SAINT JOHN!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thats what the people really wants and we also do not want to pay for the Irvings because we pay enough with our health!

CBC article about Tim Smith at the legislature...


CBC story on Tim...