Canadian Census and Lockheed Martin Connection

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Canadian Census and Lockheed Martin Connection

No penalty for woman who refused census

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/saskatchewan/story/2011/01/20/
sk-finley-sentence-1101.html

Last Updated: Thursday, January 20, 2011 | 11:53 AM CST

The Saskatoon woman found guilty after refusing to fill out a long-form census has received an absolute discharge.

Sandra Finley was found guilty last week in provincial court of violating the Statistics Act and had been facing a maximum fine of $500 and a jail sentence of three months.

Instead, Judge Sheila Whelan granted a discharge, which means there will be no penalty.

Finley said she was pleased with the decision.

"I was hopeful," she said. "I did not know what to expect because I totally did not expect a guilty verdict in the first place. So this is welcome."

Finley, a community activist, refused to fill out the longer version of the 2006 federal census over concerns that Statistics Canada was using the services of U.S. defence manufacturer Lockheed Martin.

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http://www.cbc.ca/canada/saskatchewan/story/2011/01/20/
sk-finley-sentence-1101.html

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More info on Lockheed Martin/Census:

http://sandrafinley.ca/?page_id=70

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LETTER: Kurtenbach: Canadian Census and Lockheed Martin

From: "Leo Kurtenbach" <leokurt@sasktel.net>

Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 3:17 PM

Subject: Canadian Census and Lockheed Martin

To the Editor,

This letter is written in support of my friend Sandra Finley of Saskatoon.
Sandra, as well as a number of other Canadians across Canada, refused to complete the last federal census, when she discovered that some of the Canadian census material had been sub-contracted to one of the world's biggest arms manufacturer: an American behemoth corporation named Lockheed Martin.

Sandra Finley is a well-informed, courageous activist for a peaceful Canada and a peaceful world.

The following is a scant description of the corporate power of Lockheed Martin [L.M.].

It is an integral part of the American war and weapons taxpayer's burden of around one trillion dollars annually. L.M. produces fighter planes, drones, cluster bombs, land mines and weapons with Depleted Uranium [DU] and nuclear bombs. It is also involved in the U.S. postal service, the Internal Revenue Service [IRS], and Census statistics. And now it has come to Canada to help in our Census programs. It operates in 44 states in the U.S. with 140,000 employees. Your readers may be interested in knowing, that among its many other diverse interests, Lockheed Martin is instrumental in hiring interrogators for overseas prisons including Guantanamo Bay and Abu Graib in Iraq.

And now Aerospace Giant Lockheed Martin has donated a $3.5 million Training Package to the Saskatchewan Indian Institute of Technology [SIIT] near Saskatoon at Whitecap. It appears that SIIT will be a training facility in the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [Drones]. This program has been publicized as "The center is an expression of a successful public private partnership with Industrial and Regional Benefits related to military defence procurement at the core."

However, Canadian taxpayers should be aware that we are partnered in all this through the Government of Canada, [Western Economic Diversification and Industry in Canada], the Province of Saskatchewan, the Saskatoon Airport Authority and SIAST. We are the original fund providers through "offset agreements" in the various lucrative contracts Lockheed Martin has with the federal Government. Remember, Lockheed's extensive record of procurement fraud in the U.S. and the millions of dollars it spends on lobbying in the U.S. and now in Canada. They are corrupt and use it for their bottom line.

Am I being too harsh on this gigantic corporation? Read the words of Chris Hedges. He is an American global journalist, a war correspondent, and the author of at least 8 books. His education includes a Master of Divinity degree from Harvard Divinity School. He has received numerous awards for his work. Here are a few excerpts from a published article written on January 10th 2011: "Power does not rest with the electorate. It does not reside with either of the two major political parties"; and "Power rests with the corporations. And corporations gain very lucrative profits from war, even wars we have no chance of winning"
For more detailed information about Lockheed Martin, see Sandra's web
site:
www.sandrafinley.ca

Leo Kurtenbach,
Box 268, Cudworth, Sask., SOK IBO
Phone: (306) 256 3638