The Black Rod   Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Wednesday, April 30, 2008  The Human Rights Museum: Double
trouble for the NDP  Oh, the irony.  Winnipeg firefighters are
getting hugs from Gail Asper and Winnipeg taxpayers are getting
hosed again.  For the second week in a row we've had to watch a
carefully choreographed exercise designed to convince us there's
a groundswell of support for the Canadian Museum for Human
Rights.  First, four Crown Corporations handed over one million
dollars apiece of money taken from ratepayers who thought they
were buying services like car insurance and electricity from
government monopolies.  Then, the Winnipeg firefighters union
pledged one dollar from each member for five years for the
museum, millionaire moocher Gail Asper's vanity project. Between
hugs from her, they promised to try and collect the same amount
from every firefighter in Manitoba.  Obviously the Firefighters
Burn Fund doesn't need the money.  You don't need to be a fire
investigator to know something