Harper To Ban - "Peeing Cats"

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PMO muzzles MPs on gay Mountie union

OTTAWA — The Prime Minister's Office has warned Conservative MPs not to comment on the marriage next month of two gay RCMP constables.

The gag order went to all MPs but was aimed at "the small minority who might say something stupid," said one caucus member.

It's just the latest in a determined effort by Prime Minister Stephen Harper to control and limit his new government's public message track.

And it follows party strategists' successful suppression during the election campaign of outspoken social conservatives whose opinions might have harmed the party's climb to power.

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Tories to criminalize street racing
Last Updated Thu, 25 May 2006 19:27:56 EDT
CBC News

The federal government is cracking down on street racing by making it a criminal offence, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Thursday.

Harper said his government will introduce a bill that results in tougher sentences, including driving prohibitions for those convicted.

Currently, there is no law that specifically targets street racing. If someone is injured or killed during street racing, four offences under the Criminal Code could apply:

http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2006/05/25/streetracing.html

But what about the cats, you ask!

Beggars, Peeing Cats Targeted

Fortunetelling, panhandling and allowing cats to urinate in certain places will become fineable offenses under legislation that is making its way through the Moscow city legislature.

Fortunetellers and panhandlers would face fines of 300 rubles ($11), while the owner of a cat that pees near a neighbor's door would have to pay 1,000 rubles, according to the amendments to the City Administrative Code that passed in a first reading this week.

A second reading is scheduled for September, and the United Russia deputy who drafted the bill, Alexander Semenninkov, said Thursday that he hoped it would come into force by the start of next year. "I'm sure some of these provisions will seem amusing to some people," Semenninkov said by telephone. "But bans that may seem strange are quite normal, especially in countries with legal systems based on precedent. Look at some of those idiotic American laws, like punishing a man who deceives a girl by promising to marry her and doesn't follow through."

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2006/05/26/011.html

Ah. It must be something that he will introduce for Clean Skies, to reduce the ammonia in cities and improve the environment.