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  Leon Benoit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Leon Earl Benoit (born July 7, 1950, Lloydminster, Alberta) is a Canadian politician.
Benoit is currently a member of the Conservative Party of Canada in the Canadian House of Commons, representing the riding of Lakeland since 1997 and Vegreville from 1993 to 1997.
Benoit is the current official opposition critic of Public Works and Government Services and of the Canadian Wheat Board and is the former opposition critic of Intergovernmental Affairs, Citizenship and Immigration, and National Defence.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Leon_Benoit   (140 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Leon Benoit: I'm not surprised that it has been some time, because I know we've been down here as a group since 1993 and we've been recommending changes to the IMM 1000s to make them into a much more effective identification card.
Leon Benoit: To me, your general comment would make a lot of sense, that it would save the government money if a system were put in place that would allow for better identification.
Leon Benoit: According to media reports on the case of the California Jupiter, the people who were coming illegally had access to the deck of the ship throughout the voyage.
www.securitymanagement.com /library/Can_stowaway.txt   (17647 words)

  
 Health, security put at risk, says Reform   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Leon Benoit called for tougher immigration laws as Canadian officials began interviewing the third boatload of illegal Chinese migrants to arrive in B.C. waters since July.
Benoit said Canada must show the world it is prepared to get tough with human smugglers and illegal migrants.
Benoit said immigration costs to taxpayers are accelerating and Canada's trade partnership with the United States is threatened, because the Americans are considering tightening their border to stop the flow of illegal migrants.
www.canadafirst.net /immi-kill/reform_calls_for_health_checks.html   (587 words)

  
 Leon Benoit, MP   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Ottawa, ON (16 May 2003): Leon Benoit, Senior Defence Critic for the Canadian Alliance, today supported a call by Conservative Senator Mike Forrestall for a full independent judicial inquiry into the government's mishandling of a deal to replace the military's Sea King helicopters.
Benoit asked the Auditor General to audit the project immediately, but she is restricted from doing so unless the government supports the audit.
Benoit addressed concerns that an inquiry would delay the project by saying, "This project is going nowhere fast anyway, and any contract awarded under the current process will probably result in lengthy court challenges.
www.leonbenoit.com /PressReleases/Defence/demand.html   (272 words)

  
 SCONDVA - Transcripts - Monday, April 20, 1998
Leon Benoit: That makes it sound like not only was the Airborne disbanded, but now you want to keep the soldiers hidden somewhere.
Leon Benoit: So you'd be in favour of having pay increases based on the level of expertise in your trade rather than just limiting it to having to move up the ranks to get a pay increase.
Leon Benoit: I would certainly like to hear from anyone here who was actually at those briefings and heard the Chief of Defence Staff say some of the things that are reported, because it seems that he didn't win a lot of friends here on the base with what he said–
www.dnd.ca /hr/Scondva/engraph/200498_e.asp   (16097 words)

  
 04079901
Reform MP Leon Benoit argued that unchecked immigration poses real dangers in terms of the increased likelihood of terrorism and international drug trafficking.
Benoit was joined by Martin Collacott, a former Canadian ambassador to Syria, Lebanon and Cambodia, and Mike Taylor, a former Citizenship and Immigration Canada inspector and author of The Truth About Immigration.
Benoit was in B.C. on an immigration fact-finding tour.
www.nsnews.com /issues99/w041299/04079901.html   (680 words)

  
 Sherwood Park News, Sherwood Park, AB   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Benoit, first elected to the House in the 1993 Reform wave, recently earned the right to run in the new constituency following four nights of voting in locations all over the vast riding.
But rural Strathcona is “Ken Epp country,” and Benoit is finding residents of the area aren’t generally aware that their longtime MP has seen his Elk Island riding chopped down and turned into Edmonton-Sherwood Park.
Benoit, though, hasn’t been front and centre for his party as he remained in his riding to ensure he secured the nomination.
www.sherwoodparknews.com /story.php?id=93167   (440 words)

  
 Lloydminster Meridian Booster, Lloydminster, AB   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Lakeland MP Leon Benoit has a lot of paperwork to look over in his new role as government works critic, but he’s glad one paper trail ended before it could begin.
Lloydminster Meridian Booster — Lakeland MP Leon Benoit has a lot of paperwork to look over in his new role as government works critic, but he’s glad one paper trail ended before it could begin.
Benoit says most MPs would’ve done their best to make sure the money went to appropriate causes, but a few would’ve likely used it as a slush fund to buy votes or pay off supporters.
www.meridianbooster.com /story.php?id=75811   (301 words)

  
 MADD Canada
Benoit's Bill effectively alters the presumptions of the offence, so that the burden of proof is no longer on our police officers, but on the accused when their BAC reading is 0.08% or above."
"Leon Benoit is championing real change here and this legislation is a cornerpiece to more effective laws in our country," says Mr.
In a press release issued by MP Leon Benoit, he stated: "Our system is not working, and we are not getting drunk drivers off the roads….
www.madd.ca /english/news/pr/p030925.htm   (479 words)

  
 Leon Benoit -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Leon Benoit -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
Leon Earl Benoit (born July 7, 1950, (additional info and facts about Lloydminster, Alberta) Lloydminster, Alberta) is a (A river rising in northeastern New Mexico and flowing eastward across the Texas panhandle to become a tributary of the Arkansas River in Oklahoma) Canadian politician.
He has also been a member of the (additional info and facts about Canadian Alliance) Canadian Alliance (2000-2003) and the (additional info and facts about Reform Party of Canada) Reform Party of Canada (1993-2000).
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/le/leon_benoit.htm   (130 words)

  
 Lloydminster Meridian Booster, Lloydminster, AB   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Lloydminster Meridian Booster — Lakeland Alliance MP Leon Benoit didn’t hesitate to harshly criticize colleague Larry Spencer for anti-gay remarks printed in the Vancouver Sun Nov. 27.
Benoit stopped short of calling for Spencer’s removal from the party, however.
Benoit supports Harper’s moves that made it clear intolerant comments won’t be accepted within the Alliance, but says Spencer’s remarks were out of character.
www.meridianbooster.com /story.php?id=82135   (330 words)

  
 SCONDVA - Transcripts - Thursday, May 7, 1998
Leon E. Benoit (Lakeland, Ref.): Leon Benoit, deputy defence critic for the Reform Party and member of Parliament from Lakeland, Alberta.
Leon Benoit: Has the American military recognized this as a legitimate disease and have they compensated their people who have been diagnosed with this?
Leon Benoit: I certainly have to look into this in more depth, and I'd appreciate it if I could get your phone number after so I can get in touch with you.
www.dnd.ca /hr/scondva/Engraph/070598_e.asp   (16343 words)

  
 Vermilion Standard, Vermilion, AB   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Stewart expressed his doubts that Leon Benoit will be able to represent his constituents effectively based on his record in parliament.
Benoit already looking ahead to what he can do for his constituents during his next term in parliament.
“Leon is going to have to prove himself, because somebody’s going to be watching him this time,” said Stewart.
www.vermilionstandard.com /story.php?id=108024   (825 words)

  
 nationalpost6182001.html
Leon Benoit, now sharing the National Defence post in the party's shadow Cabinet, says he twice met with Paul Fromm, head of the Canada First Immigration Reform Committee, a far-right organization linked to white power groups that advocates a moratorium on new immigrants from "non-traditional" source countries.
Benoit disavows the group's more extreme ideas, he said the meetings, held about two years ago, were informative.
Benoit flatly rejects the claims and says neither he nor his staff have spoken with Canada First Immigration Reform Committee or Mr.
www.antiracistaction.ca /nationalpost6182001.html   (812 words)

  
 The Militant - January 17, 2000 -- 'Anti-terrorist' raids target democratic rights   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
CSIS director Ward Elcock said that 50 "terrorist" organizations have a presence in Canada and that 350 individuals are being tracked.
Leon Benoit, immigration spokesperson in Parliament for the opposition and rightist Reform Party, has called for tighter immigration restrictions by the Canadian government.
Benoit called the current regulations "a sieve" that allows "terrorists and others into the country."
www.themilitant.com /2000/6402/640202.html   (589 words)

  
 ReformWatch20 ANALYSIS: Whose side are they on?
The identical argument was made by MP Leon Benoit in attacking a call for fairer taxes made by a representative of the Canadian Teachers Federation.
MP Leon Benoit tried to convert representatives of Canada's film industry to his anti-government cultural theories.
Benoit then gave the industry representatives a pep talk, saying they were selling themselves short if they though they could not compete under cultural free trade.
www.web.net /~refwatch/20/side5.htm   (529 words)

  
 The Freedom-Site  ---  CONTROVERSIAL COLUMNISTS - COLLINS COLUMN: A Word in favour of Extremism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
It happened after I'd read the bibble-babble in the National Post about how Alliance MP Leon Benoit had been tricked into talking to the sinister Mr.
Benoit rated a three-column photo for having strayed an inch from the proper path.
And although he was quoted as saying that the anti-immigration extremist - Fromm - had some good ideas, he also said he had not spoken to him "since learning of the Fromm group's unsavory reputation".
www.freedomsite.org /colum/collins46.html   (751 words)

  
 cbc.ca
But the committee couldn't agree on a Bloc Québécois motion to have Canada pursue a role as an "honest broker" in the process.
Benoit said Canada is too closely tied with the United States, geographically and politically, to be credibly impartial.
At an emergency meeting of the Commons committee, BQ MP Francine Lalonde said Canada could be an "honest broker" helping to select weapons inspectors that Iraq would accept into their country.
cbc.ca /cgi-bin/templates/email.cgi?/2002/09/16/committee_iraq020916   (402 words)

  
 National - Ottawa Citizen Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In a letter to the commission last month, Reform immigration critic Leon Benoit accused the Women at Risk program of representing "a serious violation of human rights."
Their countries of origin include Sudan, Somalia, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Croatia, Yugoslavia and Iraq.
Benoit and academics Ferrel Christensen of the University of Alberta and Adam Jones of the University of British Columbia.
www.fact.on.ca /newpaper/oc990712.htm   (539 words)

  
 Newsbeat 1: Leon Benoit- whistleblower protection.......
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing -- Edmund Burke
Leon Benoit (Vegreville—Wainwright, CPC): Madam Speaker, I am pleased the House finally has started debate on Bill C-11 to enact whistleblower legislation.
This is the second legislation that has come to the House to deal with whistleblowers.
newsbeat1.com /2005/10/leon-benoit-whistleblower-protection.html   (1385 words)

  
 Dom Paul Benoit - Classical Composers Database   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Dom Paul Benoit: Elevations V1 —, organ solo,
Dom Paul Benoit: Elevations V2 —, organ solo,
Thomas II Adams, Hendrik Andriessen, Johann Sebastian Bach, Claude-Beninge Balbastre, Samuel Barber, Dom Paul Benoit, Leon Boellmann, Dietrich Buxtehude, Barrie Cabena, Charles-Alexis Chauvet, Hugo Distler, Norberto Guinaldo, Albert de Klerk, Franz Liszt, Robin Milford, Bernardo Pasquini, Geoffrey (composer) Shaw
www.classical-composers.org /cgi-bin/ccd.cgi?comp=benoit_paul   (438 words)

  
 Léon (1994)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Plot Outline: Professional assassin Leon reluctantly takes care of 12-year-old Mathilda, a neighbor whose parents are killed, and teaches her his trade.
Goofs: Continuity: In the uncut version when Mathilda goes on her first "hit" with Leon, she shoots the guy with red paint pellets.
The position and shape of the paint changes on the guy's white T-shirt.
us.imdb.com /Details?0110413   (566 words)

  
 Toronto Hemp Company (THC) - Information - Archives - Immigration Goes To Pot   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Immigration officials, citing a 1990 U.S. survey that said 62.6% of Americans aged 26 to 34 had smoked pot, said it would be too costly and labour intensive to probe every dope-smoking person who applied to come here.
But Alliance Party immigration critic Leon Benoit said the dope smokers can progress to hard drugs and commit crimes once here.
"These people are breaking the law," Benoit said.
www.torontohemp.com /news/news8.htm   (330 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Benoit.L@parl.gc.ca Leon Benoit (Ref. Lakeland, Alberta) phone: (613) 992-4171 fax: (613) 996-9011 Reform immigration critic Leon Benoit accused the Liberals of doing nothing to stop a dangerous practice.
Benoit said refugee claimants entering Canada under suspicious circumstances should be detained until their identification is verified, or until they have a hearing.
Deportation orders for rejected refugees should be issued immediately, he added.
www.canadafirst.net /news/second_boatload_day2-speak_up.html   (639 words)

  
 info.forum
Eleni Bakopanos, Leon Benoit, Louis Plamondon, Elsie Wayne, Svend Robinson
As they explain their roles within the government process, Wayne - a breath of fresh air in Parliament - stands out as an early crowd-pleaser.
(Later, when she kisses Bloc Quebecois rep Benoit on the forehead to punctuate her remark that "the rest of Canada like our people IN Quebec," students and teachers alike erupt with cheers and rousing applause.)
www.forum.ca /english/alumni/3-2000b.html   (594 words)

  
 Alberta MP Says Tell MPs You Won’t Vote For Them if They Support Same-Sex Marriage
LLOYDMINSTER, Alberta, January 13, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) — Leon Benoit, Conservative MP for Vegreville—Wainwright in Alberta, emphasized the strategy that is most likely to motivate MPs to change their minds about supporting the federal government’s marriage redefinition bill.
The local paper reported that Benoit also said that to block the legislation, Canadians need to change the minds of 20 MPs who would currently vote for the same-sex legislation.
The MP asked local citizens to encourage people across Canada to write, call and email their MPs.
www.lifesite.net /ldn/2005/jan/05011401.html   (331 words)

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