Canadian government propaganda has been used effectively to perpetuate
(propagate) this torture and murder for many years; since the Canadian
Coast Guard, Search and Rescue first attempted, August 1994, to
save these lives. (Over 350 canoe and kayak deaths, far larger than Air
India or any other single terrorist action in Canada. Canadian Red Cross
database.)
1.Victims Are Degraded To Be Blamed For Their Own Deaths; Whereas Any 10 Year Old Girls Without Previous Experience or Instruction Can Easily Rescue Themselves and Many Others From Deadly Waters, Far Superior To The Most Expert Instructor. Grieving families are similarly degraded (somehow their grief was the fault of their loved one), and deprived of their legal rights and community sympathy.

3. Transport Canada and the Canoe and Kayak Instructors lobby groups
have been conducting this murder scam for over 20 years, killing over 700
Canadians since Air India, and killing over 350 Canadians since the Sponson
Airbag Study August 1994 by the Canadian Coast Guard, that recommended
airbags for canoes and kayaks; but was destroyed. I have the Transport
Canada records. Propaganda has been financed by the Canadian government
to spread these deaths in such high numbers. Propaganda is essential
to perpetuate, propagate and spread these murders, as in Nazi Germany.
I have records of expert instructors, police officers and others admitting
that they cannot save themselves; whereas at first they will say that
they can, and the victims just needed more (expensive) instruction. Victims
are degraded in the eyes of the public and media, as seen at Nuremberg.
This is the only way for a deadly scam to propagate (same Latin root as
the word propaganda.) Thousands of Innocent, Grieving Citizens, connected
to the dead, have been degraded and cheated of their legal rights.

This is the largest post Milgram scientific study researching human torture and murder patterns in the world. Significantly, Minister of Public Safety A. Anne McLellan (after her involvement Feb. 3, 2004), and the Transport Canada officials show no remorse for these deaths; whereas the subjects in the Milgram experiments often were greatly distressed to find that they were capable of inflicting severe torture etc.
McLellan and those at Transport Canada behave more like Nazi murderers convicted at Nuremburg than Milgram subjects. The Milgram work was begun as a result of the baffling behavior shown at Nuremberg, by Nazis who could be kind to their own familes, but sadistic monsters to others. It is no surprise that this research reveals this scandal: it is a familiar pattern in history, as at Nuremberg. In order for so many victims to be tortured and killed without legal rights, large-scale government propaganda must degrade them, to blame them for their own deaths.
Historical Significance
This death rate is huge, considering that the Canadian canoe and kayak industry is so tiny, operating only 2 warm months and a few warm weekends every year. Reasonable citizens wonder why this industry does not try to sell more canoes and kayaks with built-in, easy, simple, self-rescue safety capability: $25 CO2 airbags below. The canoe/kayak rate of death is over 3 times the rate of death in the US, (not factoring in that they are paddled all year round south of the border by a much larger population). And over 100 times the death rate of cars, in use hours, for the Canadian population.
(The US death rate is also high. US Coast Guard report 071-01: "Canoes and kayaks have by far the highest fatality rates per million hours of exposure (.42) as any other boat type". Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation of the U.S. House of Representatives, May 15, 2001, BOAT/U.S. "A total of 105 canoeists and kayakers drowned in 1998. Canoes and kayaks have the highest fatality rate of all boat types ñ double the rate of personal watercraft and 4 times higher than open motorboats.")
*It should be carefully noted that the 2 young girls paddling a fully flooded canoe standing up have no previous experience. But they can easily maneuver this canoe to rescue a large and disabled adult or 2 from the water, since the gunwale is nearly level with the water surface and they can easily slide into the flooded craft. With airbags set normally, like the lower airbag in the picture, the canoe is self-bailing by leaning on one airbag to pour most of the water out. But the canoe is fully maneuverable, rock steady and can be paddled at 2 knots by these 7 and 10 year old girls with no previous experience, even fully flooded.

Without these large airbags, the girls would have no means to escape the water and would eventually die of hypothermia. These pictures were to be published in the Canadian Recreation Canoeing Association's "Kanawa" magazine, by 2 separate editors: in September 2000, "Kanawa Ken", and February 2001, Judy Lord, who replaced Ken. The magazine was not allowed to publish this article and these pictures, as this would negate CRCA/ORCA instruction programs that have no canoe rescues, except to paddle a swamped canoe to shore (impossible) as the dead Girl Guides and 3 Boys north of Winnipeg May 20, 2005 found out, in pain and terror. (I have these documents, the correspondence and the article for "Kanawa".)
This false, degrading, and deadly instruction has been recognized
for many years by famous authors:
" The famous Canadian canoeist Bill Mason reversed his traditional
rescue ideas after the Temiskaming tragedy, stating that these rescues
simply cannot work, in his last book: "canoe over canoe...I have since
changed my mind..." (Song of the Paddle,1988, p.126). A conclusion
C.E.S. Franks reached before Temiskaming, in The Canoe and White Water,
University of Toronto Press, 1977, p.123: "...nearly useless...On a stormy
lake where upsets are likely to occur, the water is often too rough and
choppy." The recent 2005 book "Expedition Canoeing" states: "The
canoe-over-canoe rescue touted by the Red Cross and Boy Scouts is generally
impossible to perform in a running sea. Far better to forget about the
swamped canoe and gear and put your efforts into rescuing the paddlers"
(p.202, Cliff Jacobson of the American Canoe Association's Hall
of Fame.) However, in
Deep Waters, James Raffan notes that Jacobson's
idea merely capsized more canoes, killing 12 boys and one leader, Ontario's
Lake Temiskaming, 1978. Also: "But on the second fateful night of
the camp, July 22, about 7:30 in the evening, Shea-Butcher, another leader,
and thirteen boys loaded the big canoe and headed out into Balsam Lake...
Somewhere in the middle of the lake, about two miles from shore... the
canoe upset. Whether this was from a sudden gust of wind on an otherwise
calm summer evening...in any case the big canoe upset. It had no air tanks,
sponsons,
or flotation chambers..." ("Deep Waters", p.108). This book and
others recognize that without sponsons victims cannot get out of
the water and succumb to hypothermia. Eleven died in those calm, warmer
July waters, about one hour's drive from the outskirts of Toronto."
All modern countries have a Level Flotation Law for small boats under 20 feet long, except for canoes and kayaks, that are exempted from this safety requirement by Transport Canada, despite the 1994 Canadian Coast Guard study. If you type "Level Flotation Standard" into Google, you will find within the Office of Boating Safety, Transport Canada website: "44. While floating in calm, clear water, the boat shall not list more than 30° with the weight redistributed." You will eventually find the same law in Australia and the United States, for example:
USCG Level Flotation Standard 33 CFR 183. Issued April 18, 1977;
Effective August 1, 1978 "Establishes level flotation standards on
rowboats and outboard boats less than 20 feet in length, the boats most
often involved in swamping and capsizing accidents, so that the boat will
float level when swamped and provide a safe platform until rescue."

Below, these early Airbags (sponsons) were invented in 1987, before
car airbags were factory-equipped on even the cheapest cars. These airbags
below should be larger, and CO2 inflated for fool-proof self-rescue capability
in seconds. The larger airbags enable these little girls to paddle fully
flooded to a disabled adult victim who can easily crawl over a flooded
gunwale, and then they can paddle the adult victim (even more than one
victim with the larger sponsons) to shore, at 2 knots standing up (but
preferably sitting down.) The girls are only standing up to simply demonstrate
the rock solid stability of a canoe with Airbags (sponsons) and a ton
(2,000 lbs.) of water ballast.


The Nuremberg Trials established that some Nazis, convicted of murder
and torture of innocent victims, also showed love and affection for their
own families and particular other persons. This baffled prosecutors at
Nuremberg, and eventually this phenomenon was studied by Dr. Stanley Milgram
1961-62 at Yale University. This research is probably the most important
ever undertaken in psychology. In Canada and the United States, as well
as most European countries, it was found that 65% of the population will
torture other innocent citizens with severe electric shock simply because
they are asked (and permitted by the authority present) to do so. They
will do this even if they believe the victim will possibly die. These psychology
experiments are no longer permitted since some subjects were greatly
distressed to discover that they were capable of torture. This research
is used everyday by military and police forces around the world, to prevent
commonplace obedience to authority from leading to abuse, malicious prosecution,
torture, and murder of innocent citizens. Transport Canada and A.
Anne McLellan have not been careful here.
Instructors now feel permission to degrade newcomers to canoeing and kayaking by making them perform unnecessary, difficult, and expensive "rescue" exercises that are so tricky that they require much time-consuming practice, and don't work in emergencies. Some instructors enjoy creating this artificial sense of "Superiority" over those they call "Newbies". In contrast, 2 young girls, 7 and 10 years of age, without previous experience, can easily and immediately perform far more effectively than any instructor: maneuvering a totally flooded canoe to rescue themselves and other victims from certain death in deadly waters.
Many instructors state that victims cause their own deaths (by not buying
enough expensive "safety" instruction from them), that does not work. Grieving
families are made to feel that their loved ones were to blame for their
own deaths! Or at least they know government authorities and the media
apparently believe that these deaths are inevitable! Degrading Propaganda
is an important tool in the perpetuation and spread of any profitable murder
scam, whether theft of property and lives in Nazi Germany, or in the relatively
tiny Transport Canada canoe and kayak scam, where instruction dollars are
stolen, and lives are taken, despite the truth of 2 little 7 and 10 year
old girls who can immediately, without previous experience, easily
rescue disabled adults from the water; just like modern Canadian Coast
Guard Search and Rescue Specialists, who have recognized for 10 years and
over 350 deaths, that airbags create a superior and inexpensive rescue
craft out of a kayak or canoe.
In this case we have Transport Canada and A. Anne McLellan insisting on the continuing cruel and agonizing deaths of about 25 Canadians in 2005, perhaps more; despite their full knowledge of $25 CO2 canoe and kayak airbags. Canadians are not only prevented from saving themselves and their children from cruel deaths, they are denied their Charter rights to own an inexpensive and superior rescue craft, similar to ones currently deployed by the Canadian Coast Guard in 2005 for tricky ocean shoreline rescues. These Canadian Coast Guard Search and Rescue personnel have asked me why this was not discovered years ago! I did not tell them about the SAR officer in August, 1994 being punished for whistleblowing, over 350 deaths ago, according to the Canadian Red Cross. It is better that they don't know, given the ruthless cover-up at Transport Canada. These Search and Rescue experts can be easily reached to appear for a trial.
Transport Canada Officials and A. Anne McLellan are insisting on even more numbers of cruel and agonizing Canadian deaths; despite no risk to their own lives saving these innocent Canadians and their children. They have no Nazi torturers threatening them if they save these victims. In fact they would be applauded for their courage to expose the cover-up of 350 cruel Transport Canada deaths. This is the duty of their offices. Recently this overwhelming evidence of Criminal Negligence has extended to Michael Bryant, Attorney General of Ontario.
There is simply no other legal or Historical precedent for this criminal action by powerful elected government officials, in Canada or any other civilized country in the world. MP Samuel Plimsoll was nearly destroyed by numerous libel actions from greedy ship owners. But the truth prevailed against private ship-owners.
(Notice that one airbag sponson is higher than the other. This is to
demonstrate total flooding. If it were set lower, the same as the other
sponson or "air bag", most of the water would pour out just by leaning
on one Airbag sponson. Also the two girls, 7 and 10 years of age, would
normally be sitting on the seats. However, even standing
up and having no previous experience, they can paddle the canoe that weighs
over one ton at a speed of 2 knots. They can also turn and pick up any
victims in the water. No expert instructor can do this, no matter
how much fraudulent instruction and practice. Even large and disabled adults
can be rescued by the girls from the water easily, since victims only have
to make it over the low gunwale to be in the canoe, so that they can be
paddled to shore at 2 knots.)

Two of these eleven-year-old Girl Guides died an hour later, May 31, 2003.
Many families believe that their loved ones are to blame for their own
deaths. This is the natural consequence of the cover-up of the Transport
Canada sponsored canoe and kayak scam, where citizens are lied to, defrauded,
endangered, degraded; and sometimes they die an agonizing death for which
they are blamed. They are denied the truth of any two young girls without
any previous experience who can, for the past 10 years or 350 Canadian
deaths, rescue disabled adults from the water easily, just like Coast Guard
professional SAR specialists. Canadians are denied basic rights under the
Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, due to the criminal cover-up of
the Transport Canada Murder Scam.
Contact Tim Ingram (tim@sponsonguy.com)
Georgian Bay Kayak Ltd.
231 Gordon Drive
Penetanguishene, Ontario
Canada, L9M 1Y2
(705) 549-3722
Page last updated May 12, 2006