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Canada?s Day of Apology: June 11

As predicted, the Government of Canada has been taking steps towards addressing injustices suffered by our Aboriginal peoples since colonization. It was announced today that Prime Minister Harper will issue a formal apology on behalf of Canada to the survivors of the residential school system.

Former governments have been very resistant to the idea of issuing a formal apology, likely wanting to distance themselves from any associated liability. In 1998, the Liberal government weighed the pros and cons of a formal apology. Then Indian Affairs Minister, Jane Stewart, issued a ?Statement of Reconciliation? ?saying the government was ?deeply sorry? for those who suffered the ?tragedy? of physical and sexual abuse at the schools. The statement also included a $350-million healing fund.?

Prime Minister Harper?s apology will be the first time a Canadian PM has acknowledged the abuses and issued formal apology to Canada?s First Nations. This follows a 2005 commitment of $1.7 billion in compensation payments to survivors of residential schools. The apology will also coincide with the launch of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission that will hold cross-Canada hearings later this year into the treatment students endured and the legacy of these schools.

The residential schools were an extension of religious missionary work. They started receiving federal support in 1874 as part of Canada?s campaign to assimilate aboriginals into Christian society by obliterating their language, religion and culture. Well over 100,000 native children passed through the schools, most of which were closed in the mid-1970s.

Many hope the apology will be a step forward and a means to begin national reconciliation:

The federal government admitted 10 years ago that physical and sexual abuse in the once-mandatory schools was rampant. That legacy of abuse and isolation has been cited by Indian leaders as the root cause of epidemic rates of alcoholism and drug addiction on Indigenous Canadian reserves.

Many of the surviving former students recall being beaten for speaking their native languages and losing touch with their parents and native customs.

I think this will be one of Harper?s most important legacies, if progressive Canadians can put aside their partisanship for a moment and recognize a good policy from the Conservative government.

I won?t even hold it against them that they?re stealing the thunder from my upcoming birthday?

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Human Rights Complaint Forces College to Permit Pro-Life Group Official Club Status

I have never been so happy to have been so wrong. When I learned that the Capilano College Heartbeat Club filed a human rights complaint because it was denied club status at Capilano College (and thus discriminated against its religious beliefs) I thought to myself: what a dumb move. I expected the Club to be beaten back, because the HRC's are bastions of political correctness.

But it looks like that that move proved fruitful, as the Capilano College Student Union has agreed to allow the club to have official status.

Good for you.

I wonder if this will open the floodgates for other human rights complaints from other college pro-life groups. That remains to be seen.

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Kill Geert, enriching immigration until you have no free speech and end up a Paper tiger.

Geert Wilders may be many things ? he is self-confident to the point of vanity and stubborn to the point of sacrificing himself. But he?s not a right-wing populist.

For one thing, he?s a radical liberal. For another, what he?s doing at the moment is extremely unpopular.

Unpopular with MSM?s and activists but how about ?we the people.?

If fanatical Muslims do, in fact, go ballistic over Wilder?s film ?Fitna,? it?s not because they have a flawed relationship to freedom of speech and religion, but because they?ve been insulted and provoked by Wilders ? or so the reasoning goes.

It?s because they should not be here if they will go ballistic and kill over something as silly as a film they need to be removed.

It was followed by a report on the relaxed response of Dutch Muslims, who were shown sitting in their cafes peacefully drinking coffee while Wilders raised havoc outside.

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According to Buhrow?s narration: ?The knives are already being sharpened ? but only for the doner kebabs.? But he forgot to mention that, by that point, ?Fitna? had already been pulled off the video portal LiveLeak, where it had been first published (more?). The British provider had received death threats that it took as seriously as they were intended ? a not entirely irrelevant bit of information that the ARD anchorman opted to omit, so as not to confuse his viewers with too many details.

According to this interpretation of events, Wilders has only himself to blame for the fact that he has to be under 24-hour police protection and sleep in a different location every night. If he?d taken on, say, the Federation of Dutch Floriculturists, his private life would be fully intact.

Or if they stopped immigration 3 decades ago.

Unfortunately, one needs to point out at this juncture that it?s not Wilders? obsessive arrogance that has robbed him of his private life, but the memory of how and why director Theo van Gogh was murdered, namely by a Dutch-born Muslim of Moroccan heritage. He, too, probably liked sitting in cafes drinking coffee peacefully ? until one fine morning, when he set off to kill the ?provocateur? van Gogh, who would presumably still be alive today if he hadn?t been so silly as to make an ?anti-Islamic? film.

What he wanted to accomplish had already been accomplished (more?) with the threat to show an ?anti-Islamic video.? He showed the ?free West? to be a paper tiger. The Dutch government distanced itself from the project and asked its ambassadors in Muslim countries to explain to their host governments the situation in their home country, where the government is not as omnipotent as it would like to be.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,544478,00.html

Well Richard Warmans and others want us to be paper tigers. thats why they will never target a Muslim with their efforts. But if you quote one like Mark Steyn did, that will result in your conviction, err charges laid.

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Behold a Pale hobbyhorse (The Galloping Beaver)

Steve's mission statement for the Canada First Defence StrategyMonday - $30 billionJay Paxton, Peter MacKay's press secretary : "As such, the speeches are the strategy."Dan Dugas, MacKay's senior spokesman : "The strategy is what they unveiled."Wednesday - upon further reconsideration - $50 billionPeter MacKay's office : "There's a very detailed cabinet document that lays this down and more."Defence Department senior military official who apparently cannot be named : "There is a very solid, detailed document in existence. It's not just stuff pulled out of the air." Ok, so not just something Steve pulled out of his ass which he can stuff right back in again when it suits him (h/t Boris)There is a plan - they're just not entirely sure what it is yet - but Pale at A Creative Revolution took particular note of this :"One senior officer used an expletive to express his dissatisfaction with how, in his view, the most proactive spending plan the Forces have ever seen was being…

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