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Canada?s Day of Apology: June 11

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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

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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.




For more social conservative news check out BigBlueWave.ca

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

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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.

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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.

Behold a Pale hobbyhorse (The Galloping Beaver)

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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…

Editorial: Liberal Party Disappointment

March 7th, 2008 - MadHacktress

This is my editorial as it appeared in The Kingston Whig Standard on Thursday (some slight changes were made by the editor):

The Liberal Party of Canada - my party - is driving me insane. The longer Stephen Harper sits in the Prime Minister’s Office and gets a free ride from the Liberals, the more I wish that I was a Conservative.

It has been so long since I’ve been proud of my party that I’m just getting sick of it. If it wasn’t a complete abandonment of all sense and reason to do so, I would love to switch parties, just to be on the winning team for a while; to remember what that feels like.

The Ontario Liberal Party is no better than the federal Liberals. Premier Dalton McGuinty’s wins are paper-thin, and unless Progressive Conservative leader John Tory eats a kitten in the middle of town square, McGuinty isn’t going to have a job after the next provincial election.

It’s really sad that we Liberals have to understand and accept that the one and only reason our party managed to stay in power in Ontario is because the other guy came out with that crackpot promise to fund private faith-based schools. If Tory had just coasted through election day, this province would be awash in Conservative blue.

I don’t know what the Liberal Party of Canada and the Ontario Liberal Party are thinking, or how exactly they managed to collectively get brain damage, but they need to get their act together - and soon.

I hope everyone is starting to realize that Stephane Dion was a bad choice for leader of the federal party; I was against his leadership bid from the beginning. The new-direction blitz that carried him to the leadership hasn’t served Canadian Liberals very well, given that they’re staring down the barrel of yet more Stephen Harper with no election in sight.

And I am sick and tired of being told that I don’t want an election. Open up the polls, baby, ’cause I’ll show up, and I know a lot of other Canadians who’ll show up, too.

The Liberals need to start trying to save face with the electorate. This means they have to start living up to their title as Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition. Stephane Dion’s Liberals have been anything but a loyal opposition - to their members, to the nation and to the Queen.

I would like to see the Liberals vote against future confidence motions in the House of Commons immediately and unwaveringly; if someone has to stop Canadians from having their say at the polls, let it be the Bloc Quebecois or the NDP. Then, for a change, it won’t be the Liberal Party that gets horse-whipped for having to concede to the Conservatives yet again. Maybe then I’ll even feel a little bit proud that the Liberals are my party.

I am so frustrated.

Leave Cuba Alone!

February 22nd, 2008 - MadHacktress

This week both president Bush as well as the other candidates for The Highest Office In The Land have called on Cuba to move toward Democracy. I say: leave Cuba alone.

The Cuban people are just as welcomed to use any form of governmental selection process they choose. In fact, in Cuba, the candidates for nominations require at least 50% support of the electorate in order for successful nomination. So far no candidate has failed to receive this support - ever. Most candidates receive a vast majority support from their constituents.

While, yes, the national government of Cuba is a one-party government, meaning that all successful nominees are acclaimed to their positions, that doesn’t make it any less viable as a choice than so-called true democracy. The constituents of Cuba have a voice in the nomination of their candidates. They have a voice in the selection of their representatives.

Each of those candidates has received at least 50% support of the populace in their district; many American and Canadian representatives cannot make the same claim. President Bust, for example, in the year 2000 received only 47.9% support of his electorate in direct elections. However, due to fun electoral math, he was elected president… even though 543,816 more people thought that the other guy was the better guy.

Cuba, similarly, has indirect elections for its President of the Council of State, a position which Fidel Castro has held since its creation. He has received overwhelming support from the members of the council, and has been a charismatic and popular leader to the vast majority of his country.

It is my opinion, therefore, that Cuba be allowed to continue to elect its leaders through whatever means it chooses. It would anger me a great deal if someone else were to suggest that my electoral system - the Westminster System - is flawed or undemocratic.

Ontario Helmet Laws Discriminate Against Sikhs

February 17th, 2008 - MadHacktress

The socialist in me totally respects your right to your own religious beliefs, as long as they do not hurt anyone else.

That is why I hope that this fellow wins his case.

If he tries to get monetary compensation based on psychological or emotional distress, though, I am going to want to punch him in the nose.

Crossing The Floor : A Poll

December 15th, 2007 - MadHacktress

Crossing the floor is term that refers to switching parties mid-term for a sitting member.  Usually, though not always, this is done seemingly to switch from one side the political spectrum to the other (or, in Canada, to switch from the governing party to the official opposition, or vise versa).

If your member switched parties, would you vote for them in spite of their new party affiliation?

Would you vote for your member if they crossed the floor?

  • Maybe, it would depend on the reason. (79%, 23 Votes)
  • Absolutely NOT! (21%, 6 Votes)
  • Yes, of course. (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Only as an independant (0%, 0 Votes)
  • I don’t vote (0%, 0 Votes)

Total Voters: 29

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Party Politics versus The Guy

December 13th, 2007 - MadHacktress

I enjoyed the poll from yesterday. I was surprised that nearly 60% of the people who took the poll said that they would vote for Stephan Dion as leader today if they had a chance. I had expected this number to be much lower, closer to 50/50.

So, since I got such a kick out of seeing what other people thought about Stephan Dion’s performance as leader (or appropriateness as leader, or however people interpreted the question), I have another informal poll. Since we live in Canada - most of us - where Party Politics is King I have the following question to ask: do you vote along party lines versus voting for your member based on his or her own qualifications/opinions/etc.

I am referring specifically to your member of federal parliament.

Do you usually vote for the party, or the candidate, in your riding?

  • The party (69%, 11 Votes)
  • Neither/Both/Other (19%, 3 Votes)
  • The candidate (13%, 2 Votes)
  • I don’t vote (0%, 0 Votes)

Total Voters: 16

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