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$100 million "earmarked" for compensation to LBGTQ2 people. Why only $100 million? How did a federal bureaucrat arrive at that round number? Why not $200 million, or $2 billion? Maybe we owe LBGTQ2 people $300 billion. Maybe Trudeau should "earmark" $300 billion for these people. In the case of Khadr, why $10 million? Why not $100 million? Who invents these numbers? Trudeau Jnr is writing cheques - but using the credit cards of other people. My fear: Justin Trudeau is bi-polar, like his mom.

Agreed, but it goes way back, long before today's high profile cases and social media shaming. We started getting formal sexual harassment training on an annual basis back in the early 1980's, about the same time that all the excesses of business relationships and travel were being reigned in. The training was documented by HR for compliance and potential lawsuits. People who didn't change started to get fired on top of large payouts to victims....companies could no longer tolerate the behaviour because of the liability. The Hollywood film "9 to 5" (1980) famously spoofed such common excesses by mostly male superiors, but coworkers and female bosses were not innocent in such matters. These common workplace elements were changed or eliminated by HR edict and altered employee behaviour: "Swedish Bikini Team" (of U.S. beer commercial fame) and like minded wall calendars/posters from offices and work spaces Happy hour drinking binges by coworkers and/or superiors for "team building" Company holiday parties with open bar...one drink ticket per employee instead. Vulnerable "secretaries" became an endangered species because of technology....the few that remained became "Executive Assistants". Co-ed business travel and industry conventions were cut way back and layered with more rules and restrictions Workplace romances were stifled by HR rules for direct reporting employees Dress codes were beefed up to keep "temptation" and "flirtation" out of the workplace. Males (and females) were said to "get it" once they voluntarily changed their behaviours and language, those that didn't were eventually shown the door after warnings and reprimands, unless they had more organizational power than HR. Females started to get more promotions to leadership positions (and power). A big casualty of all this was workplace mentoring...many males started playing it very safe so as to avoid even the appearance of sexual harassment. The pendulum swung back a bit once the new norm was established, but some sectors never made the leap (government, media, etc.), as they preferred to just keep paying the private settlements over sanctioning or termination of high revenue producing men/women. Hollywood is/was the perfect breeding ground for continued sexual harassment by its very nature and film productions.

I think the question is whether or not its "safe" for a man to work alone with a woman or not. Given the current climate of media broadcasting every allegation, real or unfounded, the answer has to be not. Mike Pence is right.

I behave like someone who designs and builds mechanical devices for a half century. As it turns out: I have had to obey the laws of physics every time, in spite of wanting to be above such plebian considerations. It is not stones that are in your way, it is knowledge and understanding. BTW: my "brainwashed kids" are both accomplished scientists, one of who teaches biochem at University and the other who is a senior scientist with a large international company.

What a stupid way of thinking. You are acting like a grass more than a human being. Are you just living for cows to eat you or dogs to pee on you ? Who are these scientists ? Are they alliens or something else which is believe to be something superior to you ? Nah they are not, they having toilet like as you and they are eating dried meat and scratching their ass and the worst part many of them believes homosexuality is something scientific but they think the only problem they do not have a proof. Now, I just think 5 minutes more and I found a new way for you. We can name this system as "Bonam's barren head". LoL is it not funny ? Here the system is divided into four sections. The upper section is full of air, the left section full of a liquid with density:2, the right one full of a liquit with density:3; there is a barrier between the left and the right sections. The bottom section full of a liquid with density:4. There is a wheel in the middle of all sections. This wheel will keep turning for ever. Lets build one for your ugly home.

Yes, with a few minutes of thinking, you have just discovered something simple and obvious that generations of the world's best scientists and engineers have overlooked. Not only that, but with a simple drawing, you have disproved the laws of thermodynamics, which comprise some of the most fundamental underpinnings of our understanding of physics. All of mankind's energy problems will now be solved.

I think "St. Francis Xavier's Hand" backscratchers would be a big money-maker this Christmas. Excellent stocking stuffer.

Russians....British...Canadians....what's the difference ? Nation states have no friends...just interests. Canada is the USA's closest...and oldest...enemy. Long before any Russians.

Might be the stupidest post you’ve made in weeks.... which is saying a lot!

That’s easy to say when it wasn’t you who was fired or spied on or arrested for absolutely no good reason. The lawsuits and payouts will stop once we, as a country, stop violating basic rights of citizens. Consider yourself lucky it wasn’t you.

Yes this is a good idea. This money should be spent to threat these perverts and help them to maintain their lives as normal persons.