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This Singh guy, from India, the separatist whose radical followers managed to get him elected to the NDP leadership, has turned up in several videos lately, all meeting with Sikh radicals as they plan their campaign for a separate Sikh state. The Globe printed excterps from his speech at the first one, just a couple of years ago in California “Why do we talk about genocide, what happened to us?” Mr. Singh said, speaking in Punjabi that was translated into English for The Globe and Mail. “We are talking about it because, in our country where we live, that country intentionally tried to wipe us out, that in that country it was a planned process to attack the Golden Temple.” Notice how he refers to India as "our country"? He refused to give an interview to the Globe about the video and refused to condemn the terrorists involved. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-jagmeet-singh-attended-sikh-separatist-rally-in-2015/4 A second video emerged today showing another meeting with Sikh radical, this one in the UK. He sure does get around, doesn't he? He jets from India to America to the UK to meet with Sikh radicals in his apparently determined quest for a Sikh homeland in India. One wonders just what interest he has in Canada other than using it as a base to enhance the chances of a Sikh state. http://ottawacitizen.com/news/politics/as-jagmeet-singh-condemns-terrorism-second-video-shows-him-speaking-alongside-sikh-separatist/wcm/717b0fb2-3424-43e9-9f39-7d22aa39a83d

Who knows? Perhaps Canada would be a good place for a Sikh homeland, lots of space and welcoming of radicals and extremists of all types. Not to mention that there is no core identity in Canada and it's the first post national state.

Nor should they....another reason Trump won the election. ..and now he has Trudeau and Freeland dancing to save NAFTA, just like Trump said he would.

Danzig does not belong to Poland.

I heard the German flag was used rather than the Belgian flag...doh!

Darn...another campaign promise broken:

That wore them out, now it is just a nice time hanging out at disneyland. The boy works way to hard.

You just denied connection has any relevance for the sixth time.

What, another one? He just had a week's family vacation in India.

Oh I see the value paternalistic old white people see in 'native culture'. They watch them in their 'quaint' costumes dancing around and clap their hands and think "Oh, how precious!" and then want them to stay like that forever, living artifacts dedicated to amusing white tourists. And that's all people like you know or care about native culture.

.Without the control the connection means nothing. The above are your words. I also reproduced not just the above words but all your other posts indicating you denied having a connection to Jerusalem historically gives Israel the right to call Jerusalem its capital. You then try a stupid, clumsy attempt at semantics trying to deny your denial that Israel has no right to Jerusalem by trying to create an artificial argument that when you say having a connection means nothing, it doesn't deny that connection. Oh no you didn't deny it, you just denied it has any relevance. Not only do you want to play that stupid pathetic attempt at semantics, but then you claim control and nationhood are the only qualifications for being allowed to claim a city its capital, admit Israel has controlled Jerusalem 80 years but still argue it has no right to Jerusalem and then you come back denying your contradictions not once but 5 times with me. This is why you have zero credibility. You don't have the balls when you are clearly exposed contradicting yourself to know when to walk away. Its not the first or the last.

Anybody else getting a wee bit tired of being told we are not a country and have no identity and culture?

Your post is at best a half-truth and at worst a lie. Most of the 6,000,000 were killed by EInsatzgrupen (mobile killing squads), overwork, disease, cold and heat. They were placed in the camps to die. The fact that most didn't die of gas, the most vivid method of killing, is of no importance.

I think you heart is in the right place, you just need to get your mind to catch up with reality. Yes, the culture that ONCE defined First Nations did have a great deal to offer the world. To survive as hunter-gathering peoples (and I can only speak for plains and subarctic tribes) there was a need and a defacto society that was not self-reliant, but co-reliant. Families took care of any children who were around. There was no idea of individual property, everyone simply shared what was available (which is why we have so much trouble in our property-centric society in understanding why what we determine to be theft would simply have been tolerated as "he must have needed it"). In my younger years I would spend months in the bush with aboriginal friends and customers who still clung to those ancient values. Tolerance was one of the absolute #1 factors. To earn respect, you had to be true to your word, respectful and helpful to your neighbour and community and most of all, be able to laugh at yourself and not take things too seriously. The creation of reserves and granting of treaty rights were meant to allow this society and culture to be physically capable of surviving as such. Segregation WAS part of the white conquerer's natural and normal racist tendencies, but it was with some good intention and reason that things were organized to allow the aboriginal faction to survive without having to integrate. That is NOT what current leaders are trying to accomplish. Listen to what is being said. They are looking for economic benefits and advantages to be able to have a genuine western capitalist pig lifestyle but without the need to go out and make the sacrifices, do the work and take the risks that the rest of the world must do. This new and very different culture of the "1st nations" uses the kind of top down, entitled, dictatorial kind of government that is surprisingly similar in charactaristics and flaws to those in sub-Saharan Africa. If you want another Nigeria/Somalia/Uganda/Zimbabwe/etc. within our borders, just continue following the mindless path of pacification and pandering that the politically correct bozos from BOTH of the leading national parties, and that is exactly what we will get.

I didn't sneer. I asked you what. You revealed that you had no clue and were just engaged in moral posturing by trotting out trite progressive phrases.

Whew, when I read the title I thought something bad happened to Omni.

Personally I think the BDS movement is wrong and I disagree with its motivations, goals, and reasoning. However, I support the right of people to their free speech and free expression, including the right to boycott things they don't like. When it comes to this particular law though, as far as I understand it's not a free speech issue; it's a government funding issue. The government is not telling people they can't boycott Israel and threatening them with criminal or civil penalties if they do. Rather, it is specifying that government funding should not flow to companies that boycott Israel (to those debating this topic, please read past the headlines). Therefore casting the debate over this law as an attack on free speech is not reasonable, in my opinion. Individuals and organizations have the right to free speech, which means no interference from the government in expressing themselves, but it doesn't mean they have the right to taxpayer money.

Compare the reception given to the Belgium Royals and their business delegation to the welcome given to King Abdullah of Jordan last August. https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2018/03/12/trudeau-skips-meeting-belgian-royalty-business-delegation.html Thanking Canada for its role in liberating Belgium in WW1 was high on the agenda of the Royals. It's so sad that these negative aspects of the visit are eclipsing this wonderful event and one of the great past accomplishments of our Country. https://globalnews.ca/news/4078955/belgium-german-flag-mixup-rideau-hall/

Ayatollah advice for Obama:

Crazy right wingers think Trudeau is an embarrassment. Meanwhile, they carry on denying climate change and think women’s rights are akin to murder... I know which ones I think are more embarrassing.... Your post is fluff Betsy. It’s nothing of substance. It’s about personality... which is meaningless.

Precisely my purpose...now what if an entire nation did/does that...for decades ?