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To be fair, she is not allowed to leave Pakistan at the moment, and nobody is likely to announce an acceptance until she and her family are actually safe wherever it is they're going to.

Well, you are, so it’s not nobody. Of course, the Israelis should not have done that. Technically speaking, I think you’re talking about the events in East Pakistan there rather than Bangladesh which didn’t exist at the time. If you really want to complain about something that’s being undercovered, pick an African country like Congo.

That's a big unfounded statement to make. Given historical precedence (language laws anyone?) I highly doubt you'd have seen the usual players like CBC, CTV, et al in high dudgeon over it. More than likely they'd pull their usual, "aren't our French Canadians just a wonderfull addition to our society" schtick.

I'm saying it is naive to think a person always has the option to do the right thing, in all circumstances. I'd wager things can get pretty ugly over there, and being a woman probably makes it even more difficult. Who the hell are you.

Zeitgeist, given your thinking, I fear for our future as a civilized world. ===== The Berlin Wall did not fall because of gravity. It fell because of, among others - parmi d'autres - those guys in Vietnam.

That's the way things go in that part of the world. 1 million rohingya refugees sounds like a lot but the muslims in pakistan killed more people than that in Bangladesh in 1970. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Searchlight They even raped between 200,000 - 400,000 women in "a systematic campaign of genocidal rape." (That kind of rape has nothing in common with "non-consensual sex" where a guy gets forceful when his girlfriend just wants him to go to 3rd base. It's when militia members kick in the door and kill the husband and then rape the wife in front of her kids). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_during_the_Bangladesh_Liberation_War That's right in the same neck of the woods that Burma is in. The Burmese even say that a lot of the Rohingya came from Bangladesh at the time of the events above. They know what will happen in areas where they are the minority. It's estimated that muslims have slaughtered over 100 million people in that part of the world since they first invaded India.

To use a Liberal word, I'm "outraged" with the way the CBC and The Star are covering this "story". They've rolled everything up into a convenient "Ford cutting Frencophone Servivces" headline. He's canceling a hail Mary Wynne election promise to build a Francophone University because we don't have the money! He's rolled the Commissioner position into the Ombudsman office. Where are the big "service cuts". Compare this to Trudeau telling our veterans that he "couldn't afford what they were asking for". Where is the CBC outrage on that. Quickly came and went.

Apparently not, especially if you are of a certain religion which gives you a pass... cultural differences doncha know.... From what I've read Assange didn't rape anyone...

Totally agree, hard to believe that the West is so subservient to Islam that they can't help a genuine person needing asylum. Any chance there are secret negotiations going on to bring her here so he can say ta da look what I did with a good photo op?

Please don't turn this thread into another Avro Arrow CF-105 beat down....but since you insist on cheering on this Great Canadian Myth: The Canadian program needed the following American resources to even complete development: Pratt & Whitney engines (Iroquois engine was never fully developed) Wind tunnel testing at Langely, Virginia, USA B-47 engine test bed bomber (returned damaged to the USAF) Nike (American) rockets for high speed shape testing over Lake Ontario U.S. developed missile and fire control Canadians made the decision to cancel the expensive program that had no buyers for an interceptor aircraft that never made it to production...even Canada didn't want it. Meanwhile, the proven speed and superior combat radius of the Convair F-106 was already in production years earlier at much lower cost. Worse yet....A.V. Roe was British in origin ! http://taylorempireairways.com/2010/08/myths-are-public-dreams-dreams-are-private-myths/

...and avoiding riskier opportunities as well. Canada didn't launch anything....another nation launched that Canadian built satellite...and Canada still can't. The doomed CF-105 was not the fastest aircraft, and failed for the same risk averse disease that holds Canada back in many areas. Canadians helped to put men on the moon...but had to leave Canada to do it.

That is what is important in a leader.

Culture is the shared values, history and experiences of a people who grew up together and who, by and large, shared so many, many cultural touchstones of childhood, youth, adolescence, of growing up here, of what we all experienced together or separately. What it felt like, what we did and thought and learned and were taught growing up in Canada. And no, it wasn't all identical, but anyone who grew up in Canada would recognize so many things that they had shared with others who had grown up, even a thousand miles away. It all produces a similar mentality, a similar sentimentality, and common customs and values and beliefs. No unanimity, of course, but a basic, core centre you'd find the great majority of people agreeing with.

A core identity doesn't mean every single person feels the same way about everything. Some people feel okay with migrants crossing the border. But MOST want them deported. Some feel okay with women covering their faces at citizenship ceremonies. But MOST want them to stop. Some people feel immigrants have no need to assimilate, but MOST feel they need to do more to assimilate. Some people feel Sir John A Macdonald's statues and name should be disappeared, but MOST people feel they should not.

It's the general consensus of many regarding his policies and what he wants to accomplish in Canada. https://torontosun.com/2016/09/14/trudeau-says-canada-has-no-core-identity/wcm/60461a6d-7cb4-42a9-b242-05be9aaea46c

http://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/trump-warns-he-could-cause-the-‘ruination’-of-canada/ar-BBN1iZn?li=AAggNb9 Why is Trudeau holding out on the "cultural exemption"? He has repeatedly stated his belief that Canada has no culture and nothing worth preserving.

And what exactly is his grand failure with refugees?

"Politics of fear" is one of those shallow come-backs from the Left - and especially our rudderless Liberal Party led by Captain Clarabell. Canadians are not "afraid". There is no "fear". There are only very real - and very immediate concerns about this government's uncaring and mismanaged refugee policies. Sorry to be so negative but Trudeau and his government have been such an utter disappointment to those who care about Canada that we're running out of descriptors.

Do you have a site to back up your statement?