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You've got to wonder, for sure. When all is said and done, nothing in recent Canadian history will have served to undermine the reputation of Charter more than the Khadr settlement. If this be the law, or a result of the law, many will conclude that the law is an ass.

NO the easiest way to deal legally with terrorists is with a 5.56mm, and lots of them....you don't have to pay out dead terrorist, nor do you have to figure out how to bring them back into the country. for resettlement, reeducation, at the tax payers expense....So lets recap they went over to Syria to play HOLY WARRIOR, cause thats fun, cut a few heads off, rape a few women, blow up some American soldiers, along with our allied.

A little hard to understand why there is any legal restriction. What was the apology and the $10M all about then?

This was your answer to my question: Do you think Omar should be with this person unsupervised? Your answer says that it wouldn't bother you at all to let a convicted terrorist continue to have unrestricted visits with his terrorist family and that he should be given a Canadian passport so that he can travel to Saudi Arabia. Isn't that what got him into all this trouble in the first place?

The Lib agenda is insidious. While the UN Compact for Migration isn't legally binding there's little doubt that it will serve to bolster attempts by the Lib government to enhance its framework for large-scale migration, a policy that I suspect it would like to cast in stone. In this context, it would not be surprising were the Libs to implement policies amounting to censorship, which is a particular favorite of the so-called "progressive" crowd. After all, Canada has now signed a UN pact the Lib government could trot out in support of such a policy. The problem with the constant pressure to replace free speech with supposedly acceptable speech is that we won't know what we've got until it's gone. Rational citizens should be very wary about this mentality taking hold.

No. Traditional marriage is the union between a man and a woman's estate. A traditional marriage is an arrangement to improve the family's status. It is disheartening to see any move to return to a union in which women are nothing more than chattle. Modern marriage is an experiment in a union based on love. As for children, a loving home, regardless of gender, is a basis for them to thrive.

Maybe he can run as a Lib candidate in next year's federal election? That would be interesting.

True, but not all protesters are 'alt-right or far-right' as portrayed by the media and the left, Trudeau et al love to tar anyone with that brush if they so much as peep about wanting full debate and consideration of the issue. Wanting a reasonable debate about how much immigration is too much is not racist or xenophobic but today, anyone who questions immigration or heaven forbid, wants secure borders and no illegal immigration, is that and worse, even nationalism and patriotism have become bad words. Canada (nor any country) can take in all the worlds refugees and wannabes, if we did we would become a third world country, we have to be pragmatic and think about and what is good for us. Besides, where would we house them, there's a shortage of housing now, and G.d forbid we should develop any green belt areas for low cost housing...

1. No thats not it at all, you see it as something we can eliminate, I see it as human nature, the harder you fight it the more it grows....We already have laws in place to control it, you will never eliminate it...thats just some liberal dream, and with those dreams comes retarded compacts or laws trying to eliminate the impossible , like the liberals carbon tax just another stupid liberal idea... And your right we will never agree, you have not explained any of my questions, sure you have gave me some liberal answers, like "why not", or it is just some white nationalist right wing idea ..like I am somehow suppose to believe you and the rest of the liberals that "these are not the droids your looking for" but can not explain why everyone is in a rush to sign it before we have discussed it in parliament....nope no red flags there.... I think I will end it here....as this is going no where's, much like this compact....

Here are the people we COULD have in our country, contributing members of society who entered through the proper channels.......but Noooooooo, we are sending them back because we have 10's of 1000's of illegals flooding the country, living in hotels on the taxpayer's dime. https://globalnews.ca/news/4751451/family-canada-deported-christmas-eve/

I find it a little odd to be apologizing to a convicted murderer, at all...let alone giving him $10+ million in Jizya. Improper questioning on the battlefield or in POW custody?? Please.... Let's hand out speeding tickets at Daytona, next.

Except for Khadr's supporters, such as Eyeball. Our laws are woefully inadequate to deal with Islamic terrorism because terrorism and Islamic extremism is moving faster than we can change laws. To Eye, we dont' need to update our laws to allow us to deal legally with terrorists. He's okay with letting them continue to travel to Islamic terrorist hotbeds and giving them unfettered access to their fellow terrorists.

This is what it seems like to me, too. Our government and progressives who are for more and more immigration from Islamic countries expect the Canadian public to just accept that some of us are going to die at the hands of Islam. And you're a racist Islamophobe if you don't think the risk is worth it. It's so easy for them to gamble with other people's lives and the lives of other people's loved ones.

It was the courts which limited him, and the feds are not appealing his request, cos I guess they don't want him to feel like he's in gitmo anymore.

Eyeball's take on this is such a bizarre viewpoint to me. It would be like a Catholic priest who molested a bunch of children, then got off on a technicality and who then petitions the courts to give him unrestricted access to young boys and permission to travel anywhere in the world where young boys are available for molesting. And Eyeball would say, "Sure! Give him access to all the things that led to his criminal actions in the first place. Absolutely bizarre.

Islamophobe.

The government barely knows I exist. I suspect they restricted access to his family because they are terrorists.

Yep, just like the sentiments in this thread. The most universal being that everything is the left's fault. Will you people either please put up or shut up.

Because oil companies and government's want their money now. Be it profits or royalties, they want them asap.

Regardless, Trump has confronted China in biggly ways...Trudeau has not...because he is afraid to do so. Frankly, watching Canada's present putz PM, I am convinced that he has none of the backbone or decisiveness of his father, Pierre Trudeau. It's entertaining to watch each time Justin gets his tits in the wringer, only to do it again.

No....unlike several other western nations, Canada is afraid of China...won't reject Huawei outright for 5G network contracts. Canada's current leader is a putz...and a coward.

Neither. You would have to be really desperate to put your trust in either one.

This is why under this president the US looks morally bankrupt. Really, who is to be more trusted, Xi or Trump?

Exactly, we are trying to act according to the rule of law and he makes it about him as usual. Fucking asshole.

We did your dirty work for you, now piss off.

The narrower point here is that Ms. Weng was (allegedly) complicit in fraud to circumvent international sanctions against Iran during the period 2009 -2014, regardless of what today's stance may be (US, Canada, or EU). Sanction mechanisms are far less effective if/when they are violated by nations/corporations seeking to bypass them for their own political/economic reasons.

The cause? Simple, just review the "most wanted" by RCMP list - http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/en/wanted and the Toronto version: http://www.torontopolice.on.ca/homicide/mostwanted.php Now, the cause should be very obvious: piss poor screening of immigrants for more than just the last few years.

I dunno, is it really that simple? Huawei acted in violation of US sanctions against Iran, but weren't those the same sanctions that were lifted in the Iran nuclear deal, which was originally agreed upon by the US, China, Russia, the UK, France, Germany, the EU and Iran? Trump withdrew from the deal unilaterally in May and now the US requested that a Huawei executive be extradited for violation of the sanctions. But the rest of the world is still on board with the deal. So should Canada be bowing to US pressure based on its unilateral withdrawal from the deal? What authority does the US have to mandate that a Chinese company not have dealings with Iran, if China is not on board with the sanctions, and the UN security council is not on board with the sanctions? Maybe I missed something but it doesn't seem to me that there is a clearcut legal situation here, rather, it seems like its an issue of the US and China each wanting Canada to do something. Personally I think it would have been better had Canada not gotten involved at all.

The crude bullying by China over the Huawei arrest reminds us that however ancient China's civilization is it's government, and often enough its people, are narrow-minded, parochial, and do not behave in any way remotely akin to what western nations term 'civilized'. Threatening Canada over a routine criminal matter, and demanding we release a woman before the courts seems to reinforce what Stockwell Day said about how senior Chinese officials simply cannot comprehend what the rule of law means, or that the government cannot simply call up a judge and order him to do as they want. And I have to say the Chinese "Canadians" who have come out in support of China and Huawei in this matter make me extremely suspicious. They're clearly demonstrating that they're not Canadians, regardless of what paperwork they possess. They're Chinese citizens in Canada. We see the same from those groups of Chinese "Canadian" businessmen who have been trooping up to the Liberal party to donate tens of thousands of dollars while telling every minister who will listen that Canada has to do as China wants. I think we should start reconsidering how many Chinese citizens we allow into our immigration stream, given that a number of them are clearly still going to retain loyalty to their Communist masters. Especially in light of the efforts China's intelligence operatives have been making in recruiting these people. A group of Richmond residents, including lawyer and former mayoral candidate Hong Guo, have voiced their support for Huawei CFO Wanzhou Meng, and are asking for the Canadian government to “release her immediately.” A press conference called “Demanding fairness protecting human rights” was held last Saturday in Richmond by a Richmond-based group called the Chinese Women and Children’s Association of Canada, which was launched in 2015. President Dongmei Han said at the conference that the arrest “violates a citizen’s rights" becasue "Meng is a Chinese citizen under Chinese jurisdiction, and U.S. law should not override the laws of other countries.” Han called the arrest “too dirty” and "inhumane" during an interview with the Richmond News on Monday. https://www.richmond-news.com/news/richmond-group-defending-huawei-cfo-calls-arrest-too-dirty-1.23527661

Carbon tax as it is now defined makes no cents or sense. Its just another tax by a desperate bankrupt government trying to deal with its addiction that is out of control. Its just a couched scheme to get heroin for a heroin addict by making it sound like heroin for a heroin addict is for their health. A true scheme would provide incentives and subsidies to clean alternative energy sources and consumer users of such sources. This government has no concept as to what a tax threshold is. None. It thinks taxes can be charged on an unlimited basis. Also the device of claiming you are giving the tax back to people is a lie....it is a bold faced manipulative lie and everyone knows it. It didn't work with Wynne it won't work with Trudeau. In fact he is destroying proper efforts to reduce carbon emissions with this idiotic idea if he taxes people it stops them from being dirty. What horse crap. It is actually the same horseshit reasoning we use for tobacco tax rates. This government knows addicts will pay a tax due to their addiction even when it gets too high. Its the same with gasoline. Its called taxing an addiction knowing the addiction is not being treated but in fact causing the behaviour that will generate the tax. Hey why not. We legalized gambling and couch it as being charitable, now this latest con. McKenna better stay away from me. I hate millionaire commie silver spoons. Have her walk the streets of Paris praising carbon tax. Please.

There is an American travel guru ("liberal" Rick Steves) who specializes in Europe with several seasons on PBS. He routinely touts the superiority of Europe over America even as he explains the many tourist attractions like world war military cemeteries, bombed out and rebuilt ruins, concentration camps, Christian clashes with Islam, famines, plague, cultural ghettos, fallen governments, etc.

FWIW, whenever I see the thread title referencing "The Banana Republic", I keep thinking it's about the fact that the leader of the Democrat Party started an investigation into a political adversary without any actual evidence that a crime had been committed. Normally you start out with a crime and figure out who did it. When you start investigating a person just to see if you can find out if they committed any crimes, you risk drawing comparisons to Lavrentiy Beria. https://www.oxfordeagle.com/2018/05/09/show-me-the-man-and-ill-show-you-the-crime/

Be interesting to see how this turns out. I suspect little Omar will be hailed as a hero when he returns. A rich man who beat the odds, and beat the West at their game. Whether intentional or not, his situation is what it is. Actually good that Omar should remain in the news as much as possible, to shock the Canadian conscience.

I know what it is. And I've been following it for years. It's filled with activists on a mission.

You have to WIN more seats first to control voting districts....Obama lost far more seats than "lying" Trump....fact. D-listers were good enough for Obama...why not Trump ? Trump was/is a D-lister too, but he still kicked all the A-lister asses in 2016. False...several members of Congress threatened to draft articles of impeachment early on, and continue to do so. Mueller is already at the end of his nothingburger investigation.

The Dems also had the worst mid-term results in 2010...far worse than Trump/Republicans in 2018. They all serve at the pleasure of the president....did I mention that Trump is still the president ? I'm sure he will be impeached any day now.....right ? That's what the losers have been saying since day one.

Watch the skies.

Trump's chaos strategy has served him very well....that's how he became the 45th President of the United States, defeating Hillary Clinton in 2016. Impeachment...or another "nothingburger" ? President Bill Clinton was also impeached, but he still served two full terms.

I honestly can't imagine any pipelines being built as long as Justin Trudeau(Gerald Butts) is Prime Minister. His government has put in place far too many barriers to overcome.It seems obvious that the reason for all those regulations is precisely to ensure that no pipelines will ever be built again in Canada.

So Now I hear some guy that was in gitmo is now suing us for 50m, and will settle for 10.5. Trudeau will be paying off these people forever.

The reason is simple. It is called Sakoku. Policy of no immigration. http://allfourestates.com/why-japan-has-no-islamic-terrorism-sakoku-and-immigration/ Quote By Akira Lawson Want to know why Japan has never endured a terrorist attack? Simple, Sakoku (鎖国), a term commonly known by Japanese people and those who study Japanese culture and history. The term denotes the immigration policy enacted by the Tokugawa Shogunate, which dictates that no foreigner could immigrate to Japan, nor a Japanese person could leave Japan, or else it would be ‘off with the head’ for either party. Having no official coinage in the Japanese language till the 19th century, the closed-door policy itself, is situated at the core of Japanese ideology and continues to be the root reason to why Japan is a homogenous society; one of the very few in the developed world. Although Japan’s national isolation or seclusion came to a halt with the establishment of trade/diplomatic relations with the West, especially with the arrival of Commodore Perry with his Black Ships (kurofune) at the Bay of Edo (Tokyo), the policy continues today to be the foundation and contributing pillar in policy making, specifically in the areas of immigration. Unquote