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Free speech is a concept. No one ever said it should have no consequences. The problem is that more and more people on the Left feel free speech should be restricted to them and their views and beliefs, if not by goverment law then by regulation on things like internet media. And they don't care if that's a violation of a basic human right. You're free to worship whatever or whomever you wish. It's the public displays of your religion which is irking people. If someone said it was their religion to walk around naked we'd tell them to do it at home or not at all. When you work for the goverment you're representing the goverment, and the government has no religion. It is secular. If society doesn't do anything to discourage this kind of medieval thinking it will not change, but grow and spread. Rebellion against religious views is almost entirely absent within the Muslim world, so the pressure has to be external. I don't feel it's a major issue to be conveying our society's belief that this is not normal, and that the medieval thinking behind it is not respected in this country. Their belief and faith are foreign to this culture and hostile to it.

Fear not, mighty console warrior. You will still be able to buy your precious Chinese computers and smartphones that will soon be smarter than you. Donald Trump is just shaking things up a little. The road to a better deal will be long and hard, this late in the game. That's why it takes a real man to step forward and finally say, enough.

Is it? A recent poll found 40% of Canadians felt we were letting in too many visible minorities. I'm sure on the surface you'd call that a manifestation of racism, but digging into the poll showed 38% of the white respondents felt this but 42% of the visible minorities felt this. So maybe the desire to not have so many third world immigrants is not solely based on white supremacy but on the general perceptions of the cultures, values, behaviour and skill levels of third world types who come here? Australia recently did what Canada ought to have done long ago. First they did a nationwide consultation to ask Australians what they wanted out of immigration. Then they consulted experts - unbiased ones - about what immigration had accomplished to date, and then how to get it to accomplish what the people wanted. Ie, setting actual goals for immigration. What type and what number would make the best fit to accomplish the economic goals of immigration without too much damage to the local culture and values people were concerned about. The Canadian government has never consulted the people on immigration. It's not interested in what people want, except in narrowly defined identity group voting blocks. Immigration has no goal in Canada other than the promotion of the government brand among ethnic Canadians. On the rare occasion the government consults anyone it consults 'interested parties' rather than people. Ie, those with an immediate monetary stake in immigration, like big business, and the immigration industry.

How did I insult you? You brought up restrictions on the burka as the end of personal freedoms. Is it not apropriate to point out that progressives are generally quite willing to sacrifice personal freedoms, especially freedom of speech, on the alter of political correctness? Progressives Are Making A Big Mistake Abandoning Freedom Of Speech That is a headline from the Huffington Post. There are people on this topic who have frequently demanded those who write offensive words about protected identity groups be banned from the internet and prevented from speaking. Oh, and by the way, it is the right which cares about individual freedoms and liberties, and the Left which collectivises, and demands the individual be subsumed by the group's needs.

I don't find the Progressive Bolsheviks of Toronto to be particularly relevant anyways, we will bring this Confederation down by way of Quebec, the Clarity Act does not bind us to ask Toronto's permission to do it. People in Toronto live in a sealed off bubble, they won't even realize that the revolution is upon them until it is too late to do anything about it. In the meantime, bring on the refugees, the more the better, nothing is quite so destabilizing as open borders and foreigners running amok, chaos is a ladder. Quebec is an ethno-nationalist state, the Progressive impulse to overthrow such states; will overthrow Canada in the end.

Nothing more ridiculous than Zeitgeist going around telling people that they aren't Canadian just because they don't adhere to his totalitarian nanny police state dogma.

OK... human rights for the female penis !!!

I haven't seen anyone in the list yet that could be a credible threat to Trump. Why do you not want more Trump, when the nation is doing very well by most indications. Also it's reassuring that so far, Trump has more or less kept the peace. He has threatened war but seems more keen on making a deal than dropping bombs.

Like you, I couldn't find anything like that. Funny that you would keep drawing attention to your failure to provide even one measly citation.