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Of course we should treat Coronovirus seriously but just without all the panic.

The religion you are referring to does not force women to wear anything, marry at 9, inherit less than half .... etc. Those are all choices made by some of the people who practice the religion. For example, my Muslim sister owns the apartment she bought in Alexandria outright; her husband's name is not on it. She can will it to whomever she wants - even if it leaves him on the street, and if they divorce he gets none of it unless she chooses otherwise. My sister's stepdaughter is in her mid-20s, still not married. My sister is the only wife, not one of her husband's 4 brothers have more than one wife, and all of the daughters have graduated university before marriage for them has been considered. Your question would seek to exclude them, based only on the fact that they're Muslim, even though they'd fit very well with your 'cultural values'. Just like Christians, Muslims come in many different flavors and practices; your suggestion that asking someone if they follow a certain religion as a way of determining if they'd be a cultural fit for Canada is extremely discriminatory.

Apparently it was a big win for the great state of Kansas.

Bill Clinton actually committed a crime, Donald Trump did not. They have less on Trump than they had on Clinton, expecting impeachment to go any other way is called being a political noob indulging in wishful thinking.

As does Trudeau live in yours. BTW I did not isolate Trump in my post. I mentioned MAGA nation. The Racist rubes that support him.

WTF! I agree with you on certain issues, others not so much, but at least I usually consider what you say. You're starting to sound like Bubber now! Yikes!

If Trump were to be removed for something this trivial and obviously partisan, I truly believe there would be a violent revolution. Trump supporters have so far taken this in stride, and with certain amusement, but this would be viewed as a coup d'etat...a removal of their rights. In Canada, we would just ask if we still had healthcare and mosey on to work, I think the US would be in an all out right vs. left war.

Doesn't matter....firearms are very much cultural in Canada. Start with that reality, instead of what's happening "south of the border".

Yep...same as Bill Clinton...guilty but not removed from office....imagine that.

It's about 2% for Coronovirus vs .01% for normal flu pandemics. Flu mortality rates however can reach 20% and one just never knows for sure when the next really deadly flu will emerge. So where's the panic over that? I mean, think about how much effort we take to prevent the infinitesimally small chance of being killed by a terrorist. Perspectives are just all over tha map.

For the life of me I can't understand why Canadian leaders adamantly refuse to invest in clean energy but fiercely protect big oil and the extractives, the source of climate change and a litany of other things. And they defend their destructive, irresponsible behaviour with lies. Are we all such fools as to just continue to let them do it after, what, 40 years of professional council against fossil fuels. Instead, they need to be brought to account for forcefully supporting power brokers for their money, for what they have done to the country, their own constituents, and all our kids.

It is completely the reverse of what you say. The religion has all those rules but choices made by some (educated) individuals not to practice the rules or obey by it. Like divorce in Christianity strictly forbidden and now we have a situation where most of marriages in Christian countries ends up in divorce. Ask them the religion if they are not committed to a religion or strictly practicing or fanatic about the rules or believing in them they would answer no religion.

I doubt that. There must be at least another hundred equally banal excuses for not giving a shit that you can choose from.

The religion being practiced by applicant should be added to the questionnaire. Those religion(s) forcing women what to wear, marry at 9 years, inherit less than half, allows a man have more than one wife ...... if anyone commits alliance in writing should be screened out of the immigration system.

1. My point of view is ethnocentric ? I am just responding to your concerns about ethnicity so ? Your opening sentence: "The Quebecers de souche seem to be in a terrible hurry to get extinct" 2. What are you talking about ? "Only blacks" ? What ? 3. Ok, so it sounds like you want to be free to look at female faces you like, and free to find black people ugly or so it sounds. Well you have that freedom. 4. Yes - the reason governments haven't sought to exclude peoples and whole cultures is that people don't want it, and there are no objective benefits. You could argue that Japan has de facto done this though. 5. No race is in the process of getting extinct, unless they all are. That's thousands of years in the making and thousands more to go. I advise you to prioritize your issues, especially your personal ones. And... All of this is a sidebar to the topic at hand - sex education in Quebec being excused for religious people, and that option being taken by the parents of 200 Muslims. That is religious freedom, which is part of the cultural aspect you describe. Our freedom allows you to hold your fringe views, and now you even have a party that gives you and the other 1.7% who believe, a home for such traditional and dead ideas.

It IS burdensome, and more so to cultures that are actually under threat. Both aboriginal and French culture have been suppressed and systematically marginalized by dominant cultures, and the Canadian culture has been also. How a society sees values, sex education being part of that, is very important to them. I thought about this a long time ago and came to the following conclusions on my own values: - All cultures naturally melt and meld together and eventually fade away - Preserving history is a good thing - If you want to promote a culture, it's better to do so with positive actions rather than restricting/suppressing others - Managing all the contradictions in these statements to produce an agreeable result is difficult politics, but good things are often difficult to achieve

Of course you don't blame them. They're all innocent victims to you. Yes, what a lovely excuse to blow up innocent people. You're a terrorist sympathizer. You should send ISIS a sympathy card and a large personal cheque. Maybe start a GoFundMe.

Just as there's little doubt in my mind you'd be happily licking the spittle of your betters. It's easy to see why that phase during most revolutions in which the purge of an old regime's sycophants gets ugly. It must be a real struggle to rise above it and do the right thing. Don't worry I'll be there for you, it should be just as easy to protect you with a shovel as...you know.

Only because it needs to be said is all. I certainly don't expect anything will change. This impeachment is clearly bound to only make things more surreal.