blueblood

1) Those who celebrate Christmas 2) Harper is the face of government, for all intents and purposes he does 3) Those who want to put up a nativity scene. Socons who don't like gay pride parades because it offends them are told to go fly a kite People in gov't who would want to put up a nativity scene are told to go fly a kite because it could offend someone. It's a case of Heads I win, tails you lose.

It's a religious holiday whether you want it to or not. Lights are part of the birthday party. Anyone who celebrates christmas is celebrating his birthday party, no nativity scene, no lights.

If people think a government belongs to a religious conviction for putting up the nativity scene, give your head a shake. It's tradition. Harper is a regular church goer and the face of the government, do Canadians that aren't his religion not feel the gov't has their best interests in mind when passing legislation. Why should expression rights be trampled because someone feels excluded?

Who cares about what religion "they" are, "they" shouldn't impede anybody's right to display the nativity. And christmas is the celebration of his birthday. Lights are all part of it. By that logic we should ban gay pride parades because they would offend religious people. Displaying the nativity is just displaying the nativity, no harm no foul. PC thought police strike again!!! Christmas lights are part of the birthday party. All or nothing. Lets see some consistency here.

Tough titties, rights are being infringed, putting up a nativity scene doesn't hurt anybody.

Bullshit, it's a religious holiday. Consumers joined the bandwagon. No nativity scene, no christmas lights. The PC thought police are at it again...

The government of Canada can embody what it wants. To hell with offending people. If other people want to bring in their decorations, they can knock themselves out. The people of the gov't are people too, why can't they express themselves?

Should they take down the Christmas lights on parliament hill while they're at it?

What people aren't allowed to have freedom of association, religion, and expression.

why not? they can have a bloody nativity scene if they want to. That would be denial of a few charter freedoms there. We suck up the other guys, they can suck it up too.

harper is a hell of a lot smarter than martin. That's why harper is in the PM chair and martin is raising sheep!

His wife?

If you think the GG is going to let the coalition take over gov't when harper loses confidence your off your rocker. There is far too much controversy and public outrage to do that when a simple election will do. Take the coalition to the people. Lets have an election and settle this once and for all.

What are you talking about. The coalition has been a complete and utter failure. Canadians are livid at them. Harper has ammunition to go to the Canadian public. Prominent Liberals have called for Dion's head. Tory brass is laughing right now, because now all Harper has to do is bully the opposition into another election, and judging how mad the population is at this seperatist coalition, harper will get his election. As a tory supporter I am very happy with the results of the past week, the looney left has egg on their face, and the tories are in good shape for when they lose confidence of the house.

Her post is satire...

How about the Liberals provide some more rural friendly initiatives and policies instead of poking the west in the eye all the time. Their timeout should hopefully cause them to realize that. No rural voters = no majority. The tories are already working on more urban friendly policies.

alcan called, they want their aluminum back.

I am stupider for having read that.

Why Canadian's want us to be like Europe is beyond me. That place is a joke, we have a much better show. There you go smallc, even I can show a little patriotism.

What does the looney left want you guys to do, not start taking prisoners. Khadr should be lucky to be alive, he could have been very easily bayonetted and nobody would be none the wiser. Khadr should in fact be thanking his holders at gitmo for free room and board. All this talk on prisoner mistreatment would probably lead to more dead taliban fighters instead of prisoners, and the soldiers have every right to do so. Instead of condemning soldiers, people should be praising them for even taking prisoners and providing them full quarter instead of bayonetting them shooting them.

He's actually right. The difference between me and him is that I actually support Harper's actions and he obviously does not.

The compass poll disagrees with that.

I didn't see any when they were signing the paper. I did when the camera zooms out or pans around after. For the quick newsbyte that doesn't look good and Harper is all over it.

The optics are horrible when there is a shot of the three of them at a table signing something with no flags present. There is when the camera zooms out though.

It's not OK when the bloc are seen signing a petition with the other two opposition leaders in a giant photo op. You may be technically right, but the optics are terrible. Voters remember optics, not technicalities.