Charles Anthony

Canadians across the country voted for the Liberals several times.

I doubt they ever had "anti-western" sentiments before they arrived. I believe the majority of people who move to Canada are NOT xenophobic.

Can we say... "Enough already!!!"???State-enouraged multi-culturalism as an ideology is unnecessary but a different issue. Behind all of the superficialities, it is just a result of make-work programs for civil servants. We permit multi-cultural policy and the waste. Maybe not indeed. As Prime Minister, I can stand up and say: "I believe in multi-culturalism and I believe it should be left to the free market!!! The free market is the best thing for enhancing Canada's cultural heritage! Multi-culturalism will never be hindered again by civil servants! Hurrah!!!" and then proceed to dismantle state-encouraged multi-culturalism policies. It is a valid argument. The section 27 is too vague. My argument of the free-market can be a skeleton key to allow us to ignore anything in the Charter.

Also, just to clarify, I am on GeofFrey's team on this one. Parents who send their children to daycare are NOT their children's primary caregiver. Compelete the sentence. In case you are not aware, there are 168 hours in a week and children in daycare spend the most important hours NOT with their parents. Big deal. Yes, I would say that. Funny: I was chatting with a buddy of mine about schooling and home-schooling. He said he is looking forward to when his youngest daughter goes to school because then they do not have to pay for daycare.

Yes. However, Maher Arar did not get due process. Therefore, condemning him before he is convicted is horrifyingly wrong. Be reasonable. That is not what is at stake. Maybe and maybe not. However, that is not the issue. Maher Arar did not get due process. If the lava was sentient and conciously decided to burn me, yes.You have your blinders on. I am begging you to see that Canadians did him wrong. Let me put it a different way: If I threw you into a dangerous situation, I bare some responsibility for what happens to you. We agree. I understand. However, unless you are ready to embrace a free-market justice and punishment system, you have to pay for your socialism. Alternatively, I can say: every time you vote, you are endorsing the current system. Therefore, you should be held responsible through Canada for what happened to him. No. You should not expect that. You should expect to be assumed innocent until proven guilty. None of your business. Nor should it. Is your middle name Michael or David? But should you and I pay Arar for what these people did. Their negligence isn't my responsibility.Do you not want to see your civil servants held in check??? Two things: 1) How else should Maher Arar get recourse??? 2) How else should these secret Canadian g-men who have the power to wrongly deport people stay in check??? You do not understand the horror of what torture can be. Yeah, like after the embassy staff leave, the Syrian guards who are supervising the interview are going to go light on him. Have some compassion! I agree.

That is exactly what I mean when I use the word xenophobia. If there is a better word for what you describe, please tell me what that would be and I will use it instead. No, old people are not the only bigots. However, old bigots are less likely to change or grow up. I agree and I see it too. However, unlike old bigots, I have more hope that young bigots will grow up and discard their younger foolishness. Years ago, same-sex marriage was unthinkable. It eventually became taboo. Now, most people could not care less. The people who oppose same-sex marriage will eventually die off and it will become a non-issue. Likewise, smoking marijuana was demonized and considered more dangerous than cocaine -- mainly because of the threat hemp posed to the pulp and paper industry. Now, there are more and more adults who have either smoked it or know people who smoked it and did not turn into demons. With enough time, marijuana will be decriminalized and even legalized. Similarly, racism will disappear by attrition. The only racists left will be cuckoos who never drive into town. Thank you for validating my original statement above:

I know it is hard to address the most serious issues. For example: These know-it-all parents should teach their kids to say NO to drugs and alcohol or send their kids to rehab.Here is an other serious question: why do you quote so much of a previous quote unnecessarily?

Shallow and silly. What kind of sentiments are you talking about?Bigotry and xenophobia. I believe both bigotry and xenophobia are in Canada. However, I am convinced that within one generation (approximately 50 years) the vast majority of xenophobes and bigots in Canada will have died of old age. The problem will be solved by attrition. Despite both countries experimenting with the ridiculous social engineering of multi-culturalism, unlike the UK, Canada's Prime Minister does not make statements upholding bigotry and xenophobia as evidenced in this opening post. It will take the British much longer to solve their problems. Yes to all of the above. They may have a better chance at recourse or self-defense or even survival in Canada.

Perhaps I should but why should I trust them? Their prime minister sounds xenophobic. Perhaps I should go take photographs of Iranian jails before I condemn Iran. I have never been to Iran. Maybe I will start profiling people along racial lines. Tell that to Jean Charles de Menezes, will you?

I am not even going to ask for a citation to such an international lawa. I am going to say that is a ridiculous and evil law -- if it exists. If the U.S.A. has a right to send someone back to their homeland, it is still wrong. If I through you into a boiling pit of lava, should we blame the lava if you get burned?????? Why is citizenship a reason to blame him? Please justify. Look at things in simple terms: Maher Arar's deportation was against his will and unfounded. Therefore, whoever participated is responsible. Arar paid an airline to get him from point A to B and that airline did not fulfill their end of the bargain. The airline is to blame. Canadian and American employees participated in his deporattion. They deserve blame. People are saying that he should ONLY focus his lawsuit on the Syrians. Wrong!!! Arar can focus his lawsuit against anybody who harmed him. Period.

Morally, it would not be any different if the action involved was confined to only a guess. No, those decisions would not be despicable because they occur before making a child. No, they are not the same choices. One choice occurs before a child is created. The technology choice occurs after a child is created. Why is this part of the discussion pussy-footing around the issue of abortion?? This is a more difficult question: My answer: I do not know. Here is the rub: I prefer a boy-child too. Why? It all comes down to a manifestation of pride. (1) I want my name to continue. Daughters can keep their family-name too so this is not a good enough reason. (2) I want myself to continue i.e., I want a sense of immortality. Since I am male, a male-child is closer to being my double than a female-child would be -- everything else being equal. This reason does not explain why women might also prefer male-children. (3) I want to be macho. This is a sense of Alpha-male insecurity. Since children have an equal chance of being born male or female, I am less macho if I can not produce a male-child. For women who prefer male-children, I am not sure. Maybe they want to produce a leader...??? Admittedly, I am not willing to justify the above (no more than my choice of favorite music) but maybe explain or describe.

I am still wondering. You still have not given an explanation. That is the fault of the adults. At this point, the parents should teach their children to refuse drugs or send their children to rehab. That does not remove the responsibility of the parents. The reason: poor parenting. Since they can not control their children or their own parenting skills, they attack the alleged drug dealer. Yes, they did. No, they were violent. They should have taught their children to say NO to drugs or send their children to rehab. Everybody knows everything but nobody knows their own children. See, here is the problem: What are these all-knowing parents and neighborhood vigilantes going to do when their kids go drinking in the woods? Whose house are they going to burn? Never thought of that, did you??? What kind of adults will these children become???

I am going to play the devil's advocate here. Look at this: and juxtapose it with the comedy of having everybody (and their mother) running for the leadership. Think of the all of the money wasted on losing candidates. Who lost the money?? Not me. My first thoughts: leave this to the free market. At the next party leadership convention, the "corporations or wealthy individuals" will think twice about investing. With enough time, the playing field will be evened out. Cronyism is here to stay. Continuing with devilish advocacy, do you really think Liberals are the only ones taking advantage of these loopholes? I find it intriguing that the first attacks against small government and small countries is that it will lead to feudalism. Ha! Welcome to the real world.

The link provided goes nowhere. Here is the proper one: Labour loses faith in multi-culturalism To be honest, when I hear this: the first thing that comes to mind is "Thank God I am Canadian!" and I want to drink a case of beer. Canadians are at least a full paleontological era ahead of Britain with respect to xenophobia. No doubt, Canadian social engineering and integration and immigration policy may need work but at least Canadians are generally tolerant. I have never been to Britain. However, I wonder if the sentiments that bred Nazism have ever left Europe.

We would probably see a coalition form among the other parties.

The Aug91 crystal ball is at it again. Quite the contrary. She sounds like a perfect target for journalists.If you read the rest of the article, she clearly enjoys being provocative and possibly to her son's detriment. I wonder whether his mother really knows what it is going on currently in Canada. It refers to being tickled. She is saying that the English-Canadian journalists are tickled by this issue. She is also suggesting -- in a very disparaging manner -- that they are the source of this issue.

Small government.

This is an interesting problem. I would suggest that the major problem is that we encourage (much like aggressive hockey parents push their kids into training to get to the NHL and become super-stars) youngsters to go to school too early. I believe more students should spend more time off after completing high school. I have even heard the suggestion that adolescents should not be sitting in a classroom at all. Rather, anybody going through puberty should be sent to work on a farm! I can not say for sure but it might just make you stand out above others. Also, you might be able to get hired by GeofFrey above! You may be right. In general, the goals of the assignment seem good. However, what you describe seems difficult and confusing too. This is what I recommend: 1) do the assignment but with a completely different goal: have fun with it. To be clear, I do not mean that you should make fun of the assignment but truly respond to each section in a manner in which the reader or teacher or social engineer will say: "Hey, this kid liked doing this assignment!" even if you hate it 2) do the assignment quickly 3) do the assignment with short responses rather than long boring ones I do that all of the time. Here is a hint: the easiest way to critique a piece of visual art is by discussing the technical aspects of how it was made. What is so great about science? Most of what you get in high school science is intellectually the lowest form of learning: memorize and regurgitate. Why should there be??? You get tons of that already in school, right? Your example is a good one. What you could do is describe what happened at the event and how you participated in the group. Make something up about it like "I suggested that we do things differently blah blah blah and as a result of my suggestion we succeeded at getting the job done faster than scheduled." Also, you could describe how somebody else helped you and the whole group worked better as a result. Honestly, I think it is normal for students to NOT know what they want to do right after completing high school. What you could do is explain your opinion on the matter. Too bad. I do not know if it will make you a better person. However, it might make you understand the business of public education differently when you are older.

A butterfly collection should probably show the same sort of scientific organization. I think both have outlived their practicality and attraction. I am not adopted so I can not know what it is like. I want to have a lot of empathy for such mysteries. The closest shoes into which I may step are questioning my own family tree. My father just learned that one of his uncles moved to California about a century ago. I do not know my newfound cousins at all but I am very interested. The quest is not rational but I am profoundly intrigued. Interestingly, those are modern day problems. There are many places in the world that would still believe in hocus pocus explanations for congenital anomalies. I agree. You should be proud. If I was adopted, I would want to know my birth parents. I would also hope that I had the discipline to never seek my birth parents if it might risk breaking the hearts of my adoptive family. It might not. Let us consider a possible scenario: - you meet your adoptive mother - you look exactly like her - you ask her about your father - she frowns and says: "I do not know." - you ask her about her parents - she frowns and says: "I do not know. I was a ward of the state." What then? [i trust that you understand I do not mean to be heartless or demeaning with this example.] Would you like to form an ecumenical movement?

Sorry. I am not accepting such a dismissal. On the one hand, you say that a great big imposed state should be maintained. That same state fails to a chaotic horror but you refuse to consider the most likely cause: the foreign imposition of said state. Unfortunately, people had the power of a coercive state to do so -- without which they probably would have lived in peace. Now that each of those republics are independent states -- without the central government. You know what is happening?? They are starting to trade again. Yes and the most likely cause was the artificial imposition of a state -- sort of like Iraq. I would not. I would say that the blame rests entirely with evil people who believed they deserved the power of an artificial state to control their neighbors -- they also wanted access to the Adriatic Sea. I say: If people oppose self-government, they are entirely obsessed with controlling other people. The world would be a much better place if fewer people took it upon themselves to control their fellow man. I agree. Ethnic pure populations is not what I advocate. I advocate the right to self-determination regardless of the demographics. If people are being ignored by a great big government, that how jurisdiction is too big. Time to secede. I do. The only fair solution when government gets too big is secession. Only when everybody can not the bureaucracy to support great big multi-layered government. Interesting. I challenge you to explain why that might be the case. Of course -- because it is financially better to stay. That is like saying: once a business pays off all of its huge overhead expenses and turns multiple profits upon profits, it will be nearly impossible to leave the business. We agree. I would say that with enough time, I would say that the U.S.A. and Canada will lag behind because our federal governments have longer reaches into regional affairs. That is not coersion by the European Union. So long as member states are still able to quit, the people are only being coerced by their own country not by the European Union.

You are mistaken because those people want to got to the government. Your analogy is akin to comparing apples and oranges within a garden salad. In our society, coersionists have attributed rights to those who fall under the classification of marriage. Thus, the definition of marriage becomes important.

The nature of this opening thread is inflamatory and absurd. No. The International Court can still get you -- unless of course you manage to file a report to the appropriate Administration that deals with such matters.

No. That is NOT their perogative. That is reckless. Both forms of instances of retaliation are outrageous. Agreed. 59...Anybody who answered "No" to even one of the first 63 questions is NOT a libertarian. Freedom is all or nothing. When?En garde. It has already begun. I may fall but my pen will be caught by an other. Therein lies the supremacy of the pen. Furthermore, the thirst for freedom can not be quenched. In which case I would rather call the Red Berets to my rescue!

Let me make a suggestion: do the portfolio as best as you can. Period. I understand the frustration of nobody knowing the requirements. Look at it this way: nobody can say you did it wrong. After you graduate, you will be able to say you did the portfolio. You will have a competitive advantage above the other graduates who did not complete the portfolio. Be more specific: what do you mean by the arts?

What say you to that?I say that it matters not unless we can objectively define a line that divides the office of the Prime Minister from the tax-payer -- each of whom may potentially have dual-citizenship. How high up the bureaucratic scale should dual citizenship be out-lawed and why? This reminds me of King Lear's youngest daughter who wonders how her sisters can love their husbands and at the same time say they love their father with all of their hearts. Maybe it is foolish to think of patriotism as a fixed pie.