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Omg... If Canada became the 51st state I would probably become part of the revolution against it, if you understand what the U.S. is. A fascist capitalist beurocratic patriotic "elected" despotism! I would be out on the steet celebrating if we were a 51's US state. Lets partition the country, and those who want the missery and games of living in this shi*t hole of a country can stay, I'll go where the gov't governs on behalf of the people and I can take part in making direct discisions for my country and laws.

I agree, but still have to disagree with this in a fundemental way.

Lol.. yeah Canada's healthcare is better.... lol....

As I said, there are people that hold this guy as a hero and a new standard in Canadian society.

And national daycare would cost a LOT of money. Possibly our 4th largest expendature when factoring in tecaher unions. We don't have the money for such things. It was a voting ploy, not a reality or never will be a reality.

I think your younger. Insteading of making everything into a conspiracy, why don't you first find out why.. never mind.

Your exactly right. The law suit is under the pretence that he was tortured. (fact). The Syrians are the ones being accused of the torture, not Canada (fact). Thus, the Syrians are innocent until proven guilty. Arar's suspect claim is not good enough, thus Syria is not guilty. There is no case for Arar in terms of Canada paying him monies for damages. What part don't you understand? Arar has no burden of proof to win a trial in Canada, the US, or Syria. Canadian officials said that he was not torutured, he co-operated with officials, and only on the 7th visit he claimed tortured. He had no visible scars, could remember exact dates and times of events while not remembering other things, and then he tried multiple times to sue the US gov't with failure. Also his character is suspect. It's a losing trial guys. jbl or any other attorney will tell you from a legal standpoint he has no case, no evidence, and if anything, there are numerous things that work against him. However he has an islamic vote behind him and Canada being the sorry country it is, it pandering off this vote so it doesn't upset the swing lefty voters out there. THere are a small sect of Canadians that hold Arar close to their hearts. It's a Michael Moore story. It's a way to inflict self haltred on ourselves. Now, I gotta go shopping in Montreal right now. Should have seen the mall yesterday. the women were amazing gorgeous. the most beutiful, slim, women i've ever seen in my life. These French Canadians are extrememly good looking. i'ts unreal.

Why shoudl we grant a stay from someone who has used hundreds of thousands of social services from the tax payers, illegally got himself into the country as a refugee, when he was a refugee he kept going back to Syria. He's a liar, a tax vacuum, and he needs to leave immediately. He is the symptom of what is wrong with our country. And as a proud Canadian, you should back this. Or do some reading into arar. He's trash fit for the gutter imo.

A lot of people here have exhaustivly discussed Arar's case and learned many things about him that don't make him look like a choir boy. Yes some will hold Arar up on a pedestal and make him a hero that should come before our troops. What do I say? Detain his wife, children, and all family members, and immediately deport him back home. Then ban him from stepping on Canadian soil.

Idealism. And those staff resources are not owned by the state. I wouldn't be suprised if the hospitals will pay LESS money to these doctors in exchange for much better working conditions. It will be good for the feds to realize they have a problem beyond repair and need to rethink their immigration policies. You are emotionally charged over an abstract idealism of 'the rich guy gets the healthcare the poor guy don't!' so your letting those emotions cloud your judgement. (beleive me, I was the exact same way when I was a teen, now i'm older and understand things in life. The first life lesson is people who manage programs are not there becuase of there mangement skills, but because of other reasons they hold these powerful positions ( could be a boss at work etc ). They have power to ruin things beyond repair due to their lack of talent and will do so much of the time. This is what has happened with healthcare and previous gov't that were managing this program. They weren't talented and failed at this. I accept this and learn from these things. You hold a teen-age like emotional attatchment that it's 'not fair' when the best we're trying to do is fix a broken mess. Yes private healtchare is the only way. No the white collar welfare health Canada jobs will never stop. We have to accept this and fucos on soltuions that are proven to work elsewhere, not idealisms.

Either way, as long as people are using the system that have not paid into, nothing will save us. The only thing that would save us is maybe if I got employed and got a healthcare plan. Then I wouldn't have to wait. Only 12% of the US's expendatures is on healthcare. Some provinces spend up to 40% of its money on healthcare from what I heard on the radio.

It's your very liberal idealisms that got us in this mess. Now there's no choice but for the poeple who are willing to pay to leave the system in order to give our public system more breating room in order to treat more poeple who are not living in Canada and arriving in the country on a daily basis. It's your very wild, wacky, Liberal idealism that got us here. Private healtchare cooperation is PROVEN to work for both rich and poor, but NOTHING will work when you have 300,000 sick, ailing, people entering the country with no job prospects, no plans to stay in Canada after they get their perminant residents, and who just are here to use our systems and place the MOST concern on bringnig over more of their relatives. But to you, these are the heroes that make up our country and do nothing but good. They do good for you - they vote Liberal; the immigrant party of Canada who are the majority of people that elected them in the last election.l I wish private health proponents would explain why they think its better to have to pay premium prices privately rather than lower costs through taxes. You just don't get it do you. Their births and hospital fees cots us tax payers money. Their schooling cost us money for something that they never paid into. Wow you just really aren't savvy or well read are you? If you can't under stand the simpelest, basic, basic, concept of how a social system works, then there's no hope for you and you shouldn't be discussing these sorts of things, you should be reading about the fundementals of how taxes are gathered and spent.

They aren't garunteeing wait times becuase they know they can't lessen them. They might create a new efficiencey, and reduce the 9 month wait time by 3 days, but that's it. We spend 100B on healtchare a year. I'm suggesting, to fix this porblem, we need to spend 300B, or allow private insurance and hospital corperations in Canada to get an immediate offload. I'm also suggesting, that Canada is not 'rich' enough to fix healthcare. We would need to be taxed at 70% total (from the 50% we're at now) to fix our system. That's what i'm suggesting. That is not possible becuase people would then loose their homes, cars, jobs, etc. There's only so much you can tax. Thus, healthcare cannot be fixed. What we need to do, is top people who are not even LIVING in Canada from scheduling their triple bypass surgeries in Canada. We need to basically stop letting people into the system who have not paid into it. This has devistated our system 'beyond repair' as one gov't report said about Samoli's taking advantage of our welfare system.

In his defense, all leaders have to show a positive outlook in order to instill confidence in the market. Stats can, Harper, and all the other political organizations will always say that the market is good. Look at the tech boom and Bush always insisiting there were new jobs, new sectors, etc. It was never true, but it's his job to instill confidence in the market place. Our country can be in collapse (which I honestly belieave we are in the beginning 20% of an all out collapse) and any leader will shout out that things are fine, things are good. Same with supporting our troups. I agree completely. I think when he gets a majority he'll clean up gov't thought because I've never lost my old Reform party values. I doubt he has lost his. I'm also not a fan of Mulrouney when compared to preston Manning. I much more back Manning. Actually I don't think there was a campaign promise of mannings I did not agree with. I loved the guy. One day in Ottawa I was at a Quickie mart at night buying some chocolate milk. I was in my late teens. And then all of a sudden Preston Manning walks in. And everyone just looked at him and grinned. He said something funny and made us laugh because we were staring at him hehe. I can't remeber what he bought. He looked much smaller in person though. I was real nervous. I've met Alan Rock, seen Mulrouney give a speech live, been to the govern generals house a couple of times, met the queen, seen the Pope. Kid growing up in Ottawa.

Yes. There have been more low wage, part time jobs for mexicans and thus less healthcare for them. Big deal. 'Companies aren't starting to stop including healtchare benefits'. That's just not happening.

I grew up in Ottawa and moved to GTA 2.5 years ago. Now I'm in Montreal for the week. I was speaking here with my fiances father last night (a 30 immigrant) and he actually recalled when all the samoli stuff went down in Ottawa. He remembers the whole thing. He said that the issue became too political so you don't here about it anymore. He said that there's more now than ever, they have more kids than every, and they are in Montreal now too but the media and news it's not socially acceptable to even talk about it so they just let the problem continue to happen. When there kids got older and became teens in the 90's, there were bus swarmings. And then they would always be at clubs harasing women, and causing trouble. I've seen so many bouncers have to kick them out while they yell out 'you racist white..' bleep. 5 years back I was at Deny's in Hunt Club and this table of Samoli's starting throwing french fries at our table. It was hiting the side of my friend head and stuff. There was like 10 of them all speaking their sht language. I didn't even regard them as humans - just human trash in Canada that we are giving free money to. It was that moment I wished I was in a state like Colorado and I could cary concealed. I'm not trying to say that people from Calgary, Edmonton, Belville, and other small cities don't understand, but you really don't understand. You don't know how it's like to have a proud and peaceful city, and heave these leech, scum sucking, welfare indolets come into your city in the 10,000's and litteraly ruin it. You don't know it's like to grow up in Ottawa, have allmost no job prostpects except for the federal gov't, take out 10's of thousands of student loans, try your best, just to have some immigrant who struggles with his English skills come in from Toronto and take that precious Ottawa gov't job that you worked so hard all these years. You don't know how it's like to litterally have 3 people a day asking directions on how to get around becuase they are 'new here'. You don't know how it's like to sit in traffic and look around you and EVERY single person in eye sight it an immigrant. And I mean EVERY person, ever car around you, ever person on the street, everywhere. Most in old cars, many babies, everyone using the system, no English being spoken. You don't know how it's like to drive on the way to work and each day see a big, fat flag of Trinidad waving tall and proud on a flag poll in someones backyard in view of a major street so he can show his pride. You don't know how it's like to have to sit here in Montreal, and then 4 internation students come over, all looking for wives so they can stay in the country, and then sponsor in their relatives (they said this is why they like Canada), and then one of them talking about some aunt that came here to 'get a kidey'. (i'm absolute serious. I was going to make a post about this alone). Heheh.. one student was in the US for 5 years and got kicked out. He said that it wasn't good anywhere because it was TOO HARD to bring his parents and they WOULDN'T GET HEALTHCARE SO THEY CHOSE CANADA. Wow! great time I had last night pasting a grin on my face. You don't know how it's like to have 5 years experience, superior english skills, and lose it to someone that has been in the country for 2 months just because he had a degree vs. a diploma (true story). That Canadian then stays unemployed and finally works a low wage crap job because his own field is too saturated with over qualified applicants who are being preferred over Canadians. (btw, that guy got fired because his english was so poor. HR hiring practices are another topic). Until you actually come and experience the GTA for yourselves, you'll never fully really know what I'm talking about. Come to the GTA and try to enter school, live, and work there. You'll see how much you like it. My best friend in Ottawa called it 'hell on earth'.

Are you serious? I live in Toronto. It was there when this thing played out. Just a couple days back there were 3 murders. All black from what I understand. It's a fact that the shootings were coming from blacks. It was the topic of COUNTLESS discussions on all the call-in radio shows. They had a black city councellor saying that blacks should be racially profiled. There was a black lobby group saying that they should have seperate black schools because their treated unfair. Then there was the black pastor that came from the USA to try and help us fix the problem. Damn why are you being so dense??? Listen. Toronto is a city of immigrants, illegals, and visible minorities. We're talking 6 million poeple in the greater area. English in most of that area is a second language. You will hear almost any language but English. If you are driving down the street and are in a lineup of cars at a red light, it's easy to look around and see that every person, in every car, is some sort of asian. Every person at every bus stop, walking on the street, and around in you in cars. Until you actually come to the GTA and see this with your own eyes, then you'll always believe that 'nah, it can't possibly be blacks, nah, there's no such thing as REVERSE RACISM and oh believe me it exists in Toronto and it's probably the most prejudice, backwards, cold, and racist city in the world. Old co-worker moved his family up from Montreal. He was an older french guy. His wife said that she didn't like Toronto because it was too... 'racist'. She said Montreal is multicultural, but toronto was like 'i'm not speaking to your or thank-you if you open the door for me becuase you are not of my ethnicity'.

He gave good advice for any of our politicians: "What you should do is take a look at what is working elsewhere and then see what applies to your particular situation." Instead, we always get the new and wild 'idealisms' from our polticians.. If a kid drops out of school legally, lets... ummm.. i know, take away his drivers license that he is legally allowed to have! wow! great idea. We don't need new idea's on how to fight crimes, homelessness, justice, and most importantly immigration - there are other places which already have systems in place that work. They just need to govern on behalf of the people and stop dictating.

Lol!! So true. I can't believe we're even talking about global warming.. even if it is true, it has very little to do with Canada. The voters should drop it like i'd like to drop Arar.

But having a Steve "may I call you Steve" Harper dictatorship is okay? Wow. he even repeats the worlds the CBC wants him to say. The CBC wants you to agree with their poltiical views and program their agenda accordinly in order to brainwash you. You have fallen for it. Let me get my harry potter book to see if there's a spell to rid you of the CBC brainwashing your under.

Gille Duecepts dad was a founder of the NDP.

As I sit typing this, I am in a Bloc riding right now in Montreal. Supposeldy this is a swing riding that was Liberal last time and then now is Bloc. I image some ridings could swing under the circumstance of the last election and the Quebec popularity rating. Coming here to Montreal for the holdidays... I love it here. It's so hard to imagine they have such high unemployment and are a welfare province. There is just so much Canadian owned private business and industry here. Everywhere you look. The buildings and warehouses have these huge floodlights that emit blue lights onto the buildings, then the will phase into a red light, then a white light. Really cool. The public bathrooms are so clean also. Everyone is good looking, slim, sauve, and enjoying each others company. When you see the welcome to quebec sign, there is this huge full colour display of the union jack and then a the quebec flag waiving beside it. There are flood lights shining on it. Really high budget and nice looking. Compared to Toronto, it also feels very safe here. There are very few murders and crazy homeless all over. I'm really going to enjoy my stay here in Montreal in this Bloc riding of Brossard. I wish everyone could come here to Montreal and experience the truly different 'culture' and way of these people here. (either that or it's just my perception becuase everytime I'm here i'm on vacation so I'm in a relaxation mode).

I agree also. But I think Kyoto is something that we should make as a last priority. Regardless, Canada as a country, ultimately has no power or control in this matter since we aren't a major poluter. I think it's a good timeline for GHG. I think that other things like merucry, lead etc. should be more of a priority. I think though, that we should do these things with the least economic impact possible because the last thing we need at this point is more canadian jobs lost or something to become more expensive.

The market doesn't alway drive a breakthrough. For example, if you are a chemical company dumping into the water system, what market force prevents you from doing so? If you are emitting sulfur into the atmosphere, what market force stops that as well? Demand creates supply. Not the other way around. When prices are high, consumer demand for alternative energy will go up. I'm just not a believer in the fact that bio fuel will be cheaper than gasoline. I just don't see that happening. Say we have the engines etc.. i don't know.. i just don't see it being cheaper. I see it being 1.98/L Just a hunch.

I said this a million times. The market and C02 emissions in Canada will look after itself and 2050 is a good target. We aren't China or India with a population of 1 billion poluting and burning tons of coal all day. We have no control of Kyoto.. i just love what Geoffrey said in my sig...