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I support the principal, 100%. I'm self employed. If I ask an employee to do something and they refuse. I fire them, on the spot. I don't give them numerous chances to comply as was the case with Mr. Dorval. Nor do I hold children or teens accountable to all the standards that I expect of an adult. If I had a teenager as an employee, I'd do my best to teach them the importance of abiding work duties before eventually firing them. The no zero policy was implemented because it gives marginalized students hope and motivation to continue when they make a bad decision because they have no support at home. These students are acutely aware that their youth is what grants them the exception and the same consideration likely won't be presented to them as adults. The idea that this special treatment permanently corrupts their work ethic into adulthood is absurd. Mr. Dorval seems oblivious to the fact that he himself enjoyed the equivalent of a no zero policy in being given numerous chances to capitulate. This policy works and it's why most of the country now abides it. Seems pretty cut and dry to me.

Okay...innocent people die a slow horrible death. Children, parents, watch their very reason for being, the centre of their universe, slowly rot from the inside out, until they're dead and you denigrate this tragedy with an infantile trolling comment? I so...so wish you would repeat this comment while standing in Fort Chipeweyan. The closest person to you would knock your skull apart like a pinata. I should expect no less from someone who throws out gems like "brass tax". My 12 year old daughter has a better understanding of a colloquialism than you. I'm arguing with an imbecile. Washing the dishes would have been more productive. I'm disgusted with myself for even entertaining your idiocy with replies. I'm outta here

Where is this acceptable? in jerry's fantasy land? Our own justice system is saddled with a tremendous appeals process because it's based on the premise that it's better for a thousand criminals to walk free than it is to punish a single innocent person. It's why YOU accept the odd spill. When we're done investigating a car accident, WE CLEAN IT UP! We don't throw a blanket over it and say "its fine now" so that it doesn't cut into profits. Childish analogy!

Hey Kalamazoo, I realize that enbridge spewed oil across 40 miles of your state, and then rolled out truckloads of canvas cloth and planted grass over top of it instead of cleaning it up, and theres now 40 miles of oil leaching into the groundwater, and that it's all documented in graphic detail and posted all over youtube, but it's okay to drink the water now. The world is fine. Jerry says so.

Hey, Fort Chipeweyan, I realize that a fully independant study with controls in place to redundancy proved that you were dying at an alarming rate from heavy metal induced bile duct cancer from the tar sands, but it's safe to come out now. The world is fine. Jerry says so.

lmao I see I'm not the only comic relief lol

jerry......just........shhhhhhh....it's getting embarassing now....

Thats it?!?! Not even a pointy fact stick to poke at the grizzly with?!? C'MON MAAAN! I MADE POPCORN FOR THIS!! :angry:

I laughed so bad at this...relevant to the OP.

Anyway, on a more serious note, in the spirit of Jacee's OP, are we fiddling? Do we care? I don't think it's as much an issue of scientists getting it wrong or caring or fiddling. There's plenty of caring, at least in BC and Manitoba eastwards. Can't speak for Sask. as I've only driven through a half dozen times. I think the real issue is the gross and general underestimation of the almost boundless, money and power, of big oil. Change is coming. It's a mathematical certainty. We can do it the easy way, a few modest but substantial changes each year, until we have a substantial alternative energy infrastructure, or, we can do it the hard way, burning the oil candle at both ends, with no preparation and an economy centered around oil that will crash, sooner or later, like the world has never seen. Earlier in the thread, someone posed the question, do you really think people in the oil business snort coke and party all day (something to that effect) Short Answer: YES Greed, power and money have a way of impairing one's ability to see more than 5 minutes into the future. You will never guilt them into ethical behaviour. Their manner of thinking is more along the lines of "Good?...Bad?...I'm the guy with the gun" because they ARE the guy with the gun. The States has intimate relations with Saudi's (rife with human rights violations) because they have no choice. Without them, OPEC could obliterate north america overnight, with the flip of a switch. Has anyone done the math on billions poured into solar arrays around Calgary (sunniest place in Canada) instead of billions into tarsands? Yup...only good for the people, environment and sustainability though. No evil profits to be had there! Or converting only a few of the numerous multi-thousand acre farms around Winnipeg (2nd sunniest in Canada by a small margin) to solar? If one put forth a proposal to their MP, how far up the chain of command do you think it would go before big oil caught wind and shot it down in flames. Watch the movie Syriana for a glimpse of what's at stake when dealing with big oil. Sorry for the doom and gloom post but it is what it is. Change is coming, my guess is it will be the hard way.

Holy citations batman!!! gunrutz..he caught you dood...you got logic-raped. *mental note to self*...study to save your soul before attempting to intellectually "hang" wit waldo. Does MLW have a badass rebuttal of the year award?? If waldo disagrees with me at any given moment, can I just tap-out? lol

P.S. I still think the OP is Pauline Marois incognito

I second this. Cyber opened a can of logic whoopass! Look at the bright side guys...you could always rejoin your FB page with 10 different email accounts and bump your membership to 30!

The election results say quebec disagrees with you. You're trolling James...say...is this Pauline Marois????

Won't be much fun to be among the 1% when they're lined up in front of the guillotine again lol