Jerry J. Fortin

Look folks, the settlements are not the real issue. How can they be? The real issue here is the existence of the Jewish state. The efforts to limit Israel's growth and their means of providing land and housing for their citizens is what is being spun here. So that should tell folks that the real opposition is to Jewish development. In essence the problem here is being glossed over with terminology designed to confuse the truth. I have no idea why the Jews put up with it, it makes no sense to me. I can't envision what Canada would do in such a situation besides fight back and yet the world seems to want them to negotiate a settlement! Lets turn that issue around and clearly state the reality. Even the rest of the Arab world will not carve out a few miles of desert for these people, now why is that? Why should Israel?

I am not a big tent party guy either. Even so, cooked books are the perception the public gets, no doubt fueled by opposition MP's whenever things are not going well. When things are going well the story isn't much different because then folks look for lumps under the carpet. We simply need a different approach to politics. We need a focus and a goal, we need to do something and get it done. One thing at a time and come out with a win. This needs to happen folks.

There is a rail line to Fort Mac.

There seems to be a lot of people with personal reasons for leaving the employ of Harpers government then.

We are talking nation building by default here. The reality is a perception of use it or lose it. Should we decide not to develop based upon projected costs, then we will lose out in a very big way.

I recommend that you folks decide how to take better care of yourselves.

Iran has already spoken of Israel, and has since refused to retract its remarks. All I can say to this is that you reap what you sew.

I see your point. Can't even say I disagree with you, I was just calling the rose a rose.

Good point BC. You realize that on the tax payers dime any over capacity is excessive and costly right?

Talk is cheap, we do a lot of that in Canada. I am concerned that we are not doing enough to develop the north. Many people disagree with me.

It ain't bad, then again it ain't good either. It's sort of just the way it is here.

Hey BC how is this a bad thing when our people need help and our system can't do the job, then we pay to send the people to where they can get help. What is wrong with that?

Hotel California? Seriously though, those folks are there for a reason. They are treated fairly well in Canada, unlike the treatment they receive in other places.

Sure it is! So are income taxes! Yet that is the reality is it not?

You mistake me, or I just bobbled the explanation, one or the other. Let me try this again. The terrorists target civilians, the IDF targets terrorists.

It is a tax though. Just like CPP.

Sentencing in Canada is three square meals a day, an assortment of perks like movies and swimming pools and of course bringing your girl friend over to the trailer a couple of times a year. Many Canadians call our prisons "Holiday Inns". As to the probability of innocence of Mr. Simpson, that was up to a jury of his peers in LA, they had the last word. My opinion on the matter is not relevant, yet I myself was convinced based on the evidence that he did commit the crime.

The English called the Jews terrorists before they formed a state. I know what Benny is getting at, but I refuse to accept the argument because the Jews were let us say a little more circumspect in their targeting and the conflict was contained in a more acceptable manner. That said, there is a difference between collateral damage to civilians in a military effort and the targeting of civilians by a para-military operation.

The truth is that there are more unemployed than we think there is. There is also a lot of people on welfare. The trouble in counting them all is that we are talking apples and oranges. The feds pay for the unemployed, and the provinces pay for those on welfare, and neither party keeps stats on the other or exchanges them with the other. It should be known to all that statistics answer questions put before them. Ask the right question and you get the right answer.

You are right, it is something. It may be too little and too late though.

I highly doubt that even somebody as much of a goof as Harper couldn't find an employee to pay 120K plus a year to in todays environment. Aside from that, the media in this country has ALWAYS been left leaning and most of the morons that are shocked by this are the same ones that think it will be hard to replace a mouth piece for a right wing Prime Minister. The righties are not cheap, but they are for sale.

There is a rather complex calculation used to come up with the governments stats.

You ask that labour laws be reversed and that the rights of the worker be eliminated. I don't see that as very beneficial to citizens at all.

Then move to Alberta! We don't either!

Exactly! That is the nature of the problem, the undefined and underlying base emotions and responses in the absence of the rule of law. The use of violence to achieve an end has its own political problems associated with it. In this case the problem is being attempted to be farmed out to international interests to present a local solution. In other words a resolution that is destined to fail. Until the two parties agree to stop killing each other, the killing will continue. One side or the other has to take the first step in peace. Israel has made several first steps at peace, their reward for their efforts has been more violence.