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I think it's pretty clear by now that these kinds of problems are being experienced by all parties in this election. That's what politics has become in this country, and one should no longer be surprised that Parlaiment behaves as it does.

You're one to talk. You should try re-reading some of the stuff you write, it's positively enbarrassing. Whether or not he's "ostracized," has a chance of winning, or would make a bad MP, the fact of the matter is that as a Canadian citizen he has the right to seek election. That is a democratic right. If anyone from Six Nations feels that they want representation in Parlaiment, they can do so as well. There's even a party for "First Peoples".

This is what gets me. You really like to mouth off and use offensive language, but if I don't agree with you then I'm a "racist". I used to be sympathetic towards First Nations, but the situation in Caledonia is so ridiculous; the people, such as yourself, who represent the Six Nations side conduct themselves in such an uncouth and crude manner, that I just can't sympathize anymore. The problem that you have is perception: you only see things in terms of red and white, you fail to recognize that people don't think or function based on such absolute terms, as evoked by your duck analogy. Well, as a bird watcher, it reminds me of the other day while I was out walking and two women who were passing by me and one was pointing out a heron nearby--the problem was, that "heron" was in fact a cormorant. You obviously don't know what you're talking about, so should you be going around acting as though you do.

Even more funny is how irrelevant this is.

back at it yet again, eh?

The only people who are really viewing this issue in terms of race are members of Six Nations, and as you have just demonstrated again, are more than willing to hurl accusations of racism in order push their agenda and quelle opposition. Six Nations is made up of a group of individuals who define themselves by race, while Caledonia consists of people of many backgrounds who have for one reason or another decided to reside in that community; anyone who wants to can reside in Caledonia. When they people of Caledonia complain that their lives are being interfered with by Six Nations "protesters," they do so not based on race, but on the actual fact that members of Six Nations have engaged in deliberate criminal acts in order to obstruct their lives. Six Nations defines itself by race, bases its existence on a common racial heritage that dates back centuries; this is something that the people of Caledonia do not do. So it would seem to me that the people who have the real racial issues would be Six Nations, not Caledonians.

Yeah, the Cons are control freaks. This goes way back.

But that's the truth.

vindicated.

Being a Canadian isn't a race. Six Nations, on the other hand, strongly identifies itself with a common racial heritage. It's not surprising that they view others in terms of race as well, and are so willing to play the "race card" as a result. Six Nations is a group that wants to have a distinct identity, and they collectively undertake initiatives based on the fact that they are a "nation". So if Six Nations does something that causes trouble for other people, those people who complain about Six Nation's actions are responding to the actions and not the fact that Six Nations is comprised of a certain race. Using the "race card" is just a ploy to push your agenda, because you know that most Canadians don't want to be perceived as racist. But of course you can always play the card too often and push things too far (already has happened) and then the 8 million people of Ontario versus the 20,000 of Six Nations will grow tired of this nonsense and seek alternative solutions to rid this province of a major nuisance (and hotbed of organized crime).

Yeah, that's right... greed, materialism, consumerism, selfish individualism are all hallmarks of socialism...

The last thing Canada needs is a larger military. Canada simply can't be defended given the current state of warfare and so the only logical use for a larger military would be for other misguided foreign adventures. I think the only positive role that the military plays in our society that it provides an avenue for people with bloodlust and aggression problems to channel these energies and discipline themselves to a certain extent so that they don't do as much harm to society as they could.

You have to remember that this kind of rhetoric is largely based on the fact that they support Harper. Whatever the case, Harper has demonstrated that he has fascist tendancies, and the irony of this should not go unnoticed. The one problem that Canadians seem to have is not seening people for who and what they are; they are all to happy to subscribe to ideolized myths and have their opinions shaped for fear of being labelled and intimidated.

Um, no. It's arrogance and politically motivated. It has nothing to do with religion or or a notion of "forgiveness". If Harper was really a "fundamentalist," then he wouldn't be involved in politics in the first place.

This oughta win McHale a slew more votes: http://thespec.com/News/Local/article/438387 Another "warrior" of "no fixed address" gets arrested with a whole host of charges and somehow the police are at fault and again the poor Six Nations are victims of their aggression.

Actually, everything that I've seen suggests that the media wants the Cons to win. There media in this country is not left-wing; it is very corporate in its outlook. The only reason that Harper could be getting more flak is because Harper has traditionally been hostile and antagonistic towards the media. They don't like PMs trying to control and manipulate what they report, so after two and a half years of his nonsense in this regard, it's payback time. It has nothing to do with political partisanship, although most Con supporters are so deluded by their strident ideological biases that they really just don't get it.

I'll agree that the military needs more money once someone can provide me with evidence that Canada is really in direct threat of attack from a foreign country. There are only two or three countries that theoretically could invade Canada. In my opinion, the most logical of these invaders would be the United States, not Russia, because of its geographic proximity and its voracious appetite for resources. Russia comes second, but quite distant: people who think that the Russians are going to come storming over the arctic circle to get our resources are totally misreading the political outlook of the Russian leadership, and the fact that its much more practicle and easy to get what they want in the region to their south. A remote chance that China could do something in a few decades time once it becomes the superpower and perhaps wants to take preventative measures against North America and mete out the same kind of imperialistic punishments that the west has been doing so to them and the rest of Asia for such a long time. I suppose there is also a chance of a fourth possibility; the creation of some sort of Islamic pseudo-state within Canada in the GTA area that becomes the homebase of islamic extremism on the continent.

Our education system, and society in general, is an adject failure; we should be able to produce enough people for these fields without having to resort immigration. We need people raised in this society and functionally literate in English (or French) to fill these occupations. Personally, I don't know where you get the lawyer part from; unless you studied law in the US, Britain, NZ, Australia, and the Caribean, then it really doesn't matter how much law you studied or practiced.

The Bloc is largely a socialist party, and the Bloc is apparently becoming quite irrelevant. A lot of quebecers I think have grown tired of the sovereignty issue and just want to get on with it; they can always form a distinct society within Canada, and the NDP is just as likely to accomodate this as would the Cons. Quebec is where the NDP is likely not make any gains if at all.

And what exactly was that 2006 ad by the Conservatives? You know: BEEP! BEEP! These Conservative ads at the beginning of this election campaign with Harper trying to look sensitive and down-to-earth aren't exactly "sophisticated".

Very sad news: http://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/story/20...ster-death.html

Neither do I. We're scheduled to have a Con majority because that's what the elites want.

so you'll be voting NDP then?