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If Conrad Black = Capitalism, I'll choose Socialism any day, and so will the overwhelming majority of Canadians.

Yup, that's correct. It would not surprise me to find out that your hero Black is a member of a Christian Church - he's a hood, a scumbag, the worst kind of individual walking the face of the planet. Don't you ever wonder about Christianity when after there is some sick killing or other crime in socierty, inevitablity we read in the papers a couple of days later that these sickos are members of some fundamentalist Christian church? :angry:

What provides me with the biggest chuckle of all however, is that these rich people love to call themselves Christians. What a perversion of what Chritianity is supposed to represent. Personally I think organized religion is exactly that - organized, similar to organized crime. No wonder Christianity is in such a mess. Maybe it is time for a reverse debtor's prison. If you are found with too much money, you get thrown in jail or are beheaded. We could hire tax auditors as bounty hunters to go after the rich. Why not make it a crime to be rich? After all most of their wealth is ill gotten gain, whether achieved through stealing, deceit, murder, whatever.

Actually most people have a work ethic, and will work given the opportunity. That is the rich people's strategy. Focus on the poor down and out person getting a dollar, in order to deflect paying attention to how the rich are stealing billions, eh! Yes, if we listen to the rich, or the sychophants who aspire to be rich, we will destroy our country. Fortunately there are enough intelligent people in Canada to realize these ideas from the rich need to be put out to pasture with the other brilliant theories like the "Flat Earth Society". It wasn't that long ago the FES people were a dominant group.

If you have two dollars, and someone else has nothing, it is our Canadian government's raison d'etre to take a dollar way from you, and give it to the person with nothing. That, and that alone is the number one purpose of our government - to redistribute the wealth so that rich yahoos like Black don't destroy our society.

Article This is the real reason our health care system is buckling at the seams, why we have to raise tuition fees, why we have to charge camping fees, etc. The rich, who advocate lower taxes are greedy scum and people who support their ideas are just as bad. :angry:

Confederation actually does revolve around the needs of Ontario. Britiain had its colonies, Canada, Australia, etc., and Ontario has its as well - BC, AB, etc. Tough, eh! Them's the breaks.

Did it ever occur to you that maybe the United States is privileged to trade with us? Ah, no, that might be considered an original thought, probably not allowed in the business schools. What is it with you guys that are so lacking in self-esteem you feel you always have to kiss American butt?

What Canada needs: More Al-Jazeera, less CNN. More French, less English. More Latin Americans, less Europeans. More African music, less square dancing. More environmentalists, less clear cutters. More education, less TV. More vacations, less work. More cultural celebrations, less war memorials. More respect for First Nations, less power for Whitey.

That's a great idea, let's lose English as an official language. French only from now on. Ici aussi?

This is your logic at work: Let's go and prop the world up with dictatorships across the world so that it will be very easy to access foreign resources. Oh, and if these dictators don't toe the transnational line close enough, we will just kill them, and replace them with somebody else who will be more obedient. Eventually the citizens of these foreign countries wake up and realize they are being ripped off. When they complain to their own governments, they are thrown in jail. The system is so unfair, so stacked against them that eventually they resort to violence, like leveling the world trade centre, these terrible people, these terrorists, who just want their national governments to control their own resources on behalf of their citizens. Sounds almost like Albertans doesn't it? Spare us the company line - we have all heard it before! The only thing that is going on, and that has been going on since the beginning, is class warfare. The rich against the poor. You can try to disguise it up any way you want, different religion, different language, different colour skin, different race, but those are all smokescreens. It is always the rich against the poor, it always has been, and it always will be. Don't worry the greed factor is alive and well throughout the land. :angry: A lot of people here would not know an original thought if it hit them smack in their face.

I think 100 feet down should be the cutoff point. Anything within 100 feet of the surface the land operator controls, and anything more than 100 feet below the surface belongs to all Canadians. Seriously the one and only reason I can see for not abolishing the provinces altogether, is because of Quebec's need to protect the French language and culture. Look at the system on the our coastlines. Doesn't Canada own or control up to 200 miles offshore?

Just because some Albertans whine and complain about the National Energy Program doesn't mean it wasn't a great program. We need lots more similar type programs in Canada to spread our wealth around, so that we will have a fair and just society. Affluent people always cry when you ask them to share their wealth - it's just human nature for some folks to be too greedy. The NEP was one of the things that Trudeau did that I respected him for, more than almost anything else. Finally we had a politician that stood up to the rich cats. It is just too bad we haven't had any political leaders since with the courage that Trudeau showed - he walked the talk.

CLC chief slams treatment of civil servants Will brain-dead politicians like Gordon Campbell or Stephen Harper ever learn that it is to society's advatage to treat our labour force with dignity and respect, eh?

How do you spell Montreal in French? How do you spell Poland in French? This exemplifies one of the problems with unilingualism - complete and utter ignorance of the world in which we live!

Sounds like businesspeople will rationalize anything. Is murder next? :angry:

Labor Day Nothing like a little dose of reality, rather than the usual snow job of our corporate press.

CLC delivers labour report card What are you doing today to show your appreciation to all the working people that have gone before us, some who have even laid down their lives to create better working conditions for the average person? Hard won benefits such as weekends, overtime, sick days, pension plans, unemployment insurance, 40 hour work week, holidays, safe work sites, health care, etc. Every major urban area in Canada will be having some kind of Labour Day celebration - in the Lower Mainland there will an organized workers'celebration at Confederation Park in North Burnaby, roughly in the Wellingdon - Hastings area. Particularly if you have never been to one before, take your kids today and go and celebrate with the other working people in Canada.

Bankruptcy is a failure of the economic system, and corporate executives need to be punished not rewarded in these situations. What better time to reflect on these peversions than today Labour Day, which is a time to reflect on the true economic realities, and to celebrate the honest working people, and particularly those working men and women that resist the abuses of the suits.

We already have a mix right now but I have never seen any concrete research that suggests going private will help to make things better overall. It is not in the public interest to go private. It is like the idea of privatizing our road system. How long would it take before bridges started to collapse, because private businesses would cut corners on safety and maintenance?

That's nonsense to say Americans rejected the Clinton medicare proposal. Corporate lobbyists secretly influencing Congress I think is more like it. Since when does joe average get represented in politics?

I can almost guarantee you if nurses were put in charge of the health care system it would be fair, everyone would have coverage, and it would operate smoothly. But no, doctors know better. Horseshit they do! Who gave doctors these special powers, eh? Give us all a break.

If our state run health care is so bad why is it that your average American desparately wants our system, while your average Canadian wants nothing to do with the for profit Ameican system? This is what I mean - your arguments don't stand up to the litmus test, the consumer. Common sense says if it is private profits will be flowing out. Canadians have said no thanks to that, very unfair, decent coverage only for the wealthy, system.

I doubt there are any Canadians that really expected PM Martin to live up to any promise he made during the election campaign. Maybe Canadian's low opinion of politicians is their security blanket, so they won't be too disappointed by the actual results.

There has not been one legitimate study that shows competition will be good for medicare. What makes you think competition is a good thing? Perhaps it is a bad thing. The business community's mantra is so boring, always the same old, same old. Yes, business probably should be allowed to exist, but because of the greed and corruption factors (see Conrad Black, Enron, etc.), it need to be kept on a very short leash by our governments.