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I sent him (McGuinty) a letter laying out my concerns about the HST and all I got back was a form letter he probably sent out to every other citizen of Ontario. It didn't even remotely address my concerns. The letter (Which he probably didn't even write) just stated that he thinks it's best for Ontario. Man I hate it when politicians don't address the real issues. It also drives me nuts that I will have to vote Liberal for my riding in the next Provincial Election because I really like my MP. We really need to change the voting system, it's not right that I have to vote a party leader I don't like into power if I like the local candidate!

I'm pretty sure McGuinty wont downsize the staff. He'll probably reassign them, public sector employees have the most job security out of anyone in the workforce. Even business owners have less job security.

You know this whole thing makes me sick, that Sarah Kramer who messed this all up could get so much in severance after 5 months on the job! I worked for a company for 4 years and got no severance when I was laid off and didn't even get EI benefits! Somehow anyone who works for the government gets job security and handsome payouts when they mess up! I heard on CTV news last night that Kramer got over 300k in severance, not to sure about that figure but it's what I heard. It makes me sick!

Personally I don't want my kids (when I have them) in public education. The public education system doesn't teach the worldview that I believe in. So I'd probably go private school if I can find a good one or home school my kids. This is why I'm starting my own business so that when I get married my wife doesn't have to work once the kids come. I want to be financially independent, debt free and capable of taking care of my family on my own without government intervention or assistance. The public schools indoctrinate kids with a liberal, messed up word view. I don't want my kids brain washed by the gay rights, abortionist, etc, etc liberal worldview.

Is it just me or is question period at any level of government a waste of time? The parties just list off insults like little children and no one actually answers the question. All they do is read a statement that has been party approved. You could ask 6 questions on the same subject but different questions and get the same answer 6 times word for word. I think either the question should be answered truthfully and not these "propaganda" style answers or we should just have question period scrapped. Any views?

First of all the whole term "separation of church and state" means that the state keeps it's grubby hands off the church, however that isn't the way it is commonly known. Personally I can't vote liberal as an evangelical Christian because (Like their name would suggest) they have way to liberal views. I'm currently not happy with any political party but if I had to vote today I would probably go Conservative Party. The NDP only care about unionized workers despite what they want to admit, the liberals and greens are to liberal so by default I'd have to go Conservative. I'm far happier with the Conservatives than any other party.

1) It's a public forum that anyone can join, so it's anything but private coversation 2)No 3)Maybe 4)No 5)No 6)No 7)No Feel free to use any post I've made in your paper and feel free to PM me if you want to talk more. It's good to see people looking at actual people's point of view for papers instead of only formal studies, articles and polls

That's true I misspoke on that one.

What do you suggest? a search of every car that crosses the boarder? We'll have to add 50x as many boarder guards and add mechanics to put cars back together after the searches. The drug war can't be won, we need to educate people on the evils of drugs and catch kids young so we can stop them from becoming adult users.

Here is my problem with this, it's good legislation yes but it doesn't solve the problem of gangs? What we need is a program that will get parents out of poverty so that the kids can play hockey or something instead of getting into a gang! I don't think anything Nicholson can do will stop gang violence it will just add to the street cred of a thug when he gets out after a longer jail sentence. What we need is to dig people out of poverty. I understand that people in poverty need another 10-20 thousand dollars a year to get out of poverty. What we need is a plan to get families this money. Be it better education, more grants and bursaries for adults to return to school or more adult learning programs that increase the ability people have to earn a better living. To me what it boils down to is more kids feel safe in gangs because they don't have anything else to do after school to keep them off the streets. Yes there are good programs out there for kids to get into but we need a better system to lower the poverty rate. (BTW I think child poverty is junk, parents are in poverty so kids suffer) I was lucky, I played football after school from the age of 7 up through high school and when it wasn't football season I was at the gym preparing for the next season. I had a blast and gangs never even entered my mind. We need more kids who's parents can afford to do stuff like this for their kids to keep them off the streets! However I do support the legislation to put criminals behind bars, I just don't think it's the solution. Harper is being lazy and not doing what needs to be done to fix the problem properly.

I think every cop should have a taser, just like every cop has a baton, handcuffs, a two way radio and a gun. What I think is lacking is the proper procedure for using a taser. Right now cops use them all willy nilly when ever they feel like it and don't get down and dirty anymore. Clearly if you take four guys from this forum with average intelligence we'd come out with a different outcome if we took on Dziekanski and all we had were a set of handcuffs. What is a problem is the fact that these four officers couldn't handle a lone man. They had plenty of chances to wrestle him to the ground and cuff him and used a taser instead because it's easier and safer for them. I've said it before and I'll say it again, the taser is a good and useful tool. It just needs a place on the use of force continuum. As I understand it, the taser isn't on there or just isn't in the right spot. If there is clear when, why and hows on using a taser then it can be valuable to every police officer. I do think it is used way to liberally right now.

I obviously wasn't clear enough. You don't need to know english, It's just a good idea to know a few words. Two things come to mind here though 1) his mother is a Canadian now, you'd think he knew the airport enough to be civil. He's been here before as I understand 2) You don't fight with cops! Yes the cops were a little dumb to taser the guy with 4 of them there but Dziekanski wasn't acting smart either. He's dead because he acted stupid, not because he didn't speak english.

Agreed

Um? Dishonorably discharged? These aren't war crimes! Jailed? Hardly, the taser is an approved weapon. The officers in my opinion are only responsible for their actions. The problem is that the taser doesn't have proper protocol for it's use. Guns aren't used to subdue a person nor are they used to gain control of a situation without a firearm being involved on the side of the perp. The glock on their hips have proper protocol that must be followed before it is used. From what I understand there is none of this in place for the taser. These policemen are victims of a flawed system. Look at this, we're saying they should be fired, jailed and who knows what else is being thought in secret. You say these officers should be jailed for criminal negligence, they weren't negligent, the RCMP call the taser a "safe" weapon. That alone implies that they weren't negligent. Maybe the RCMP is negligent but not the officers. No one can see what is going on in a guys heart when he is being tasered, I can guess but that is not a scientific or medical guess. These four guys knew nothing more than the hundreds of thousands of other deployments of tasers in the world that didn't end in death.