Moonbox

You keep saying that, but the reality of the situation is that the agreements you speak of (and regularly misquote and misrepresent) were made hundreds of years ago by what is now essentially a foreign monarch with little to no influence on Canadian politics today. What you're essentially saying is that the Canadian court system (composed of Canadians) will award settlements to a tiny minority that will bankrupt the country and everyone in it. What's more is that this is all based on agreements made with a foreign government. There isn't a court in the world that would do what you're saying they will. International history would support my claim. Perhaps you simply don't understand how common law works, or you've never taken an interest or been challanged with real critical thinking, but your entire premise is preposterous. The only questions I need to ask you are: Why? Why would the Canadian Court System bankrupt itself and the rest of Canada to support 200 year old claims made by tiny minorities (and based on 200+ year old treaties made before Canada was even a country)? Who is going to enforce such settlements? We have a long history of the international community not getting involved in such affairs. So who will enforce it? Canadians are going to enforce bankrupting themselves upon themselves? The more you think about it the more hysterical your claims get. The only other thing I'll add, and I'll italicize it and put it in bold for you is this: I am not saying that Six Nations etc aren't owed SOMETHING. They probably are and they're certain to be awarded further settlements. Settlements in the trillion dollar area, or even tens of billions, however, will only happen in your dreams. They won't happen because it doesn't make sense to bankrupt tens of millions for the benefit of a tiny minority, and because nobody will enforce such settlements anyways. A court of law, if nothing else, does what makes sense. It exercises a much more sane and cogent sort of thinking than what you're clearly used to and it will not give you what you want simply because YOU think it should.

I don't really see any problem with this. Let them work if they want to.

It's really a moot point. If sovereignty is over people, and those people occupy the land, it's pretty much the same thing.

In this I disagree. The Reform knew that they were totally unpalatable in the East and, if anything, they've shown themselves to be pragmatic. Knowing that Ontario would never accept a bunch of wacko Bible-thumpers, they'll moderate and do what they can to keep the Liberals from forming a government again.

charter.rights has only acknowledges/accepts things that support his/her opinions. Don't bother.

Big whoopy. Reporters travel on passenger planes as far as I'm aware of. Refrigeration equipment doesn't generally travel on passenger cabins...maybe I'm wrong I dunno.

Look at the NDP's results in the last few provincial elections. Rae alienated the left, right and centre when he was premier. He overspent and ran the biggest deficits Ontario has ever seen. At the same time, he pissed off the unions and lost the NDP's traditional base as well. I've met the man in person and he's VERY intelligent and VERY personable, but he has a terrible legacy and the CPC would have the easy time in the world turning Ontario against him. His record speaks to his politics.

He'd be even worse than Iggy. The man is like acid on the lips of most people in Ontario. He's the worst premier we've ever had.

Geoffrey seems to know more about this sort of thing than I do but I can't really see what other currency would take top spot over the US. The Euro region's debt problems are every bit if not bigger than the US, the British are no better. Concerns that the Chinese manipulate their currency will probably rule it out as the #1 contender and as far as the Yen is concerned..well I actually don't know much about it but I doubt it.

I think that's no secret August.

Is any of this confidence material though, to be included in a budget bill?

Land claims are being settled. I know it. I agreed with you. The proof for you is there, however. Add up ALL of the land claim settlements in the last decade, however, and then tell me how long it would take at the current pace to reach $1 trillion in settlements. You have not once, in the last several months, provided anything even CLOSE to proof that the Supreme Court supports the claim from First Nations in anywhere NEAR the area of $1 trillion. All you've done is show us examples of small settlements being made here and there from time to time. As for the sulking, I know for a fact that what you're saying is pure balogna so it doesn't upset me one bit. The worst you're going to get from me is sneering contempt and a total lack of respect for your clownschool claims and opinions.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/tory-campaign-chief-throws-down-fall-election-gauntlet/article1633200/ They're going to keep trying and trying until they get the majority. If it wasn't for Ignatief being such an unprincipled joke, I would say it's about time we got Harper out of office. The clauses the Conservatives are trying to include the budget bill are as follows: open overseas mail delivery to privatization, weaken environmental assessment, and facilitate the selloff of power division of Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd I can't see why any of them need to be in the budget and frankly I'm pretty appalled that the Conservatives would want to turn this into a confidence motion. Here's why we need a Senate it seems.

Wouldn't it be so much easier to have you explain what the Governor General actually DOES??? Your response would be an answer to your own question.

Not going to happen. It's pretty twisted logic to assume that the 10 million people of Ontario are simply going to give their land away simply because people like you cry about it. Why would they? They are being used and they will continue to be used without all of the above. 'Some' claims are being settled. The claims that are 'reasonable' to settle are being settled, and at a snail-like pace. The larger claims you speak of will continue to be laughed at up and down and across Canada and the courts will force no trillion dollar settlements on anyone. The courts are ruled by Canadians. For the settlements to be done as you suggest, several things must happen: 1) The Supreme Court (composed of Canadians) will have to agree to bankrupt Canada (and themselves) to appease a puny minority. 2) Canadians (millions and millions of them) would have to accept losing everything they own and have worked on over the last 230 years. 3) The enforcement of the above would have to be done by Canadians, against themselves. Perhaps in your hash-induced dreamworld this all makes sense, but I'll continue to snicker in contempt over the next 50 years as nothing you say is going to happen will actually happen.

It's a pointless and redundant position. It's the cushiest and most ceremonial job you could have in Canada and hardly ever does anything of consequence. Perhaps we might not be hugely better off without it, but we'd save money and be no worse off.

I've yet to see any reasonable reference of ANY intentions to settle the $1 trillion charter.rights is crying about. The $145 million accounts for about 0.1% of the overall amounts we're talking about. I've already mentioned in other threads that I'm sure other settlements will be made. The totals will amount to the low billions, however, rather than the hundreds of billions or trillions this clown is talking about. If the claims are already 'realized' as charter.rights is saying, then at this rate maybe everything will be done and settled to the satisfaction of the First Nations in, oh, say 1000 years.

I don't think there's much to say about this other than HAHAHAHAHAHA. As has been mentioned before, there isn't a court in the world that would recognize a $1 trillion dollar claim and that's lunatic territory at best. You can do as much 'claiming' and bedwetting as you want, but those claims will never be realized, nobody will take them seriously and little to nothing is ever going to happen. As for the Crown, its authority is not recognized by anyone in the Commonwealth and its power is purely symbolic. Sooo...your chain thing means absolutely nothing. You'll cling to anything you can to 'prove' your balogna assertions, but the sad truth for you is that Southern Ontario has about 10 million 'Canadians' living there, most of whom are at LEAST second or third generation Canadians, and any court here that tried to give away the land they live on would be chased out of the country.

I highly doubt the $1B budget was meant to protect the odd shop window or anything like that. Rather, I think it was meant to make sure that Canada wasn't embarrassed by having VIPs from other countries harrassed or hurt or scared.

Yes. Made government of China much easier to cover up the massacre of its own people. They very lucky no cellphone cameras back then.

No arrests happened. It is all lie of Chinese propaganda machine. Like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_1989 Nobody can block you from Chinese propaganda.

It was also found to be a lie. The Soviet Union broke up because communism, in reality, was tyranny. Those on the top told those on the bottom what to do, and there was little anyone on the bottom could do about it.

The arrests and violence at the G20 were a lie made by communist Chinese officials looking to smear Western government. It didn't happen. All video footage is fabricated and the protests were peaceful and fair. Do not believe Chinese lies.

Communism is a lie!

He's right. It's one of the reasons I don't like reading the Post. It was a pretty pathetic attempt to put a spin on something honest and fair that a Liberal wrote.