Molly

I have no idea what you are on about either. I can see neither direction nor point in your comments.

You mean, "those legistlators". EC has little choice but to follow the law.

AND they are afraid that Harper will screw something up or the Layton surge will infect even their most dependable voters..... or maybe, maybe, maybe you'll get hit by a truck or kidnapped by aliens before you can get to the polling place. The bird in hand....

Okay. So I misinterpreted. You said that my ancestors oppressed the french. How can that be when, where my ancestors came from, there were no french to oppress? Why would you make such an accusation if you recognize that the people you are addressing have many different histories and cultures? I took your reference to 'both' as a direct reference to 'just like you' and 'not just like you'. How should I have taken it?

Shouldn't men zip it or snip it?

What 'hush-hush don't -bring-it-up attitude'? We appear to be speaking of it right now... What do you propose needs to be done about it? Redundant laws? And what countries do you percieve as the paragons?

The accessibility situation would not be improved by national harrassment legislation.

Yuppers. Me too.

It is the "the best stance in the world" because the only people who are consulted are the people who are involved. Buttinskis get to take an appropriate 'long hike on a short pier'.

In working advance polls, I've never seen a lineup bigger than perhaps two dozen people, so it's easy to understand why they wouldn't expect a rush. As as rule, fewer folks vote at advance polls than at a normal poll on polling day, and they have three days to do it, so having more than half a dozen people in the room is fairly rare. You can go hours without seeing a soul.

That's a false, and frankly naive assumptioon.

It doesn't. That was your digression, not mine. It has only to do with the outright inability for you, me, or anyone else to perfectly predict what someone might find themselves facing over the course of a pregnancy.

It would take no more than a case or two of such evil mothers and doctors murdering healthy soon-to be-born children on a whim to so outrage the public that restrictions would be easy to enact.... so where are they? If any at all of these cases exist in Canada, why have the highly-motivated and very well-funded anti-choicers failed to present them?

Your ongoing use of the preposterously false dichotomy-- 'both' cultures -- completely dismissing so very much of Canada (me, for instance), and lumping anything that isn't French (the right kind of French') into a single pool of 'other' (aka Anglo)... that's pretty racist. (You also seem to have an odd definition of 'the same'.)

I haven't a clue, and it doesn't matter. The circumstances folks might face are myriad. The point is that anyone talking law is generally assuming something even beyond healthy mother/healthy baby-- leaning hard toward assuming that childbirth and pregnancy have negligible short term personal costs and non-existent long term consequences. That blind spot is false, offensive, and destructive.

To codify what already happens is to fix what ain't broke... and thereby create problems that precious few people foresee unless they are in that goo. This is not a matter of theory, but of horrible stuff that happens to real people. Now I find messing with that decision 'late term' or third trimester to be the most reprehensible of all, because the folks who are in that spot are already the most vulnerable among us. Until someone can find me a case, or two or three, of perfectly viable healthy infants of healthy mothers being murdered with impunity seconds before they would be born, I find it reprehensible to write law presuming it, only to force people who already have their backs up against it to jump through unnecessary hoops, solely because some truly evil people can't imagine themselves ever falling into that position... The devastated mother who is soon to give birth to a child with no brain doesn't need Shady or anyone else telling her his preferences and demanding that she provide the paperwork to show she's complying! It's absolutely inhuman to do that. I'll go one further than that: Nobody needs whack-job right-to-lifers running interference on basic prenatal care (special focus on high-risk pregnancies) to prevent mothers getting the information they need to make informed and timely decisions. Bad enough now where every day later makes the practical situation more difficult, but even worse if there was some legal cap, too.

The stats in that link include actual immigrant numbers, the portion of each nations population that is immigrants, and theportion of the worlds immigrants that have chosen that counbtry... So yes, the US has nice big numbers, but Europe accepts more immigrants than North America and even Latvia has a larger immigrant population as a portion of that country's people. Saudi Arabia beats pit Canada in that category, too.

Seriously... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_immigrant_population

Very few things are universally acknowledged to be no one else's business... Forced genital mutilation, for instance, is justified as being a matter of community morality, and thus not abusivee of individual rights. However, if you are the one facing an abortion decision, you will likely take someone else's self-appointed interest as having no weight, even if they've managed to make their interest official in law. It is simply an unwelcome, unjustified, inhumane intrusion-- a personal offense-- an assault.

No, no, no. He didn't win by 18,000 votes. He won with 18000 votes. Huge difference. That riding has been all over the map politically, and in 2006 was an extraordinarily close 4-way race. Without Nettie Wiebe (NDP) to keep him honest, he had a little more room to breathe last time, but if he loses his seat after this debacle it should surprise no one.

BWAAAAAHAHAHAAAAAA!!!! Trost is the one they found to replace Pankiw! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Pankiw This reaches beyond irony into out-and-out slapstick! It looks good on 'em.

Well... here's a fine bit of grovelling: http://www.thestarphoenix.com/news/Video+Trost+addresses+Planned+Parenthood+issue/4657705/story.html?cid=megadrop_story, and give me a moment.... .... and this is about as priceless as grovelling and tush-defending gets: Saskatoon-Humboldt candidate Brad Trost said Thursday he is "very, very proud of the work" that he did to help "defend" the International Planned Parenthood Federation. "We've been able to defend it for the last 16 months," he said. Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/news/decision-canada/Tory+says+helped+defend+choice+group/4660124/story.html#ixzz1KHOAdklL

You say conspiracy theory.... I say clear evidence.

Just... sticking the extremely unwelcome public nose into ^rivate and personal stuff that's absolutely none of your G-D business.

Whoever would have thought that the honourable member from Saskatoon Humboldt was an anti-Conservative journalist.