takeanumber

1 person, 1 vote. That's not a conservative statement. That's a liberal statement. 1 person, 1 vote: for EVERYBODY: urban, rural, Atlantic, Albertan. Want regional equality? Elect a strong premier. A Reformer gave us the Federal system (1855) just for this reason. Let's use it.

"Swamped" implies that it's a problem. Now seriously, it's very interesting to me how my white relatives seem to have this opinion that since they came to this country 'second' (after the amerindians), that they somehow have more rights than people who came here 'third' or 'fourth' or 'fifth'. Then they turn around and bitch about how the people who got here 'first' get so much 'special treatment'. (I suppose they think their ancestors 'didn't mean it' when they signed those treaties, right?) Immigration is NOT a problem. They bring to Canada a much higher birthrate than white people. Want more white people? Breed. Otherwise, I'm not going to pay 85% of my wage in 25 years just to support Baby-Boomer SOB's who are against immigration. (Seriously, there'll be a tax revolt) ---------------------- About assimilation: My ancestors came to this country originally to get away from feudalism in France. They valued social mobility. They worked hard. But they were never assimilated. I don't understand why there's this anglo-white-Canadian tendency in those over 30 (and ignorant under 30's) to say that immigrants need to be assimilated, specifically muslims. With the exception of the French, Muslims are the second hardest group to assimiliate. Now, if Muslims did not value social mobility and hard work, they, and any immigrant group for that matter, should not be allowed into Canada. The invitation is also predicated on leaving your hatreds behind. You leave the hatred at the door. Because if you're Tutsi, you might have to live next to a Hutu. If you're hindu, your neighbor might be a muslim. If you're Armenian, there's probably a Turk who denies th holocaust somewhere around. And they're not to fight in this country. Nobody is to fight. If they're unhappy with how Canada is, they should go back. (Many French people went back in the 1600's because they couldn't "hack it" in the new world. Same thing applies to them.) If they can't "hack" doing jobs that they're skills match for, then TS. Every other generation of Canadians had to it.

Well, I won't scream racism. I will say this though: Immigration is very important to this country because they're contributions to this country, and the youth that they bring (in real demographic terms), is going to fund your CPP when you get old. And mine. Don't like the ethnic composition of Toronto? Breed.

There should be a little * there. *By form government, we mean: to form a part of a minority government. My thing is: if they do manage to get into such a situation, are they going to sell-out and NOT demand PR. Right now, I'm so cynical, I gotta say they will sell out. How sad is this? When you gotta go down to the sixth party to find an 'alternative' that won't sell you out.

Oh goodie, a Conservative preaching 'family values', shall we go through them, one by one? Seems to me that a true conservative would want government to stay out of their lives as much as possible. So why you bringing the law in to this? Shouldn't parents be able to raise a child who won't go off and have sex with a 45 year old man? What happened to the family value that parents TEACH their children to THINK so that they can make SMART decisions. If the parent's object, yeh, there's a way to stop it. It's called GROUNDING. And if the brat is bad enough to defy the parents that much, it's called BOOT CAMP. I'll say this again and again: Conservatives: Stop asking SOCIETY to raise your kids. Okay? small 'l' liberals do too. Not so sure about that. People used to pop 12 of'em; and not really pay any special attention to them. I'm sure they were all loved, but I mean, there was so much disease and death, y'know? Anyway; if conservatives value children't lives so much, why do they make it so damn expensive to vaccinate a child, if the said child is from a poor family? Unless you quote the court decision that he can snap photos of kids, this statement is invalid, and your opinion on this point will be dismissed repeatedly until you can learn how to form informed decisions. , Hardly. Molested implies abuse. There is no such law that allows such abuse. Not yet. May I remind you that Martin is still the PM. Regards, Takeanumber

The thing with Harper and the Conservatives is that they really havn't changed. There are still the Kenny's, the Ablonzy's, the Anders' and the Reynold's. And they control the party. Are they really that far off from the moderate centre? Their plan: pretend to be moderate. But that's all they're doing: pretending. You should hear how the party intelligencia speak. They believe it's possible for the party to seem to be moving towards the centre, but remain 'principled'. Codeword for small 'c' conservative.