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For crying out loud -- the issue isn't a conspiracy by the government to shove Sharia down our throats; the issue is simply public funds going to religious education. Is there any legitimate reason for the spending of tax dollars on some activist element who managed to hook up to the public teat? Yes, that covers all such "groups" with a sense of entitlement to public funds. Is it too much to ask to let the Sharia activists promote Islam through the private marketplace where no one will have any problem with it? Certainly they can support their lifestyles by selling a service to paying Canadians?

Global Warming is real, the data is overwhelmingly in favour of a warming effect, and the prevailing anthropological cause theories are solid. The disconnect happens when people try and pretend a scientific topic is a political one. Politics is the battle over slices of the pie, science is the exploration of reality using observable facts to form reproducible theories to describe how something works. Data gathered from weather balloons and glacier samples cannot be effected by a political debate -- unless, people falsify the data to support a political debate; to believe the science is wrong at this stage is to believe in a large international conspiracy. In addition, no one in this thread has probably even bothered to so much as read the wikipedia article on the subject; the current model shows a warming of 1.33 degrees F, mostly caused by human activity. The "nightmare" scenarios climate change researchers conduct actually come up with fairly mild "disasters", nothing that would endanger human life on Earth. We should conduct our affairs to preserve usable land and ensure good conditions for our agriculture, but it will be dealt with in due time; our system of civilization only has a "debate" over it because people don't have control over their own wealth.

The Human Right Commission system isn't the problem, it's the extremely broad and powerful laws that it's armed with.