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I feel sorry for that Italian journalist, but anyone stupid enough to put themselves in harm's way deserves what happens to them. How many times have cars approached check-points, only to have them blow up and kill soldiers and many times innocent civilians. I have no sympathy for civilian reporters who go to areas of conflict and somehow think that they should be invulnerable, or be afforded special treatment. I was not there but if I were one of those soldiers, I would treat any vehicle approaching a check-point with suspicion and caution, and yes fire on that vehicle and ask questions later. If anyone here is naive enough to believe that our own soldier's were carrying unloaded weapons during the FLQ Crisis in Quebec, they are sadly mistaken. I have a close friend who was there and he told me that he as well as many other Canadian soldiers had they weapons loaded and at the ready. Fortunately no civilians were shot, but it very well could have happened.

Anticlimates; What do you know about McKenna other than you think he will put the Americans/Bush in his place. How do you think you are trying to kid? He was the Premier of New Brunswick, where I reside, for 10 looooong years and we we glad to see his back on the way out the door. All he did while in office was feather his personal nest with the corporate sector for when he left office. It worked because he was immediately named to the Board's of numerous multinational corporations, in fact he just gave up those directorships to accept the Ambassador's job. He will not want to offend anyone remotely associated with the corporate world including George W. Bush, or his Vice-President, simply because someday he will probably be looking for more lucrative appointments. McKenna stepped down before he had to face the electorate again. I think he saw the writing on the wall, because his replacement took the Province into an election shortly after MCkenna left and they lost almost every seat in the Province. Before McKenna stepped down as Premier, he dismantled the health care and education systems in New Brunswick, and they have still not recovered. The thought of McKenna having another position of power leaves a bad taste in the mouth's of many. I trust McKenna about as far as I can throw him.

Paulpaul; It is a crime to promote hate and that is exactly what Ernst Zundel was all about. At least he is now in a country where it will not be tolerated. It took far to long to ship him back where he came from. Maybe others of the same mindset would like to join him? Canada on the other hand may have gone too far in many areas of accomodation, particularly where it relates to confering more rights for convicted criminals than it does for their victims. That is one reason why it took so long to deport Ernst, he was conferred rights under the Charter he never should have had. We have become too politically correct to the point that minorites are now deciding for the majority what Canadian society is going to look like. We have allowed our politicians to transfer their responsibilities for law making to an appointed, unaccountable judiciary, and they now sit back and simply say they have no choice but to go along because a Charter that we had no say in designing or implementing demands this. What ever happened to responsible and accountable politicians?

I agree with what you are saying about forcing a woman to give birth, but the biological father of that child should also have some say in whether she can terminate that pregnancy as well. After all she did not conceive all by herself.The other side of this argument is the fact that our Medicare System is designed to pay for "Medically Necessary Procedures," and although there are rare occasions where it may become necessary to abort a pregnancy, the vast majority are simply done as a convenience, and in my opinion should not be paid for with our limited health care dollars. Continuing to pay for abortions at Henry Morgantiler's Clinics with Medicare dollars is like asking Medicare to fund breast augmentations and all other forms of elective surgeries. No wonder we have such a problem funding our Medicare System.

I think Proportional representation is the only way to form a government in Canada whereby the politicians have to listen to their constituents. The way it stands right now, they lie, get elected and only when it is time to go to the polls again do they begin to pay attention to the issues that are important to the people. We have a definite democratic deficit in this country both federally and provincially. On top of that we have a supposed Charter that Canadian's did not have a chance to vote on, and our unelected, and unaccountable judiciary is using this flawed document to impose their will on Canadian's. In my opinion when you have a Charter that affords more rights to criminals than to their victims, that is a flawed document. Whenever you have a situation whereby someone like Karla Holmolka is set to be released onto Canadian Society we have a pretty sick society. This is a case where this woman should never be released from custody, regardless of any plea bargain which she was part of. What do we tell the families of her victims when she commits another crime. Experts are predicting the there is a high risk that she will in fact reoffend, simply because she has never taken ownership for her participation in the murders that her and Paul were convicted for. She continues to play the part of the abused wife.

Actually I just read somewhere thjat Catholic Bishops are discussing the possibility of refusing to perform the civil part of the Sacrament of Marriage altogether, because they do not rtrust that down the road some liberal judge is going to rule that a church is discriminating by refusing to perform a same-sex marriage. Such a move will allow the church to perform the religious ceremony, but the civil registration of that union will have to be done by the couple at the Court Clerk's Office. This will take away any chance some activist gay or lesbian couple tries to push the envelope further, by attempting to force a church to perform such a ceremony against their religious beliefs. As one Liberal MP stated;

Other's out there pay low wages just like WalMart. Of course this is all about union busting. walMart just does not like to deal with organized labour in any shape or form, but then again Zeller's is not one bit different in that respect. The thing is that Zeller's cut their costs by having as few employees as possible. I know the Zeller's in my city employs so few people a cannon could be fired down the middle of their store and bobody would have to worry about an employee being hit, because the only employees are the cashiers, and a couple of manager types. Aside from the way WalMart handles their labour problems, their service is great. You can really find someone to assist you when you need it.

As far as I'm concerned the Charter is a flawed document. Any document that allows unelected and unaccountable Justices the ability to basically order our elected officials to change laws is flawed. We elected politicians to do that very thing, and to allow these lected officials the wiggle-room to shirk their responsibilities and then stand back, as our PM did and say that as far as he's concerned the Supreme Court is the final word, is simply wrong. Wrong because first of all the people of this country had no say in this Charter by way of a vote. Most democratic countries of the world had the opportunity to vote for or against the implementation of their Constitution, while we in Canada suddenly had this document foisted onto us by partisan politicians, and we had very little to say about it. We are now expected to treat this document as if it represents the morals and values of most Canadians, when the reality is that it represents a small minority with an agenda in the case of same-sex marriage. As someone else said, I will never accept that two people of the same sex are married, regarless of what the Supreme Court ruling says. Call it whatever they want but it will never be a marriage.