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Bright suggestion considering Canadian's hate the GST at 7%, how about trying 35% in Denmark, and the payroll taxes total about 50% of your gross salary. My best friend's sister married a Dane, and when she was home last Fall she thought that $1.05 per litre for gasoline was cheap considering that the same litre costs over $2.50 Canadian in Denmark. Thanks but no thanks, I don't want Belgium and Germany dictating my life, I would much rather it be the United States.

Then stop buying it if you do not like it. Easy. Looks like you ARE paying for what you don't want. Cancell the service is quite easy.Find a new service that gives you what you want. Stop complaining and just go to a different company. You have the choice. And we all know the courts voted in favour of Canada in each of these disputes regarding lumber with the US. Tell me, how do I stop buying it or supporting it when the CRTC rams this shit down our throats? How do they ram it down our throats? By making it compulsory for cable or satellite or radio companies to include Canadian content. Much of it the poor cousin of the American versions, with talentless participants. If these mediocre actors and actresses were any good they would already be south of the border, butthey hang around in Canada because someone will tell them how great they are with my tax-dollars.

First of all I would think that anyone who cares about human rights would have stopped using Google after they caved into China's demands that they censor search contents. This is a government that if their own people peacefully protest they either get shot or run over by tanks. Chian is not going to change the way they treat their own people as long as people support them by purchasing products made in China, or by countries like Canada and the U.S. continuing to trade with them. To continue doing either is to condone the abuse!

HERE! HERE!! And it's not politicized under the LIberals? The Supreme Court is presently made up from the ranks of lawyers who are nothing but political hacks, and their appointments are for favours rendered to the Party. If they were not then these same Justices would be selected by an ALL-PARTY selection committee, and affirmed by the House of Commons, not appointed by the Prime Minister. After their latest ruling regarding orgy clubs, led by none other than one of Martin's latest appointees, Beverley McLachlin, is all the more reason why the power of the Supreme Court should be curtailed. Instead of curtailing it, Martin wants to remove the notwithstanding clause from the Charter, effectively making this unelected, and unaccountable body forever into a dictortorship, that will get to decide for all Canadian's what is and what isn't offensive to us as a people. I quite sure that ruling is not supported by people with moral and values in this country. As someone pointed out in an article I read; If these clubs do not serve liquor someone will effectively be able to take a 14 year old, male of female into these establishments and as long as they consent, they can participate in an orgy, because in Canada, thanks to the LIberals, we still have the age of consent for sexual purposes set at 14 years of age. To me that is rather ironic since they are not old enough to get a driver's license until age 16 minimum. For something as serious as sexual consent it should be at least 16 and probably older, because a 14 year old is definitely not mature enough to be making those kinds of decisions, and they are far too vulnerable to sexual predators without a parent having anything to say about it. I don't feel that Martin or the Liberal Party is representative of the type of Canada most of us wants.

The latest news is that Martin is now attacking Layton simply because he is attacking the Liberal's instead of the Conservatives. This should show the people just how desperate Paul Martin is to retain 24 Sussex Drive as his home. This nothing but the desperation of someone hwo is about to be fired, and doesn't like it one bit. Martin even insunuated that Albertan's don't have the same values as other Canadians. I would say that at least they have values and morals which is certainly more than I can say for either the Liberla's or the NDP.

For all your loyal Liberal's out there in delusional-land, the free rise is over and Martin and his band of cronies is on their way to that place after politics, and I don't mean the Senate, I mean the unemployment line with a lot of other Canadians. Can't say as if it couldn't have happened to nicer people. Martin will have to go back to ripping off Canada in another for by registering the rest of his fleet in Liberia and moving offshore himself like K.C. Irving did before he died.

I would welcome that initiative with open arms because I am sick to death of mediocre Canadian productions not only subsidized by Canadian tax-dollars, but in many cases paid for outright with tax-payer's dollars. I have satellite through Bell ExpressVu and the movie channel are not even woth subscribing to since most of it is either dubbed or subtitled. On top of that I am forced to subscribe and pay for channels I cannot understand nor do I want because they are produced in the French language. I have no problem in having French channels on the air, but let those who want to subscribe to them pay the costs of those those stations, don't legislate that we all must pay. I would rather watch American programming since it is produce primarily in the English language. That's not being bigoted or discriminatory that's just a fact of life, that I souldn't have to pay for something I do not want.

This certainly does not speak for me, and most Canadian's. Martin is going to get exactly what he and the thieving, lying Liberal Party deserves come next Monday.Anyone who would cast a vote in favour of the federal Liberal Party deserves to have the Supreme Court take away our democracy. In fact Paul Martin wants to hand it directly to them by removing the notwithstanding clause from the Charter so that that no Canadian government will be able to override their decisions even if they are injurious to the public's morals or values. Some factions are now exploring the prospect of making polygamy legal using the argument that same-sex marriage was approved by the court's, and then parliament. Maybe we should be electing our judiciary and abolishing Parlaiment, The Senate, Governor General , and all of their provincial counterparts, at the very least it would make the judiciary accountable to the people that pays their bloated salaries.

The thing that scares me the most about Martin is his committment to turn over decision making power in this country to an unelected and unaccountable Supreme Court, which for the most part he and Chretien appointed to serve. That alone hardly gives me any warm and fuzzy feelings, that this bunch of LIberal Party hacks will decide for all Canadian's what is acceptable and what is not acceptable morally and sociatal. Their decision so far certainly does not represent grassrooots Canadians. This is exactly what will happen with the removal of the nothwithstanding clause from the Charter. The last thing I want to have happen to Canada is for this bunch of moron's to have control of our country, by being basically able to charge our society with absolutely no input from the people of Canada. I was not happy with the Court's ruling regarding Same Sex Marriage, but I am even more upset by their latest ruling regarding the legalization of orgy clubs. That was that last straw for me, and Martin seems to think that is okay as long as these clubs are not serving liquor, they can welcome into those clubs a 14 year old for a wild old party for perverts. To me that is what he is saying by not coming out against this latest ruling from appointees from the PM's Office. Any ruling from this body needs to reflect the morals and values of the people, not the obvious lack of morals and values possessed by the Supreme Court appointees. Therefore I have no choice but to choose the only Party who talks about moral and values, teh Conservatives.

The thing that scares me the most about Martin is his committment to turn over decision making power in this country to an unelected and unaccountable Supreme Court, which for the most part he and Chretien appointed to serve. That alone hardly gives me any warm and fuzzy feelings, that this bunch of LIberal Party hacks will decide for all Canadian's what is acceptable and what is not acceptable morally and sociatal. Their decision so far certainly does not represent grassrooots Canadians. This is exactly what will happen with the removal of the nothwithstanding clause from the Charter. The last thing I want to have happen to Canada is for this bunch of moron's to have control of our country, by being basically to charge our society with absolutely no input from the people of Canada. Their latest ruling regarding the legalization of orgy clubs was that last straw for me, and Martin seems to think that is okay as long as these clubs are not serving liquor, they can welcome into those clubs a 14 year old for a wild old party for perverts. To me that is what he is saying by not coming out against this latest ruling from appointees from the PM's Office.

Since it is the Supreme Court Justices that are being charged with interpreting these Cahrter rights, we have to remember that these justices are nothing but appointed lawyers, currently from the ranks of the Liberal Party faithful, how can they be trusted to do what the people want. I would suggest that these appointed, unaccountable judges are acting as if they are BIG BROTHER, and telling us what they think is good for us. I think the Charter is a flawed document, and should be scrapped. Until we start elected these judges to specific terms in office they will continue to act as if the have the right to tell Canadian's how we are to live and think. Someone mentioned these judges overstepping the authority by writing things into the Constitutution that was not already there. One of Martin's recent appointees to the Supreme Court Beverley McLachlin was lecturing recently in Victoria, New Zealand to a group of Law School students, and she told those students that; The judiciary should feel emboldened to make rulings even if it is not written in their constutution to allow for that to happen." This type of attitude tells me that these appointed morons want to be in charge, and that is not democracy in action, it is instead a dictatorship.

Martin vows to end federal notwithstanding clause CTV.ca News Staff Liberal Leader Paul Martin dropped the most surprising news of Monday's leaders' debate, revealing an unexpected plan to amend the Charter of Rights and Freedoms to bar federal use of the notwithstanding clause. In the name of defending the Charter, Martin proposed the Amendment to End Federal Ability to Invoke Notwithstanding Clause. The details were quickly posted on the Liberal website, which billed it as "the boldest defence of rights and freedoms in Canada since the creation of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982." As it now stands, the clause gives the government the power to overrule court rulings on Charter issues. It has never been used federally. Martin talks about Harper having a hidden agenda! This latest proposal by Paul Martin is much scarier than anything Harper has talked about, because it would forever leave all decision making in this country up to an unelected, and unaccountable judiciary. I read an article in the Canadian Free Press comparing the power afforded to our Supreme Court similar to that granted to the judiciary in Germany leading up to the Third Reich. In that articlem it talked about how Hiler used the judges and the courts to foist onto the people his own agenda. I'm not saying that this is happening, but when we have a PM who is eager to hand over decision making powers to this appointed judiciary, a judiciary that for the most part that has been appointed by either himself or Chretien, quite frankly that scares the hell out of me. Some of the asinine decisions coming out of this bunch of morons is hard to believe, and what is more unbelievable is the fact that Martin says he would not use the notwithstanding clause, because he believes that; "The Supreme Court is the final word in this country." I was taught that this country was a democracy and it is our elected representatives that have the final word. To allow this bunch of appointed, unaccountable judges to have the final word is certainly not democratic, but is instead a dictatorship.

Quit crying! Martin is as corrupt as was Chretien, after all he was Chretien's Finance Minister, so if one carries the stink of corruption, they all do. Bottom line here is that it is time for a change. When you have a person like Paul Martin so narcacistic that he believes his own hype that he is the only one capable of running Canada, it is time for him and the Liberal Party to go on a long holiday. I'm not saying that Harper is will be any better, but at least it will be a change from having a Quebecois running the country. This is supposed to be a bilingual if you actually believe that crap, because Quebec certainly doesn't believe it, and Martin nor his predecessors from Quebec have done anything to make Quebec comply with bilingualism. I don't believe that to be PM one has to be able to speak French. I say that because even the Bloc members can speaka da English if they have to.

It is not the maritimer's who pronounce about as aboot. I hail from New Brunswick and that sound more like someone with a cockney English pronunciation, right off the boat. I don't think our Francophone Acadian's pronounce it that was when speaking English.

The we asinine politicians who are naive enough to think that telling these thugs that the government is banning handguns is magically going to make these illegal guns go away. The government instead has closed jails and prisons, laid off police and prison guards all in an effort to save money, but the reality is that without sending these goons to prison for lenghty terms, nothing is going to change. Instead of getting serious with criminals, politicains have taken the kid-glove approach in the hopes that these criminals will change their ways. Ontario politicians call for handgun ban CTV.ca News Staff Toronto Mayor David Miller and Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty have called for a handgun ban, in the wake of the city's Boxing Day shootout. Miller has urged all Torontonians to support whichever party would implement such a ban in the federal election. This news article should show the people just how out of touch with reality politicians really are, when they pass laws that make it easier for criminals to florish, and avoid punishment, and hand guns are already virtually banned in Canada, tet that hasn't stopped the criminal element from gaining possession of them. ANy Canadian with a few connections could probably buy a handgun on the streets within a day. One thing we can be sure of is that if these criminals are behind bars they will not be on the streets to repeat the offense. Of course that is not what organizations like the John Howard Society, and Elizabeth Fry would want to see, because their sources of income would dry up.

Our government would sooner ally us with the likes of the U.N., China, Russia, France, and that is supposed to make us feel all warm and fuzzy?? The U.N. up to their ears in corruption through the oil-for-food scam? China shoots their own people for protesting, yet Paul Martin still wants to trade with them. Initially our government said that if we traded with them they would be forced to change, instead our government has developed the same tactics when dealing with protestors. (G-8 Summit in BC), we just haven't resorted to shooting them YET, but give our government time. Both Russia and France were involved up to their necks in the oil for food scandal between Iraq and the U.N.'s Maurice Strong, Martin's mentor from Power Corporation. Russia is now selling long-range missle systems to Iran even after the Iranian President made the statement that Iran's goal is to wipe Israel off the face of the map. I would much rather hitch my wagon to the United States than I would with any of the above countries or organizations. The United States is right when they state that the U.N. has become irrelevant. They have become irrelevant because of their own corruption and biases. Let's not forget, it was the U.N. who funded a bumper sticker camapign, just as Israel was in the process of pulling settlers and troops out of Gaza. These products consisted of banners, pins, mugs, and bumper-stickers handed out to Palestinian youth, and carried the slogan; TODAY-GAZA-TOMORROW-THE-WEST-BANK-AND-JERUSALEM. This from an organization that is supposed to be promoting peace and harmony throughout the world, while remaing completely unbiased. This is not the first time that the U.N. represented by Koffi Annan has taken sides in this dispute.

This is just sad, while I agree that the language laws in Quebec were ludicrous the fact of the matter is they don't contravene the charter. Your problem is with the federal government for not cracking down on Quebec on this matter, but wait doesn’t you want a decentralization of power? It’s all so confusing when you’re trying to keep track of a 10 year olds belief system. There is nothing wrong with wanting BI LINGUIAL workers for government jobs, French only speaking Canadians have no advantage over English only speaking Canadians. Either way the requirement of semi bilingualism (since the vast majority of government employees have poor French skills at best in my experience) is hardly significantly onerous. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> You need to come to the only Officially Bilingual province in Canada, NB where oftentimes when an English speaking person calls a government office the sometimes have to ask to have someone who can speak English put on the phone. These froncophones got their jobs because they were supposedly "Fluently Bilingual," but that is often not the case. Even though these supposed bilingual people got their jobs because of their ability to speak French fluently, it now seems to be the case that fluency in English is not part of the language requirement. NOw the Acadian Society is demanding that these French speaking civil servants be afforded the right to work exclusively in the French language. The President of the Acadian Society stated that these employees are forced to work in English because some of their fellow employees speak English and so do most of the clients, who require service.

Where does it say that "Canada" blames the U.S. in this article? You have one guy who is quoted. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I have also read quotes where our assh--e PM has blamed the US for everything from gun violence to American style healthcare, to our free-trade woes. It is time that both the Prime Minister, and the Mayors of Toronto, and other large Canadian city to look at what our country has become under this Liberal government. We have a lawless society because our PM is content to sit back and allow a bunch of lawyers he and Chretien appointed to the Supreme Court, to make the laws in this country. This bunch of activist morons have virtually destroyed the morals and social values our society once had.In my city we had last summer a 15 year old young criminal with a group of his friends badly assualt another group of kids. When the police were called this punk and some of his friends smashed the rear window out of the police cruiser, and caused other damage to it to the tune of several thousand dollars, and then he ran into his mother's house and hid under the bed while his mother locked the door in an attempt to prevent the police from arresting him. When the police followed him inside to arrest him he put up quite a struggle and he wound up with a black eye. His mother immediately claimed that the police used excessive force to arrest her son. This complaint was investigated and not found to be the case. The mother sued anyway and was awarded by the judge $3,300.00 in damages. Of course this is being appealed by both the police and the city, but can you imagine the message this sends to the criminal element, especially with imbaciles like this judge on the bench. I can hear it now, his mother claiming that her little boy was doing absolutely nothing and the bad police officers manhandled him. The real sad part is that this mother doesn't have brains enough to realize that at some point her enabling will allow her the privilege of visiting him in prison. We need to do away with this Youth Justice Act or whatever the Liberal's are calling it this week, and put some teeth back into the justice system. To continue down the path we are going will bring about anarchy, and lawlessness, and with the shootings in Toronto, and other large Canadian cities this trend is already starting. In order to stop what is happening in this country we need to remove activist justices from the courts and replace them with some who are going to make examples of criminals by maximum sentencing, and making the prospect of going to jail a very scary future to look forward to. I worked with Young Offenders for more than 10 years and I can tell you that instead of being afraid of committing criminal acts these kids think it is simply a big joke. They know that the chances of actually being locked up are remote. When you have mother suing the police after Johnny smashes the window out of a police car in front of many witnesses, and the judge awards $3,300.00 in damages, there is definitely something wrong with that picture. This has nothing to do with the US, as Paul Martin and other's would have you believe, because there are plenty of firearms in the hands of the criminal element , and all of the gun registries, and bans are not going to do anything to change that fact, because these initiatives target the lawful gun owners. The criminal element did not register the weapons in their possession, and they're not about to turn these weapons over to the authorities or register them. Wake up people, criminals simply don't comply with the laws. Hand gun legislation was brought in around 1934, and an article I read stated that to date approximately only 20% of the hand-guns in this country were ever registered. I would be willing to be the same statistics apply to long-guns and shot-guns. So there you have it laws that are ineffective in taking guns out of the hands of the citzenry. Australia introduced gun registration and then confiscated without compensation, all of the weapons that the people were stupid enough to register. Armed home invasions and armed robberies have shot up, and in Australia the only people with weapons are the police, the military and the criminals, and let's not forget those citizens who saw the writting on the wall when the government introduced their gun registry, and simply refused to register their weapons. In all likelihood the only people that need to worry about those guns in the hands of those otherwise law-abiding citizens, are those who might decide to break in and rob those people

The NDP are Socialist's and want the government to do everything for the people. Layton is death against any tax reductions because tax cuts will allow the people ourselves to decide where to spend our money. It is our money after all, and surpluses just should not exist. Having surpluses simply means that the government is taking far too much money from the people, and government was never meant to become a for-profit enterprise, in fact it is supposed to break even. An NDP Government would have us all paying far more than we already do to fund their cradle to grave social programs. I admit it, I used to vote NDP exclusively, but that was before Alexia McDonough revealed the true agenda of the NDP's, and things have gone from bad to worse with the appointment of Layton as leader. To fund all that he envisions are tax freedom day will eventually jump to December instead of July where it presently sits with the Liberal in power for the past dozen years. The Conservatives are the only one's talking about meaningfully cutting taxes. Sure the Liberals say that they have been cutting taxes but for the life of me I see no more money freed up for me to decide where it will be spent, and the NDP isn't even talking about cutting taxes, in fact they are lobbying not to cut any taxes at all.

This does not apply just to Quebec because the Supreme Court ruling will apply right across Canada. The Gay bath houses in BC were applauding this decision. To me this shows just how out of touch with reality our Supreme Court really is. I would be willing to bet that if you asked pewople on the street where this ruling represents the vast majority of Canadians, regardless of religious beliefs they will tell you that they do not agree with this asinine ruling. I say that since Martin seems quite contgent to leave the age of sexual consent at 14 years of age. If they can consent at that age, how then can you stop some pervert from bringing someone 14 or 15 years of age into such a facility. If they can consent at that age they have every right to partake, and that is one sick society! This another case of where a minority issue trumps the acceptable norms for the majority of Canadian's, and I think it is high time that the Supreme Court justices has their chain's yanked, and yanked hard!

Get a life! The gun registry has not taken guns out of the hands of one criminal in Canada. Now why is that? Could it be that the criminals don't register their unregistered weapons anyway, DAH? This gun registry bureaucracy is just another bunch of bureaucrats that serves no useful purpose other than to employ more Liberals. It gives Martin another place to employ the Party loyalists as a reward for services rendered. Similar to the appointments to the Supreme Court, nothing but political hacks.

Right on! This is not likely to improve as long as our federal government caters to Quebec, and as long as we have a PM from that province. I read somewhere, I think it was the Canadian Free Press, where Quebec is now demanding the right to have approval over all appointees to the Supreme Court, and Irwin Cotler is actually thinking about it. That should tell all Canadian's where this government stands with regard to the right's of Canadian's outside Quebec, we don't really matter at all.

You want to talk about transportation? Who was it that privatized CN Rail, and allowed both it and CP Rail to abandon thousnads of miles of track in favour of transporting goods across this country by deisel powered transport trucks that are utterly destroying our highway infrastructure. They aren't satisfied with hauling single trailers anymore, now it is two and three trailers, called B-Trains. Canadian National Railway, once a Canadian crown corporation is now basically owed by a U.S. corporation and much of their hauling is now south of the Canada/U.S. border. I thimk you are minimizing the amount of pollution created by both China, India and other third world countries, so tell me again why they are exempt from this so-called Kyoto Accord. Could it be that major corporate sponsors of the Martin government wants these countries to stay exempt so they can pollute the world at will, while maximizing their profits through child labour, and few if any environmental controls. You can't have it both ways, either the Kyoto Accord applies to every country including China, India, and the rest of the third world, or no country. How dare Martin act as is Canada is actually doing anything to rein in our own industrial polluters. In my province of New Brunswick we have two major groups of polluters, the pulp and paper industry and government themselves through the ownership of NB Power.

Another example of how clueless the NDP are on fiscal and economic matters. Or, if you care to grant them more intelligence and knowledge, an acknowledgement by them that they can safely write off Alberta anyway, so might as well get some cheap publicity out of a policy that will never be implimented anyway. You'll notice they didn't suggest a tax on exports of Newfoundland oil or the cars produced in Ontario. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Here Here!! CBC headline reads: LAYTON URGES RETALIATORY TAXES OVER SOFTWOOD LUMBER DISPUTE. This is also on other forms of energy besides oil and gas. This is talking about hydro electric exports. THank God Layton doesn't stand a chance of ever being PM. We have to make sure also that he doesn't get to hold the balance of power otherwise he just may try to force the government to start a trade war with the U.S. that we cannot possbly hope to win, in fact it very well put hundres of thousands of Canadian's out of work. What a moron!!

I would say the being a religious conservative is certainly better than what we have in Parliament now repressenting both the Liberals and the NDP, since they seem to want to leave their religion at the door and act secular inside the chambers. Anyone who is truly a Christian, Muslim, Jewish or any other religion and beleives in their faith, that faith rules everything they do, both in their private lives and in their work, because with any religion their tenants teaches love, peace, and to treat everyone the way you would want to be treated. Paul Martin on one hand tells everyone willing to listen that he is supposedly a practicing Catholic, but out of the other side of his mouth he tells us that he leaves his religion outside the doors when he goes to work. That is not a practicing Catholic or a practicing participant of any religious organization. For people who are religious and I don't care what religion, that religion follows you all day long every day and influences every decision you make, ro at least it should. You can't simply check it at the door, when it is inconvenient like Paul Martin obviously wants to do.