Icebound Posted December 9, 2016 Report Posted December 9, 2016 (edited) http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canadian-banknote-woman-1.3885844 Does this mean that a certain segment of our population will now refuse to handle $10 bills? ... Edited December 9, 2016 by Icebound Quote
Omni Posted December 9, 2016 Report Posted December 9, 2016 8 minutes ago, Icebound said: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canadian-banknote-woman-1.3885844 Does this mean that a certain segment of our population will now refuse to handle $10 bills? ... Any they don't want can be forwarded to me and I will take care of them. Quote
Guest Posted December 9, 2016 Report Posted December 9, 2016 They don't contain animal products, do they? Quote
bush_cheney2004 Posted December 9, 2016 Report Posted December 9, 2016 2 hours ago, Icebound said: Does this mean that a certain segment of our population will now refuse to handle $10 bills? I guess that depends on what Rosa Parks (in another country) would have done. Quote Economics trumps Virtue.
Omni Posted December 9, 2016 Report Posted December 9, 2016 2 hours ago, bcsapper said: They don't contain animal products, do they? Yes they do. All the more reason to send them to me for disposal. Quote
Argus Posted December 9, 2016 Report Posted December 9, 2016 An unearned honor, given out because the Liberals desperately wanted to puff out their chests by putting someone who isn't white on a dollar bill. Sir John A Macdonald founded Canada. She founded... a beauty school. Whoop de do. Quote "A liberal is someone who claims to be open to all points of view — and then is surprised and offended to find there are other points of view.” William F Buckley
eyeball Posted December 9, 2016 Report Posted December 9, 2016 I'm pretty sure we're still honouring Canada's favourite cracker by elevating him to a higher denomination. Quote A government without public oversight is like a nuclear plant without lead shielding.
Army Guy Posted December 9, 2016 Report Posted December 9, 2016 28 minutes ago, eyeball said: I'm pretty sure we're still honouring Canada's favourite cracker by elevating him to a higher denomination. And hear I thought you were Canada's favorite Cracker/ tree hugger. Quote We, the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have now done so much for so long with so little, we are now capable of doing anything with nothing.
eyeball Posted December 9, 2016 Report Posted December 9, 2016 I've killed a few trees in my time so you must have me mixed up with someone else. Quote A government without public oversight is like a nuclear plant without lead shielding.
Omni Posted December 9, 2016 Report Posted December 9, 2016 56 minutes ago, Argus said: An unearned honor, given out because the Liberals desperately wanted to puff out their chests by putting someone who isn't white on a dollar bill. Sir John A Macdonald founded Canada. She founded... a beauty school. Whoop de do. And she beat Rosa Parks at pushing back at racism *you know, like the kind John A embraced) by about 9 years. Quote
Bryan Posted December 9, 2016 Report Posted December 9, 2016 We'll see if Justin still feels so strongly about segregated seating the next time he visits a mosque. Quote
Moonlight Graham Posted December 9, 2016 Report Posted December 9, 2016 Black and a woman. Killed 2 birds (quotas) with one stone. She's still probably a lot better to put on the money than some crooked dead politicians or some useless entitled royal. Quote "All generalizations are false, including this one." - Mark Twain Partisanship is a disease of the intellect.
Benz Posted December 9, 2016 Report Posted December 9, 2016 3 hours ago, Argus said: An unearned honor, given out because the Liberals desperately wanted to puff out their chests by putting someone who isn't white on a dollar bill. Sir John A Macdonald founded Canada. She founded... a beauty school. Whoop de do. There are few other things she did not do, while McDonald did and is known for it: -Calling the Québécois, dogs -Hang up an innocent victim of a consipiracy trial: Louis Riel -Retire the right of chineses to vote -Racist remarks on natives and considered them not normal -Involvement in the pacific scandal Quote
Benz Posted December 9, 2016 Report Posted December 9, 2016 2 hours ago, Bryan said: We'll see if Justin still feels so strongly about segregated seating the next time he visits a mosque. Good one! Quote
Argus Posted December 10, 2016 Report Posted December 10, 2016 5 hours ago, Omni said: And she beat Rosa Parks at pushing back at racism *you know, like the kind John A embraced) by about 9 years. Do you really think there weren't lots of black people who put up a fuss when not allowed to sit in white areas? She's only notorious because she filed a lawsuit (which she lost) against her fine. Aside from that what? Nadda. Sir John A was a product of his times, as was she. Let's see, a black woman in 1946 Nova Scotia, what do you think she'd have had to say about gays or abortion? Nothing good, I'm certain. The idea of holding up people from past eras to the moral standards of ours is intellectually bankrupt. Quote "A liberal is someone who claims to be open to all points of view — and then is surprised and offended to find there are other points of view.” William F Buckley
Argus Posted December 10, 2016 Report Posted December 10, 2016 2 hours ago, Benz said: There are few other things she did not do, while McDonald did and is known for it: -Calling the Québécois, dogs -Hang up an innocent victim of a consipiracy trial: Louis Riel -Retire the right of chineses to vote -Racist remarks on natives and considered them not normal -Involvement in the pacific scandal You don't know anything she said or did because she was a nobody, and her remarks weren't of interest to anyone back then and were never recorded. Macdonald was an imperfect man of his times, but his impact on Canada is massive, especially as compared to a nobody from Nova Scotia. Quote "A liberal is someone who claims to be open to all points of view — and then is surprised and offended to find there are other points of view.” William F Buckley
Army Guy Posted December 10, 2016 Report Posted December 10, 2016 5 hours ago, eyeball said: I've killed a few trees in my time so you must have me mixed up with someone else. No, I'm sure it is you.....and we are not counting when you were learning to drive, anyways you'll always be my favorite..... Quote We, the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have now done so much for so long with so little, we are now capable of doing anything with nothing.
Michael Hardner Posted December 10, 2016 Report Posted December 10, 2016 Many people laud the effort to celebrate brave people who advanced social progress. I don't think holding people to moral standards of the past is useful, but some morals persist such as bravery and standing up for ones beliefs. Quote Click to learn why Climate Change is caused by HUMANS Michael Hardner
eyeball Posted December 10, 2016 Report Posted December 10, 2016 3 minutes ago, Army Guy said: No, I'm sure it is you.....and we are not counting when you were learning to drive, anyways you'll always be my favorite..... Nope. I've only killed them with an axe, McCulloughs, Stihls, Poulans, Husquvarnas. These aren't auto-makers by the way. Quote A government without public oversight is like a nuclear plant without lead shielding.
eyeball Posted December 10, 2016 Report Posted December 10, 2016 3 minutes ago, Michael Hardner said: Many people laud the effort to celebrate brave people who advanced social progress. I don't think holding people to moral standards of the past is useful, but some morals persist such as bravery and standing up for ones beliefs. In that case they should put her on the bigger bill and move MacDonald back to the fiver. Quote A government without public oversight is like a nuclear plant without lead shielding.
Argus Posted December 10, 2016 Report Posted December 10, 2016 6 minutes ago, Michael Hardner said: Many people laud the effort to celebrate brave people who advanced social progress. I don't think holding people to moral standards of the past is useful, but some morals persist such as bravery and standing up for ones beliefs. Brave? It's not like she risked her life here, and she didn't actually advance anything. She was one of any number of people complaining about such things. So? If you want to award the honor to someone brave I'm sure there are some Victoria Cross winners we could put on the dollars - ah, but they're white men, so no good. MacDonald was more influential and important in the founding of Canada and building it than any other single person. That's something that DESERVES recognition. Quote "A liberal is someone who claims to be open to all points of view — and then is surprised and offended to find there are other points of view.” William F Buckley
Rue Posted December 10, 2016 Report Posted December 10, 2016 (edited) Louis Riel....children of the res schools...gordie howe...no one thought of them.. Edited December 10, 2016 by Rue Quote
Rue Posted December 10, 2016 Report Posted December 10, 2016 20 minutes ago, Michael Hardner said: Many people laud the effort to celebrate brave people who advanced social progress. I don't think holding people to moral standards of the past is useful, but some morals persist such as bravery and standing up for ones beliefs. well stated Quote
H10 Posted December 10, 2016 Report Posted December 10, 2016 51 minutes ago, Argus said: Brave? It's not like she risked her life here, and she didn't actually advance anything. She was one of any number of people complaining about such things. So? If you want to award the honor to someone brave I'm sure there are some Victoria Cross winners we could put on the dollars - ah, but they're white men, so no good. MacDonald was more influential and important in the founding of Canada and building it than any other single person. That's something that DESERVES recognition. He was influential in a very bad way like adolph Hitler, he was not important, because Canada has changed immensely since he was in the country, and this Canada doesn't recognize his racist Anglo white supremacist world view nor would he recognize it. Macdonald wanted to genocide french, chinese, and anyone else who ain't white, he would not want to be recognized on our money if he saw what our country was. And if you think refusing to do what police told you to do, being a racial minority in 1950s Canada was not risking your life, you have a very limited understanding of Canadian history, and the strange pattern of African Canadians doing that ending up dead. It takes alot more courage to stand up to a movie theatre full of people who want to kill you than to go onto a battlefield with a gun where you can at least fight back. Quote
Guest Posted December 10, 2016 Report Posted December 10, 2016 11 minutes ago, hernanday said: . It takes alot more courage to stand up to a movie theatre full of people who want to kill you than to go onto a battlefield with a gun where you can at least fight back. I don't think it does, but then, I've done neither, so I can't be sure. Quote
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