The boat should never have been allowed to land. These are neither refugees nor immigrants; they are migrants, here to take advantage of our good-heartedness and our once good economy. As Mark Steyn wrote in this magasine a few weeks ago, "We are too broke to be this stupid!" The Third World is going to haul us down to their level in short order and then the entire world will be the Third World with Third World economies, industrial ability, and standards of living. My suggestion is that the Third World begin to look after its own problems, beginning with controlling their populations, instead of simply using North America as a dumping ground for it's excess population, and an ATM for welfare cash.
Go to Rome, Cairo or Istanbul on Porter old son! If you can.
I notice that now that Westjet is becoming an airline rather than a small, hick, provincial carrier, its down-home, aw-shucks image is also disappearing. Face it, this is a business not some massage parlor where your little whims are all catered to-- a business that provides a safe transport for you from point A to point B, not a touchy-feely joke dispensing feel good parlor. Why don't you all grow up already?
I gather, Barb, that you have never flown on any American carrier. Air Canada' service, bad as you may think it is, is head and shoulders above any of the US carriers. I flew to Amsterdam on KLM four years ago and was only too happy, on my return flight, to get to Toronto where I could board an AC flight to come home to Vancouver. Careful what you wish for, you might get it! As far as Sedi is concerned, politics was a bogyman that the Know-nothings came up with in order to have a talking point against AC. Jean Chretien hated AC and even with all of his support Canadian couldn't make it nor could CPA before it even it CPA was given fully one-half the world to service. Contrary to the Know-nothing propaganda, AC had exactly NO support from the Canadian taxpayer--this was simply a lie.
AND, like, who gives a damn? The Habs are Quebec's team, and maybe they care, but who in the ROC (as the rest of us are disparigingly referred to) should give a damn what happens there? Quebec wants to be a nation unto its own, and so they should be, but why then should the rest of us care if their teams do well or not, or really what happens to them?
You hit this nail right on the head! The only thing you missed is the obvious comparison of our so-called democracy to the USSR of Joe Stalin. Elitist politicians; hate crimes--all you had to do was denounce someone in the USSR and you were guilty; kangaroo courts--the HRC; politicians are dictators--after you vote do you have any say, can you control the pols?; yes the pols will keep taking until we're sucked dry--how is that different from working for the state like in the USSR?; no freedom of speech, or even thought--see the HRC and the Charter of Rights. We are free to speak and think as long as you are speaking and thinking the "correct line"--see the Human Rights Commission and the Charter of Rights again. Native rights, minority rights, collective rights, criminal rights--where does the majority, the individual, and the law abiding, tax-paying citizen fit into this scenerio? I'm sort of happy that I'm nearly at the end of my life because I won't have to watch the continuing crumbling of this country thanks mostly to Trudeau and the Trudeaupians!
Except that it was the Liberals, Jean Chretien, that put us in Afghanistan in the first place. Secondly, they voted as a block with the Conservatives to stay in Afghanistan until 2011. And finally, it is Iggy that was first on record saying that perhaps we could stay there in a "training role" beyond 2011--and wouldn't our guys still be shot at and killed for a bunch of people that hate us?
I believe that you are the four year old. Ann can simply make your viewpoint irrelevant because she has facts to back up her opinions. Opinions without facts are simply B.S., and Ann has very little tolerance for people just talking to hear themselves.
I disagree. A discussion is when you allow differing ideas, something we don't allow in Canada anymore. We only allow speech when it agrees with the politically correct opinion, therefore, no free speech or even more important, no free expression. With no free expression, no democracy!
If you think debating Ann is like debating a 4 year old, you are either stupid, ignorant or both. She obviously is so far beyond your understanding that she wouldn't even have to work up a sweat with you. She's a Suma Cum Laude law school graduate who has worked for Supreme Court Justices; you are just loud.
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