Because according to the CONs, she is still the old fuck's wife.
And if a woman moves to Canada from a country where women aren’t allowed to vote or run for office, does that mean she can’t vote in Canada when she becomes a citizen?
What a bull-shit line of reasoning to impose narrow, twisted, vile beliefs on others.
Harper keeps saying he won’t re-open same sex marriage debates, but he is changing our laws through the back door, getting Canadians used to the ideas, altering our very identity as he clearly has been stating he intends.
No one in steve’s party publicly expresses intent to change legislation without clearing it through him first. Enough retired MPs, senators, and insiders have told us so and we have seen what happens to those who oppose him – Bill Casey, Garth Turner, Chong…
So when his CONsorts keep gunning for women’s wombs across the country, there is no doubt fatso wants the abortion issue to come out. He can claim he didn’t open debate, he can claim Canadians want it. He can let his atavistic crew push through some law that opens the door to abortion (giving fetuses same status as Canadians when a woman miscarries due to an attack) then say it’s really a legal argument and he can hardly stop debate. Or hell, just do away with debate at that point.
Death penalty? Oh, no…he won’t go there, he says. But once again, he is trying to change our mindset by picking and choosing which Canadians on death row in another country will be defended by our government. You know, while all people are equal, some just plain don’t deserve equal treatment.
It’s a gut knowledge thing, ya know? Tim Horton type wisdom if you get my meaning.
The CONs play on that gut thing, play on divisiveness, point fingers at “other” until too many fail to look to reason when our laws are modified.
Because by then, too many just think it’s right because it kind of feels right. And for those who in frustration try to protect our rights and freedoms as well as fair and equal systems for all, the systems that had been in place to defend those rights are so eroded and murky that there is less and less hope for sanity to prevail.
Our crime minister has no hidden agenda. It has always been obvious – through his early speeches, his early affiliations, his ongoing actions in politics.
The almighty Economy seems to trump everything here in Canada. Canadians buy into the bullshit that CONs are more fiscally responsible and that The Economy takes precedence over human rights, health care, the environment, the future of our children, decent public services, housing…
But too many Canadians forget that money – especially in a system where wealth resides in the hands of a privileged few – cannot guarantee a safe, healthy environment, equality, care for those in need, separation of church and state, health care for all regardless of wealth, protection of the innocent: things Canadians have long valued above all else.
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It's so frustrating. Never in my mind's eye would I have pictured this being a reality. Back in the 90s, my energies were focused on fighting arts and culture cutbacks. I also supported the anti-globalization and anti-NAFTA fights. Now those issues are a done deal and what at stake is far, far, far more dangerous.
the Occupy movements give me some hope that more people are refusing to sit in apathy snuggled in diversions and whatever spin allows them comfortable denial. It's too bad things need to get really awful and personal before so many start to wake up and shout.
steve can get away with this only as long as people don't generally feel direct results of what he's doing, but he's such a rotten piece of work that he isn't careful in giving even enough to any but his chosen few to keep the majority of people from crumbling under debt as they face the consequences of his cuts. And that's just the economy. People struggling with debt he caused will be less likely to forgive him his other obscenities and indulgences, I think. I hope! He's such a scumbag, so extreme he seems to me unreal, at times. A caricature of the worst of villains.
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