are you suggesting that forced marriage of young girls is OK? That's one of the practices your article mentions. Does society have a responsibility to protect its citizens?
Laws, calling to 911 and police availability to actions are already present.
Nowhere have you justified why extra expenses in the millions are required for a xenophobic and racial/religiously profiling snitch telephone call centre are to be necessary. Why only weeks to the end of a campaign is this announced? Because this is not a practice of good government, only xenophobic and rabble-rousing
dog whistle politics. Damn the party responsible for such a corruption of society.
This is '
dog whistle' politics to of explicit xenophobia. I was absolutely correct in recognising and predicting the growth of dishonest, despicable, and un-Canadian (lead by the fringe of society -- Harper's Conservatives) campaign tactic. It's the infamous
opus operandi with Harper's hiring of the wedge driving/race-baiting Australian campaign tactician.
How is this any different from calling something like the children's aid society?
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Barbaric' is explicit in its application to demonise the targeted religious group of this campaign - Muslims. It's a demonising judgement call against an identified group in society. This is explicit xenophobia to fabricate a wedge issue while ignoring the more pertinent issues of the incumbent government's record.
This is no different than the strategy of Hitler's brownshirts to rail against Jews as a distracting scapegoat in the decades following WWI and the 1929 economic crash. The Australian is hardly as blatant, but the core and dishonesty of the practiced strategy is the same. Wedge and racist politics to rally anger of a xenophobic and rather ignorant base -- cbrunny, as you promote and defend such policy in this thread, it is reasonably fair to associate you with a such an abhorrent lot.
I know you aren't defending terrorists but why is a Canadian terrorist equal to a not-terrorist Canadian? Why is citizenship different from freedom?
Freedom is lost by a judicially standing court of in the jurisdiction for a judged prison sentence. Crimes committed by Canadians in Canada are simply a Canadian issue. No jurisdictional standing for extradition treaties concerning other states to lay claim to a Canadian for crimes upon their territory.
Exile of Canadians is in stark violation of law and the Charter of Rights and freedoms --
Canadians have the right to enter, leave, and reside within Canada.
Legally simple and sound against the Conservatives ineptitude in law and sound judgement:
- citizenship is earned based upon the honest accuracy of its application. Only fraudulent representation at the point of citizenship can justify its revocation.
- the judiciary not the whim of politicians are to enact individual punishment.
- Canadians are tried, judged, and punished for crimes committed within and remain in the jurisdiction of Canada. We are a mature state that is quite capable of dealing with our own.
Three very explicit and standing points that not only nullify any rational behind the Conservatives flouting of Canadian ideals and law.
The convict who was born in Canada as a Canadian? How the dare this corrupt government politically (not judiciary nor legally sound) attempt to revoke such a Canadian of his legal solidified status? Any crime by a recognised Canadian cannot deny his identity and citizenship. Nowhere for these scenarios has individual fraud been involved to attain Canadian citizenship. Simply a Canadian who committed a crime and justly sentenced in court by our shared laws. Canada ought to be mature and is quite capable of handling our own problems.
Harper is incompetent and incapable of taking ownership of our own problems and of justifiably and legally dealing with them within his state that he is expected to lead under the stand of
peace, order, and good government.
This government is corrupt to its core. Against Canadian ideals of diversity and the respect for law.
Toss the bloody Harper government. Bloody well if Harper obtains a minority government in a few weeks then the opposition must join in a coalition to defeat that
victor with a loss of confidence by the majority of the House of Commons. The first priority of any non-Harper government must be the legislation of election reform, to forever delete the electorial method of
first-past-the-post, and progress to a far more democratic system -- preferential ballot rather than a messier proportional representation being my favoured route to elect a single MP per riding.
Unlike the current system, no Member of Parliament could gain a seat without a majority of support in their riding. The majority of Canadians consistently disapprove of the current government and of Harper's Conservatives, in general. The majority of Canadians have a preference of representation among the opposition parties. Vote splitting by a fringe party as the contemporary Conservatives could not again be employed to deny the democratic and representative will of the majority of the electorate.
As such, the '
dog whistle' politics and simple wedge issue strategies would hardly be as successful as under a
first-past-the-post vote splitting tactics of today.