Burka/Niqab Day For Parliament

I have said it before, and I will say it again, I want all MP's to wear a burka/niqab for just ONE day. Then honestly answer these questions:

Did you find it oppressive or freeing?
Did your personality change?
Do you think that anyone would actually "choose" to wear it, not just for a day but for a lifetime?
Did you feel isolated in public while wearing it?
Is this a good idea for Canadian society?

For those of you who are confused about the differences, the National Post had a great graphic:

We are all familiar with the hijab, it's unoffensive but it does identify a woman as a Muslim. I have often wondered why Muslim males do not have to wear anything that will identify them as Muslim's but their women do, sometimes isolating those women. Is isolation the goal of Muslim men for their women? Sikh males wear a turban, Jews wear a yamulke, Catholics wear crosses, just to name a few, why don't Muslim men wear something to identify themselves as Muslim?  Or do they?  

I love the wonderful sari's that East Indian women wear! Colourful, beautiful, and modest. Why can't Muslim women wear clothing like this:

 

Notice, that the faces are uncovered. I have noticed that most East Indian ladies wear their sari's for special occasions, not as everyday wear, what they have done is assimilated into Canadian society without losing their "cultural" identities. I posted about making perogies the other day, even though I have never been to the Ukraine or Poland, my family has retained some of that "culture". Same for most people who immigrate to Canada, they retain parts of their "culture" and it makes Canada a much richer country. 

I hate to break it to the lefties, but all cultures are NOT equal and we need to tell the people who are immigrating here, what is proper and what we, as Canadians, will not abide. We need to celebrate our differences, but we need to be aware that some women are raised to believe that they can be beaten for not obeying their "betters", usually the men in their lives and their mother-in-laws.

Remember how the Japanese bound the feet of their women? Here is a bit of history on how that "cultural" tradition started and the video to go with the explanation:

Legend has it that lotus or lily foot slippers first appeared in China in the 11th century when Empress Taki was born with deformed feet. To save her future embarrassment, her father announced that only women with very small feet could be truly feminine and desirable. As a result women began to bind their feet. The tiny, virtually unusable feet were a mark of status, beauty, gentility and sexual attractiveness.
The binding process began at age 5 to 7 years old. Bandages were wrapped around the foot to bend the four smaller toes inward under the foot towards the heel until it resembled a half moon.The majority of young girls had their feet bound by their mothers. Binding a daughters feet would ensure she would be married and hopefully to a wealthy man. The intial process of binding the feet took just one night but the feet took years of pain to conform into the beautiful crescent shape. During a painful 2-3 year period, the size of the shoe was gradually reduced. The most highly desired goal being a size only three inches in length.
These silk shoes only measure 140mm (5½ inches) in length and 24mm (1 inch) in width...
Footbinding was horribly painful. In asking why women would do this we need to understand the history behind the practice. Then we can begin to answer our questions as to why a painful tradition would continue to exist for so long.

Thank goodness that "cultural" practice has been stopped. "Cultural" practices will only be stopped if we stand up against them. The refusal of Canadians to confront "cultural" practices we disagree with, because of multiculturalism and political correctness, is wrong. We need to be clear about what the Canadian culture will accept and what we won't. Remember, it's our country, our values and our laws, we do not have to adapt, immigrants need to adapt so they can fully enjoy all of our freedoms to the fullest.  

And for a great example of a frothing at the mouth biased feminist lefty, you have to watch this video, a professor of law? Yikes, is she for real? 

I loved Tarek Fatah's response to this lady.You have to watch it!

This is Canada, WE make the LAWS not immigrants!

Power grab! I Love Sun News!

Ignatieff says he is "serene" with the election. Does he realize he is so low in the polls that he should concede the election right now? Or did he purposely spike the election by declaring that he will try to take power if the Conservatives only get a minority? Is he that anxious to get back to his villa in France? You decide:



Power grab is so true. The lefties try to wrap it up in bows and ribbons, but it is really lies and a grab for power.

Let Canadians beware, the Liberals have finally come out and admitted that they will NOT accept a Conservative minority government. A coalition/accord/arrangement, is not just a figment of PM Harper's overactive imagination, it was 100% confirmed by Ignatieff tonight.

What this means in black and white, is if Canadians do not give the Conservatives a majority, we will have a coalition government. We will lose the best Prime Minister Canada has ever had because of a power grabbing opposition who could care less about Canada. They are willing to sleep with separatists to get back into power, and that should disgust all people with even a hint of morals.

Power grab, plain and simple.

Wake up Canada!

It's Time For A Conservative Majority If You Love Canada!

More scandal by the media, they refuse to tell the real truth!

On Wednesday, Agop Evereklian, the Tory candidate in Pierrefonds-Dollard, was forced to replace his campaign manager, Giulio Maturi. The move followed an article in Le Devoir noting that Mr. Maturi was back at work for the Conservatives after being shunned by the party when he was linked to a municipal fundraising scandal.

Interesting, the reporter, doesn't even bother to goggle who caused the problem for Maturi. It turns out that it was a Paul Martin Liberal!

Benoit Labonté was an aide to former Liberal PM Paul Martin. That's right, he's a Liberal. So I guess the media don't think it's worth mentioning. The thing is he seems to have a somewhat shady past himself. The media has run with his allegations, despite the denial from Mr. Maturi that it ever occurred. But what of Benoit Labonté? Well, you would think the media might mention this, no?

"Montreal opposition leader Benoît Labonté is denying allegations he had dealings with the construction entrepreneur at the centre of the city's water-meter scandal.

The allegations were reported Friday by RueFrontenac.com, the online news site written by the locked-out journalists from the French-language daily Journal de Montreal.

Labonté met with Tony Accurso in March 2008 while preparing to launch his bid to lead the Vision Montreal party, the website said, citing anonymous sources.

The website alleges Labonté eventually asked for and received more than $100,000 in donations from Accurso."

Maybe our reporters need to go back to school, they will not qualify for the Liberal goody give away of $4,000, but they seriously need to learn to do more than spout their opinions.

Like this reporter:

However, the news that Mr. Ignatieff will not support a Tory budget will bolster Stephen Harper’s claim that Canadians should give him a majority to end the parliamentary logjam. It will come as welcome news to the Prime Minister, who has been on the defensive since the election campaign began.

By contrast, Mr. Ignatieff has been cruising, visibly relaxed and confident. At an event in Vancouver, the Liberal leader said he couldn’t remember having as much fun in politics as he’s had in the past few days on the campaign trail.

Maybe Iggy is relaxed because he knows he is going back to Haaarvard soon and won't have to worry about what happens to Canada when Bob Rae forms a coalition government.

Watch this to see, if PM Harper is defensive. He is relaxed, and rocks the house. All his venues have been full to capacity and beyond, as CTV reported about the Montreal rally. Maybe the reporter should stop making things up.

H/T to Dr. Roy for this video:



Finally, information on the Liberal candidate for Edmonton-Strathcona, a 20 year old college student is set up as a sacrificial lamb so the Liberals can at least say they ran a candidate. Linda Duncan won last time because the Liberals and NDP formed a coalition to defeat the Conservative MP, it worked last time and they are thinking it will work again. How desperate are the Liberals to be sending a 20 year old student into the lion's den of politics? Seriously.

EDMONTON — A 20-year-old Grant MacEwan University student appointed to run for the Liberals in Edmonton-Strathcona will have to take on a well-funded Conservative candidate but also an unofficial “Liberals for Linda” campaign.

This time university will be done, so no lefty university votes for Linda, plus she has not been a professor since 2008, so she has no students to help her campaign. The Conservatives are throwing all their resources at that riding, it should go blue.

Interesting tidbit, my office mate told me last election that the Liberals were going to vote for Linda in that riding, and just the other day I said it looked like a Conservative majority or coalition, and he said, "yes, and the Conservatives will not get a majority". I guess the Liberals are happy with the coalition option. So, let's get out there and make that majority happen! We have to fight the Liberals, NDP, Greens, Bloc and the media. We are also fighting an unofficial "Liberals for any Liberal/NDP/Green/Bloc campaign" .

Maybe Iggy is "relaxed" because he finally made the decision to escape Canada and politics, while PM Harper is "defensive" because he actually cares about what happens TO Canada. One thinks Canada is made up of peasants who aren't listening to him, the other knows how precious Canada is, and wants to improve it, so it can shine.

I will take PM Harper over some American faux PM any day, and I will fight hard for my country, Canada. This is not a game, this is about a takeover of Canada by radical leftists who want power, and could care less about what happens to Canada. This is one of the most important elections Canada has ever had. If they get away with this, the Conservatives will never gain power again. DO NOT let the media sell Canada down the river, like they did to the US by getting Obama elected.

It's time for us to stand up for Canada, again! Our only chance is a Conservative majority. Then we can make sure riding redistribution happens and funding by taxpayers to political parties becomes a thing of the past. It's time for a Conservative majority if you love Canada!

They Support Our Troops....BUT!

Why would Canada not stand up in defense of Afghans, especially the women and young girls? Why would the opposition think it was acceptable to abandon those who need our help? The NDP, supposedly the party of the people, are the biggest hypocrites. Make love not war is still their motto. Unfortunately for the NDP, we have moved on from the sixties.  We understand that our troops can help oppressed people better than some lefties shouting give peace a chance.  Thank goodness the Liberals opened up the door for our troops to stay in a non-combat roll. They actually took a principled stand for what was best for Canada and Afghanistan. Clap, clap, I seriously applaud you! (No I am not being sarcastic!)

Canada can now hold it's head up at the NATO meeting. I will always support our troops without any "buts". They are sent into missions by our government, and they do a superior job, always. It's time for the lefty opposition to grow some balls and stop being fake pacifists. If Quebec doesn't want to support our troops, Alberta would be honoured to become the new home for the Van Doos! I suspect the Van Doos would have something to say about that, as they are proud Quebec Canadians, too bad their own province does not recognize their worth.

It is easy to sit at home in our peaceful Canada, and be passive, it is much harder to put your life on the line for your country. The Conservatives and the Liberals should call the NDP and the BLOC on their lack of support for our troops. They always say they support our troops, ...........BUT!



There should NEVER be any BUT's in our support.

Lewis Mackenzie for GG!

I haven't weighed in yet on my pick for GG, my pick is Lewis Mackenzie. He is first of all a strong supporter of our military. He loves Canada. He is a no nonsense kind of guy, but is normally very diplomatic. He is also very outspoken and does not suffer fools, ever. Enough of the CBC female reporters for GG, even though I really like Jean, it's time for a strong male military GG, and that would be Lewis Mackenzie.

This is one of the best interviews I have ever seen him give. He totally destroys the lawyer Attaran. I really wonder what Attaran's problem with Canada is, and why is his face red throughout the interview? Is he not used to getting questioned about his support of anti-Canada people?

Lewis Mackenzie destroys Attaran.

Who to believe, an Afghan who saw nothing happen first hand, or the Chief of the Defense Staff? This lawyer has an ax to grind, he likes to listen to himself, and thinks his sh&t doesn't stink. He also wants detailed information released while our troops are still in Afghanistan. I wonder if Attaran knows Warman, they seem to be birds of a feather.

Attaran wraps himself in "law" and Lewis calls him on it. It is a must see interview.

I hope PM Harper sees this interview, because if he does, he will know that Lewis Mackenzie is the perfect candidate for the GG position. He will protect our troops and our country from lawyers who are more interested in condemning our troops and scoring some face time on CTV, Canada's home for gossip!

Attaran gives me the creepy crawler feeling every time I see him. He is NEVER defending Canada or Canadians, and that says a lot to me.

Too Much Time On Their Hands!

I already miss the proroguing of Parliament. I haven't been able to watch QP this week, but I don't really need to because it's just back to the same garbage as before Christmas. It's time for MP's to take a look at their responsibilities. First and foremost, they need to listen to their constituents. We don't need 308 MP's going to Ottawa to argue about this bill or that. We have too many laws and bills now. Maybe OUR representatives could start cutting some of the red tape and rid Parliament of endless bills that just tie us down as citizens. Every bill that gets passed takes away a little bit more of our freedoms. Here is how stupid our society is getting:

Britain's latest nanny-law targets unruly dogs

Britain already leads the world in spying on its citizens with closed-circuit cameras. There are 4.2 million cameras in Britain, one for every 14 people, and twice as many as China uses to keep control if its 1.3 billion people, according to the Daily Mail.

You'd think that would satisfy the government's need to intrude on the lives of the average Brit, but not even close. The latest scheme is aimed at extending state control over dogs.

The Independent reports that plans are under consideration to force dog owners to buy insurance to cover themselves in case their pet attacks someone, and also to require that every dog be microchipped.

I know it's Britain, but it appears their legislators have way too much time on their hands. Make work so that MP's can justify their salaries?

How about let's adopt the Texas method:

The Texas Legislature meets in a regular session every two years, convening on the second Tuesday in January of every odd-numbered year. These biennial sessions are limited to 140 days. The governor can also call additional special sessions as necessary, which cannot exceed 30 days.

They meet every two years, do they get anything done?

81st Texas Legislative Session (2009)

The governor signed 1,656 bills and resolutions, vetoed 38 and allowed 12 to become law without his signature from the Regular Legislative Session that ended on June 1, 2009. Two additional bills were passed in a Special Session held July 1-2, 2009.

If 17 days of prorogue sent our opposition parties into a frenzy, can you imagine the Conservative government proposing they only meet every two years for 140 days? Yikes!!! It's not going to happen of course, because the opposition feed off of Question Period. They are addicted to getting their faces in front of the cameras. Case in point Jack Layton during the Canada-USA gold medal hockey game, front and center and making sure not even a female gets in his way. So rude and lacking class Jack.

Here is an idea to make Canada better. Go through all our laws, starting with the very first one, and if they no longer apply, get rid of them. Update them, and write them without all the legal terminology. Give the government back the right to MAKE the laws, and cut off the Supreme judges power to decide what the law REALLY means.

Start with the HRC's. I know the Conservatives are scared that not enough people support getting rid of the HRC's, but it's time, after 4 years in office, for the Conservative government to grow some resolve, and take some positions that might not be popular with the lefties (Hint: they are not EVER going to vote for you anyways). Federal Conservatives need to look to Alberta, the reason Wildrose is so popular is that the provincial conservatives are acting like liberals. It's time for the federal Conservatives to at least act like conservatives.

Our MP's have too much time on their hands, and have lost their way. All MP's need to get back to their ridings and listen to what the people are saying, not what their parties are telling them to say.

Take A Bow Canada!

What an Olympics! Our athletes were excellent, Vancouver was exceptional and a party was had by all.

I have never seen so many people wearing their hearts on their sleeves as I saw at these Olympics. I wish I could have been there.

Everybody became Canadian for a short time.

We're guessing it's been a while since you felt so Canadian

How to describe Canada's shocking success at the 2010 Winter Olympics? Here's one way: Canada won more gold medals in Vancouver than the United States and Russia … combined.

Going into these games, Canada had never won a gold medal on home soil. But by the time Sidney Crosby's wrist shot beat Ryan Miller in the overtime of yesterday's glorious men's hockey final, we'd won 14 — more than any other nation in the history of the Winter Olympics. This newspaper would like to add its voice to those congratulating our Olympic athletes for their stunning accomplishment.

What Vancouver did show London was how to stage a Games to be enjoyed by everyone, from athletes to spectators to the general public, who embraced the Olympics with hands uniformly clad in red Olympic mittens.

At times there was a Mardi Gras atmosphere in downtown Vancouver, and this in a place sometimes described by residents themselves as No Fun City.

No amount of planning will guarantee a party like the one Vancouverites enjoyed on Sunday after that heartstopping hockey gold but London will have to show it can get the local population engaged and enthused.

In that sense, Vancouver has set the bar extremely high.

Way to go Vancouver, way to go Canada, take a bow!

Adopt A Third World Country!

This post by Maria at Dodo Can Spell, got me thinking.

Making Haiti a part of Canada would not only benefit Haitians, it would benefit Canadians as well, as we would be able to either holiday or even retire to our own little sunny island and keep our money on Canadian soil.

It's an interesting proposition, but I wonder if Haitians would be interested. They might be poor, but Haiti is their country and they might want to keep their independence. Maybe we could trade Quebec for Haiti! I'm just not sure who would want Quebec. HA!

We don't need to adopt Haiti, but I think Canada is moving in the right direction by choosing one or two countries to concentrate the aid on. Afghanistan and Haiti are the two poorest countries on the planet, they deserve our support. If the members of the G20 would each choose 2 or 3 countries to concentrate on, we might actually see improvements in those countries.

If Canada only has say 1 Billion for foreign aid, should we divide it amongst 50 countries, or concentrate it on 2? If you spread the funds too thin, you accomplish nothing.

Haiti is now like a clean slate, the world can rebuild it much better than it was before, if they have the will to stay the course. Remember the tsunami? Aid pored in, and countries pledged billions to rebuild, then they left, and forgot all about the pledges. The money went into the government coffers, and everyone turned their backs.

Haiti can be different. One committed country like Canada, can stick with it, and make real changes. If we are going to adopt a country, a warm one like Haiti would be nice.

Dopenhagen Protesters and Polar Bears.

I am sick and tired of lefty protesters and misinformation from eco-nuts. I applaud every fossil award that Canada receives, it shows we are not buying into the eco-nuts agenda. We have oil, lots and lots of oil, in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Newfoundland, and we don't kill anyone to get it to market. We are blood free. Yet eastern Canada buys blood oil, they ship it on huge oil tankers across the Atlantic, and yell at Alberta for our oil sands. They look down their huge noses at Conservative Alberta, but they see nothing wrong with getting their oil from dictatorships. The eco-nuts target the oil sands and forget about the Saudi's and Iran...now there's a great example of human rights justice. NOT.

Do people in eastern Canada even realize that they are using oil from Iran/Saudi Arabia and not Alberta oil?

Ricardo Acuña, Executive Director of Parkland Institute, points out that “Albertans will argue that there is enough oil in the tarsands to supply for all of Canada’s needs well into the future, but unfortunately people in Ontario, Quebec and the Atlantic provinces do not have access to that oil—it all flows south.”

Yup, you easterners are buying Saudi oil, not Alberta oil, yet Alberta sends over 8 BILLION a year to Quebec. How fair is that?

We get the fossil awards because the eco-nuts don't dare target China, a dictatorship or India. They get no money from those countries. They are eco-terrorists. Why are they all covering their faces?



The kids are running wild. I wonder who paid for all those protesters trips to Dopenhagen? Do they slurp up the caviar and then go out and protest getting there in their limos?

Hundreds arrested at Copenhagen protest rally

Hundreds of people were arrested in Copenhagen today after sporadic street violence broke out during a major protest march as UN climate change talks reached their halfway point.

The demonstration, organised to urge conference delegates to work out a binding deal to tackle climate change, was largely peaceful but was marred when a group of protesters threw bricks at police.

Nice, throwing bricks at police, maybe they should have thrown drowned polar bears instead!

Polar Bear Numbers Surge to 50-Year High, Obama’s Approval Rating Plunges to New Dismal Low

Yes, polar bear numbers have grown so much that discussion of culling to decrease their numbers is going on as I type; yet another stake into the heart of the truthfulness of the global warming hoax and the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade, climate change tax-Americans-to-death bill, which the US House barely passed last Friday.

There are 5 times as many polar bears today as there were 50 years ago:

I wonder if polar bears taste "gamey"? Would a polar bear coat be warm? Given that it is -30 below right now and set to drop even lower tonight, I'm willing to test out any fur coat someone gives me. Cotton just doesn't cut it in a deep freeze! Bring on the fur!

The eco-nuts want to kill any opposition to global warming, oops, climate change. Even Santa is at risk.



I hated that red haired guy, is he still around? Lefties, just a little deranged, they want to save polar bears, but they think humans should be able to kill their own kids.

UPDATE:

Sunday marked the coldest Dec. 13 in Edmonton’s history.

Environment Canada recorded a frigid -46.1 C, or -58.4 C with wind chill, at the Edmonton International Airport at 5 a.m., Environment Canada meteorologist Pierre Lessard said.

The old record of -36.1 C was set last year, he said.

“To break a temperature by 10 degrees is very exceptional,” said Lessard.

REDRUM, REDRUM

Photo: Beijing China

Okay, let's just kill our economy. Really, why go down slowly being suffocated by all those green bags, let's just agree with the eco-nuts, slit our wrists and bleed our economy to death.



Photo: The badly polluting oil sands....see that blue sky? Hummmm, are we being lied to?

Hey, that's another compare and contrast! China or Alberta? Who is polluting more, you decide.

The Canadian government, long criticized by environmentalists for not doing its fair share to fight against catastrophic climate change, has said its top priority at the Copenhagen negotiations is to ensure there are "commitments from all major economies" - a reference to countries such as India and China that have said it's unfair for them to stem their economic growth to deal with climate change caused largely by western economies.

(bolding is mine)

Yikes, catastrophic climate change....that's enough to scare me into.....wait a minute, where is the proof? I know a little bit about modeling, and I know that no reputable scientist can predict anything beyond the range of the data. In other words, if your data is weekly, you can predict the next week pretty accurately, but not what will happen next year.

In a submission to the UN earlier this year the Harper government declared more specifically that "all parties" at Copenhagen must agree to "establish, regularly update and submit in writing . . . a long-term national greenhouse gas emissions limitation or reduction pathway for regular review by the Conference of the Parties."

But Levi said major developed economies such as Canada should avoid demanding specific emission commitments and instead work toward a "bottom up" strategy that seeks clear agreements that allow countries like China, India, Brazil and Indonesia to obtain western assistance to adapt their economies in a more environment-friendly way.

Double yikes! Levi is all for a wealth transfer from developed nations to his friends bank accounts. That is what this is, a wealth transfer scheme, notice that Levi never uses any actual DATA to support his assumptions.

"It is controversial enough to suggest that a country like India, with about 5% the per capita emissions of Canada, should take binding targets - especially given that Canada is openly walking away from its own commitments," Saul wrote in an e-mail.

"But to suggest that India should accept absolute emission targets is in another world. It leads one to think that this government is actively trying to undermine the negotiations."

Triple yikes! Notice how the eco-nuts use PER CAPITA, as a justification for India and China to continue polluting? They have billions of people so PER CAPITA, they do not pollute as much as Canada. Do they really think we are idiots?

Look at the two pictures, who is polluting the most? In the age of the internet, we get to call the "experts" out. Show us your data, not your rhetoric. We want facts, not some journalist who only talks to his/her eco-friends.

The eco-nuts want to REDRUM our economy. I want the environmentalists to start talking land mass, and trees, not this PER CAPITA garbage. It actually let's China and India pollute more, because they have more people. It makes Canada the bad guy because we have more trees than any one in the world (hint: trees love CO2) but only have 30 million people. It's a total farce.

Coming To Canada. We're Coming To Canada!

Why do immigrants come to Canada? In the last few months I've had the opportunity to ask that very question. Three different immigrants, from three different countries, asked the same question at three different times, and all three answered the same way.

Safety. Canada is safe. It's a safe place to raise your children.

Now, I understand that this is a very small sample, but I think it shows why people will leave their homes, and come here. Safety.

Rule of law. These immigrants understood that Canada strongly supports the rule of law. They respect that, they want it, they left behind mayham, now they want a strong society that supports fair but strong rules.

You come here, you don't break our laws. Simple and easy for 2 of the immigrants I talked to, because they both came from former Communist countries. They loved the fact that they could vote, without being told how to vote, or who to vote for. They loved being able to tell me they were going to vote Liberal, and I just laughed. They questioned me about politics, and they couldn't believe that they could voice their opinion without someone telling them they were wrong.

Seeing the joy, watching them debate, they were like kids who had built their first fort, or had seen their first snowfall. They understand what having a vote means, more than any Canadian born kid can ever imagine.

Sometimes I think our immigrants understand what it means to be Canadian, better than we Canadians. Safety, that's all they want. A safe place to raise their families. The majority don't want to change our laws, they want the security of knowing our laws will protect them. They want to know that they will not be thrown in jail for no reason. They want peace.

They fight hard to get here, they want to be here, they want their children to have a better life, just like Canadians want for our kids. They sacrifice everything they have to get here, no wonder the majority of immigrants appreciate Canada, more than our children do. We are spoiled, it only takes a few minutes of talking to someone from another country, to understand just how spoiled we are.