[Dan74]

xerxes xerxes:

hwacker, your blinkard philistine pig-ignorance is astounding. The Liberals still have a number of seats in Quebec and PM P.M is from Quebec. Ergo, the Liberals are "home" in Quebec. Or would you prefer Quebeckers elected more Bloc MP's?

Uhm Paul Martin was born in Windsor His seat is in Quebec

[Franco Unamerican]

this might be a bit trollish but i wanted to expose everyone to a mistake many people make. when people say "here here" they are supposed to be saying hear hear, fyi...

[xerxes]

$1:

hm Paul Martin was born in Windsor His seat is in Quebec

Yes, I know. Pardon the ambiguity.

[alienofwar]

$1:

I don't know if anybody heard about this...but last summer the CRTC decided to close the most popular radio station in Quebec city. ChoIFM. The reason was simple, Choi was an ardent critic of the Liberal Party as well as the Seperatists. They tended to be more right-wing and Libertarian. At the same time they were attracting over 442 000 listeners a week!!! When they closed there was huge demonstrations, (50 000 people in one day) a large petition (written, not online) of 300 000.

Are you kidding me???????? That's horrible! Thats censorship plain and simple!

What is the CRTC good for? They do nothing but preserve liberal ideology in Canada. Thank god I left that brainwashed country. I was turning into a liberal untill I was exposed to a diverse U.S media and then I was able to think for myself.

If Canadians know any better they will keep an eye on how the CRTC will handle satellite radio...my feeling is they will impose restrictions on it only allowing radio shows which are "politically correct" in their mind. Which means they will not allow the like of Michael Savage or Tammy Bruce to be heard. I'm extremely suprised they allowed Fox news to air in Canada...they made it difficult and it doesn't get the more frequented channel slots but it's there and only available to a minority.

I thought Canada was a nation of tolerance?

[alienofwar]

I still care about Canada, it is my birth place and my home. I think Canada could be a much better place than it is right now, in fact I think Canadians have an opportunity to live a higher standard of living than Americans with all the land and resources but liberal ideology is preventing that and slowing down progress towards innovation and the spread of recognition around the world. I mean...look, Canadian companies are being bought up one by one by American companies...and you hardly find any Canadian products down south of the border. Why? Because Canada is not productive enough. Corporate taxes are some of the highest among developed nations and regulations are slowing down Canadian businesses. The birth rate is extremely slow and Canada has to depend on immigration to keep up with the baby boomers. Samething happening in Europe....except for the U.S which is having a baby boom. Canada is extremely anti-family. What kind of tax incentives are there to promote marriage and home ownership in Canada? How many people do you know who can afford to have children? Why is gay marriage promoted more than strong family tradition? As I have always said....family is the pillar of the state.

For example, I'll bring my personal experience and view into this. I worked in the construction industry in Edmonton and my employers were mainly immigrants from China and India and from my personal observation and from comparing my peers born into broken homes..I noticed their children do much better in school than my peers. Why is this? Because of a strong family! They help each other and divorce is very uncommon among them. You look at the sky-rocketing divorce rates in Canada and mainstream acception of broken families and it's no wonder why students born to native Canadians are lagging so much behind students born to immigrants. Unfortunately many students born to immigrants are being spoiled by the culture as well and the liberal acception of broken families.

Liberalism is a self-destruction in my theory.

I have so much more I can say about this, but I don't want to make this post too long because now I'm rambling again.

[alienofwar]

Oh and by the way that website you gave me concerning the FCC had no article or anything to show that they are censoring media down here. Tv is still raunchy as ever and satellite radio is still unregulated. And the likes of Michael Savage and Tammy Bruce can still speak without the fear of "political correctness" shutting them down.

[Scape]

Oh so Chapter 19 has nothing to do with this. Do you know we have won almost every time? What did it get us? The reason why the US is buying out Canada has nothing to do with socialism and everything to do with National Treatment Clause. Most Canadians, probably 98 percent, have never heard of the "national treatment" clause which is the one that guarantees our demise as a nation state. When the FTA was signed, "national treatment" was a relatively new concept in international law that gave American investors equal rights in Canada as Canadian citizens.

This is morally wrong in principle. Ask yourself, "What is the advantage of citizenship if non-citizens have equal rights?" In the real world it gives foreign investors, mainly American, the unrestricted right to invest in Canada: (a) without conditions and, (b) without limits. We have lost the right to say that only foreign investment that is beneficial to Canada is welcome. And we have lost the right to say that they can't buy more than 50 percent of our forest industries or 80 percent of oil and gas reserves - because the treaty says they can buy and own them all.

[alienofwar]

Oh come on this is nothing new. That's just the reality in this new era of globalization. Canada has to start improving their economic climate and really compete with other countries or of course they will be bought up.

I say it's time to get into shape and start building up your economic muscles!

[alienofwar]

Well what happened on the Super Bowl is unacceptable because that is a family show. Of course many of you will mention beer and viagra commercials but many conservatives are against this as well. Just that the "wardrobe malfunction" was taking it too far.

The increase in nudity on Canadian tv is a disturbing trend as well. I don't even want to go into that.

[alienofwar]

I am against the national debt as well and am definitely not proud of that but I do not know what this has to do with Canada having to flex their economic muscle?