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Monday, April 13, 2009
Five interesting (and debatable) comments by (or for) Canadians
1. "It's hardly reassuring, but if the hard left ever realize the goal of their Islamofascist idols achieving power, they will be the first victims. Josef Stalin, Mao Zedong, Fidel Castro and their heirs today waste no time in eliminating Liberals and leftists whom they had used to secure their ends." (Peter Worthington)
2. "Even though the Canadian government must make the same fiscal concessions as any other government -- timing and efficiency -- its recent and relative frugality puts it in a unique position to spend." (Rebecca Wilder)
3. "Somewhat after the fact, Mexico’s other northern neighbor, Canada, is also starting to suffer from the ramifications of the Mexican war on drugs. Vancouver, the city host to the 2010 Winter Olympics and once one of the safest places in Canada, has been dubbed the Canadian gang capital. So far in 2009, more than 30 shootings -- which is unprecedented -- have taken place in British Columbia’s largest city, compared to 48 shootings in all of 2008." (Mylene Bruneau)
4. "Laughter or disbelief would have been my '80s response to any gloomy prediction that within the next 20 odd years Canada's iconic police force would twist the outcome of a federal election. I would have rejected out of hand the suggestion that Parliament would become a largely ceremonial body incapable of performing its defining functions of safeguarding public spending and holding ministers to account. I would have treated as ridiculous any forecast that the senior bureaucracy would become politicized, that many of the powers of a monarch would flow from Parliament to the prime minister or that the authority of the Governor General, the de facto head of state, would be openly challenged." (Jim Travers)
5. “It suggests virtue is its own reward. You don't get any reward beyond the self-satisfaction of having been virtuous. This is a crisis of globalization. Therefore, the more an economy depends on the global system, the harder it hurts. Canada is not finding the worst. Asian economies are going to be really slammed this year. But it's an unfair world. The U.S. won't be as badly affected as most countries.” (Niall Ferguson)
Posted by Alina on April 13, 2009 in Canadian Politics | Permalink
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RE comment #1
Useful idiots become useless fools at a stunning rate once their usefulness has ended.
Kind of like a bic lighter.
Posted by: Momar | 2009-04-13 10:04:51 AM
1. History bears this one out. Useful idiots serve as a conduit to power, but afterward are often eliminated, as they don't produce anything useful.
2. Spend wisely, I hope. Unwise spending is what got our economy into its current state.
3. That's what happens when you're soft on crime. In Mexico the main problem is corruption; here, it's a judicial system overstuffed with Benjamin Spocks. But the result is the same: criminals operating with impunity.
4. Few things are more bitter than the calumnies of an old codger lamenting the times he has lived to see.
5. Then they shouldn't make themselves so dependent on U.S. fortunes. Canada has fewer people than many of these "developing" states.
Posted by: Shane Matthews | 2009-04-13 10:21:58 AM
3.) Canada is the right place to commit a crime because: a.) The sentencing guidelines are too light, b.)large number of judges are too pro-criminal, and c.)citizens have no real right to self defense. Vancouver just stands out because it has a large immigrant community that has brought its gangs and distrust of police with it(same problem with Toronto immigrant communities but they make up a greater percentage of population in Vancouver).
4.) The traditions and values of this country have been going down hill since World War 2(since that socialist King). Now, people are suddenly waking up! Give me a break!
Posted by: Joshua | 2009-04-13 10:40:26 AM
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