Kline Questions DePape's Sincerity...

Jesse Kline: DePape doesn’t understand what the Arabs are fighting for


Winston Churchill is often attributed as saying that, if you’re not a liberal when you’re 25, you have no heart and if you’re not a conservative when you’re 40, you have no brain. So it’s hard to fault young Brigette DePape — the Senate page who was ejected from Friday’s speech from the throne after holding up a “Stop Harper” sign — for being idealistic.

DePape called for a “Canadian version of an Arab Spring.” That’s right, we should all take to the streets and demand free and fair elections — you know, like the one we had on May 2. Now you’d think that a college student would know that we enjoy the freedom and system of government that thousands of Arabs are fighting, and dying, to achieve. But she somehow thinks that our first-past-the-post system invalidates the entire democratic process. I suppose we should expect contradictions like this from someone who professes to support democracy, but took a job in the unelected Senate.

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Mohawks Delete A Page From PET"s Red Book...

Joseph Quesnel: Respecting human rights applies to Mohawks too

Posted: March 03, 2010, 1:15 PM by NP Editor Filed under: Joseph Quesnel

If the Mohawk community of Kahnawake wanted a way to end up on the six o'clock news, attempts to evict 26 non-Natives from their reserve was the perfect way to do it. As most readers now know, those not meeting the Kahnawake reserve's community membership code-- many are involved in romantic relationships with Mohawks and some are long-time caregivers for resident members -- were given 10 days to leave. As of this writing, only 12 of the 26 have responded. Now the band council says they will publicly post the names of those who have not left if they fail to meet this deadline. The core, obvious problem in Kahnawake is that Pierre Trudeau's famous admonition that the "state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation," has been tossed out as Mohawk leaders openly discourage Mohawks from entering into relationships with non-Mohawks.

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Let's Not Forget This Is B.C........

......and don't they have the olympics scheduled.