Good Gawd!! Look at the problems two languages have caused us. A third might cause us to commit hari kari.
Why do Canadians still have to fight for CDA
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Good Gawd!! Look at the problems two languages have caused us. A third might cause us to commit hari kari.
Hum... the deaf might have a little problem with hearing English or French, don't you think?
Why do we need a national act?What concrete benefit will it provide, that isn't already covered elsewhere?
Get up on the wrong side of the bed this morning, or did you just roll over and kiss the floor in a thud?
Boy, you must must have hit that floor hard. Put some ice on that kisser. It should help with the swelling.
Oh sorry, Lone Wolf, I was thinking Nuggler. But it seems you started your day on the wrong foot too.
You seem to be a stranger in a strange land. Why don't you have a 10 pound chip on your shoulder?
OK, I'm in my humourous mood at the moment. But normally, I'll tend to respond to the word, not the source.
If Hitler says that we should care for the German youth, I'd agree with him. If Mother Theresa tells someone to go to Hell, I would disagree with her. If Satan told me to love God, I'd agree with him. Like I said, I respond to the words, not the source.
If Hitler says that we should care for the German youth, I'd agree with him. If Mother Theresa tells someone to go to Hell, I would disagree with her. If Satan told me to love God, I'd agree with him. Like I said, I respond to the words, not the source.
Natural born Canadian. Born in Ottawa, lived in Ottawa, Victoria, Nanaimo, Vancouver, La Malbaie, and Montreal... in Canada. And then I'd also lived in China.
But please don't stereotype Canadians. E come in all shapes and sizes, just like the folks in Middle Earth, from the Hobbits to the Elves.
I must admit though that I have felt like a minority most of my life in Canada. I'm a visible... majority, quite white-skinned, and you'd never guess that I have some indigenous blood. But I'm a linguistic minority in most of Canada. At heart, I'm ethnically Francophone, and so a minority in English Canada. But having lived in English Canada so many years, yet surrounded by many European and African French outside the home, my accent in French is a cross between English and European French. Go figure. So I my accent kind of gives me away as a 'foreigner' in Quebec too. Then religiously I'm a minority again, which can be evident during fasting times as we don't consume any food or liquid for a month from sunrise to sunset. Kinda hard to hide that when invited for lunch. Then I'm a vegan and teetotaller, even though my dad is a hunter and drinker. And I'd served in the military and am an airforce brat myself. So even in my own family, we have a hard time understanding one another.
I think one reason has to do with my constant travels as a child as my dad had to move alot, along with the fact that even in Canada most of my friends have been non-native born Canadians as I'd been very involved in multicultural communities and organizations all my adult life and still am. Then I'd lived abroad, can speak a few languages, and read foreign-language media. Constantly jumping between cultures has a way of uprooting a person. It has disadvantages, but also the advantage of allowing us to recreate our cultural reality while many others will tend to defend tradition unquestioningly just because it is tradition.
I think one reason has to do with my constant travels as a child as my dad had to move alot, along with the fact that even in Canada most of my friends have been non-native born Canadians as I'd been very involved in multicultural communities and organizations all my adult life and still am. Then I'd lived abroad, can speak a few languages, and read foreign-language media. Constantly jumping between cultures has a way of uprooting a person. It has disadvantages, but also the advantage of allowing us to recreate our cultural reality while many others will tend to defend tradition unquestioningly just because it is tradition.
Naw ... my day's been just fine thanks for asking.
Even the occasional troll swaggering off some belligerence through here is something worth laughing at ... or offering a shot of Agent Orange and grasshopper spit.
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Floor in a thud. How'ja know??
Naw, just tired of dickheads dissing Canada. Ain't perfect for sure, but I wouldn't want to live in Detroit, or Arkansas
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The ADA is just a law that makes the disabled equal to everyone, same as laws giving blacks, gays women etc, equal rights under the law. No more discrimination getting or holding a job just because your disabled. Public accommodations must be made accessible. I know in this day and age discrimination rarely happens anymore, but occasionally it rears its ugly head. Canada needs a CDA act now, time for talking about it is over. The basic's of the employment part of the law is: If a person is capable of doing a job, then they are protected. Cannot be treated differently when applying for or holding the job. No, more jobs have opened up because of the law than were lost. In fact choices of jobs have pretty much been bought up to a level playing field with everyone. The disabled are a large part of the population and deserve every right afforded anyone else.
Look who's talking about dissing a country. When something is wrong, point it out. Canada does not treat their disabled equally with everyone else.
No one wants to live in Detroit, or Ark. and that answer has nothing to do with giving equal rights to your citizens. While were talking about dickheads dissing anybody, look at all the anti American talk that goes on. But this is getting away from the subject the ADA and CDA are needed in order for the disabled to have a equal chance at everything they are capable of.