The two day twitter war Justin waged on the use of the word barbaric used by Immigration Canada was very well covered bt the CBC. Justin eventually flip flopped. His comments about Quebec and Alberta were also on the CBC this week.
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The two day twitter war Justin waged on the use of the word barbaric used by Immigration Canada was very well covered bt the CBC. Justin eventually flip flopped. His comments about Quebec and Alberta were also on the CBC this week.
I agreed with Justin on the wording that immigration used and did not agree with him backing down. The comments concerning Alberta and Quebec were taken out of context.
I hope the spring didn't dislodge anything important when it released tension? Daddy was an exec for Imperial Oil. The spoon was silver plate at minimum but what does this have to do with cultural ugliness in the sub Sahara?
Were you wearing a jersey at the time? That makes all the difference ya know.
Or the ugliness of the mindless consumer culture. We are spoon fed our opinions, wants and desires buy slick PR firms while millions starve on our door steps.
And this is the result.
People Of Walmart (Sexy And I Know It - LMFAO) - YouTube
Just a plain jane bean counter? Or a little higher up the food chain?
“Stephen was at the stage of life when he didn’t quite know what to do,” Mary said, noting his father was a top executive with Imperial Oil in Toronto. - Mary Glenfield
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An accountant. I don't believe his mother worked either.
Well if the wife of a friend said so, it must be true. Stephen's dad was a top exec when he was in university. That doesn't say what he was when Stephen was born 20 odd years earlier. The son of an accountant and a stay at home mom would hardly be construed as being born with a silver spoon in your mouth.
He went from the bottom to the top of IOCO in just 20 years? Fascinating! He must have sucked his way to the top to pull it off in 20 short years.
But it's still all off track of the female mutilation by Sub-Saharan cultures.
But it's still all off track of the female mutilation by Sub-Saharan cultures.
He was an accountant for Imperial oil, executive level.....still hardly 'silver spoon' as we tend to think of it. But, lets be honest.....if youre on this forum youre pretty entitled and cant complain overly about your lot in life.
As in, this is Andem's forum and what he says goes. I don't like the 'new rules'. They are designed to keep site advertisers happy, not the members. But since I am a moderator here (I was asked but a volunteer position as you know...ain't nobody forcing me to do this sh!t), I also respect his dictates and enforce them (usually). Some moves are proactive (because we know what Andem does not want here nowadays) while most are reactive after someone whines and reports a post. Discord and spambots keep us busy at times too.
I don't 'have' to do this 'job', this work. I don't have to follow rules any more than you or the rest of the membership. Big Brother, thought police, NWO...I laff in their faces brother. Yeah, laff heartily. I don't have to be here at all and suffer the stifling rules in silence. We can all be rebels and post what we want to eh. To what end?
I belong to the original gore site Ogrish and have pretty much seen it all as they say. Between that and newage sites I visit like Apacheclips, and 4chan, there are few surprises for me. Sure ain't everyone's cup of joe. If I want that flavor of non-capitulation and freeman interweb posts, I go elsewhere. For the time being (anyway), I toil thanklessly away here with Ron and shadow, removing images, editing posts, banning spammers, snooping around your edited posts and reading the daily dose of 'I'm offended by this and that' PM's and reported posts.
Who knows, maybe you'll be the next schmuck to get the keys to the mod restrooms after I'm gone. Then you'll show them eh.
Should Justin Trudeau quit his bid to become Canada's prime minister after these comments?
Sun News : EXCLUSIVE: Trudeau's Alberta bashing fallout
OTTAWA - In the wake of Liberal MP David McGuinty's anti-Alberta comments this week, a 2010 interview with Liberal leadership hopeful Justin Trudeau raises the issue about whether that attitude is baked into the DNA of the federal Liberal party.
In November 2010, Trudeau told a Quebec television show that he was tired of Albertans running the country and that, whether it was Jean Chretien or Brian Mulroney, Canada is better off when Quebecers are running the country.
"Canada isn't doing well right now because it's Albertans who control our community and socio-democratic agenda. It doesn't work," Trudeau said in French to interviewer Patrick Lagace on the Tele-Quebec program Les francs-tireurs (The Straight Shooters).
Lagace then asked Trudeau if he thought Canada was "better served when there are more Quebecers in charge than Albertans?"
Trudeau replied: "I'm a Liberal, so of course I think so, yes. Certainly when we look at the great prime ministers of the 20th century, those that really stood the test of time, they were MPs from Quebec... This country - Canada - it belongs to us."
Trudeau specifically named prime ministers Pierre Trudeau, Chretien and Paul Martin but also included Progressive Conservative Mulroney on his list of great Quebec prime ministers of the last century.
Trudeau, who has been campaigning in Western Canada this week, did not respond to a request for an interview, but a statement from his campaign said the remarks were taken out of context.
"Justin knows that Calgary, Alberta and all of Western Canada are at the very heart of Canada's future. That's a message he has taken to every part of the country, from the beginning of the campaign. We need to get beyond the divisive politics of the Conservatives and include all Canadians," Trudeau spokesperson Kate Monfette said in an e-mailed statement.
"This is another reflection of the arrogance of the Liberal Party, its divisiveness," Immigration Minister - and Alberta MP - Jason Kenney told reporters outside the House of Commons Thursday.
"It brings back for many Westerners the kind of arrogance of the National Energy Program which of course devastated the Western economy."
Linda Duncan, the only NDP MP from Alberta, said it gives voters in her province another reason to reject the Liberals.
"I just find it unbelievable that an elected official could say that and have that kind of an attitude about our province," Duncan said.
On Tuesday, McGuinty accused Conservative MPs from Alberta of "shilling" for the Alberta oil and gas industry.
"They are national legislators with a national responsibility," McGuinty told Sun Media in an interview Tuesday, "but they come across as very, very small-p provincial individuals who are jealously guarding one industrial sector ... the oilsands business specifically, as one that they're going to fight to the death for.
"They really should go back to Alberta and run either for municipal council in a city that's deeply affected by the oilsands business or go run for the Alberta legislature."
On Wednesday, McGuinty apologized for his comments and resigned his position as the Liberal natural resources critic.
Sun News : EXCLUSIVE: Trudeau's Alberta bashing fallout
OTTAWA - In the wake of Liberal MP David McGuinty's anti-Alberta comments this week, a 2010 interview with Liberal leadership hopeful Justin Trudeau raises the issue about whether that attitude is baked into the DNA of the federal Liberal party.
In November 2010, Trudeau told a Quebec television show that he was tired of Albertans running the country and that, whether it was Jean Chretien or Brian Mulroney, Canada is better off when Quebecers are running the country.
"Canada isn't doing well right now because it's Albertans who control our community and socio-democratic agenda. It doesn't work," Trudeau said in French to interviewer Patrick Lagace on the Tele-Quebec program Les francs-tireurs (The Straight Shooters).
Lagace then asked Trudeau if he thought Canada was "better served when there are more Quebecers in charge than Albertans?"
Trudeau replied: "I'm a Liberal, so of course I think so, yes. Certainly when we look at the great prime ministers of the 20th century, those that really stood the test of time, they were MPs from Quebec... This country - Canada - it belongs to us."
Trudeau specifically named prime ministers Pierre Trudeau, Chretien and Paul Martin but also included Progressive Conservative Mulroney on his list of great Quebec prime ministers of the last century.
Trudeau, who has been campaigning in Western Canada this week, did not respond to a request for an interview, but a statement from his campaign said the remarks were taken out of context.
"Justin knows that Calgary, Alberta and all of Western Canada are at the very heart of Canada's future. That's a message he has taken to every part of the country, from the beginning of the campaign. We need to get beyond the divisive politics of the Conservatives and include all Canadians," Trudeau spokesperson Kate Monfette said in an e-mailed statement.
"This is another reflection of the arrogance of the Liberal Party, its divisiveness," Immigration Minister - and Alberta MP - Jason Kenney told reporters outside the House of Commons Thursday.
"It brings back for many Westerners the kind of arrogance of the National Energy Program which of course devastated the Western economy."
Linda Duncan, the only NDP MP from Alberta, said it gives voters in her province another reason to reject the Liberals.
"I just find it unbelievable that an elected official could say that and have that kind of an attitude about our province," Duncan said.
On Tuesday, McGuinty accused Conservative MPs from Alberta of "shilling" for the Alberta oil and gas industry.
"They are national legislators with a national responsibility," McGuinty told Sun Media in an interview Tuesday, "but they come across as very, very small-p provincial individuals who are jealously guarding one industrial sector ... the oilsands business specifically, as one that they're going to fight to the death for.
"They really should go back to Alberta and run either for municipal council in a city that's deeply affected by the oilsands business or go run for the Alberta legislature."
On Wednesday, McGuinty apologized for his comments and resigned his position as the Liberal natural resources critic.
The comments weren't taken out of context. You think Barbaric is too strong a word for things like female genitalia mutilation and honor killing? Really?
Unlikely as I am too opposed to censorship . Don't really have the necessary computer skills either. OTH having the keys to the mods restroom for an hour has interesting possibilities.
Doesn't sound out of context to me at all. Sounds like another generation of Trudeau Liberal who has a dislike for the West. The only difference between this Trudeau and the previous Trudeau is that he (Justin) has never held a portfolio. Let's be honest, his only endearing quality is that he is a young good looking guy (which separates him from his father).
Justin Trudeau has a lot to learn, before he will (if ever) have the ability to lead the Liberal Party of Canada, never mind the Country.
I guess this new attempt by the Liberals will be the third in a line hard lessons that substance not celebrity will lead them from the doldrums. I might have been inclined to throw them my vote if they had looked for a more viable candidate like Frank McKenna or John Manley instead of this left of NDP Liberal Leader wannabe who is "Changing the world, a little bit every day... "
If it ever came down to him or Thomas Mulcair, I'd rather give the reigns to Mulcair and believe me when I say that prospect scares me deeply.