Women Use #DressCodePM To Ridicule Prime Minister's Anti-Niqab Comments
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Wanna bet? Anything publicly funded is open to public including all the who's in Whoville.
This is the latest.
Many of the threads are like broken records. The trolls spew a little hate, along with some idiotic claptrap. They natter on about things they know little if anything about, then when they clearly get pwned, they either call you a liar, repeat "you mad?" talk about your mom and your basement, spend an hour going through old posts and net rep-ing them, complaining to the mods when you make fun of them too much or, the silliest of all, calling you gay or using some type of homophobic slur.
Whether it's tax credits, first responders and the highway traffic act, terrorism, Muslims or water treatment on reserves, the cycle continues. One would think that if you're getting your *** handed to you over and over and over again, you might want to consider changing your tactic.
Do you think they are angry and stubborn or do you think they just don't realize how badly they are being pwned? Personally, I think it's a bit of both.
Oh well then I'm sure that if he lied it must have been of great significance then.
Kinda like accidentally omitting a paragraph in a story lol
So there we were having a reasonably rational discussion and along comes cannuck to derail the thread and make it all about him. Again.
Correction! Bear claims he caught me. Bear always makes idiotic statements. His posts became so ridiculously silly a year or so ago that I hardly ever read them anymore. To me, he's much like MHz....I just skip over those posts as well
Or, everyone.
"And mamma in her 'kerchief, and I in my cap,
Had just settled our brains for a long winter's nap."
- How to spend a devout Christmas eve
If women believe that god told them they need to cover themselves with the burka we aren't in any place to tell them they can't without encroaching on religious freedom. The main issue is walking into stores covering your identity from the cameras, it's an obvious security issue.
Personally I think it's because you simply enjoy stirring up sh!t and being the centre of attention. So tell me, what exactly do tax credits and the Saskatchewan Highway Traffic Act have to do with the topic of the thread anyway? Because as I read back, it was you kicking up the sand that started this little side track.
We all do that from time to time.
I don't think Cannuck is egregious when it comes to derailing threads.
If you want the biggest repeat offender for that you want to see CDNBear.
You're right.
I'm seething inside.
Anyway, let's bring this one back now.
Controversy over face-covering niqab exposes rift in federal NDP caucus
OTTAWA – Controversy over the face-covering niqab worn by some Muslim women has exposed a rift among New Democrat MPs.
Alexandre Boulerice, one of the party’s most prominent Quebec MPs, says he doesn’t believe public servants should be allowed to cover their faces.
But two of the party’s veteran MPs – Winnipeg’s Pat Martin and Ottawa’s Paul Dewar – disagree.
Global News
“I don’t care if people wear a paper bag on their head when they go to work,” Martin said Friday. “It’s none of our business.”
That said, Martin added that he has no problem with Boulerice’s suggestion that a pan-Canadian commission – along the lines of Quebec’s Bouchard-Taylor commission in 2007 – should be created to find a consensus on how far the country should go to accommodate minority cultural and religious practices.
READ MORE: Montreal woman to file complaint after judge imposes no hijab rule
However, Dewar, whose riding is home to many civil servants, said there is no issue to resolve; he’s never had a single complaint about public servants covering their faces.
“Why would you have a study on something that doesn’t exist?”
Martin and Dewar were responding to comments Boulerice made Thursday amid a political uproar over Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s assertion that the niqab is contrary to Canadian values and the product of an “anti-women” culture.
The controversy erupted last month after Harper vowed to appeal a court ruling that struck down a ban on face coverings worn during citizenship ceremonies. He called it “offensive” for someone to hide their face at the moment of joining the Canadian family.
The controversy escalated this week after Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau delivered a major speech in which he accused Harper of deliberately stoking prejudice against Muslims as part of a broader anti-terrorism agenda which seems to have boosted Conservative electoral fortunes.
Harper’s tough-on-terrorism talk appears to have particular resonance in Quebec, where debate over the accommodation of minorities has raged for years, culminating in the Parti Quebecois government’s doomed charter of Quebec values. The proposed charter, which would have prohibited public servants from wearing any obvious religious symbols, died with the defeat of the PQ last spring.
READ MORE: Harper’s niqab comments spark #DressCodePM Twitter backlash
NDP Leader Tom Mulcair has said he agrees the judge was correct to strike down the ban on wearing a niqab while taking the oath of citizenship. And he’s accused the Harper government generally of fuelling “Islamaphobia.”
Nevertheless, he is more guarded on the niqab controversy than he was on the Quebec values charter, which he opposed vehemently. That may reflect the fact that 54 of the NDP’s 94 MPs hail from Quebec.
Boulerice said Thursday that most of his caucus colleagues agree with him that public servants should not cover their faces.
“I, like most of my colleagues, we want to live in a society where people show their faces … Most people expect to get a public service from someone whose face can be seen.”
A caucus spokesperson said Friday that “Alexandre Boulerice gave his personal opinion. It is not the NDP position.”
However, Mulcair did not object last spring when newly elected Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard said he intended to introduce a bill that would ensure civil servants who deal directly with the public do not cover their faces.
At the time, Mulcair said the proposal was “totally respectful of freedoms.” Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney called it “totally reasonable,” although there is no similar restriction on federal public servants.
Trudeau said he was confident Couillard, who has yet to introduce the bill, would respect the charter of rights.
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I'm seething inside.
Anyway, let's bring this one back now.
Controversy over face-covering niqab exposes rift in federal NDP caucus
OTTAWA – Controversy over the face-covering niqab worn by some Muslim women has exposed a rift among New Democrat MPs.
Alexandre Boulerice, one of the party’s most prominent Quebec MPs, says he doesn’t believe public servants should be allowed to cover their faces.
But two of the party’s veteran MPs – Winnipeg’s Pat Martin and Ottawa’s Paul Dewar – disagree.
Global News
“I don’t care if people wear a paper bag on their head when they go to work,” Martin said Friday. “It’s none of our business.”
That said, Martin added that he has no problem with Boulerice’s suggestion that a pan-Canadian commission – along the lines of Quebec’s Bouchard-Taylor commission in 2007 – should be created to find a consensus on how far the country should go to accommodate minority cultural and religious practices.
READ MORE: Montreal woman to file complaint after judge imposes no hijab rule
However, Dewar, whose riding is home to many civil servants, said there is no issue to resolve; he’s never had a single complaint about public servants covering their faces.
“Why would you have a study on something that doesn’t exist?”
Martin and Dewar were responding to comments Boulerice made Thursday amid a political uproar over Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s assertion that the niqab is contrary to Canadian values and the product of an “anti-women” culture.
The controversy erupted last month after Harper vowed to appeal a court ruling that struck down a ban on face coverings worn during citizenship ceremonies. He called it “offensive” for someone to hide their face at the moment of joining the Canadian family.
The controversy escalated this week after Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau delivered a major speech in which he accused Harper of deliberately stoking prejudice against Muslims as part of a broader anti-terrorism agenda which seems to have boosted Conservative electoral fortunes.
Harper’s tough-on-terrorism talk appears to have particular resonance in Quebec, where debate over the accommodation of minorities has raged for years, culminating in the Parti Quebecois government’s doomed charter of Quebec values. The proposed charter, which would have prohibited public servants from wearing any obvious religious symbols, died with the defeat of the PQ last spring.
READ MORE: Harper’s niqab comments spark #DressCodePM Twitter backlash
NDP Leader Tom Mulcair has said he agrees the judge was correct to strike down the ban on wearing a niqab while taking the oath of citizenship. And he’s accused the Harper government generally of fuelling “Islamaphobia.”
Nevertheless, he is more guarded on the niqab controversy than he was on the Quebec values charter, which he opposed vehemently. That may reflect the fact that 54 of the NDP’s 94 MPs hail from Quebec.
Boulerice said Thursday that most of his caucus colleagues agree with him that public servants should not cover their faces.
“I, like most of my colleagues, we want to live in a society where people show their faces … Most people expect to get a public service from someone whose face can be seen.”
A caucus spokesperson said Friday that “Alexandre Boulerice gave his personal opinion. It is not the NDP position.”
However, Mulcair did not object last spring when newly elected Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard said he intended to introduce a bill that would ensure civil servants who deal directly with the public do not cover their faces.
At the time, Mulcair said the proposal was “totally respectful of freedoms.” Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney called it “totally reasonable,” although there is no similar restriction on federal public servants.
Trudeau said he was confident Couillard, who has yet to introduce the bill, would respect the charter of rights.
Report an error
http://globalnews.ca/news/1882508/c...ing-niqab-exposes-rift-in-federal-ndp-caucus/