Queen Honours Cretien
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I thought that was common knowledge, Queen is the head of state in Canada (represented in Canada by the Governor General). We are all Queen’s subjects. Each and every law passed by the Parliament must be approved and signed by the Queen (through the GG), otherwise it does not take effect.
No, you're trying to pigeon hole me as a neoconservative. I consider Harper a mediocrity, a petty neoconservative ideologue, a 'post-nationalist' with out the intellect or character to look beyond it. He has been a lousy PM. His economic policies are leading us to ruin. He is a radical economic liberal.
Trudeau had a saving grace. He was the last economic sovereigntist to fill the office, except for the few weeks that John Turner occupied it. He was also a fierce federalist, with the capacity to stare down the provincial potentates who are continually undermining Canadian interests for their own chauvinistic interests.
His National Energy Program showed his inclination to manage Canadian Resources for the good of the country, and to out manoevre Western separatist interests, most notably that treasonous piece of trash, Peter Lougheed, and his threats to let the rest of the country 'freeze in dark'. Still he didn't go far enough in implementing it.
Trudeau imposed the Charter of Rights and Freedoms into the country largely because of his fear of draconian language and culture laws he felt the separatists would impose on the English minority.
With his intellect he should have realized he would produce a closeted, hermetic judicial tyranny, where the most critical social decisions of the country would be made judges steeped in intellectual arrogance, the most tawdry of New Age sophistry, without any oversight by or responsibility to the electorate. He should have realized that, he didn't, and it has permanently stained his record.
He did, under pressure, put in the Not Withstanding Clause, that allows Parliament to reverse decisions with respect to 'Equal Rights' where the most aggregious insults to Canadian democracy have occurred. But he had ample experience to realize that Parliamentarians are too gutless, dull witted, and born followers to ever use the codicil.
Coldstream, the Notwithstanding Clause is one of the reason why I consider our Charter of Rights to be superior to American Bill of Rights (there are several other reasons, but this is one of them). It established the superiority of elected Parliament over appointed judiciary, and that is how it should be.
At the same time, NW should be used sparingly, it is not a political weapon, it is a nuclear option. When the PM uses the NW Clause, by definition he is saying that part of the constitution is null and void. What PM is saying is that notwithstanding what the Supreme Court says about a particular section of the constitution, he is going to declare that section null and void and let the law stand in violation of the constitution.
So its use must be limited to very exceptional situations and for emergencies. Its use must be avoided as far as possible. I think the Parliamentarians are handling the NW clause exactly right. It has never been used federally.
I am opposed to polygamy. However, if Supreme Court legalized polygamy, I would be opposed to the PM using the NW Clause to stop polygamy. However, if the Supreme Court legalized pedophilia, I would support the use of NW Clause to stop pedophilia. This is one of the emergencies I mentioned.
I think it's one thing to make the odd off-topic quip here and there, and another thing to make an off-topic speech every couple pages.
Enough with the Personal Attacks already. The posts removed (five of them)
where attacking other members as if they where posted by eight year olds.
We're all adults here. Time to act like it.
where attacking other members as if they where posted by eight year olds.
We're all adults here. Time to act like it.
A poodle giving an award to a crook is hardly something to get your knickers in a knot over.
You seem proud of missing an occasion for a (French, Communist or American-style) revolution!?
You seem to know something about who owns Canada. Pretend that I'm a native and tell me.