I read that in calgary i believe they want Punjabi taught in the schools.
In Calgary, anyone can start a charter school. There's a charter school for First Nation, as well as various schools with an educational focus, like the Science School, so a Punjabi school would be an option - but they gotta do it themselves, just like everyone else. There is one quadrant of Calgary that is predominantly East Indian ... going there is like traveling in a foreign country. I was lost in the area one day and went into a convenience store to ask directions. I thought the guy behind the counter would sell me a map at worst. Instead, he told me to phone city transit and ask them for directions. I was a bit dumbfounded, explaining that I had a car, not a cell phone. Everyone I saw in that part of the city was wearing traditional clothing from another country. Strange as it may sound, I simply headed north, thinking I would rather be in Red Deer ... but, alas, eventually I found a road that I recognized and was able to navigate my way back to something that looked like Canada.
Hell no, just the bull**** that Gramps signed up for some ultra noble reason and so no one should ever say that a country going to war over greedy rich corporate needs is a bad thing even when that's the only reason the country is at war. If anything, Gramps went to war to avoid being seen as a pussy, an escape from poverty or because he was some what unbalanced and felt the need to kill others without all the hassle of being guilty of it.
Ask a politician why they are a politician and they will tell the public it's their way of serving their country and making the world a little better. If they know you're a politician and have a had a few, they wink and nod and say nice pension too.
While it's understandable that Jbee is posting stuff with an uncomfortable focus at times when we trot out the Vets for a quick feel good photo op moment, he bang on the money when it comes to foreign policy. Let corporations dictate meddling in a foreign country that costs lives and livelihood, and you have to expect some sort of blow back. How would you feel if China for example, sent Chinese workers to Canada to harvest trees at an alarming rate, shipping it back to China and making the Liberal party the only allowable government in Canada by force? Would you smile and watch the forests go or would you speak up? Now if that stand you took resulted in everyone but a couple of the people who lived in your town were killed by a Chinese funded, armed and supported military, would you do anything about it since you have no family left alive, no job except hauling logs to the ships for transport?
Or would you be a terrorist and go shoot some Chinese **************** down at the bar?
I'm sure there are a lot of reasons why we, in retrospect, think war happened. My father, even living in Canada, was afraid of the Russians. He wasn't afraid of them, per say, but he was afraid of the quality of life that would be imposed on Canadians if the Russians were in charge. I think he based his opinion on the quality of life that the Germans imposed on the Dutch during WW2. Although greedy, rich, corporate needs may be the reason why some people orchestrate war, I think the little guy is actually going to war to ensure that the quality of life he enjoyed prior to war can be regained and preserved.
Maybe it depends on whether one is the German that wants a pure race, or someone who doesn't care about pure race but wants to have the right to play tennis at the club on Sunday afternoon.
Okay.....Now that I'm done blowing up the *@#% slant eyes....let's talk aboot turbins in the RCMP and what should I do if a woman on a horse in full hijab and wearing a burka flashes her badge.....should I let her check my junk, or just climb on the horse with her without my lawyer?
Ask her if she's Lady Godiva ... obviously.