I'll take that as another "I misspoke and feel like an idiot" Petros moment. Those are becoming more and more frequent.
Women Use #DressCodePM To Ridicule Prime Minister's Anti-Niqab Comments
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I'll take that as another "I misspoke and feel like an idiot" Petros moment. Those are becoming more and more frequent.
I don't read every post. I'm asking you because I choose to ask you. If your unwilling or unable to answer the question, that's fine. Isn't the first time, won't be the last.
I don't need you to do anything. It's ok if the question causes you problems. I'm used to it.
Good interview of Muslim women on how wearing the niqab is an expression of freedom and higher social status in Islam.
FEATURE: GTA Muslims concerned about growing Islamophobia | CityNews
FEATURE: GTA Muslims concerned about growing Islamophobia | CityNews
This seems to be the new cliche response of Cons to anything they disagree with. Just proves Harpo has been cloning cons to support his draconian view of reality. Someone should ridicule that peckerhead and those that think he walks on water.
And taxslave.
Though to be fair, both Liberals and NDP oppose Harper on this one. It's just that the Cons need to focus on the Liberals because they are the main threat right now.
You're also not my mom, Nicholas Cage or Santa Claus. I'm sure there's a point swimming around your brain but I doubt most of us care what it is
Canada's opposition puts substance before style
Just as the political pundits were declaring Justin Trudeau down for the count, the leader of Canada's federal Liberal party got up to punch above what had been his apparent light weight.
Last Monday in Toronto, he gave a perfectly timed speech - some are calling it a "manifesto" - before a crowd of alumni of Montreal's McGill University.
Everything about it was a jab at the "politics of fear" currently being waged by Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government which, in an effort to divert attention from tanking oil prices and its dubious management of the public purse, is playing the terror card. It is attacking Muslims to justify its much-criticised
Bill C-51, the Anti-Terrorism Act, 2015, which even Conservative supporters find alarming for its proposed restrictions on civil rights.
"These Conservatives pretend to talk a good game about freedom, but look at what they've done with it," Trudeau told his audience. "Their instincts are now to be suspicious of people who do not share their beliefs, to harden divisions with people whose views differ from their own."
Biggest misstep
The speech almost made up for his biggest misstep to date: his declaration that, although it is fundamentally flawed, he would vote for C-51 and then, when his party is in power, he would introduce amendments to it.
Clearly, this confounding position came about because public opinion polls indicate that Harper's fear tactics are successful with much of the electorate. So it would be politically risky for Trudeau to come out swinging against the bill as has Thomas Mulcair, the leader of the leftish-leaning New Democratic Party (NDP), the official opposition.
Trudeau's stance seemed cowardly, managed, as if the backroom was pulling the strings.
Until Monday, Justin had yet to display either the intellectual heft or the independence of his father, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, arguably the most revered Canadian prime minister ever. He would stand unfazed as separatist rioters hurled rocks and bottles at him; in parliament he would mouth the f-word at the opposition; and he would pirouette behind Queen Elizabeth's back while at Buckingham Palace, a show of defiance and not deference. He didn't lead by pollster. If he had, he would never have stripped Canadians of their civil liberties in 1970 in the wake of the Quebec separatist kidnappings of a British diplomat and a provincial cabinet minister. Invoking the War Measures Act would turn out to be a decision that launched the country into a decades-long constitutional crisis as a generation of Quebeckers could not, would not, forget and forgive. But he showed no remorse.
Justin Trudeau was essentially drafted in 2013 by a party in disarray, one that had gone through four leaders in a decade, none of whom could muster the votes needed to confine Harper's western-based Conservatives to the back benches. He brought the brand name, the looks, the youth, and the willingness to pose for selfies whenever mobbed by fans, to his frequent public appearances.
All shine, no substance
But he seemed to be all shine, no substance. Plus there were the gaffes, both important and trivial. In recent weeks, as he headed into his third year at the party's helm, the pundits and editorialists had been almost gleefully detailing them.
Still, polls show, Trudeau and Harper run just about neck and neck.
Which is why the Conservative guns have been trained on him, tracking his every move.
At Monday's speech for example, Trudeau raised the recent conflicts caused by Conservatives over women in niqab.
"[T]hose who would use the state's power to restrict women's religious freedom and freedom of expression indulge the very same repressive impulse that they profess to condemn," he said.
The next day in parliament, Harper retaliated, claiming that the niqab "is rooted in a culture that is anti-women". But it backfired. On Wednesday, Canadian women by the thousands were trolling Harper on Twitter, using the hashtag #dresscodePM and demanding to know if the prime minister approved of their dress.
In his Monday speech, Trudeau also compared the government's anti-Muslim "rhetoric" to Canadian immigration policies during the 1930s and 1940s, policies that limited the number of Jews entering the country while the Nazis were overrunning Europe.
'Beyond the pale'
Almost immediately, he was pounced on by Defence Minister Jason Kenney who called his speech "outrageous and beyond the pale" for invoking "the Holocaust", even indirectly. Two influential pro-Israel lobby groups also hastened to denounce Trudeau.
Meanwhile on Tuesday, Public Security Minister Steven Blaney directly referred to the Holocaust to sell Bill C-51's limitations on speech: "
The Holocaust did not begin in the gas chambers," he said. "It began with words."
But the lobby groups, known to be close to the Harper government which unequivocally supports Israel, did not frown on this comparison.
Whether Trudeau has miscalculated the mood of Canadians on the terrorist bogeyman and matters Muslim is not yet known. Presumably, his pollsters will tell him soon enough.
But this week he did give the pundit class pause.
Suddenly, it looks like Justin Trudeau has found an opening on the Harper Conservatives' weak flank - and, come the election later this year, he may just knock them out.
https://en-maktoob.news.yahoo.com/canadas-opposition-puts-substance-style-082759118.html
Just as the political pundits were declaring Justin Trudeau down for the count, the leader of Canada's federal Liberal party got up to punch above what had been his apparent light weight.
Last Monday in Toronto, he gave a perfectly timed speech - some are calling it a "manifesto" - before a crowd of alumni of Montreal's McGill University.
Everything about it was a jab at the "politics of fear" currently being waged by Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government which, in an effort to divert attention from tanking oil prices and its dubious management of the public purse, is playing the terror card. It is attacking Muslims to justify its much-criticised
Bill C-51, the Anti-Terrorism Act, 2015, which even Conservative supporters find alarming for its proposed restrictions on civil rights.
"These Conservatives pretend to talk a good game about freedom, but look at what they've done with it," Trudeau told his audience. "Their instincts are now to be suspicious of people who do not share their beliefs, to harden divisions with people whose views differ from their own."
Biggest misstep
The speech almost made up for his biggest misstep to date: his declaration that, although it is fundamentally flawed, he would vote for C-51 and then, when his party is in power, he would introduce amendments to it.
Clearly, this confounding position came about because public opinion polls indicate that Harper's fear tactics are successful with much of the electorate. So it would be politically risky for Trudeau to come out swinging against the bill as has Thomas Mulcair, the leader of the leftish-leaning New Democratic Party (NDP), the official opposition.
Trudeau's stance seemed cowardly, managed, as if the backroom was pulling the strings.
Until Monday, Justin had yet to display either the intellectual heft or the independence of his father, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, arguably the most revered Canadian prime minister ever. He would stand unfazed as separatist rioters hurled rocks and bottles at him; in parliament he would mouth the f-word at the opposition; and he would pirouette behind Queen Elizabeth's back while at Buckingham Palace, a show of defiance and not deference. He didn't lead by pollster. If he had, he would never have stripped Canadians of their civil liberties in 1970 in the wake of the Quebec separatist kidnappings of a British diplomat and a provincial cabinet minister. Invoking the War Measures Act would turn out to be a decision that launched the country into a decades-long constitutional crisis as a generation of Quebeckers could not, would not, forget and forgive. But he showed no remorse.
Justin Trudeau was essentially drafted in 2013 by a party in disarray, one that had gone through four leaders in a decade, none of whom could muster the votes needed to confine Harper's western-based Conservatives to the back benches. He brought the brand name, the looks, the youth, and the willingness to pose for selfies whenever mobbed by fans, to his frequent public appearances.
All shine, no substance
But he seemed to be all shine, no substance. Plus there were the gaffes, both important and trivial. In recent weeks, as he headed into his third year at the party's helm, the pundits and editorialists had been almost gleefully detailing them.
Still, polls show, Trudeau and Harper run just about neck and neck.
Which is why the Conservative guns have been trained on him, tracking his every move.
At Monday's speech for example, Trudeau raised the recent conflicts caused by Conservatives over women in niqab.
"[T]hose who would use the state's power to restrict women's religious freedom and freedom of expression indulge the very same repressive impulse that they profess to condemn," he said.
The next day in parliament, Harper retaliated, claiming that the niqab "is rooted in a culture that is anti-women". But it backfired. On Wednesday, Canadian women by the thousands were trolling Harper on Twitter, using the hashtag #dresscodePM and demanding to know if the prime minister approved of their dress.
In his Monday speech, Trudeau also compared the government's anti-Muslim "rhetoric" to Canadian immigration policies during the 1930s and 1940s, policies that limited the number of Jews entering the country while the Nazis were overrunning Europe.
'Beyond the pale'
Almost immediately, he was pounced on by Defence Minister Jason Kenney who called his speech "outrageous and beyond the pale" for invoking "the Holocaust", even indirectly. Two influential pro-Israel lobby groups also hastened to denounce Trudeau.
Meanwhile on Tuesday, Public Security Minister Steven Blaney directly referred to the Holocaust to sell Bill C-51's limitations on speech: "
The Holocaust did not begin in the gas chambers," he said. "It began with words."
But the lobby groups, known to be close to the Harper government which unequivocally supports Israel, did not frown on this comparison.
Whether Trudeau has miscalculated the mood of Canadians on the terrorist bogeyman and matters Muslim is not yet known. Presumably, his pollsters will tell him soon enough.
But this week he did give the pundit class pause.
Suddenly, it looks like Justin Trudeau has found an opening on the Harper Conservatives' weak flank - and, come the election later this year, he may just knock them out.
https://en-maktoob.news.yahoo.com/canadas-opposition-puts-substance-style-082759118.html
Quite the article. I enjoyed the part where they highlight the sections of the bill that violate freedom.
If I were you, I'd use that as the core of my arguments opposing the Bill.
pay attention to the public eh.
Is the niqab an insult to the dignity of women?
Yes
74%
No
19%
Unsure
7%
74%
No
19%
Unsure
7%
Power & Politics' Ballot Box question: Niqab ban - Politics - CBC News
And this proves what? That Canadians are just as prejudice as Harpo? That people can't think for themselves and need Big Brother to tell them how to think? . I don't have a whole lot of use for Trudeau or the Liberals, but the Harpo squad of bigots need to go. ABC!
that's 74% of cbc P&P viewers...it was a pretty lively and mostly fair discussion amongst the talking heads...anyway, don't be mad. ;-)
Lol @ you guys using majority numbers to justify oppressing a religious minority.
Meanwhile a few years ago, you were all championing the inception of the office of religious freedom to protect minority groups.
Meanwhile a few years ago, you were all championing the inception of the office of religious freedom to protect minority groups.