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MONTREAL (CP) - The head of Canada's spy agency strongly suggested Thursday the U.S.-led war in Iraq is making the world a less secure place. "Diplomacy is not my field, security and intelligence is," CSIS director Jim Judd said at a conference on intelligence studies. "And I think from a security and intelligence perspective, the conflict in Iraq may be creating longer-term problems, not just for Iraq but other jurisdictions as well." The head of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service said Iraq is becoming a "kind of a testbed for new techniques" for Islamic extremists, such as suicide attacks and...

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Better with coke Why Quebecers love their gay, drug-snorting PQ leadership hopeful BENOIT AUBIN He's got the looks of a matinee idol, a grin that could melt icebergs, and, at 39, in a political formation made up mostly of white-haired veterans, André Boisclair still passes for young. So what better than a little political striptease to sex up his campaign for the Parti Québécois leadership even more? At the onset, he admitted he is gay, and "proud of living in such a tolerant society." Two weeks ago, he went on Tout le monde en parle, the province's hippest talkshow, and...

Quebeckers embrace new Governor-General By BRIAN LAGHI Tuesday, September 27, 2005 Posted at 4:57 AM EDT From Tuesday's Globe and Mail Michaëlle Jean will become Canada's Governor-General today with an overwhelming amount of goodwill from young people and Quebeckers, and a historic opportunity to strengthen the vice-regal role in Quebec, a new poll shows. The poll, conducted for The Globe and Mail-CTV News, found 46 per cent of all Canadians — and 71 per cent of Quebeckers — think Ms. Jean is a good choice to replace Adrienne Clarkson as Governor-General. The survey also finds that Ms. Jean is extremely...

What's wrong with paying off our debt or cutting taxes so Canadians all benefit, asks Rondi Adamson Before we even discuss how our federal budget surplus might be spent, we have to try and figure out whether that surplus is more than $3 billion (announced by Finance Minister Ralph Goodale in the spring), or $1.6 billion (announced this week). Funny how those projections keep changing — not "ha! ha! funny," of course. Even funnier still was how Prime Minister Paul Martin, in May, was eager to sell out his one positive legacy to Canadians. With the deficit tackled, and taxes...

Linda McQuaig argues that proposed $7 billion in tax cuts would be better spent on 250,000 homeless LINDA MCQUAIG An amazing thing happened last spring. Fearing it was about to be toppled, the minority Liberal government of Paul Martin gave in to NDP leader Jack Layton's demand that almost $5 billion in corporate tax cuts be cancelled and the money spent instead on things Canadians desperately want — including housing, public transit and the environment. And the country didn't collapse. Economist Mike McCracken notes that the $5 billion in corporate tax cuts would have mainly ended up in the coffers...

Ontario will not become the first Western jurisdiction to allow the use of a set of centuries’ old religious rules called Sharia law to settle Muslim family disputes, and will ban all religious arbitrations in the province, Premier Dalton McGuinty told The Canadian Press on Sunday. In a telephone interview with the national news agency, McGuinty announced his government would move quickly to outlaw existing religious tribunals used for years by Christians and Jews under Ontario’s Arbitration Act. “I’ve come to the conclusion that the debate has gone on long enough,” he said. “There will be no Sharia law in...

Fear not Sharia in Ontario The ongoing brouhaha surrounding Ontario's possible approval of Sharia law as a basis for legal arbitration of family disputes reflects the suspicions many Westerners harbour toward Islam in the wake of 9/11 and other terror attacks. With activists fearing any validation of Sharia in Ontario may lead to similar moves elsewhere, the issue has attracted international attention: Yesterday, protest marches took place not only in Toronto and Ottawa, but also in 10 other cities among them Montreal, Ottawa, Paris and London. " But while critics are correct to guard against the validation of extreme religious...

Women's rights activists are to march in 11 cities in Canada and Europe against plans to allow Sharia law tribunals in the province of Ontario. Islamic law could be used to settle civil and marital disputes under a proposal made by former Ontario Attorney General Marion Boyd. Roman Catholic and Jewish arbitration tribunals already operate Ontario. Opponents of Sharia law say allowing Islamic tribunals could lead to discrimination against women. A protest march is scheduled for Thursday in Toronto, which is the capital of Canada's most populous and multi-cultural province. Other Canadian marches are due in Ottawa, Waterloo, Montreal and...

OTTAWA (CP) - Protesters will take to the streets this week in cities from Amsterdam to Victoria, all because of a bureaucratic proposal that would allow Islamic law to be used in Ontario family arbitration cases. The long-delayed decision on whether to formally include - and regulate - Shariah religious arbitration in the province has raised alarms among Canadian and European women's groups, dissidents from hardline Islamic states such as Iran, human-rights activists, writers and humanist advocates. Almost 100 organizations have banded together under the banner of the International Campaign against Shariah Court in Canada. On Thursday, they'll march in...

Nation needs majority government: Grits Alexander Panetta Canadian Press Thursday, August 25, 2005 REGINA -- The federal Liberals have begun a sales pitch to Canadian voters that what the country really needs is a majority government. The party has recovered enough from its spring near-death experience in Parliament that it's thinking far beyond simple survival and taking that case to the public. Much of the hallway chatter at a summer Liberal retreat that ended Thursday revolved around shedding the government's minority status -- and why that would be good for Canada. Though he cautioned MPs to avoid sounding "cocky," Prime...

Three women facing death threats appeared in public under heavy security last night to denounce a provincial move that would allow Muslims here to settle family disputes in accordance with religious laws, outside the court system. The activists, including Dutch parliamentarian Ayaan Hirsi Ali, say the religious laws known as sharia discriminate against women. "Why, if you have equal rights in Canada, would you take them away from Muslim women?" Hirsi Ali asked. She was joined by Iran's Homa Arjomand and Irshad Manji in a University of Toronto auditorium for an event in support of the International Campaign Against Sharia...

LifeSiteNews.com Friday August 12, 2005 Governor General Elect's Connections to FLQ Marxist Terrorists Commentary by John Muggeridge TORONTO, August 12, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Since the appointment to the Governor Generalship of Michaelle Jean, a refugee immigrant Haiti and CBC reporter, conservatives in Canada have been wondering what this relative newcomer to public life has to offer a deeply divided country that seems to hover perpetually on the edge of disunion. While Jean's personal accomplishments are seen in English Canada to be insubstantial, on the other side of the French curtain, darker implications are starting to be revealed. An article in...

When Dutch filmmaker Theo Van Gogh was stabbed to death last year, the assailant pinned a note to the dead body claiming Ayaan Hirsi Ali would be next. But she isn't cowering. Instead, the Dutch filmmaker is in Toronto, speaking out against the implementation of traditional Islamic law, Sharia, in Canada. "I'm here because the rights of women and the rights of Muslim women are threatened," she said. Supporters of Sharia say Muslims have the right to live as their religion dictates. They want Canada to permit Sharia arbitration in civil disputes. In a recent report, Marion Boyd, a former...

In recent weeks, gun violence in Toronto has become so prevalent that even the lefties who think that all of society’s problems can be solved with group hugs, can’t avoid the issue. When a recent spate of gun violence happened, that included the shooting of a 4-year-old boy outside of his home, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty swung into action. The premier, who has been lately speaking about "American guns on Canadian streets" said that he would discuss the matter of guns with the new American ambassador, David Wilkins

Islamic law is coming to the University of Toronto. Not in the form of sharia tribunals for cheaters or strict dress codes for female students, but in the form of two professors hired to teach the subject at the university's law school. While students are excited about the opportunity to learn about another legal tradition, especially one that's often in the headlines, groups fighting to keep sharia out of Canada's legal system worry that the hirings are a setback to their efforts. Bringing in Anver Emon, 34, and Mohammad Fadel, 38, to teach courses in Islamic law is part of...

The Quebec government is demanding that Ottawa give it more room to operate on foreign policy, and officials say the federal government is preventing the province from taking a more prominent role. "We're going to have quite the debate with Ottawa," said Benoit Pelletier, Quebec's intergovernmental affairs minister, in an interview with Canadian Press. As of next month, Ottawa will officially learn that Quebec is demanding greater freedom on the international stage based on a "very modern" interpretation of the Gerin-Lajoie doctrine, Pelletier said. The Gerin-Lajoie doctrine has for several years been the base of Quebec's policy abroad. It maintains...

Oh dear, I guess I'll never be governor general. Darn, and I thought I had many of the qualifications, too. I'm female -- a good thing. And I'm a journalist -- which also seems to be a good thing. I've always wanted to travel in the Arctic and I even live west of Quebec, which is where the next governor general following the newly appointed Michaelle Jean will have to come from. But sadly, I'm not an immigrant. I'm not a visible minority. And, even worse, I don't represent the "new" Canada. I'm definitely "old" Canada, so please forgive me...

Canadians can put away those extra welcome mats -- it seems Americans unhappy about the result of last November's presidential election have decided to stay at home after all. In the days after President Bush won a second term, the number of U.S. citizens visiting Canada's main immigration Web site shot up sixfold, prompting speculation that unhappy Democrats would flock north. But official statistics show the number of Americans actually applying to live permanently in Canada fell in the six months after the election. On the face of it this is not good news -- Canada is one of the...

Canadian Government Pondering Reinstating MP Canned for Anti-Anerican Rampage OTTAWA, July 27, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Liberal Party of Canada may be reconsidering their decision to throw out Carolyn Parrish, the MP for Mississauga who made her career pandering to leftist anti-Americanism. The question remains open as to whether the party is reconsidering having also thrown out the extremism she represents. On the eve of the US Invasion of Iraq in 2003, Parrish was overheard saying she hated Americans and calling them "bastards." Then-Prime Minister Jean Chretien had little interest in improving relations with the US and dismissed demands that...

Imam's accusations unfounded, CSIS says By COLIN FREEZE Wednesday, July 27, 2005 Page A4 Canada's normally zip-lipped spy service yesterday took the unusual step of speaking out publicly against a Muslim leader, alleging that he has been making accusations against government agents that "we believe to be totally without foundation." "We really want to counteract these allegations," said Canadian Security Intelligence Service spokeswoman Kathryn Locke, who called The Globe and Mail to respond to comments made by Aly Hindy, the imam of the Salaheddin Islamic Centre in Scarborough. "These unsubstantiated charges are not helpful," she said, adding that Mr. Hindy's...

Poll: Liberals stop bleeding in Quebec Alexander Panetta Canadian Press July 25, 2005 OTTAWA -- The federal Liberals have nearly doubled their support in Quebec in recent months -- and they would still be relegated to also-ran status in La Belle Province if a vote were held today. Any public-opinion movement in Quebec is significant because several polls have suggested the Liberals could win a majority government if they rebuild their fortunes there. A new Decima Research survey suggests the Liberals, who were in the mid-teens in April, have clawed back from rock bottom and now stand at 28 per...

A controversial Toronto imam warned Public Safety Minister Anne McLellan at a closed-door meeting to stop "terrorizing" Canadian Muslims. "If you try to cross the line I can't guarantee what is going to happen. Our young people, we can't control," Aly Hindy, the head of Scarborough's Salaheddin Islamic Centre, recalls telling the minister at the May meeting she held in Toronto with dozens of Muslim leaders. The meeting was part of an effort by Ms. McLellan to reach out to Canadian Muslims amid complaints that the RCMP and Canadian Security Intelligence Service are engaging in racial profiling. The minister and...

Christian right sets up shop ANALYSIS / Welcome to post-SSM trench warfare Gareth Kirkby / Capital Xtra / Thursday, July 14, 2005 Something changed in Canada during the national debate over same-sex marriage. We now live in a new period of religious anger. Of extremist rhetoric. Of evangelical absolutism. Our community needs to get ready for US-style trench warfare as a new generation of religious Canadians start to flex their still weak, but growing, muscles in the public square. A sleeping giant has been awoken by Canada's debate about same-sex civil marriage rights: the Christian right. Their engagement in the...

Canada Legalizes Gay Marriage Posted: July 20, 2005 at 3:10 p.m. Updated: July 20, 2005 at 3:15 p.m. TORONTO (AP) -- Canada legalized gay marriage Wednesday, becoming the world's fourth nation to grant full legal rights to same-sex couples. Supreme Court Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin signed the legislation making it law, hours after it was approved by the Senate late Tuesday night despite strong opposition from Conservatives and religious leaders. The bill grants same-sex couples legal rights equal to those in traditional unions between a man and a woman, something already legal in eight of Canada's 10 provinces and in...

OTTAWA, July 19, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Just as Senate approaches the final vote on the gay 'marriage' bill, C-38, Canada's national public radio CBC Radio has aired a commentary by a retired professor from the Royal Military College calling for state control over religion, specifically Catholicism. While parliamentarians dismissed warnings by numerous religious leaders and experts that such laws would lead to religious persecution, former professor Bob Ferguson has called for "legislation to regulate the practice of religion." "Given the inertia of the Catholic Church, perhaps we could encourage reform by changing the environment in which all religions operate," Ferguson...

Natalie Glebova in Toronto, Tuesday. "I definitely don't think that the Miss Universe title is any kind of stereotype or sexual stereotype." The city of Toronto, which years ago prevented the Barenaked Ladies from playing at City Hall because of the group's name, has now barred Miss Universe from opening a festival over concerns about sexual stereotyping. "I was a little bit hurt by the whole thing. I love Toronto. It's my hometown," said Natalie Glebova, the 23-year-old Canadian woman who captured the Miss Universe title in Bangkok in May. Glebova was set to open the Tastes of Thailand...

Same-sex marriage bill must stand, majority say In wake of Tory vow to repeal legislation, poll suggests 55 per cent want it untouched By BRIAN LAGHI Monday, July 18, 2005 Updated at 5:43 AM EDT From Monday's Globe and Mail Ottawa — Canadians do not want their political leaders to undo historic legislation allowing gays to legally marry in the wake of a pledge from the Conservatives that they would do just that if elected. In a new poll conducted for The Globe and Mail/CTV, 55 per cent of Canadians surveyed say the next government should let same-sex legislation stand,...

The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) has just let the cat out of the bag about what's really behind our trade agreements and security partnerships with the other North American countries. A 59-page CFR document spells out a five-year plan for the "establishment by 2010 of a North American economic and security community" with a common "outer security perimeter." "Community" means integrating the United States with the corruption, socialism, poverty and population of Mexico and Canada. "Common perimeter" means wide-open U.S. borders between the U.S., Mexico and Canada. "Community" is sometimes called "space" but the CFR goal is clear: "a...

Belinda's lesson By LINK BYFIELD -- Calgary Sun Pardon me while I gag. It was announced from Ottawa last week that our new Minister of Democratic Renewal will spend $1 million crossing the country to find out why fewer Canadians -- especially young people -- are voting in national elections. Why is there such growing apathy, disengagement and even cynicism about politics? She's determined to find out. The minister is Belinda Stronach, who was elected a year ago as a Conservative MP by the voters of New Market-Aurora in Ontario. On May 17, the Liberals bribed her with a cabinet...

Leave Catholicism to Catholics Michael Coren National Post Tuesday, July 12, 2005 NDP MPs Charlie Angus and Joe Comartin claim to have been deeply hurt by the Roman Catholic Church. The first was told that he could not receive communion; the latter has been prevented from teaching marriage classes in his local church. The reason is that both men actively supported and voted for same-sex marriage. One would have hoped that they would have the courage of their convictions and realized that they could not simultaneously hold two mutually contradictory views. It really is extraordinary that politicians who want...

Sat, July 9, 2005   Time for Alberta to exit, stage right? LINK BYFIELD A University of Alberta professor I know sent me a lengthy article he's trying to get published, entitled: "Let's get while the getting's good." In it, Leon Craig, professor emeritus of political science, lays out a case for Alberta to declare unilateral independence. And he lays it out well. Craig makes no bones about it.   Alberta, he says, should go it alone. Almost overnight, we would become one of the most prosperous nations in the world. But -- and this is his key point --...

Canadian Muslim leaders decried yesterday's bombings in London as cowardly, immoral and counterproductive. But in contrast to worries being aired in Britain, few predicted an overt anti-Muslim backlash. "The taking of innocents is condemned in all religions and belief systems," said Hussein Hamdani of the Toronto-based Ihya Foundation, which promotes cross-cultural tolerance. "This was so indiscriminate, that's what's so offensive and callous." No useful cause can be advanced by terrorist tactics, Mr. Hamdani said. "It really does a favour to the right-wingers and hard-liners. It just doubles or triples the resolve of the people they're trying to target." At Toronto's...

Toyota to build 100,000 vehicles per year in Woodstock, Ont., starting 2008 11:03 PM EDT Jul 07 New President of Toyota Motor Corp. Katsuaki Watanabe said that the automaker plans to build a new plant in Canada. (AP/Shizuo Kambayashi) STEVE ERWIN WOODSTOCK, Ont. (CP) - Ontario workers are well-trained. That simple explanation was cited as a main reason why Toyota turned its back on hundreds of millions of dollars in subsidies offered from several American states in favour of building a second Ontario plant. Industry experts say Ontarians are easier and cheaper to train - helping make it more cost-efficient...

OTTAWA, July 7, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Senator Marilyn Trenholme Counsell, in comments made during debate of the impending same-sex “marriage” legislation Wednesday, made the astonishing claim that Jesus Christ would have voted in favour of the legislation as she did. “As a Christian, I often ask myself ‘what would Jesus do?’” she said, reiterating a maxim often heard in Christian circles. She answered her question with, “In this case, in this time, I believe he would say yes.” Trenholme Counsell, as LifeSiteNews.com learned from the Senator’s assistant Rebecca Menard, was originally Baptist but converted to Anglicanism when she was married....

BTORONTO (CP) - An "agitated" Paul Bernardo continues to insist it was his intention to set Ontario schoolgirl Leslie Mahaffy free and that Karla Homolka hatched a murder plot on her own, CBC's The National reported Tuesday. Bernardo spoke with Ontario Provincial Police on Friday before discussing his claim with his lawyer, Tony Bryant, that a panicked Homolka attempted to murder Mahaffy when the young girl's blindfold fell off, Bryant said in an interview with the CBC. Bryant said his client wants people to know that it was his intention to set the rape victim free and that it was...

Canada's ambassador to the United States has launched an all out war on Fox News Channel. Ambassador Frank McKenna has undertaken a public relations effort to reach the more than one million Canadians living in the United States, a group he calls the "Canadian diaspora." McKenna says the effort is to boost support for Canada here, and to counter what he says is the "Fox factor," referring to the Fox News Channel, America's most popular cable news network, and its most highly-rated show, "The O'Reilly Factor." McKenna told the Toronto Star that he wants to arm Canadians with facts that...

Did you hear I made the Canadians mad at me again? In honor of Canada Day, July 1, I was asked by Maclean's magazine, one of Canada's brightest lights, to write a few words on the state of Canada's relations with the U.S. It came out on Friday. I said the relations stunk because we had figured out how anti-American Canadians had become over the last few years. The quote from me they put on the cover of the magazine was, "Canada is a vast ice-encrusted wasteland dedicated to beer and America bashing." As you probably could figure out, that...

Charlie Angus and Celina Symmonds had their lives turned upside down when they were told by their parish priests that they could no longer take communion because their stands on social issues conflicted with church teachings. Angus, a New Democrat MP who represents a northern Ontario riding, ran afoul of the Roman Catholic church over his support for the federal government's controversial same-sex marriage bill. "It's quite disturbing,'' said Angus, pointing to what he called "the rising militancy of language within the church. I went to Ottawa feeling that I would be speaking as someone rooted in a faith tradition...

TORONTO - Though many view Canada as an unassuming neutral nation that has skirted terrorist attacks, it has suffered its share of aggression, and intelligence officials believe at least 50 terror groups now have some presence here. They are from Sri Lanka, Kurdistan and points between and include supporters of some of the best-known Mideast groups, including al-Qaida, authorities say. Osama bin Laden named Canada one of five so-called Christian nations that should be targeted for acts of terror. The others, reaffirmed last year by his al-Qaida network, were the United States, Britain, Spain and Australia.

Paul Chambers kept his sense of humour as he and his son Jonathan swept shards of glass out of their van Friday on Grafton Street in Halifax. "I'm in the most liberal state that there is," said Mr. Chambers of Worcester, Mass. "I could see if I had Texas plates." Both Mr. Chambers and his father parked their vans on Grafton Street at about 11 a.m. Friday before heading up to the Halifax Citadel to celebrate Canada Day. When Mr. Chambers returned to Grafton Street at about 3 p.m., he discovered the front passenger windows had been smashed out of...

Fox News has its share of Canada critics, none more outspoken than host John Gibson. This year, he's marking our national anniversary with a bash. Happy Canada Day. We down here notice that you've managed to put the muzzle on Carolyn ("Americans … I hate the bastards!") Parrish. And the functionary who decided it was okay to call President George W. Bush a moron is locked in some closet somewhere. But despite your efforts at hiding your most egregious embarrassments, the view here is that Canada is still a vast ice-crusted wasteland dedicated to beer and America-bashing. No serious person...

Same-sex marriage bill passes in Commons CTV.ca News Staff Canada will become the third country in the world to officially sanction same-sex marriage. In a 158 to 133 vote, the House of Commons adopted Bill C-38 -- the controversial legislation legalizing same-sex marriage from coast to coast -- on its third and final reading Tuesday night. The Liberals had the support of almost all New Democrat and Bloc Quebecois MPs for the vote. The bill will become official once it receives approval in the Senate. An earlier Conservative motion to send the bill back to committee was voted down 158...

/Vanity Alert On/ I know we sometimes get on the Canadians about getting the motes out of their own eyes before they look in our direction. Here's a good example. I sell a business opportunity. (Doesn't matter which one.) Today I was making sales calls by phone, and one of them was to an attorney in Quebec. He liked the opportunity, but he had to stop me. He recognized it could make him a fairly good amount of money, but he said that he could not take advantage of the offer because the government of Quebec would in effect smash...

The RCMP complained this week that it had too few qualified recruits last year to replace the number of officers who retired. Applications were off by 28% and only 232 new officers joined, rather than the 300 hoped for. The force attributes the dearth of prospective recruits to competition: There are too many other attractive career choices for young men and women. Its solution? Buy a brightly coloured van and cruise Ontario and Quebec campuses looking for warm bodies; maybe conduct some focus groups to see why young people aren't attracted to RCMP careers. We can save them the trouble...

Anglicans 'expel' Canada Clergy barred from key bodies over gay marriage Bob Harvey; with files from Natalie Alcoba CanWest News Service, with files from The Daily Telegraph NATIONAL POST Thursday, June 23, 2005 The fierce battle within the Anglican Church over homosexual clergy and same-sex marriage has brought the Canadian and American branches of the faith to the brink of banishment by the Church's ruling bodies meeting in England. The controversy flared up at the Anglican Consultative Council session in Nottingham yesterday, pitting the liberal, pro-homosexual Canadian and American congregations against a hardline coalition of African and Asian wings...

Canadians are becoming even more negative about Americans, viewing them as "rude, greedy and violent," suggests a survey released yesterday. And while most Canadians agreed Americans are inventive and hardworking, less than half called them honest, said the Pew Research Center poll, which charted some minor improvements in a major global image problem that spiked after President George W. Bush's invasion of Iraq in 2003. But the survey, conducted among nearly 17,000 people this spring in the U.S. and 15 other countries, suggested America remains "broadly disliked" in 10 of them and regard for Americans is going down, Pew director...

Washington – Canadians are becoming even more negative about Americans, viewing them as “rude, greedy and violent,” suggests a survey released Thursday by the Pew Research Center. And while a majority of Canadians agreed Americans are inventive and hardworking, less than half called them honest, said the poll, which charted some minor improvements in a major global image problem that spiked after President George W. Bush's invasion of Iraq in 2003. But the survey, conducted among nearly 17,000 people this spring in the United States and 15 other countries, suggested America remains “broadly disliked” in 10 of them and regard...

Prime Minister Bribes Quebec to Pass Budget and Same-Sex Marriage' Bill - Only One Chance Left To Stop C-38 OTTAWA, June 23, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Shameless bribery, using taxpayers' money or abuse of position, as revealed by the Gomery enquiry and the Grewal and Stronach affairs, continues to be the modus operandi for the Liberal Party's efforts to maintain power in Canada. Facing a possible defeat of its budget and thus a forced election (along with the elimination of the gay 'marriage' bill), the Liberals have just arranged for a hefty sum of $1.3 billion of unassigned funds in the...

NIAGARA ON THE LAKE, ON, June 21, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Some may say that God was giving Prime Minister Paul Martin a final warning just before he forced through his gay 'marriage' legislation, Bill C-38. On Saturday night Martin attended a Catholic Mass at St. Vincent de Paul parish in Niagara on the Lake. He was in the posh resort town for a meeting with Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the EU Council. Rev. Paul J. McDonald, the celebrant of the Saturday night Mass told LifeSiteNews.com that he did not know the Prime Minister was coming to the Mass nor did...