Death of Freedoms of Speech, Religion In Canada

CFAC - Canada Family Action Coalition ^ | April 28, 2004 | CFAC Press Release

[GMMAC]

A day of imfamy !!! Work even harder to elect Conservatives!!!

[cripplecreek]

Could be worse, the city of Hamtramck Mi decided to allow the 5 times daily call to muslim prayer. The ACLU is noticably AWOL on this one.

[Unam Sanctam]

Is there any mainstream coverage of this? The National Post website didn't mention it.

[RanchoStash]

Wow, and the Canadians despise the USA for being heavy-handed?

[The Great RJ]

We are very close to having similar laws enacted in this country.

It will be interesting how the Canadians react. My bet is there will be a few vocal complaints, but in the end they will do nothing and simply sell their free speech to the socialist mob without hardly a whimper.

[Entropy Squared]

It should be all over the newspapers tomorrow.

The Liberal Party of Canada has unleashed the hounds of anti-Christian bigotry in Canada. A grievous blow has been delivered to those of us in Canada who fight for our liberty, but we are not defeated yet. We will fight on and we intend to make this a major issue and rallying point in the upcoming federal election.

[Husker24]

Americans should send in weapons to rational thinking Canadians so they can break away from the morons that im guessing live in the Eastern part of the country. There is plenty of land to go around.

[Dick Vomer]

this was my rant about Canadians a couple of days ago and it still applies today....

This was concerning home schoolers not being allowed religious materials for home schooling.

the posted comment I replied to was..This is outrageous! How could this happen in a country (Canada) with political and religious freedoms similar to our own?

They have NOTHING that is similar to our freedoms. The Canadians "Earned" their freedom with distances.... the distance they are from the US and the distance they are from the UK and France.

They are basically a group of ungrateful parasites that wouldn't know a tyrant/dictator/terrorist thug if he banged them all night.

In other words they are a 3rd world country with pretensions of grandeur offered a country that sucks up to liberals and is good for nothing more than hockey, snow, beer, nice looking blonde women and an occasionally funny comedienne. You'll notice that to "MAKE IT BIG" they have to come use our "evil capitalistic", "crude", "Over patriotic" dollar bills.

Hey Canada,

Lay down, take it like the whiny beeaattches you are and don't fight for your rights. Elect more libs and your daughters will soon have the right to wear veils, and you can beat the snot out of your wife if you feel like it. The only problem is that you'll have to pray 5 times a day and get rid of "Canadian Bacon".

Add this to any Canadian that may read my previous rant in case any of them think I'm envious of what our northern neighbor has......

I'm not jealous in anyway to what your country (Canada) has to offer.... I'm from Texas and I'll stack our beer (Shiner Bock), our blondes (too many to name), our comediennes (go to any nickel beer night at the Dixie Chicken)..... and just kneel and thank God that boys in Texas would rather play football, hunt deer and fornicate with the aforementioned blondes than play hockey. ... or you'd really hate our guts and boo our national anthem.

I'm generally a civil person but if I'm at the arena and Tampa plays a Canadian team again and I hear a "boo" during our national anthem... call security and a gastroenterologist to pull my size 10 out of your rear end.

'nuff said. and Amen.

[mathurine]

One would hope that cardinals, bishops, archbishops and about anyone else in authority would open their mouths in support of the right to say what one will on the issue of homosexuality, or by extension, many another controversy. Canadians are looking dumb, dumber or dumbest. When the islamists take over while Canada sleeps, free speech will be dealt another blow in Canada, perhaps its final blow.

[Unam Sanctam]

The Canadian Catholic Bishops' Conference has registered objections, but they have been as effective as their protestations on same sex marriage and abortion, i.e., ineffective:

http://www.cccb.ca/PublicStatements.htm?NL=1&CD=421&ID=1510

[Entropy Squared]

Rank and file Canadians do not want this legislation, at least those with the wits to understand what it means. It was rammed down our throats by the anti-Christian Liberal Party of Canada, which is the Party of Officially Sanctioned Bigotry.

Those of us who know why we are free will fight on, for us the war will never end as long as there are people determined to take away our liberty.

I've been saying for quite a while that contemporary liberalism is one step away from National Socialism and the Liberal Party of Canada is proving me right once again.

[Steely Tom]

I've spent some time in Canada, and I think the problem may be that they're just a little bit... slow. Well, actually, stupid is a better word.

Why? Simple. The smart ones all came here.

Seriously, this is another problem that's being caused by our extremely liberal immigration policies. The brains of all the world are emigrating to the United States, leaving the dumb-dumbs behind. That's one reason things are going the way the are, internationally.

(steely)

[jocon307]

If the Canadians let this stand they will soon live in a complete fascist dictatorship. One should be able to criticize whatever one pleases, including God, MOM and Apple Pie. Or whatever the canadian equivalents are. Hockey, MOM & Molsons?

[Torie]

Something has gone terribly wrong in Canada. I am amazed a nation with an Anglo Saxon common law tradition would do this. I wish I were aware of a sharp Canadian Freeper who could help me with some of this. It does remind us just how precious the First Amendment is in the US, and we should be grateful SCOTUS has interpreted it in a very robust way, and finds the speech trumps everything else in the Constitution where they is a conflict.

[Bilbo Baggins]

As other democratic nations watch in amazement, ...

I'm not so sure Canada qualifies as a democracy anymore.   :(   I know they are a nice and kind people, but their media and government are getting out of control.

[Entropy Squared]

Something has gone terribly wrong in Canada. I am amazed a nation with an Anglo Saxon common law tradition would do this. I wish I were aware of a sharp Canadian Freeper who could help me with some of this. It does remind us just how precious the First Amendment is in the US, and we should be grateful SCOTUS has interpreted it in a very robust way, and finds the speech trumps everything else in the Constitution where they is a conflict.

You are correct, something has gone terribly wrong in Canada, in the early 1980's a new constitution was imposed upon the citizenry, a citizenry that had no say whatsoever as to the content of the constitution or as to whether or not they approved of it. The constitution is insanely flawed and effectively unamendable.

To make matters worse, they flogged off on us something called the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which was supposed to be Canada's answer to America's Bill of Rights but is anything but. The Bill of Rights is designed to protect individuals' freedom and liberty, Canada's version is designed to establish group rights. It even goes so far as to name groups of Special Canadians who are more equal than others.

I have to admit, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is working perfectly for what is was designed to do, create and enhance the politics of division, which is great for Liberals.

The Charter also paved the way for the Supreme Court to begin to write law, a power they are now wielding with relish and glee.

[LiteKeeper]

INTREP - WE CANNOT AFFORD TO IGNORE THIS - THIS IS THE GRAVEST THREAT TO OUR WAY OF LIFE, AND OUR FREEDOMS

[NorthOf45]

Your post is getting a little tired there, don't you think Dick?

[Torie]

Do you think this might jump start a secession movement in Alberta, if this excrement stands?

[NorthOf45]

With all of these recent issues, moderate liberals have got to take notice and question the merits of their parties actions. One can hope that the left is packaging their own intraparty demise.