So - Afghanistan has been in the news quite a bit over the last few days - which means that your average arm chair pundit has a few things to say on the subject...
And one would do well to remind Jack Layton, who has never met a microphone he didn't immedialtely fall in love with, that we had a Debate, in Pariliament, back in November - which he didn't bother to show up for (too busy trying to prop up Paul Martin's Liberals so that he could extract another $billion from that desperate weasel). So his pontificating now about the urgent need for a debate strikes me as, well, pathetic politicking - which is business as usual for smiling Jack...
- On a related note - how is it that that loathesome toad Dosanji is still a member of parliament? The man, like Layton, has never stepped in front of a microphone into which he could not spew some inane bullshite. While saner heads in the Liberal party have voiced their support for the Canadian troops in Afghanistan (Dion, Graham for instance), Dosanji steps up to the plate and spouts off about how we really, really need to have a debate about this whole Conservative plan (er, Liberal plan, which the Conservatives inherited, but why split hairs?) This is the same guy who, as Minister of Health, encouraged innovation in our healthcare system by telling organizations like the CMA that they shouldn't even think of thinking about anything but Complete Public Domination of the Healchcare system - or else...nothing like encouraging honest and open debate about the issues eh? Oh, and lets not forget his voice, on tape, using terms like "plausible deniability" and talking about how the right vote at the right time could be rewarded (the Grewal scandal)...but oh no - it wasn't all that talk about buying votes that was the issue - it was taping a fellow MP! Can't have that - otherwise, how would the business of government go on, if one was not free to discuss bribing the opposition with positions of power, etc...what a jackass (Dosanji for his various bouts of verbal diareah, and Bernard Shapiro for letting him off the hook on the Grewal scandal)...
- Back to Afghanistan - Canadian troops killed a guy on a taxi recently. Now the man's family want, as compensation, Canadian Citizenship. Frankly, while this is obviously a tragic circumstance, I would say "no way". We are supposed to take these 9 non english speaking people and just plunk them down into Canada? To do what? Not to be cruel, but I am assuming that they would be coming here with 0 skills, 0 education, and no fluency in either official language. So in effect, we would be saying "as compensation, please enjoy the hospitality of the Canadian government for the rest of your life"). Tough issue, but I don't know that what they are asking for is fair to either side in the long run...
This would also set a very bad precedent (in my opinion, anyway). Everytime there is a car accident over there (or a shooting - I am sure that will not be the last accidental shooting over there) - we are just supposed to hand out Canadian citizenship cards? Not a good idea at all...
And one would do well to remind Jack Layton, who has never met a microphone he didn't immedialtely fall in love with, that we had a Debate, in Pariliament, back in November - which he didn't bother to show up for (too busy trying to prop up Paul Martin's Liberals so that he could extract another $billion from that desperate weasel). So his pontificating now about the urgent need for a debate strikes me as, well, pathetic politicking - which is business as usual for smiling Jack...
- On a related note - how is it that that loathesome toad Dosanji is still a member of parliament? The man, like Layton, has never stepped in front of a microphone into which he could not spew some inane bullshite. While saner heads in the Liberal party have voiced their support for the Canadian troops in Afghanistan (Dion, Graham for instance), Dosanji steps up to the plate and spouts off about how we really, really need to have a debate about this whole Conservative plan (er, Liberal plan, which the Conservatives inherited, but why split hairs?) This is the same guy who, as Minister of Health, encouraged innovation in our healthcare system by telling organizations like the CMA that they shouldn't even think of thinking about anything but Complete Public Domination of the Healchcare system - or else...nothing like encouraging honest and open debate about the issues eh? Oh, and lets not forget his voice, on tape, using terms like "plausible deniability" and talking about how the right vote at the right time could be rewarded (the Grewal scandal)...but oh no - it wasn't all that talk about buying votes that was the issue - it was taping a fellow MP! Can't have that - otherwise, how would the business of government go on, if one was not free to discuss bribing the opposition with positions of power, etc...what a jackass (Dosanji for his various bouts of verbal diareah, and Bernard Shapiro for letting him off the hook on the Grewal scandal)...
- Back to Afghanistan - Canadian troops killed a guy on a taxi recently. Now the man's family want, as compensation, Canadian Citizenship. Frankly, while this is obviously a tragic circumstance, I would say "no way". We are supposed to take these 9 non english speaking people and just plunk them down into Canada? To do what? Not to be cruel, but I am assuming that they would be coming here with 0 skills, 0 education, and no fluency in either official language. So in effect, we would be saying "as compensation, please enjoy the hospitality of the Canadian government for the rest of your life"). Tough issue, but I don't know that what they are asking for is fair to either side in the long run...
This would also set a very bad precedent (in my opinion, anyway). Everytime there is a car accident over there (or a shooting - I am sure that will not be the last accidental shooting over there) - we are just supposed to hand out Canadian citizenship cards? Not a good idea at all...
