tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post3739464405689210413..comments2024-03-28T19:18:40.387-04:00Comments on Northern Reflections: Religious BigotryOwen Grayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-70288499115759137992023-02-06T11:51:48.110-05:002023-02-06T11:51:48.110-05:00Trudeau is caught between a rock and a hard place,...Trudeau is caught between a rock and a hard place, jrk. Legault is quite willing to claim an exemption under the notwithstanding clause.Owen Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-46482710402230048062023-02-06T11:32:42.959-05:002023-02-06T11:32:42.959-05:00One hundred and fifty years ago, religion was a ma...<i>One hundred and fifty years ago, religion was a major fault line in Canadian politics. It would be a grave mistake to return to those days.</i> <br /><br />Too late. Law 21 has already done it. <br /><br />I am not sure if appointing an an advisor on Islamophobia was the correct approach but Québec's Law 21 was basically targeted at Muslems, in particular Muslim women who want to wear a hijab or at the truly rare woman in Canada who goes around it a full burqua. It has the, probably unintended, effect of targeting Sikhs and Orthodox Jewish men as well but,in any case, it is a strictly xenophobic and religiously discriminatory law. The federal government has a responsibility to protect the citizens of Canada from this bigotry.<br /><br />Back in the dark ages, before the turn of the century, when I lived in Québec I was proud of our tolerance and diversity. I am ashamed now.<br /><br />As a strictly political consideration, I do not see how the PM could avoid taking action. There are a lot of voters across Canada who are not all that happy, especially those groups whose members are directly affected and can probably imagine a Doug Ford or Danielle Smith wanting to emulate Québec.<br /> <br />jrkrideauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04869979887929067657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-48544403037140621142023-02-06T08:08:31.493-05:002023-02-06T08:08:31.493-05:00Life's complicated, sal. And therefore it'...Life's complicated, sal. And therefore it's confusing. But superstition won't provide any answers.Owen Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-38114065683385123602023-02-06T06:50:25.202-05:002023-02-06T06:50:25.202-05:00.. i have some thoughts ..
perhaps upon too many i..... i have some thoughts ..<br />perhaps upon too many issues<br />are crashing in .. to channel usefully<br /><br />i find it truly difficult to ‘get down to the nut of the problem’<br />Isn’t that where the ‘answer’ or the ‘sensibility’<br />has sought shelter or refuge ..<br /><br />How many ‘refuges’ must inquiring minds search for ?<br /><br />🦎the salamanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06853337802990122289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-65204003110103458982023-02-05T20:24:11.854-05:002023-02-05T20:24:11.854-05:00The next six months could get very interesting -- ...The next six months could get very interesting -- and dangerous -- PoV.Owen Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-85758698502314046612023-02-05T18:39:37.376-05:002023-02-05T18:39:37.376-05:00Given the stories of troubled vets being offered M...Given the stories of troubled vets being offered MAID and cases of disabled folks choosing MAID over a life of hopeless poverty, I'd say this delay was a good choice. It is an brand new social development (at least in modern history), shouldn't be a partisan issue, as is an existential issue of a kind.<br /><br />The mess around the other two files are emblematic of the unfocused leadership, we've seen under Jr. His gov't blew tax reform in 2016 and backed down. It was so clumsy, I now wonder if Morneau himself sabotaged it. Tax reform now dead in Canada for the foreseeable future.<br /><br />I never met a gun-control law I didn't like and islamophobia needs to be challenged across Canada (not just in Quebec). I suspect both efforts now doomed like tax-reform due to Jr.'s clumsy asleep-at-the-switch approach to governing. <br /><br />Meanwhile, Freeland is getting free reign all on her war-mongering issues.<br /><br />As usual Canadian politics is a dog's breakfast.Northern PoVhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04670080478290108536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-90408247922408234002023-02-05T14:07:18.877-05:002023-02-05T14:07:18.877-05:00You would think that, by now, history would have t...You would think that, by now, history would have taught us that lesson, Toby.Owen Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-18309190266235987882023-02-05T13:02:34.860-05:002023-02-05T13:02:34.860-05:00Phobia, meaning fear of, is used to shutdown discu...<i>Phobia</i>, meaning fear of, is used to shutdown discussion and label opponents. You don't like what I say or do thus you are afraid of me; you're a bigot. That's nonsense. It's the modern version of accusation of witchcraft or heresy. You're right, Owen, we don't need it.<br /><br />Tobynoreply@blogger.com