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Canada PoliERA |OT| Two Years of Sunny Days? That’s Scheer Madness!
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Hey, at least Quebec Solidaire wants to take the crucifix down. At the same time as they separate Quebec from Canada and make the language laws even more draconian. And they have the first candidate in Quebec to ever wear a headscarf! Despite the fact that they said if they'd win they'd ban public employees from wearing headscarves. Oh, and they also said they'd fight for exemptions to the Declaration of Human Rights to allow them to legally discriminate against minorities.
So maybe I could vote Liberal! If I was fine with a crucifix hanging in parliament and increased oil drilling.
Throwing out specifics like this is actually helping. Maybe Liberal is my best option. I agree with a lot of Quebec Solidaire's policies, but others outright disgust me. On the flipside, I don't agree with the Liberals on practically anything...but I think they have a smaller capacity for evil? And they're the more popular of the two parties, so a vote for them is probably the only thing I can do to take a stand against CAQ's potential majority.
Quebec politics suck.
you don't vote for Left vs Center vs Right here.
all 4 parties are interventionists, 2 of them are separatist (PQ and QS), 2 are hyper nationalist (PQ and CAQ), 3 are boring and unimaginative (PQ, PLQ and CAQ).
But only one party has ZERO separatists in it and that's the PLQ.
but, not all ridings are equal, I am voting strategically to block the evil PQ by voting QS for a cock block.
My PQ candidate posted racist stuff on her blogue (Michelle Blanc). So, to block a racist from winning in my riding, I will be voting for Ruba Ghazal (QS) in Mercier even though I am pro-Canada Federalist
Wait, what? QS did that? What are you referring to? QS are the biggest bleeding heart ultra-leftists ever.
That's fair. I'm in the same riding but I might vote NDP just because... they exist now and I've wanted them to exist for a while and they are the only provincial party who are federalist and social democratic. Even if they have no chance, at least I'm adding to the statistics for future support... hopefully
my Dad used to work with Fortin (leader of NDPQ) in a hotel. He told me that Fortin was a big mouth who talked too much, LOL
all Quebec parties are big time interventionist, no matter if they are Left, Right, Federalist or Separatist.
all of them want to tell you how to run your life ; it's hold over of the Catholic Church who previously told you how to run your life but know it's government that does it
all of them want to tell you how to run your life ; it's hold over of the Catholic Church who previously told you how to run your life but know it's government that does it
I guess I blinked and woke up in Quebec today.
I wonder if he can use the notwithstanding clause to like make gay marriage illegal. lol
At this point anything is game right?
I wonder if he can use the notwithstanding clause to like make gay marriage illegal. lol
At this point anything is game right?
No... No... Nooooo Why!?! Why have they done this to us. :(
The notwithstanding clause only applies to overriding certain parts of the charter. I'm not sure if that would be covered, and I also don't think the province has the constitutional power to define marriage anyway.
Aren't marriage licenses provincial?
But yeah, I guess I have to see how governments can fuck you over. I never really looked into it because, well, it's always been a Quebec problem. But I just wonder how many rights can be just written away at this point and whether the entire Charter is basically a joke.
A federal bill for same-sex marriage was passed in 2005, and was sent to the Supreme Court of Canada beforehand to make sure it would stand up to charter scrutiny. Ford can just tack on 'notwithstanding' to an awful lot of bills, but that's one thing he wouldn't be able to do, as far as I can see anyway.
So yeah Section 33 can be used to override section 2 and sections 7 to 15. Section 15 is the one that protects people from discrimination based on race, gender, etc... so we're fucked.
Does America have this in the Bill of Rights or Constitution, where a state can just opt out and say abortions are illegal?
Does America have this in the Bill of Rights or Constitution, where a state can just opt out and say abortions are illegal?
The Government of Alberta actually tried that in 2000 and it was slapped down by the Supreme Court because the definition of marriage is the domain of Parliament, not the provincial legislatures.
I guess he can pass a bill allowing churches and private institutions to bar gay marriage on their premises under religious freedoms or something? ie, the right to marriage is not protected via a new section 33 based-bill and people can choose not to allow or recognize marriages if they so choose?
Concept or marriage and its effects = Federal
Celebration or marriage (procedure) = Provincial
Religious organizations can already not offer same-sex marriage if they choose. The Anglican Church of Canada only voted to allow it a couple of years back, for example.
Gay Marriage? nobody it talking about that.
but what they are talking about is identity politics, language, immigration, grand-children not speaking french and Hitler birthdays on a10 year old blog
From using the N word to disparage a telemarketer to Hitler birthdays, this is typical PQ
So a large local news story here and having friends that new her the killer is finally getting charged.
https://www.citynews1130.com/2018/09/10/marissa-shen-homicide-case/
Syrian Refugee that had been here for 4 months.
Asian community was already furious about the lack of exposure prior to this. It'll be a damn disservice if it's kicked under the rug further.
Needless to say this story is about to blow up. Whether either side actually gives a fuck about the girl? Unlikely.
https://www.citynews1130.com/2018/09/10/marissa-shen-homicide-case/
Syrian Refugee that had been here for 4 months.
Asian community was already furious about the lack of exposure prior to this. It'll be a damn disservice if it's kicked under the rug further.
Needless to say this story is about to blow up. Whether either side actually gives a fuck about the girl? Unlikely.
My god Rachel Curran is saying all kinds of ridiculous nonsense on Power and Politics. She's never been great but I'm amazed right now at the stupidity.
Québec Conservatives is Alt-Right. It's filled with morons. There is the Guy Morin dude in there that wanted to do a pro gun demonstration at the memorial of the Polytechnique shooting and the party is supported by Québec city's thrash radio.
A recently released federal poll by Nanos is showing that the Green party has surpassed the NDP in BC and in the 18-29 demographic.
Watching the national do a story on the notwithstanding clause and they play a clip of Chretien saying no one would use it because of the political cost. So quaint. lol
I think Ottawa needs to be exempt from Ontario fuckery since it's the Federal Capital
Ford is a moran
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