Yeah, it's early but we have a winner!
The Globe & Mail reports that we spent $85-million to evacuate large numbers of non-taxpaying "dual citizen" teat-sucking ingrates out of Lebannon. The combox includes some non-idiots, like this guy:
This whole shamefull episode clearly shows that there is a double-standard when it comes to canadian citizenship : canadians with duties and other 'canadians' with privileges. I have been living in Montreal for many years, and for a while in a section of the town where a lot of people from Lebanon live. They come from upper middle-class Lebanon, speak french, are well-educated and know how 'the system work'. Their mothers, fathers, cousins, etc, enjoy free medical care, send their kids to our schools, do NOT pay taxes, etc. All of this has been going on since 1990. They now think it's a 'droit acquis' that we owe them. You question that and you're on Bush's payroll, you hate muslims and should be put on trial before the 'Droits et Libertés' tribunal. Our 'leftists' agree with them. What a ignominous farce.However...
Darren Smith writes from "Dubai, Canada":
I currently live in the middle east and I consider myself a proud, contributing Canadian, regardless of my tax paying status. It baffles me that Canadians view the funds used to evacuate Canadians as a waste of tax payer dollars. What makes Canada so great is our melting pot of cultures, our standing and influence in the international community and our global social conscience. You do not develop these traits by keeping immigrants out and keeping Canadians at home. I think before you develop an opinion on changing Canada’s immigration policy you should consider the demographic challenges we face and the value that immigrants bring to our economy and our way of life. Though I am not a Canadian tax payer today, I will be returning to Canada with my wealth and my knowledge while contributing to Canada’s presence as a global citizen. I am surprised that my values differ so much from fellow Canadians. $2.60 per Canadian tax payer is a bargain for the benefits we receive. I will gladly send my $2.60 home.
Wow, who knew Dubai had a shortage of People Who Can Squeeze the Largest Number of Cliches Into One Paragraph? That's some skill set. Glad "Darren Smith" will be coming back here sometime to share this marvelous talent with us -- there's a desk at the CBC waiting for him.
He only left out "PS: We burned down the White House in the War of 1812. Har Har!" Or did he? What other Canuckistan cliches did Darren forget to squeeze into his little missive from The Land of the One Way Airline Ticket of Allah (pbuh)?
Pile on, kiddies.
good..if darren has some wealth, then he can pay for his own rescue when alqaida takes him hostage...
$85 million? We should send Israel the bill for their unprovoked, illegal, disproportionate, and criminal invasion of the sovereign state of Lebanon. That's $85 million in addition to the reparations they already owe. Plus interest.
Oh, and didn't Canada recently pledge $50 million for reconstruction in Lebanon? Screw that. If Israel can afford a nuclear program then they can afford to clean up their own human rights violations and war crimes, so that's another $50 million they owe us. That's $135 large, Olmert: up it, puppet.
Here's a good Canuckistan cliche:
The Canadian Taxpayer: paying through the nose for Israeli war crimes since 1948!
btw...my father was a landed immigrant, renounced his italian citizenship, and we have been proud canadians since...my children all qualify for citizenship in the UK(my ex is a landed immigrant), but they,so far, have rejected it...so, please, no moonbat drivel about me being anti immigrant...at least we have embraced canada 100%
Compare the cliche from the anti-semite with the AdScam Librano$'s cliche: Canuckistan cliches:
Bob: "The Canadian Taxpayer: paying through the nose for Israeli war crimes since 1948!"
J. Chretien:
"I don't know if there was money stolen," Chrétien replied, adding, "I would be very much surprised" if it amounted to $100 million as has been suggested."
cbc.ca...
Hey Bob,guess you missed the news reports that the leader of hamas regretted STARTING the war buy kidnapping Israeli soldiers.Time to take off your left wing dipper view glasses and look at all the facts.
How about a comment on the hundreds of missiles shot at Israeli civilians.And what about the thousands who whined about not being treated in the accomodations "they deserve from Canada"when being evacuated who have already returned to Lebanon.
What "melting pot?" Canada is well on its way to becoming the most class based ghetto-ized nation in the West. Another 100 years of what's happened in the last 50 and this place will make the former Yugoslavia look like Nirvana.
Melting pot? That's American-style! We're a stew, not a broth. We celebrate every lump. If you're going to spout Cannuckistanian Cliches, at least get them right.
How about this Cannuckistanian virtue: import Librano votes, who cares what consequences? Gun gangs? Vote Librano, sure, come on in. Hezbollah? Vote Librano, we don't care, come on in.
We have this mess because we are not a melting pot. Libranos want it both ways (as usual).
maz attempted the following pathetic race-smear: "Compare the cliche from the anti-semite blah blah blah whine sniffle"
I win. That's a knockout punch, baby. Any rebuttal that makes a Liberal-style baseless accusation of racism is an automatic, sweet, and glorious victory for me. Hey, this arguing on the net thingie is easier than I thought!
Gee, Bob, how Librano of you. Who'd a thunk it? Of course is all about winning!
I'm not sure where the guy who lives in Montréal is comming from.
If you're upper-middle class Lebanese, speak excellent french and are well educated I doubt very, much that you'd be Muslim.
Most Lebanese Christians don't have Bush derangement syndrome, and most couldn't care less about Islam....other than the fact they detest it and have been victims of its atrocities and aggressions during the '74 to '90 civil war.
As for the 'droit acquis' mentality; that's not something that people who've been brutally pushed out of their homes tend to display. But it is, however, an attitude one sees in individuals imbued with a sense of innate, god-given supremacy........
This commentor has mixed things up; he's failed to make some important disctinctions.
I think we should be paid $85 million for having to read Bob's idiocies.
Now back on topic, Darrin forgot the "flag on backpack, pining for Tim Horton's, everybody in Dubai loves him because he's not American" cliche.
Cliche Time: Count the cliches here deployed by ex-Canadian Prime Minister,
Paul Martin, Jr.
"fruitful exchange", is a great cliche, fundamentally... "FORA" is superb, clearly... "leap of faith", doubtless, yes, ... "get down to brass tacks", 'zactly, mais oui, ... "real commitment" .... aaarrghh
The best cliche by Martin: "I". ...-
January 23, 2004
Davos, Switzerland
SPEECH BY THE PRIME MINISTER
What I would like to do this morning is to talk about the need to make the practice of politics more effective at the international level so that the benefits of global interdependence can be spread more fairly.
At its best, which is not always the case, the domestic political process is open and full of energy. It is about making the right choices among competing interests and priorities, choices which reflect the way ahead. Debates and trade-offs occur – in our Cabinets, in our legislatures, in town halls with our citizens. Eventually decisions are reached.
This is the moment when the values we hold become most explicit, that is to say, in the choices we make as political communities. I say all this because, when we look at the international scene, it is strangely un-political. To a remarkable extent, the dialogue among nations is technocratic and indirect rather than open and free-ranging. It is often concerned more with preserving a process, than with breaking new ground. It is a dialogue that, in the great international meetings, too often proceeds from set pieces read aloud – meetings that are closed to consultation from the outside – far too frequently closed to new ideas.
As many of you know, the most fruitful exchanges between leaders often take place in the corridors of these meetings one on one, and far removed from the actual agenda. When leaders do meet in international FORA, it is difficult to break free of the “Briefing Book” syndrome and get down to brass tacks, to thinking out of the box. Thus, it becomes very difficult at such gatherings to make the leap of faith so often required to break an intellectual or historical logjam.
This is not to say progress doesn’t occur. It’s just that it is so painfully slow. Thus I believe the time has come for us to examine not just the decisions we make, but the ones we don’t make, and then ask ourselves – why not? Let me give you three examples where I believe the debate between political leaders must be lifted from the page – must go from pro forma to real commitment. ...-
privy council office.ca
Not too many people realize it but bob has has been funnin' y'all by writing his name backwards all this time.
I read the G&M article and also the comments section. There were enough idiot reponses to get me to write in and vent, however all comments must pass through their editorial filter so I doubt it if it makes the light of day.
Basically, to all the wahoos that figure Canadians should pay taxes no matter where they are or give up their Canadian citizenship... blow it out your shorts! What are you going to call it, a head tax?
If anything needs review it might be the process of becoming a Canadian citizen. There should be no doubt in anyone's mind that the immigration policy needs an overhaul. After all, there has to be better criteria than just being a stripper or delivering pizza to Lieberal campaign headquarters.
In Cannuckistan, we worship the UN. It is the defacto next step up the power ladder for the truly connected Librano. We could solve all the world's problems through the UN. Down with Bush, up with UN. UN UN UN. UN resolutions will bring peace. Governments must respect UN resolutions.
Except the UN resolution that created Israel. That was a little mistake, a long time ago. And it was the Americans that did it anyway.
If the lefties want to worship the UN, then they sign on for all of its doctrine. That means Israel is here to stay. Get over it.
The left is transparently hypocritical with respect to their beloved UN.
How Many Have Returned 7000+ ?????
So tell me, Why should Canadians be on the hook for the bill?
Send the bill to those who have decided to return now that it is safe, If they don't pay tearup the right to be Canadian.
Once again the taxpayer is screwed.
Melting Pot ?
Someone has not read and doesn't iuderstand the implications of ourTrudeapian Constitution . . . Canada's primal law. Our Constitution expressly forbids the melting pot idea and promotes all cultures as equal and nullifies having a central "Canadian" identity or culture. With the exception of Quebec, they get to keep their French identity.
Canada had better soon get rid of Multiculturalism and hyphenated half-assed Canadians or we are doomed as a strong, unified country. A mish-mash of humanity living in ghettos cannot fly. It raises suspicion and hatreds and all manner of discord.
Again, this is another of Trudeau's dumb plots to weaken English Canada and strengthen a monolithic Quebec.
Melting Pot? Bring it on and fast. There is no better example of patriotism in the world than the Melting Pot of the United States.
When I travel with Americans who have stitched Canadians flags to their backpacks they remark to me how clean our cities are.
Kate left a DON'T FEED THE TROLLS sign on the door when she left.
Now see, Greg Staples is totally getting with the program! Don't forget our "Free" "Health" "Care" "System".
PS: I like the Lebanese guy at the end of the article who complained that we were creating "two kinds of Canadians". Yeah: the kinds that have historically had to reimburse the government when they were bailed out (which is the law of the land) and the ones who got off the hook this time because if we send them a bill they might behead the PM.
As with all lefties, they're all really good sports. The fact that they have been wrong on pretty much everything throughout history doesn't bother them one iota. The Islamofacists and Anti Semites will show their true intentions. (as if they haven't already) When the west has to clean up the mess in order to maintain our way of life, will the useful socialist idiots finally SHUT UP?
Bob (8:11)...
"I...i...i...WIN...win...win (etc...)".
What is that Bob, a chip on your shoulder, or an echo chamber. Kate asked for Canadian cliches, not drival a la Adlai Stevenson of "Don't wait for the translation" fame.
Oh, and Bob, don't respond to my posting; OBVIOUSLY I've won the argument already.
What are you doing here with the men and women, anyway?
Regarding Canadian cliches...
How about the NDP election war cry; "Do it for Tommy!" (Do they mean Tommy Shanks, mayor of Melonville?)
In the future being just a plain-old-Canadian will no longer mean anything. Everyone will be a 'SomethingElse+Canadian'.
Call of the mother tongue
Next week, hundreds of young students will flock to Cedar Drive Junior Public School to reconnect to their roots.
At Cedar Drive, they will learn how to count, say hello and write their names in the languages of their homelands: Urdu, Tamil and Dari.
"As our community grew, the need for the program grew," said principal Bill Hindle.
Residents of Scarborough Village, which has many immigrants, campaigned hard for the International Language School, which has been hugely popular since it opened last year.
..."Though they moved to Canada for a better life, they have no desire to lose their culture," Hindle said....
..."It will help the children effectively communicate with the people back home, with their parents, within their own society and also learn an additional language,"...
tinyurl.com/zk2on
We're environmental leaders and true lovers of the Earth.
That's why we ship Toronto's trash (well, the inanimate kind anyway) to Michigan. And, it's why London's mayor thinks it's better to have the garbage haulers transit the entire London area on their way to Michigan, rather than halfway as they proceed to St. Thomas. We even have a wind turbine down on the Toronto lakeshore, so we all think we have a very green Provincial Gubmit.
We love the Earth so much that we have decided to stop honoring land titles. Witness Caledonia, where the Earth-loving First Nations have rescued a few acres from civilization.
Don't get so excited. Just charge it to the foreign aid budget.
I have noticed that the mop and pail's latest editorial scam is to pretend some kind of "balance" by printing a counter point article to their standard smug Lib-left statist drivel....funny thing is that the guy they set up to be the jester as the conservative devil's advocate usually douses their editorial thunder with a good dose of common sense and leaves the Globe offuical editorial position with its butt swinging in the breeze.
I guess the point is it isn;t hard to defalte the pompous myths of lberal social engineering...the globe is now doing it without actually trying
As I have said here many times before, the real threat to our way of life is within. Until something of monumental proportions hits home with the sleeping class in this country we will continue to be screwed by the left wing suckling class. We deserve every injustice received until we are prepared to take a stand. My feeling is that we are not to far off from the day when we will see our own brand of homegrown terrorism. Those that have just had enough, enough to take their cause to an extreme that will finally awaken this sleeping class. For all the whining, bitching, complaining and long-winded rhetoric [all-be-it sincere] on this blog and others I have yet to hear any plausible solutions. Just talk, no action.
I think this wake up call, if and when it does happen, will be over health care, immigration or the multi tiered rights given the different classes [Indian, French etc] in this country. My pick, health care.
Darren Smith is a pseudonym for Ken Dryden. That nauseating prodeaupian boilerplate drivel is guaranteed to induce insomnia at the next catatonic lib defeataship convention.
More cliches...
Nation of peacekeepers (just ask the Taliban).
Two solitudes:
- Ontario/Quebec (the spendthrifts)
- Alberta (the ones who MAKE the money)
Canada - Nation of tribes!
We have a grand vision of the Just Society.
Do you guys plan on stripping every Canadian living in the U.S. of their Canadian citizenship too? For shame.
globereader s from toronto, Canada writes: "Perhaps if Isreal didn't occupy Lebanon, Hezbollah wouldn't have to kidnap the soldiers to make a statement, and we wouldn't have had to pay $85 million for this useless war! "
It's those damned Joooos again forcing everyone else to kill them!
No Anonymous:
We're going to follow the LIEberal example and just concentrate on stripping, as in bringing more "peelers" to Canada!
Get naked, its the Canadian way!!
Evidently, Canadian wives are somewhat remiss and need lessons from Romanian strippers in the finer points of boudoir behaviour.
See? Canadians just get sexier every day!!
New LIEBeral slogan: "Get Buff Baby".
"Canada is a mosaic of...er, uh .. melting pots?!?"
The left would f%ck up their own funeral.
PS: this is Kathy Shaidle guest posting for Kate, just so you'll know where to direct your annoyance :-)
Bob missed all the news of the last few years... about the suicide bombers killing innocent Israeli people.
Those 'insurgents'....
Do you guys plan on stripping every Canadian living in the U.S. of their Canadian citizenship too?
Are there 50k Americans who hold Canadian passports but were never born here, never spend any time here, have absolutely no connection to this nation aside from that passport of convenience, and yet expect to be bailed out gratis when disaster strikes, only to return home quickly thereafter?
Yeah Hans, a pole in every bedroom too! And of course the disco ball too unless you already have one.
Perhaps we could set up an immigration processing centre on your island up north. That would cut down on the number of wanna-be canucks. (and help feed the polar bear population)
Well, let's see, next to Canada's "melting pot of cultures, our standing and influence in the international community [sic] and our global social conscience," plus our "immigration policy...and the value that immigrants bring to our economy and our way of life," what Canuckistan cliches did Darren desist from mentioning?
How about:
* our enlightened non-history that begins only in the here and now: We make it up as we go...
* our Judeo-Christian free-zone that makes revising our history much less messy and enables us to put a premium on our "open," "tolerant," and "inclusive" secular humanist values...
* our ultra-sensitive tolerance of GBLT orientations, partnerships, and same-sex marriage, which has made Toronto the "Gay Capital" of the world. So nice for our kids...
* our tax-funded Status of Women (SOW) Program, which hands out wads of $1000-bills to abortion-on-demand, man-hating, non-childrearing, often lesbian, radical fembos, while denying pro-life mothers who recognize men as partners-in-life and fathers any financial support, let alone recognition or value in our "enlightened" society...
* our conviction that the only good mom is the mom who works outside the home for a living and puts her kid(s) in substitute daycare, where they can become good little left/lib clones...
* our belief, fuelled by the NAC, that the only way that women can be truly equal to men is to be financially powerful, which is why women need to be able to abort their children and/or have other women (less equal, I guess, working for 1/10 the income) care for their kid(s)...
* our sacred-cow CBC, aka the Canadian Brainwashing Corporation, because it encourages all Canadians to be left-leaning-, liberal- (maybe Liberal and NDP, too), feminist-and gay-friendly...
* "We're kinder and gentler than the Americans!"...
And that's only for starters! Aren't we WONDERFUL?!!
"What makes Canada so great is our melting pot of cultures, our standing and influence in the international community and our global social conscience"
If only ANY of these things were true. We don't have a 'melting pot' like the Americans do. We have a ghettoized 'mosaic' of people who are Candadians second. We lost our international standing and influence long ago. And what kind of global social conscience do we have? The kind that misses its own low targets for foreign aid every year?
Like you said, that post was a collection of tired and untrue cliches.
Don't apply for your old age pension.
Apply to be a refugee Instead:
The govt provides a single refugee with a monthly allowance of $1,890.00 & each can get an additional $580.00 in social assistance for a total of $2470.00
This compares very well to a single pensioner who, after contributing to the growth & development of Canada for 40 or 50yrs, can only receive a monthly maximum of $1012.00 in old age Pension & Guaranteed Income Supplement.
Maybe our Pensioners should apply as refugees!
Or we reverse this, refugees $1,012. & boost Pensioners up to $2470.00 so they can enjoy the money they were forced to submit to the Gov't over the past 40 or 50 yrs.
I guess also we can add free travel expenses to this now.
Oh BTW: In Ontario Evac's were boosted to the top of the line in applying for & receiving OHIP, Try moving from another prov. & see how long you wait for coverage!!
Landed Immigrant status comes before Canadian Citizenship.If you haven't decided in those 3 years [I think] then go back to where you came from! a proud Canadian citizen who was born elsewhere! [I only carry one passport]
Harper approved the evacuation and the $85 million price tag.
Please direct negative comments to the PMO.
BTW...What about all the free land given to homesteaders in the 1800s. Wasn't that a conservative concept?
Texas Canuck:
Yes, I suppose this would relieve the long "polar" nights.
Of course I might need some assistance in developing an immigration grid that would screen only for the finest genetic "assets".
Which reminds me of the famous ditty:
"The polar bear sleeps in his little bear skin,
He sleeps very well I am told.
Last night I slept in my little bare skin,
And I got a heck 'uva cold!"
Somehow, 'appeeling' to the immigration board by doing the "Full Monty", during the winter months on Hans Island, may be against the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Something about cruel and unusual punishment and what not.
Also, given that we run Christmas mobilization operations from Dec. 6 thru Jan. 6 all prospective strippers will be enlisted in charitable giving exercises.
St. Nicolaas of Myra
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Priest. Abbot. Bishop of Myra, Lycia (modern Turkey). Generous to the poor, and special protector of the innocent and wronged.
Upon hearing that a local man had fallen on such hard times that he was planning to sell his daughters into prostitution, Nicholas went by night to the house and threw three bags of gold in through the window, saving the girls from an evil life.
We recommend telling about the true story of charitable giving per St. Nick at around the age of six.
By the order of:
Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht BGS, PDP, CFP
Commander in Chief
Frankenstein Battalion
Knecht Rupprecht Division
Hans Corps
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group �True North�
More Can-Lib-Cliches: "think... for a second".
"food bank", "at the helm", "financial wizardry", "education ministry", "deft management", ...
The Egg-Head and the BeansCounter. ...-
"So think about this combination for a second - Michael Ignatieff as Prime Minister, and Gerard Kennedy as Minister of Finance, applying the financial wizardry he showed while running the country's largest food bank, and the deft management demonstrated during his tenure at the helm of Ontario's education ministry." ...-
tdh strategies
Do you not find it Interesting that the Liberals(graham)& NDP(Taliban Jack) were all yap when this was occuring blaming the Govt for not acting fast enough, Have now become strangely quiet with the exception of a few Opp.MP's
Go Figure!!
david brown, please don't fling 'floating feathers' around and expect us to view them as grounded realities.
Your statements have no context; therefore, they are meaningless.
Harper had no choice but to evacuate the 'convenience citizens' in Lebanon, who live permanently in Lebanon, hold Lebanese citizenship, but have a 'safety-valve' second citizenship from Canada, which they use for emergencies.
Lebanon certainly didn't evacuate them, despite their being Lebanese citizens! The reason Harper had no choice was because of what you are ignoring in your agenda of defaming Harper. This reality is CONTEXTUAL REALITY; namely, current Canadian citizenship LAW permits dual citizenship and requires the Canadian gov't to assist 'its citizens', even if those are convenience, even if the individuals have only resided in Canada for a few months to obtain that definition, even if they pay no taxes, even if they live permanently elsewhere.
Your other floater in the wind, was again, your ungrounded opinon based on events of over 200 years ago! Why are you equating events that are totally contextually different - as equal??? The population base of Canada 200 years ago was minimal; therefore, the land was indeed offered to encourage immigration to settle and farm the land. That's not the case now. Please select your comparables with some similarities.
Feathers in the wind.
The bozo Darren Smith can't even do simple arithmetic. He figures the $85 million cost of the evacuation works out to $2.60 for each tax-paying Canadian---and then says, "I'll gladly send my $2.60 back". No, you idiot, the $2.60 is the cost per taxpayer, not per evacuee!
Let's see, $85 million to evacuate 15,000 Lebanese-resident Canadian citizens works out to $5666 each. How about payin' THAT back, Darren?
Some examples of immigration:
Mao Olivia Chow and and Mafia Joe Volpe.
We need a moratorium in order to figure this crap out.
Cultural Mosaic? I guess that's what you call the country breaking apart.