Oh, Shiny Pony!

OOOhhh, that took a little chunk out of political correctness.

Brilliant response.

Nailed.

Did Freeland even know that Alexander was in Afghanistan?

Hats off to the Harper administration!!

And that Ms. Freeland is called a 'smackdown', unfortunately we didn't get to see the sanctimonious little smirk as it hit the floor!

Well the one thing this twit has mastered is Justys substitute drama schooling. Liberals are just to stupid for words, good on Alexander for the slap down but this ones to dumb to understand what just happened.

Indeed great smackdown of a LIMP (Low information MP) That womens rights should be moved back 1400 years apparently escapes her notice.
Junior has a new star sweetie with better hair, weep.

My secret wish would be for a future citizenship attendee to wear a hockey goalie's mask. Of course they won't, and I wouldn't have the guts to do it, but it sure would drive the point home of how ridiculous this notion is that a face covering anywhere in Canadian society is inappropriate.

I had to take off my glasses in order to get an Ontario Health card photo taken. Why is that, anyway ?

http://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/can-they-come-naked-to-citizenship-ceremony-siddiqui/ar-BBhJeBg?ocid=mailsignoutmd

Can they come naked to citizenship ceremony?: Siddiqui

Chrystia appears to have gained a few pounds since she jumped on JT's bandwagon.

Is that because of guilt, or the expense account?

Chrystia should cover her face as a courtesy to the rest of us

The squeaky paint peeling voice of that muzzie loving skank is beyond irritating.

The perfect squelch!! The Vancouver Sun ran a full top front page colour picture of the woman in question, ( I presume it was her) face covered, and an article that made me almost lose my breakfast. This is another thin edge of the wedge. Show your face or get lost.

As she was talking, I wondered how committed SHE was to the rights of muslim women. Apparently for feminists, muslim women don't have rights that they expect "all women" to have. Despite what the propagandists may say, no one chooses to live in the dark.

A far too polite exchange with a Libtard who has substituted foreign values for Canadian values.

The Libs must realize they embarked on a course away from Canadian values when they courted the vote of the Islamist ghetto.

Ah! Da Canadian values. I wish we could have seen the idiot's face afterward because she sure was pleased with herself right after her question.

Freeland must have gotten some emoting tips from her leader, her delivery could use some fine tuning if she wants anyone to take her seriously. She's looking like a nutter on speed.

Well done Minister Alexander.

Now if only you would let that little boy into Saskatchewan.

Terry Anderson, exactly.

That "two-bagger", like most Librannos, must take stupid lessons.......

The first order of business to can the judges that made this an issue to begin with.

I have to take my hat off when crossing back into Canada. Why shouldn't a person have to show their actual face? It is just as offensive for me to have to take my hat off at the instruction of a border guard as it is for some to have to show their face. Off course I'm a white male so my rights don't go as far as muslims rights.

Chrystia looked like she mighta slept in? She certainly talked like she had.

a perfect, direct response to an idiot question!

parliament, playing at team sport on display, when are they going to act like growns ups and start actual governing rather than "gotcha". Having said that, except for the cheering, good smack down.

Wow! I can't wait to see that clip show up on every CBC show for the next four weeks!

"I have to take my hat off when crossing back into Canada."

again... it's to facilitate facial recognition software. it doesn't work as well if you obstruct... hey, wait a f#ckin' minute...

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Doesn't matter what Chris Alexander says. She wouldn't have listened to the response anyways out of Liberal indignation and if she did, it would have been lost on her.

And Freeland was "chosen" by the Liberals? Wow! Just WOW!

What an airhead. And perhaps Justine Trudolt could give her some acting lessons.

I was told by a very snarky Canada Customs agent in Oysoyoos to take my sunglasses off. I was driving a van with family in it. It was summer and it being Osoyoos it was quite a sunny day!

If I had refused I may have been refused entry. So for Government related functions where identity may be an issue then I think this is reasonable.

Now could she have asked to be seperated from the rest of the crowd behind a screen that only the citizenship judge could see? That will be the next step.

If this is about cultural accomodation then perhaps accomodating the culture you are joining, with our silly practices like uncovered faces for identity, ewqual rights between sexes etc etc shoudl be accomodated for at least the 15 minutes it takes to get sworn in.

Bets part was Alexander gets to school Ms. Freeland on how these things get used, seems she was stuck in a pre-conceived notion of what and how these things get used.

Oh and to be tactical for a moment. DOnt think for one moment that this doesnt work well with the cons limited but critical goals in Quebec. They dont want 70 seats, but winning 5 more goes a long long way to winning the next election. Tradeoff with losing 5 or so seats in Toronto Van and its still a COn majority.

And this issue plays perfectly well with their target. The NDP and the Libs fight over the other voter.

oh oh.

That's a smack down?!
Not to me.

The only smack down I'm interested in is a severe curtailment of islamic welfare colonization.

Again, this is mere theatre. Annoying noise signifying nothing.

I continue to be amazed at how so many of my SDA confreres are impressed by this stuff.
I guess I'm too old.

What bothers me in this whole affair is the woman in question appealed to our courts even before becoming a citizen. I believe it's a tempest in a teapot but respect the government's position that inalienable rights are being ignored in an effort towards cultural appeasement which cannot be tolerated when taking the citizenship oath,. I understand the Muslim community considers these types to be troublemakers and want no part of their campaign.

Another study in contrast is that Freeland had to read her question, which I'm sure she prepared all night, in order to get the names right and get the words in the right place. Alexander rebutted, fantastically, without a teleprompter, sheets of paper, or looking down at his notes. Who would you say was better qualified and informed?

"I understand the Muslim community considers these types to be troublemakers and want no part of their campaign." I and a lot of other Canadians are waiting for the Muslim community to rise up (now there's a phrase) in mortified indignation, much as Ms. Freeland did in the above clip, and denounce what Muslim zealots have been doing in the name of their so-called religion of peace for the past few hundred years, most notably the past several decades. Do we hear anything but crickets?

I have been waiting for Chris Alexander to say something -- anything -- good: I've listened to him a few times, and always found him a bit uncertain, or garbled, or something, especially in light of his background, and all that (no natural orator, he -- before yesterday, that is).

As far as Ms. Freeland is concerned, I'm guessing that Ms. Wynne would have found that very public and smug smirk way too hard to handle, given all the fuss the latter has made about the alleged "sort-of-smirk" she and her parrots in the media claim Mr. Harper gave her in a private meeting sometime around the late Ontario general election. But perhaps I'm overreaching.

At any rate, thanks, Chrystia, for helping Mr. Alexander spit out the marbles -- much to his gain, and much to your loss. I have no idea, of course, but I'm sensing a bit of a tactical win for the good guys/gals on this: I think Ms. Freeland was deliberately sent out there to embarrass Mr. Alexander, and instead got embarrassed herself, much to the surprise and delight of Mr. Alexander's colleagues on the government side of the house.

That was great.

As it so happens not that long ago I attended a citizenship ceremony, and lo and behold there was an Muslim woman there with her face covered. She came with her bearded husband and kid. Only other thing missing was a suicide bomber.

I was not aware that she had to remove her face covering when being sworn in, and I can tell you I was relieved to see when she was asked to do so. I thought to myself "Thank God Canada still has values."

If she had not been asked to remove her face covering I would have really begun to wonder what the future holds for this country. I fully support the Cons on this one. 100%. Go Harper.

ban Islam

Muslims should be banned from attaining citizenship

problem solved

Mindlessly parroting the multi-culti narrative that all cultures are equal despite the reality in front of them, that's the progressive way. That Liberal MP from Toronto typifies the most lethal domestic enemy in the civilizational battle between the Seventh Century (with modern weapons and social media) against a secular West in cultural decline. She is the Islamic equivalent of the useful idiot, an eco-feminist dhimmi protected from the kind of brutal treatment that she would most assuredly get from her new found Islamic slave-master "allies" by the political enemies she shows great incompetence at trying to deride.

Let me simplify this for you with the Coles Notes version.

Freeland's Question: Am I an idiot?

Alexander's Answer: Yes you are.