I just read over at Fuddle Duddle that one of the PQ candidates believes Quebec wont obtain sovereignty until all the old federalists die… and he is talking about the Francophone voters who are federalists, not the English minority.
The exact quote in francais is this: “car il n’y aura plus la génération de “canadien-français” qui [...]

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Mike from Rational Reasons rebuttal in the 159-124 message thread to a conservative poster’s assertion that “These measures were not abused so the clause should have been extended.” is worth repeating:
Why? Not only were they not abused, they were not used. The potential exists for abuse and the police seem to be doing just fine [...]

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According to Jeff Sallot in the Globe and Mail today, Canada’s police and security services not only have never used the now-gone sunset clauses, they’ve managed just fine without them:
As it turns out, the powers were never invoked in the past five years. The RCMP report they have quietly disrupted several terrorism plots in [...]

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The NY Times praises Canada for its Supreme Court Decision to restore rights:
The United States was not the only country to respond to the horror of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks with policies that went much too far in curtailing basic rights and civil liberties in the name of public safety. Now we see that [...]

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Yes.. its Day 22 of our epic 22 Days of Harper’s Anti-Environment/Anti-Kyoto Quotes, and its been a blast to do these. On this special day, I give you my readers a special gift.. a BONUS 2nd quote! (meaning I really had 23 days worth of material, but miscounted):
Your first quote: “Carbon dioxide does not cause [...]

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The 2 Sunset Clauses are officially defeated. All but 2 Liberals voted against it (Tom Wappel - not a shocker, and Irwin Cotler, who abstained).
Bravo to Dion for sticking to his guns and saying that anti-terror legislation does not need to go overboard and trample our civil liberties and our civil rights while protecting us.. [...]

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So I’ve had a couple of people ask me what I thought of Cherniak’s post where he basically thought Iggy should let Dion do the questioning of the PM, and he should do only questioning of specific ministers.. which has caused a few Libloggers heads to explode.
A) If Iggy is supposed to stop questioning Harper.. [...]

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Well, the Conservatives have proved that they are determined to drag this down into the mud as much as they can over their petulance that the sunset clauses will in all likelihood be defeated tonight. The Liberals are now held captive by “extremists” apparently:
Liberals demanded an apology from Ottawa Tory MP Pierre Poilievre for telling [...]

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Just to recap for you: Harper and his band of Conservatives have for weeks been charging the Liberals and Dion with being soft on terror. Harper has gone so far as to openly claim the Liberals are against extending the sunset clauses in the terror bill due to wanting to protect Navdeep Bains [...]

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Ah yes.. Day 21 of Harper’s Anti-Environment/Anti-Kyoto Quotes has been reached.
Today’s quote involves Stevie using alliteration to describe his contempt for Kyoto:
“This is just the beginning of the biggest black-hole boondoggle in Canadian history.” (Stephen Harper, National Post, August 13, 2003)
Alliteration and hyperbole. A deadly mix.
Come back tomorrow for the finale of this riveting [...]

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