Originally Posted by Oakvillian

Canadian values, as espoused by the former government of Our Glorious Steve, seem to include complicity in "extraordinary rendition," enthusiastic support of interrogation-by-torture when carried out by Syrian and Egyptian inquisitorial offices, and thorough and total disregard for the principles of consular assistance given to citizens detained in a foreign country.

Documents show CSIS and RCMP's role in post-9/11 torture of 3 Canadians in Syria - Canada - CBC News

Kellie Leitch's supposed "conversation" on Canadian Values is a very thinly veiled xenophobic rant, with an awful lot of barely-disguised anti-Islamic rhetoric dressed up as jingoism and wrapped in cuddly words. It's poisonous and despicable.

Originally Posted by Teaandtoday5

it's almost as if I'd never heard of the Internet
Struggling to manoeuvre round to the front of house, but it's not really looking like the area has changed/improved much

Originally Posted by Novocastrian

I'm going to visit that next Saturday as a newly joined member of the Toon Humanist Society.

Originally Posted by Oakvillian

Canadian values, as espoused by the former government of Our Glorious Steve, seem to include complicity in "extraordinary rendition," enthusiastic support of interrogation-by-torture when carried out by Syrian and Egyptian inquisitorial offices, and thorough and total disregard for the principles of consular assistance given to citizens detained in a foreign country.

Documents show CSIS and RCMP's role in post-9/11 torture of 3 Canadians in Syria - Canada - CBC News

Kellie Leitch's supposed "conversation" on Canadian Values is a very thinly veiled xenophobic rant, with an awful lot of barely-disguised anti-Islamic rhetoric dressed up as jingoism and wrapped in cuddly words. It's poisonous and despicable.

Originally Posted by wheatsheaf

Ah yes "Our Glorious Steve". He certainly redefined 'citizenship' and it's value to anyone in a precarious situation. Mind you, didnt he pay to bring back Lebanese Canadians stranded in Beirut and reverse his decision to revoke citizenship of Chinese that had no intention of living in Canada?

Originally Posted by bats

Smile a lot, be superficially pleasant but keep a stack of daggers to use behind people's backs. Oh and go on about how frigging wonderful Canada is but spend 40% of the year in another country.

Originally Posted by Simon Legree

No, "he" didn't pay. We, the tax payers did, to the tune of some $100+ million. Almost all of the evacuees had no intention of staying in Canada and promptly returned to Lebanon as soon as things calmed down.

Originally Posted by daveincolchester

Here's a way to solve so many of the problems of "Canadians" born in other countries caught up in problems in the country of their birth while they are visiting or living there.

If you come to Canada and become a Canadian citizen, the government of Canada will recognize you as Canadian and will assist you in problems anywhere in the world, unless you get into trouble in the country in which you were born or hold another passport for.

In this case you will be recognized, not as Canadian, but as a citizen of the country where you were born, hold a passport for and are in trouble in.

Originally Posted by daveincolchester

Here's a way to solve so many of the problems of "Canadians" born in other countries caught up in problems in the country of their birth while they are visiting or living there.

If you come to Canada and become a Canadian citizen, the government of Canada will recognize you as Canadian and will assist you in problems anywhere in the world, unless you get into trouble in the country in which you were born or hold another passport for.

In this case you will be recognized, not as Canadian, but as a citizen of the country where you were born, hold a passport for and are in trouble in.

Originally Posted by daveincolchester

Here's a way to solve so many of the problems of "Canadians" born in other countries caught up in problems in the country of their birth while they are visiting or living there.

If you come to Canada and become a Canadian citizen, the government of Canada will recognize you as Canadian and will assist you in problems anywhere in the world, unless you get into trouble in the country in which you were born or hold another passport for.

In this case you will be recognized, not as Canadian, but as a citizen of the country where you were born, hold a passport for and are in trouble in.

Originally Posted by Vulcanoid

That is a fairly standard approach. I had a friend from Russia who fled to Germany, when she finally got citizenship she had to sign a form explicitly acknowledging that if she got in trouble anywhere in the world, German consulates would provide her with all the help they could - unless it was in Russia, in which case she would be considered a Russian citizen, and they wouldn't get involved.

Originally Posted by Howefamily

Agreed. Ref daggers - but its called being polite or "having a filter". Personally I think its just an excuse to be two faced.


Ref: 40% in another country - looking forward to that for me. The amount of my Canadian pals who hate snow make me chuckle.


Oh and to add, you simply have to drive fast and tail gate in bad weather, and never learn from the accidents.

Originally Posted by Simon Legree

No, "he" didn't pay. We, the tax payers did, to the tune of some $100+ million. Almost all of the evacuees had no intention of staying in Canada and promptly returned to Lebanon as soon as things calmed down.