29th January 2003, 11:52 AM
The Canadian Constitution (AKA Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms) ensures that people can't argue that programs such as affermatice action are unconstitutional
SOme types of Affermative action are necasary. American Colledges are known for aiding the children of Alumni into getting into their schools, but the parents of many minorities were unable to get into colledge in the past because of racist policies of the American Government and the Colledges. This summer I was reading an application form for Harvard and it asks if the aplicants parents whent to University or College and if so where, know someone like myself can say that both my mother and father have degrees from well known Canadian universities, but what about someone from the southern US who's parents were denied University educations based on their race?
Free Speech is important, as long as it does not promote hate or violence towards a certain group.
I find it funny that many anti-abortion activists have never been in the position of someone who needs to get an abortion, yet they press so hard to ban it. Why does the media always talk to these people who have never been in that position, and find out why they think abortion is evil, but they never talk to those who actually had the abortion done, to find out why they did it. I think that women should have the right to choose.
I agree with higher taxes for the rich in order to improve the living conditions of those who are disadvanteged. Perhaps if they recive aid they will be able to improve their lives and one day they will be able to start contributing taxes that can be put into the same programs. Perhaps providing their children with educationl opportunites that they would not have any other way will help them succed in life and taxes from their incomes can be put towards these same programs.
I don't understand why people are always opposed to tax increases when they expect the government to provide the same quality of services as they have in the past or provide new services. Does it not make sense that if consumers costshave been rising as they then costs for the government would also be rising.
Socialists are not always the poor, many rich people have supported socialist causes and organized socialist revolutions. Lenin was a lawyer, he had the potential to earn a small fortune, but he belived in not only bettering his life but in bettering the Life of the Russian people as a whole. Che was a doctor, once again he could have earned a small fortune as a doctor, but he choose to work to better the lives of other people. Many of those who graduated from European Universities in the late 19th and early 20th century became socialists, and people who went to university in those days were usually from the upper class, but once again they belived in bettering the conditions of all people. Socialism is only considered evil in the United States because those who had money and feared loosing it because of socialism campaigned against it and brain washed the American public into beliving that it was evil. The United States entered wars soley because one said was communist, it did not matter that the other side was a capitalist dictatorship, it would be fine as long as the commies didn't gain control. The US encouraged military coups of contrys that democraticly elected socialist governments, replacing an elected government with a military dictatorship. If Socialism is so evil then why have euorpean countries fequently elected socialist parties to form their governments, the labour party is currently in control in the United Kingdom, the German Chancellor is socialist and so is his government. Until the last election in France they had a conservatice president but the parliment was socialist. In Russia the communist party is still the 2nd largest party in the country, and it is gaining popularity amoung young Russians. In Canada several of the provinces have Socialist governments, and many more have had them in the past. In a large portion of the provinces where they don't form a government the NDP are the official oposition and in most of the remaining provinces they are a noticible political party. Federally Canada has not yet elected the NDP as a government, but they have been a major party in federal politics since the 30's when they were known as the CCF. Recent polls have shown that the NDP are still the 3rd most popular party on a nation wide basis, and the latest poll actually showed that the NDP had more support than the current official oposition. While the NDP hasn't been elected to form the federal government their have been socialist Prime Ministers from other parties. Infact Pierre Trudeau was banned from entry into the United States because the US had him labled as a communist, strangly this classification magicly disapeared when he became the federal justice minister and later Prime Minister of the US's biggest trading partner.
Quote:Equality Rights
15. (1) Every individual is equal before and under the law and has the right to the equal protection and equal benefit of the law without discrimination and, in particular, without discrimination based on race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age or mental or physical disability.
(2) Subsection (1) does not preclude any law, program or activity that has as its object the amelioration of conditions of disadvantaged individuals or groups including those that are disadvantaged because of race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age or mental or physical disability.
SOme types of Affermative action are necasary. American Colledges are known for aiding the children of Alumni into getting into their schools, but the parents of many minorities were unable to get into colledge in the past because of racist policies of the American Government and the Colledges. This summer I was reading an application form for Harvard and it asks if the aplicants parents whent to University or College and if so where, know someone like myself can say that both my mother and father have degrees from well known Canadian universities, but what about someone from the southern US who's parents were denied University educations based on their race?
Free Speech is important, as long as it does not promote hate or violence towards a certain group.
I find it funny that many anti-abortion activists have never been in the position of someone who needs to get an abortion, yet they press so hard to ban it. Why does the media always talk to these people who have never been in that position, and find out why they think abortion is evil, but they never talk to those who actually had the abortion done, to find out why they did it. I think that women should have the right to choose.
I agree with higher taxes for the rich in order to improve the living conditions of those who are disadvanteged. Perhaps if they recive aid they will be able to improve their lives and one day they will be able to start contributing taxes that can be put into the same programs. Perhaps providing their children with educationl opportunites that they would not have any other way will help them succed in life and taxes from their incomes can be put towards these same programs.
I don't understand why people are always opposed to tax increases when they expect the government to provide the same quality of services as they have in the past or provide new services. Does it not make sense that if consumers costshave been rising as they then costs for the government would also be rising.
Socialists are not always the poor, many rich people have supported socialist causes and organized socialist revolutions. Lenin was a lawyer, he had the potential to earn a small fortune, but he belived in not only bettering his life but in bettering the Life of the Russian people as a whole. Che was a doctor, once again he could have earned a small fortune as a doctor, but he choose to work to better the lives of other people. Many of those who graduated from European Universities in the late 19th and early 20th century became socialists, and people who went to university in those days were usually from the upper class, but once again they belived in bettering the conditions of all people. Socialism is only considered evil in the United States because those who had money and feared loosing it because of socialism campaigned against it and brain washed the American public into beliving that it was evil. The United States entered wars soley because one said was communist, it did not matter that the other side was a capitalist dictatorship, it would be fine as long as the commies didn't gain control. The US encouraged military coups of contrys that democraticly elected socialist governments, replacing an elected government with a military dictatorship. If Socialism is so evil then why have euorpean countries fequently elected socialist parties to form their governments, the labour party is currently in control in the United Kingdom, the German Chancellor is socialist and so is his government. Until the last election in France they had a conservatice president but the parliment was socialist. In Russia the communist party is still the 2nd largest party in the country, and it is gaining popularity amoung young Russians. In Canada several of the provinces have Socialist governments, and many more have had them in the past. In a large portion of the provinces where they don't form a government the NDP are the official oposition and in most of the remaining provinces they are a noticible political party. Federally Canada has not yet elected the NDP as a government, but they have been a major party in federal politics since the 30's when they were known as the CCF. Recent polls have shown that the NDP are still the 3rd most popular party on a nation wide basis, and the latest poll actually showed that the NDP had more support than the current official oposition. While the NDP hasn't been elected to form the federal government their have been socialist Prime Ministers from other parties. Infact Pierre Trudeau was banned from entry into the United States because the US had him labled as a communist, strangly this classification magicly disapeared when he became the federal justice minister and later Prime Minister of the US's biggest trading partner.