Thoughts on BC Politics and More

Those of you who are Trekies, and watched Star Trek Next Generation, and Star Trek Voyager, the following phrase can be uttered by heart: " We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile ."   To those suffering from Harper Derangement Syndrome (HDS), and spewing all kinds of factless, and baseless, allegations over how the Conservative government is taking over every aspect of our lives (and somehow forcing a hidden agenda on everyone), this must be an apt description for them, of the Conservative Party of Canada. In an article in the Vancouver Sun several days ago, Lorne Gunter is acknowledged in first identifying HDS. He described it as, “ an ideological hatred of Prime Minister Stephen Harper that is so acute its sufferers’ ability to reason logically is impaired .” The article went on to say: An early exam...

So who read the analysis piece entitled “ The niqab debate, let's not forget, is about individual rights.   In the end, this is a country based on individual rights and the rule of law, not majority sentiment ”, written by Neil McDonald of the CBC? In part of the analyses piece he states: Boswell then ruled that wearing a niqab does not interfere in any substantive way with taking the oath, and that the minister of immigration does not, in any event, have the authority to summarily forbid wearing one.  As you would expect from a judge at Boswell's level, his ruling was antiseptic, almost surgical. H e is uninterested in why Ishaq interprets her religion as an obligation to keep her face covered in public; it is enough that she does, in the same way that ultra-orthodox Jews feel obliged to wear black hats and side curls, or some Roman Catholics feel compelled to walk around with crosses daubed on their foreheads on Ash Wednesday .   Zunera Ishaq following co...