Mr. Kenney, Where to Start?
Today on "Politics" Mr. Kenney was in his usual form. Check out these verbatim quotes concerning the conservative approach to Multiculturalism and Canadian Identity:
[we] need to be "present on the ground and being accessible as a government to new communities. My job is to open the door and say . . . you're welcome to participate in the democratic process in general and, by the way, yes, the conservative party in particular."
So having been elected to help govern the country, Mr. Kenney is out on the hustings campaigning for the conservative party. Someone needs to give him a job description. Besides isn't that illegal? Isn't it covered somewhere in the Accountability Act?
More verbatim: "New Canadians are naturally conservative oriented in their thinking . . . conservative in their cultural values and quite traditional in their social values - there's an automatic coalition there [with the Conservative Party]."
More electioneering and pretty presumptuous about people from all over the world thinking just like him. It would be interesting to poll some new Canadians - especially some women - see what they think about this "automatic coalition". They may have been looking forward to making up their own minds, you know, like in a democracy.
Then of course, the obligatory Liberal bashing: "people like him [Khan] are finding more and more a kind of intolerance in the Liberal Party for the values that many new Canadaians bring to this country, traditional values. Prime Minister Harper has signalled again and again his respect for those values and has signalled that if there is a need somewhere down the road for special protection for religious minorities and cultural groups, the government will be willing to look at that."
What is he talking about? What are these "traditional values" and what does he mean "special protection for religious minorities and cultural groups"? I thought they weren't crazy about the charter to begin with - now it seems it's not enough! Well, this comment did follow a question on gay marriage . . .
[we] need to be "present on the ground and being accessible as a government to new communities. My job is to open the door and say . . . you're welcome to participate in the democratic process in general and, by the way, yes, the conservative party in particular."
So having been elected to help govern the country, Mr. Kenney is out on the hustings campaigning for the conservative party. Someone needs to give him a job description. Besides isn't that illegal? Isn't it covered somewhere in the Accountability Act?
More verbatim: "New Canadians are naturally conservative oriented in their thinking . . . conservative in their cultural values and quite traditional in their social values - there's an automatic coalition there [with the Conservative Party]."
More electioneering and pretty presumptuous about people from all over the world thinking just like him. It would be interesting to poll some new Canadians - especially some women - see what they think about this "automatic coalition". They may have been looking forward to making up their own minds, you know, like in a democracy.
Then of course, the obligatory Liberal bashing: "people like him [Khan] are finding more and more a kind of intolerance in the Liberal Party for the values that many new Canadaians bring to this country, traditional values. Prime Minister Harper has signalled again and again his respect for those values and has signalled that if there is a need somewhere down the road for special protection for religious minorities and cultural groups, the government will be willing to look at that."
What is he talking about? What are these "traditional values" and what does he mean "special protection for religious minorities and cultural groups"? I thought they weren't crazy about the charter to begin with - now it seems it's not enough! Well, this comment did follow a question on gay marriage . . .
posted by Susan at 8:01 PM
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I wonder how Mr. Kenney will treat those traditional values from countries that allow
polygamy and
animal marriage.
Mr Kenney (can't believe I have the chance to say this) is creating the slippery slope that same sex marriage was supposed to create but failed to materialze.
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