Who Defends Womens Rights? Certainly Not Liberals

The left always like to  brag how they are the "defenders" of women's  rights.  In the past Liberals when they were in power, protecting women's rights meant funding organizations that engaged in activism instead of funding organizations that go to directly helping women.

Actually the defenders and protectors of women's rights are Conservatives  as Barbara Kay so aptly points  out in her column. Our Conservative government has come out to fund an initiative geared towards preventing honor type violence against girls and women.

Fortunately, strategies to diminish honour-motivated violence against girls and women in Canada are being mobilized by the federal government.One such initiative was launched last week by Minister for the Status of Women Rona Ambrose. The Edmonton Indo-Canadian Women’s Association has received $241,000 for a 24-month project designed to empower immigrant girls and women, “Elimination of Harmful Cultural Practices: A Community-Centred Approach for Education and Action.” The project is a tangible outcome of meetings and conferences sparked by a July, 2010 Frontier Centre report on the troubling persistence of honour-motivated abuse into the second and third generation of South Asian communities.
Part of the money will fund a shelter, WIN House, reserved for refugee and immigrant women fleeing abuse, within which the program, “Changing Together,” will operate. A priority is information outreach — to inform immigrant women before they come to Canada, on their arrival, at settlement offices, banks, doctors’ offices and other frequent points of contact (including Facebook and Twitter) — about women’s rights here, reassuring immigrants that such practices as forced marriages and dowry fraud are not tolerated in Canada.

She then sums up her column by saying that a Liberal government probably would not be intiating such a program. I agree.

Not to be (very) partisan, but I doubt that a Liberal government would have found the will to apply such “active, muscular liberalism” to the problem before a European-style crisis forced its hand.

Clearly something has to be done to stop this kind of violence against innocent women and girls and I'm glad our Conservative government is on the ball on that front.  Liberals seem to be more for advocacy when it comes to womens issues. Conservatives are more for helping women directly. Case in point, they are defending womens rights not only in Canada but also in Afghanistan by help women and girls to go to school  to work etc.  

Liberals just talk, Conservatives do!

Gilles Revives the Coalition Talk

Just a little more than a month before the federal budget is scheduled to come down,  Bloc leader Gilles Duceppe has resurrected the idea of the coalition.

(Ottawa) A few weeks of possible federal election, the Bloc Quebecois revives the idea of supporting "a coalition of political parties" - presumably made up of Liberals and NDP - to dislodge the Conservatives of Stephen Harper.

Now we need to know where Jack and the Iffy Waffle stand.  They need to make it clear before Canadians go to the polls.  It will be the coalition of the losers or a Conservative majority. PM Harper has made that clear. This latest just plays into the Conservative party's narrative they will use the in the next election whether it be this spring or fall 2012. 

With the last couple of polls in the last few days that have come out from Ekos and Ipsos, it certainly doesn't look that positive for the coalition so they need to be careful.  That's if these polls are accurate and indicates a trend.  I would caution though to take these polls with a grain of salt. None the less this latest from the Bloc partner will make it more difficult for the coalition partners and their media cheerleaders play down the coalition of losers.

Now that Gilles has spoken, it's time for Jack and Iffy to put up or shut up.

CTV Gets Outed By Sun Media Journalist

Sun News can't come soon enough and here's one reason why. The shoddy journalism of the lame stream media.  Case in point is the latest by CTV and Toothpastegate.  They pick on the PM's comment about toothpaste and miss the rest.  How ignorant!
Thank God for Brian Lilley from Sun Media who calls out CTV for their hit job on PM Harper  He clarifies what PM Harper actually said.   The last part on his blog is bang on.

I hope no one relies on Question Period for their news.
This is why viewers are hungering for something different.
This is why Sun News is on the way.

Amen!!!  If this is the kind of stuff that Sun News will be offering, bring it on!   It's about time some of these arrogant Harper Conservative hating so called journalists were called out on their hatred and bias.  It'll be refreshing to actually get some facts for change.

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Do We Need An Adult Conversation on Multiculturalism?

I think we do. Saturday British Prime Minister David Cameron declared multiculturalism a failure. German Chancellor Angela Merkel said it before him last fall.  Now French President Nicolas Sarkosy has come claiming multiculturalism has failed.
Charles Adler feels our Prime Minister  here needs to say something too and states that it harms our country.

If we love this country, let us share what we treasure and what we are happy to discard. Let’s declare that Canada is not for sale on the corrupt and corrosive altar of multiculturalism. Let us declare the “experiment” has been a monstrous failure.
Just as alchemists have not been able to turn base metals into gold, government-subsidized multiculturalism has not turned diversity into unity. A hoax is a hoax. And it’s time to call BS on the hoax of government-sponsored multiculturalism. It has created division, not unity. It has generated suspicion, not cohesion.
Multiculturalism divides Canadian against Canadian. It gives power to the basest elements in Canada, those who don’t believe in national unity and ultimately those who don’t believe in Canada as we know it.

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I am looking forward to seeing Stephen Harper rise in the House of Commons and offer a David Cameron-like speech on multiculturalism. Does anyone doubt that the private Stephen Harper is on the same page as the now public David Cameron?

John Ibbitson clearly disagrees that there needs to be a debate in this country on that issue calling anyone who wants to debate frustrated, angry bigots.

Debating multiculturalism gives a voice to the angry, the frustrated and yes, the bigoted. It makes newer Canadians feel less welcome. It has the best walking on egg shells and the worst throwing eggs.

Excuse me?  So he basically  thinks that those of us who are not satisfied with our multiculturalism policy should just keep quiet. Well why should we walk on egg shells, not say anything and kow tow to those immigrants who demand the same things they had in their home country?  This is Canada for goodness sake! Our values, our way of doing things should be respected.  We should not be so timid.

To be against multiculturalism is not anti-immigrant. We should welcome immigrants but they should respect our values and integrate otherwise don't come.

So PM Harper, I'm with Mr. Adler, please stand up and say you agree with your counterpoints in Britain, Germany and France! I think.there is a silent majority out there who would support him.

PM Harper's Coalition Narrative

Are the opposition parties falling into PM Harper's coalition narrative  without even realizing it?   Increasingly all three opposition parties are in unison when it comes to opposing the government on kinds of fronts. Case in point, last night the three opposition's were united in voting for a Liberal motion to hike corporate taxes.
Then the Liberal leader comes out flip flopping on Bill S-10, a bill that would impose tougher sentences on some drug offenders stating the Liberals  will now vote against it.  They actually origninally supported this bill. They have now come in line with their coalition partners the NDP and the Bloc who have always been against Bill-S10.
Then you have Lib and Dipper social policy, you can't even tell them apart anymore.  It seems like the Libs are morphing into the NDP.   It's like they're one.

With all the opposition parties practically in lock step with each other these days it will make PM Harper's case that much easier.