Thursday, March 8, 2007

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2007/03/07/lords-reform.html

The British House of Commons passes a bill to have a House of Lords that's elected. This is significant for electoral nerds like me, and very good news. I'm pretty much the biggest proponent of a Triple-E senate, modelled after Australia, as it's the first step to then reforming the lower house, which is pretty damn undemocratic in a number of areas. A healthy bi-cameral House can only strengthen Canada.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/03/08/canada-minorities.html

And the UN tells us to stop using the horribly racist term, 'visible minorities.' I'm glad that our most significant intergovernmental organization is busy with such significant matters, instead of, perhaps, STOPPING A FUCKING GENOCIDE.

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2007/03/08/3714945-cp.html

Lastly, we have a Bloc candidate who, in his words says:

"In none of my writings have I denied that there were mass killings, some even of an ethnic character. However, I categorically reject the abusive use of the expression 'genocide,' ” Mr. Philpot wrote, for example, in a 2004 comment piece to Le Devoir.
In an interview earlier this week with La Presse, he was quoted as saying: ”One cannot say there was a genocide in Rwanda the way there was a genocide against the Jews"

Forcing Boisclair to come up with this thrilling and risque statement: "It's clear to me there was a genocide." Stunning.

So why isn't this guy being deported like Ernst Zundel?

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