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A few more for the list

by Aaron Wherry on Thursday, July 22, 2010 3:18pm - 0 Comments

The United Church chimes in.

“We see this as a step backward at a time when Canadians need access to reliable census information to help build a more equitable and just society,” says the Rev. Bruce Gregersen, General Council Officer, Programs.

The Registered Nurses Association of Ontario and the Ontario Public School Board Association too.

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  • Holly Stick

    But of course the Harper Conservatives do not want a more equitable and just society. The do not want good government. They want an authoritarian police state with their boot coming down on our faces forever.

    • Greg

      I think you go too far here. I think Harper would be just as happy with no government at all.

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/Scott_Tribe Scott_Tribe

    Awesome. Nice to see my church get into the fray as well.

  • Andrew (not PorC)

    So, anyone else think that this might just be another front in the culture war the CPC has been waging? Rile the intellectuals and the social justice folks, and the base will rally around the CPC out of reflexive revulsion of these types? Enemy of my enemy is my friend?

    • Standing By

      Of course, that's what it is.

      Beyond that, Harper seems to have decided to go all tea party on us. Since this is a certain route to political oblivion in Canada, I'm wondering if maybe he is in exit mode. He knows he's never going to get a majority, so maybe he just wants to go out looking principled.

  • PolJunkie

    C'mon Wherry… Nothing but a bunch of Starbucks-latte-sipping elitists. I bet you that most of them went to Harvard or some sort of Ivy League school.

    • Patchouli

      Nurses, church ministers and teachers are latte-sipping elitists? They must make a lot more where you live.

      • http://intensedebate.com/people/PolJunkie PolJunkie

        Gee Patchouli. I was being sarcastic.

        • Patchouli

          Oh, sorry! As Emily Littella would say…"never mind."

          I will turn my irony identifier back on now…batteries must be worn down.

    • Holly Stick

      Ha, as I learned from Jeopardy last night, the only American president with degrees from both Harvard and Yale is George W. Bush. Now there's irony for you.

      • http://intensedebate.com/people/CTM Claudia Lemire

        No kidding!

  • Emily

    Affirmative Action is next on the list apparently.
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/tori…

    • Emily

      I meant to say that will be the next thing to go after the census.

      And I'm sure the CRTC will get hit as well.

      • burlivespipe

        So how are they going to do that while also ensuring that the Canadian taxpayers cough up more for it? If their own dumbed-down voluntary and unreliable census is much more costly, why are we not hearing from the fiscal conservatives who aren't part of the Ron Paul cheer section? Has Harper already bought them out?

    • http://intensedebate.com/people/PolJunkie PolJunkie

      Wow! The Tories are on a roll, aren't they? What's next? Reinstating the death penalty?

      • Emily

        I dunno, but it's sure a strange way to behave.

        After all the work Harper has done to get minorities and science and moderates etc 'onside'….it's like they decided to blow everything up all at once!

    • http://intensedebate.com/people/bergkamp bergkamp

      "the way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race" Chief Justice Roberts

    • Gaunilon

      Now that I could get behind. If they have the stones to do it I'd be extremely impressed.

      I just hope they don't screw it up by making an incoherent case.

      • bergkamp

        "Now that I could get behind. If they have the stones to do it I'd be extremely impressed."

        That's exactly what I was thinking. I will believe this when relevant legislation is passed but not before but I would be absolutely amazed, and delighted, if Cons follow through on this policy. I might even vote Con if they abolished racial discrimination when hiring.

  • Standing By

    Good statement from the nurses.

    Too bad there isn't an independent national chief medical officer of health to speak up in defense of this attack on evidence-based public health.

    Oh wait, there is one, but he's apparently tied up in Vienna, babysitting the minister.
    http://pr-canada.net/index.php?option=com_content…

  • Tony

    Affirmative Action is next on the list !!!!! Awesome! What a week!

  • Aongasha

    All these organizations do not speak for all members. Mine is one of them and it does not speak for me on this issue. Plus the do not counter-balance the half the population of which I am one, who agrees with the doing the way of the long-form. You need to get over it Wherry your biases are showing. You should join that 400 club of the media's in the US out to skewer the news in favour of Obama. Fair and balanced journalism is a joke in this country. Bring on Fox North!

    • http://intensedebate.com/people/Scott_Tribe Scott_Tribe

      you're basing that on one sole opinion poll so far.. done online with a voters panel. Lets see what other polls say before we make blanket statements.

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