Title: Proudly Canadian
Description: Equality defended
Description: Equality defended
tudy - December 8, 2006 07:44 PM (GMT)
Hey guys..Parliament yesterday resoundly defeated a motion, to revisit our country's law,that grants equal marriage rights to all of our citizens.
Times Colonist December 8
" It has been a relentless journey-leading to yesterday's vote..to equality,social harmony, and pride.
Not just gay pride: Pride in our generous fairminded country."
Proudly Canadian - Tudy
Times Colonist December 8
" It has been a relentless journey-leading to yesterday's vote..to equality,social harmony, and pride.
Not just gay pride: Pride in our generous fairminded country."
Proudly Canadian - Tudy
bc gal - December 8, 2006 10:19 PM (GMT)
Hey...
Good news from our northern neighbor!
:clap
tudy - December 9, 2006 12:16 AM (GMT)
Hey bc that's.." neighbour" to-day bud..Cheers
Loon - December 9, 2006 01:02 AM (GMT)
It’s over, done with, decided…twice…now hopefully those folks who were whining about it in the first place can do the Canadian thing, shrug their shoulders and get back to shoveling the driveway.
Ningi - December 9, 2006 02:58 AM (GMT)
Equal rights for all and not just a few .
I know that our Canadian Gay friends have stood up and campaigned for their rights in Canada .
Well done to you all .
I know that our Canadian Gay friends have stood up and campaigned for their rights in Canada .
Well done to you all .
tudy - December 9, 2006 05:17 PM (GMT)
Right on Loon..This is me drinking a Timbo's..Flooding the rink out back..eh...Politics..what's that?? Cheers
MJNet - December 10, 2006 09:56 PM (GMT)
Well done CANADA!
Now if only the UK could follow... :clap
Now if only the UK could follow... :clap
Stircrazy - June 30, 2007 09:47 PM (GMT)
You have to laugh! Just goes to show, it ain't just the Brits... :rofl
Half of Canadians too ignorant to be Canadian
AFP - Friday, 29th June, 9:10 pm
OTTAWA (AFP) - Two days before Canadians celebrate their nation, a survey published Friday found that more than half of them would not be granted citizenship on the basis of their knowledge of their own country. According to the Ipsos Reid poll, 60 per cent of Canadians would fail the citizenship exam, a necessary step for immigrants to be granted citizenship. However, an "outstanding majority", or 70 per cent of newcomers, scored a passing grade when administered the same quiz.
The results are "frankly disheartening," said Rudyard Griffiths of the Dominion Institute. "Immigrants to Canada have accumulated more knowledge about the workings of the Canadian government, key moments in Canada's past, and the geography of Canada than the general Canadian public." In 1997, only 45 per cent of respondents failed an identical test, indicating that Canadians' knowledge of themselves also appears to be sliding, Griffiths lamented.
To pass the test participants had to correctly answer 12 of 21 questions on Canadian history, politics, culture and geography.
Half of Canadians too ignorant to be Canadian
AFP - Friday, 29th June, 9:10 pm
OTTAWA (AFP) - Two days before Canadians celebrate their nation, a survey published Friday found that more than half of them would not be granted citizenship on the basis of their knowledge of their own country. According to the Ipsos Reid poll, 60 per cent of Canadians would fail the citizenship exam, a necessary step for immigrants to be granted citizenship. However, an "outstanding majority", or 70 per cent of newcomers, scored a passing grade when administered the same quiz.
The results are "frankly disheartening," said Rudyard Griffiths of the Dominion Institute. "Immigrants to Canada have accumulated more knowledge about the workings of the Canadian government, key moments in Canada's past, and the geography of Canada than the general Canadian public." In 1997, only 45 per cent of respondents failed an identical test, indicating that Canadians' knowledge of themselves also appears to be sliding, Griffiths lamented.
To pass the test participants had to correctly answer 12 of 21 questions on Canadian history, politics, culture and geography.