{"id":27901,"date":"2011-12-13T10:57:17","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T14:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=27901"},"modified":"2011-12-13T10:59:27","modified_gmt":"2011-12-13T14:59:27","slug":"o-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27901","title":{"rendered":"O Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"

Coupla news stories from up north made me smile.<\/p>\n

Show your face!<\/a><\/p>\n

In a move likely to increase tension with Canada’s Muslim minority, the government said on Monday it would bar all women wearing face coverings from taking part in citizenship ceremonies.<\/p>\n

Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said he had received complaints from citizenship judges and parliamentarians about veiled women taking the oath to formally become Canadian.<\/p>\n

“Requiring that all candidates show their faces while reciting the oath allows judges and everyone present to share in the ceremony,” Kenney said in a speech in Montreal.<\/p>\n

“The citizenship oath is a quintessentially public act. It is a public declaration that you are joining the Canadian family and it must be taken freely and openly.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Phooey on Kyoto!<\/a><\/p>\n

Canada pulled out of the Kyoto Protocol on climate change Monday, saying the accord won’t help solve the climate crisis. It dealt a blow to the anti-global warming treaty, which has not been formally renounced by any other country.<\/p>\n

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“To meet the targets under Kyoto for 2012 would be the equivalent of either removing every car, truck, ATV, tractor, ambulance, police car and vehicle of every kind from Canadian roads or closing down the entire farming and agriculture sector and cutting heat to every home, office, hospital, factory and building in Canada,” Kent said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Something from all those oil sands must be leaking into the drinking water? Maybe we need to distill it and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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