Canada to firmly re-assess its status as a British colony

[crazy canuck]

And the Conservatvies keep on at it - this time restoring a lot of old Army traditions:

And they are ridding for a major fall at the next election.  We've had quite enough of western provincialism for a few lifetimes.



G.

I am pretty sure you have said that in the last several election cycles.

[viper37]

dumb move.  Going back to colonial roots instead of creating a new identity.

[crazy canuck]

dumb move.  Going back to colonial roots instead of creating a new identity.

Like what?

[Valmy]

dumb move.  Going back to colonial roots instead of creating a new identity.

Like what?

All military titles should be named after Hockey positions and/or Tim Horton's menu items.

[Grallon]

dumb move.  Going back to colonial roots instead of creating a new identity.

New identity?  Didn't you get the memo?  The Liberals have been doing 'nation building' for 40 years.  With mixed results - the anglos have swallowed the multikulti shiite wholesale while we mostly reject it and bilinguism as a state policy has failed - what else is there?  Once upon a time Canada was reknowned for its peacekeeping diplomacy - now we can't even win a seat on the UN Security council - thanks to the Conservatives' blind alignment on Israel et their general disinterest for anything that isn't about the economy.  And all these colonial platitudes they keep trying to foist on everyone.  Provincialism was the right word to use.




G.

[Barrister]

dumb move.  Going back to colonial roots instead of creating a new identity.

New identity?  Didn't you get the memo?  The Liberals have been doing 'nation building' for 40 years.  With mixed results - the anglos have swallowed the multikulti shiite wholesale while we mostly reject it and bilinguism as a state policy has failed - what else is there?  Once upon a time Canada was reknowned for its peacekeeping diplomacy - now we can't even win a seat on the UN Security council - thanks to the Conservatives' blind alignment on Israel et their general disinterest for anything that isn't about the economy.  And all these colonial platitudes they keep trying to foist on everyone.  Provincialism was the right word to use.

You can't have it both ways.  You can't criticize the Liberals for nation building and "multikulti shiite", but then also criticize the Conservatives when they try and reverse some of those trends (at least with respect to the Canadian Forces).

[crazy canuck]

dumb move.  Going back to colonial roots instead of creating a new identity.

Like what?

All military titles should be named after Hockey positions and/or Tim Horton's menu items.

[Malthus]

dumb move.  Going back to colonial roots instead of creating a new identity.

Like what?

All military titles should be named after Hockey positions and/or Tim Horton's menu items.

Aye-aye, Timbits. 

[viper37]

and/or Tim Horton's menu items.

that crazyness has reached Quebec, even.  Distinct society, no longer we are

I'm still trying to find what Canadians find so great about this coffee.

[Barrister]

and/or Tim Horton's menu items.

that crazyness has reached Quebec, even.  Distinct society, no longer we are

I'm still trying to find what Canadians find so great about this coffee.

There's little to recommend about Tim Horton's coffee.

[viper37]

A law originating in 1731 from the British Parliament precedes all other Canadian laws, including the 1982 Constitution.  Weird, for an independant country.

I can't imagine the outcry in Canada if a Quebec court was to refuse documents submitted in english and ask a mandatory french translation.  No doubt, accusation of racism and intolerance would surface...

[Valmy]

A law originating in 1731 from the British Parliament precedes all other Canadian laws, including the 1982 Constitution.  Weird, for an independant country.

Heh.  Euros still follow Roman Laws, the US still follows Common Law, and Louisiana still follows the Napoleonic Civil Code.

Granted Louisiana is not an independent country so I guess that holds up.

[The Brain]

The main problem with Common Law is that it is just that.

[ulmont]

Heh.  Euros still follow Roman Laws, the US still follows Common Law, and Louisiana still follows the Napoleonic Civil Code.

Granted Louisiana is not an independent country so I guess that holds up.

This is not  true, other than the independent country bit.  Louisiana:
(1) Based its code on the same Spanish sources the Napoleonic code was based on (the Napoleonic code was not enacted until after the Louisiana Purchase);
(2) As a US possession, started with a criminal code based on the common law rather than the civil law, and codified as the Crimes Act of 1805;
(3) Has enacted almost all of the Uniform Commercial Code;
(4) And has been heavily influenced by the law of the rest of the United States to the point that many common law concepts are just given a funny name in Louisiana.

[viper37]

A law originating in 1731 from the British Parliament precedes all other Canadian laws, including the 1982 Constitution.  Weird, for an independant country.

Heh.  Euros still follow Roman Laws, the US still follows Common Law, and Louisiana still follows the Napoleonic Civil Code.

Granted Louisiana is not an independent country so I guess that holds up.

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Louisiana follows its own civil code, wich happens to be the one made by Napoleon.  We had the same in Quebec for long, until we modernized it.  And I'm pretty sure the Louisiana civil code has been modified over the years, and no one can use a law voted in France in 1812 to justfify something.  And if any Louisiana law were to forbid something like, say, free speech, I'm pretty sure the Federal Constitution would supercede it, no?

Or are you telling me that Louisiana would be free to... say, ban all handguns from New Orleans?