Under the previous government, Canada’s criminal justice system focused more on the rights of criminals than the rights of victims. Our government believes that child pornography is an especially heinous form of child abuse. Re: Too Lenient On Lahey, editorial, Jan. When he lists other great British prime ministers, he excludes William Gladstone, whose achievements, at least in the field of domestic reform, eclipsed those of Churchill. I have one other quibble with Lord Black’s paean to Maggie Thatcher. Mulroney found himself on the right side of history. When apartheid imploded as a result of sanctions, Mr.
Reagan preferred to appease the minority regime and to accept its bogus Bantustan policy, which gave the black majority “independence” in barren rural areas. As our former prime minister chronicles in his memoirs, he believed firm economic sanctions could bring down apartheid. In doing this, she, and her partner, Ronald Reagan, rejected the counsel of their friend, Brian Mulroney. This was her decision to compromise with the forces of racist hate and fear in South Africa. While Conrad Black is bang-on in reminding us that Margaret Thatcher was a titan in an arena of midgets, especially in warning Britain against embarking on a march of folly to enter a “united” Europe ruled by tyrannical bureaucrats, he ignores perhaps her only blind spot. Re: An Iron Lady’s Vindication, Conrad Black, Jan.
If the preferential ballot was used, parties would disappear because people would no longer be playing the charade of voting for parties and their leaders, while pretending to vote for a candidate, to make their vote count, and they could rank the candidates honestly so that the candidates, preferred to all others by the majority of the voters in every riding, could be identified and declared elected. We should instead dream of creating a parliament without political parties. It is chimerical to dream of creating a political party for voters who don’t like political parties. Re: Creating A Political Party For Voters Who Don’t Like Political Parties, Mike Crawley, Jan. Only the woman has the authority to decide what to do about it. Article contentĪ fetus is part of a woman’s body - just like an inflamed appendix or bad tooth - until it is born. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.