As an Ideology, Conservatism tends to use already developed ideas. Conservatives tend to go back into the past and look for the best ideas to lead us in this time. These might be ideas that have been forgotten, ideas which didn’t work in an earlier time or ideas that were so successful that they have […]
Category: Freedom of Speech
“This may be because Canadians have been accustomed to democratic government for all of the 147 years since Confederation, know their rights, and defend them energetically against abuse. It’s downright silly to think they would just turn a blind eye to a rogue police force that started hauling away the neighbours.” Kelly McParland: Hold the […]
“The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic. […] The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they […]
“A senior Conservative cabinet minister says if it wasn’t for Canadian soldiers who risked their lives fighting communism, the world might never have had the last year of goofy unadulterated joy dancing to ‘Gangnam Style.’ In an interview broadcast on Radio-Canada on Sunday evening, Veteran’s Affairs Minister Steven Blaney said the viral South Korean hit […]
“The complication is that millions of Canadians do see homosexual behaviour in exactly those fire-and-brimstone terms, even if the rest of us (myself included) do not. They include not only many religious Christians such as Mr. Whatcott, but also many religious Muslims and Jews. And there is no sugar-coating the fact that — despite its […]
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