Monday, September 13, 2010
The future of the register in the heart of debates, by Francis Chartrand
At least one week of the resumption of the House of Commons question from the register of firearms is the subject of extensive negotiations within the New Democratic Party.
Met in National caucus meeting in Regina, the NDP will discuss farm in the coming days on the strategies they adopt in the House, including the vote to be held next week on the abolition of the register of firearms. The vote promises to be tight if only one or two votes could decide the future of the register to the Harper government wants to abolish.
If the Bloc Quebecois and the Liberal Party was imposed party discipline on the issue, the NDP leader Jack Layton, has preferred to let his members vote their conscience, a position that fuels the debate within the party and leaves the suspense over the future of the register of firearms.
There are less than one year, 12 of the 36 NDP members were in favor of the bill to abolish the registration of shotguns. Three members have changed their position since.
The others are in the midst of intense discussions within the party that holds the future of the register of firearms in his hands. The party leader, Jack Layton, for its part intends to vote against the abolition of the register of firearms. He is now attempting to rally dissident MPs within his party.
"We seek to build bridges between the various opinions in order to find solutions so that the registry works better," explained Jack Layton on Sunday on Radio-Canada.
"A lack of leadership", denounced the Bloc
Uncertainty in the NDP irritates the Bloc leader Gilles Duceppe. Met in caucus Monday morning in Montreal, Gilles Duceppe accused Layton to show "a pitiful lack of leadership" by refusing to require its members to save the register of firearms.
"It is not with the NDP Jack Layton that the road is blocked to the Conservatives," said Bloc leader against its troops.
For the NDP member Claude Gravelle, the future of the register does not rely on the NPD, several members of other parties are also, according to him, in favor of abolishing the registry. "Let's see how many Liberals will be absent for the vote," he said during an interview on Radio-Canada.
It's Wednesday, September 22 that the vote on the abolition of the register of firearms to be held in the House of Commons.
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Well, my comment now. There are nearly three years ago, December 16, 2007, I learned from the media that me and Micheline Montreuil were no more candidates. If you remember my story, you understand that I had heard the news through the Toronto Star, and later, 43 other candidates had withdrawn in the following weeks to protest against my ouster.
The reason for my ouster? I spoke in January 2007 against the reasonable accommodation on religious grounds because it threatened the gender equality, equality Canadian / immigrant, equality practicing / non practicing, equal to the origin an immigrant, because 22% of Canadians are of ethnic origin, and in these 22% of immigrants, 79% have fled their country to get away from religious fundamentalism, and 89% have fled their country to take shelter from the dictatorship.
Is it normal to seek the integration of secularism in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms? Of course there is, especially with 4 of 5 immigrants who want to know nothing to religious fundamentalists. In all the left parties on the planet, there is a motion claiming that the state is secular. All the left parties? No. In Canada, there is a political party of indomitable multiculturalists totalitarian and absolute, which still holds to reason, even often challenged by the Canadian Muslim Congress, Sino Canadian Congress, the Canadian Buddhist Federation, and so on . And life is not easy for other political parties, the Conservative Party, the Liberal Party, Bloc Quebecois and the Green Party.
Of course, I was talking about the NDP. The NDP, New Right Party, uh no, New Democratic Party rejected the idea that we talk about the separation of church and state, separation of Mosque and the state, the separation of synagogue and state. To make me feel guilty for having such an idea, I was called a racist, Nazi, pork, anti-Semitic, Islamophobic, in short, even dawn white, despite the fact that immigrants were joined my idea of resolution.
If I understood it in January 2008, the NDP had wanted to put his party line in an absolute policy of multiculturalism, even to get anyone's religion above all freedom of all Canadians of all origins.
Well, let's talk about the party line. What right Jack Layton supports a free vote on the register of firearms? Jack had feet and hands to the National Congress of the NDP in Quebec City in 2006, when he had said that his party would never abandon the registry. This simple sentence of his long speech closing the Congress had won him great applause. Just as the National Congress of the NDP in 2009 in Halifax, which I did not attend.
What about this speech? A speech that changed to be more elective, probably more to join the Prairies, the home of the NDP. Maybe the party has no funds for election campaigns, so twelve members of the NDP would vote with the Conservatives, and they would because the NDP does not want to go to election.
Anyway, some NDP in Manitoba and Ontario have been elected in 2008 to maintain the national register of firearms, it would be a shame to call into question their seat at the next election, what do you think, Jack!
Labels: Francis Chartrand, New Democratic Party
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