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Silver
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 Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 10:34 pm Post subject: Seals, Iraqui's, and Blacks |
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Seems it isn't just on this board that folks can't discuss anything using reason.....
Senator fires back at U.S. family upset with seal hunt
Last updated Mar 17 2006 02:27 PM EST
CBC News
A Quebec senator is causing a furor because of a letter she sent to a family in the United States.
The family sent a letter to the Canadian Senate, criticizing the seal hunt.
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Senator Céline Hervieux-Payette wrote back telling the family to look in their own back yard if they wanted to protest against inhumane government policies.
Letter exchange
The trouble started when Hervieux-Payette, and many other senators in Ottawa, got a letter from a family in Minnesota.
The McLellan family said they had cancelled their plans to vacation in Canada because of the seal hunt. The letter called the hunt 'horrible' and 'inhumane.'
That was too much for Hervieux-Payette, who shot back with a letter of her own.
"Who are these people to threaten us as if we were not civilized in our policy? And I said, I think you can look in your own back yard, and maybe there are some policies that are a lot more horrific," said Hervieux-Payette.
The Senator's letter pointed to:
The daily massacre of innocent people in Iraq.
The execution of prisoners in the U-S itself, most of whom are black.
The destabilization of the entire world with American foreign policy.
Hervieux-Payette denies she's being anti-American.
"No, it's a anti-government policy, it has nothing to do with the Americans themselves, there are many people in the United States that are quite decent, and that are criticizing the government," Hervieux-Payette said Friday.
Hervieux-Payette insists she won't apologize for the letter, because she is just expressing an opinion held by many Canadians.
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Silver
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greg
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| Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 11:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Only problam being,if they were opposed to seal hunt they were prob opposed to the war too.
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Silver
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Mrs.Greg
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| Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2006 9:57 am Post subject: |
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| stevec..What makes you think this Senator is a moron?Also FYI our Senators are appointed not elected!
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Silver
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| Who elects senators???
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Mrs.Greg
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| Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2006 2:46 pm Post subject: |
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| They are appointed by the Governer General.
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Mrs.Greg
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cowboyup
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Mrs.Greg
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| Your right cowboyup she did really come off Anti American!On the other side of the coin she was defending the Canadian seal hunt.Right or wrong I can't really say because I'm from Western Canada not Eastern Canada, and we don't make our living of the fisheries but I do know theres always alot of protests when the seal hunt comes around.I'm hoping she went off half cocked and didn't really think about what she was saying, and is maybe sorry about her letter back.She was in a position she REALLY shouldn't have said what she did!!!
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