The Fundamentalist Christian Minority Conservative government have made it quite clear that they have zero respect for Human Rights.

In the belief’s of  Stockwell Day, – Back when Mr. Day was dismissing evolution he was also, lest we forget, trying to defend his more serious trangressions. He had expressed the view that we should place child abusers in the general prison population so that those prisoners could summarily execute the abuser. He was also proud of the fact that he made a point of being one of the first customers at holocaust denier Jim Keegstra’s new garage after he was convicted of hate crimes.  When he was an Alberta MLA, Mr. Day slandered Red Deer lawyer and school trustee Lorne Goddard, attacking him for defending a pedophile in a child pornography cas. ” Goddard must also believe it is fine for a teacher to possess child porn,” said Day. He spent years badgering his cabinet colleagues to end abortion funding. -

The disturbing pattern of those days is revealing itself again. If the law and constitution of the land conflict with Mr Day’s perverse version of Christian values, then he feels no compunction in simply ignoring the law. The roots of this contempt for human rights go deep for Mr. Day, right to the very notion of democratic governance. Under his guidance the Bentley (Alberta) Christian Centre featured a social studies lesson which declared that democratic governments “represent the ultimate deification of man, which is the very essence of humanism and totally alien to God’s word.”

Take a read of this article about the actions of their minority government.

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Metro

March 03, 2010 5:48 a.m.

OTTAWA – Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney blocked any reference to gay rights in a new study guide for immigrants applying for Canadian citizenship, The Canadian Press has learned.

Internal documents show an early draft of the guide contained sections noting that homosexuality was decriminalized in 1969; that the Charter of Rights and Freedoms forbids discrimination based on sexual orientation; and that same-sex marriage was legalized nationally in 2005.

But Kenney, who fought same-sex marriage when it was debated in Parliament, ordered those key sections removed when his office sent its comments to the department last June. Senior department officials duly cut out the material, but made a last-ditch plea with Kenney in early August to have it reinstated.

“Recommend the re-insertion of the text boxes related to … the decriminalization of homosexual sex/recognition of same-sex marriage,” says a memorandum to Kenney from deputy minister Neil Yeates.

“Recommend the addition of ‘equality rights’ under list of rights. Had noted earlier that this bullet should be reinserted into the list as a means of noting the equality of all based on race, gender, sexual orientation etc …”

In the end, however, Kenney’s view trumped that of the bureaucrats. The 63-page guide, released with fanfare last November, contains no mention of gay and lesbian rights.

About 500,000 copies were printed and citizenship applicants will start being tested on its contents March 15.

The $400,000 project substantially updated an earlier edition of the guide created in 1995. The new version significantly expands sections on Canada’s military past and on aboriginals, drawing on the views of a panel of prominent Canadians.

The new guide got generally positive reviews when it was launched, though some immediately noted the absence of gay rights, including same-sex marriage.

The publication does include a picture of Olympic gold medal swimmer Mark Tewksbury, however, with a caption saying he is a “prominent activist for gay and lesbian Canadians.”

Drafts and other internal documents related to the guide were obtained by The Canadian Press under the Access to Information Act.

“Homosexuality was decriminalized in 1969 and more recently, civil marriage rights to same-sex couples was legalized nationwide in 2005,” the earliest draft of the guide says under the section Towards a Modern Canada.

And in the section on citizenship rights, the early draft said: “Equality Rights – Canadians are protected against discrimination based on race, gender, national origin, religion, sexual orientation or age.”

Neither sentence survived the minister’s red marker.

Kenney has steadfastly opposed same-sex marriage since his time as an opposition MP in the House of Commons.

He spoke against the Civil Marriage Act, or Bill C-38, when it was debated in the Commons in February 2005. And days earlier, Kenney told a session with Toronto-area Punjabi journalists that gays had every right to marry – as long as it wasn’t someone of the same sex.

He reaffirmed his stand in 2006 when the newly elected Conservative government attempted without success to revoke the legislation.

Last year, Kenney appointed a longtime Conservative who opposes same-sex marriage to the Immigration and Refugee Board, which among other things makes decisions about whether gays can be given refugee status in Canada.

When the new guide was released Nov. 12, Kenney brushed off a reporter’s question about why it lacked any reference to same-sex marriage.

“We can’t mention every legal decision, every policy of the government of Canada,” he said.

“We try to be inclusive and include a summary. I can tell you that if you were to read the old book, you wouldn’t even know that there are gay and lesbian Canadians.” He then noted the caption under Tewksbury’s photo.

Kenney’s spokesman reiterated that the 1995 guide “produced by the Liberals” did not mention gays and lesbians.

“We can endlessly debate what was included or not included,” Alykhan Velshi said in an email last week. “Unavoidably, choices had to be made about content because we had to ensure the guide did not become encyclopedic.”

Velshi also noted the new guide does not refer to marriage at all, whether opposite sex or same sex.

The gay-rights group Egale Canada met with the minister in early December after learning booklet made no reference to gay and lesbian rights, and is negotiating with the department to have them included in the next printing, about a year away.

Executive director Helen Kennedy said Kenney told the group that gay rights had been “overlooked” when the guide was being prepared. She expressed surprise when told draft versions contained references to gay rights and that they were ordered removed.

“I’m hopeful and optimistic that we’re going to get it fixed because we’re not happy with it.”

Liberal MP Scott Brison, who was married in a same-sex ceremony in 2007, said the Conservatives carefully excluded from the guide the charter rights they don’t agree with.

“It’s becoming very clear that Minister Kenney never intended this to be a Canadian citizenship guide but instead a Conservative citizenship guide,” he said in an interview.

“They have selectively listed the charter decisions that they agree with and have ignored those that they don’t. And the Charter of Rights is not a buffet – you can’t pick from it the rights you like and ignore the rest.”

Brison added that Canada’s progressive record on human rights has helped make the country a magnet for those escaping oppression around the world.

The NDP’s critic on gay and lesbian issues said new immigrants need to know about basic rights guaranteed by the charter.

“The minister, Jason Kenney, can’t edit gay and lesbian Canadians out of Canadian history,” Bill Siksay said. “That’s something that newcomers to Canada should know about.”

The Canadian Press previously reported that other sections of the draft version of the guide were excised at the suggestion of the panel of prominent Canadians.

The deleted sections included one reference that said Canadian churches ran Indian residential schools, where aboriginal children were abused.

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The utter contempt felt by the present Conservative government towards Human Rights and the ultimate protector of the Canadian Charter Of Rights and Freedoms can be shown through their action.

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Critics rip Tories for appointing new head of rights group in ‘dead of night’

OTTAWA – The Conservative government has now “effectively destroyed” an internationally respected human-rights and democracy-promoting organization, Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff said Wednesday.

The latest development in the ongoing troubles at the government-funded, arms-length agency Rights and Democracy came late Tuesday evening when Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon issued a news release naming a new president.

Critics say the “dead-of-night” announcement of Gerard Latulippe – a man whose proposed appointment was rejected in government consultations with all three opposition parties – neatly sums up Conservative operating principles.

“This is the way the Harper regime works,” said Ignatieff.

“They seek advice from opposition leaders. We tell them a hyper-partisan appointment is the worst thing to do, because it was hyper-partisanship that got this organization into the mess it’s in. Instead they don’t listen to anybody, they keep on going.”

Latulippe was a former Quebec provincial Liberal with Cannon and later ran federally for the Canadian Alliance in 2000. He’s the resident director of the National Democratic Institute in Haiti.

Latulippe replaces Remy Beauregard, who died of a heart attack in January after repeated clashes with staunch pro-Israel appointees to the agency’s board of directors.

Latulippe fits the mould of the new direction the Conservative government apparently wants the 22-year-old agency to take: He has written about what he considers the problem of Muslim immigration patterns in Quebec and its potential for breeding homegrown terrorism.

His appointment comes in the same week that three senior managers at the Montreal-based Rights and Democracy agency were fired, allegedly for insubordination, according to their lawyer Julius Grey.

NDP foreign affairs critic Paul Dewar said everything about Latulippe’s appointment is wrong.

“Clearly the government has to acknowledge that they’ve made a mess of things and Mr. Latulippe is not going to help matters,” said Dewar. “He’s a controversial appointment. They know that.”

“The fact that they confirmed his appointment in the dead of night shows just what they’re up to – and that’s trying to not really be accountable.”

While the unusual late-evening announcement, released just minutes before the final television newscast hour at 11 p.m. ET, prompted eye-rolling from opposition critics, Cannon’s office insisted the move was not calculated.

Cannon’s director of communications, Catherine Loubier, said the decision was only made Tuesday.

“Once the appointment was finalized, we made it public,” she said in an email. “Our only intention was to get the information to the public as soon as possible. The opposition should know better.”

On Tuesday, Loubier had informed The Canadian Press that a decision on the appointment would be coming “shortly” – but not that day.

While governments have traditionally consulted the opposition on appointments to Rights and Democracy, Loubier said the opposition “decided to play partisan games” in this case.

“It’s disappointing that the opposition ignored the impressive professional credentials of Mr. Latulippe,” she said.

Rights and Democracy has been in turmoil for months as Conservative appointees to the board have battled over three minor funding grants to human-rights groups that are critical of Israeli policies.

Critics accuse the Harper government of trying to gag legitimate criticism of Israel by meddling in what is supposed to be an independent body.

“Why does this matter to Canadians?” Ignatieff said Wednesday.

“Because an organization created by the Conservative party, run first by a former leader of the NDP, has now been effectively destroyed by the Harper government.”

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Present members of this Christian Fundamentalist Minority Conservative government within Canada are well aware that they have broken our laws by directly, shamelessly violating the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms through their sectarian imposed increase of our age of sexual consent from aged 14 – what it has been for over 100 years since it was unjustly increased from age 12 – to age 16. This act is illegal as it is unimportant if the increase is 1 year or 10 years. It is just as illegal as increasing the voting age or barring females form their right to vote in elections. Any charged for engaging in consensual, recreational sex with 14 or 15 year-old adults need only have their legal team contact me at viamund@hotmail.com to restore Canada’;s legal age of sexual consent to age 14 and have illegal provisions struck  from the criminal code of Canada that rely upon the legal age of 14 years.

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Most of the Conservative M.P.’s come from the West – Calgary being Canada’s Bible Belt. The excerpt below sums up the views of these religious Freaks in the Canada’s West.

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The possibility of naming a school after the former prime minister responsible for the National Energy Program got under the skin of many Calgarians.

“What is this — a sick kind of joke,” Edward McMullan wrote in a letter to the editor.

“Trudeau ruined Canada along with his Charter of Rights and Freedoms, whereby the courts decide our destiny, over the federal government. He also instituted the National Energy program, which was disastrous to Alberta.”

Stephen Harper is only one ugly head of a vast Hydra. It is not possible to slay a Hydra by cutting off one of it’s grotesque heads as two more will arise from that bloody stump. To slay this beast is through the heart only. That is the ending of all tax exempt status being granted to these vapid organized religions, all religions.