The agency says all three major categories of hate crime increased in 2008, but the largest increase was among crimes motivated by sexual orientation, which more than doubled from 2007 to 2008.
Hate crimes motivated by sexual orientation were also the most violent: 75 per cent were violent compared with 38 per cent of racially-motivated incidents and 25 per cent of religiously motivated incidents.
Answer: because he's a hideous homophobe and a holy hypocrite.
Which reminds me...remember how Stockwell Day was going on the other day about un-reported crimes and invisible criminals?
How come Doris forgot to mention one of the most un-reported violent crimes of all?
And the gay victims...
Answer: because he's also a homophobe. And like every other disgusting ReformCon he's never lifted a finger to fight homophobia. Only encouraged it.
Oh boy. I try very hard not to hate any group of people. Because I want to be better than that.
But when I see what these foul, misogynistic, homophobic, racist Cons are doing to my beautiful country.
Oh boy. It's been this kind of day. Stockwell "Doris" Day tries to prove we need to spend billions on new prisons without any facts.
Given that Day seemed to suggest, in response to an earlier question, that census data becomes "untenable" a year or two after it was initially collected, it's hard to see how he would become "alarmed" by victimization reports from six years ago.
Rob "Man Dingo" Nicholson tries to clarify the Con position without thinking what he's saying.
Unlike the Liberals, we do not use statistics as an EXCUSE not to get tough on criminals. As far as our Government is concerned, one victim of crime is still one too many.
A spokeswoman for Justice Minister Rob Nicholson said the comments were backed by research from Statistics Canada that revealed a drop in the percentage of self-described victims who reported crimes that were committed against them.
However, Statistics Canada shot down the interpretation, saying that the data could not be compared to police-reported crime statistics since it only surveyed eight types of crimes as opposed to the hundreds of crimes investigated by police.
Because I was at work I had to watch the Tony Clement Show with the sound turned down.
Which was almost as disappointing as the fact he wasn't wearing a life jacket.
But from the weird look in his eyes and the way he moved his fleshy beak. Buh buh buh buh buh. I knew he was just parroting the government line.
The government is resolved “to protect Canadians from the coercive and intrusive methods that had been used” to collect census data, Mr. Clement told the committee.
And from the manic way he rocked back and forth in his seat, it was obvious that his attempt to defend the indefensible, has clearly driven him over the deep end.
Just like Doris...
“Do you think it is right that you can threaten your neighbour with jail time if she doesn’t tell you if she has mental issues or not?” he wrote. “Or who does what chores in the house? Or whether she is a Jew or not? Don't you find that one even a little bit chilling?”
Gawd. Who has mental issues? Who are these Con klowns going to try to scare us with next ? Ahmadinejad or Octopus Paul?
And can't they even get their story straight ?
Because you know Hitler is Hitler, Stalin is Stalin, and Harper is Harper.
And I really need to know which dictator is threatening my bedroom.
Oh well, all kidding aside, trying to reason with these klown ideologues is just a waste of time. The facts are simple and they speak for themselves.
These Cons are trying to plunge Canada into the darkness of ignorance, to please their smelly base who are too dumb, or too lazy, or too paranoid, to fill out a form.
The stench is killing Canada:
We won’t know any more, for sure, how many same-sex couples live among us, how many people are coping with physical or mental difficulties, how well people are speaking English or French, where people came from, how many Indians and other aboriginals there are, who has moved from where to where, who works at what and how much we get paid, who’s paying child support, how the housing stock is fairing, and much more.
Achtung !! Achtung !! It's the Con Gotterdammerung !!
With the latest orders from the PMO...or Klink's Place.
When arrested approached by a census Nazi taker you vill only give zem your name, rank and serial number.
A senior Harper cabinet minister is invoking the Geneva Convention when defending his government's controversial decision to scrap a mandatory long-form census.
“All we’re saying is, people shouldn’t be threatened with jail because they don’t want to tell some unknown bureaucrat how many bedrooms they’ve got in their house,” Mr. Day told Calgary radio station QR-77 on Friday.
“And you know, even prisoners of war only have to give their name, rank and serial number.”
OK. I know Doris Day is an idiot.
And so is Tony Oh My Darling Dumb Clementine.
And that the Great Lord of Darkness is certifiably insane...
But this is the LIMIT.
How dare these torture Cons use the Geneva Convention to justify ANYTHING?
Mein Gott. I realize it's terribly hot. I also realize that in Harper's Canada paranoia is a higher state of consciousness.
But two things are for sure eh?
These wretched Cons are morally and mentally unfit to govern.
You don't have to know much about anything to know that Stockwell Day...the Con we call Doris...is an absolute idiot.
But can't that old homophobe even do his job?
As you may know the U.S. State Department is warning Americans to stay away from downtown Toronto. Which will kill the city's struggling tourist industry at what is normally one of the busiest times of the year.
Even though the city has never looked shinier...
Or safer. That's a cop on the corner drinking out of a portable water fountain. And I counted about a hundred today...in a three block area.
So what does Doris do? He makes the Americans sound reasonable. And the city sound dangerous.
"And when I'm talking about thugs I'm talking about thugs, I'm talking about the anarchists and the violent groups who have already indicated that they're going to be there and they're going to cause trouble."
Instead of telling the Americans to get a grip on themselves.
Well at least now we know this: somewhere in a pile of heavily censored documents, is one mother of a revelation waiting to go off like a bomb. In the faces of Stephen Harper's Cons. Because when they wheel out the ridiculous SoCon Doris Day...the Minister of International Trade... to tell us what other parliamentarians can or cannot read.
"There are details of which, if they were to be publicly made available, would only help the enemy. So the law is very clear that there are situations where there could be security issues where certain elements of an operation must be protected." You know these Cons are feeling the coming of the Day of Judgment. And that this outrageous muzzling of Parliament has nothing to do with protecting the lives of our soldiers, and everything to do with protecting THEM. So what ARE these Cons trying to hide? Since I'm not a Con or a General I can't know for sure. But here are some educated guesses: (1) In the bloody year of 2006, when almost five times as many Canadian soldiers were killed than had died in the four years before, we retaliated by taking a lot of prisoners... including many innocent farmers. We weren't too fussy about happened to them in the hands of the Afghan police. And this hardline policy was ordered by the high command and the Cons in Ottawa. Even though they knew that Afghans were being tortured.
(2) As a result of this policy, Canadian soldiers reported numerous instances of abuse, but they were suppressed and nothing was done about them for eighteen months. Even though the Cons were aware of these reports they chose to look away, and let the Afghan torturers extract as much information as possible. (3) Somebody in Ottawa set up a scheme to ensure that the torturers had enough time to extract that information, by dragging their heels as long as possible, before informing the Red Cross.
It would be difficult to conceive of a slower way to bring Red Cross protection to a detainee. Was it just a case of bureaucratic hyper-caution, flowing possibly from the micro-managing style of the Harper government? Or was there something more sinister at play? If you wanted to ensure your detainee was grilled to the hilt over days, weeks, or months, would this not be the kind of play-for-time system that you would devise?
Which, if true, would be a WAR CRIME. (4) Canadian troops were still handing over prisoners to the Americans, even though the previous Liberal government had ordered that practice stopped. (5) Stephen Harper was micromanaging the war from Ottawa, so he knew EVERYTHING. Because let's never forget that back then he was posing as Great Warrior Leader. He was determined to show Rick "Blowhard" Hillier that he was The Boss.
Because he's a control freak AND a student of Stalin. Which explains why this sinister authoritarian Con is trying to muzzle our Parliament, and turn Canada into a closed society.
The departing chair of the Military Police Complaints Commission has taken the Harper government to task for refusing to renew his term in the middle of a major public inquiry into the Afghan detainee controversy.
He said his departure will effectively halt the commission's ability to continue the public hearings - and send a "chill" through other quasi-judicial bodies whose heads are appointed by the government.
And why enough is enough. Releasing the Afghanistan documents will not endanger our troops. Failing to release them threatens the foundations of our democracy. These monstrous thug Cons have gone too far. The lights are going out in Canada. Now more than ever. We need a public inquiry...
OMG. Where's Barney when you need him? Look who's heading the Con peace , begging mission to Beijing.
No less than Stockwell "Doris" Day himself. Trade Minister Stockwell Day, long a critic of Beijing, and particularly its restrictions on religious freedom, arrived in China yesterday for an eight-day, seven-city tour aimed at invigorating a commercial relationship that has suffered while the two sides traded barbs over Chinese rights abuses and Canadian support for the Dalai Lama. Praise the Lord and pass the bong.... or the barf bag.
So let me get this straight. After giving China the cold shoulder because Stephen Harper's church HATES the Chinese government..... for not letting missionaries crawl all over them like they once did.
And so do all the theocons crawling all over the PMO. Now we're sending a Christianist fanatic.... who believes the same thing.... to try to mend fences with the Chinese? Because we need their business. Desperately.
Oh boy. Won't that be a lovely sight ? Doris on his knees begging the Chinese to forgive us...while begging his Lord to forgive him. CHEEEEEESUS. Something tells me this is going to end BADLY.
When it could have been so GREAT.
Thanks to this guy....
Norman Bethune. The great Canadian doctor, writer, artist, and fascist fighter. Who the Chinese have made the best known and most popular Canadian in history.
Thanks to him we could have had a privileged relationship with China, that could have helped our economy BIG TIME.
But the Cons put their religious beliefs before the interests of our country, so now we're forced to GROVEL for whatever contracts they will give us. Nice eh?
Gawd. Get those paper bags ready people...
Will the SHAME never end?
When can we send Doris back to the dinosaurs in Alberta?
"I just want to make this clear to our American friends ... threats to the United States are threats to Canada," Harper said at a joint press conference with President Barack Obama.
"There is no such thing as a threat to the national security of the United States, which does not represent a direct threat to this country." When in fact Great Neocon , RepubliCon ,Obama Friend Leader deserves NO brownie points...for addressing the American people .... who probably weren't even watching. Instead of the Pentagon.
Military officials believe Canadian immigration policies are creating a "favorable" environment for what the U.S. government deems to be potential terrorists seeking entry into the United States from the north, according to an internal briefing crafted by a U.S. Northern Command joint task force.
Officials at the Joint Task Force-North believe a “large population” of so-called special-interest aliens, or SIAs, in Eastern Canada presents the “greatest potential for foreign terrorists' access to the homeland,” according to a Jan. 15 briefing available on the organization's Web site until recently.
Uh oh. Who is Obama to believe...Stephen Harper or his generals? And who are all these "special interest aliens." Do they come from outer space or just Pakistan? And if as Great Leader says no threat to the United States is not a threat to Canada, are we in GREAT danger eh?
And if so how come we've never heard of these aliens? Why aren't they being ARRESTED ??? !!!!!! Is it safe to leave our homes?
And who the fuck is in charge of this dossier?
A spokeswoman for the Canadian Embassy in Washington referred a reporter's request for comment on JTF-North's assessments to the defense ministry in Ottawa. A spokeswoman there initially took questions from InsideDefense.com yesterday but later referred the issue to Public Safety Canada, a federal agency comparable to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
OMG. Not HIM...
Not Tubby Van Loan. Last seen carrying on like a fire hydrant in heat in the House of Commons. Accusing the opposition of being Taliban supporters. So much for taking security SERIOUSLY.
And who's the Con Monkey responsible for keeping trade flowing smoothly?
OMG. Not HER
So much for the open border.
Although you know I still can't WAIT to see what Peter Van Loan has to tell us ...or the Pentagon.
Who knew living in Con Canada could be so dangerous? Over to you Tubby... ------------------------------------------------------------- h/t Attackerman
