Why does not the Canadian government just come out and say SORRY to everyone and everything in this country for the past mistakes made by all the previous governments throughout history? That way all this bull will be done with. Am I the only one who finds all of this a bit silly? What happened 10, 50, 100, 200 years ago is history. Not to mention it was done under completely different ethics and thinking at the time. Canada has done some growing up as has the world for that matter. To look at these events with today's perspective is, to put it mildly ridiculous. The leaders at the time made a choice, perhaps not always the best one, but a choice non the less, made at that time with the knowledge they had. For anyone to expect that we put today's perspective on those events and rule they were unfair, and then fork out hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars to "compensate" the victims is simply convicting today's tax payers for crimes they themselves did not commit. When will it end?
Tuesday, January 09, 2007
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It's the LIEberal mentality of society.. every special interest group is oppressed, and the country owes them everything. Isn't appeasement great ... :-(
NO, no its not. It is re dick less!
I disagree with you on this one, Tim. Acknowledgements & apologies for past wrongs have a place, but I don't think they should have a pricetag unless real costs were incurred (i.e. I have no problem with the "head tax" action - token $ to those surviving, and a statue or something).
Token $? Thats my point. No matter how much money we throw at it, it still happened and all the money in the world will not compensate for that fact. The "head tax" is a perfectly good example of this. The people that came here and paid that "head tax" did so knowingly. Even with such a high price to pay, they still wanted to come to Canada. Now why if it was so unjust would they do that? Because they new that they were doing it to start a new and better life here in Canada for their families and themselves. It may not have been fare but it was the law at the time. To pass judgement on it now is bull. With this way of thinking, the next thing we will be compensating for is every person that ever had a realitive put to death for a crime will be compensated for that death. Cause NOW, the death penalty is wrong. That is a crock. It happened under a different time in our history, when thinking was different and so were the laws.
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