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Stockwell Day
August 16, 1950 -
Nationality: Canadian
Category: Politician
Subcategory: Canadian Politician

Canada evolved within the British Empire: it inherited the Parliamentary system, the Cabinet system and all the other features of the British constitutional system which had been in place, for the most part, for several centuries before Canada was even thought of.

   

Judges must be free from political intervention or intimidation.

   

It is said that a neo-conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality.

   

It would be unthinkable in Canadian public life today for the public inauguration of our supreme political figures to be accompanied by prayer.

   

My parents did not have a perfect marriage. It was pretty good, but it was not perfect. My marriage is not perfect. My wife is, but I happen to be imperfect. However, that does not discount the fact that the definition of marriage must be defended and protected.

   

As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God's design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings.

   

There are Americans will find it difficult to believe that the Prime Minister can simply impose candidates on ridings, and can so efficiently move individuals out of private life and into the Cabinet with virtually no resort to the electorate.

   

Our Parliamentary system has simply failed to meet the challenge of judicial activism.

   

Our national media refuses to report that even the Supreme Court did not say marriage was a human right in all cases nor did it say that the heterosexual definition violated anyone's right or that the heterosexual definition of marriage was unconstitutional.

   

Time and time again, history has proved that the conservatives are right and the liberals are wrong.

   

I wish the government and the Minister of Justice would address these legal and constitutional arguments, but they refuse to. They want Canadians to go blindly into their brave new world, but it is not wise for a society to move blindly in any direction.

   

The place to find the explanation for the liberal-activist mindset of the courts is in the political arena.

   

Marriage commissioners who choose not to marry homosexuals are being fired. A Knights of Columbus chapter in British Columbia is in court because it chooses not allow a lesbian group to use its facility for marriage ceremonies. The list goes on.

   

Canada is founded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of law.

   

Our two major parties are actually called the Liberal Party and the Conservative Party.

   

In the United States, commentators recognize that, generally speaking, most people who hold liberal positions over a range of issues will likely vote Democratic, while most people, again generally speaking, who hold conservative positions will vote Republican.

   

Bishop Frederick Henry of Calgary is facing at least two official objections to his public statements along with expensive hearings before the Alberta Human Rights Commission for expressing his biblical views on same sex marriage.

   

The same undisciplined government spending and social engineering that has undermined our economy over the past 30 years has also been tearing at the social fabric of this land.

   

The typical journalist's typical lead for the typical Canadian story nowadays is along this line: that Canadians are hard at work trying to gain a reputation as a nation of rapid social change.

   

I believe in freedom of speech, but I believe we should also have the right to comment on freedom of speech.

   

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