Dion Shows True Colours
Liberals plan women-only nomination races
OTTAWA – Liberal Leader Stephane Dion is prepared to take "extraordinary measures" to boost the ranks of women candidates in the next election, including barring men from seeking nominations in some ridings.
"Including BARRING MEN from seeking nominations in some ridings"
Why doesn't he just save himself some time and effort and appoint who will be the Lieberal for whatever riding?
Where necessary, the committees will be able to simply refuse to allow men to run for nominations in some ridings.
"We're trying to find the techniques that are consistent with our democratic processes to the greatest extent possible," said Gerard Kennedy, Dion's special adviser on election readiness.
Barring men from running is consistent with the democratic process??? Only in Cuba, China, or North Korea. Mind you, Kennedy did state "our", as in the Lieberal sense of democracy, which in most of the world is known as dictatorship. Of course some obscure women's rights group has applauded this measure.
Equal Voice, an advocacy group dedicated to increasing the participation of women in politics, applauded the move to reserve some ridings for women only.
"Right now it looks as if 80 per cent of the ridings are reserved for men," said Rosemary Speirs, founder of Equal Voice.
"So I don't see that this is imposing a quota or tokenism or anything else. I think it's just an effort to make sure the party reaches out to women and gets some in there."
Speirs added that leaving ridings to their own devices to recruit candidates "doesn't seem to work for women."
Of course they then quote some numbers about Canada's "dismal" number of female MPs. Maybe they haven't quite figured out yet that perhaps females don't run because they DON"T WANT TO! Read the whole thing. It is so full of bullshit and thinly vieled attempts to say that barring men wouldn't be a problem, that it must have paraphrased Communist doctrine quite a bit.
So what happens when no woman steps forward for the "prestige" of being appointed for a position that is supposed to won by an election. And who will be the first male to file a discrimination suit with the Human Rights under the Charter?
Per Ardua Ad Astra
OTTAWA – Liberal Leader Stephane Dion is prepared to take "extraordinary measures" to boost the ranks of women candidates in the next election, including barring men from seeking nominations in some ridings.
"Including BARRING MEN from seeking nominations in some ridings"
Why doesn't he just save himself some time and effort and appoint who will be the Lieberal for whatever riding?
Where necessary, the committees will be able to simply refuse to allow men to run for nominations in some ridings.
"We're trying to find the techniques that are consistent with our democratic processes to the greatest extent possible," said Gerard Kennedy, Dion's special adviser on election readiness.
Barring men from running is consistent with the democratic process??? Only in Cuba, China, or North Korea. Mind you, Kennedy did state "our", as in the Lieberal sense of democracy, which in most of the world is known as dictatorship. Of course some obscure women's rights group has applauded this measure.
Equal Voice, an advocacy group dedicated to increasing the participation of women in politics, applauded the move to reserve some ridings for women only.
"Right now it looks as if 80 per cent of the ridings are reserved for men," said Rosemary Speirs, founder of Equal Voice.
"So I don't see that this is imposing a quota or tokenism or anything else. I think it's just an effort to make sure the party reaches out to women and gets some in there."
Speirs added that leaving ridings to their own devices to recruit candidates "doesn't seem to work for women."
Of course they then quote some numbers about Canada's "dismal" number of female MPs. Maybe they haven't quite figured out yet that perhaps females don't run because they DON"T WANT TO! Read the whole thing. It is so full of bullshit and thinly vieled attempts to say that barring men wouldn't be a problem, that it must have paraphrased Communist doctrine quite a bit.
So what happens when no woman steps forward for the "prestige" of being appointed for a position that is supposed to won by an election. And who will be the first male to file a discrimination suit with the Human Rights under the Charter?
Per Ardua Ad Astra
posted by Justthinkin at 4:50 AM
Is it "democracy" when women make up 52% of the pop and only 15% of parliament?
Ever heard of "taxation w/o representation"?
Isn't it their country, too? Why can't they be part of the political process, which was created FOR and BY old white men?
And don't get me started on the "equal representation" of visible minorities, which make up 30% of some urban areas.
Somehow, you Ol' White Boys have 99% of the pie and start crying when you're forced to give up the part you have monopolized for WAY TOO LONG.
Cry me a river.
What's the matter anymouse. To scared to show your name. Chickenshit. And you totally missed the whole point. In a democracy...you DO NOT bar people from participating in it. Women have as much right to run as anybody. If they so choose not to, that is their choice. But then you leftie socialists are against any choice, except for yourselves,of course. Hypocritical twit.
It's only because anymouse doesn't have the brain power or ability to get off his/her/it's damn ass and earn it herself through hard work..... That's so typical of LIEberals ... their all scum sucking lazy ass idiots that feel everyone else owes them a bloody living.
Hurry up anymouse ... Oprahs on!