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It’s not at all surprising that Warren Kinsella is not a big fan of John Tory’s faith-based school funding plan. After all, he is working for the other guy.

However, this analogy intrigues me. Warren says in his August 26 post as a way of explanation for his objections to Tory’s plan:

…My Dad, you see, was the guy who persuaded me to object to euthanasia, a subject about which he was considered an expert.

“Who will we get to carry out these state-sanctioned acts of euthanasia?” he would ask me. “Once it becomes legally permissible, will we then train people in medical school how to kill people? All of my students, I can tell you, went to medical school to save lives, not terminate them.“

Mmmmm… What about the abortion doctors, Warren?

O.K. That was just a tangential question, but I still don’t see how this relates to faith-based schooling, which as Sandy points out has already been going on quite successfully in an Ontario Mennonite school for the last 20 years!

Eden High School can be used as a model for province-wide implementation of the funding plan, if it is deemed to be workable and has public support.

And which faiths should be allowed to be publicly funded?

Here’s a suggestion - How about the same ones that are allowed to have their clergy abstain from performing same-sex marriages? If that includes Yogic Flyers, so be it.

NO!!!

That is what I will be voting - against MMP.

Why?

Just read who is supporting it here.

H/T Steve Janke who opened my eyes. A brilliant comment from one of his readers:

Reject MMP it’s a scam to allow liberals to split the vote by running sycophant indi candidates and win the house through cooperative alignment after the election.

An insider sleaze paly if there ever was one.

If a Liberal is fogging a mirror they are actively plotting to scam you.

Posted by: WL Mackenzie Redux at August 28, 2007 09:10 AM

Great post here by Porno Christian - Proportional Representation: Invoking Godwin. (H/T to reader Brian in Calgary).

Lily-white Stephane Dion, the model of self-professed integrity, reiterates his plan to vote against the Throne Speech if a new session of Parliament is started in the fall (Election is possible, Dion warns).

This of course could force an election if the other two parties join him. If strict adherence to Kyoto becomes the pivotal issue, then I don’t see how the NDP or Bloc could avoid this action and still maintain their own credibility.

Kaptain Kyoto assures us that we can trust him:

“I never broke my word in 11 years in politics,” Mr. Dion said. “I am a trustworthy person … I want to destroy the sense of cynicism that no politician will stick to his or her word. I always did it. I don’t over-commit and when I’m committing, I will deliver. It’s the message this whole caucus will carry.”

Never mind that the previous (Liberal) government’s record on greenhouse gas emissions under the stewardship of then Environment Minister Stephane Dion was abysmal.

As Dion continues his ‘Yeah-but-you can-trust-me-now’ tour, he assures Nova Scotia and Newfoundland that “he would respect offshore revenue deals with Nova Scotia and Newfoundland even though, as the New Democrats pointed out, he strongly opposed such agreements when he was a cabinet minister.”

CNEWS reports that Nova Scotia Premier Rodney MacDonald is prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt (Dion forced to defend previous opposition to offshore deals for N.L. and N.S.) - H/T CBL.

Newfoundland Premier Danny Williams of course welcomes him with open arms since ‘the enemy of my enemy is my friend’; whatever he may have said or done in the past.

Of course, Stephane Dion is not the only politician who said one thing in the past and then appeared to change course when it was deemed politically expedient.

Stephen Harper himself once called Kyoto a ’socialist scheme’ before having his apparent climate change conversion (although the two are not necessarily mutually exclusive concepts).

But Stephane Dion is trying to paint himself as some kind of guileless pillar of integrity; a politician who would never break his word.

That is an oxymoron in politics, and anyone who believes otherwise is a fool.