"I don't know if we'll call it that, but we want good, law-abiding people to have smooth and quick access at all border points — not just North American, but international."
New life is being breathed into the proposal now that the United States has dropped its demand that Canadians be required to show passports to cross the border.
"We also want to be able to stop people who are a menace or a threat from getting in or getting out, so that's the overall goal," Day said.
Day said the need for identification of some sort came up again this week when he spoke on the phone with his U.S. counterpart, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff.
"I think it's fair to say that in both Canada and the U.S. we do want some kind of enhanced security provision," he said.
"Whether that's some kind of a biometric approach, an enhancement on a driver's licence — all of that needs to be explored, so we do want to see enhanced technological capacity in that area."
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Canadians To Need ID Cards, Day Says
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I started a forum topic on this last night.<br />
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I have intimate inside information on these biometric cards. I support their application for high security workplaces, but in no uncertain terms, would I ever support them for all Canadians.<br />
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Need I say it - Be Afraid.<p>---<br>If there was ever a time for Canadians to become pushy - now is the time - for time is running out on this nation called Canada.
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"The more you read and learn, the less your adversary will know." --Sun Tzu
The thing about Stock is his simple-mindedness. This is the guy that thinks the world is six thousand years old. Tyrannies are always made that much worse by the stupid.
Or what's even scarier, he could be thinking (like many Christian fundamentalists) that Jesus is going to sweep all the good Christians up into heaven in the rapture any day now, and only the unbelievers and unfaithful sinners will be left on earth to suffer through the tribulation times along with the anti-Christ world dictator.
Since the world is going to hell in a hand basket anyway, there'd be no sense losing any sleep over trivial things like losses of personal freedoms and losses of civil liberties. Stock and like minded believers probably feel secure in the knowledge that by the time the fecal matter hits the circular ventilator down here on hell-bound earth, he and his buddies will have already been raptured to sit on the clouds of heaven (no doubt each fully equipped with a set of angel's wings and harp) from where they'll cast the occasional look down below while tut-tutting to each other at the mayhem and murder they observe taking place.
Looks like this other stupid idea has gone unnoticed. I was betting that DAY would be the first Conservative to put his foot in his mouth and I think he has done so. He is going to have to be kept under close watch. Our Minister of Public Security is our first foremost security threat. Orwell: where are you when we need you?
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"We are all in this together somehow, some more than others somehow"
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"We are all in this together somehow, some more than others somehow"
It appears so.
Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people.....
it is true that most stupid people are conservative.
John Stuart Mills 1806-1873
- Robert A. Heinlein
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RickW
Its quite sad really. Lots of Christians in that area as well.
Day can blow it out his ass. Sellout peice of trash.
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Dave Ruston
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"The more you read and learn, the less your adversary will know." --Sun Tzu
right wing central for bc<br />
Home of WAC(Y) Bennet<br />
Canada's answert to Louisannas Huey (the Kingfish) Long<br />
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please read this<br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Columbia_general_election%2C_1952">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Columbia_general_election%2C_1952</a><br />
<p>---<br>People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs. <br />
Alexei Sayle
His government purchased BC Gas and Electric (later became BC Hydro) as well as the railway that later became BC Rail.
Both crown corporation currently under Campbell's assinine privatization axe.
WAC was not your typical "right winger" in the modern sense of the word.