
"I take strong issue with the idea that House resources would be used to attack secretly a member of the House."
Vic Toews using House resources to publicly attack Canadians:
"...stand with us or with the child pornographers,"

An open court that permits access to both court proceedings and court records is of fundamental importance to a free and democratic society. This ensures that justice is not only done but seen to be done. This principle of openness is founded in historic common law principles which have been referred to by the Supreme Court of Canada in decisions such as Nova Scotia (Attorney General) v. MacIntyre [1982] 1 S.C.R. 175, wherein Dickson, C.J. for the majority of the court stated the following: Many times it has been urged that the ‘privacy’ of litigants requires that the public be excluded from court proceedings. It is now well established, however, that covertness is the exception and openness the rule. Public confidence in the integrity of the court system and understanding of the administration of justice are thereby fostered. As a general rule the sensibilities of the individuals involved are no basis for exclusion of the public from judicial proceedings.
3.0 Electronic Access
Subject to the exclusions set out in 2.3, electronic access is given to court record information of the Court of Appeal and the Court of Queen’s Bench in Manitoba respecting civil, family and adult criminal proceedings. At this time, there is no electronic access to Provincial Court records. The following information may be obtained electronically via the courts web site http://www.manitobacourts.mb.ca or at
http://www.jus.gov.mb.ca.
- court file number and title of the proceedings
- a listing of the documents filed, the document number and date filed with the court, document
- name and brief notes as to the contents of the document
- names of court parties and the name of their lawyer, contact information for the lawyer
- the date and time of next court hearing(s) in the court proceeding
- reference to any related court files
- general information as to available court dates to assist in the scheduling of a matter before the
- court
- a view of the daily court hearing list for court locations throughout Manitoba
- prejudgment and postjudgment interest tables from April 1993
Interviewer: In your view, does establishing an office of religious freedom implicitly place religious freedom above other human rights?Farr: Certainly not, although I think it's important to recognise that not all rights that on can conceive of are equal. For example, I would argue that religious freedom is more fundamental than, say, the right to...a secondary school education...to pick something out of the air, which is created by government. Religious freedom is among those fundamental rights that are sort of attached to human beings by virtue of their existence.
"...Deal with the Muslim Brotherhood" and if they don't, it will "have implications for the Coptic minority, and other Muslims in Egypt."
Farrr: We cannot simply conduct our relationships with other countries on a purely economic basis, especially authoritarian and quasi-totalitarian countries like China.
"When Prime Minister Stephen Harper meets with his Chinese hosts this week, he will be greeted with smiles and the veneer of friendship. There will be polite discussions about trade, investment opportunities and China's eagerness for a larger supply of Canada's oil. It will all be very civilized: No one will talk openly about the obvious moral qualms that many Canadians have about doing business with this amoral regime.Unfortunately, Canada doesn't have much choice. Most Western economies (including our own) are on the edge of recession, and Canada's salesman-in-chief needs to go where the business is - which is why Mr. Harper's in China and not, say, Greece.... the Chinese simply don't care about what the rest of the world thinks about their attitude to human suffering. Just the opposite: Chinese nationalists are obsessed with their country's rising place in the world, and see any Western criticism as a form of unjustified meddling and paternalism."
"...religious actors. One thinks of "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism"...let them be themselves [the religious people in China], they're not going to be revolutionaries, but what they will do, is be economically productive over a long time."Certainly the people of China could use a good solid dose of Calvinism to help curtail their profligate ways and to dampen their sinful natures. That way lies true (economic) salvation. More current opinion comes from Artemy Malkov, and Daria Khaltourina contend who contend that it wasn't simply Protestantism that gave rise to the European and North American economies, it was, and is, rates of literacy. You know, reading. The kind of thing you learn in school, the one you have no right to attend.