We all know about the new immigration laws being implemented here in Canada as a result of the new Conservative government...but I have gained a new respect for a man I used to just flip the channel over: Mr. Rick Mercer...a political satirist bar none in Canada, who puts John Stewart to shame...you must watch this clip that I saw on yesterday's "the Rick Mercer Report" as it makes light of the Portuguese situation and places all blame on the Conservative government. go to: http://www.cbc.ca/mercerreport/backissues.php and go to April 11, 2006 section (3rd from the bottom) where you'll find a video entitled "Deportation"...click on it, and laugh at our poor conservative government
"Portugal is only 5200 km..............FROM IRAN!" brilliant, i especially like his take on local workers
"making Canada less skilled, one portuguese at a time".. funny stuff! However, it's still a sad story. Canada keeps immigrants here with ties to terrorist organizations and criminals, but they deport people who don't bother anyone and who do jobs that most 'Canadians' wouldn't do. But this forum is about soccer!
I actually saw that on tv the other day and cried laughing. Told my pops about it and he wants to see it so props Dragao, I must spread rep.
What did i say that warranted Gooddead to edit my post??? I would like to know so i won't do it again. For future reference when editing post please make a comment in regards to what was edited!! Thank you!
The gay joke. I know you and your two friends like to crack them back and fourth but some of our posters don't like it so I am gonna start cutting them out when they become reported as bad posts.
Now i remember.....i said: By the way JLR and PIO he happens to be gay!!! Now, why is a comment like that edited? He has come out in public, i can post th articles and talked about his homosexuality. Now my post gets edited, but when JLR or PIO make comments like, "that's gay", "you gay", they don't get edited. I want to know what makes a gay comment ok and not other!!!????
It wasn't a joke. I said Rick Mercer is gay. Which he is, now how is that offensive and PIO saying that BDS comments were gay are not??? Can you explain that? Plus if u have ever read any of my post on this subject i am very PRO GAY and very anti Homophobe, so your comment on what me and my friends do is very rude and should be edited!!! How do u know what me and my friends do???
Rick Mercer is gay? Well the post was reported by a poster that was not you JLR or PIO. But from reading it, it sounded like you were inviting JLR an PIO into taking 'interest' in another male. Should anyone call another poster gay or try to defaminate them from now on they will be edited so feel free to report any bad post.
"During his press tour to promote the series, Mercer came out as gay in the Globe and Mail newspaper. His long-time partner in life and business is Gerald Lunz. Beyond those details, Mercer continues to insist on his right to keep his personal life as private as possible." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Mercer How is me stating what he is when he has openly done it, wrong? Plus i have never bashed anybody here based on there sexuality.
You make another post while I'm typing up the response to the first one, I can't keep up. By your 'friends' I meant PIO and JLR. It dosen't excuse the fact that those comments shouldn't of been made but no one reported them so I let it slide much like a lot of things get passed, but from now on they will be better monitored
alright TO...you got your message across...let's not sabotage another thread...this was just a thread dedicated to the deportations of Portuguese immigrants
alright, I'm just saying...the same thing happened in the dormir a sesta thread...let's just not let this get out of hand again...take your aggression out on that fool Solberg responsible for this deportation of hard working people
I think the key word(s) is HARD WORKING (i.e not a welfare bum, sucking up our tax money and giving nothing back to society)
Like so many other HARD WORKING people from Angola, Guine and Brazil that get deported out of Portugal daily!!! HARD WORKING, doesn't hide the ILLEGAL!!! CAPONNE was a hardworking guy!!!
I'm sorry, I have to side with hardworking...of course, illegal is something they can't hide...but I think I speak for nearly everyone here when I say that at one point or another, our father or relative was illegal in this country...I know for a fact my father was at one point until Trudeau implemented the amnesty immigration law, and I'd like to think my father has contributed to Canada in a positive manner rather than a negative one...and he isn't the only one. So that says something...if we were a smart nation, we would allow these skilled workers to stay in a section of the labour force (construction) that is booming and will lag as a result of losing so many workers to deportation. I hope you are playing devil's advocate (TO DEVILS..devil's advocate...must be a correlation here)...because if that is sincerely how you feel (which you are entitled to), I don't think you would have certain Portuguese communities or establishments like we do today and you would just be an isolated Portuguese person a la a Portuguese person in Flin Flon, SASKATCHEWAN...yes, they were illegal, but, there are plenty of other illegals here that do f all...not to mention the legal ones that do f all
The main word here is refugee, what are these people fleeing from? Refugee One who flees in search of refuge, as in times of war, political oppression, or religious persecution!