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Our Parliamentary system has simply failed to meet the challenge of judicial activism.
Stockwell Day
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Stockwell Day
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: August 16
Member Of The Canadian House Of Commons
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Stockwell Burt Day
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The real intolerance in Canadian society is shown by those who would deny people of faith the right to participate in public life.
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Like 84% of Canadians, I believe in God.
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Tourism, viticulture and agriculture, logging and mining, ranching and manufacturing and ever-increasing numbers of small and medium-sized businesses are just a few of the industries, within this diverse riding, that help maintain a growing economy.
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I believe in freedom of speech, but I believe we should also have the right to comment on freedom of speech.
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As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God's design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings.
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Standards of education are not set by government, but by God, the Bible, the home and the school.
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Provincial governments in Canada have terminated the positions of marriage commissioners who have, for personal religious convictions, not performed same sex marriages. It has happened in Saskatchewan.
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Judges must be free from political intervention or intimidation.
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Time and time again, history has proved that the conservatives are right and the liberals are wrong.
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Our two major parties are actually called the Liberal Party and the Conservative Party.
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Canada evolved within the British Empire: it inherited the Parliamentary system, the Cabinet system and all the other features of the British constitutional system which had been in place, for the most part, for several centuries before Canada was even thought of.
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The place to find the explanation for the liberal-activist mindset of the courts is in the political arena.
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If the Liberals' law is passed, will sex education in the schools, including elementary grades, include the same portrayals of sexual activity which presently exist in heterosexual instruction? Will there be the same presentation of homosexual activity? Of course there will.
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It is well known that I am pro-life... but I would not seek to impose my views on the Canadian people.
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