Alberta Votes 2012

This election has got me rattled to the core. In layman's
terms "pissed". Both the Progressive conservatives and the Wildrose
parties are behind the Privatizing of healthcare in Alberta (oh hell let’s be
honest here, in the whole damn country; we are just one province so far). This
is a concern every Albertan, Canadian and citizen should be concerned about.
This is our healthcare, the one social program that keeps us alive. Lets’ strip
this apart a bit and break it down. Right now we have Alberta health care which
pays for hospital care (not private wards), surgery, doctor appointments, x-rays,
cat scans, MRI's, and much more. Ok they don't pay for medicine; unless you’re
already in the hospital then they do pay for the meds that nasty nurse who works
night shift come into your room to give you. Shining their little flashlights
into your face and shoving that 2 am pill down your throat cause you need it,
handing you a glass of water while telling you that “you need to try and sleep”.
Was I not already doing that? Oh my bad, I will try again till you come in at 6
am and shove another one at me. Yes folks they are not really nasty, they are
only doing their jobs but at 2 am are you really thinking they are just doing
their jobs or do you think they are trolling you. I think they are trolling me
at 2 am personally. What is trolling? You ask. Trolling, Defined
by Wikipedia, describes intentionally
provocative actions and harassment. So yes, I think that nurse was trolling me at 2
am.
Anyways back to breaking down our health care
as it is now and as it will be after privatizing.
We know that
Alberta health pays for a lot out of public coffers. This is good. We also know
that we need extra insurance to pay for medication which we can buy from places
like London Life, Merit, Alberta Blue cross and many, many more insurance
providers. This usually can be afforded by middle class working Albertans. Some
employment even offers extra health insurance which is deducted from your pay
cheque monthly. This is actually a bonus to many working class Albertans. For the low income working class this isn’t
an option to purchase if the company you’re working for doesn’t offer it. So they
are only left with Alberta health care which is really better than nothing
since they can still see a doctor free. Medicine, glasses, dentistry are all on
a pay bases here in Alberta if you do not have that extra insurance and it is
not cheap. However fall down and break
your arm, it is free to get an x-ray and have it reset as well as casting it. Now
take away this free public service, that fall down break your arm will cost you
somewhere between $5000.00 to $20,000.00. OMG you say how can that cost so much.
Well lets’ break it down a bit further. If we allow privatized healthcare in
the country the public coffers will dry up. No government will keep shoving
money into the public coffers if they don’t have to. This means Alberta Health
care will have to privatize as well to keep paying for the services they
already pay for now, creating” just another insurance company”. In this “just
another insurance company” they will limit, like all the other insurance
companies out there, a cap of funds you and your family are allowed to use a
year. SO say they pay only half of your bill 50%, not going to use dollar
numbers at this time (even though there is a set amount of dollars allotted per
12 months or person, depends on the insurance company you go with) as I don’t
want to make this too much about the math as the idea of what we are facing, so
breaking that broken arm medical attention down you see something like this:
Please note this
was taken from a blog, American women who had this injury. You can find her
blog here (http://dineane.hubpages.com/hub/My-20-000-Arm-A-Rant-about-Healthcare-in-the-US)
Pretend this is
all in Canadian dollars too. Otherwise I would have to up the costs to convert
to Canadian and as I said earlier it is not about the numbers, as much as about
the idea I am trying to make.
Pharmacy
$442.95 (meds they give you to help with pain)
Non Sterile Supply $157.00 (maybe gauze, or a drink of water)
Sterile Supply $1,623.00 (the kit they open to examine you with, rubber gloves
? maybe)
SUPPLY/IMPLANTS $9,702.00 (if you need screws and bolts to keep the arm in
place, say you do )
Diagnostic, Radiology $618.00 (x-rays and the doctor actually looking at them
after )
OR Services $6,050.00 (same as above only split to confuse you more)
Anesthesia $564.00 (this is to put you to sleep, to put the arm back in place
so you don’t have to modify your shirts for the rest of your life)
DRUGS/DETAIL CODE $20.00 (no clue the original girl who I got this from is
trying to still figure this fee out)
Recovery Room $586.00 (the place they take you to after you leave the waiting
room)
Grand
total: $19763.95
so, say now your insurance pays 50% of this total. 9881.98. Woot! This
is great but is it? Nope cause now your portion is also $9881.98. Hmm where can
you come up with this amount of money before creditors start calling you
demanding payment? Sell a kidney? Maybe, an option if you can find a dark alley.
Take out a loan? Opps banks hate your credit. Remove it from your savings? If only you had a
savings. Call your parents? Sure if they weren’t on a pension and barely making
ends meet themselves.
Or you could just decide that it might be worth redesigning
all your cloths to fit that sideways broken arm you have and just let it heal
that way.
Oh! you say things like Albertans would still have Alberta
Healthcare we will just have better options, to pay or not to pay. How many
doctors ran to the USA after they graduated or found out that they could make
more money in the USA? Well I can tell you for sure 3 of my “family” doctors
left back in the 90’s to move to the USA to make more money. This is why today
I don’t have a “family “doctor anymore and I visit Medi centers. At least if
they leave I won’t be attached to them and my health records won’t be sold to
the next doctor because those records belong to the Medi center I visit, not
the individual doctor. Doctors in the USA can set office visit prices, where as
in Canada Public health sets those prices. They also set prices on procedures
and so much more. If you let a doctor or a private health organization set
prices then they will go up. No different from lawyers setting their fees. You think
150.00 an hour is bad to see a lawyer, try paying that out to see a doctor for
a 15 min visit. In fact I walk into a clinic to see a doctor without Alberta health
care today I would have to pay 40.00 min. that does not include anything else
ex. Needing a prescription or a referral to see a specialist.
See Privatizing means the clinic can charge whatever they
want to charge to the patients. Exactly like a Dentist. Oh sure, the dental
association fee guide puts in numbers to say what everything costs; but that
doesn’t mean that dentists can’t set their own price. It is just a guideline of
what insurance companies will pay and what they won’t. The example is scaling
two units; dentist charges 97.00 yet the guideline say 94.82 yet my insurance
only paid out for the 75.86. That leaves me paying not only what my dental
coverage didn’t pay for but the over fee that the dentist charged compared to
what the guidelines says I should be paying. These fees start to add up if the
problem is bigger. If we privatize it also means that Doctors can not charge a
publically funded program like Alberta Health care and can only bill private
health insurance companies. If you can’t afford to take your kid to the dentist
now because you do not have the extra insurance this will mean you will not be
able to take them to a doctor that is privatized either. Some will say “oh well,
this means the people who can afford to pay for privatized health care will not
be using the public health care, which will speed up the system and I will be
moved up on the waiting list”. Does it really speed it up? Sure it does, won’t deny
that but at what cost. Is my child
better than your child because I can afford to pay for a private health care
facility? Yours is still on a waiting list cause remember there are still more
people out there that cannot afford private medical services. While my child is
cured and living a great life. Is this a socialized service? We open the doors
to private clinics; it will only be a matter of time before we open the doors
to private hospital care.
So my child is having a problem breathing , I have a
hospital 2 blocks away that is privatized, I also have a hospital 30 blocks
away that is public, remember my child is having a problem breathing, hmmm
where should I go 2 blocks or 30 . Naturally I am going to hit the hospital
that is 2 blocks away cause now she/he is turning blue. Here is the kicker,
they won’t see her cause I do not have the right insurance plan… They cannot
bill Alberta Healthcare, being it is a public service. OMG! Now I have to drive
the other 28 blocks because I do have insurance for public health. Ok lets’ say
for argument sake they do take her..Yahhhhh they saved her life, home we go, 2
weeks later a bill comes in the mail. Over 10,000.00 dollars in which lets also
say for argument sake they can bill Alberta health 40% of that total
(guidelines for the medical association fee) my out of pocket is now only 6,000
.. Don’t shake your head, because the imaginary list they also sent me was similar
to the one I posted above for the broken arm. Well I can’t afford this so I don’t
pay it. Come one I know some of you out there will not be able to afford it
either. So they now send my account to a collection agency... But 6 months down
the road same thing happens or worst I rush my child into the hospital this
time they say sorry you still owe us money and we can’t see you, sending me off
to the public hospital. Remember it is a business. Don’t pay, they don’t help.
A bit off topic but same issue … Alberta allowed the
privatization of Electricity and because of that privatization we now pay 15
bucks a GJ this winter. Why?, Because they can charge whatever they feel like
charging. There are no guidelines for this at all and no competition either.
When you privatize it becomes a business rather than a public service.
Healthcare isn’t the only reason this election has me in
twists though it is just one of the major problems that both the PC’s and the
Wildrose have on the table. I am not saying vote PC because I dislike the Wildrose
(even though I dislike them a lot) I also dislike the PC party right now as
well. I am saying that instead of voting for either of these parties vote for
one that you know will not win. Don’t give them a majority leadership. As much
as I don’t see any worthwhile candidate we should be voting for the one that
will cause the less damage to our province in the next 4 years. Send the Wildrose
and PC party a clear message. Take privatizing off the dockets’ and keep it off.
"...I won't let it happen. I won't... I won't let this world exist without me!"

2011 Our Family Xmas letter

December 1^st, 2010

Santa Claus
The North Pole
Hoh oho

Merry Christmas! How are you, Mrs. Clause and your elves? Busy getting ready for the holidays, I bet? My family sure is! We have had a good year, not great but good.

Our Oldest son, Tim, Graduated High school this year and is planning to join the Canadian Army next summer. Until then he plans to hang out with me. Beginning to wonder if I wasn't on the computer if he would still want to hang out as much? Oh well! Those are thought I should not even contemplate, I think I see another grey hair forming. However he did tank for us in World of war craft (on line game we all play) and seems to keep us motivated in getting our achievements out of the way before the new expansion pack is released. I think it was his demanding that if we don't get our junk together he was going to replace all of us, but not sure. (Shrug) but would have loved to have seen him taking down the Lich king alone some nights.

Our wonderful daughter, Keegan, is in grade 11 this year. She is doing well for a teenager that thinks life revolves around face book and Messenger chat. Some day's I wonder if posting on her face book wall would help her remember to clean her room. This year she is trying to find herself, although I didn't realize she was missing. I found a box of Wicca items in her room, so looks like she is trying to summon the dead, Tim thinks she should try and summoning Mr. Clean for her room. I know Santa, it is just a faze teens go through but my worry is if she keeps looking for herself much longer we may never find her in the mess.

Erik, our youngest, is now 12. His is becoming a man. Well a small man but a man all the same. The joy of growing up has caused his voice to start cracking while he talks. He sounds like he is a cross between a mouse and man. I just hope the cats go with their first instinct using their noses, or we may find him trapped in his closet surround by the cats. He is now in grade 6 and seems to enjoy being the top dog in Elementary. Next year should be a interesting year when he hit junior high.

Glenn is still working for the same company he has been for the last 3 years. He still loves his job and we still love the fact that he has a job, makes eating easier. Glenn has been keeping busy on the computer at home and recently he got himself a new puppy, which I named Hachi. Hachi is a pure breed rough collie who is the apple of Glenn's eye. Now Santa do not get me wrong, I as well love this furry creature, but keeping him entertained while Glenn is at work or sleeping has been a challenge. He seemed to be an insomniac. So many nights he decides that since Glenn won't get up and play with him, I should. He is such a sweetheart letting Glenn sleep.
Poor Romme tends to take the brunt end of it though. One minute she is sleeping like a rock, next thing she knows she has a 15 pound object attached to her head. I try to remove this object but for some reason it seemed to gravitate back to her, attaching it's self to her head at full force. I have never seen a dog with blood shot eyes from lack of sleep before till we got the new puppy. I think she understand why we had to get her spayed last summer, now more than ever.
Everyone else is doing well, my dad found a place of his own now. He seems happy, as are we. He is working hard. Enjoys the company he is working for.
As for myself Santa, well I have been doing well too. I am still sane, although it has not been for the lack of trying. Gained a little weight, but as I get older I find the more padding I have the better chances a fall from my clumsiness will allow me a softer landing. I have been busy gaming, training my pets and hanging out with Tim. I have been very good this year. I have helped by cleaning my room and making meals. I also took care of feeding the pets all by myself!
This year, I hope you will bring me some fun toys. Some things that I would like for Christmas this year are, and I am not asking for much Santa so calm down:

• a better retirement plan
  
• all the kids graduated
  
• Improvement in the economy
  
• Another computer monitor
  
• More patience
  
• Less idiots in the world
  
• And a happy, healthy family
  
• less grey hair
  
• Our 10 man raiding team to never leave
  
• I would ask for world peace but then what would the point of watching the news be?
  

Love,

Melanie J

P.S. Santa careful this year coming down the chimney. We have found that Romme doesn't like strangers on her property, nor does Glenn. They haven't bitten anyone yet but I would hate to see you be the first.
Merry Christmas
To all our family & friends. Hope your 2011 is another eventful year. See you in 2011 folks. Happy New Years to all.

Did I say I believed?

I received and email with the side picture attached along with following was statement:
A Nativity Scene was erected in a church yard.
During the night the folks came across this scene.
An abandoned dog was looking for a comfortable, protected place to sleep.
He chose baby Jesus as his comfort.
No one had the heart to send him away so he was there all night.
We should all have the good sense of this dog and curl up in Jesus' lap from time to time. This is too sweet not to share. No one mentioned that the dog breed is a "shepherd!”

There are a few things I found instantly wrong with this email but it wasn’t suppose to be an email I found anything wrong with and here are 3 reasons why

1) This is suppose to make me realize that Jesus, god and religion in general was something I should consider because this homeless abandoned dog found comfort in the arms of baby Jesus
2) That Christians are kind people who did not want to disturb this creature who sought out comfortable place to sleep
3) And that he chose baby Jesus to protect him from harm

Now anyone who knows me, knows I am not a religious person, my main belief is live your life right, don’t go out of your way to harm others intentionally and if, and I mean if there is such a place as heaven, then you should not be turned away. If there isn’t well not like we will be around afterwards to discuss/whine about it.

So this email brought many issues up as I happen to love animals and yes, I believe all animals have a soul, and feelings just as all humans do. Just watch your pet’s eyes sometimes when you talk to them, or listen to them when they feel sad, lonely or hurt. Then try and make me believe they don’t have a soul with feelings and they are just animals. But I am getting off topic here wanting to go into a rant about how people use and abuse animals because they think they have no feelings. This will be a conversation for another time. Back to why this email showed me just how much I disagree with the kind hearts of Christians.

For all purposes intended of these loving, caring Christians not one of them wanted to disturb this abandoned dog. Not one of them brought this dog food, nor water or a blanket. Not one of them picked this dog up and took it home. Oh sure these are slanders that cannot prove, some might say, anything as they might have not told anyone they did behind the email intended. Give me break; Christians all over are the first to brag their asses off at how helpful they are. I am sure that somewhere in this email they would have stated that that someone took this dog in, feed it, watered it and showed it human love. Instead they tried to show that god loved it and the dog knew he could seek shelter with the one being that he felt he could trust in (says alot for human kind if this was true, now doesn't it). I am not sure about you, but I cannot recall the last time God or Jesus fed and watered my dogs, I cannot recall when the last time either of them played even so much as fetch with them. Shrug
This dog wasn’t just abandoned by humans then turned into email photo opp for Christians to say "hey, see you should believe in Jesus, this dog does" because this dog in their point of view was not just simply abandoned in the world by a human and found a basket with some soft materials to keep it warm while sleeping for the night not caring what it represented, which happen to be a nativity scene. Instead this dog was abandoned and alone seeking comfort and protection in a nativity scene because this dog knew that Jesus would look out for it (even if human's wouldn't). No one cared that this same dog most likely slept in a back alley the night before or hasn’t had a real meal in most likely days except for garbage that could be scrounged up. This dog had most likely never had a human love it, since the day someone decided they didn’t want a dog anymore and disposed of like a candy wrapper out the window of a car.
If this same photo was of a dog sleeping on the streets and you knew it was abandoned would you think it was seeking out Jesus’ protection? You'd have to be christian to think that, then walk away believing that Jesus or God will take care of it.



See there is no difference except that one found a more comfortable place to sleep then the other one. Now considering that some catholic’s and Christens believe that animals have no souls makes me wonder just how desperate they are to use this image as a way to say that this German Sheppard actively sought out the nativity scene because he or she believed that they would be comforted and protected by Jesus and God? If so does that mean that animals might possibly have a soul after all and that maybe some religious people are wrong n their beliefs? Could this also mean that animals have a so called high level of thought like humans are suppose to have since don’t cha know this German Sheppard found comfort and protection in the glory of a plastic doll’s cradle? I thought not.

Opps!! I was a bit wrong. As after searching on catholic/Christian web sites I came across this insert where one poster asked the question right out do animals have souls? This was the reply:
“A soul is the life energy that animates the pile of chemicals that make up you, I, animals and any living thing. The human soul also happens to be a spirit. Our spirit was created when we were conceived and will continue forever. The souls of animals are not spirits so when they die they die forever. So the answer to your original questions is yes. With this definition even plants or bacteria have souls, but they are not spirits so are distinctly different from the human soul/spirit.”

Hmm what is the definition of a spirit and a soul I asked myself?
Soul:
1. The animating and vital principle in humans credited with the faculties of thought, action, and emotion and often conceived as an immaterial entity.
2. The spiritual nature of humans, regarded as immortal, separable from the body at death, and susceptible to happiness or misery in a future state.
3. The disembodied spirit of a dead human.

Spirit:
1.
a. The vital principle or animating force within living beings.
b. Incorporeal consciousness.
2. The soul, considered as departing from the body of a person at death.
5.
a. The part of a human associated with the mind, will, and feelings

After reading both definitions from http://www.thefreedictionary.com I find no real difference in either explanation.
Both the soul and the spirit are what we credit to control our mind; thoughts, actions, will and emotions; feelings, as well as the disembodiment after our death. So to mean this would mean that Yes, Animals do have souls. But do you think animals have thoughts such as an animal Jesus or of an animal God? If they do then we as a society really need to rethink our ideas. Again this is another discussion for another time so I will get back on track.

The facts still remain that this email was in no way suppose to open up all these other issues. It was an email filled with propaganda sent to me by someone who thought that I would see just what they wanted me to see and not what I ended up seeing in the email myself. It was an email that was suppose to show me the glorifying image of just how wonderful Jesus and God is, that even a abandoned dog would find comfort in it.

Well pardon my language but I call “bullshit”. So the next time someone in my life wants to send me religious propaganda, send me something with real proof. Wait better yet, have Jesus or God come visit in physical form because as far as I am concerned the players who speak of him aren’t doing such a great job convincing me he is the one I should be attending church for on my Sundays and giving money to the church plate for. Nor are they the saviours of my afterlife. Till then I will keep living my life to the best of my ability, in ways I know I should be living and save all the money I would have had to dish out on a plate in church to help dish out food I buy to the plates of my family and occasionally a friend or two.
But hey to each their own, if you believe then who am I to tell you different but it works both ways.


Ok I had to post this of a guy/gal who posted back to the people who tried to distinguish between animals having a soul or not... This guy or gal has to be one of my people in relation to how I think.
“I think some folks are really grasping for straws.
I can fully understand if you believe animals have souls.
I can also fully understand if you believe animals do not have souls.
But to see people saying 'Yes, animals have souls. Just not rational, eternal ones' is a little bit ridiculous.
You either have a soul, in the sense that when you die your consciousness continues in an afterlife or you do not have a soul and when you die your consciousness ends.”
I think those people are just trying to find an easy out for the inevitable 'well if animals don't have souls then why does it matter if we abuse them?' argument.

What do we have to Fear?

So we all have heard about this teenager called Omar Khadr (who is now 24 I believe) who on July 27, 2002 was involved in a four-hour firefight in a village called Ayub Kheyl, Afghanistan. He was 15 years old. Yes, 15 years old this kid was a child they termed as a child soldier. He was a trained one at that, since Khadr received "one-on-one" weapons training in June, 2002by Al Qaeda supporters. You have to keep in mind we are not talking about the sweet cherub faced kids we are talking about a well military trained teenager ready to die for his religious beliefs.

The question we seem to be asking is when does a child of any age know right from wrong? When does influence from parent become the reason that Canada should step in and save this kids’ ass from what he is apparently being put through by interrogators to extract information. Kid or not he is guilty. Canadian or not he is again clearly guilty. Does he deserve a fair trial as they say he will only get in the western culture such as Canada? Should he be “saved” by what his parents, as well as he believes is a country that has misguided and immoral influences? This kid deprived one unarmed medic of a life, Sergeant First Class Christopher Speer, a 28-year-old medic with the U.S. Special Forces, as well as another soldier, Sergeant First Class Layne Morris of South Jordan, Utah of his eye. He complains to his government paid lawyers that Americans, who revived him after the firefight that they deprive him of sleep. Deprive him of sleep?? He deprived and man of his life? He also deprived another man of his full vision. Yet he wants to complain or his lack of sleep. One could say he is a typical teenager since he only seems to be worried how he is being treated but not how he treated others, but I cannot find one teenager in the” hateful and dreaded Canadian culture” that wants to kill others over religious reasons. Then again I guess I haven’t gone door to door to ask. I also don’t know many Canadian teenagers who plant road side bombs to watch others die.

This kid knew what he was doing. He may have been 15 years old but he knew and worse yet he believed in what he was doing.
This is the guy who was born Canadian (September10, 1986) but his parents moved back and forth between Canada and Peshawar, Pakistan. His mother had an animosity towards Western influences as well as a father who had a supportive role in Al Qaeda operations, so Omar was enrolled in Peshawar. They took this child out of Canada in contempt of our flag and our beliefs because it was “We” as Canadians who were bad influences. In 1992 Omar’s father was severely injured and they returned to Toronto so he could recuperate. Since he was allowed to come back (not that we stopped him at the borders or anything) to Canada that would mean the he was entitled to our Canadian health benefits.

In 1995 Omar’s father was arrested following Ayman al-Zawahiri’s bombing of the Egyptian embassy in Pakistan and accused of financially aiding the conspirators’. Ok so they finally released him after they found no evidence that his father was guilty. (Really makes me wonder how well they looked, but hey they said they looked). But wait it gets better.

On September 17, Omar was questioned again he stated that he helped the militants because he had been told the United States was fighting a war against Islam. When asked if he knew of a $1500 bounty being offered for each American soldier killed in Afghanistan, he responded that he had heard the story, but didn't know who was offering the reward. When asked how that made him feel at the time, the 15-year old stated "I wanted to kill a lot of American[s] to get lots of money". Does this sound like a Canadian kid you know? You know being as immoral as we western cultured citizens are and all.

Then to add insult to injury the women who thought Canada was a bad influence on her children came back to Canada to seek medical attention for younger son Abdulkareem. Great! So we allowed this family who hates everything about our country to once again live and seek medical treatment at our expense. Best yet is this kid Omar Khadr is now suing our country for $10 million dollars, you have got to be kidding me, that we even take this shit seriously. His family should be thrown out of the country for one.

In April 2009, the Federal Court of Canada ruled once again that Khadr's rights under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms had been violated. When do we as Canadians say enough is enough? When do we revoke the charter of rights and freedoms from murders?

It concluded that Canada had a "duty to protect" Khadr and ordered the Canadian government to request that the U.S. return him to Canada as soon as possible. In August 2009, the Federal Court of Appeal upheld the decision in a 2–1 ruling. Finally, in January 2010, in a unanimous 9–0 decision, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that the participation of Canadian officials in Khadr's interrogations at Guantanamo clearly violated his rights under the Charter. In its sharply worded decision, the Supreme Court referred to the denial of Khadr's legal rights as well as to the use of sleep deprivation techniques to soften him up for interrogation: they stated
The deprivation of [Khadr's] right to liberty and security of the person is not in accordance with the principles of fundamental justice. The interrogation of a youth detained without access to counsel, to elicit statements about serious criminal charges while knowing that the youth had been subjected to sleep deprivation and while knowing that the fruits of the interrogations would be shared with the prosecutors, offends the most basic Canadian standards about the treatment of detained youth suspects.

Come on!! He may have been born in Canada but he was not a citizen in the meaning of being a citizen. What is this shit about basic Canadian standards? We also have a standard that we don’t train our children to kill others and set road side bombs nor kill soldiers for $1500.00. Omar Khadr may have been born in Canada but he was NOT Canadian.

On October 25, 2010, Khadr pled guilty to murder in violation of the laws of war, attempted murder in violation of the laws of war, conspiracy, two counts of providing material support for terrorism and spying. It was agreed he would spend 1 year in Guantanamo Bay, and be returned to Canada. He will be returned to Canada, wtf!! Now we support this kid for how long in our cushy Canadian prisons. We feed him, cloth him, allow his family to have access to him, give him medical treatment when he needs it, educate him in prison, send him to programs to what “change his mind”. When did Canada really start harboring murders? When did Canada start saying that the one Canadian born, but not Canadian raised kid deserved better treatment then the 150 Canadian soldiers both men and women who died trying to help Afghanistan people, become less important. That those soldiers who gave their lives only to be betrayed by allowing this kid who clearly wanted to kill Canadians as well as American’s his basic rights as a citizen of Canada because he was born here but never lived here long enough to really see what our soldiers fight for every day of their lives. To allow his family to be protected under Canadian laws even though they have clearly stated that our culture was one that should be destroyed by any means even if that means was to send their child off to kill.

I hope to god (and i am not religious at all) and this country that we do not allow him back in Canada. I hope to god we do not let him have his so called fair western culture trial on our soil. I hope to god that we remove the family who hates our country enough to send in their child to murder our soldiers and our allies. I hope we give him a trail of our own if our government is so blind as to allow him back in with High treason. What is High treason you ask?

"High treason"
(1) Every one commits high treason who, in Canada,
(a) kills or attempts to kill Her Majesty, or does her any bodily harm tending to death or destruction, maims or wounds her, or imprisons or restrains her;
b levies war against Canada or does any act preparatory thereto; or
c assists an enemy at war with Canada, or any armed forces against whom Canadian Forces are engaged in hostilities, whether or not a state of war exists between Canada and the country whose forces they are.
Treason
(2) Every one commits treason who, in Canada,
(a) uses force or violence for the purpose of overthrowing the government of Canada or a province;
b without lawful authority, communicates or makes available to an agent of a state other than Canada, military or scientific information or any sketch, plan, model, article, note or document of a military or scientific character that he knows or ought to know may be used by that state for a purpose prejudicial to the safety or defence of Canada;
c conspires with any person to commit high treason or to do anything mentioned in paragraph (a);
(d) forms an intention to do anything that is high treason or that is mentioned in paragraph (a) and manifests that intention by an overt act; or
(e) conspires with any person to do anything mentioned in paragraph b or forms an intention to do anything mentioned in paragraph b and manifests that intention by an overt act."
It is also illegal for a Canadian citizen to do any of the above outside Canada.
The penalty for high treason is life imprisonment. The penalty for treason is imprisonment up to a maximum of life, or up to 14 years for conduct under subsection (2) b or (e) in peacetime.

He clearly committed High treason when he took up arms again our Country and our allies. Remember if the law can work to bring him back to Canada the law can work to make sure he never live his life outside amongst the real citizens of Canada, even if our jails are not as harsh as some of the foreign countries.
But hey Canada you be the judge. You decide if we should allow Hypocrites such as Omar’s mother and family to stay in Canada or be deported to the very country they want to fight and die for. You be the judge if this young man should be brought back to Canada because it is his basic Canadian right as a citizen and allowed to walk the streets of your town or city, knowing he would rather kill you then have to talk to you. You also look your child in the eyes and tell them that we forgive the injustice of people who hate us and want to kill us because their culture and beliefs are different from our own. You also tell them that what our soldiers do every day to keep us safe means nothing if we allow this young man and his family to live under our basic rights.

Then you lock your doors, pull your blinds and hope that those same extremists that we allowed in to our country and even allowed to stay don’t bomb your homes, schools, churches, and kill your children. You pray you can drive your car down the street without being blown up. Pray that the extremists don’t take over your government and change the rules of freedom. One can argue that by letting one family stay in Canada who clearly opposes a threat won’t allow for all the rest to suffer, and then one has forgotten history of what one man can do if the will is strong enough in belief.