What he said, regarding work shortages on farms in Nova Scotia, as reported in Tuesday's Halifax Chronicle Herald:
"All those no-good bastards sitting on the sidewalk in Halifax that can't get work..."
What he meant to say, as just reported on CBC:
"...that many small businesses rely on foreign workers due to labour shortages...and without these valuable workers many of these businesses would suffer."
WFDS
ON WHEN TORTURE ISN'T EVIL
ReplyDelete"...in a situation of extreme necessity, the possibility, even a slight possibility, that it [torture] may reveal some life saving result would almost certainly overwhelm any consideration that it is evil." - Michael Ignatieff, The Gifford Lectures, University of Edinburgh, January 2003
ON HOW DEMOCRACIES SHOULD JUSTIFY TORTURE
"The use of coercive force in a liberal democracy...is regarded as a lesser evil. This particular view of democracy does not prohibit emergency suspensions of rights in times of terror. But it imposes an obligation on government to justify such measures publicly, to submit them to judicial review, and to circumscribe them with sunset clauses so that they do not become permanent." - Michael Ignatieff, The Lesser Evil: Political ethics in an age of terror, Princeton University Press, 2004
DION'S WIFE
"To justify violence, he must have really given it serious thought. Otherwise, that's very dangerous. What guarantee would there be that he wouldn't change his mind again?" - Terrorism and counter-terrorism scholar Dr. Janine Krieber, Facebook message as reprinted in Toronto Star, 21 November 2009