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Policing:  Walking in Another’s Shoes

Policing: Walking in Another’s Shoes

There has been tremendous scrutiny and criticism of policing in recent months. Policing has been the lightning rod for widespread protests, a window into the failings of systemic processes and structures that have sustained otherization and marginalization, and...

One Nation, One People

One Nation, One People

One of the main reasons for the lack of progress on the federal Indigenous file is the lack of united support among First Nations for real change. Sadly, our non-Indigenous political leaders do not talk about this, former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau being one...

We Need Intelligent Charity Policy

We Need Intelligent Charity Policy

The WE Charity inspired the questions, but so many other charities should be affected by the answers. On August 6, the federal Finance Committee called employees of Charity Intelligence to the stand. Ninety minutes of testimony from CI managing director Kate Bahen and...

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Compulsory Unions Violate Student Freedoms

Guest post by intern Dan Osborne.

When Rector Nick Day, “elected to represent the approximately 20,000 students of Queen’s University”, signed an inflammatory open letter to Michael Ignatieff, he unintentionally showed the need for voluntary student unionism and the abolition of closed shop in Canada. When students are forced into joining their student union, student government, etc, they are forced into association with the group and its other members, no matter what the group does or how offensive it is to the student. In the case of Rector Day, the students of Queen’s University have been forced into association with the man and his comments regardless of whether they like it or not.

Day’s letter is basically a stock-in-trade angry young man’s diatribe about Israel. It argues that despite any opinion Ignatieff (who has 11 honorary doctorates, has written seventeen books including several on international relations, and held a position at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government) might have on the subject, Israel really is as simple as being an apartheid state and Ignatieff is not just wrong but actually “unethical” for criticizing Israeli Aparteid Week. After all, Day points out, a range of (unnamed)

“Scholars, activists, international advocates, civil society leaders and UN officials have observed that the occupation, checkpoints, walls, relocations, and home demolitions committed by Israel in Palestine have created a system of racial separateness and dominance. Thus, they have applied the term “apartheid” because of its obvious and internationally recognized applicability.”

Then Day really outdoes himself:

The AFN Needs Fresh Thinking

Whoever replaces Mr. Fontaine has to stop living in the past. Playing the blame game will do nothing to lift aboriginal Canadians out of poverty and despair, nor will clinging to the belief that the only thing separating natives from the Canadian economic mainstream is a few trainloads of taxpayer cash.

A Policy That Is Outdated, Expensive And Unworkable

Every Canadian federal government has faced this question since the first one took office in 1867, taking over a patchwork of reserves and treaties negotiated under British rule. In the absence of a convincing answer that satisfied both governments and governed, Canada has opted for incremental change. The result is a system that is increasingly outdated, expensive and unworkable (a fate Canada shares with other postcolonial societies like Australia).