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Offline queenmandy85

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Happy Independence Day
« on: December 11, 2022, 02:27:36 pm »
Happy Independence Day.
On Dec. 11, 1931, Canada became an independent country. Let the bells ring out and the banners fly.
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Offline waldo

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« Reply #1 on: December 11, 2022, 04:01:42 pm »
Canada - [11th December, 1931] from colony to sovereign state... er... constitutional monarchy, autonomous of British laws: Statute of Westminster, 1931, 22 Geo. V, c. 4 (U.K.)

ain't history grand! At the 1926 Imperial Conference, set in motion by Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King... signed Dec 11, 1931 by PM King:



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It was made clear under the Statute of Westminster that each of the Dominions would have the right to choose which of the new resolutions it would accept, and which would be rejected in favour of past regulations. All but one of the Dominions chose to adopt every resolution and thus sever all legal ties to Britain; Canada was not fully prepared for complete independence. Government ministers were unable to agree upon a method which could be used to amend the Constitution, so it was decided that Britain would temporarily retain the power to do so. This remained in effect until the Constitution Act was passed in 1982.

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On April 17, 1982, Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, as well as the Minister of Justice, Jean Chrétien, and André Ouellet, the Registrar General, signed the Proclamation which brought the Constitution Act, 1982 into force. The proclamation confirmed that Canada had formally assumed authority over its constitution, the final step to full sovereignty.

Liberal Prime Ministers King and Trudeau - gettin'-er-done!

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« Reply #2 on: December 11, 2022, 06:01:52 pm »
Thank you waldo for your dedication to our country and supporting our constitution over the interests of your party of choice.  You're a true patriot.  Certainly King being a Liberal is nothing but a coincidence.
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« Reply #3 on: December 11, 2022, 08:03:51 pm »
Mackenzie King. He's the guy who went to seances and "claimed to have communicated with Leonardo da Vinci, Wilfrid Laurier, his dead mother, his grandfather, and several of his dead dogs, as well as the spirit of the late President Roosevelt".
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Offline Spike The Hike Shady

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« Reply #4 on: December 11, 2022, 09:33:39 pm »
MacKenzie King was a racist.
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Offline Queefer Sutherland

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« Reply #5 on: December 11, 2022, 10:20:01 pm »
MacKenzie King was a racist.

I wonder what % of our great grandfathers were racist?
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« Reply #6 on: December 11, 2022, 10:24:23 pm »
I wonder what % of our great grandfathers were racist?

Probably most of them, at least to some degree.
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« Reply #7 on: December 11, 2022, 10:45:36 pm »
My grandfather, who fought in the First World War, was very racist. Absolutely everyone was then. That's why it's stupid to try to apply our values to them. As Bill Mahar said, you aren't better, you were just born later. Future generations will be appalled by you too. They'll probably be disgusted you continued to build pipelines and to drive cars and to use single-use plastics well after you knew it was destroying the livability of the planet, among other things we would totally disagree with or just find inconceivable.
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« Reply #8 on: December 11, 2022, 11:56:43 pm »
This notion that everyone back in the day was horrible and racist does a massive disservice to the many many people who weren’t. It’s **** lazy and ahistorical to boot.
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« Reply #9 on: December 12, 2022, 06:20:02 am »
Show me someone who wasn't and there is likely evidence that, by today's standards, they totally were

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« Reply #10 on: December 12, 2022, 09:58:34 am »
Show me someone who wasn't and there is likely evidence that, by today's standards, they totally were

John Brown.

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« Reply #11 on: December 12, 2022, 10:37:04 am »
According to this article "John Brown and Other Liberal Racists", he felt Black people were incapable of operating firearms so he gave them spears instead.

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« Reply #12 on: December 12, 2022, 11:08:15 am »
According to this article "John Brown and Other Liberal Racists", he felt Black people were incapable of operating firearms so he gave them spears instead.

There's no evidence of that.

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« Reply #14 on: December 12, 2022, 11:43:58 am »
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/wbna31332925

Doesn't say anything about him thinking Blacks couldn't use firearms. I mean the whole point of the raid on Harper's Ferry was to seize weapons for a slave revolt.