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Take it to the next step: Winnipeg (or some other chunk of land) is declared to be not a part of the province, and now belongs to Tribe X. If the non-aboriginal Canadians living there were then declared to be members of Tribe X, it would work. But that wouldn't be the result. If I moved to...

Well, I'm not a Topic Wrangler, so sticking with that then: The Somalia Incident had only a limited impact on Canada and Canadians. Even the course of Canada's efforts in Somalia probably wasn't affected. There is little to learn from the incident that we didn't already know. Its comparison to...

I will stick to saying that you appear to have an anti-American bias, but I'd like to stick with the topic we're in. The point being, as an example, a Canadian who joined the US army and fought in Vietnam is an American War veteran who happens to be a Canadian - not a Canadian War veteran...

Good point (about non-Canadian History, not about your apparent anti-Americanism), it shouldn't have either. Just because a person serving in a foreign military happens to be Canadian doesn't make the event a part of Canadian military history. Though Canadians who served in British forces, prior...

I do not believe so. Nor do I believe it would fix everything concerning the other topic on Lebanon. Divided loyalties are natural. I see this more as a commitment, a choice that must be made. The Lebanon situation brought out the fact that, when the going gets tough, hard decision will need...

Having any issue "strongly pursued" by DFAIT isn't the kind of "extraterritoriality" I would think Canada opposes. If you don't pursue a diplomatic objective, how would it be obtained? I do believe that it is an issue for any nation to have its citizens recognized as its citizens. After all, if...

It is what Canada must do as a sovereign nation. I believe in single citizenship, and I do not want to have Canadians who do not feel more Canadian than they do a foreign nationality - this is, I believe, the threshold that must be overcome. There are alternatives to dual-citizenship; I have...

The formal renunciation should be part of the Canadian Citizenship program. If the former nation still insists that it will not recognize Canadian Citizenship then this should be strongly pursued by the Foreign Affairs department. If Canada does not have the clout to have its own Citizenship...

Now, I don't want to specifically support this person's course of actions, but the Law (as approved/stamped by the Head of State, or their representative) allows for political discord. Having a political doubt about how the Head of State is determined is not being disloyal (how you express the...

He took the matter to the Grievance Board, and it was rejected, for the very real reason that the Queen of England (amongst other titles) is our Head of State. And that is where he should have stopped, change on this issue requires a change to the Head of State - which would require the public...

I assume you mean by having 1 citizenship? :)

Is the Constitution the problem? Does the law work in this area at all? - Okay, better than chaos I suppose. While the courts are able facilitate changes to the understanding of marriage, based on modern thoughts on Rights and Discrimination, the courts are somehow unable to alter treaties that...

The time being taken to become familiar would have to be compressed, but think of it in the historical context of Canadian units being sent from one sector of the Front to another. It shouldn't take months to understand the local layout; a relieving unit can acquire the information that was...

You'll have to check out the Africa Star (it had numerals - but not for counting tours/time). Afghanistan went from General to Specific many years ago. There is no point having the SWASM for some and the GCS for others. Bars on the SWASM can be used to indicate the different missions or even...

Full Canadian Citizenship, should require renouncing all other Citizenships (Full). This must also be shown in actions: Canadians must not vote in foreign elections and must not serve in foreign militaries or as members of foreign governments.

Admittedly I am unclear on why there is a need to do this, or have the 1 tour cap (not that every battalion will cycle through between now and 2009). Despite some protestations, I have never seen a lack of Infantry junior ranks willing to deploy. There did seem to be a problem at the NCO level...

Do you mean the Canadian General's who advised against deploying a force greater than 500+ personnel? If so, they didn't seem to have a problem with the dare part, mainly just the logistics of being in Afghanistan at all.

Yes. And if the need became real then the Canadian Government would use the usual "we'd like to help but we're just not capable", "don't have the means", "don't have the troops", and yet somehow that lack of capability is (was?) never addressed. Not that the USMC organization is the...

And again, the only real mention of the UN support for this mission was almost non-existent (a sound bite from a scrum with McCallum). All news organizations just skim over that part. Still... no one seems particularly upset that deploying less than 10% of the Army can be such a difficult task...

On the other side of this is that there will be those who have not been to Afghanistan because of the courses or taskings they were assigned. Wouldn't sending these people over on the next available tour be a priority? Sending the same people over again and again in order to have experienced...