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Subject:	Once again, even with all our problems, Canada--a great place to live...
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Date:	Tue, 3 Feb 2004 17:13:25 GMT
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http://www.canoe.ca/Columnists/sa.html Spanking, within 'common sense' reasons, is legal, according to the Supreme Court of Canada. You can't use a shoe aor a belt, you can't hit the kid in the head, can't spank if they're under the age of 2... THey actually laid out pretty specific guidelines. As well, teachers can't spank, but they can use 'coersive force' to stop fights and to drag unruly students to the principals office--so yes Timmy, the teacher can *legally* lay a hand on you if you're being a prick. Ahh Canada, where you can walk around topless, if you're female and you so choose (k, that's Ontario only right now, but as yet I have seen no evidence of women excercising that legal right), where you can have on your person under 15 grams of wacky tobacky without it being a capital offence, and where you can get married to someone of the same sex... Though the last two may not last too long in Martins regime... we shall see what transpires there... But overall, those wacky Canadians, with their liberal laws and all!! God love 'em! As an aside, in Europe you probably couldn't go a block without seeing some marquee or billboard without seeing an advert with a topless model selling something... what is it about North America? It was a breast! And it, so I'm told, for I didn't TiVo it and do a frame by frame peek-see, had a 'pastie' over the nipple!! Holy great mother of Teetsville!!! The uproar! The furor!! Eh, whatever... Dave K

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		Re: Once again, even with all our problems, Canada--a great place to live...
(...) I'm curious. What do you think about the concept of "decency"? Freedom without respect and responsibility is meaningless. (...) You obviously don't have kids and are trying to raise them to become decent people. (...) Of course you are an (...) (20 years ago, 3-Feb-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

		Re: Once again, even with all our problems, Canada--a great place to live...
(...) In the UK we are allowed "(URL) chastisement>", but it is not something I condone. I have 4 kids, and I've never even thought about it; although I have been bitten and nipped by them at times. (...) Not in my part of Europe! Like you, in the (...) (20 years ago, 4-Feb-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

		Re: Once again, even with all our problems, Canada--a great place to live...
Hi all, it's been a while! The subject of this post seems curious to me. Canada is a great place...why? Dave, are you reacting to the court's decision or to this journalist's gushing? The way I see it, the writing in that piece was sub par in that (...) (20 years ago, 4-Feb-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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