2006 Weekly Features Archive

Quote of the Week
Shill of the Week
Chicken Little Terrorist of the Week
Dumbass of the Week

2008 Weekly Features Archive
2007 Weekly Features Archive
2005 Weekly Features Archive

Quote of the Week

"The government won't have any choice, because at the end of the day it will be imposed by international standards."
Denis Coderre - Former Immigration Minister

"The Chinese are working hard. But they need to understand Canada. We've had issues. . .with the Falun Gong, the protests here"
David Emerson - Canadian International Trade Minister

"It [the internet] has in some respects been transformed into a terrorist university, obviating the past need for travel to a conflict zone for 'on-the-job training'."
Director of Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS)

"[Terrorists] can train themselves over the Internet. They never have to necessarily go to the training camp or speak with anybody else and that diffusion of a combination of hatred and technical skills in things like bomb-making is a dangerous combination"
Michael Chertoff - U.S. Homeland Security Secretary

"One solution might be to require people to use their tags to get through gates placed throughout the airport. Perhaps a little like a shepherd might gate off his pasture and check the tags on his sheep as they passed into this field."
Optag co-ordinator (RFID)

"We had to have a reasonable expectation that he was not going to be tortured or maltreated. We were able to assure ourselves of that"
US State Department

"One would suggest that the fight is the last vestiges of the hold that the Taliban continue to exert over parts of Afghanistan."
Peter MacKay - Canada's foreign affairs minister

"If we're not willing to use it [non-lethal weapons] here against our fellow citizens, then we should not be willing to use it in a wartime situation"
Air Force Secretary - Michael Wynne

"We are very casualty-sensitive in this country"
Jim Fergusson of the University of Manitoba's Centre for Defence and Security Studies

"Indeed, more data sharing leads to more precisely targeted screening, which actually improves privacy by reducing questioning and searches of innocent travelers."
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff

"[Al-Qaeda] requested from him not to show any religious tendencies during his stay in Lebanon and to give the picture of a frivolous and uncommitted youth,"
Lebanese internal security forces

"They have no regard for life, either ours or their own. I believe [the suicides at Guantanamo Bay were] not an act of desperation, but an act of asymmetrical warfare waged against us."
US Military

"Without a free press to report on the activities of government, to ask questions of officials, to be a place where citizens can express themselves, democracy simply couldn’t work"
Condoleezza Rice

"I believe the government that governs best is the government that governs least. And by these standards, we have set up a fabulous government in Iraq."
Stephen Colbert

"One need not have much imagination to contemplate the negative effect on our relations with Canada if discovery were to proceed in this case and were it to turn out that certain high Canadian officials had, despite public denials, acquiesced in Arar’s removal to Syria."
US Federal Judge

"It provides the opportunity for the community to turn in these unwanted firearms, reducing the potential of a break-and-enter occurring and these firearms being stolen"
Ottawa Police Department

Shill of the Week

Chicken Little Terrorist of the Week

Dumbass of the Week

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