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-----Original Message----- From: Evan Westra [ mailto:westra101@hotmail.com] Sent: Wednesday June 11,2003 6:14 PM To: premier@gov.ab.caSubject: will you marry me? Mr. Klein. I am a grade 10 student at Western Canada High School, and I would like to know why exactly you insist upon involving yourself in the private lives of Canadians? Perhaps you should give your back-door politics a rest, hmm? "The state has no place in the bedrooms of Canadians."-Pierre Trudeau. By opposing same sex marriages, you are alienating today's youth. We are not as ignorant as you think. We have not been brought up with homophobic prejudices. We are a generation of acceptance, Mr Klein, and we are the future. Your oppression of Canadians will not be forgotten. Evan Westra Post Script: In junior high they used to give us detentions for making homophobic comments. Maybe it's time you re-took the 7th grade. Response from premier's office
June 17, 2003
Mr. Evan Westra,
Thank you for your recent e-mail regarding the Ontario Court of Appeal
decision on same-sex marriages.
Since this court decision was in another province, it is not binding in
Alberta. The Alberta government has encouraged the federal government to
appeal the ruling to the Supreme Court of Canada, and to also seek a stay of
the court decision to prevent any same-sex marriages in the meantime.
Alberta will use every legal means available to protect the province's
legislation in this area, including use of the notwithstanding clause, if
necessary.
Alberta's position on same-sex marriages is not new. It has been the
province's policy for years that it would use the notwithstanding clause, if
necessary, in order to stop a court decree allowing same-sex marriages.
This isn't a matter of discrimination. It reflects the view of the majority
of Albertans - that marriage is an institution with specific and deeply
rooted historical, cultural, and religious traditions that have shaped it to
be a special bond between a man and a woman.
The majority of Albertans also believe in fairness, which is why the Alberta
government has updated its legislation to give people in same-sex
relationships equal access to the law and the courts through the Adult
Interdependent Relationships Act. This legislation includes the ability to
apply for financial support, provincial programs, death benefits, and
matters involving wills and estates. This legislation also enshrines the
definitions of spouse and of marriage as referring to a relationship between
a man and a woman.
The Adult Interdependent Relationships Act is the most comprehensive
legislation in Canada when it comes to ensuring equal treatment for all
types of couples where emotional or economic interdependency exist. In
addition, Alberta's human rights laws protect people from discrimination in
a number of areas based on their sexual orientation.
Thank you for taking time to express your views on this issue.
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IDEAS
- Gratuitous Directing: A play being performed by actors who are being forced to compete with each other by the director. It could be any play, the real storyline would be the competition between the actors. the director would set up challenges for the actors, such as removing a set piece every minute until there only remains one. the actors must continue to perform the play, all the while competing for control of the last set piece. The director would also have an ongoing commentary, and a buzzer backstage for every time he doesnt like what the actors are doing. The objective is to have the actors upstaging each other, the director upstaging the actors, and the actors upstaging him back. The concept would be similar to theatre sports, except that they would still have to stick to the lines in their play. it's the type of thing that only an acting audience would find funny. it might even need it's own script, but it's something i'd like to try.
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I know that when the great guiding spirit cleaves humanity into two antagonistic halves, I will be with the people. And I know it because I see it imprinted on the night that I, the eclectic dissector of doctrines and psychoanalyst of dogmas, howling like a man possessed, will assail the carricades and trenches, will stain my weapon with blood and, consumed with rage, will slaughter any enemy I lay hands on. And then, as if an immense weariness were consuming my recent exhilaration, I see myself being sacrificed to the authentic revolution, the great leveller of individual will, pronouncing the exemplary mea culpa. I feel my nostrils dilate, savouring the acrid smell of gunpowder and blood, of the enemy's death; I brace my body, ready for combat, and prepare myself to be a sacred precinct within which the bestial howl of the victorious proletariat can resound with new vigour and new hope.
Che
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