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‘Co-Parent’: Canadian Educator’s Odd Response to Media Attention on the Gun Sketch Story

Feb. 27, 2012 7:35pm Mike Opelka

Why did a Canadian school think they had a right to freak out when a pre-schooler made a crayon drawing of a gun?

It’s quite simple. The teachers and the education system did so, because they consider themselves to be “co-parents” of the children.

The story about Jessie Sansone has been burning up TheBlaze all day. Jessie is the Canadian man who went through the humiliation of a police strip search as well as being arrested and having his home searched all because his 4-yr-old daughter drew a picture of Jessie using a gun to kill “monsters.”

The overwhelming public opinion on this story says that the school overstepped its authority. The school and school administrators disagrees. After all, the Superintendent of Education in the region believes that the educators are “co-parents” of these kids.

Seriously. Co-parents.

Watch the Superintendent, Gregg Bereznick explain it.

H/T Brian Lilley of Sun News Network in Canada

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RightWingMom
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 8:51pm
My husband and I are 100% parents…we home school!

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- OutOnTheTiles
  Posted on February 27, 2012 at 8:57pm
  Amen. The State is not a “Parent”.
  
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- UBETHECHANGE
  Posted on February 27, 2012 at 8:58pm
  Did you know Socialist Sweden has banned homeschooling for Religious and Philosophical Reasons? Yep and If Obama get’s re-elected I fear he will move in this direction. Anybody But Obama 2012!
  
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- Miami
  Posted on February 27, 2012 at 9:12pm
  WTF
  
  Is this idiot out of his mind?
  
  What has happened to common sense?
  
  These are not your children, if you want children of your own try finding a mate. Preferably a human one and not an anime of a human on line. But it’s best if people like this don’t reproduce…
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on February 27, 2012 at 9:16pm
  So a tutor that parents hire to teach their kids piano are also a co-parent?
  
  Can I co-parent a teacher’s kid?
  
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- watchtheotherhand
  Posted on February 27, 2012 at 9:19pm
  That comment is a small and rare window into the mind and mentality of a socialist/statist/liberal. Your kids belong to us. We are just as entitled to parent them as we see fit as you are. Wow very telling indeed. That must of just slipped out.
  
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- Miami
  Posted on February 27, 2012 at 9:21pm
  I’m sorry for my reaction but Socialist morons like this drive me nuts. Things like this happen in the old USSR & Cuba, even worse, the State would take children and raise them as they saw fit. Like athletes, dancers and alike. They would just take them away from their parents.
  
  Is this what we can look forward to under a second Obama term…?
  
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- Miami
  Posted on February 27, 2012 at 9:24pm
  Even the reporter was taken back by his insane comment and that is saying a lot with the media today!
  
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- Whirling Dervish
  Posted on February 27, 2012 at 9:31pm
  When the guard dog sees himself as the homeowner, time has come to neuter.
  
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- ChuckJ
  Posted on February 27, 2012 at 9:45pm
  My children are home schooled also. No failing school system to worry about and no violence in our school. My family’s prayers go out to the victim’s of today’s shooting.
  
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- SgtB
  Posted on February 27, 2012 at 9:47pm
  While you may home school your children, the rest of society has to understand that the statement about child care givers being co-parents is absolutely a reality. I don’t care how you feel on the subject. If you think that you can send your child to the care of another person for 6 hours or more a day where said person gives them more attention than you give your child in a week, they are having an impact upon how your child will develop and think. To say otherwise is ignorance.
  
  I’m not justifying the teachers having this man strip searched and put in a jail cell while his home was ransacked, not in the least. In fact, had it been myself in that situation; I would have found a gun or made something equivalent and revisited the police station or school to show them how displeased I was with their complete disregard for my human rights. But the reality is that if you send your children to school, they will learn more than math.
  
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- Captain Crunch
  Posted on February 27, 2012 at 9:56pm
  Since they are co-parents they have the right to post-abort their child if they aren’t developing right.
  
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- Cat
  Posted on February 27, 2012 at 10:33pm
  Miami >
  
  Correct. they haven’t a mind
  
  These morons have no conscience mind, because they had anesthetized parents, and couldn’t possibly understand they’re dealing with cognizant parents’ undeniable love for their children.
  
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- canknucklehead
  Posted on February 27, 2012 at 10:47pm
  @Miami
  
  That reporter is an unapologetic conservative. They are the Canadian Fox news. A pale shadow of them anyway.
  
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- colt1860
  Posted on February 27, 2012 at 11:00pm
  That’s great. Most of our founding fathers were home schooled too. And those that went to public school, well, let’s just say, the Government had no place to dictate anything therein.
  
  Unfortunately, while Canada follows a “co-parent” initiative, the US follows a No-Parent policy. Go figure.
  
  Go to the bottom of the page and listen to the “Home Schooling” topics:
  http://library.georgegordon.com/audio
  
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- oldguy49
  Posted on February 27, 2012 at 11:14pm
  i do believe adolf hitler took kids and helped raise them also
  
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- colt1860
  Posted on February 27, 2012 at 11:16pm
  *If “Home Schooling” doesn’t show up, go to page 2 and then back to page one. It’s there.
  
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- jb.kibs
  Posted on February 27, 2012 at 11:24pm
  co parents huh. nice. you will be paying for half their education, food, shelter, clothing, etc… thank you! alright! we are sending the bills.
  
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- Uranium Wedge
  Posted on February 27, 2012 at 11:32pm
  Why don’t you come co-parent my A$$….
  By kissing IT!!!
  
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- Uranium Wedge
  Posted on February 27, 2012 at 11:42pm
  Derogatory Comments. They’re fantastic!
  
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- GETLIFE
  Posted on February 28, 2012 at 3:33am
  SGTB! Thank you for the reality check. To a five-year-old in school all day,
  a teacher or other care giver = SURVIVAL!
  
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- grannyrecipe
  Posted on February 28, 2012 at 6:45am
  I have a dream, that one day as we start to seriously deport illegal aliens from this Country that we, by force, make all peoples of this mindset work in the onion fields, the meat packing plants, the orange groves etc…and are prevented from doing anything more.
  
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- old white guy
  Posted on February 28, 2012 at 6:47am
  it is time to start refusing to do anything the government says. most people are cowards and give in without putting up a stink. if everyone refused to follow a particular law or regulation just what do you think would happen? it is not possible to arrest or prosecute millions of people. we could show the bureaucrats that the people are in power not them.
  
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- MissM
  Posted on February 28, 2012 at 9:20am
  This is why we homeschool too.
  
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- 000degrees
  Posted on February 28, 2012 at 9:50am
  This should work fairly well in our great urban settings as the dad is rarely home, or even known. Think that sounds harsh? Harsh is the dems keeping this anti-family situation in place for so many years. Yea, I know, “war on poverty” but just look at the results. And they are not an accident. The dems have successfully propagated generations of dependents with their policies and dependents to them are votes. Anyone else see this coming full circle???
  
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- jnobfan
  Posted on February 28, 2012 at 10:30am
  YIKES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  Wow look how far we have come since 1969?
  Can’t imagine what kind of country we will live in come 2025
  Canada is a big place. Money to be made in the lightly populated energy fields. The cities will be absolutely unsafe by then IMO.
  
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- MamaZee
  Posted on February 28, 2012 at 6:59pm
  Reason #4,627 that we homeschool.
  
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- Mil Mom
  Posted on February 28, 2012 at 11:30pm
  @ChuckJ
  Posted on February 27, 2012 at 9:45pm
  
  My children are home schooled also. No failing school system to worry about and no violence in our school. My family‘s prayers go out to the victim’s of today’s shooting
  ***
  Our local school had a young girl attacked by a mob in the restroom, severe head injury, while other girls stood guard. The school talked with the girls involved. My granddaughter had a teacher send her with something to the office, and she was threatened by a group of girls, my daughter now home schools her and younger siblings. It seems to be the ONLY way to protect your kids, I pray for the kids who have parents who can’t home school. The public school system needs dismantled and parents set up a new system with the money going to private or charter schools.
  
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Dale
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 8:43pm
As a ‘co-parent’, will you pay half for my daughter’s braces?

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- RepubliCorp
  Posted on February 27, 2012 at 8:54pm
  he should said *co-child* They want an endless stream of money.
  
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- jb.kibs
  Posted on February 27, 2012 at 11:26pm
  yes, this comment is going to get him a lot of “bills” sent to him by other co parents for back pay on clothes, shelter, food, medical expenses, birthdays, etc…
  
  oops.. careful what you wish for. it MUST come from the teachers pockets too. since they WANT to be co-parents… you can’t make other tax payers pay for that… sorry. immoral?
  
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- Uranium Wedge
  Posted on February 27, 2012 at 11:40pm
  So if a kid gets grounded by their parents, all he or she has to do is go to the “co-parent” and get the grounding repealed.
  Genius!
  
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Daddy Hawg
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 8:33pm
SO, as a “co-parent” the super should also be arrested, strip searched and his house searched. End of story since as a co-parent he also shares the responsibility of proving that there is no gun in his house as the “co-father.”

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- Fear The Voices
  Posted on February 27, 2012 at 8:44pm
  Good point! Maybe the parents should sue him for child support too!
  
  Quite a few years back I spoke with a Canadian couple who were teachers. Even back in the early 90′s they feared for their increasingly more liberal education system. I guess they had good reason to be afraid.
  
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- Taquoshi
  Posted on February 27, 2012 at 10:10pm
  Inquiring minds want to know what kind of co-parent would have the other parent taken into custody strip searched and charged on such flimsy grounds? In recent months, the US courts have started to recognize this as abusive behavior on the part of the “parent” and giving sole custody to the other parent.
  
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dmerwin
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 8:29pm
I am really sorry for the Canadian military who will now be asked to use paintball guns or speak in a demanding tone.

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- AlbertaOIL
  Posted on February 27, 2012 at 9:00pm
  LMAO,
  Have you seen what are poor military has for uniforms?
  Paintball or Nerf…
  
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- JoeKing
  Posted on February 27, 2012 at 9:46pm
  Don’t laugh. Did you ever see “Canadian Bacon”?
  
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sooner12
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 8:17pm
It’s this kind of thinking (co-parenthood) that is permeating throughout our education systems, as well here in the US. (Think of that north Carolina girl that had her lunch replaced with chicken nuggets.) In a sense we have brought this on ourselves with our complacency, first with federal governmental control over our lives and second the powerful education unions. Can we get control back in the schools? Maybe, if we get the federal government out of our lives by abolishing the Dept. of Educ. and turning it back to the local towns and cities, get rid of teacher unions and eliminate tenure. Yeah, I know, fat chance.

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- Fear The Voices
  Posted on February 27, 2012 at 8:47pm
  I had to laugh at the nuggets. Moochelle and barry rail against the evils of McDonald’s and their flying monkeys of the cafeteria replace a child’s lunch with chicken nuggets.
  
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- Living In NYC
  Posted on February 27, 2012 at 9:33pm
  Maybe the “Lunch Police” should head to the gym and indoctrinate them with the new video “Dancing with Mooshell” so their will be a class system for kids who bring their lunch to school and the kids who eat the FDA ‘s and Food Police’s breaded chicken fat nugget school lunch!
  
  Wouldn’t that be a nice desert for the poor four year was singled out, chastized and forced to eat tbe FDA’s breaded chicken fat nuggets..then have to mimic Mooshell’s dance moves!
  
  Sounds more like Soviet prison than an elementary school to me .. I do undestand they get baloney on white, an orange and water in prison!
  
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Hausmaus
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 8:17pm
This is what happens when fecal matter takes the form of Liberal Activism. I get the feeling that if Obama gets re-elected in November we are all going to be immediately flushed down the golden toilet. Are you ready for the Royal Crapper?

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AJAYW
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 8:15pm
Again bottum feeding teachers trying to run your kids life.

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amerimom
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 8:13pm
I’d like to see how he’d react if someone tried to “co-parent” his kids!

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- Living In NYC
  Posted on February 27, 2012 at 9:18pm
  I don’t think God will let this buffone have children..he broke the mold after Gregie was born!
  
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cous1933
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 8:12pm
If we continue electing big government statists (yes, this includes Santorum, Romney, Gingrich, and Obama), this is coming soon to a school near you. In fact on The Heritage Foundation and Wall St. Journals freedom rankings, the USA is currently number 10, and Canada is number 6.

http://www.heritage.org/index/ranking

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supressorgrid
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 8:09pm
What do you want to bet that this guy has private “co parents” teaching his kids. If they want to share parenting with me, they owe me many,many years of child support.

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ICEDRAGONNITE
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 8:06pm
All good Communists belong to the state. Your life must be regulated, supervised and correction given even for the perceived error or judgement. Your children do not belong to you. The state will educate them according to their test results to bring about the most perfect society for the elite. The less bright and the less physically coordinated will be relegated to the common jobs of mucking. For those that are mucking sterilization is required because the human condition must be advanced, regardless of the cost.
The state has found evolution does not work so the state must step up and cleanse the human kind
species. Now there are several ways we can accomplish this. One chemical sterilization, water born. Two manual castration or hysterectomy, Three radio-logical sterilization.
Imagine the professional students that have finally achieved a degree are no going to tell the rest of us how we must live, breath, eat, speak to and who we are allowed to have sex with. Not in MY WORLD!

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Itsjusttim
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 7:59pm
Oh you apathetic people don’t really, really care about them going to be telling you what to do. And they’ll do it ever so slowly, slowly, that you won’t even really notice, because you get lulled to sleep by Satan’s musical fire. That’s why the best solution is a couple asteroids crashing into earth at 35,000 miles per hour.

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- Itsjusttim
  Posted on February 27, 2012 at 8:08pm
  And then of course afterward not everyone will be reborn again, and the people’s nasty souls who would rather be apathetic and enjoy Satan’s fire, their souls will sink like stones to the bottom of that one sea (that’s why Jesus mentions it’s better to have a millstone tied around one’s neck and tossed in the deepest sea, because it can’t be deeper than that one sea people’s souls will be tossed into) , and the oil that floats now they will walk the earth again. I’ll let you know how all the elbow room feels.
  
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- Itsjusttim
  Posted on February 27, 2012 at 8:26pm
  But on the other hand “The Right Hand” there’s “The light.” So an asteroid doesn’t have to be the only solution. Because Heaven and earth are unto lightning striking in the East and reflecting in the West. Or that which Happens in Heaven reflects on earth. Lets examine that! Isaiah said “Don’t leave yourself no where to go.” Well that means the earth is full, and it is full because land is locked up so it can’t be used. Therefore the earth is covered with seas, because seas are the gathering of people. Therefore as in Genesis when God says “Let the dry ground appear” that will actually be millions upon millions of people dying off. Interesting!
  
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- ESCAPED_FROM_USSR
  Posted on February 27, 2012 at 9:17pm
  @Itsjusttim – be careful what you wish for: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCi1I9Lr8Q4
  
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freedom4ever
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 7:57pm
co-parents???? what are they talking about??? are they paying for the care of this child? no they aren’t! personally i would have a police order keeping them away from my children!

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- UBETHECHANGE
  Posted on February 27, 2012 at 8:01pm
  “personally i would have a police order keeping them away from my children!”
  
  Lol! I’m with you on that!
  
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- bombshelterbob
  Posted on February 27, 2012 at 8:09pm
  So they’re co-parents now , eh? I’ll remember that when my kids needs braces, school clothes, and spending money on the weekends!
  
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- JBaer
  Posted on February 27, 2012 at 8:19pm
  Great answer BSBob!! //thumbsup
  
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BJC
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 7:56pm
I’d like to co-op my foot with this man’s ****. That’s the only thing I want co-oped with him!!!

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VAHomeschooler
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 7:53pm
It was this kind of attitude in our US public schools that caused my wife and I to turn to homeschooling. We have been a homeschool family for 4 years now. One of the most frequent comments we get is “You must homeschool, your kids are so well behaved”. I most recently heard this at a gun show this past weekend. Our children have the opportunity to learn the truth about the faith of our founders as they study the Constitution. Two things that public schools do not teach. They can also draw whatever they want without me having to drop my pants for the government.

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Micmac
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 7:52pm
It’s everywhere. How do we stop all of this? We are being hit from every angle. And the Repubs running for prez are no better.

NoBama 2012

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Buck Shane
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 7:52pm
If the teachers and the superintendent are co-parents, then why weren’t they arrested and strip searched, too?

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- phillipwgirard
  Posted on February 27, 2012 at 7:58pm
  Good Point
  
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- 1casawizard
  Posted on February 27, 2012 at 7:59pm
  Got a good point there Buck.
  
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UBETHECHANGE
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 7:51pm
Oh hell no you aren’t!

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- Marci
  Posted on February 27, 2012 at 7:57pm
  Socialist craphole. We are next if we don’t stop the current administration and all his willing accomplices.
  
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- Jenny Lind
  Posted on February 27, 2012 at 8:05pm
  Those exact words flashed through my mind when I read the headline, so, ditto.
  
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- UBETHECHANGE
  Posted on February 27, 2012 at 8:05pm
  Did you know Socialist Sweden has banned homeschooling for Religious and Philosophical Reasons? Yep and If Obama get’s re-elected I fear he will move in this direction. Abo 2012!
  
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chameleonx
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 7:48pm
“co-parents”? Do any of these people think before they speak? If I was in Jessie’s shoes I would take my child out of that school. No one has the right to do this to anyone. This is what political correctness does to people. We all have been young and know guns are used as weapons. I highly doubt a young girl drawing a picture of her father killing monsters makes him as a gun-nut.

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BurntHills
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 7:46pm
there it is, obama’s communist pals hard at work up in canada. any of those commies come anywhere our kids, and they will be feeding our hogs.

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Recceman90
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 7:44pm
Wow, my motherland is still moving towards the nanny state….even though they elected a majority Conservative Party (which has been doing very well, not to mention they are getting rid of the gun registry!)!

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- Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
  Posted on February 27, 2012 at 7:52pm
  South Park maybe had it right, Blame Canada. Doesn’t Quebec want to become their own country, maybe it’s time to cut them loose.
  
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wowthird
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 7:43pm
Co-parents? Can they help out with expenses then? I know my medical insurance rates are outrageous because I have a chronically ill child and am too “rich” to qualify for assistance.

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Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 7:43pm
Look, this is aboot, uh, the kid being traaamatizzed by a gun in da hooose. If ya have a gun in da hooose, we are going to feel ya up and all dat. Besides, her daddy was kind of good looking and I was feeling randy. So take off, eh.

Sincerly, da Superintendent of da school.

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- Puddle Duck
  Posted on February 27, 2012 at 10:10pm
  Idiot.
  
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- On The Silent Wings Of Freedom
  Posted on February 27, 2012 at 10:55pm
  PoodleDuck @ Feb 27 10:10 pm
  You must be describing yourself. Darmok and Jalad’s post was very funny and quite well done. Missing our sense of humor there, Poodle D*ck?
  
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Reeferman
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 7:43pm
Just keep in mind that most of the stupid things that are happening in Canada is either in the province of Ontario, Quebec or the West coast. The east dominated Canada for many many years with the unions screwing the rest of us. This is starting to change albeit very slow but is.

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RJJinGadsden
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 7:43pm
Yep, the Hitlerjugend had co-parents too. At least the Canadians do believe in the co-parent system. Too many of our local boards of education have begun to believe that our children simply belong to them at all times. Can’t wait to see those board of education inspections of your homes. You know, for the safety and security of ‘their’ children.

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