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Building a better bill
QMI Agency
he opposition
just can't read
the tea leaves. They
really don't know how
to manage the Bill C-51
debate and they're only
digging themselves
deeper.
Polls have consist-
ently shown that Cana-
dians want to get
tougher on terror.
Whether it's the news
from abroad, the Octo-
ber terror attacks or the
regular stream of young
people trying to hop on
a plane to fight jihad -
Canadians are rightly
concemed.
The Conservative
anti -terror legislation is
intended to provide the
necessary tools to meet
the terrorist threat still
unfolding on home
soil.
An Angus Reid poll
from February shows
82% of Canadians sup-
port the bill.
Amore recent poll
shows the majority of
Canadians - including
a majority of NDP and
Liberal supporters - are
behind extending the
mission in Iraq.
Sowhyis the official
opposition going so
nutty over this bill?
"This is a dangerous,
ineffective bill that
should not be adopted;
NDP public safety critic
Randall Garrison said
on Friday, echoing
words firstvoiced by
NDP Leader Tom Mul-
cair a month ago.
But when you look at
the amendments both
the NDP and Liberals
put forward just last
week, it's pretty clear
they actually don't
think the govemment is
that far off the mark
Both parties want to
see sunset clauses
introduced. This basi-
cally means the bill
will be repealed after a
set period of time.
That makes sense.
Especially since this
bill is to deal with a
hopefully short-term
problem - home-
grown jihadism.
Regular legislative
review is a good thing
- we just wish we
applied it to more
things govemment
gets up to!
Other changes are
kind of irrelevant. The
Liberals want to make
it illegal for CSIS to
request judicial
authorization for
measures that violate
Charter rights. But
that's already the job
of the judiciary and we
trust they're up for it.
On Friday the Con-
servatives announced
they're going to make
amendments to the
bill. They'll likely take
some of the opposi-
tion's ideas and disre-
gard others.
That's democracy.
That's teamwork
Nothing dangerous
about that.
If the opposition can
put reasonable ideas
forward in a construc-
tive way, theywon't
bleed support. Canadi-
ans don't want partisan
theatrics. They want a
sensible approach to
fighting terror.
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The LHC and the search
for something more
Tara Ostner
The Clinton News Record
The four billion
euro (which
translates to 5.5 billion
Canadian dollars) Large
Hadron Collider (LHC)
located outside of
Geneva, Switzerland is
set to resume operation
sometime this spring and
it will operate at almost
double the energy levels
as it did before.
Spending four billion
euros on what basically
comes down to one big
science experiment
might seem excessive to
some but it doesn't to
me.
If the LHC is able to
detect mini black holes,
for instance, this will fur-
ther strengthen string
theory, the theory that,
by some interpretations,
suggests that different
dimensions could exist
and parallel universes
are possible.
This would be an inval-
uable discovery. If paral-
lel universes are possible
then this raises the ques-
tion of possible worlds, a
question that has fasci-
nated me my entire adult
life.
What are possible
worlds? They are a device
that philosophers, logi-
cians and physicists use
to determine conditions
like necessity and possi-
bility. Unlike the world in
which we live in, which is
actual and necessary,
possible worlds refer to
worlds that are, not
actual, but merely possi-
ble and contingent.
Comparing and con-
trasting logically neces-
sary conditions on one
hand and logically pos-
sible conditions on the
other hand and study-
ing the metaphysical
reality of possible
worlds stretches the
mind, I think, to enor-
mous lengths and upon
doing so various ques-
tions arise.
Are possible worlds
merely abstract possi-
bilities? Or do they have
some sort of reality of
their own?
If possible worlds are
merely abstract possi-
bilities that is one thing.
But imagine that possi-
ble worlds really did
have a kind of reality of
their own. Imagine that,
while they might not be
actual for us, possible
worlds were indeed
actual for themselves.
That possible worlds
in fact have this meta-
physical reality is an
argument that the
American philosopher,
David Lewis, strongly
supported. More specif-
ically, he regarded pos-
sible worlds as concrete
totalities and argued
that possible worlds are
in no way metaphysi-
cally distinct from the
actual world.
While the idea might
seem incredible I, nev-
ertheless, find myself
drawn to it. We as
humans crave the idea
that there is something
more to our universe
than merely what we
can perceive and if the
Large Hadron Collider
can prove this then, as
far as I'm concerned,
the 4 billion euro
machine is worth every
penny.
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