Why is it that we throw are ups up in discuss when we talk about how much the government wants to spend to publicly fund individual health insurance/citizen insurance yet we don't question the billions we spend each month on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? Isn't that a bit hypocritical?

The Central Committee of the World Council of Churches recently passed a 'minute' that refers to paying for war as a form of conscientious objection. (WCC, meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, 26 August - 2 September 2009).

Web Reference:
www.oikoumene.org/en/resources/documents/central-committee/geneva-2009/reports-and-documents/report-on-public-issues/minute-on-the-right-of-conscientious-objection-to-military-service.html

See: Paragraph 6 and Item F below:


Document date: 1.09.2009
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July 19, 2008

Canada Revenue Agency
9755 King George Highway
Surrey, BC V3T 5E1

Greetings,

Yesterday I received a Statement of Account from CRA with dates from April 5, 2007 to July 9, 2008 (covering the 2006 and 2007 tax years).

Since 2002 I have been a conscientious objector to military taxation, each year at tax time diverting the military portion of my federal taxes to Conscience Canada’s Peace Tax Trust Fund and writing a letter to Canada Revenue Agency, submitted with my filed taxes, e… Continue

I will be writing something soon about this year's tax return. Something unusual happened - not necessarily great but ---

Today, (Saturday) I also attended the Citizen's Inquiry on the Impacts of the Uranium Cycle, held at Hart House, U. of Toronto. Several of these have been held in centres in Estern Ontario - this was the first in Toronto. We even had the head of Greenpeace, Bruce Cox, and the Ontario leader of the Green Party, Frank Dejung. It was sponsored and organized by Paul York of Grad… Continue

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