The week earlier we (i.e., James and I) discussed anti-Olympic campaign and touched a little bit on capital punishment, though these two seem irrelevant haha. Last night I had chance chatting with my Canadian friend about these two issues and now I would like to share with you his perspective.
For one of the eight reasons for the anti-Olympic campaign, mentioned in this video, both James and I were curious about the reason of "Impact on Women," that is, causing women trade, missing, and prostitution, etc. My Canadian friend basically opposed such statement, saying that there is no valid evidence for this. He though Olympics is a family event where the activities held are healthy and joyful. He though it doesn't make sense to him that Olympics causing negative impact on women.
On the other hand, I have to mention that Olympics indeed causes heavy economic burden to the hosting country / city. With the conclusion of 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic (actually now the Paralympic is still going on), the B.C. (British Columbia province, where Vancouver is located) government is going to increase the fare for public transportation system (see translink website: fare increase). effective starting from April 1st. One of the reason for the increase, according to some consensus, is because of the heavy economic burden caused by Olympics. With such policy, I will also be one of the victims :(
For the capital punishment, as far as my Canadian friend remembered, Canada has long been forbidden capital punishment, though himself, a faithful Christian, does support capital punishment. When being further asked in terms of the overall consensus here in Canada, he said that most Canadian people may be against capital punishment, yet they do think the current justice system is not good enough to supplement the absence of capital punishment. There should be stronger and fairer justice system so that the justice can be realized if there is no capital punishment.
Hope this helps.
Best,
Angela
What a coincidence, I was also discussing the issue of Capital Punishment with my other study group ... And ... I just finish a book about female trafficing in India, "Sold" http://www.anobii.com/books/Sold/9780786851713/01f5c0580d4e46e39e/
ReplyDeleteSure we'll have a lot to discuss ... hope I won't have any urgent stuff to do ^.^