Resolution: BIRT Saskatchewan schools require uniforms.
Affirmative: School uniforms prevent discrimination because everyone looks the same.
Negative: People should have the right to dress how they want, so uniforms cause bad conformity
Resolution: BIRT Canadian Schools should routinely employ random locker searches.
Affirmative: We will be much safer with locker searches, because we will find the bad things people bring to school, like guns and drugs.
Negative: Your argument assumes that students who bring bad things to school will always keep them in their lockers. They could just as easily keep them in a bathroom, a closet, a desk, a backpack, or on themselves. Searches won't create safety.
Resolution: BIRT Saskatchewan schools require uniforms.
Affirmative: School uniforms prevent discrimination because everyone looks the same.
Negative: Looking the same damages our freedom of expression and does not prevent discrimination. We have much to loose and little to gain. If we all look the same, it tries to solve problems of intolerance not by creating tolerance, but by removing our ability to perceive differences. This solution will make the problem of intolerance and the resulting discrimination worse.
Resolution: Canada must reject the war on Terror.
Affirmative: Participating in the war on terror is both futile and destructive to human rights.
Negative: Both arguments assume that the rights of the individual supersede the possibility of safety for Canadians.
Negative: