Why wouldn't anyone know? It was announced with the program. If selective hearing came into play, that isn't really a fault of the program.
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Why wouldn't anyone know? It was announced with the program. If selective hearing came into play, that isn't really a fault of the program.
Am I the only one who notices that all threads break down to two topics, blaming the religious right for everything and everybody else' opinion of SJP. It seems that we can't go past two pages on any thread without going to these two topics.
Getting back to the OP: no band aid fix will straighten out the mess our political system is in. All political parties have become twisted into the fabric of a corrupted and irretrievable system of corruption and self interest. Until we can see that we all prosper or perish as a whole, that survival is a group activity, we will continue down this road of self destruction.
"No man is an Island". The individual is a myth. We are all interconnected and interdependent. In the present system, no one is successful unless it is at the expense of another. Our political system is a reflection of that mentality.
Getting back to the OP: no band aid fix will straighten out the mess our political system is in. All political parties have become twisted into the fabric of a corrupted and irretrievable system of corruption and self interest. Until we can see that we all prosper or perish as a whole, that survival is a group activity, we will continue down this road of self destruction.
"No man is an Island". The individual is a myth. We are all interconnected and interdependent. In the present system, no one is successful unless it is at the expense of another. Our political system is a reflection of that mentality.
Yeah, like you #Juan, I used to think Martin was a hero, but I beginning to see the light, he can stand a little scrutiny, mind you he is nowhere near the rogues Mulroney and Trudeau were. But he's no choir boy either.
Cliffy that is cynical garbage. Canada is one of the best run democracies in the world, and the world, generally agrees that Canada is the best country to live in. Sure we have our faults. What country doesn't?
Sorry Juan, but we aren't the best:
- Best Country to Live: List of Countries on 2009 UN HDI | NowPublic News Coverage
Gilbert - I am all for reducing equalization payments to the provinces. I am glad Martin did it. I am upset that the first thing Harper did was ramp it back up. Equalization, while good in theory, is flawed in practice, and needs to be phased out.
Right on there, Francis. One of the problems with taxes is it's a double edged sword. For every dollar the Gov't is collecting in taxes they probably spend 10 or 15 cents just to get it and then double check every one's account, send out dunners to non compliers, charge and prosecute a few and then feed and house a few in Her Majesty's establishment. Better just to let us have the money we'll spend it keeping the same number employed doing something useful as the bureaucrat sitting in offices in Surrey and Ottawa.
Fine by me. In which case, however, the feds give up power over the provinces.
I'm not glad Martin screwed healthcare and education.
Link?
I wouldn't be surprised that if we ever were #1 that the Gliberals would've been in power. They've had more time in the PMO to screw the country than the Cons.
Yeah a lot of Liberal (and Martin) supporters have short memories when it comes to things like the $10 billion gun registry that now has all abiding citizen's guns registered.
Canada,The World's Best Country To Live In
"For almost a decade (up to the year 2001), Canada was ranked number one among 175 countries in the United Nation's Quality of Life survey."
Oh - just MOST of when Chretien was in power.....
Fallacy number one "we live in a democracy." Fallacy number two, "Canada is a country." Canada is a corporation, registered in the US of Aggression, bought and sold on the New York stock exchange. Our SIN number makes us property of that corporation, an asset. Or more correctly a slave of the corporation, whose sole purpose is to pay the fruits of our labour into the corporation coffers. Freedom and democracy are an illusion and like in the Matrix, nothing more than programming.
Martin cut transfers to the provinces - over which the feds have no control over where they spend it. The provinces could have raised to taxes, or cut spending, to cover this reduction. Instead they cut education and healthcare. That was THEIR choice - not Martin;s,
Since they had no political back-bone I'm not saying he's blameless - but local Provincial governments are just as much - if not more - to blame.
Taxes in Canada are already high to pay for all the spending that went on in Trudeau's day (yes and Mulroney's too but everyone on this forum tends to forget the law of inertia applies in politics almost as as in physics). I don't see much benefit in raising them much more because it WILL encourage those with ability/ideas/capital to seek their fortunes elsewhere.
Programs cuts are a must but the issue is where to cut from. In some ways I differ in approaching one of the sacred cows of our society, namely seniors programs. Seniors have already gotten more out of the CPP than anyone following them will, and they are also the ones responsible for voting in the authors of the current problems that besiege the country. The debt and deficit weren't born after Harper and the CPC took office...
Programs cuts are a must but the issue is where to cut from. In some ways I differ in approaching one of the sacred cows of our society, namely seniors programs. Seniors have already gotten more out of the CPP than anyone following them will, and they are also the ones responsible for voting in the authors of the current problems that besiege the country. The debt and deficit weren't born after Harper and the CPC took office...
Cool. Personally I think when people have rated Canada as a good place to live, it is a good place to live IN SPITE of its politics.
Here's one for the Cons. We've slipped from 5th to 9th since last year:
2010 Quality of Life Index