Could a Liberal-NDP-Bloc Alliance be a good thing for languages?

Walter

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That would be, l to r, Layton, Dion, Duceppe...

Thanks for this, first laugh I've had in four days.

Good evening Colpy, strange events, we are all friends here in spite of what happens in Ottawa.
Flaherty sounded unusually subdued. While his future was not discussed, questions about his role as finance minister can be expected now that the economic strategy has blown up in the government's face:p
 

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Good evening Colpy, strange events, we are all friends here in spite of what happens in Ottawa.
Flaherty sounded unusually subdued. While his future was not discussed, questions about his role as finance minister can be expected now that the economic strategy has blown up in the government's face:p

LOL, you are smoking your weed again. What is gunna happen is the whole thing is going to bite the three stooges in the butt....

What I think is gunna happen is when the non confidence motion is put forward, the bloc will not show up for the vote. Duceppe seemed a bit edgy in that news conference.
 

Ron in Regina

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LOL, you are smoking your weed again. What is gunna happen is the whole thing is going to bite the three stooges in the butt....

What I think is gunna happen is when the non confidence motion is put forward, the bloc will not show up for the vote. Duceppe seemed a bit edgy in that news conference.


The Bloc will be there in full force, as will the NDP. If anything, it would'a been the Liberals missing
56 (or so) MP's....but I don't think so this time....
 

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Speaking of some coalition stimulating the economy, has anyone thought of HOW they would do this?
Not sure about the Dippers or the Bloc-heads, but I am 100% certain that various commercial/industrial buddies of the Glibs would be ecstatic over how much the Glibs would stimulate the economy for them at the exclusion of small business and whoever else.

Good point. That's why I believe any boosting of the economy should not be directly through selected businesses at the expence of others. After all, is the mom and pop shop going to get any funding if it has to lay off employees? No. So why should the auto industry get it?

I believe that a more fair option would be to stimulate it by helping industries more indirectly. For example, by funding better education, the government would be crating a more educated workforce, and this would give all companies a more qualified workforce to choose from. If they still can't survive, then tough for them.
 

Ron in Regina

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Good point. That's why I believe any boosting of the economy should not be directly through selected businesses at the expence of others. After all, is the mom and pop shop going to get any funding if it has to lay off employees? No. So why should the auto industry get it?

I believe that a more fair option would be to stimulate it by helping industries more indirectly. For example, by funding better education, the government would be crating a more educated workforce, and this would give all companies a more qualified workforce to choose from. If they still can't survive, then tough for them.


Good Call....stimulate the economy directly through the public with better education,
or directly through cash. Put $$$ in the hands of the public, and they vote with their
dollars directly to Mom&Pop operations or their own educations or a new car from
either the Big 3 or whatever makes sense to them.

If a business (any business) has a quality-durable-affordable product, people will buy
(invest) in it. If a business doesn't, then it goes away like the dinosaurs and the Dodo.