Sorry, but you claim an awful lot of stuff but extremely rarely back any of your nonsense up.
I don't need to research it, I know what the UN published and it is lacking an awful lot of info.
High Ho it's off to the polls we go.
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I don't need to research it, I know what the UN published and it is lacking an awful lot of info.
Whatever. Ontario and Quebec are not ALL of Canada. Canada would be a lot better off if you poor saps in QC and ON would quit voting in the same old garbage all the time.
lol Duct tape him and hang him in a closet if you like.
I don't really care what I am tagged as. Canada isn't much of a country to start with. It's the coagulation of several quite different regions. An amalgamation.
Dead on the nail, Mr. Blue. SirJosephPorter has no idea what he's talking about.
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Actions of Harper that would qualify him has having the character and qualities of leaders of Banana Republics:
1) Suing the opposition for doing their job: Harper lawsuit smacks of authoritarian state: prof
2) using military aircraft for personal use: Harper called hypocrite over usage of jets
I could look for more - but that's enough for me at the moment...
PS - I also value Truth and Honesty. Harper does have any of that either.
LOL. That's rich coming from a Westerner. when's the last time Alberta had a change in Provincial governments? When's the last time YOUR MP has been from a different party?
My MP has been either been Conservative, or Liberal (I don't think an NDP has ever won here). At least we switch been red and blue ever so often.... In fact, I think at the moment, my MLA is a Liberal, and my MP is a Conservative. Imagine that....
That change was inevitable. I was also hit by this. Anyone can buy income trusts. Lots of retired people owned them. They were an ideal way to convert savings to income. But their profits should have been taxed like all other publicly traded stocks.
If you look at the pre-announcement trading, you can tell the conservatives did not leak news about this change to their friends. There was no pre-announcement spike in trading. That means no one outside the PM's cabinet knew this change was coming. The way Harper and Flaherty managed this change raised my opinion of them. Not enough to vote for them, but certainly they went up a notch or two on the integrity ladder. If I had known what was coming, I'd have dumped my trusts, bought them back a week later and made a tidy profit. Instead I went for a roller coaster ride like everyone else.
So yes I will give Harper and Flaherty points for having integrity related to this issue.
OK, then here we are in agreement. Cutting taxes is easy, cutting spending is difficult. So conservatives cut taxes first and then cannot cut spending, so they borrow. That is why conservatism has become synonymous with borrow and spend.
I know it isn’t fair Ron, but that is the political reality in Canada. For historical reasons, Ontario and Quebec are huge provinces, and in a democracy, must be allotted seats according to their population. Ontario and Québec together account for 178 MPs, out of a total of 310.
If the four western provinces untied, they will have a significant clout, they will have substantial number of MPs in the Parliament, roughly as many as Ontario (I think). But I don’t see that happening. Another possibility might be to break up Ontario into three or four provinces, but Ontario would never agree to that.
Another reason why Ontario and Quebec are so important is because of their location. Since they are eastern provinces, voting opens and closes there earlier than it does in Western provinces. By the time Ontario and Québec results are out, it is pretty much clear who will form the government and whether a minority or a majority.
It may have been different if Ontario and Quebec had been the westernmost provinces.
It may have been different if Ontario and Quebec had been the westernmost provinces.
Again, you give Canada too much importance; world markets probably won’t even notice the elections. As to Canadian rates going up, I don’t see that happening either. The economic policies of the two main parties are pretty much similar, if Libs get elected, it won’t make that much difference to the economy.
I think even Canadian markets will pretty much ignore the elections.
Quite right, AlbertaBlue, the world recession is not Harper’s fault. When is a Canadian leader ever responsible for a world recession? Doesn’t happen.
But when iggy blames Harper for the deficit, he does have a point. Harper inherited the economy which had healthy surpluses. Then he blew it all away in tax cuts mostly benefiting the rich. Thus the GST cut disproportionately benefited the rich. A rich playboy buying a 100,000 car saved 2000 $, while a single mother on minimum wage, who spends most her money on food and shelter, didn’t save any.
Now to be fair, Harper was not as irresponsible as Bush, he did not run up huge deficits in order to give tax cuts to the rich. However, he did blow away all the surplus.
So when the downturn came, the deficits was bigger than it needed to be. If Harper had adopted Liberal blueprint and kept running healthy surplus, the deficits would have been much lower than it is today.
And all of it supported by the Liberal party.
Ignatieff has no point here at all.
If an election occurs, it will go down as one of the most un-needed ones yet. EI reform? Come on...
You must be like Les & me, constantly disappointed with politicians in general.
Yup.:cheers:
Just more disappointed with some in particular tho.
Most un-needed goes to last year's election. (you know, the one called by Harper for no good f-ing reason)
Everything you say is true, AlebrtaBlue, but that doesn’t negate anything I said.
I welcome the trade agreement between the three provinces, I would hope that all the provinces have such an agreement; it can only be good for Canada.
However, it is one thing to have trade agreements, totally something else to be parts of a country. No doubt center right governments are in power in all three provinces, but it won’t last. Eventually left of center, NDP governments will come back to power in Saskatchewan and BC.
I can especially see friction between BC and Alberta in any possible federation. BC is much more liberal on social issues (gay marriage etc.) than Alberta, and in any federation, BC will prevail because of its bigger population.
The fact that federation will not work does not mean that there cannot be good relations, trade agreements etc. If tomorrow Québec separates form rest of Canada, I would want good relations, trade agreements with Quebec as well.
But having good relations is not the same as being part of the same country. You may have a business partner with whom you get along quite well, but you may not want him as a friend, he may drive you nuts.