Canada's Federal Election 2015: The Official Thread

JLM

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Whoever has a chance of beating the supposiTORY in our riding. They linked Nakusp to the south Okanagan in this riding shuffle to maximize their chances of taking the seat. Nakuspians have been hammering the message daily to try and get people to vote against them.

You're a card, Cliffy. I believe the riding boundaries are adjusted to keep populations of the ridings fairly even where possible and secondary to align with the demographics. I think the optimum population is somewhere close to 110,000. Harper has absolutely NOTHING to do with setting riding boundaries. There is a separate non political group in charge of that. Anyway it would be a boring forum without the laughs you provide. :)
 

mentalfloss

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Justin Trudeau, Gilles Duceppe face spotlight of Tout le monde en parle

Trudeau was the first of many guests on the Oct. 11 show. He was teased about having slipped and called Duceppe "my love" during one of the French language debates. The show also pulled out some archive footage of one of Trudeau's earlier appearances, when he energetically kissed co-host Dany Turcotte. Trudeau laughed both off with ease.

Twice, Trudeau was given loud rounds of applause by the studio audience. The first was when he argued that an election campaign wasn't the time to discuss the niqab.

"Not while there are important issues, not while we have a government that's diminishing our role in the world, attacking immigrants and using fear and division. We have an opportunity in this election campaign to come up with a more optimistic, generous vision for this country," Trudeau said.

The other round of applause came when he promised to immediately call an inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women, if the Liberals form government.

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http://www.cbc.ca/m/news/politics/canada-election-2015-trudeau-duceppe-tout-le-monde-1.3267197
 

captain morgan

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Whoever has a chance of beating the supposiTORY in our riding. They linked Nakusp to the south Okanagan in this riding shuffle to maximize their chances of taking the seat. Nakuspians have been hammering the message daily to try and get people to vote against them.

Wow, a comment worthy of a 10 year old... Somehow, it suits you Clifford
 

pgs

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Re: Trudeau top choice as preferred PM

He's done a good job converting Ontarians.

Justin Trudeau makes pitch to Tory voters in Ontario

Justin Trudeau issued a very pointed appeal to conservative-minded voters as he kicked off the final week of the campaign Monday with stops in areas captured by his opponents in the last election.

The Liberal leader's campaign bus rolled into suburban Ottawa, which voters painted blue four years ago, with a specific pitch to supporters of the former Progressive Conservatives.

Speaking to a room full of his own partisans, Trudeau offered praise for the now-defunct Progressive Conservative party and criticized the Stephen Harper Conservatives

"How swiftly Stephen Harper's Conservatives laid claim to a proud Canadian institution, then hollowed out its centre and replaced the heart with the divisive, secretive and fearful core."

Trudeau told the crowd of several hundred people that Conservatives are their neighbours, cousins and parents — not their enemies. He said they want a growing economy and safe communities just like they do.

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http://www.cbc.ca/m/news/politics/justin-trudeau-conservatives-ontario-red-tories-1.3267574
Well what's new the cbc doesn't like the conservatives. Old news flossy .
 

Machjo

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Re: Harper's attack on Liberal tax plan draws Price is Right comparisons online

1. Justin supports Quebec separation and for someone who has little experience as a leader this is dangerous thinking when you consider that the policy of political appeasement is like having no policy at all. You simply do what people want even if you believe it's wrong and misguided. A laissez-faire philosophy is hardly the kind of leadership Canada presently needs.

2. Justin has said that Canada will be go "backwards in 10,000 different ways" if it changes its funding of abortion or add any legal restrictions to it. Now you know why we believe going forwards with Justin can only augur bad news when he defines "backwards" this way.

3. He fully supports gay marriage. Justin knows this is at odds with Catholic teaching, but as a politicians he feels his views cannot always reflect those of the Church. But Catholicism is not just another idea, but a truth that one must make every effort to live.

4. Justin has said that he would back Quebec's independence if the law on abortion were to change. This is the Machiavellian side of Justin's politics: to get votes for the Liberal Party give Quebec what it wants to hear and wants.

5. Justin is proud of the fact that issues such as abortion and same-sex marriages can no longer be discussed in Canadian politics. Where's the democracy in such a position? And he's talking like this now that his party is part of the oppostion; it can only get worse should he, heaven forbid, be the prime minister sometime in the future.

6. He claims to be Catholic but then makes up his rules on abortion, same-sex marriage and God only knows what else? Of course, he can live his life the way he wishes, but don't confuse this with living the faith while publicly contradicting Catholic teaching by advocating a sort of "cafeteria Catholicism."

7. Justin tends to focus on the politics that comes from the iPhone and iPad generation. It's all about me and more me and what I'm going to do. But shouldn't a federal leader be thinking of we and that without others little is possible. Without God, nothing is possible. The Greeks had a name for this: hubris, and in Shakespeare's tragic characters it was called: a fatal flaw.

8. Justin, like many other politicians, believes that it's a fundamental "human right" for a woman to choose to kill her unborn baby and have the state pay for the cost. Last time we checked this is not a right, but the false propaganda coming from the United Nations and the Human Rights Commissions here in Canada. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights says nothing about "reproductive rights." However, it's important to note that in Article 3 we find this moral principle on which rest all other human rights: "Everyone has a right to life, liberty and security of person."

9. Recently Motion 408 that would have seen the House of Commons debate the idea of when human life begins was defeated. Justin's response to the outcome was to say that he would ask MPs to vote not with their conscience but with the party's position, and this means that the abortion issue cannot be touched. The status quo prevails. Where's the democracy in this approach? On what moral grounds does that argument rest?

10. Justin has admitted in the past that he doesn't agree with everything the Catholic Church teaches. That's his opinion, and he has a right to one. But Catholicism, according to him, needs to turn to a new page and stop following the ideas of old men. So, we can only assume that he believes it's young people like himself with new ideas who can lead and govern Canada. Just what these policies and ideas are isn't yet clear because this would require specifics on his part rather than the jargon of political generalizations and doublespeak. Canadians this time shouldn't get fooled by the meaninglessness of words like "Trudeaumania" or the lie of the past "reason before passion." However, this we do know about Justin's thinking: it's morally absurd and certain demographic suicide, not just for Canada but the entire West. He merely wants to continue on with business as usual: it's to fund the culture of death.

To conclude, Trudeau senior has already done enough moral damage to this country. We don't need his son planning to do more of the same. Canada's future depends on building a culture of love and life. There is no other choice. Of course, we do pray for Justin's conversion and for his change of heart.

Everyday For Life Canada: Ten reasons for not supporting Justin Trudeau

I'm pro-life too, though I admit that that alone won't win my vote.

First off, the leader of each of Canada's most significant political parties have adopted the same policy on the matter of abortion. Neither Mulcair, Trudeau, nor Harper will allow that issue to come before Parliament if they can help it. Likewise on the matter of gay marriage.

As far as I know, the Christian Heritage Party is the only party taking a firm stance on the matter, but then I don't trust that party on the matter of religious freedom. It's essentially a light Christian version of the Ayyatollah Khomeini.

I could consider my local candidate, whether independent or of any party who is willing to break rank with the party leader, though in most ridings we're not likely to find one.

Now one could argue on the truthfulness front. As far as I know, Mulcair does not profess any religion whereas both Trudeau and Harper do. On that front, Mulcair comes across as the most truthful in not professing one belief and then violating it.

With all of this in mind, in most ridings we'l be left having to vote on matters other than abortion or homosexual marriage simply due to agreement among all local candidates on the matter.

Of course we could vote in favour of maximum religious freedom as a second-best iption, which would likely leave us with some independent candidates and maybe members of the Libertarian Party.

I don't see many other options for religiously-motivated voters otherwise except for Christians in the Christian Heritage Party.
 

mentalfloss

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It's because 'popular' doesn't just mean 'the economy' -- which is something he's undeniably failed at anyway.
 

mentalfloss

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Re: Harper's attack on Liberal tax plan draws Price is Right comparisons online

You were doing so good Machjo.

And then you said you were prolife.
 

gerryh

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and again... it's not the cons that keep brining it up. Case in point. over 90% of the threads on the niqab on this board have been posted by left wing idiots like yourself.
 

gerryh

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Who is more of an idiot, right wing idiots or left wing idiots?


Which is usually bang on the money.


There's a difference? In reality, you and walter sit side by side.
 

DaSleeper

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Re: New Conservative campaign ad sums up election in one word. A Mercer Report exclus

People who Pretend to be centrists must really get a sore âss on that fence...

 

taxslave

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Re: New Conservative campaign ad sums up election in one word. A Mercer Report exclus

The left has to shout SQUIRREL every time any issue of substance come up. Like the economy, trade, security, jobs etc because they have no policies worth looking at.