Canada's Federal Election 2015: The Official Thread

Jinentonix

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First of all, it is very bad form to shout down a speaker before he even starts his speech. That's a popular tactic these days by those who want to get publicity - they don't like the speaker so they prevent him from speaking by shouting him down and/or talking over him. Very unclassy and ignorant! It tells you what kind of a person is doing it, that's for sure; just a loudmouth bullsh**ter!


All the criticism about the Fords if completely irrelevant to the election anyway. So they smoked crack. So What? How many crack smokers will be voting in this election? You won't know about them and they have a right to vote for whomever they please just like everybody else.
Harper himself does NOT do any drugs so what does it matter if some people who support him do?
Justin Trudeau smokes pot and brags about it. That is illegal. Is anyone making a big fuss about that? An illegal drug is an illegal drug. but it's okay for Trudeau, not okay for Harper's supporters?
Jeez! What nonsense!

I think Elsie is just a Hurricane Hazel wannabe! Hazel got her wizened up mug in the news, so can Elsie.
Elsie is an ill-mannered old harridan and she ought to have been evicted!
 

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First of all, it is very bad form to shout down a speaker before he even starts his speech. That's a popular tactic these days by those who want to get publicity - they don't like the speaker so they prevent him from speaking by shouting him down and/or talking over him. Very unclassy and ignorant! It tells you what kind of a person is doing it, that's for sure; just a loudmouth bullsh**ter!


All the criticism about the Fords if completely irrelevant to the election anyway. So they smoked crack. So What? How many crack smokers will be voting in this election? You won't know about them and they have a right to vote for whomever they please just like everybody else.
Harper himself does NOT do any drugs so what does it matter if some people who support him do?
Justin Trudeau smokes pot and brags about it. That is illegal. Is anyone making a big fuss about that? An illegal drug is an illegal drug. but it's okay for Trudeau, not okay for Harper's supporters?
Jeez! What nonsense!

I think Elsie is just a Hurricane Hazel wannabe! Hazel got her wizened up mug in the news, so can Elsie.
Elsie is an ill-mannered old harridan and she ought to have been evicted!

You got it, Dave's Mum! I think people tend to tar Doug Ford with the same brush as Rob Ford........................two different articles, Doug is articulate while Rob is a loud mouth!
 

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Yes, speaking of desperation, I just received my SECOND robo-call and FOURTH call overall from the NDP. That is now 4 times in less than 2 weeks (10-12 days). They're skirting the time limit on phone harassment. Actually, I believe 3 times in a week is considered harassment is it not? And they've certainly called 3 times in the last 7 days.
 

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Yes, speaking of desperation, I just received my SECOND robo-call and FOURTH call overall from the NDP. That is now 4 times in less than 2 weeks (10-12 days). They're skirting the time limit on phone harassment. Actually, I believe 3 times in a week is considered harassment is it not? And they've certainly called 3 times in the last 7 days.
Get rid of yer land-line.
 

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Yes, speaking of desperation, I just received my SECOND robo-call and FOURTH call overall from the NDP. That is now 4 times in less than 2 weeks (10-12 days). They're skirting the time limit on phone harassment. Actually, I believe 3 times in a week is considered harassment is it not? And they've certainly called 3 times in the last 7 days.

For about six weeks I rec'd an email from some member of the Dippers asking for a $5 donation. The only message accompanying the request was they needed it to beat Harper. Personally I think the Dippers are running a VERY poor campaign. Altogether too much lying by the leader. He's still raving on the radio this morning about being the ONLY party who can beat Harper. HTF could someone like this be construed to be Prime Minister material? How can a person like Jr. with very little experience in industry and very few accomplishments in politics (outside of being elected as leader of a party but actually having DONE very little be construed to be P.M. material? The fact that people think "strategic voting" is necessary to unseat Harper is a clear indication Harper at least has the capability to be formidable if nothing else.
 

Jinentonix

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Get rid of yer land-line.
Not a prayer. I'm not about to spend 3-4 times as much for something I only need for one purpose. I don't need my phone to "roam" or go on the internet or any of that other crap, it just needs to be a damn phone.

For about six weeks I rec'd an email from some member of the Dippers asking for a $5 donation. The only message accompanying the request was they needed it to beat Harper. Personally I think the Dippers are running a VERY poor campaign. Altogether too much lying by the leader. He's still raving on the radio this morning about being the ONLY party who can beat Harper. HTF could someone like this be construed to be Prime Minister material? How can a person like Jr. with very little experience in industry and very few accomplishments in politics (outside of being elected as leader of a party but actually having DONE very little be construed to be P.M. material? The fact that people think "strategic voting" is necessary to unseat Harper is a clear indication Harper at least has the capability to be formidable if nothing else.
I don't think it's really so much a case of his being formidable when necessary as it is this bizarre desperation on the left to defeat a system they don't like when it doesn't work in their favour.
And yet, one can easily blame Chretien for how things have been working out so far. If it wasn't for his attempt to strangle the financing of the right wing parties they wouldn't have joined forces to become one "super" Conservative party. Thus, the majority of those who vote Conservative no matter what where no longer splitting their votes between 3 parties.


Although that could also backfire on the CPC as more and more Progressive Conservative type conservatives could end up voting Liberal simply because the Liberals are closer to the PC's ideals than either of the old Refoooooorm and Alliance parties.
 

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Not a prayer. I'm not about to spend 3-4 times as much for something I only need for one purpose. I don't need my phone to "roam" or go on the internet or any of that other crap, it just needs to be a damn phone.
Then quit yer bitchin' 'bout robo-calls.
 

Jinentonix

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Then quit yer bitchin' 'bout robo-calls.
Yeah, because the NSA and corporations tracking my physical location at every moment is infinitely more appealing :lol:


Unlike many people these days, I don't have the need to go around 24/7 connected to the world. I can actually manage to go to the can in my own house without dragging a f*cking phone with me.
What is the fascination? You might miss something if you're away from a personal comms device for more than 5 minutes?
 

Walter

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Yeah, because the NSA and corporations tracking my physical location at every moment is infinitely more appealing :lol:


Unlike many people these days, I don't have the need to go around 24/7 connected to the world. I can actually manage to go to the can in my own house without dragging a f*cking phone with me.
What is the fascination? You might miss something if you're away from a personal comms device for more than 5 minutes?
Information is power.
 

PoliticalNick

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Yeah and? You must still be under the mistaken impression I'm a conservative for you to think I give a sh*t.


I mean how desperate is the NDP for votes when they keep calling the same house begging for them? Particularly after the first time they called when they were told there was absolutely no support for them in this house.
You said the calls came from 3 different sources. The right hand doesn't always know what the left hand is doing in any organization.
 

Jinentonix

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You said the calls came from 3 different sources. The right hand doesn't always know what the left hand is doing in any organization.
Actually 3 of the 4 calls came from the local NDP MPP's office. The only one that didn't was the robo-call from Ed Broadbent.


And as I post this, the Liberals just called LOL