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I would like to see an add campaign next election challenging voters to vote for their MP based on his character. If people vote for the candidate rather than his party, idiots can no longer cruise into office by just wearing a popular party brand name. And if we vote for a candidate based...

Please give examples of voters you know or have met whom you really think shouldn't be allowed to vote, or at least be sent back to school.

During the election, even after the Wall Street crash, when Harper was explicitly asked whether his party would run a deficit, he explicitly stated that he wouldn't. This of course might have helped him win the election because the other leaders were too honest to make such a promise. Not a very...

Let's imagine the following hypothetical scenario. In 2008 a series of natural disasters across Canada, including tornadoes, earthquakes, etc. devastated the economy such that our current GDP is now half of what it was last year. Many are homeless, starving, the government is indepted, etc., and...

The depression of the 1930's had led to a rise in the extreme right and extreme left in many countries. Even in Canada, the far right was growing and on the far left the Communist Party of Canada had even sent members under the Mackenzie-Papineau Batalian to fight in the Spanish civil war as...

The US Federal Reserve has now lowered interest rates to below 0.25% and will keep it hovering between 0% and 0.25% for the foreseeable future in order to counter the deflationary pressures countering that nation. Do you think we should experiment with lowering our interest rates to 0% too to...

Interesting works of Tolstoy's, one of which influenced Gandhi, one of his admirers and correspondents: What I Believe - Introduction The Kingdom of God is Within You Very interesting view of the Christian Faith

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what would be your thoughts on the creation of a department of cybernetics? it would be responsible not only for mechanical cybernetics, but social cybernetics too. Essentially, it would be responsible for identifying economic inefficiencies in our social system and restructure accordingly. Of...

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According to Scott Reid, the Federal Government alonw had already spent 37 billion dollars on Official Bilingualism by 1993 already! And this does not take into account provincial, territorial, and private sector spending on Official Bilingualism! Do you think it's time to research a more...

Though I've never voted Conservative in my life, I have to admit that if the Conservative party became more pro-UN (support Kyoto, 2.5% GDP for underdeveloped countries, continued commitment to UN peacekeeping, etc.) maybe (just maybe, but no guarantee) I'd vote for it, as long as it supported...

Is it reasonable to expect that the Governor General should not have sworn in any government before it could prove to have a majority, either by party (which was clearly not the case), or by co-alition? Had the GG done that, she would have forced the parties from the word go to race for a...

Considering that the CVonservatives were a minority government, did they not foresee that they were vulnerable to this crisis? Certainly a Conservative-Liberal co-alition would have been prefereble to the one we'll have now?

Right now, the co-alition is talking about subsidizing the auto industry. My question is this: Which would you prefer among the following scenarios: a) a law saying the government will give X to company y. or b) a law saying they will give X to any company that meets specific criteria...

During the election, other parties were often criticizing the Conservative Party for not doing enough to promote green economic policy, and rightly so. The irony now, though, is that while the Conservatives did little to promote green economics, the new co-alition is now talking about doing...

When the Progressive Conservative Party no longer represented the ideas of the right, it imploded and caused the rise of the Reform Party, the Canadian Alliance, and finally a merge into the Conservative Party of Canada. Do you think it's now the left's turn? The NDP is now fully bought out by...

Generally speaking, I tend to identify more with the moderate left than any other group along the political spectrum. I do belive in government intervention in key parts of the Canadian economy, especially education. But I'm certainly not in favour of favouring one particular private sector...

Considering that in a democracy the people govern, we would hope that the people are educated, as their voting causes a chain reaction in th epolitical process. If the people are ignorant, they vote for ignorant politicians. And if the politicians are ignorant, the world suffers. Inversely, if...