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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...

I think most of us are aware that English has been the recomended language for pilots and ATC since after WWII. What I just realized today however, is that it's still not mandatory for pilots even though 15% of air crashes are caused by pilot error. Here's a quote from the most recent policy...

With all the talk of a Liberal-NDP- Bloc alliance, I was thinking of how this could affect language policy. Of course neither the Liberals nor the NDP would really want to work with the Bloc, but seeing that even together they still form a minority, they'd essentially have no choice but to...

With the Liberals and NDP behaving as they are, do you foresee an increase in voting for independent left-leaning candidates in the next election?

What are your ideas on this? If spending must increase, where would you want the money to go? In my mind, here are some areas where I think the govt should NOT spend: The auto industry (enough cars and congestion on the road already!) The banking system (any increase in spending, be it...

With all this hype about cutting public funding for parties, I was just wondering how much cuts to parties would really affect the popular vote. Personally, I find that I'm not influenced by fancy TV ads in the least. I usually just want to know the candidate's character and that's it. I...

I'm not the kind who'd normally vote Conservative, but on the point of cutting government funding, I'm with them 100%. Why should political parties get funding for every vote they get while independent candidates are on their own. Winning a seat as an independent is tough enough when competing...

Would you agree to the following law for the Province of Ontario? 1. An elementary or secondary school may compel a pupil who is born on or after the second 1 January from the day this law is passed to learn a second language only if the school has proven itself capable of ensuring that...

Do you think we should transfer some income tax to user-pay (i.e., we lower income taxes, perhaps even considerably) while increasing taxes on social undesirables? Here would be some examples of what user-pay might entail: Cigarettes and alcohol would be taxed more with the proceeds going to...

I'm Canadian-born (going back 300 years to New France on my mother's side, and with some Irish and American indigenous blood on my father's side), yet I'm finding myself experiencing a kind of culture shock in Canada. On the one hand, the media, schools, etc., are teaching us about...

Historically, party's have tended to align themselves along a lenear spectrum depending on how much government involvement they wanted in the economy. Over time we've come to realise that it's not so straight forward. Historically, the Conseratives were protectionsist, and the liberals free...