Canada's Federal Election 2015: The Official Thread

[Locutus]

a trip down short memory and short bus lane:








Todd Banks ‏@Banks_Todd

Asked when he'd support military action, @JustinTrudeau called the question "nonsensical." @cbcnews @marcgarneau

 

[DaSleeper]

Flossy does a lot of thinking.......wishful thinking..

 

[Locutus]

Flossy does a lot of thinking.......wishful thinking..

indeed. :lol:








mentalfloss ‏@mentalfloss

I'm going to start using the forum username "Maderator" and see how long I last until the Moderators ban me.

 

[DaSleeper]

Notice that greenies and warmists are all looking at proportional representation....the old/new pie in the sky........

 

[Locutus]

Lorrie GoldsteinVerified account ‏@sunlorrie

I predict it won't B long B4 SOMEBODY in Ontario LINKED TO the LIBERAL PARTY calls Stephen Harper 'homophobic'. But i'm not sayin' who. ;-)



in shiny pony breaking news:


Bill GravelandVerified account ‏@BillGraveland

Standing room only at Justin Trudeau's first campaign event in #yyc. #elxn42 #cdnpoli

couldn't they have booked a smaller room? :lol:

 

[Locutus]

for the short bussers:

 

[mentalfloss]

Lol @ balanced budget and lowered your taxes.

 

[DaSleeper]

He lowered mine by about $2000. a year....ask JLM or other retirees how much his went down.....
That's what income splitting did for me!

 

[mentalfloss]

Waste of taxprayers church funds.

Harper has launched one of the longest and most expensive campaigns in Canadian history, a race that stretches a stunning 78 days. The prime minister, who is running in the redrawn Calgary Heritage riding, immediately attracted criticisms that his party will use the long campaign to outspend his rivals with a deeper war chest.


Justin Trudeau attacks Harper government’s economic and environmental record at Calgary rally

 

[Locutus]

Lol @ balanced budget and lowered your taxes.

that's because you don't get out much. :lol:

 

[Goober]

Waste of taxprayers church funds.

Harper has launched one of the longest and most expensive campaigns in Canadian history, a race that stretches a stunning 78 days. The prime minister, who is running in the redrawn Calgary Heritage riding, immediately attracted criticisms that his party will use the long campaign to outspend his rivals with a deeper war chest.


Justin Trudeau attacks Harper government’s economic and environmental record at Calgary rally

All legal under the laws. Most do not use it. We have been accustomed to short quick campaigns. Now we have a longer one filled with more BS from all 3.

 

[JLM]

He lowered mine by about $2000. a year....ask JLM or other retirees how much his went down.....
That's what income splitting did for me!

Yep, it was around 2009 when my taxes plummeted by $2000 and has remained at that level every year since.

Waste of taxprayers church funds.

Harper has launched one of the longest and most expensive campaigns in Canadian history, a race that stretches a stunning 78 days. The prime minister, who is running in the redrawn Calgary Heritage riding, immediately attracted criticisms that his party will use the long campaign to outspend his rivals with a deeper war chest.

What's the big deal, they've all been campaigning for months already!

 

[Locutus]

The 'campaign' is the media party and the unions vs the sitting Canadian government.

 

[taxslave]

The Conservative 4 years of law making in the House of Commons record speaks for itself. We all have to thank Stephen Harper for this really long 11 week election to read the Hansard and back issues of articles on our Prime-Minister's and how many questions he answered from the reporters that the voters wanted to know. 11 weeks is a good length for an election to see if we want another four years of tearing down more freedoms that the people of this great country of Canada fought for.

Doing away with the long gun registry is tearing down freedoms?

 

[Locutus]

Lorrie GoldsteinVerified account ‏@sunlorrie

How does Trudeau feel about being endorsed by a premier whose government is under 3 police investigations, albeit never-ending ones?

 

[mentalfloss]

This guy is so dumb.

He's destroying his own narrative as an economic steward lol

“We’re talking tens of millions extra for the chief electoral officer,” said Jean-Pierre Kingsley, former chief electoral officer of Elections Canada. “He’s got to run a machine here. If you were thinking you were going to be hiring people for 40 days, and you have to hire them for 80 days . . . all of those salaries are being doubled.”

“These are direct costs that would not be borne had the election not been called so far ahead of the game,” Kingsley said.

The 11-week election campaign also translates into a higher limit in terms of allowable campaign expenses under Elections Canada rules.

Until recently, every political campaign had a $25-million spending limit, regardless of a campaign’s length.

Now, because of changes contained in the Conservatives’ Fair Elections Act, passed last year, that hard-line limit no longer exists. Parties’ spending limits can now be increased if the campaign is longer than the 37-day minimum; for each extra day, the limit is increased by 1/37th, or $675,000.

Tallied up, an 11-week campaign now allows parties to spend more than $50 million.

http://m.thestar.com/#/article/news...ection-campaign-will-cost-taxpayers-more.html

 

[Locutus]

stay mad my friend.

 

[mentalfloss]

Nothing makes me happier than when you are dry.

 

[Locutus]

Dean Skoreyko ‏@bcbluecon

Together, Trudeau and Wynne would crush the Canadian economy http://pllqt.it/VslPZK

 

[mentalfloss]

We hear about it alot on the news, but on the ground, people don't really notice it much in Ontario.

It's the same reason why many conservatives forgive Harper for his failed economic plan.

It just doesn't really matter.

The difference is that the Liberals can actually make some social policy decisions, where as Conservatives' entire existence is based on the economy and they can't even do that right.