Canada's Federal Election 2015: The Official Thread
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Re: Harper's attack on Liberal tax plan draws Price is Right comparisons online
To be clear, I didn't vote NDP. Honestly I believe she could make a better contribution from the opposition benches.
Her party's platform aside, she'd demonstrated surprising intelligence and competence in her e-mail messages to me.
To be clear, I didn't vote NDP. Honestly I believe she could make a better contribution from the opposition benches.
Her party's platform aside, she'd demonstrated surprising intelligence and competence in her e-mail messages to me.
Re: For Canada Investors, Liberals Have Been Better Bet Than Tories
I'm a curmudgeon post #58865332445556431-13555777755
I'm a curmudgeon post #58865332445556431-13555777755
Re: 587 Canadian academics condemn Stephen Harper’s racial hate propaganda
I know eh?
I've never understood why Conservatives hate teachers so much.
It's as if they hate knowledge or something.
I know eh?
I've never understood why Conservatives hate teachers so much.
It's as if they hate knowledge or something.
Re: If cellphone generation shows up to vote, Harper loses. It’s that simple
They're going to watch the jays game instead.
They're going to watch the jays game instead.
Re: Liberals establish 20 point lead over Conservatives in Ontario
he's a frustrated social metric whore. have you seen the douchey pronouncements on his twitter/facebook feeds?
thankfully he can't express opinions there because tucows will be pissed and he'd have to get a real job. :lol:
he's a frustrated social metric whore. have you seen the douchey pronouncements on his twitter/facebook feeds?
thankfully he can't express opinions there because tucows will be pissed and he'd have to get a real job. :lol:
Re: Liberals establish 20 point lead over Conservatives in Ontario
Ontario choosing Liberal says either a lot toward the stupidity of most GTA voters or how we headgame pollsters
Ontario choosing Liberal says either a lot toward the stupidity of most GTA voters or how we headgame pollsters
This election isn’t about me, Stephen Harper” ad that reached airwaves during Friday’s Blue Jays game is remarkable. It is impossible to look upon it as anything other than an acknowledgment that the leader of the Conservatives has become a liability to his party.
In the case of the Conservatives it must also be considered that the party is substantially a creation of its leader: in a real sense he is its God. The party’s post-Harper fate is unclear, but the chance of schism is obvious. And if it can hold together, the possibility of falling into a deep bog of mediocrity is equally obvious. So what does Harper represent to a Conservative partisan? He is everything. He is the horse on which the farm is already bet. Before he came, the conservative world, or perhaps more properly the anti-Liberal world, was without form and void. He is the worker of miracles. (If you had told anybody in 1990 what he would eventually accomplish, could they disagree with that description?)
But there is he on TV, complaining that the other candidates want to make things personal and that they would rather talk about him than about their policies. It is an all but explicit appeal to voters who like what I sometimes think of as the Martin-Harper version of Canada, but who are tired of Harper and his callow Prime Minister’s Office myrmidons. The Conservatives had left behind the Mike Duffy trial, with its unsavoury revelations about PMO power, but now hints of PMO involvement with Syrian refugee applications have created an uncomfortable echo of the earlier difficulties.
Colby Cosh: ‘This election is not about me,’ says the man this election is clearly about
In the case of the Conservatives it must also be considered that the party is substantially a creation of its leader: in a real sense he is its God. The party’s post-Harper fate is unclear, but the chance of schism is obvious. And if it can hold together, the possibility of falling into a deep bog of mediocrity is equally obvious. So what does Harper represent to a Conservative partisan? He is everything. He is the horse on which the farm is already bet. Before he came, the conservative world, or perhaps more properly the anti-Liberal world, was without form and void. He is the worker of miracles. (If you had told anybody in 1990 what he would eventually accomplish, could they disagree with that description?)
But there is he on TV, complaining that the other candidates want to make things personal and that they would rather talk about him than about their policies. It is an all but explicit appeal to voters who like what I sometimes think of as the Martin-Harper version of Canada, but who are tired of Harper and his callow Prime Minister’s Office myrmidons. The Conservatives had left behind the Mike Duffy trial, with its unsavoury revelations about PMO power, but now hints of PMO involvement with Syrian refugee applications have created an uncomfortable echo of the earlier difficulties.
Colby Cosh: ‘This election is not about me,’ says the man this election is clearly about
Re: Trudeau top choice as preferred PM
So this is the reason the conbots are turning on their master...
"Canada's proud Tory history has been abandoned by a party that has merely assumed a label and co-opted a political tradition," he said in the newly formed riding of Nepean, which was carved from a district held by the Tories.
"Most insulting of all for Progressive Conservatives is how casually and quickly their history has been abandoned.
"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."
http://www.cbc.ca/m/news/politics/justin-trudeau-conservatives-ontario-red-tories-1.3267574
So this is the reason the conbots are turning on their master...
"Canada's proud Tory history has been abandoned by a party that has merely assumed a label and co-opted a political tradition," he said in the newly formed riding of Nepean, which was carved from a district held by the Tories.
"Most insulting of all for Progressive Conservatives is how casually and quickly their history has been abandoned.
"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."
http://www.cbc.ca/m/news/politics/justin-trudeau-conservatives-ontario-red-tories-1.3267574
Harper's Offshore Tax Haven Scandal
Subject Harper to RCMP criminal investigation over offshore tax haven scandal, 3 out of 5 Canadians say
A significant majority of Canadians (61%) want to see Stephen Harper subjected to an RCMP criminal investigation over his and his government’s role in the KPMG tax haven scandal which allowed billionaires to pay no taxes while obtaining federal and provincial tax credits, according to Google Consumer Survey.
The poll commissioned by ThinkPol found that only 13% of Canadians oppose such a move while 26% of the respondents preferred not to express their opinion.
The survey was conducted following the revelation that the Harper government appointed a major Canadian accounting association as an adviser to the Canada Revenue Agency, even while the group fought the CRA in court to shield the files of billionaires who had stashed money in offshore tax havens.
Stephen Harper and high ranking Conservative cabinet ministers met with senior staff from KPMG’s tax division during the same time, a CBC News investigation found.
Revenue Minister Kerry-Lynne Findlay even promoted KPGM at taxpayer funded events, government records show.
The tax evasion involving offshore tax shelters cost Canada an estimated $81 billion dollars a year, or $8,000 dollars per Canadian family, the Canadians for Tax Fairness reported.
Subject Harper to RCMP criminal investigation over offshore tax haven scandal, 3 out of 5 Canadians say | ThinkPol
Subject Harper to RCMP criminal investigation over offshore tax haven scandal, 3 out of 5 Canadians say
A significant majority of Canadians (61%) want to see Stephen Harper subjected to an RCMP criminal investigation over his and his government’s role in the KPMG tax haven scandal which allowed billionaires to pay no taxes while obtaining federal and provincial tax credits, according to Google Consumer Survey.
The poll commissioned by ThinkPol found that only 13% of Canadians oppose such a move while 26% of the respondents preferred not to express their opinion.
The survey was conducted following the revelation that the Harper government appointed a major Canadian accounting association as an adviser to the Canada Revenue Agency, even while the group fought the CRA in court to shield the files of billionaires who had stashed money in offshore tax havens.
Stephen Harper and high ranking Conservative cabinet ministers met with senior staff from KPMG’s tax division during the same time, a CBC News investigation found.
Revenue Minister Kerry-Lynne Findlay even promoted KPGM at taxpayer funded events, government records show.
The tax evasion involving offshore tax shelters cost Canada an estimated $81 billion dollars a year, or $8,000 dollars per Canadian family, the Canadians for Tax Fairness reported.
Subject Harper to RCMP criminal investigation over offshore tax haven scandal, 3 out of 5 Canadians say | ThinkPol
That's what I've been saying. So many people I know are saying they just can't bring themselves to vote for Harper despite the fact they've always voted Conservative. What makes it worse here, is the the Conservative candidate (Jim Hillyer) is very socially conservative MP and a whack job. John Turner is a local independent that is getting a look by the fiscally conservative crowd.
http://medicinehatnews.com/federal-...9/09/independent-joins-federal-election-race/
http://www.respectfulrepresentation.ca
Re: Trudeau top choice as preferred PM
You're pathetic. If they're turning on Harper then in what way are they "bots"? Outside of your small minded need to castigate anything that isn't solidly left-wing that is.
*buncha canada election crap officially merged into the uh, 'offical,' canada election thread.
Norman Spector @nspector4
Good questions about after #elxn42 [He could have added the TPP to the list]
http://ottawacitizen.com/news/politics/william-watson-platforms-might-not-mean-much-without-a-majority …
Norman Spector @nspector4 Good questions about after #elxn42 [He could have added the TPP to the list]
http://ottawacitizen.com/news/politics/william-watson-platforms-might-not-mean-much-without-a-majority …
Re: 587 Canadian academics condemn Stephen Harper’s racial hate propaganda
Or did a I hit a sore spot because you've fallen for the racist policies of the left and aren't smart enough to figure it out?
You should try and refute what I said instead of relying on ad hominems to do your work for you. That's just lazy.
Or did a I hit a sore spot because you've fallen for the racist policies of the left and aren't smart enough to figure it out?
Monica Henry @chevymo Do people think they got a tax refund coming out of a global economic downturn by accident? Vote #LPC #NDP & kick yourself later #elxn42
Manny Montenegrino @manny_ottawa Manny Montenegrino Retweeted Monica Henry
Canada -Only Country to exit Great Recession with: Lower taxes AAA rating Elimination Deficits Highest Family income
you're welcome Canada.
Re: 587 Canadian academics condemn Stephen Harper’s racial hate propaganda
Revisionism is knowledge? Who knew?