I love Conservative thinking like Ruez is stating when he says "There's a lot of sheeple in this country. They swallow the liberal doctrine hook line and sinker." So, if we're Liberals, we're all sheep buying into their lies, but if you follow right-wing doctrine, you're an independent and a visionary.
ukeright:Give the rhetoric a rest. If we were sheep, there'd only be one party, and this conversation would never be taking place - last time I checked, those election things tell a different story.
Westmanguy, I thought you were about my age, mid-twenties. How much experience can you possibly have with parties 'walking the walk', or whatever other cliched nonsense is being trotted out here? I've been alive for only a few changes in government, and can only remember even fewer; I hardly think the sample size justifies your assertion; do you remember The Red Book?
In order to drop the GST a measly percent, or one penny on the dollar, not only did inflation rectify it in wholesale prices, but income taxes were rolled back up a percent. In the grand scheme, it makes a lot more difference to your pocketbook once you pay taxes.
Those who are proud of Harper, why? Despite the claims, he really hasn't gotten anything done. He's ordered a few war machines that we'll likely never see, and extended a mission in a country that most people want our involvement in ended. He's broken several campaign promises and he's renegged on his pledges to accountability, and he's flipflopped on the environment by rehashing old Liberal programs that he not long ago renounced.
The only thing he's really done is the GST (instituted by his party anyways) and the daycare program, and there's not an economist out there that thinks either one is a good idea. He's strained relationships both nationally between the feds and the provinces, and set us back years in international relationships. His caucus lacks experience, tact and creativity needed to balance this fragile country, to the point where he is needed to speak for them. He's acted like the opposition while in governance, something that is shameful and abhoring. Find me a soundclip, an announcement, a press conference, anything where he has not taken 13-year-old potshots and trotted out unfounded accusations. It's petty, childish and unprofessional of a national leader for a country as great as this.
Frankly, the only reason he got anything done was because the opposition was without a leader during 90% of his tenure. Harper is a placeholder, a footnote in between Prime Ministers Paul Martin and Stephane Dion - nothing less, and certainly nothing more. Canada deserves better; come summer, they'll get it.
And another thing, why do the Liberals need an anglophone leader? Personally, I don't care where they come from, as long as they embody my ideals and share in the party's vision, the leader could be from my backyard shed. For all their whining, nobody claims foul of how little francophone exists within the current governing party - I mean, they had to appoint an unelected party brown-noser to the senate just to have some representation. What a 'common-sense revolution' we've experienced.
