Now that the 2011 election is over, let's use this thread to discuss Canadian politics as they transpire over the next 4 years.
Please keep the discussion civil and I kindly request no personal attacks or insults directed towards fellow ehMac members.
It would be refreshing to avoid over-the-top hyperbole as well. We're all Canadians and lets not make people out to be left-wing or right-wing caricatures or turn things into a WWE fight promo.
I may not be a supporter of Prime Minster Harper, but he does endorse ehMac.ca.
^ Picture I took on a nice trip to Ottawa this past winter.
So how about chillaxin by not suggesting that the PM be punched in the face... I guess we all have our differing view points on how to chillax.... here's a nice emoticon just for you Max....
I was referring to the quagmire here my friend. But to your point, people were not bullied to vote one way or the other, they didn't have to vote at all even.
An interesting article in the Atlantic for the interested folks in the Excited States.
Atlantic said:
America's northern neighbor, longtime poster country for moderation, has just hollowed out its political center and significantly empowered its Conservative prime minister
The outcome has left Canadian politics with a right-wing party firmly in control, an invigorated left-wing party savoring historic gains, and a vanishing center in demoralized disarray. Quite a feat for a country that prides itself on moderation and upholding a social democratic example for its neighbors to the south.
Ah, but voters sometimes surprise, as Quebeckers did Monday when they turfed the separatist Bloc Quebecois and flocked instead to the left-wing New Democratic Party (NDP). When the election was called six weeks ago, the NDP held only one of Quebec's 75 seats in the federal parliament. Now it holds 58 from that province alone, another 44 from the rest of Canada.
“We will do the strategic and operating review and we will book [those savings] once the review is done. That will get us to balance a year earlier, but is not part of the upcoming budget,” Chisholm Pothier, Mr. Flaherty’s spokesperson, said on Wednesday.
This is a government used to spending and handing out to the rich. Too bad people bought this wait til we balance the budget and we'll get around to you nonsense.
This is a government used to spending and handing out to the rich. Too bad people bought this wait til we balance the budget and we'll get around to you nonsense.
When asked directly during an appearance on CTV’s Power Play whether he was committing to eliminating the deficit one year earlier, Mr. Flaherty responded that he was not.
What?!?! Well, you can't believe what is printed in the Globe and Mail, since they did not even support PM Harper in this election ................... wait ........ they did support him ..............
What?!?! Well, you can't believe what is printed in the Globe and Mail, since they did not even support PM Harper in this election ................... wait ........ they did support him ..............
This is not a free press. This is bad for democracy. The fact that a shackled press now stands to an extraordinary degree singing their praises for Dear Leader S. Harper from the same hymn sheet should give us pause for thought and reflection.
Harper appointed more than 30 Conservative senators to the upper house in the last 2 1/2 years — precisely, he said, so he could pass his Senate reform agenda. But, during that time, some senators have publicly and privately suggested they've changed their minds and no longer support Harper's plan to establish provincial senate elections and impose eight-year term limits.
Any position that pays you for just showing up, sort of an attendance bonus, can't be something that is given up easily. The rest of us shall just have to work a bit harder to earn a bit more to pay a bit more taxes to pay for these Senators and their special bonus.
And which conservative ideas would you like shoved up our posteriors?
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