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#1 ·
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. :D





^ Picture I took on a nice trip to Ottawa this past winter.
 
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Yeah that's it exactly.... :rolleyes: If you can't figure it out for yourself and want to continue to exist in the quagmire then fine stay stuck there....
Here's one for you: :lmao:

If you want quagmire, check out those attack ads...

I, like many others, don't see the majority as a return to decency. It's simply that the bully finally wore us down and got his own way.
 
#84 ·
Here's one for you: :lmao:

If you want quagmire, check out those attack ads...

I, like many others, don't see the majority as a return to decency. It's simply that the bully finally wore us down and got his own way.
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.
 
#85 ·
Here's one for you: :lmao:

If you want quagmire, check out those attack ads...

I, like many others, don't see the majority as a return to decency. It's simply that the bully finally wore us down and got his own way.
Canadians have finally given Harper the "Hammer."

Trouble is when your only tool is a hammer, suddenly every job starts to look like a nail. May you not be "nailed" during the next for years.
 
#86 ·
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
Atlantic said:
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.
Atlantic said:
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.

Big Election Up North, Eh? Canada Hits the Polls - International - The Atlantic
 
#87 ·
well, it didn't take very long for Harper to start reneging on his promises....

Tories back off campaign pledge to show a surplus by 2014-15 - The Globe and Mail

all of those empty promises with the condition of a balanced budget will have to wait....and wait...and wait...

I wonder if people will still be gullible enough to vote for them in the next election when they make the same promises again?
 
#88 ·
well, it didn't take very long for Harper to start reneging on his promises....

Tories back off campaign pledge to show a surplus by 2014-15 - The Globe and Mail

all of those empty promises with the condition of a balanced budget will have to wait....and wait...and wait...

I wonder if people will still be gullible enough to vote for them in the next election when they make the same promises again?
But:


“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.
 
#94 ·
well, it didn't take very long for Harper to start reneging on his promises....

Tories back off campaign pledge to show a surplus by 2014-15 - The Globe and Mail

all of those empty promises with the condition of a balanced budget will have to wait....and wait...and wait...

I wonder if people will still be gullible enough to vote for them in the next election when they make the same promises again?
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 .............. :eek::confused::eek:

Well, what do you think of that???? :mad:
 
#95 ·
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 .............. :eek::confused::eek:

Well, what do you think of that???? :mad:
I actually came across this article yesterday :

J-Source.ca -- The Canadian Journalism Project

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.
this is the direct problem of having big corporations control the press.
 
#98 ·
Seems some of Harper's appointed Senators have an issue with arranging their own demise.... big surprise!

Conservative senators balking at Senate reform agenda

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has a majority in the Senate but he may not have the numbers to push through the reforms he planned for the Red Chamber,
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.
(Montreal Gazette)
 
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