Canadian Election: Why should I care?!!

i'll be interested to see if our local liberal representative (peter milliken - liberal) will be re-elected speaker of the house, or will he be offered an ambassadorship ? hbg

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Wolf_ODonnell wrote:

ehBeth wrote:
Now - as soon as someone proposes getting rid of the Senate, I'll probably have found someone to support.

Why?

bottom line - they are political appointees and I've got no patience for paying money to political appointees who don't offer value for $

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Won't happen. They need a place for the has beens.

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You've got that right . . . on CBC, one caller made a good point. The Liberals pulled 102 seats. Given the sponsorship scandal and the beating they took in the campaign, that is evidence of their strong position with voters (or voter fear of the Tories). Interesting point, though.

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You not gonna join me in the fight to abolish the Senate?

grrrrrrrrrrrrr

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The annual salary of each senator, as of 2005, is $119,100

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The Conservative Party has committed itself to appointing elected senators should it form a government. It desires to change the balance of senators coming from each province with a focus on equality. Currently, abolition of the Senate is not being considered seriously by the public.

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or they'll have to appoint more ambassadors and high commissioners ... let's see now ... HC to the falkland islands, anyone ? hbg

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ehBeth wrote:

Even the leader of the Green party is kinda right of centre.

[..] gack! he went to private school, lally-gagged, and then went to work for the Financial Post

Where you went to school doesnt define whether you're left or right of center (many former private school boy socialists, in this world) ...

CV's dont even say much either (he was in business? So was George Soros... and Camejo, the former Trot-now-Green of California...)

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hamburger wrote:

get outta the way, here comes canada ...

Whoa-oa!! .... err ... :wink:

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nimh wrote:

ehBeth wrote:
Even the leader of the Green party is kinda right of centre.

[..] gack! he went to private school, lally-gagged, and then went to work for the Financial Post

Where you went to school doesnt define whether you're left or right of center (many former private school boy socialists, in this world) ...

CV's dont even say much either (he was in business? So was George Soros... and Camejo, the former Trot-now-Green of California...)

I'd guess you don't know the particular private school or the Financial Post - or his current work. The guy is fine, or fine enough for me to vote for - just not someone who can be called left-wing, which some media was trying to do.

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ehBeth wrote:

I'd guess you don't know the particular private school or the Financial Post - or his current work. The guy is fine, or fine enough for me to vote for - just not someone who can be called left-wing

I guess I just dont see how where someone went to school necessarily determines that someone cant be leftwing. George Orwell went to Eton ... yes, that Eton (in his own words "the most costly and snobbish of the English Public Schools" - of English public schools). And then he went to Spain in the civil war...

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Intrepid wrote:

It will be interesting to see what happens in Toronto since there is not a wisp of blue to be seen there.

Would this be blue in the American sense as in representing a liberal party (I've never understood that) or blue representing the more Conservative party (the sensible representation)?

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In Canada, the Tories use blue, the Liberals use Red, the New Democrats use Orange and the Green party uses . . . whatever the printer has on sale that week . . .

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Setanta wrote:

In Canada, the Tories use blue, the Liberals use Red, the New Democrats use Orange and the Green party uses . . . whatever the printer has on sale that week . . .

What the Green Party doesn't use green? Sheesh, what is the world coming to these days?

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The Green Party flyers were <digs around in bag> green and orange.

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we went shopping this morning. we heard many comments from all kinds of people who seemed surprised and upset that the conservatives were going to form the next government.
it seems that many people were not happy with the liberal wrong-doings and "wanted to teach them a lesson". they probably just wanted to scare the liberals but didn't realize that they would actually get turfed out.

i can often come up with inappropriate comparisons and here is one. you decide if it fits the canadian electorate,

in the days of the sailing ships, a sailship was stuck in the doldrums. day-after-day : no wind in the sails.
one evening the captain was pacing the deck and murmering : "dear god, please send us some wind. even if it's only a couple dollars worth of wind, send us some".
at night a storm comes up. sails are ripped, mast gets cracked ... in the evening the captain again paces : "if i had known how much wind i can get for two dollars, a dollar's worth would have been plenty !". hbg

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Cute

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What's this about Canada asserting it's sovereignty in the Arctic with military ice breaker ships?

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Bad idea?

Sabre rattling?

Harper trying to make a point?

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wolf wrote : "What's this about Canada asserting it's sovereignty in the Arctic with military ice breaker ships?"

i'm sure you remember when the british burned the white house, don't you ?
i thought you were one of those handsome redcoats , weren't you ?
yes, those were the glory days ! hbg

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/05/images/0920Burn.jpg

(hope i don't annoy our friends on the other side of the border)

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Setanta wrote:

Intrepid wrote:
Finn d'Abuzz wrote:
Intrepid wrote:
Who would have believed that the Conservatives would pick up in Quebec and sweep the West. Thanks to the rest of the country, they will be a minority.

It seems that the NDP picked up the seat in my riding that has been Liberal forever.

Gosh, are conservative Canadians somehow prohibited from accessing A2K?

Who would have believed that the Conservatives would sweep the West?

You're kidding right?

Sorry, I don't follow what you are getting at.

You need to understand that Finn sees the world as black and white, left and right, us and them. I doubt that he knows squat about Canadian politics or history, because he'd otherwise know that the west is the homeland of left-wing politics in Canada, and that apart from Diefenbaker, they have rarely produced notable Tories.

Is there a bigger gasbag on A2K than Setanta?

Who the hell knows how Setanta might experience the world beyond Google, but it's a safe bet that he forms his opinions within a cacoon of surreal experience.

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