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Post by Disgruntled70sHab on Jul 23, 2015 12:49:46 GMT -5
CBC released a story this morning from a source in the Foreign Affairs dept. Bureaucrats have been ordered to provide the minister with 3 terrorism related stories a day. It seems that's Harper's primary, if not only, strategy to retain power. Scare the electorate. The Muslims are coming, the Muslims are coming! Lock up your women and children. Fear is a terrible form of leadership. Enter the Republicans Conservatives ... I think C51 is over the top ... Harper didn't generate enough fear before passing it through in record time (figure of speech) ... the "what have you got to hide" angle holds no weight with me whatsoever ... why not ask those people who were locked up for 10-12 years, only to be exonerated by DNA evidence, what they had to hide ... we have just as much bigotry and racism in Canada as the next country and C51 only feuls that, in my opinion, anyway ... the Liberals initially denounced C51, but then they supported it in the Commons ... can we expect the same waffling should the Liberals form the next government ... going to have to find out what the NDP says about this, too ... Cheers. |
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Post by franko on Jul 23, 2015 13:05:37 GMT -5
can we expect the same waffling should the Liberals form the next government  the return of Paul Martin? unequivocally against. |
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Post by Disgruntled70sHab on Jul 24, 2015 7:42:51 GMT -5
I left the Canada Election Quiz on Facebook and those taking it were tagged as supporting Liberal policies again ... I did it again, only this time I made sure I chose as many right-wing answers as I could ... it came as Conservative, Libertarian (didn't mind seeing this one, actually) followed by Greens, NDP and Liberal, so it isn't rigged towards one specific party ... Cheers. |
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Post by Disgruntled70sHab on Jul 24, 2015 13:29:16 GMT -5
... it's a different approach, I'll give him that ...
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Post by franko on Jul 24, 2015 15:12:03 GMT -5
... it's a different approach, I'll give him that ...
must be preparing for a merger or something . . . OTTAWA — An NDP plan to give tax relief to small businesses will actually end up giving wealthy Canadians a tax cut, some economists said Tuesday.
“[It’s] something to make the rich richer,” Jack Mintz, the director of the University of Calgary’s School of Public Policy, told The Huffington Post Canada.
NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair announced Tuesday that his party would lower the small business tax rate to nine per cent from the current 11 per cent in two steps. The NDP said its first reduction — to 10 per cent — would cost $600 million a year in lost revenue. The goal, Mulcair told a business crowd at an Economic Club of Canada luncheon, was to help small businesses grow and create new jobs.
“[We’ll provide immediate and permanent help for Canada’s hard working small business people, who are the backbone of the local communities and the creators of 80 per cent of all new jobs in this country,” Mulcair said, in announcing the nearly 20 per cent tax reduction.
“With this one practical measure, small businesses can better weather the current economic climate, hire more employees and help their local communities prosper for years to come.”
But Mintz and some fellow economists argue that the tax break will go overwhelmingly to Canadians who need it least and may not result in job growth at all.huff post |
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Post by Disgruntled70sHab on Aug 1, 2015 11:59:04 GMT -5
Pretty much sums up the election for me ...
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Post by seventeen on Aug 2, 2015 22:38:37 GMT -5
I loved this tweet
"Frankly 77 days of election campaign are going to be hard to distinguish from 77 days of normal Harper gov't ads. "
That was from Stephen Lautens.
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Post by Disgruntled70sHab on Aug 4, 2015 21:09:01 GMT -5
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Post by blny on Aug 5, 2015 9:42:16 GMT -5
Greatest waffler ever is/was:  While Mulcair might have tripped over his words a bit yesterday, he was bang on about the reno tax credit. Harper kills something that works, then brings it back under a different name just before the election. Still don't really like any of the three leaders. My vote is basically already cast regardless. I'll be voting based on my riding. |
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Post by franko on Aug 5, 2015 11:42:56 GMT -5
Still don't really like any of the three leaders. My vote is basically already cast regardless. I'll be voting based on my riding. Must not be conservative then, since that vote wouldn't count for your riding |
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Post by blny on Aug 5, 2015 12:08:05 GMT -5
Still don't really like any of the three leaders. My vote is basically already cast regardless. I'll be voting based on my riding. Must not be conservative then, since that vote wouldn't count for your riding Nope.  I'm voting for Stoffer. The incumbent. |
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Post by Disgruntled70sHab on Aug 12, 2015 18:02:23 GMT -5
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Post by Tankdriver on Aug 31, 2015 9:26:55 GMT -5
Anyone try to Election compass on CBC? For me it came out: Cons, NDP, Bloc, Lib, Green. I must say though the it wasn't a runaway by any means. I think it was 63%, 56%, 53%, 52% so it pretty much sums up how difficult it is on who I want to throw my vote to. I like certain things about the parties and disagree on others. Last election, the riding went to the Orange, and I can't see it changing this time either. Since 1997 we have had the Prog-Conservatives (they are not getting votes in QC this time around), the Libs (before Martin scandal), the Bloc (at their hey day) and the NDP(current flavor) elected here so it must be the Greens turn soon? (answer: nope)
So for the first time, I am thinking of not voting. I can't really get behind anyone and in the end, I am expecting I minority NDP government split 3 ways, therefore causing another election and waste of money in 2 years time. Ugh!
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Post by Disgruntled70sHab on Aug 31, 2015 9:44:20 GMT -5
Still don't really like any of the three leaders. My vote is basically already cast regardless. I'll be voting based on my riding. Want to see what good representation is like, Google Ruth Ellen Brosseau and look at the feedback she's getting from her constituents ... the people of Trois-Rivières-Ouest, Quebec, did not like their choices either ... Brosseau is an Anglophone who was elected without ever having stepped foot in her riding and she's doing one heckva job ... people, there, say she understands them because of her roots ... just on the feedback I've read, they made the right choice ... Cheers. |
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Post by Tankdriver on Aug 31, 2015 10:38:50 GMT -5
Still don't really like any of the three leaders. My vote is basically already cast regardless. I'll be voting based on my riding. Want to see what good representation is like, Google Ruth Ellen Brosseau and look at the feedback she's getting from her constituents ... the people of Trois-Rivières-Ouest, Quebec, did not like their choices either ... Brosseau is an Anglophone who was elected without ever having stepped foot in her riding and she's doing one heckva job ... people, there, say she understands them because of her roots ... just on the feedback I've read, they made the right choice ... Cheers. Dis: Check this out, not my riding but pretty much the next street over! - pierre-luc dusseault. Elected at 19! |
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Post by Disgruntled70sHab on Aug 31, 2015 10:43:36 GMT -5
Want to see what good representation is like, Google Ruth Ellen Brosseau and look at the feedback she's getting from her constituents ... the people of Trois-Rivières-Ouest, Quebec, did not like their choices either ... Brosseau is an Anglophone who was elected without ever having stepped foot in her riding and she's doing one heckva job ... people, there, say she understands them because of her roots ... just on the feedback I've read, they made the right choice ... Cheers. Dis: Check this out, not my riding but pretty much the next street over! - pierre-luc dusseault. Elected at 19! I thought of the kid the other day and how he made out ... electing both Brosseau and Dusseault suggest to me that this is the result of when you take your constituents for granted ... Brosseau is doing a bang-up job, but how did Dusseault do in your own words, TD ... Cheers. |
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Post by Tankdriver on Aug 31, 2015 11:26:26 GMT -5
To be honest, it's hard to say. I haven't been following him too much. I do know that at every military function I have attended, he has been there, so he hasn't been ignoring his political duties. Besides that, he is learning his way around the house and has defended and promoted the townships best interests. I think he grabbed a hold of a lot of students interest with the 2 big universities and 2 CEGEPS in the area and with a lot of the bloc shifting towards the NDP, will probably be elected again. I think now that he has his feet wet, he'll have more of an impact in the house of commons.
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