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SpankyMcFarland

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  1. SpankyMcFarland
    Derek, a coalition is quite different from that. You think Tom is a socialist?
  2. SpankyMcFarland
    KPMG have been implicated in similar schemes in Britain and Ireland. It is what they and their fellow big firms do. The rich do pay a lot of tax but they also have unique abilities to bend the law in their favour.
  3. SpankyMcFarland
    Let's be honest here. Nobody notices what we do. If you go to Europe for a month, Canada disappears from the news. In Iraq and Syria, we are playing our small and meaningless role. ISIS will hate us either way and we will have little or no effect on that.
  4. SpankyMcFarland
    What is your opinion of the coalition government that David Cameron actually led for years in the UK?
  5. SpankyMcFarland
    My point is this. I prefer to focus on what people do rather than on what they say in campaigns. In practice, David Cameron had no problem with coalition government. Harper does. Since he became PM, Harper has tried to make out that there is something wrong with coalition government.
  6. SpankyMcFarland
    1. Why? Piggate. 2. OK. Cameron has just presided over a coalition government himself for years. So coalitions per se are not a problem in Britain. Harper is opposed to ALL coalitions for his party in Canada, not just with the BQ, and tries to insinuate that there is something unparliamentary about them for anybody.
  7. SpankyMcFarland
    So did coalition government.David Cameron may not be the ideal person to quote on best practice right now.
  8. SpankyMcFarland
    It's a dumb promotion with no credibility.
  9. SpankyMcFarland
    Will this way of expressing things draw any correspondence?
  10. SpankyMcFarland
    Lies to suck in the gullible.After a decade in office, it's a bit ridiculous to be making promises instead of defending your record.
  11. SpankyMcFarland
    May is an excellent campaigner. I must say the current crop of Conservative female ministers aren't that impressive. Agglukaq in particular is out of her depth. Raitt, Leitch and Rempel would be my picks. Raitt seems fairly reasonable and would not annoy me on a daily basis if she was running the shop. Rempel seems capable enough but she has to lose that smirk.
  12. SpankyMcFarland
    What is the point of candidates if they won't debate? Wouldn't we all save money if inflatable substitutes were used instead?
  13. SpankyMcFarland
    Party allegiance should be more conditional than fan loyalty. You can't really change what team you support, no matter how badly they do; although, I do wonder at the constancy of Leafs fans, given the soaring value of their dreadful team.
  14. SpankyMcFarland
    Has Harper taken specific action against two oligarchs with Canadian interests, Sechin and Yakunin? They were left off earlier lists.
  15. SpankyMcFarland
    I just hate to see people 'getting away' with things because it's too much trouble to go after them. For me, that's just wrong. And, needless to say, these problems were with us long before Mr. Harper came along.
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    My remark on the name was an attempt at humour. I should have put a smiley in there.Seriously, though, the delay taken by govt should have been minimal given the circumstances of the case and the cynicism it encourages among ordinary taxpayers. Governments have to be tougher and swifter in these matters if they are to retain any credibility. Nothing is more annoying than being told that some extraordinarily elaborate scheme is completely legal when its sole intent is to get round the law and flout its spirit. CRA has to take a longer view on these cases. The significant cost in pursuing them should be seen as having deterrent value against similar future attempts at legal subversion.
  17. SpankyMcFarland
    The GST was a brilliant idea, which is why the Liberals kept it. Harper's biggest achievement was dividing the country. I have never been more engaged in the outcome of a federal election.
  18. SpankyMcFarland
    Your username seems a tad in favour of the bean counters at the heart of this story. How long are both sides going to park this case in the courts - until we mugs forget about it? Or perhaps until our govt negotiates a nice little out-of-court settlement with these gentlemen? http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/federal-probe-of-kpmg-tax-sham-stalled-in-court-1.3210113 Anyway, it's not a criminal trial, so nobody will be found guilty or face jail time or anything uncivilized like that.
  19. SpankyMcFarland
    This is a big story, a bipartisan, maybe soon to be tripartisan, story of how rich people can stack the deck in their favour.
  20. SpankyMcFarland
    What is it explained by?
  21. SpankyMcFarland
    'KPMG has been fighting a February 2013 court order to hand over the list of wealthy clients to the CRA for more than two years. Yet in the 31 months since the judicial authorization, neither the federal government nor KPMG has requested a court date for the accounting firm's appeal.' Why is the govt not moving on this case?
  22. SpankyMcFarland
    I have heard both in US and UK. I think researchers tend to be fonder of dah-da and computer guys of day-da. Of course, in Britain the 'd' is a 't' - da(y)h-ta. I think of day-da as American because of the Star Trek character and what I hear on TV..
  23. SpankyMcFarland
    That would not describe me. I understand surveillance has to be secret and extensive in some cases, but there has to be proper parliamentary oversight which in this country we do not have.
  24. SpankyMcFarland
    What about the dollar amounts involved? There seems to be a lot of debate about the actual numbers.
  25. SpankyMcFarland
    They sound like very basic and important metrics to me.
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