GWiz

More vote splitting in Quebec just plays into the hands of the BLOC just as the more vote splitting between the Liberals and NDP in the rest of Canada plays into the hands of the CONS...

She deserved NO more TIME than any other unsuccessful VP candidate of the past that became Joe/Jane nobody after an election... She got 1000x the coverage she deserved on CNN including full coverage of speeches she gave (painful to the ears) and her involvement with the Tea Party which also got 100x the coverage on CNN than it deserved... CNN gave prominence to Right wing people and issues way, way more than could ever be justified...

That's the problem... Each province thinking that same way... Province 1st over country (see Quebec example as the most obvious) vs country 1st over province which I believe in... First TIME I really became actively involved in the political process beyond just voting... OK... When, why, what, where, how... Yes, shit happens anywhere and everywhere, sometimes for good reason, sometimes not... And therein lies the problem I speak of... The problem that makes/keeps Canada as a whole being far less than it can be or could become...

Sounds like a change in tune to me... No "cancelation fees" YET... There's a first TIME for everything... This TIME could be it... Too bad I'm not in a position to call that shot tho, anything could happen...

Free market economy means COMPETITION... Getting the sale wins... I like Boeing's chances...

Have you lied to me before?

Well, honestly, I'm a Canada firster... It's the Provincial/Regional thingy (IMHO) that has kept Canada from being all that it could and should be to the benefit of ALL Canadians... I guess that's why I'm a Trudeau Liberal, he was the last PM of any stripe to share that view of Canada... Having freer trade with foreign countries than Canada has within itself has never made much sense to me... But, as I always say, to each their own, why should anyone care about "the greater good" in a me, me, me, society like Canada has, eh...

I think we'll have a better idea of what's gonna happen around April 16th and a FULL understanding of this election by the 3rd of May 2011...

100 F-18e/fs + refuelers for long distance flights + almost 50% greater range than the CF-18a we now fly... Heck, we could even "string" some short northern runways and keep "hooks" on some of them, that way we could get you guys to "carry" them over for us... As to cost, my friends at Boeing told me so...

***Sigh*** Here we go again... For the umpteenth TIME... F/A-18E/F "Super Hornet" - On September 28, 2010, Boeing C announced it had been awarded a new multi-year procurement contract valued at $5.297 billion from the U.S. Navy for 124 F/A-18E/F Super Hornet and EA-18G Growler aircraft. Under the terms of the agreement, Boeing is to deliver 66 Super Hornets and ***58 Growlers to the Navy from 2012 through 2015. - NOTE: ***EA-18G Growlers are Airborne Electronic Attack Aircraft - Production cost on a unit flyaway basis will be 15-18% more than a basic F/A-18F in then-year dollars. An EA-18 will cost $7-9 million more, based on the nominal Super Hornet unit price of $50 million by the end of the current multi-year procurement contract. - - Although 41% interdiction mission range increase may be the most notable F/A-18E/F improvement, the ability to recover aboard with optimal reserve fuel and a load of precision strike weapons, is of equal importance to the battle group commander. The growth potential of the F/A-18E/F is more important to allow flexible employment strategies in future years. If an electronically scanned array antenna or another installation-sensitive sensor or weapon system becomes available, the F/A-18E/F has the space, power and cooling to accommodate it. Although the more recent F/A-18C/D aircraft have incorporated a modicum of low observables technology, the F/A-18E/F was designed from the outset to optimize this and other survivability enhancements. The all-F/A-18C/D/E/F air wing brings an increase in capability to the carrier battle group while ensuring the potential to take advantage of technological advances for years to come. - Under $5 BILLION US will get Canada EVERYTHING it needs in fighter/strike aircraft, with EVERYTHING to get it where it needs to be, AND much, much better "maintenance and support" contracts than the F-35, and THAT isn't made up, it's a FACT... It's also what I'd like to see and NOT necessarily what a Liberal Government would do, since I'm NOT a spokesperson for any political party... Having said that, with an OPEN COMPETITION, the F-18e/f has a whole lot going for it, which ANY Government worth it's salt should be able to seriously take into consideration...

Very good analysis in that poll IMHO...

Yup, and still alive to boot...

Two of THREE coasts Canada has... GREAT Country isn't it?

If only that were true, which it very clearly isn't (Harper calls the shots as to what issue, like "coalition", the media covers) Harper would still be seen for what he is, a dictatorial control freak... Globe and Mail and National Post as "Liberal" media?

Look my friend, don't get me wrong, I wasn't coming down on you, just wanted you to look at the bigger Canadian picture... A few dozen or so livelyhoods on the west coast vs hundreds if not thousands of jobs lost because of the Cod Fisheries being closed on the east coast... What would YOU have done?

Are you trying to argue against yourself? What I said was that no one, especially not the Liberals, are pulling out of the G8/G20... I also said that the Liberals WILL replace the aging CF-18s once in power, why wouldn't they? BUT they're going to do it in a way that's most beneficial to Canadians and with the most cost effective plane they can find... Which in my view is the CURRENT 4.75 Generation F-18e/f Super Hornet which the US Navy and Australia have purchased because of the delays and cost overruns associated with the F-35... By buying the NEW and greatly improved version of the CF-18 Canada already uses the tremendous savings and maintenance benefits should be very obvious to anyone... Cost would be less than $5 BILLION all in for 100+ airframes and any and everything needed to get them to places like Afghanistan to support our troops anywhere in the world... Something BOTH the current CF-18s and the proposed F-35 wouldn't and weren't able to do... Not to mention we're talking about a COMBAT PROVEN airframe vs an airframe still years away from being fully "mission ready" tested and into full production... A plane Canada wouldn't see the first of until around 2020 at the earliest... Too late for the oldest of our CF-18s to be replaced...

I admit nothing, no need to, I wasn't there and never said I was... BTW, it's not my problem, it's Harper's, and it seems yours... The Harper campaign bubble: Students, vets tossed or barred from rallies

Harper's washed up and dried out on this one... No spin cycle required...

GREAT post!

Exactly!

Are you kidding me? I used to watch the Conservative News Network a lot before their "political correctness" began giving Sarah Palin "equal TIME" with Obama, the President of the United States...

Watch THAT jerk? NO WAY! All I know about Glen Beck is what I learned about him via Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert...

OK, this is true, as is "love is blind"... Nothing to do with ACTUAL beauty however, especially beautiful place in Canada to hang one's hat...

Man-o-man southern Ontario, Toronto OR Hamilton in particular, is/are so far down the list of places to be as to be almost invisible when one has all the choices Canada has to offer...

How so? Nowhere do I see no fighter jets or anything to do with the G8/G20 anywhere in Liberal policies... Maybe the NDP's, but I wouldn't know about that...