GWiz

4, 5, 6, years away, if ever? Too late for me to get an advantage from it... Meaningless...

While I agree, none of that boils down to a zero sum question...

They really should get an applause emoticon on MLW like all the other forums have... Excellent!

Silly question, the next TIME he becomes Prime Minister of course... Everybody knows that...

Apologize immediately and correct the practice at his events, meaningful... Wait 3 days to apologize and be FORCED reluctantly to do so by "damage control", meaningless...

One can only hope... It seems that at least the YOUTH (18 to 30), students in particular, of this country have been awakened by the ousting of those two students in London which exposed Harper for what he really thinks about the Canadian public, even if the ouster of his Government because of Contempt of Parliament, meaning contempt for Canada/Canadians in my view, didn't... Since he also ousted a couple of Candian Veterans from his public rallies as well, seniors at that, he's really starting to show is real colours (red, white, and blue) and intentions to a wide demographic of Canadians...

It's only week 2, lots of TIME left before the only poll that really counts...

I thought Harper was primarily "targetting" those wearing a crucifix? http://kairoscanada.org/en/ But I guess students and veterans make equally good "targets" for a megalomaniac dictator wannabe like Harper, eh...

Indeed!

Too late, he's been doing it for some TIME now...

Once more dear Bill we arrive at the same page...

Starting to look like Harper is trying harder than ever to actually lose this election...

Harper's own words, "majority or bust" (abridged)... BUST it is (at least right now)!

You sir, via your post, have established your credibility with me (for whatever that's worth)... The sad thing is that the same attitude is almost as pervasive north of the US/Canada border...

That's the only one that counts...

Again... No one has lost or won anything yet... I for one haven't even ruled out a Liberal win at this point... Especially considering the only thing that most Canadians know about Ignatieff and the Liberals is what the Harper Regime has been telling them for almost two years with their constant and still going on attack ads... The Liberals are getting by far the most hits on their website since Ignatieff came out with his "family plan book"... Have you read the Liberal policies? http://www.liberal.ca/platform/?gclid=CL7f9aWpi6gCFcm8Kgod9X6sEA Having now seen him speak in person 3x now I've warmed to Ignatieff quite a bit and I see him growing into a fairly acceptable leader actually... Which means he may just continue to surprise a lot of people that have been a little too quick to judge him... Only thing that's surprising me is that it's happening so quickly... Sure... Nothing there I've ever bought into... Ain't no such thing as far as I'm concerned...

Let me try to help... Government, Unions, and Businesses work TOGETHER for the "common good"... Yup, it's just as simple as that... FYI, that's the way Germany does it too... It works so well that Germany was able to "take in" a totally disfunctional second country (East Germany) and still prosper... Unfortunately all of that is completely "foreign" to people on this side of the pond where EVERYTHING is based on confrontation and discord...

All I've got to say is RIGHT NOW, less than two weeks into this election, I'm loving how this election is playing out... The only one that needs to be concerned about current "poll numbers" is Mr. Harper because he's the one who rolled the dice on getting a majority or nothing (remember the "coalition"?) thereby cutting his own throat in regards to any other outcome...

Do tell me why that "bothers you"?

ARRRQUUE! PLEASE! Take me away before I have to agree with anything WA says...

Ahhh my friend, that's the rub, no one (not even Harper) has won or lost anything just yet... At the end of the day nothing counts until after 8PM local TIME (or there abouts) May 2nd, 2011...

Seems to me there's quite a few people on MLW that "called" this election a wee bit early... If this current "trend" continues by week 4 we may be seeing Harper begging "Iggy" for that one on one debate to try and save his sorry butt...

Don't you just hate people who say "told you so"? "Told you so" (and the debates are still to come! BTW, the "ejection" issue hasn't hit the polling numbers yet AND if the YOUTH VOTE gets out and votes because of it, as could well happen, all bets are off the table on this election...

Oh I disagree, I think you have a substantial political acumen... When it comes right down to it all one needs is a little common sense... In fact the more of it the better is the way I look at it... Considering we are still less than two weeks into this election, haven't had the debates, and 308 TIMES whatever number of "candidates" are running, of which only the incumbants have sent out any literature, I wouldn't bet a dime on this election just yet...

But why is that?