Sandy MacNab

Indeed. He says he's a Westerner but is badly out of touch.

Don't hurt yourself. By the time Alberta runs out of oil, we'll be prospering doing something else; always ahead of the curve. This is the "can do" province. Alberta - and its western partners - have had the best and brightest come from all across Canada and the world at large. We've just started on a magnificent future.

Ontario and Quebec have had a super abundance of flatus for as long as I can remember; anyone here remember Uncle Louis? The West, in particular, is getting fed up with the smell.

Well, as has been so clearly established by others, he wasn't! It's also been clearly established through your sanctimonious rants that you are a "hater, sore loser, lefty" of the "liberal" persuasion. Suck it up Buttercup and move on.

I've a canoe and a paddle that I'd be delighted to donate so he can participate.

You're wrong!

At the very least it makes you sound like a Liberal.

Holy shit, I find "Liberal" terrifying all by itself.

Best idea I've heard in a long time.

Here's another thought - suck it up Buttercup, the election is over and there's nothing you can do about it. Your Liberals are gonzo and they ain't comin' back.

You must have a tortured soul to be so cynical and suspicious; say, a Liberal who just can't deal with the reality of May 2.

Whooopeeeee, A KINDRED SPIRIT!!!! As one who deals with at least one small aspect of tax every work-day, I agree 10,000%! If there is one thing I hate about this CPC government is the constant tinkering and fiddling with trivia. The country needs tax simplification - both the ITA and Regulations - and all put in language that the average, reasonably intelligent/educated person can understand. It would also help if agents were required to take and pass ESL lessons before they were turned loose on the public.

I think of Chretch's Liberals as Canada's version of a New Jersey crime family.

Y'know, I can't believe it's so mysterious or hard to understand that the senate is NOT intended to be rep-by-pop. Yet, there are so many that can't seem to get it. I suspect that most are from Ont/Que and are being deliberately obtuse; those who don't give a shit for TROC and want to keep all the power in Central Canada. by "those" I mean politicians.

Cretch "The Strangler" is a bully and a goon. If you don't remember Adscam and Shawinigate you have a poor memory. And, Layton was lucky.

Black's morals are considerably less tainted than your idol Chretch or "Tug" Layton.

And, Topaz is trying to convince us that he's being so thoughtful and concerned about the safety of his fellow citizens.

The grits' brains are in the terminal stage of political syphilis.

Harper is a world leading statesman and has clearly proven that Canada can and will express her own independent opinions regardless of what the EU, the UK, or the Oboma nation to the south have to say.

You're quite the project. So, "some level of disruption" means what? Should we: protest the health care system by rioting in emergency ward waiting rooms or interrupting ongoing activity in operating rooms; protest education cuts by allowing the trashing of schools 08:00 to 17:00, Mon-Fri, Sept-Jun; allow postal workers to burn down a sorting plant; protest the high price of gasoline by torching a local filling station; vent our disapproval of a particular religion by lynching a clergyman & trashing his, church, mosque, synagogue; or be as civily disruptive as possible whenever we think we've a "cause" to promote? Frankly, I think you are an anarchist who would stop at no level of thuggery to get your own "important", "earth shaking", "vital for the survival of the planet", blah, blah, blah, cause in front of the media.

Yeah, I want to have a Porsche too, but I expect to WORK for it. We can't have everything we want. It's about time you union fanatics realized that money doesn't grow on trees. Sure there are the filthy rich but if you pauper them by taxing the hell out of 'em you'll end up with 52 weeks vacation/year. Scotty, if you don't want to work quit and live off your kids like they did in the past. I've watched unionized workers for 60 years and have seen them get lazier and lazier; less and less productive.

Those defending the ditsy broad have arses sucking slough-water. Basically there's nothing to talk about. Her dopey conduct was enough to win our argument, hands down.

From what I've seen over there, ABSOLUTELY!

I hear it's pretty bad. Tell us all about it.

Thank you for that concise, excellent summary of why a senate is so necessary. I don't suggest we have a constipated system like the Yanks but a damper on the PMO and an elimination of the Ont/Que hegemony are vital.