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Who cares what we currently run? People also currently take 45mins to 1.5hrs to get from Scarborough to downtown in rush hour using any means possible. This is a horribly inefficient society in terms of transit. Run fast subways underground and people will start taking subways and clear up the roads. People aren't going to take an hour to drive to work if they can get there via subway in 30 minutes. LRT will not change people's behaviour. It's too slow. Give them their subways and commute times will come down for both public transit and cars. Worst commute times in the world and you people want to skimp on public transit (which is one of the few things the left has ever gotten right)... Whining about our dependence on oil, but want to skimp on public transit instead of making it an attractive alternative to driving... This is one instance when conservative spending priorities actually aligns with lefty ideals, and you lefties all want to play a political game with it instead. Talk about partisanship. I guess parents can afford to spend 45-90mins commuting since we have kindergarten for 4 year olds now. Who needs parents when you have the state to raise you?

Not quite sure what you're trying to show here. ON and QC clearly have much higher unemployment, welfare, and EI percentages. The maritimes percentages are pretty insignificant because their populations are tiny. It is pretty clear that the East is the beneficiary of Western wealth and productivity. Ontario was once a great province, but almost 10 years of McGuinty has quickly ruined that.

This. Private enterprise provides all revenue to governments anyway by employing private workers. Public sector workers contribute nothing. You could cut the pay of public workers to their current after tax income, then exempt them from income taxes, and there would be no effect on government income. Taxing public employees is a trick to blind people to the fact that they contribute nothing (other than our "services"). Let's say there are 10 private workers who make 1mil combined. Govt taxes them 30% and has 300k revenue. Govt hires 10 public workers for 30k each (21k after tax). Govt taxes them 30% and has 90k more revenue. Govt hires 3 more public workers for 30k. Etc. At the end you have 14.2 public workers. Or Let's say there are 10 private workers who make 1mil combined. Govt taxes them 30% and has 300k revenue. Govt hires 14.2 public workers who are exempt from income taxes at 21k. Conclusion: All of our "public services" come from private sector employment income taxes. The reason corporate taxes are stupid is because, first of all they contribute relatively little to government revenue, and they prompt the following possible responses from corporations: 1. Raise prices to a level which will generate a sufficient return for investors so that the company can continue to raise capital. 2. Move jobs to a location which will generate better after tax income.

I think the whining is more about the money going to "the East". Specifically Quebec and the maritimes. If there is any whining about Ontario it is about Ontario voters facilitating this geographic wealth redistribution by voting in parties who pander to every whim of Quebec. Pretty sure most Westerners are aware that Ontario was the economic engine of Canada until Dalton messed everything up.

King Harper

I'm just saying that the BOC is quite transparent regarding interest hikes. You should be able to time your RE purchases/sales accordingly if you do believe that RE prices are highly overvalued. From what I have heard, economists are saying 5-10% overvalued, but obviously they have been wrong before. Personally, I would never buy a house in Toronto for 500k when I could buy 10 houses in Florida for that price. I do intend to buy some Toronto RE when and if prices plummet.

Why do you keep posting this as if it is recent news? Have you been under a rock for the past 2 years? This Greece stuff has been ongoing for a while and has already affected Canada. That is part of this extended recession/slow growth period.

Thank Harper for TFSAs to combat this. You could always sell your real estate, rent, and then double down when the market corrects. Clearly your convictions don't match your rhetoric.

Wooooo! Let's get to 50%! Get out the vote!! Get in the opposition vote!!

The natural response to this would be for the libs to become fiscally conservative and socially liberal. I think we'd have a three way dead heat in that case. I don't understand what made the liberals so leftist. They seem to be aligning party policy with McGuinty.. I suppose because he won 3 elections.. but I don't think socialism is strongly supported on the fed level.

I'm sorry to hear that. I'm just saying that bringing up works of fiction actually weakens your argument. Though the wire is a great show!

Maybe you should stop constructing your reality around works of fiction like The Wire, Phonebooth, and Joy Ride? It's really quite sad.

Or perhaps it suggests that Canadians care more about government getting things done than cheap political stunts to drag Canadians to the polls in a vain attempt to seize power. Attack the message, not the messenger. The problem, I suspect, is that even the leftist parties know that the conservative message is correct... so they have to resort to fabricating scandal after scandal.

Ah you're the anti-authority type. The spit on a riot cop and whine when you get clubbed and peppersprayed for it type. To be honest, that was already pretty obvious.

Exactly. And the liberals have also moved so far left that it's pretty hard to sway any conservative voter away. Let's say you have the option to sleep with a hot supermodel chick, or one of two 400lb fat chicks. I'm going with the hot chick every time even if I find out she's got $5000 of silicone in her chest. Kind of a crude analogy, but most guys will get the picture. Or lets say you are offered meals by three different chefs: 1 a juicy steak, 2 a pile of feces, 3 an overboiled cabbage. You find out the chef cheated to make the steak, he had another chef do it for him. Which do you eat? Point is if you want to sway conservative voters, the only option is to move further to the centre or attack the conservative platform (make a better meal, or make us believe steaks are gross). The rest of the whining just reinforces the belief among conservatives that the left who have held power in Canada for so long are power-hungry sore losers. I believe there's a little boy who cried wolf mentality too. You're going to have to produce hard evidence rather than assumptions and speculation. We're going to need to see that wolf eating our sheep now little boys.

How about the following option? "no one impersonated Elections Canada except for minimum wage employees at a call centre trying get people to answer their stupid surveys"

Yes this is just like Iraq.

Thrown around by liberals... of course they would love to have Mr. Canada as their future leader. And if you want to talk about assumptions, the only reason the liberals think he could lead them is because he said the Occupy movement was "constructive". Then some journalist came up with the idea that he was a perfect liberal leader and every Canadian socialist hopped on the bandwagon (except notably, Carney himself).

Well it's not fair for me to say who he would vote for, but yes I would correct it to the right given his background in economics and employment history. I don't think you'll find many former Goldman Sachs execs who aren't to the right of the Liberal party of Canada.

Mark Carney isn't a liberal..

P.S. That video is laughable... seriously I laughed quite a bit at the horrible logic and atrocious spelling.

This is getting pathetic guys... get a life.

That's the point... we don't know the question. I actually found a clip of a part of the question, it goes: "...will your party do the same thing?". The lead in is probably "The liberals have said they will release their records...", but the point is that we don't know and it is suspicious that the media is not showing or quoting the full question and answer. I'm pretty sure the Q&A was on scrums, we can check tomorrow when Monday's scrum is posted: http://www.cpac.ca/forms/index.asp?dsp=template&act=view3&section_id=24&template_id=190&hl=e Have a good night.

You can't read the answer that way unless you are reading it as an answer to the alleged question. There, now does that sound so bad? I'm not saying there's not a possibility that he said it, but the fact that none of the articles quotes the question or shows a video of the question is pretty suspicious. Show me the video!!! /Jerry Maguire

So you can't find the question quoted either? Thanks for confirming. Funny that in an age where everything is recorded, you of all people can't dig up a recording of this alleged exchange.