MiddleClassCentrist

AV does that. AV allows you to rank your votes. If your first choice doesn't win, then your second choice is tallied in until someone wins with a majority. It's cheaper than runoff too.

Most sensible conversation has ended after 5 pages and degrades as the flow of discussion leaves the original topic. Usually because 1 or more posters are just trying win, rather than have a dicussion.

I laughed. What a left wing nut. One of the most leftist/socialist of all ideas... Nationalization...

The rich don't like any noble cause that slows down their purchase of their next private island.

That's dream world talk.

Alberta has a large amount of government per capita, funded by oil. They are by no means lean. It's quite ironic. If Ontario could pump money out of the ground, it'd be able to claim that pure Conservatism works... while having a larger program scope and government size like Alberta.

Do they make it so that the AI actually knows how to use siege units properly?

Is there any province that another can actually look to?

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/02/18/pol-thehouse-vic-toews.html This government doesn't even read it's own legislation. PATHETIC.

G&M Entourage Comic on this Issue

If People believed that this PC party was going to be a RED PC party, maybe they would have won. It's the fear that they are too far right wing crazy that keeps people away.

I find it kind of amusing that people think they weren't right wing enough... When you are the only right wing party... you aren't going to lose right wing votes to centrists and leftists.

You should agree. The more ways a child sees people beliefs, the less credible each one option becomes to students who do not have an indoctrinated faith.

Yep. Intolerant/ignorant parents want to remove children from what is essentially a "everyone is different, and they have different beliefs" class of tolerance. Teaching children about all religions does not infringe upon the right of free religion.

The ability to stop Alberta's oil sands from being subsidized, increasing our dollar even further, giving us even more "Dutch Disease". Ontario's resource is people... with a petrol dollar created by Alberta, our people aren't as competitive. The problem ISN'T Ontario's size of government.(per capita) Ontario's government is actually smaller than Alberta's and Quebec's when factoring in size of population. The problem is that Ontario can't fund it's smaller than Alberta government with the petrol dollar killing it's growth. Ontario needs to smarten up and elect an anti-oil sands government, to bring the dollar back down if it wants to compete.

Conservative circle jerk over a single comment. And yet there are hundreds of crazy harper quotes flying around. "You have to remember that west of Winnipeg the ridings the Liberals hold are dominated by people who are either recent Asian immigrants or recent migrants from eastern Canada; people who live in ghettos and are not integrated into Western Canadian society." "Canada is a Northern European welfare state in the worst sense of the term, and very proud of it" To prepare for possible attacks against what their leader said in the past, the Conservatives compiled a 500-page book of controversial Stephen Harper quotes. What the Conservatives didn't expect on was that the book would fall into the hands of the Liberals during the election campaign. The book of Harper quotes is available at the following address: http://www.scribd.com/doc/53953055/Harpers-Big-Book-of-Fancy-Quotations 500 Pages for all of the crazy comments Stephen Harper has made. Trudeau's comment, taken in its context, says only that if the Conservatives took Canada back to the dark ages (AKA Conservatopia) then he'd want to leave that environment. Maybe not the best wording but the media really did have to do some twisting to make it seem worse than it was. And the media loves the Harp Dog.

I support much of the document... I disagree on privatization as a key component though. It doesn't really help our economy... Privatized services often cost more because the company needs to rake in profit, employ half as many people and simply export money to investors who live outside of Ontario. (THANK YOU 407 for transporting our money overseas!)

Truth has been spoken.

And the fact that such a racist ad is meant to be taken seriously... for political gain.

So paternity fraud is entirely ok as long as the mother hides it long enough. So... I should be able to commit fraud on a banking institution... and they shouldn't be able to come after me because I have children. And we have to think of the children! I'm just shocked how in any other context, this is reprehensible. Yet, even though the kid will probably be perfectly fine, we punish the person who is the victim. And yet legally, it is perfectly ok for a woman to decide to have that same child as a fetus ripped out of the womb and sliced into pieces to prevent financial responsibility. It should be the decision of the victim whether they want to continue the relationship/financially support the child. If anything, the grandparents should be sought for financial support first. They have a biological responsibility to the child, and raising an abhorrent person that would commit such a fraudulent act. Just because our law, based of fairly ancient British commonlaw that said that all children born into a home were his, places the entire onus of responsibility on the victim, doesn't mean that it is right and just. Just the way it is.

1. You sound as if you actually were there during the depression... Most people of Alberta have since immigrated there and have nothing to do with the depression. It was no personal hardship for you. 2-3. By diversify interests, you mean oil and more oil right? Acting like your province is well off because of personal effort is like me walking into my backyard, finding a hidden gold mine, becoming a millionaire and claiming that I build my life off of blood, sweat and tears. Oil allows Alberta to live in the illusion that far right wing policies are better, because they are pumping money out of the ground. 100 years down the road, Alberta will have peaked and fallen. Oil economy has a limited time span. 4. You mean that you are converting it to the advantage of the foreign entities (American and Other)... at the cost of creating a toxic ecosystem. 5. Alberta isn't the economic engine. It's a double edged sword. Developing tar sands at the expense of everything else. Our dollar goes up, killing Ontario's ability to compete as a manufacturing base. And in some sick and twisted way, westerners seem to want that to happen.

Hudak was somehow going to bring the deficit in line without making significant cuts. That's far right wing. Right? heheh.

Alberta's wealth comes from resources. Ontario's wealth comes from people. It's easy to say "ME ME ME ME!" when your relatively small workforce can prosper in a petrol dollar environment while Ontario, whose resource is people, suffers because its people lose jobs as the rising petrol dollar makes "people work" prohibitively expensive.

A Conservative pushing for profit health initiatives is expected. A Liberal pushing for profit health initiatives, less expected but not outside of the realm of possibility (middle of road approach would say some non-profit, some for profit). A New Democrat pushing for profit health initiatives would be scandalous. Being an MP of any colour, pushing/advocating for profit health initiatives that systematically deny recommended emergency care that health professionals demand to save lives, is scandalous. Maybe this should be a bit if a bigger issue than a single column.

According to Hudak his platform was “more of a critique of the way things are, than a vision for the way things could be” The Globe Hudak has already shown some contrition for the party's defeat in the Oct. 6 vote, saying he appeared to be auditioning for the job of Opposition leader and that's what he got. CBC Almost as if he read my posts on MLW. ---- At very least, the party understands that it can't keep changing leaders and expect to win. Hudak will be a known that has (hopefully) learned from his mistakes and there should (hopefully) be new Liberal blood by next election making it a more competitive election. Well, competitive in a better sense of the meaning maybe.