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You have to be one of the rudest people on this forum. A point was stated that the woman has supported separatists, which has been reported in the media. Maybe her views have changed from what they were in a few years ago, maybe she supported those parties for other reason then the fact they were separatist parties, but there's no need to be calling someone a "dummy" because they don't share your beliefs.

I can not understand why he just doesn't retire, he's accomplished slot for his party but he's obviously quite unhealthy. He's had prostate cancer, then hip problems and now more cancer, which could likely be related to his hip (At the moment I have a family member who is suffering from bone cancer which was discovered after having trouble with her leg and hip). I wish him the best but I think it's time for him to leave politics and focus souly on himself. Of course that's just what I would do in his case, and this is his decision.

Because of the NDP Nova Scotians have the highest taxes in the country and their GDP growth lags all other provinces. The NDP will have difficulty forming the Official Opposition in Newfoundland and Labrador, let alone form the government.

Olympian Mark Nichols will be seeking the PC nomination in Labrador West.

So you're trying to say that people would rather be doctors in Halifax, where they are highly taxed, then say Saskatoon or Calgary, where taxes aren't super high?

In Newfoundland and Labrador we have the Department of Labrador and Aboriginal Affairs and the acronym is LAA.

Another female candidate could be Amanda Lang.

AANA - Aboriginal and Northern Affairs.

Government Services Minister Harry Harding has become the seventh PC, and third cabinet minister, to announce he will not be seeking re-election this October. Rumours that he would not seek re-election started a few months back, which is a little surprising because he was only sworn into cabinet late last year. This will be the final PC to retire, the only other PC incumbent not nominated is Ed Buckingham and I expect his district to be called over the next few days. Buckingham was off sick which is likely the reason behind his district being called so late. The party also has their first non-incumbent nominated, Dan Crummell was nominated tonight in St. John's West. The party also has a nomination battle tomorrow night in Mount Pearl South against two city councilors, and another nomination race should be held later this week in Bonavista North.

Over taxing people who make $200,000 does not help us because those are the doctors we need, and other professionals like engineers, scientists and so on. These people are also spending more which helps create businesses. If we start taxing businesses and business people to much they will go elsewhere.

She may have too much baggage now but I thought I'd bring up Belinda Stronach.

I put my province first, as do many. Does that mean as PM I would screw over all other provinces if I was in power just to benefit my own? No.

Yeah and it's not like we haven't had Prime Ministers that have put their regions, or certain regions, first before. As well just because he works to better his Nation doesn't mean he won't work to better all regions of the country.

He could do a lot more for his Nation as Prime Minister.

And I'm not a Liberal so I couldn't care less if Bob Rae travels across the country.

I'm not saying they have to pick a leader of a particular, sex, religion, ethnic group or whatever, I was just pointing out the name of a potential candidate.

First off how is that racism "Liberal style"? As well I know the party face "a problem far graver than their leader", what exactly did I say that would make you think I didn't?

I'm not saying Obama's term as President has been great, I'm saying that having an Aboriginal Prime Minister in Canada for the first time would be very similar to the United States having their first African American President. Agree, I'd like to hear more about his ideas.

I thought so too! I don't know his age but I can't imagine he's very old, and from what we've seen over the last few days he's not afraid to be bold. Having an Aboriginal as leader of a federal party, and possibly Prime Minister, could be a great thing, it'd be quite similar to Barrack Obama in the States.

Shawn Atleo.

What?

The NDP have announced that the Torbay Deputy Mayor Geoff Gallant is seeking the nomination in the district of Cape St. Francis, Torbay is the biggest town in this particular district. Gallant is fairly young and was only elected to council in 2009, but he became Deputy Mayor by winning the most votes for a councilor. He'll likely place second in the election, though there is no Liberal candidate in place, but this district will once again stay PC blue under incumbent Kevin Parsons like it has for the 40 odd years. Consumer Advocate George Murphy will also run for the NDP nomination in St. John's. He'll likely get the nomination though it may be contested, there were rumours a city councilor may run in that district for them. I believe St. John's East is there best chance at picking up a seat and Murphy may be the guy to do it. He's well known because he tells us what to expect at the gas pumps each week. He's was a prominent Liberal up until last year when he switched to the NDP, he ran in a by-election for the party last December placing second with 26% of the vote. It was no surprise the PCs would win that by-election but that was a strong showing for the NDP, he increased the party's support by 15% taking support from both the Liberals and PCs. The Progressive Conservatives don't have their candidate in place for St. John's East yet. They have an incumbent in the district but have yet to nominate him, which is very odd seeing he's only been in politics four years. This seat has been solidly PC for years but the NDP candidates have always outperformed their party in this district, as well the PCs current incumbent isn't as high profile as other area MHAs. The Liberals likely won't even be an option in St. John's.

There huge win in Quebec may have been the worse thing for them. While a breakthrough was obviously great for them I think they would have been better off winning 30 some odd seats in Quebec. Right now the majority of their caucus is from Quebec and if they don't want to lose their new base of support there they will need to stick up for them even if it doesn't sit well with the other provinces. It's not good for any party to be dominated by one province or one region of the country, look at what happened with the Liberals by having a base in eastern Canada. The NDP are going to face a problem trying to satisfy Quebeckers and all other regions, especially seeing the party has strong support out west. Jack Layton may have been better off if Gillese Duceppe and the Bloc had more seats left.

The NDP have three more candidates in place, for a total of eight, and have another six districts open. The Liberals have 11 candidates in place and have not called nominations in any other districts. Nominations for the PCs in the usually safe Liberal seat of Port de Grave closed today, six candidates are running for the nomination. I believe I read that there was only one other time the PCs had more then one candidate come forward in this district and that was back I think in the 80's when two people ran for the nomination. The Liberal incumbent in this district is not running. The Liberal party selected their candidate a few weeks ago, two people came forward, and the loser who was a longtime Liberal supporter and organizer was not happy with the outcome and by the sounds of it he won't be helping out the candidate. There was also a story on the news about NDP support in St. John's, in the provincial election in 2007 they garnered over 6,000 votes in the city and in May the federal NDP got 50,000 votes in the two St. John's ridings. The federal NDP have benefited from dissatisfied Progressive Conservatives who don't like Harper and his Conservatives and also won't vote Liberal, this won't happen as much provincially.