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Apparently she did it cuz a friend put her up to it.

I'm just saying the optics are bad with this selection. I don't think she'll be the leader in 4 years anyway though. If she is, don't you think the Bloc and Liberals wouldn't slam the NDP for her past?

I don't think they need to do that at all. They can just ignore the province's petty demands. Quebec gets so much more money from the Fed than any other province, the Fed needs to stop bribing Quebec! I actually hope the NDP does well. Because a strong NDP means a weak Liberal party and the NDP aren't taking that support away from the CPC. If anything there are many Liberals in Ontario that would much rather vote CPC than NDP. But it's not like the NDP found a ton of new Liberal or CPC voters in the past election. They got all their support from the Bloc!

I heard a good point about Toronto Property taxes. The percentage maybe less than in the burbs. BUT!!!! the value of the houses are double or triple that of the burbs. So saying that a hike to property taxes is the solutions is laughable.

Please provide support material to prove that the Conservatives are trying to bring back the Bloc. This story about the new leader has come to light because of the media. As a Conservative I see very little difference between the modern NDP in Quebec and the bloc. That's why in 2008 the Bloc did very well, and less than 3 years later they did horribly but the NDP did very well. It's the same voters. The CPC couldn't give a flying bleep about Quebec anymore. with Ontario and Western Canada in their pocket they don't have to pander to Quebec anymore like every other Federalist leader since Pearson has had to do.

Punkster, you're in this pointy-headed debate about the definition of what a Bloc supporter is. I never thought the people who voted for the Bloc all wanted their own country. That country would be untenable anyway. What I do see when I see Bloc support is an isolationist view of your province. That you're different and you only care about yourself. The rest of the country rejects that. So if the NDP looks for members that used to embrace that ideal, they'll have problems garnering support in West Canada and Ontario.

Well the Bloc isolates itself from the rest of Canada. It, regardless of it's separatist motives, sets Quebec a part from the rest of the country. When you have a part that only looks out for itself you get the back of the rest of the nation up. So if you're saying all these former separatists that suddenly have seen the light and found Jack Layton believe in a united Canada that remains to be seen. From what I can see all these Bloc members jumped ship and are being political opportunists. I guess we'll see how the PQ does in the next election to see exactly where the separatist motives of the province exactly are.

You know in Quebec that's all fine and dandy. Outside of Quebec however, the idea of the Bloc is quite frankly offensive. One of the positive things about the May 2nd election is the destruction of the Bloc. And now the NDQ's leader is a former member. You can say it doesn't matter, I'm telling you it does.

No one is saying she can't do what she did. It's just the optics are pretty horrible.

It's sorta like saying "I'm a Nazi, but that whole gassing of Jews thing, I'm against that".

The exact same reason Bob Rae would never have success in Ontario because he used to leader the provincial NDP.

Great she's a pragmatist that joins parties because they are more likely to be elected. Sounds more like a Liberal to me. Try convincing John Q Voter that her Bloc past means nothing regarding how she views the rest of the country.

Well let's put it this way. Who cares if this is how things are done in Quebec or if the NDP is "soft" on separatism. A woman like this could NEVER!!!! be the leader of the part this party going into an election. I could just imagine the attack ads associated with this lady. Also it sounds like she has just about as good a command of English as one Stephane Dion. So if Jack doesn't come back, the NDQ ERRRR NDP will have a very big battle on its hand trying to decide if they want to pander to it's large Quebec faction or try to expand beyond the 44 seats they have outside Lower Canada.

But if you don't allow people sitting in a booth all day to make 20-30,000 more than your average Canadian then the middle class will be eliminated. Don't you get it.

Yeha Wine sneaks up on you though. You can drink an entire bottle and not think about it until perhaps it's too late. It's not like a shot of some hard stuff.

Put the quality of the players aside, it's a debate that doesn't really need to be had. There are many parts of the Canook game I do not like. 3 downs is first and foremost, the rouge is second. But I just like the way the American game is played better. The playbook is far more varied than what you see in the CFL. BTW I should stop watching the Argos, they keep choking away leads.

Absolute bullshit. Sure alcohol relaxes you just like tobacco does and if taken in excess you get an altered sense of being. But if alcohol was no more than a drug and people didn't enjoy the taste then the LCBO would be out of business because people would be drinking Purell. I was actually skeptical about the quality of different types of whiskey. Until my wife bought be a bottle of single malt rye for by birthday. If you try that then pour a some Crown, Crown tastes like water. Like everything it's an acquired taste though.

Well I know you're responding to my reaction to the story about libraries. In which a reporter just went to a library and asked people why they were there. Not exactly hard-nosed journalism. Don't get me wrong, The Star is my online news source usually. But their editorial slant and mine often disagree. But that's part of the fun.

I would like to see it too. Would be interesting to see how real life sniping differs from what we see in TV, Movies and Video Games.

NFL linemen aren't agile? Ask Jake Long that. I doubt coaches that put in 80 hour weeks during the football season would be lost because of simple rule changes.

For the most part McCowan is a complete moron. An entertaining moron however. Great he's American and has a hard-on for the CFL, he'd be an expert in both leagues. Are we really going to have to go through this again. The best players go to the NFL because that's where the money is. It's not an assessment of the game (though I believe the American version is better) You can't compare the two leagues.

The Senate in both countries is stupid. It's useless in Canada. And in America it allows senators in states from buttfack nowhere to have the same power as people from important states like Florida, Texas, California and New York.

I'm not a fan of the Star's editorial bias. Just this one column has an agreeable opinion to mine, that's all.

What a stupid debate. Cleo Lemon and Ricky Ray would beat Peyton Manning and Drew Brees because the rules are different? That's laughable.

I think we can safely disregard everything else she says from now on.