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That's simply not true. I have an IQ of 136 and research stuff all day. People are rational and can make correct descisions when they are presented with information in a nutshell. When an immigrant sometimes tells me that there are no jobs here in Canada, I say it's becuase they let too many poeple landing here and there aren't enough jobs to go around for everyone. Kyoto is a great way to flush our money down the toilet. Lol you know those internet IQ scores are not real right? One of my fave university profs had a great line "Only an idiot would tell you their IQ". The following appears in the chapter on Cognitive Abilities in the 6th edition of the textbook Psychology by Bernstein et al: "Creativity is often assessed by tests of divergent thinking, which measure the ability to generate many different but plausible responses to a problem. Expertise in the field, a set of creative skills, and intrinsic motivation are necessary for creativity. External rewards can deter creativity. The correlation between IQ scores and creativity is not very high. IQ tests measure convergent thinking, whereas creativity is characterized by divergent thinking." And the correlation coefficient between IQ and intellectual achievement is a mere 0.11...

You mean the extension that the majority of Liberals voted for? What??? Only 30 Liberals voted for the extension.

I wonder if Harper has yet figured out that speaking out to Canadians on Afghanistan might give him as much credibility as Bush has with the American people about Iraq. The more Harper says about Afghanistan, the more that opposition parties are likely to bring up corruption in the Karzai government, members of the government involved in drug smuggling, mullahs and Islamic courts who sentenced an Afghan man to death for converting to Christianity, Canadian forces dying for an Islamic theocracy, etc. Between Harper's militarism and declining, Bush-like credibility, and the strident and shrill attacks of Layton and Duceppe, Dion will look like the moderate, centrist that he is.

Even US courts have now ruled against the US lumber lobby. Good thing Stephen Harper gave the lumber lobby that billion of our money. They can use those funds to keep fighting us in US courts. Now they a billion to fight us with our own dollars in future. Brilliant move Harper. It'll cost you votes in BC. No wonder Harper is now more than 10 points behind the Liberals in the latest BC poll. However, many in the industry don't have alot of good things to say about the deal or the conservatives based upon their rush to deal for the sake of a deal. I do know that Northern Communities have been hit hard by this, and It's unlikely he will grow seats in the area, but the general opionion of this trade show was that Harper Sold out, just to say he resolved it. Many just shook their heads in complete disgust. Poor David Emerson. When he was a Liberal cabinet minister and the US lumber lobby offered him a similar deal last December during the election campaign, he recommened to Martin that it be turned it down. When Conservative cabinet minister Emerson went to Harper with the deal, Harper decided that it was the best deal that Canada could get so he took it and sold out the Canadian industry. Now the Canadian lumber industry is paying more in export duties than they paid in illegal US duties and the US still gets to keep a billion dollars in illegal duties. US courts ruled that the billion should be returned to Canada but that happened AFTER Harper hastily signed the deal so we'll never see the money. Emerson must wonder at times why he accepted Harper's bribe.

I doubt that Quebec will separate and I'm certain that Quebec will never seperate. If you think there is Anti- Anglo sentiment in Quebec now,wait until Quebec actually seperates! Quebec will never seperate but Quebec might separate. In "Canadian" both are appropriate. Are you suggesting that Canadians think it's appropriate to spell separate incorrectly?

The Liberals are now 15 points ahead of the Cons in Quebec. Wasn't it just a few weeks ago that Harper was being hailed as a genius for declaring the Quebecois a nation? In the process, Harper pissed of the the rest of Canada and the anglophones of Quebec and has nothing to show in francophone Quebec for his act of "genius".

Sure, but Chretien's own party ultimately gave him the boot. I don't see much evidence that CPC MPs have any control over Harper.

Immigrants get charged more for insurance which viotates the b.s. charter of rights. People that are of a younger age are charged more insurance which violates the b.s charter of rights. Still can't imagine race, ethnicity,religion or sexual orientation coming into play. Incidentally, in British Columbia which has public auto insurance, age and immigrant status aren't factors. But I suppose private insurers can violate the b.s. charter of rights. They can even deny insurance coverage to an applicant.

Sounds remarkably like a Conservative conspiracy theory. Care to expand?

Even US courts have now ruled against the US lumber lobby. Good thing Stephen Harper gave the lumber lobby that billion of our money. They can use those funds to keep fighting us in US courts. Now they a billion to fight us with our own dollars in future. Brilliant move Harper. It'll cost you votes in BC. No wonder Harper is now more than 10 points behind the Liberals in the latest BC poll.

Not just Steve. Both Steve and George oppose Kyoto.

Like what would that intermediate position be? http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/sto...Story/National/

OTTAWA-A November cold snap prompted Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day to dismiss Al Gore's climate change crusade in a website article brimming with mockery. Day's letter to his constituents in the British Columbia riding of Okanagan-Coquihalla constituents last week opened with a shot at the former U.S. vice-president. "Hey who knows, maybe Al Gore is right,'' Day wrote in the post dated Dec. 6. "Maybe all my constituents living high up on the West Bench, or Lakeview Heights, or the hills of Logan Lake will soon be sitting on lakeside property as one of the many benefits of global warming.'' Source: http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/stor...11?hub=Politics Good choice Harper in picking this genius as Minister of Public Safety in charge of the RCMP, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service(CSIS) and protecting us from terrorists. Stockwell Day has intelligence like Peter MacKay has class.

I doubt that Quebec will separate and I'm certain that Quebec will never seperate. If you think there is Anti- Anglo sentiment in Quebec now,wait until Quebec actually seperates! Quebec will never seperate but Quebec might separate.

Wasn't it just a month ago that O'Connor went coast-to-coast to explain the mission. Source: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/sto...fghanistan/home Obviously O'Connor had little impact, was ignored and/or spoke to the wrong people. In any event, Duceppe would be wrong to topple the government over this issue. He'd likely lose seats in Quebec to Dion. The latest polls have the Liberals only about 10 points behind the BQ in Quebec. Elsewhere in Canada, especially in BC and Ontario, the Liberals would pick up seats from both the NDP and CPC. I anticipate Dion will take a position intermediate to Harper and Duceppe and gain seats from both. So unless Duceppe's goal is merely to replace Harper with Dion, I'm not sure why he'd do it other than to recapture some BQ seats that went CPC in January. Sure he'll recapture those seats given Harper's unpopularity in Quebec but Dion will recapture some Liberal seats.

Marriage is already seperated into civil and religious unions. It just so happens that they are both called "marriage." Maybe we could solve the problem by calling the civil ones "marriages" and the religious ones "unions". Those who officiate at "unions" would be permitted to discriminate against lesbians and gays to keep the religious folks happy. Moreover, those who officiate at "unions" would be permitted to discriminate against anyone their religion deems worthy of discrimination.

The percentage of "losers" was even higher following the January, 2006 election. So-con Harper won the right to govern with a mere 36% of the vote. The losers were the 64% of Canadians who voted for parties to the left of CPC, i.e., the Liberals, NDP, BQ and Greens. Not really.. Harper only won a minority government with his 36% of the vote. He doesn't have the power to pass any legislation he sees fit, like a dictator. Chretien...3 majorities...only received 38% to 42% of the vote. Good, let's make sure that Harper doesn't get another 2% or he'll pass legislation like a dictator.

And a majority of Canadians might vote Harper out because of what they don't know about Afghanistan. Who's fault do you think that is? If people won't read newspapers or magazines, or put any thought into the basis for their political beliefs there isn't a lot anyone can do about it. It would be nice if such people weren't allowed to vote, though. My sentiments as well but unfortunately the majority would disagree...

Part of the problem here is that conservatives gravitate towards tradition like bears to honey. Just look at some of the synonyms for tradition: habit, ritual, folklore. And an antonym: innovation.

The percentage of "losers" was even higher following the January, 2006 election. So-con Harper won the right to govern with a mere 36% of the vote. The losers were the 64% of Canadians who voted for parties to the left of CPC, i.e., the Liberals, NDP, BQ and Greens.

You seem to be implying that there's some need for a religious representative to be involved in marriage. An ever increasing number of Canadians are married by a Justice of the Peace (or the equivalent) because they see no need for religious mumbo jumbo or mythical bearded pixies in the sky to tarnish their vows to their loved one. Those who prefer to be married by an Imam or celibate Monk or Guru or Rabbi are welcome to do so but there's no need to invoke "God" or in the case of Hindus, multiple "Gods" and "Goddesses", in the marriage vows or in obtaining legal documentation of marriage.

Unfortunately you're right. The carnage has already begun. The current slowdown in US housing construction is partially to blame for less American buying of Canadian lumber. But the exchange rate is another factor. The drop in sales of US lumber in the US isn't as great as the drop in sales of Canadian lumber which now costs the Americans more than it did when we had a 0.75 dollar. The exchange rate also screwed the lumber companies out of hundreds of millions of dollars when the US returned the 4 billion US in illegal duties as required by the softwood lumber agreement. The 4 billion US was paid over a time period when the Canadian dollar was relatively low but was returned when the Canadian dollar was high. So we got back far less than what we paid in Canadian dollars. And the billion US or so that the US never returned was more like 1.35 billion CAD paid out.

Here's the story on the declining Canadian dollar: http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/st...dda2bfa&k=60839 No, Harper's not to blame but maybe it's time he gave some thought to stimulating the economy rather than squandering time and money on same sex marriage, Quebec nationalism and Afghanistan. The Liberals squandered a fortune on Afghanistan: "The Polaris Institute said Canada had already spent $4.1 billion on Afghanistan operations since the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. Polaris analyst Steven Staples told an Ottawa news conference that Afghanistan accounts for 68 per cent of the $6.1 billion spent on international missions between the fall of 2001 and March 2006. Staples said operations in the war-torn country were "consuming all available resources" and preventing vital resources being diverted elsewhere, such as in Darfur." How much more Canadian tax dollars does Harper want to spend on propping up the corrupt Islamic Republic of Afghanistan? He's already said that he wants to extend the costly mission beyond 2009.

I doubt that Quebec will separate and I'm certain that Quebec will never seperate.