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Ah, the old hidden agenda again. You haven't heard anything to the contrary, therefore it must be fact. Wishful thinking on their part I think, politically it would be just plain dumb and that is one thing Harper is not.

There's nothing to get to the bottom of, what more can anyone say, he promised he'd do it to satisfy those who wanted it - it won't pass - case closed. Agreed. Much better to get this done, put it to bed and move one to more important things. Unless Parliament deals with it once and for all, it will continue to waste time and energy, ad infinitum.

I was listening to Murphy just over a week ago and a former ambassador to several different countries called in who thought Harpers approach was about right. Guess you could say it is controversial.

Just wondering what Pequists and Liberals had in common.

And Harper was a Liberal once. Hmm. jdobbin, are you a closet separatist?

I doubt it would have any bearing on his loyalty to Canada but the optics ain't great and you have to expect his opponents to try and exploit that. You can bet the Liberals would if the shoe was on the other foot. If it was dual US citizenship, they would be yelling it from the roof tops.

Not so in BC which is now a net importer of power. There hasn't been a major hydro project in BC for over 40 years. There is only one more possible major hydro project which is the Site C proposal on the Peace and the environmentalist opposition to any more major dams is powerful. All sorts of other options are being looked into, gas, coal, wind etc., about the only exception being nuclear which is not PC.

How does that work? My father was born a Canadian and my mother was English. I was born a couple of months after she arrived in Canada but if I wanted British citizenship, I would have to apply for it. I imagine I could get it but I didn't just automatically have it because my mother was a British citizen when I was born.

Dual citizen, reformed Pequiste. Hmm.

A single project can cost billions. The twinning of the port-mann bridge for example is supposed to cost about a billion and a half. I imagine that, including all of BC, that would add up to quite a lot of money: Link There has only been one crossing added to the Fraser River since the 1950's and that was in the mid eighties. This to provide access to the country's largest port. One and a half years fuel tax sent by BC to the Federal Government would pay for it.

The Feds collect around a billion a year in gas taxes from BC. A big bitch was that only about 4% was returned to the province. If they spent the rest on infrastructure is sure as heck wasn't in BC. Perhaps some of it went to build the Confederation Bridge to a Province that has 1/5 the population of Vancouver Island.

An excellent politically incorrect article by Lysiane Gagnon in the G&M today (subscribers only): http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/sto...y/National/home Quebec can navel gaze till the cows come home, who gives a crap, they can call themselves anything they want, I just wish they would keep it to themselves.

Gas prices have doubled in the last few years. I don't see any less traffic. The idea that a higher gas or carbon tax will be invested in "environmentally friendly energy sources" is a noble thought but the Federal government has been collecting billions in fuel taxes for years while doing little or nothing along that line. As usual, I'm sure they would find more politically expedient things to spend it on.

If natural gas consumption by Syncrude for oil extraction is as big a problem as some say when it comes to CO2 production, I wonder how high the price of oil will have to get before using nukes to provide the steam for oil extraction will become economical. Great place for it, away from large population centers, geologically stable and not subject to extreme weather such as hurricanes. As well as better public tramsit, more diesels and hybrids. What people drive is as important as how much they drive.

If the Liberal Party does not disapprove of them using the logo, the obvious conclusion is that they speak for the Liberal Party.

Done

Forget about predicting the accounting. What if a carbon tax created a political back-lash that pitted one group of Canadians against an other group? What if, as a result, some Canadians decided to declare independence? I think that would be good. Would that be good for Canadians? I think so. I don;t think Canadians understand how a carbon tax turly works, It isn't just "more taxes on industry" it is something that used with lowering of labour taxes. It creates room for not only growth in industry but a gaol for industry to lower carbon and new jobs because of the lower tax on labour. If such a tax pitted one of Canadians aginst another it would be for no other reason than one of Canadians can't read books. The rub is you would be primarily taxing one industry to finance lowering taxes in all industries. More likely it would just mean a vast transfer of capital from that one industry into the coffers of the Federal Government to be spent on who knows what.

Good luck. What kind of status would they have? Would we have six more provincial governments to bicker with Ottawa? They'd all be provinces with equal status. They would provide better government because they'd have more sensitivity to the local issues of their smaller territory. Just what we need, six more governments. Like we don't have enough. I think the problem here is lack of regional sensitivity in our Federal government, not within the provinces.

Good luck. What kind of status would they have? Would we have six more provincial governments to bicker with Ottawa?

I have a tough time with the idea of banning legal activities. Walmart is a prime target because it is the biggest and it is foreign but as far as effecting local business is concerned the same could be said of Loblaws or Canadian Tire. I try to shop local first and Canadian second but that is my choice, not someone elses and I want it to stay that way.

Hampton Gray The action happened on the same day as the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and was the last VC awarded in WWII. There is a memorial near where he crashed and it is the only memorial to a foreign soldier on Japanese soil.

Diemaco

Every time the Liberals trot Chretien out it reminds Canada of Shawinigate, Sponsorgate, HRDC, Public Works and all the other shady deals going on in the PMO. Not to mention bringing our relations with the US to a new low, Peppergate at APEC and almost blowing the last referendum. They should drag him out more often.

I agree, they should shut up. I was refering to the media's take on it. I also think Rue may have something. I wouldn't be so quick to write Dion off. He's a survivor.

So what is being said is that the Conservatives could figure out who their most dangerous opponent would be but the Liberals couldn't and that the Conservatives were able to manipulate the convention for their own purposes. Doesn't say much for those Liberals.