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If Green Party were changed to Libertarian, the poll would make more sense.

These are great!

Is the earth overpopulated? Is it going to be? I would answer yes to both, but with an explanitory note...the Earth could be in way better shape with the same population if our lifestyles were different. Consumerism makes humans act as cancer does, upon the host, earth. The Earth would be better if everyone lived a more "environmentally friendly" lifestyle, but I don't think our neighbours to the south will be too pleased with that idea.

That's a good part of it,but not all.As a parent of 4 teenagers life isn't too bad with my bunch.Why? 1.No cable T.V. 2.No allowances,you want,you earn- and I don't mean household chores-those are to be done because you live in this house.You want to buy,get a job. 3.I want to know where you are and with who.Your friends are always welcome at this house and overnight.Better it happens under your own roof. 4.We are not church goers,but morals and fairness are expected as a personal value from everyone in this home. 5.Siblings are more important than friends and should be treated as such when help or rescue is required. 6.Communications on a daily basis is a must.I want to know what you are doing and I CARE about it,so ask me when there is a problem,maybe I can help or offer some advice. 7.Interact,go to the game they play,see their projects,help them with their needs in school,respect their choices. 8.Love your spouse and your kids will love you both. 9.Love them,you made them, they're yours for life. Wow, we need more parents like you. Most parents I know are either never paying attention to their kids or paying the wrong kind of attention to them.

I heard somewhere that they now have schools in India that teach their students how to speak English with an American accent, so Americans won't be able to tell that these people are from India. It will be interesting to see how this affects our call centre industry here in Canada...

I say stick them on planes, fly them to Alberta, and let them work at McDonalds for $10/hour. If the starting wage rate is so high, they must need people, so let's give them some. Where would they live, out on the Prairies in tents as our Japanese neighbours did when they were shifted to Alberta in the war time. Housing up north is terrible, I have 7 family members working there. Do you mean lack of housing or lack of decent houses? I can understand if there are literally no houses or apartments left for them to live in, but if the houses/apartments are just poorly maintained...

I'm sure McGuinty could have found better things to spend the money on...I'd like to squirrel my foot up his rear end.

This attitude from many both wealthy, middle-income, and low-income parents is maddening. When will parents lose this sense of entitlement and accept that the cost and responsiblity of raising a child is theirs and theirs alone. Anything socieity provides is generous and is something they should be grateful for. I agree. The more tax cuts and handouts you give to people who have kids, the more people there will be having kids so they can get money back from the government. If you can't afford to have kids, you shouldn't have them. This world is overpopulated enough as it is.

No kidding, where I live the fast food restaurants get 5 applications a day, every day. They no longer bother putting up "Now Hiring" signs because they don't have to. About half of the people applying are teenagers, and the other half are over 30. The fact that the Ontario Provincial government keeps raising minimum wage is NOT helping. The student wage here helps the teenagers find jobs, but if you're over 18, you may as well not bother applying. And even the teenagers under 18 have to struggle. Here's an idea. If you want full employment, why not get rid of minimum wage? I have yet to meet someone who is literally worth nothing. Whoever wants a job would have no trouble finding one, there would be no excuse for unemployment. Whoever says that Canada is at the lowest level of unemployment should look at northern Ontario.

Probably not (in response to "are kids kids anymore?"). Parents today give their kids far more things than they had when they were growing up. Teenagers 50 years ago who had part time jobs were expected to contribute to the bills and pay their share. Now teenagers today are getting jobs just for spending money. They don't contribute to family bills (unless spending money on a new pair of jeans counts), and they don't save for university/college, because their parents will. And if their parents are unable to afford it, the government will force the taxpayers to pay. Another part of the problem is that parents nowadays are too stressed and can't be bothered to watch their kids anymore. They are more concerned with themselves and their jobs then they are with their kids.

I say stick them on planes, fly them to Alberta, and let them work at McDonalds for $10/hour. If the starting wage rate is so high, they must need people, so let's give them some.

Dennis Prager...telling it like it is! It's true. Admit it. I feel sorry for those in socialist countries who don't support socialism. They are the ones who suffer the most because they realize how stupid and destructive the system is, yet they can't do much about it, because the majority of the voting population stupidly votes them back in every time.

You're not stuck with them forever?! If someone f##ks up bad then he's gone. This law allows employers to fire without reason(other than their 2 years are almost up)!!! Again this is just a ploy to produce a pool of cheap on demand labour for employers. I can only imagine how badly this will affect productivity. If you are in a small city with a declining younger population (people going away for school etc...), you would run out of labour if you practiced that policy. Not to mention the employee turnover costs (assuming the positions being filled require some basic skills/education and can't be learned in 10 minutes). I can picture fast food doing that (since they do it anyway), but if the job requires actual skills/training, it's going to be more expensive. If I had a choice between unemployment and a job that would last a couple years, I would take the job. When I get tossed out, I could move to a country that isn't so socialist and use the work experience gained to get a better job.

You could always have given that "allowance" money to someone who did really need it if you feel that strongly about it... In any case, the millionaires pay far more in taxes than anyone else, simply because they earn more money. Is this equitable?

That's a pretty good idea. But what about during winter when it's too cold for plants/trees to grow? Maybe people should keep more indoor plants too. I'm pretty sure they have medicine now for allergies, and from what I hear, it's pretty effective. The only way to ever get rid of pollen would be to kill every plant and tree on the planet, and I hardly think that's reasonable.