blueblood

Golly gee that's the kicker, the Maritime provinces and Quebec getting the lion's share of the loot. MB can pick up its socks, but if you like being a leech that's your perogative. How about lets shut off the tap and people can follow AB's example and balance their budgets on their own. Most out west want marketing choice. I didn't say CWB abolishment, most want an option. The plebiscite says so. SK and AB want nuclear power for the oil sands/prov. grid. These provinces don't have the hydro capacity that MB and BC have. It's a real pain in the ass to get a reactor up and running. Why does Ontario get to have one and not out West?

Ridiculously high transfer payments to Quebec, Gun Registry, CWB marketing choice, senate reform, healthcare reform, nuclear power

only reason why i think the status quo should remain, the meth heads would be wanting their stuff legal too. In all fairness I am a status quo person, had I lived in the twenties when this crusade to prohibit things came about, I would be just as PO'd upsetting the status quo wasting money on passing legislation. That being said, I'd have no problem with booze being illegal in today's world as well. I just think its the lesser of two evils, and the lax enforcement of the pot rules is fine where it is. I think legalization with intense regulations would result in something similar to the bootleg cigarette industry. From what I hear prices are fairly cheap compared to getting liquored.

damn skippy were livid.

Did you not look at the TSX in June??? When our exports do good, the companies involved in those exports do good. When those companies do good, the investors (which is almost everyone) do well. Those high gas prices also contribute to those transfer payments you cherish so much. Our dollar increases which makes our buying power better. If one region is suffering because we are exporting energy to the highest bidder, that shows they are too bloody stupid by not entering the energy business.

low gas prices are bad for Canada. Our money making exports are all related to energy, if oil goes down our big exports are all devalued. Anyone suggesting that should be kept out of the economic policy of our country.

Unless a leader like Manning comes about and stirs the pot, or Manning himself comes out of retirement, I can't see real conservatives jumping ship. Its a hold the nose and vote. These amendments don't appear to be very significant. So Harper essentially gets a pass. I wouldn't say Harper is "Tory Brass" Harper has to answer to them. Had I been a senior member of the party, I would have fed Harper to the dogs and groomed another leader. However that had to have been done either at the whiff of the coalition, or when the budget was tabled. Now its too late to dump Harper until much later. Harper's political career depends on the recession ending ASAP.

Wouldn't have mattered, you guys were crying for the taps to be opened, you wanted it you got it. The question remains, will this 85 billion be enough to buy Harper a majority? I am starting to think more and more that the GG would have granted a coalition gov't had the budget been voted down. I would have preferred Harper to run a balanced budget and shift money in that to provide stimulus, and then fight an election on it. If I were Tory Brass however, I'd let Harper take the fall with a "conservative" budget, let the coalition take over and have a leadership convention and be done with it.

And that's why we have the dangerous offender legislation...

Murder is the one crime no matter what you do, a person cannot stop. You can have the death penalty, you can quadruple the amt. of police prescense. If a person wants someone whacked, they will find a way and damn the consequences. All the death penalty does is a cheap way of justice, which there can be no appeals for.

As much as I hate to quote indie movies, watch supersize me and watch all of the fun facts about fast food. There get to be more and more lard asses walking around these days. As much as I hate to say it, one thing about pot use that I've witnessed is I haven't seen a fat pot head.

I think McD's and the other fast food places have switched over to nexera canola oil to do their frying in to get rid of the trans fats. I don't eat fast food, so I can't comment on the taste. Nexera canola oil and fresh fish are pretty good, however nexera does taste different than other veg. oil. Some might like it, some won't.

That's the 64,000 dollar question. I don't think we could afford stimulus without a deficit. If spending was slashed, the vancouverites and easterners would have a coniption fit. I'd like to hear your ideas on stimulus if you think you can do better. Personally I would have run a balanced budget and took my kick in the pants until the economy recovered.

Polls also wanted stimulus spending as well.

What I don't get is that if we are to have growth in 2010 according to the BOC, which I think we can state as a good thing, why are we going to still be in deficit? Sad thing is a great deal of Canadians asked for this...

Trudeau must have made you cringe... All kidding aside, I think the next phase for either the Liberals or the Tories would be a plan to get out of deficit. I think the election goes to whoever can sell their plan the best.

i'm not liking the sounds of this...

Pig farmers are finding that out the hard way that Winnipeg is a very liberal minded city. My riding voted NDP in the prov. election, are we all dippers?

Of course prov. is different, there are twice the ridings in Winnipeg. Not to mention Doer is on another level than Layton. Federally, 1/3-1/2 of the dirty W was tory blue.

Not BC geographically, the interior was pretty tory blue. The Island and LMD is a different story however. 1/3 - 1/2 of Winnipeg is tory blue as well.

I'm for lower taxes and lower GST, he is for stimulus spending.

Still in the black, must be doing something right. If you like paying more taxes, have at it. I'll enjoy my savings on my truck, sled, quad, and GPS etc.

I am nowhere near as big as your business per se, and I don't have to worry about too much shareholders. Basically its family. In that regard it makes sense to juggle my finances like that. So 5K of my "wage" goes into the TFSA. In spite of the recession, it was still a good christmas shopping season. It took a major dropping in prices to get people to spend. If everything is cheaper, than the GST don't look like much, but the saved money goes farther than it did say a year ago.

The TFSA's will allow me to save money to pay for down payments on machinery/land far more easily than having them subject to income tax. It does take time to save for downpayments, and having them subjected to tax hinders things. Some things do get nailed by the GST, and I have been appreciative of the tax cut. As for tax cuts not creating jobs entering a recession or during a recession, that would depend on the size of your business your in. If a person wants to hire with their extra little bit of money to boost productivity and shoot out more volume, then have at it. Also remember that the tax cuts need about as much time as clearing gov't red tape to take effect. The GST tax cut might have cost 12 billion dollars, but that was 12 billion dollars either going into the economy or being saved in the banks. That is 12 billion dollars that will not be scattered the four winds by government, that is 12 billion dollars going directly into the economy that wasn't before.

The point of the matter is I'll have more money than before, and if the tax cuts are permanent and when the economy picks up, there will be more money floating around, not to mention "trimming the fat" instead of cranking up taxes in order to pay for the cut. I think the budgeting has been askew as far as infrastructure spending goes. In Quebec there was outrage over arts funding cuts. How much infrastructure could have been built with the money Harper was proposing saving? This should be a time of trimming the fat. I think building a bridge is more worthwhile than building a museum in Winnipeg. I'll take my tax cut vs. popping a museum in Winnipeg.