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how did this become about socalisim?

I dont see what the point is if your going to invade Iraq, regardless of the reason, regardless of weather it was right or wrong, your going to get some terrorists blowing you up.

I think the quesiton of trust is multi-facated. Trust to do what exactly?

the ADQ vote was largly Quebec right-wing naitonalists. Quebec Nationalisim is not just confined to the right or left wing. Nationalisim is related to Seperatisim, and the PQ had previously got most of these votes. some Right-wing Nationalists voted liberal. The problem is simple. The Liberals are right-wing Federalists The PQ are left-wing Nationalists so, the ADQ came along, Right-wing Nationalist now, we need a left-wing federalist party

IMHO, if its an english group, why not have an english representive?

not only should we legaize drugs, we should charge heavy taxes. take the profits form the hands of the criminals, and put it into the hands of the people

Harper cannot break through in Quebec. Stronach can... but Stronach is not going to win this.

the president of south korea was just impeached for being left wing or something.

Freedom. I support it. Let the basques go.

the truth is that unless art has some payback, its not worth the time to do for most, so we buy songs, we buy books, we buy paintings (well, I dont) to encourage them to make more of the things we like.

I dont like Kerry one bit, but I'd rather vote for him then Bush. the truth is, I'd vote for Nader.

what ever happened to the romanow report?

the accusation that money drives democracy was made. I've yet to see an argument proving this worng. To prove my point, let me ask you this have you visited the website for the: The Conservative Party? The Liberal Party? The NDP? The CAP? The Greens? The Absouletly Absurd Party? The National Alternative Party? The Cosmopolitan Party? The Sniper Party? if you answered just one of these with a no, then you've proven my point. Unless you have the money to advertise, no one cares enough to find out about you.

No, the majority of the Island is Conservative, except David Anderson (Liberal) and my MP Keith Martin (Independent) Then there are about seven ridings in Greater Vancouver that are Liberal and NDP, the rest of the Province is Conservative, and I'd be very surprised if any Conservative seats are lost in the next election. I'd also be surprised if the Conservative party doesn't take back my riding and give Keith the boot. I think that you should also factor in the six thousands plus members of the armed forces in both Comox and Esquimalt, and their spouses which also play a large part in the political climate....... *sticks hand up* there are a total of 4 NDP representives in BC, so it's not surprising that there are few representives from there right now. Polls, however, do show the NDP is strongly supported on the island.

in 1988, pretty much anything in BC touching the coast voted NDP

I got a card from elections canada telling me that I'm registered to vote. I think there will be a spring election.

This seems like an ideal solution. Has Mr Kingsley considered it? thats what they did from 1867 to 1993.

Layton can really sweep Toronto. The 2 windsor seats there are about 3/4 hamilton, etc, area seats we once won we can take 2 seats in ottawa, possibly more. lets sat 4. We have taken 10 seats in northern ontario in the past. That's 20 seats right there. The remainder would come from Toronto

I cant see the tories getting much above 30-40, but the NDP could easily hit 20. I dont see why the NDP cannot get 30 or even 40 seats in Ontario.

BC will decide this eleciton. Ontario's results are a simple formula. The better the NDP does, the better the tories do. The better the tories do, the better the NDP does. basacally, for every 2 seats the tories get, we get one. for every seat we get, they get 2. BC, however, is the swing province. There are about 20 ridings that are totally swing. they could go for any of the 3 parties (yes, even the NDP)

trust me, in NB, the terms are interchangable

the US has something with the primary system. We should use something similar IMHO.

I think your comments on the efficiency of ethics is interesting. the problem, IMHO, is that efficiency is not ethical. It would be very "good" to take all the money in the world, and distribute it equally. Pure socalisim. Unfortunatly, socalisim does not work, not in its pure form anyways. Personally, I'd like one huge socalist state that acts like one huge company, always doing the most efficient thing. Either way, I'd say keeping the $10 is wrong. it's not yours. regardless of the "bigger picture". ethics is not about the "bigger picture" IMHO.

A massive fraud? A bigot? A decent guy in a long-term relationship who happens to be gay? I'd go with the 3rd, thank you very much. Most canadians are not as reasonable as you and I

gugsy: the NDP wont get 15% in NB, we wont do that well. the NDP wont get 15% in NS, we dont do that poorly. also, as for your BC comments, makes me think your using UBC's forcaster. some of the CA's old vote, especailly in BC, SK, and MB, was very populist. Some left-wing populists (like me) would have voted CA because of their stance on things like senate reform, etc. Many CAers will go NDP, especially if the NDP can play itself to be populist. as for our NS seats in Halifax, in the recent re-distribution of seats, a pro-NDP area was taken from the neighbouring riding, and added to Halifax, and an anti-NDP area was taken out of the Halifax riding. We are also doing VERY well in Dartmouth. The only riding we may lose is Peter Stoffer's riding, but Stoffer is getting quite a personalist campaign going, he's very popular. While I would not be surprised if our vote in the 28 of the 32 ridings in the east where we did not elect a candidate were cut in half, if we lost any of our 4 seats, I would be surprised. and as for my 180 tory seat prediction, its more of a "what could happen" then a "what I really and honestly think will happen"