Jerry J. Fortin

I agree with ToadBrother in that it would be interesting to watch what would happen if you had 50 independents in the Commons.

Right again BC. Unfortunately the public in Canada does not seem to understand this.

Mark my words here folks....Harper will have to pay a price for this.

Which will solve nothing other than appeasing the right.

A direct democracy solves some of these issues. It is my favorite system.

It seems that Iggy agrees with you...at least to some degree. CTV News

I think folks are dreaming. If the Liberals get the lead to the extent that a minority is assured, the election call will surely happen.

We need to look at the difference between having a legal system and having a justice system. I would prefer a system of justice myself. Crimes should be punished.

I would rather reform than abolish the Senate. Some things can be done without changes to the constitution, and that should be done.

There seems to be enough evidence to hold and question him. Please keep in mind this person knowingly and willingly put themselves into the position they now find themselves. A number of choices were involved and gee wizz guess what? The person made some bad choices. Any reasonable person can conclude from the already available information that the individual in question went thousands of miles out of their way to cause harm to soldiers that were part of an alliance that our own soldiers were a part of. Yes I think he deserves to be treated the way he has been.

You are right BC. We are just as dumb as you folks there is no doubt about it. Bush may be gone, but not forgotten. Obama is still beating on him, just like everyone else. Yeah we do that here as well. That doesn't make it either right or wrong, its just the way that things are. It is time for a paradigm shift, I actually expect it. Something WILL happen to change the games, most likely on a large scale. One thing often does lead to another.

I take it you understand this person was not caught with his hand in a cookie jar at the grocery store, he was apprehended in a combat zone during an internationally sanctioned military intervention. There seems to be evidence to suggest he caused the death of soldiers involved in that internationally sanctioned military operation, and in addition the individual in question was not wearing a military uniform. The very likely reason he is alive at all may be linked to some form of submission on his part, don't you think? Knowing that little fact and accepting the reality of the situation in which the individual came into the hands of the internationally sanctioned military folks carrying out operations there, I kinda think that not only did he ask for this treatment, that in fact he deserves it. Justice is not blind....that is a myth. Nor should should it be. We don't have justice systems, we have legal systems.

Bush....what can anyone say other than "He was a dork". Then again I never was, am not, and will likely never be an Obama fan. They are two very different guys....yet neither one has made a very good US President to date. Even with a majority Obama has issues dealing with issues. One of these days the Americans are going to start telling their government what to do, and then things will be changing quickly.

Sure it is. Sucks to be him doesn't it ! Lets step back here and suggest that he got himself into this little jackpot. Now he has to figure a way out of it. Sooner or later the Americans will get tired of playing with him, when that happens we get the dubious honour and expense here of having to put him on trial. Until that day I figure he isn't escaping justice for the moment and there just isn't any rush to have to deal with him.

I am having some difficulty believing this entire issue. A Canadian citizen willingly chooses to enter into a war zone and is caught. He was not killed, but he was apprehended. He was not a member of a military unit, he had no uniform and he was picked up in a combat zone. Just how do you folks think he should be treated? At best he is guilty of being a spy, at worst a terrorist. There does not seem to be any question about his non-military status. There does not seem to be any question about his intentions. The man is guilty of something, period.

Garbage. The only reason worthy to suspend the citizens rights to oppose the government would be to elect a new government.

This kind of thing reminds me how much I hate the fact that in Canada elections are not scheduled. Political situations such as polls, or international events, and even domestic issues can trigger an election. This represents a large expenditure of tax dollars to benefit some political system and political people. Anybody else out there thinking the same way?

China did not buy the oilsands. Far from it in fact. China owns a tiny share in a huge and as yet not completely mapped out piece of at least three provinces worth of mineral resource land rights. They can hire who they like. Most Albertans would be happy to run the heavy equipment, or own some business dealing with oil companies rather than work for them anyway.

Harper needs good press, badly. This is an opportunity he must make good on. The latest polls show a virtual tie, things are beginning to become interesting.

The PC dynasty has reigned supreme in this province for very nearly four decades. Over that time, the party and the people have changed in Alberta. All along that journey through time, the government has provided that which the public desired, when they could, and did what they had to do when they could not. However their time has come because they are not able to formulate a positive vision for the future. The party has spawned a raging bureaucracy filled with the followers and friends of the party. They have grown very fat at the public trough. So much so that they are unable move freely burdened as they are with all of that fat at the expense of the public. That fat is composed of lobby efforts, freebies and reeks of corporate governance. Knowing this the party took a sharp turn and it bit the hand that feeds it just to change the public perception. This worked for the public, but the owner of the hand responded in a very predictable way. Now the entire province will be made to pay the price. So here we are. Another boom and bust cycle has come and gone and we must deal once again with the aftermath. This time we really don't have anybody to blame but ourselves. Its an internal thing, and we needed to learn this lesson. Any viable alternative to the current government must be able to chart a course out of our current problems because this government simply cannot. The Wildrose folks say they have the answers, but that just isn't true. It will take all of us to solve the problems that we have. We need to work backwards before we can go forward. We need to decide what programs and services we desire, then redesign a revenue stream to pay for them and this is no small task. We simply cannot spend more than we have, the government cannot borrow money and have the people foot the bill. We have been down that path before and we know where it goes. Its time that we break the cycle by doing things differently.

Trudeau will follow Iggy, not Rae.

Poverty will continue to exist as long as people want to be rich.

Dude, minimum wage wage in Fort Mac is like 20 plus dollars an hour.

I certainly don't see it that way. In my view the PC's are just moving to the centre, to where the big demographics are shown to be. On the other hand the citizens seem to be moving away from that defined centre. The Wildrose folks appear to have gauged correctly that Albertans want something different than what the numbers are saying and have begun to format a right wing strategy.

This could haunt the Conservatives nicely.