Jerry J. Fortin

So you eliminate their chosen vote? Anyone that choses to vote NDP, loose that vote too. Green Party, turf it, see there are only two choices after all. REAL and useful poll............not.

There is no hope for peace until both of the two sides decide to stop killing each other AT THE SAME TIME. It is usually called a PEACE TREATY, and when it gets violated it results in wars. There will always be war in the middle east. There can be no peace because the two sides don't want peace, and those of us not living there will simply have to accept the reality and move on.

Bogus poll! Two choices? I will suggest that this poll was absolutely useless because it was based on a FALSE premise. There ARE more than two available choices.

We don't even have a medium sized military! Do you think you could be the General to defend this nation with what we have now?

I don't think so, Harper wants us to be more like Americans. . Just exactly which law protects criminals?

Yes it is the difference! The price of oil is going down, not up, but you need to remember that Alberta had a brain fart and wanted to mess around with royalties. That little fact played into the petro dollar investment big time. Have you looked at where the price of potash is lately, or the shares of the Potash Corp! The reality is that the province is now open for business and the dollars are beginning to flow in. It will take years of infrastructure investment to begin with, but the oil sands will come on line. In addition there is a lot of conventional oil that will now be found and drilled. The rise of the stubble jumpers ! Its a great thing, and I hope you folks get in on this "Praire Power" trip too! Yes I know you think you are doing okay, but I think you underestimate you province.

Excellent damned question. Here we have a two language issue, but it applies with all the other languages!

Yes we do. Our real problem is that we simply don't have any enemies, so we don't feel the need to spend money to defend ourselves. We do have some quirky allies, and there is of course terrorists but no real enemies.

We will see what they do to Dick very shortly. He has some explaining to do.

Nonsense, the potash has been there forever, and so has the oil. The difference is in a positive business environment that came with the change of government. Granted that my own government went brain dead, and forced a venue change for petro dollar investments, but the reality is that you can count dozens of grass hoppers right up to the border and then they simply disappear for the most part. Its not like the border was the line on the oil field! It started out that way!

We are going way off the reservation from the original thread here folks!

In general terms they do though. The NDP agenda is not a business friendly environment from the perspective of business. I am all for strong economies, and yours has potential. I am just saying that the NDP are doing less for the economy than they could be. Look at the changes next door to you and the difference between ideologies. You simply cannot deny the reality of the improvements in the land of the stubble jumper, and that is because of the change in government.

Well said!

BC, many Canadians simply don't understand that your nation is based on personal freedom, the right to do as you please, right or wrong. The law determines what you can't do, not what you can do. So many folks view that as the right to do as you please and in this nation that makes you look bad, because we simply don't understand the real price of freedom and the real rewards realized in its achievement. As is most cases people fear what they don't understand and our politicians like to play upon fear whereas your politicians play upon risks and rewards. Bush and Obama are opposite sides of a coin, but they are both still a coin. America first, everyone else behind them. Pretty hard to have it any other way in America, and pretty hard to understand from outside America.

They sure don't hate the institutions! They appoint wannabe party hacks at the drop of the hat just like the Conservatives do. There is no party in this nation advocating cutting the civil service and the patronage positions associated with them.

I wish I had someone like that here, you lucky dog!

Perhaps, but not everyone is corrupt either.

That would be nice! My MP is a party hack, back bencher and rarely speaks in the Commons. If he ever had a unique thought it would have died of loneliness. He is probably the average kinda MP.

Would you prefer the word stunted for your economy in the province of my birth? Lets see effective June 2009; Employment down, less than 1% from last year but still down, gives you fourth place in the nation May 2009 Average home resale down 11% gives you largest fall in the nation Home sales down 25% sixth place in the nation Consumer price index 1.5% highest in the nation June 2009 Housing starts down 8% third place in the nation April 2009 Manufacturing sales down 5% second place in the nation Retail sales down 5% sixth place in the nation Wholesale trade down 3% third place in the nation The only claim to fame you folks have is falling house prices and highest inflation. On the other hand you folks are not doing to bad at all. What is the story with that oil field on the border?

Dick gets the big bucks..............

I have said for a long time now that what we need is a leader with vision, in other words something to vote for.

I think I do understand America Argus. I just don't agree with it on some things, or you either.

You are right there dude! Most Canadians vote against things instead of for things. That is part of the democratic disease of apathy that is destroying our socirty.

Benny the democratic process has numerous checks and balances designed for the purpose of elections, and there is therefore reasonable cause to conclude that similiar process would be put into place for any method on online voting.

A little obvious would you not say? Aside from that, hackers are not real big on politics. They tend to be a little introverted and seek little challenges for themselves, but not for publicity, that would be their downfall.