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To what? Steve has complicated filing taxes with his piece meal garble of deductions for this program and that program and another program except that most people forget to keep receipts so they miss out anyway. In the meantime, the personal exemption has been lowered and the income tax rate increased. I don't want Steve to mess with the tax system anymore. He screwed up enough of it already. You have a choice now. Or do you want the US HMO to set up here? Like Steve's doing now? Giving Quebec an additional $1.5 billion. You want different standards in health care, education, all programs under the Canada Social Transfer? You want each province to be on their own and do what they want? This would be stupid. We are ONE country, not 10 countries. Harper is an idiot for trying to break up the country. And the provinces do raise their own revenues. In fact, as a country ALL provinces are better off and all Canadians are better off with federal standards and pooling taxes for the benefit of all.

Dion did not say he was going to levy taxes on Alberta oil. He did say he would add taxes to environment polluters and lower taxes for companies who lowered their pollution. This would make it pay for companies, especially Alberta oil companies to find ways to lower their environment emissions. As for buying credits, companies who could not meet their targets could buy credits from companies who had met environment targets. And it could be the company across the road. It would not have to be an international company. In fact, Steve is implementing all the Liberal environment polices that Stephane Dion had set up. His first revised Liberal/Dion environment police announcement was today. We can also look forward to more of Dion's Project Green policies being revived by Steve.

Just what do you want Steve to fix? Give us a list.

This is another of Steve's stupid politics. He would do anything to get Quebec votes, even screwing over western Canada. Keep it up fat boy.

Promises kept? Damn.. but some of those promises would be better not kept. Especially since including half of natural resources in the equalization equation is what Steve is up to. News quote, 2006-During the election campaign, the Conservatives pledged to change the equalization formula by returning to a 10-province standard and exempting non-renewable resources such as oil and gas — changes that would help Saskatchewan. News quotes 2007-On Monday, Radio-Canada, CBC's French-language service, was reporting that in its spring budget, the Conservative government will only exclude 50 per cent of natural resource revenues. The changes, based on recommendations last year from a panel of experts, would also mean an extra $1.5 billion for Quebec. -end quotes Like, equalization is a problem that Steve created just so he could fix it, even if he had to break a promise to get more Quebec votes. Western Canada, you just don't have enough seats to give Steve a majority.

Stevie Harper's wife changed her name.

Absolutely wrong. Ambrose's Clean Air Act was dead on arrival and would have been history except that Layton offered to jump into Steve's bed and resurrect this "Hot" Air Act in committee. If it ever makes it out of committee nobody is going to recognize anything that was in the original text. Do you mean the Harper who said he wouldn't ride in a vehicle with his wife driving? ( "Optics, you know" -end quote. ) That is the Harper you are referring to. LOLOLOL

No competitive bidding please, we're Canadian -LAWRENCE MARTIN Competition? Who needs it? Most other advanced democracies, but not this one. Not even with a Conservative government in office and not even if it's costing us billions. Our Defence Department is on a hell-bent-for-leather spending spree. With Afghanistan as a rationale -- a dubious one in that most of the new goods won't be used there -- there's no stopping the shopping. There's $3-billion earmarked for search and rescue aircraft, $3.4-billion for cargo planes, $5-billion for Hercules transport planes and $2.7-billion for Chinook helicopters. To get the right planes -end quote Never mind that if proper competitive bidding happened, even if the firm had been previously selected, $$$$ would be saved because companies would be "competing." Like why couldn't Toronto-built DeHavilland Q200/300 Dash 8 aircraft receive the contract for fixed-wing search-and-rescue aircraft, which would be compatible to the unproven Spartan C27J. All hail the accountability of Steve and his potted plants. When he screamed and ranted about liberals and the Liberal party he was just kidding.

When Steve screamed about it in opposition he was just kidding. http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/1476/.../366479/001.jpg

I think a majority on this forum are siding with the enemy and would actually place their lives above yours. They also find little value in what you are doing. I want to let you know that you guys have my full respect and and true heros. Just letting you know. Yup. Since reading, I notice that the majority of regular posters on this forum didn't give 2 damns to respond to someone putting his life on the line for his country. And you call that responding? Trashing up one of Canada's soldiers forum with your trash talk against fellow posters? Army Guy, glad to see you safely home. Thanks for what you did for Afghanistans. May it make a difference. But if anyone can do it, Canadian soldiers can.

And guess how much they are going to spend on polling in 2006 given that they backtracked on their promise to disclose what polling the government does? That would be government money.... our tax $$$ And where did they hide the amounts spent on polling in 2005? Or was the money taken and used from funds received as the Opposition??? Polling for party with taxpayers money. What a concept.

It is astonishing how many of my otherwise knowledgeable university peers don't know this. Id say about 80% in my experience don't know this. Out of those 80% I can say that an overwhelming majority (if not all) do not support the war, and when I ask one further and describe the importance of contracts, they usually give me, "there is a better way" or "I do not agree with that". Of course I live in the Toronto area so maybe my results should be expected to be more like 95%. These people... Educated? Sometimes. Opinionated? Yes. Or maybe the "new" government hasn't clarified what we are doing in Afghanistan. I mean, Chretien and Martin didn't have much of a problem with the publics perception of our mission. Of course it could be that Chretien/Martin respected the troops, didn't use them for photo-ops, and flew the flag at half mast with respect and mourning when one of our soldiers sacrificed their lives in the reconstruction of Afghanistan. Then there is the fact that 38 soldiers died since Steve was elected.

And don't even bother to try and find anything on the Status of Women's site. Steve who wouldn't ride anywhere with his wife driving, optics you know (the chauvinistic pig) has had all equity or equality words removed. Guess Oda is good for one thing. I think every conservative women should get a slap at least once a day from a women who knows what a real women is........... EQUAL!!!! And a knuckle sandwich for Steve.

I feel embarrassed for you while reading your posts. You must also be strained by all the twisting you are doing to excuse what the CPC did.... refusing to give receipts to members for convention dues, accepting corporate credit cards for fees which became corporate donations, cooking the books to hide 3.4 million $$$$. all of which are illegal, and then fighting Elections Canada for the better part of 2006 with denials, excuses. They refused to hand over their books and critical documents regarding the irregularities in donation/convention fees. And finally after it seems they uncooked their books and when the public was involved with family and Christmas, the CPC turns over their rewritten, revised books to Elections Canada (I'm sure they only handed over some sheets with whatever they thought made them look good) and a day later the head of Elections Canada resigns. I think Sheila should be able to go through all political parties books, especially the CPC. The Liberals had an audit firm audit their party books in 2005. When CPC refused to give tax receipts for convention fees, some party members were making donations to their riding associations in return for tax receipts. This was called cheque-swapping" That accounts for the "redirected" amounts. According to the Vancouver Sun... Here's how cheque-swapping worked: Individual riding associations footed the bill for their delegates for food, travel, hotel and registration fees associated with the Montreal convention. In exchange, the conventioneer would make a donation back to the riding association in the same amount. That would entitle the delegate to a tax receipt for the donation, amounting to an unwarranted benefit from taxpayers -- that is, reimbursement of a portion of their 'donation' through the tax system. But the donation wasn't a donation in the true sense of the word. Elections Canada has ruled that anyone receiving something that has a commercial value beyond its political value is not eligible for a tax receipt. Meals, hotel and airfare clearly have commercial value and cannot be construed as a political donation. -end quote The Libs and NDP quit Cheque-Swapping when the Law changed in 2004- The Tories didn't.... So now do these CPC members have two tax receipts? One from their riding for cheque-swapping and another from the CPC head office from the "redirected" funds? Steve broke the law to win an election and now he's committing fraud to cover it up. And another thing, in 2004 CPC spent $700,000 in polling and in 2005 nothing was spent on polling. Can anyone believe that? Also a number of CPC EDA's did not file their books to Elections Canada for 2004 and 2005.

Chuck Guite, the Tory was charged and sentenced. Actually the media reported that Chretien offered to send our troops to Afghanistan to free up the US troops for Iraq. Bush liked that idea.

Let's forget about the USA system and stay with our own. Fixed-date election measures are hollow and impotent. The Opposition could still bring down the government or the government could set up it's own fall in order to have an election. Right now everything in the US is gearing up for the 2008 elections and the rest is shuffled into the backgrounds. We are Canadians and we like it that way.

Why has this a**hole government deleted the details of the Kelowna Accord off the government web site? A**hole Steve thinks if he rewrites all the government sites that history will be changed or forgotten. Well Steve, you pr***, there is a hard copy of the Kelowna Accord and when your get your sorry butt kicked out of office, the record will be corrected. In the meantime, if Canada gave back to the First Nations what they took from them, that would solve a lot of problems. The Kelowna Accord was a start and in ten or so years we would all have been better for it. Some of the info: Kelowna deal included $1.8 billion for education A rough agenda released by Martin's Liberal government in the days before the conference suggested the meeting would focus on five critical areas: health, education, economic development, relationships between government and aboriginals, and housing, including incentives for private home ownership on reserves. Ottawa said the initiatives would represent a 10-year commitment to raising the standard of living of aboriginal Canadians so that it would be equal that of all other Canadians. » EXTERNAL LINK: Details of the agreement [link will open in a new window] (This open to a blank government page) The plan included: * $1.8 billion for education, to create school systems, train more aboriginal teachers and identify children with special needs. * $1.6 billion for housing, including $400 million to address the need for clean water in many remote communities. * $1.3 billion for health services. * $200 million for economic development. The goal of the education investments was to ensure that the high school graduation rate of aboriginal Canadians matched the rest of the population. The money was also aimed at cutting in half the gap in rates of post-secondary graduation. On health, targets were established to reduce infant mortality, youth suicide, childhood obesity and diabetes by 20 per cent in five years, and 50 per cent in 10 years. The Martin government also promised to double the number of health professionals in 10 years from the current level of 150 physicians and 1,200 nurses. http://www.canadiansforkelowna.ca/what%20i...he%20accord.htm

All told, that's a contingent of 10 politicos (five MPs, five political staffers) attending one conference at a cost of $60,743.19 just for air fare, an average of $6074.32. Check Travel Web Sites: *Air Canada (economy) $984.15 *Air Canada (executive) $3973.53 *Continental (economy) $978.98 *British Airways (economy) $2104.84 There were some comments that government officials should not be traveling in economy class. Well what about Air Canada executive for a saving of $21,007.89? That is the average annual wages for a very large number of Canadians and more than many seniors receive on their pension, especially due to the losses in their income trust folios. I was really disappointed to read the comments supporting the excess spending by Steve's people when they had self-righteous fits while in opposition due to a Liberal Minister having a working dinner or lunch and spending $100.

All those donors who went to the Con convention did not get a receipt and therefore were unable to claim their donation on their tax returns. So stealing from conservative donors is okay? They also encouraged outside observers - generally lobbyists and representatives of professional groups, to use their corporate credit cards to pay the $750 observer fee. These payments constitute corporate donations, which are strictly prohibited. Cons have to move out of their glass houses. Every piece of mud they have slung at liberals and the Liberal Party is now sticking to themselves. Who knew that all the times Steve was pounding his chest, covering himself in ashes, preaching his accountability act, and vilifying liberals and the Liberal Party, he and his Con Party were breaking the Elections Canada Act and defrauding their party donors of millions, plus taking corporate donations under the table.

Steve is going to have to move out of his glass house because every piece of mud he has hurled at Liberals has boomeranged and is sticking to him and his crew. Check out the government ministry web site and see what your sweat earned loonies are buying Turncoat floor-crosser David Emerson spent $10,000 to fly to Geneva. He also brought along his parliamentary secretary, Helena Guergis, who expensed $5187.16 in air fare. Also along for the Swiss trip was policy advisor Paul Benoit, who was downright frugal by comparison, incurring just $1860.39 in airfare. David brought along his spinner, Robert Klager, his director of communications, at $5218.18 in air fare. Two MPs and two staffers on a trip to Geneva spending $22,666.58 in air fare alone. That’s an average of $5666.65/person. Wait there's more....also going to the same Geneva WTO conference was a large contingent from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (air fare in brackets), including Minister Chuckie Strahl ($7,226.86), parliamentary secretary David Anderson ($7314.11), parliamentary secretary Jacques Gourde ($6690.03), policy advisor Christine Bakke ($5438.29), communications director Conrad Bellehumeur ($6109.03) and senior policy advisor Christina Patterson ($5298.29). Their filings also included a side trip to Newfoundland (for agriculture, I'm sure). So a six person contingent from this ministry for a total of $38,076.61, or an average of $6346.10/person. All told, that's a contingent of 10 politicos (five MPs, five political staffers) attending one conference at a cost of $60,743.19 just for air fare, an average of $6074.32. Check Travel Web Sites: *Air Canada (economy) $984.15 *Air Canada (executive) $3973.53 *Continental (economy) $978.98 *British Airways (economy) $2104.84 If they'd taken the Air Canada economy option the bill would have been closer to $9841.50 for all ten people, saving the taxpayers some $50,901.69. So what did they accomplish? In their own words. And what did they accomplish? Read for yourself: Agriculture Minister Chuck Strahl said he was disappointed that the issue didn't get off the ground in Geneva. "There were no negotiations at all, that's the sad part, the sad truth,'' Strahl said Saturday in a teleconference call from the Swiss city. Trade Minister David Emerson also expressed his dismay. "While WTO members have worked hard to reach an agreement, the gaps among members' negotiating positions proved to be too great to bridge during this meeting,'' Emerson said in a statement. Not to be outdone, Steve had to rack up his own useless waste of taxpayers sweat earned loonies. Taxpayers get fuzzy PM speech for their money A trip to Vancouver to repeat pledges cost $75,000, documents show Peter O'Neil, Vancouver Sun Published: Friday, December 29, 2006 What does $75,000 of taxpayer dollars get you these days? Apparently a few recycled Stephen Harper platitudes and a lot of hot air. According to a Vancouver Sun investigation, some $75,000 of your taxpayer dollars. Plus Challenger Jet expenses of $9,174/hour. Yup this "new" government has collected every piece of mud they have thrown at the Liberals and are proudly wearing it in their glass houses.

Uh, no, all you have said is what the Liberal government talked about doing. And as we all know, the Liberals like to promise the moon for good publicity, then generally fail to carry out their promises. How much did you get paid for that spin? How often do you have to repeat it? The records show: On November 21, 2005, the Liberal government announced over $60 million in funding to fight HIV/AIDS globally over the next six years. Of this, $15.2 million was intended to enable Canada to meet its commitment to provide four percent of the core component of the UNAIDS budget for 2006 and 2007. Another $12 million was to support the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative for 2006, as its previous funding expired in December 2005. In fact, from 2000 to 2005 the Liberal Government committed more than $800 million to combat HIV/AIDS globally. This includes our contribution to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria -more than half of which goes towards combating HIV/AIDS. -end quote And then in August 2006, Steve allowed Tony Clement to announce a “new formal partnership arrangement with the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS),” when in fact, an agreement has been in place since June 17, 2003. Yes Steve keeps on blathering about what he is doing but much of that is recycled Liberal aid and programs.

A while back there was a 13 year old girl in this area that the police were catching with a stolen car every second week. Because of her age nothing could be done and she knew it. What kind of education is that? Of course, also because of her age, her name cannot be released. I heard that story only it was an 8 year old boy. Nobody has been offering viable solutions but rather narrow-mindedly only seeing tougher sentencing as the only solution. News Link

IF Canada can even afford to have that health and pension programs at all in the future. Paul Martin put $41 billion back into health care and improvements have been made. But most importantly Paul Martin set up the Canada Pension Plan to be viable for many, many years. As long as Jimmie Flaharty keeps his grubby mitts off the CPP fund and forgets about using it to balance his "net" debt.

Many are single parents who do have to work to put food on the table and pay the rent/mortgage. And yet with Steve's beer and popcorn money, they have no help with child care spaces and no early childhood development, which would be like kindergarden for pre=kindergarden. Selling Harper's baby bonus as a choice is false (lying). It is not a choice. Some may be glad that the bay bonus is back to help pay for diapers. baby bonus is back. But it does not provide anyone with choice. No one is going to choose to stay at home because they have an extra $100 a month. It’s not enough to call it an incentive since it gets taxed back to the government. By canceling early learning and child care agreements with the provinces, any funding or support for the training of teachers, construction of buildings and monitoring of standards required in order to provide a real option to parents who have to work outside of the home or decide to go to school so they can better the lives and opportunities of their families eliminated choice. Demonizing women who have to or choose to work outside the home is not right as is demonizing women who choose to stay at home. Day care centres or early childhood centres are not just institutionalized, statism for kids, but provide resource centres and assistance to working families and to stay-at-home moms as well who want a safe place to let their kids to socialize with others, to meet other parents, to talk with trained professionals about helping parents raise their kids. We have bought into the conservative spin that the women's place is in the home and women should just stay home. All the while they are ignoring the low income family scrapping away a living working at Wal-Mart where they don’t get to decide the hours they work but need every minute to put food on the table, the single mom with two kids who wants to finish school so her kids can have a better life or who needs the Wal-Mart job so her kids can eat, even the working parents who have a disabled child and just need that one or two day a week break so they can re-energize and carry on. Demonizing women because they have children and telling them they are on their own with a taxable baby bonus that is only payable for 6 years is not the Canadian way. A national childcare program provides choice to parents, it does not force them to enroll in daycare classes and it is not the state trying to tell parents how to raise their kids. Using JMH's logic, schools should not be funded but any parent who has a child should have to pay to have them educated.............

OTTAWA (CP) - After months of heated denials, the federal Conservative party has quietly admitted it failed to publicly disclose hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of donations. In the revised report, the Conservatives have "reclassified revenue related to the 2005 convention," disclosing an additional $539,915 in previously unreported donations, an extra $913,710 in "other revenue," and an additional $1.45 million in "other expenses." The report does not explain what constitutes other revenue or other expenses. Moreover, the party reports almost $700,000 in previously undisclosed transfers from riding associations, presumably accounting for ridings that helped subsidize the cost of attending the Montreal policy convention for their delegates. But while the Tories infer that counting delegate fees as donations is a recent development, Elections Canada has said that's been the case for decades. The Canadian Alliance, Reform and Progressive Conservative parties - the precursors to the Conservative party - all considered convention fees donations. Mark Holland said the financial report also leaves some important questions unanswered. For instance, it doesn't mention the fact that the registration form for the convention invited outside observers - generally lobbyists and representatives of professional groups - to use their corporate credit cards to pay the $750 observer fee. The Liberal party maintains such payments constitute corporate donations, which are strictly prohibited. When The Canadian Press first reported Baird's comments and the apparent breach of the law, Tory officials angrily insisted they'd "fully complied" with the law and that delegate fees could only be considered donations if the convention turned a profit. The Tories persisted in this argument even after Elections Canada officials made it clear that profit had nothing to do with it and that the Tory interpretation of the law was incorrect. "I can fax you scads of material on this. This is the way it's been done for time immemorial," Conservative party legal counsel, Paul Lepsoe, told CP last summer. Holland said much of the Tories' mishandling of their 2005 convention fees appears to be the product of "complete ignorance" of the law. "To me, that's just as scary (as deliberately breaking the law). I mean, we have a Treasury Board president who doesn't even understand the laws he's attempting to rewrite. I mean, it's astounding. It's breathtaking." See Link So even when the Conservatives break the law they insist that they are right and even try to change the law to accommodate their lawlessness. Trying to slip in corporate donations as well. And then to sit on this file until this time of year when people are busy with family in the hopes that nobody will notice. Unbelievable. And of course none of the Harper supporters here choose to post this info here. What was that cry from the Tory benches last year? "Be honest and come clean" Of course we will now hear that the CPC saved taxpayers money by breaking the law and not issuing receipts.