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I think he means UNREPUBLICAN, as the current government seems more in tune with the antics of Newt Gingrich then of Sir John A MacDonald.

EI is NOT standard across the Country. So there are many answers to your question. General rule is ... if you collect $400 in EI in one week you can legally earn $100. You MUST pay taxes on the WHOLE $500. The MAXIMUM anyone can collect is $485 per week which works out to a wage around $45000 as the ceiling ... so if you earn $60,000 and lose your job you only qualify for $485. If you earn roughly over 45000, you will have to pay back EI. EI can last anywheres from 15weeks to 45 weeks. There are few regions that support 45 weeks and ironically i have seen people out of work living across the street from one another and one was eligible for 32weeks and the other for 40 weeks even though both had worked at the same place for 30 years together. There is a reason why EI is a HUGE MONEY MAKER for the government....

My friends who were unemployed joined the reserves. Of course that is part time. It allowed them to make a little extra cash..sometimes they had to pay that back. When a few went to Afghanistan a couple years back, they had to pay back a large portion of the EI collected earlier in the year.

Unless your Sisters Husband is engaging in FRAUD, he will be required to pay back all EI if he is making 220k in Wages.

Who knows...maybe they want to relocate to the Honourable Vic Toews Riding. This whole...private prisons, crime agenda is looking more like corporate & pork politics combined.

you don't trust Vic Toews?

I think the people of BC are so sick and tired of their RightWing government that they SHOULD merge together again.. the split is only a couple years old... and then the public can toss them out wholesale. From what I am reading the politics of corporations and corruptions is over in BC... no matter if its the Cons/Libs or LibraCons.

Well I know that multiple wives aren't accepted here.. but are legal in other countries. There are countries where divorce is illegal. THere may still be countries which don;t recognize a 2nd marriage. Thing is.. if the marriage is legal in Canada, its legal in Canada.

Yes

And a current poll to help guide your vote http://abacusdata.ca/2012/04/20/alberta-politics-final-election-poll-wr-41-pc-31-ndp-13-alp-12/

BUMP!!! 2 days to get your predictions in...

BC has Rejected Electoral Reform in Referendums TWICE in the past 8 years! The Last time the Conservatives and Liberals Jerryrigged the Electoral Process to defeat the CCF , the inadvertantly lost to a new party called the Social Credit.

Erm.. BC just went through that...

looks like this kind of discussion is derailing the Wild Rose.

As far I a know. A company only has to post and add in Service Canada Job bank for 2weeks before they can say they can't locate "qualified" help. The Government has since built this flashy site for Foreign Workers and Employers. http://www.workingincanada.gc.ca/home-eng.do?lang=eng While some people don't know its easier to land a job in an Ontario Mine up North by living in Southern Ontario because that is where the companies recruit and bus from. Busses leave Southern Ontario regularly. People Do know that Alberta Companies recruit non stop in Ontario and NFLD. Often having to fly people back and forth every 2 to 12 weeks. My friend was being flown in from Ontario for a $15 hour job that no one in Alberta wanted. He worked 2 weeks there and 2 weeks in Ontario and did this for 2 years. It has since been filled with foreign contractors.

If you want an Ontario Example.. Ski Resorts use Migrant Workers for basic labour. Many Unemployed wanted these jobs vs EI.. and many people don't collect EI in the first place and they still would like to work.

http://www.680news.com/news/national/article/105732--dealing-with-chinese-company-behind-delay-in-alberta-dead-oilsands-workers-case Dealing with Chinese company behind delay in Alberta dead oilsands workers case John Cotter, The Canadian Press More Sharing Services EDMONTON - Alberta says the complexity of dealing with a Chinese state-owned corporation is behind the long delay in prosecuting companies charged in the deaths of two oilsands workers Genboa Ge and Hongliang Lui, both temporary foreign workers, died on April 24, 2007, when the oil tank they were working on near Fort McMurray collapsed. Other workers were injured. Sinopec Shanghai Engineering Company Ltd., SSEC Canada Ltd., and Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. (TSX:CNQ) face 53 charges in the deaths under Alberta's Occupational Health and Safety Act

Whenever Conservatives mess their Brand ... they Rebrand under a new name to continue with the same agenda. Its what occured in Sask after Grant Devine destroyed the PCs... Its what is going to happen in BC since Campbell/Christie has destroyed the Liberal Brand they adopted after the Social Credit disaster and yes they are Conservatives..they will merge and become one again with those in the Provincial Conservative Party. Chuck Strahl campaigned hard for the Liberal Candidate and says that the Cons Finishing 3rd is reason to look at a remerger of the Right Free Enterprise.. and call it a new name. DRC sound good And I believe the same will happen in Alberta. While the PCs in Alberta haven't been as incompetent and corrupt as the BC Liberals or the DevineConservatives.. they are very much lost in the trappings of power. I see a clean sweep coming in Alberta...and BC. Ironically Provinces are sweeping out the right.. with one going left and the other going erm.. right

It could except for one thing. Hudak said he would not work with another party in a minority situation and would govern as if he had a Majority. He also said he would not become the government if his party had less seats then the Liberals under any circumstances. He never misses an opportunity to miss and opportunity. Mr Hudak role is that of Captain Dunsel

Redford is saying anything to get elected and this is why she will lose. She can work with the Libs and the NDP but not the WildRose because their policies are too different... http://www.inews880.com/Channels/Reg/LocalNews/story.aspx?ID=1690635 LOL..... its virtually the same Party.. You might call them PCs in a hurry.

I do believe that Vic Toews is smiling. If what Chantel Hebert says is true... it doesn't surprise me.

As I have said. This is a smoke screen. The Conservatives want to bring in Hundreds of Thousands of workers from foreign countries (like China) through temp agencies.. particularly to go into Western Provinces...

This sounds interesting? Ontario NDP leader says Liberal 'arrogance' could topple government Horwath blames Liberal "arrogance" http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2012/04/20/toronto-horwath-ndp.html

DOH!

You and The Donald will be in agreement then... http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4222163/Aspiring-Miss-Universe-Jenna-Talackova-axed-for-being-born-a-man.html