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Do you really believe that Canadian government will not willingly do what he has suggested?

It seems like you are the only Canadian here who understands how the system works...

The concept of "freedom-loved people" is not always equivalent to the concept of "honest people". Some of them may just love the freedom of dishonesty... I'm 45.....maybe no one can know whether it is truth or not, but I guess everyone here can probably deduce that I'm not belong to the group of 0-9 from the skills I have used in my posts. When God cast the DNA-fragment of dishonesty in our cells, he has also cast the ability of discrimination and judgement in our mind. It's really a brilliant contradictory design.

I think it can only make people to learn more about how to fill out the voting forms. Most people who don't vote belong to those people who can not figure out what politicians's policies are, though those who vote may also don't understand what these politicians are saying. For example, let's assume that Harper and his opposite politicians come here to explain their policy on how many F-35s Canadian Air Force should purchase: Harper: "I have decided to purchase 65 F-35s to replace our old F-18s." Opposite politicians: "When I was in office, our Air force has 138 F-18 fighters, but under his rule, the number will reduce to 65. His policy has weakened the effectiveness of our Air Force over 50%." Harper: "But American has told us F-35 is more effective than F-18. They said a F-35 can defeat more than two F-18s, so the effectiveness of Air Force will increase in the future..." After reading their debate, there are four posters comment on it: poster 1: "I will support opposite. My dad is an Air Force's pilot, I don't want him losing his job." poster 2: "I will support Harper. I don't want to pay more tax any more." poster 3: "What are those damn F-35s? Are they some new brand taser guns used by police to shoot at us?" poster 4: "I'm a fan of these aeronautic stuff. I think that whose policy I should support depend on what is the main threat of Canada, I mean Russia or Taliban. If we use these fighters against Russian fighters, they will be more effective than F-18 just as Harper said. If we use these fighters to bomb Taliban, more fighters have to be purchased because Taliban doesn't have any radar so the stealth F-35s will have the same effectiveness with old F-18s, or even F-104s..." When politicans, professors, scholars...all sort of system designers have read all of these, they may say, "not too bad, at least we still have got 25% voters perfectly knowing their jobs." Just then, the 4th poster wrote a new supplementary post: "With regard to whom I should vote to, could someone here please tell me---Russia and Taliban, which is our main enemy...."

E The real world is not like the magic world in the story of Harry Potter...once the Dark Lord wins, he will reward his Death Eaters who have ever sacrificed themselves for his raise. But in our miserable real world.....BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A consortium led by BP and including China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) on Tuesday accepted a contract to develop Iraq's biggest oilfield, the 17-billion barrel southern Rumaila field. Even in Harry Potter's magic world, the Dark Lord didn't respect Bellatrix, who spent sixteen years in jail for trying to rescue him when he fell, more than Snape who did nothing for Dark Lord but just kept himself safe, just because of what Snape had told Bellatrix, "I had sixteen years of information on Dumbledore to give him when he returned, a rather more useful welcome-back present than endless reminiscences of how unpleasant Azkaban is... " There also are Australian troops and other NATO members in Afghanistan, but we hardly hear that they have a lot of casualties....if soldiers just seat in bunkers of their military fortresses never going out, they will unlikely get casualties. Canadian troops have lost a lot of soldiers in Afghanistan becasue they are more initiative in the mission, always go out to patrol vicinal area and protect their supply lines. It seems that Canadian troops is the only NATO troop (except Americans themselves) which like takes initiative actions in Afghanistan, and the mountainous south of Afghanistan is the worst place for these foreign soldiers, regardless they are NATO soldiers or Soviet soldiers.

I think a minority government needs to prepare being overturned and having an election all the time, so it can hardly have a long-term plan on how to run the country, or it may have a plan but just lack the motive to execute it. For example, let's assume that there is a 30 years old timeworn reactor which needs a governmental decision of plunging $1 billion to build a new one to run another 30 years safely, or spending $100 million on maintenance to keep it alive in an additional year. If the government is a minority government, choosing the second option may be a "wise" decision----just for the PM doesn't know if he could present at the opening ceremony cutting the ribbon after he sacrificed so many votes for increasing tax or doing something to raise money to build the new reactor.

The accusation sounds like insane. Anybody can hardly believe so many irrelative governmental departments, organizations and corporations could unite together to fulfill the alleged plot. But I do remember the anthrax spore in 2001 American anthrax attacks came from an American biodefense lab. And I remeber an American lab sent wrong virus to a Canadian lab and several labs around world a few years ago. So the risk caused by deliberate or inadvertent activities does exist.

There do have some difference, but people can still manage it by using some technical measures. People can allow more than two independent companies's softwares to count the votes, and the results of voters's votes which have been counted can be send into a independent encrypted database which is designed only can be checked by voter himself like we check our bank accounts. The user (it's the organization which in charges of the election) and the suppliers of the hardwares and softwares must be separated, so the suppliers only know that how many votes option_1 gets, how many votes option_2 gets..., but they can not know who will be option_1, option_2..etc, those will be defined by the user so the suppliers can hardly manipulate the votes; and the user doesn't know the code of programs, so it can not temper the results. The current manual counting system also has the problem which you have pointed out. When people puts their votes into ballot boxes, sometimes they don't believe that the votes can be counted fairly and correctly without any foul play, the event recently happened in Iran for one.

The hardware and software are not the problems. If we can trust the internet banking systems to access our bank accounts, why can't we trust a internet voting system? There are a lot of ways to settle the problems caused by hardwares and softwares. For example, we can use several sets of hardwares and softwares developed by different companies to count votes simultaneously, so we can find out faulty or cheat if the results counted by these systems are different. The only flaw of a internet voting system is the system can not spot out who is voting at another end of the system. The system only recognizes the stupid password or something. Anyone who enters the password will be the one who is symbolized by the password, so we can imagine that there will be some mindless guys lost their passwords or their passwords will be cheated by criminals, or they will sell their passwords or hardware keys to gangs which want to manipulate elections.

On the second thought, I think what some Canadian has pointed out is right---if the service suppliers are limited, you will have less choise and had to accept their term. If anyone has ever installed/reinstalled Microselft Windows in his computer himself, he must have known he has never hesitated to click AGREE when the software demanded some prolonged terms to sign with a DISAGREE option. Maybe one day when every aspect of people's live is taken over by a single giant corporation like this one-corporation-runned operating system in our computer, it will be the time this Pirate Part taking over the world to rise some competition. Pirate Party Wins 2 Seats in EU Parliament

I'm not always Obama's fan. Fidel Castro would agree with Obama on this issue.

Such things just work on the same way that the CEOs get their bonus when their businesses almost bankrupt. Obama: Why can you still get bonus? CEOs: All these was written on the contracts when we were hired. Obama: But the business is going to bankrupt...haven't you got enough these years? CEOs: It does not matter how worse the businesses are and how much we have gained, it only matters what the contracts content. Obama: the chief of CIA, does Guantanamo Bay still have some free cells? CEOs: ...on second thought, we have decided to donate our bonus to American treasury helping our country's economy, pure patriotism in our hearts.... If Obama wants to cancel his plan, he probably doesn't need to pay cell phone cancellation fees. Obama, a hero or a bully?

What is a massacre, let's see the dictionary: massacre Let's assume there were two kings. The first king's kingdom named Kanada, the second named Kina. The first kingdom only had 100 blacksmithes and the second had 1000. One day, the blacksmithes in both kingdoms decided to uprising to kick their kings' asses. Of course, the kings didn't like the idea, so they sent their crown tanks to crack down the rebels. In Kanada, 20 blacksmithes was killed during the crackdown, and in Kina, 200 got killed. So do you think Kina's king is crueler than Kanada's king, becasue he killed 200, that's a massacre; but Kanada's king only kill 20, so he is a merciful ruler? Beijing is a city with 16 million citizens, it's about half of Canada's population---that means if each Beijing citizen can live 100 years, there will be 160 thousand dead each year. In 2008, 100 thousand Chinese died in car crash, and India 86 thousand, America 40 thousand. The concept of large or small life loss does not alway depend on arithmetic-correctness. Do you think the video of tank-confrontation means the soldiers killed people "indiscriminately"? How many British and Canadian rebels got killed when they were cracked down by British king's army? Are those crackdown all massacres and your Queen whom you vowed to loyal to is a descendant of criminals who commitied numbers of massacres? LOL. If on Omaha Beach there was 1 million Americans confronted a hundred thousand German soliders... So this is Canada's ruler massacred its people? LOL. Rebellions of 1837 This event was called massacre by the writer, a bit of exaggerated. But it was definitedly a military crackdown. Kent State shootings By the way, Bjre and me are irrelative forum members. I don't know him and he don't know me. What I agreed with him is no more than "many Canadian people have inaccurate knowledge of China" and I will be surprised if there are a lot of Canadian have accurate knowledge of China or any other countries, just as most people in other countries may also have inaccurate knowledge of Canada .

I think since the population can not increase in short time, Canada needs to find a way to concentrate its resource(include capital, high-calibered employee,etc) on a certain area to be excellent.

It's not all due to the trade....I remember some number here ever said, "the standard of living of my dog is better than most third world people." His statement was accurate. I guess he just never asked himself whether or not his ability was in proportion to his standard of living. If it was not, it would just be a matte of time all his advantage would have gone. A nation living on its natural resource is not good just as a dude living on his forefather's fortune. The only way of keeping higher living standard is to have the higher ability of doing something which others can not do.

I'm sorry. I misunderstood. My comparison of the trade of Canada-India and China-India was not a show-off of how good China has done than Canada. It just suggested that Canada may have less influence on India than some members here think.

I know telling soothing lies always exceeds telling painful truth---this is real "universal human value" suited for any country, any culture and any race....

I didn't say Canada is not doing good on trade with India. I just want to point out that someone's imagination (and the media's "picked" news creat it) that India is China's deadly enemy and can be used as pawn against China is a wrong thought based on illusion and phantasy, just as imaging America and China will go into war some day, hot or cold, and other countries will benefit from it is also unrealistic. Exactly the trade between Canada-China and the trade between Canada-India are two irrelative matters. Canada can do both well at the same time. There is no need to say "without China we will go India" under each topic on Canada-China relationship.

About India-China relationship, I'd like to present some links I think people here can not learn from TheStar or CNN. In 2007, China was India's second largest trade partner and India replaced Canada as China's 10th largest trade partner. India replaces Canada as China's 10th largest trading partner China, India vow to expand trade, economic co-op In 2008, China replaced America as India's largest trade partner and India has become China's 9th largest trade partner. China emerges India's largest trading partner in 2008 In the future... India-China all set to become top trading partners And there is a link about Canada-India trade: India: A huge trade opportunity for Canada The trade between India-Canada is only about 10% of the trade between India-China in 2007.

Thank you for helping me to understand the event.

Thank you. Your express is accurate. I was mistaken.

I have more positive confidence on you dad than youself. I bet he never forced you to wear a Nazi swastika or any racist symbol to school unless wearing such things was some kind fashion in somewhere at the time. I gusee he even never asked you or encourage you to insult or abuse anybody who he disliked publicly in school. That makes him different from the mother in this case. I remember years ago, there was an Arabian girl in Toronto who was killed by her father for her refusal of hooding her face. But if she survived, obviously she would be taken away from her family. Could such action be considered as "Family Services says Arabian can't raise kids"? It does not matter of the parents's belief. It just matter that the parents have not right to enforce their beliefs to their children unless we want conservatives's kids will always be conservative, Liberals's kids will always be Liberal...... In any case, the mother has expressed regret on her activity. If there are evidence that she will recognize the principle that she can not enforce her beliefs on her children or force her children breaking school rules, the children should be returned to her because it is nature that children live with parents so it is supposed to be better than other ways generally.

I have never heard alcohol can kill virus. Javel water may be an appropriate option, though it hurts men's skin.

Don't worry. CPC boss is not as smarty as Bjre thinks. He buys the debts just because there are not a lot of other options. He is just like the living buddhas, he can not do any magic to make his things good and others' bad. One cause of that Chinese economy is better than western just becasue Chinese in their culture likes to save money for emergency purpose, and it looks like CPC boss is also subdued the culture, so when the economic downturn happened, people takes the money out for purchase and then releases the suffer of most of the manufacture sectors and other sectors. Another cause is collectivism in the culture. Chinese culture is based on agriculture. Anyone can imagine, for thousands years, when the river flood, millions of people works along the riverbank to protect their property, no one cares who does more and who does less----just like western people when they are soldiers, knowing if anyone fails, all others will fail. And now in industrial ages, the culture continues. In Chinese factories, workers more like collective wages cutting down than keeping their own interests but kicking weaks out, and there is no one question the CPC boss using governmental money to bailout poor countrymen. So it lowers the unemployed rates and increases the sell. Of course, there is the third cause. When west in economic depression, people likes to go to China-town's $2 store, LOL, maybe India-town's $2 store, to buy their pants . So to those economists, a country with many poor people to cut wages and produce cheap goods is not entirely a bad thing.

I guess the CPC boss buys Obama's debt only for political cause, such as the prospect of that Obama would sell him Dalai Lama if it is not Taiwan. If he wants interests, buying CAD might be better---though Mr Harper maybe don't want him to buy a lot.