maplesyrup

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They had better keep enough money in the military budgets to cover lifejackets for Canada's sailors in these crappy submarines we keep getting from our "ALLIES" Canadian sub 'dead in the water', waiting for help

Fire strands Canadian sub in the Atlantic Canada needs to become more independent in militarty matters, especially defence contracts. I suggest we more away from the war-mongers, Britain & the US, and start develpoping military relationships with countries we have more in common with. How many times are we going to get screwed before we wake up? This second-hand submarine is just the latest in a long series of misadventures.

So the Harper Conservatives and Le Bloc are going to be working together in the new Parliament. This is a very dangerous game for the Conservatives to be flirting with the Quebec separatists and they will pay the price. Lib: 135 seats Cons: 99 seats Bloc: 54 seats New Dem: 19 seats Ind: 1 seat Total: 308 seats Deduct the speaker's vote for the Liberals. Therefore: Libs 134 + NDP 19 = 153 votes Vs Cons 99 + Bloc 54 = 153 votes Ind = 1 vote Very, very interesting. Cadman is going to have a huge role here. Too bad for the Conservatives that they blew Cadman off and revoked his membership. Another serious tactical error by Harper.

CN cutting freight service on Prince George-North Vancouver line, NDP Reveals This doesn't look very good for the Campbell Liberals just weeks before the significant Surrey by-election. More jobs my ass - the reality is more cuts, more layoffs. :angry:

Slavik44.....I agree. Watching Cadman being interviewed today gave me the impression that here was a man that wants to operate with good principles. I liked his response when Don Newman suggested that he will probably be offered a lot of free trips, or junkets, and Cadman replied that he didn't expect to be taking anyone up on those bribe offers, as that is not why he is a member of Parliament. The Conservatives blew it with Cadman big time by not controlling their inappropriate nomination meetings. What was it he said: "The Conservative Party abandoned him, he did not abandon the Party". In a lot of ways it is the political party system that is damaging our democratic institutions, and the more independent MPS we have, the better off all of Canada would be.

Slavik44........you are correct. Although the Conservatives have threatened to bring down the government over the throne speech, everyone knows that is nonsense, that they are just posturing for their fans, and that there is no way they will do that as the Canadian voters would not be kind to them. Harper is probably just feeling a bit left out of things, with all the kissy-kissy stuff going on between the Liberals and the New Democrats.

We shall see. The writ has been dropped for October 28, and if lawn signs, not the signs that are on public lands where there are no voters, are any indication, the Carol James New Democrats are in for a big win with their movie star looks candidate Jagrup Brar. We don't need alcoholics, dope infested people, or hate-mongering homophobics to govern us in BC, thank you.

Chuck Cadman was just intervied on CBC TV show Politics with Don Newman, and he made it quite clear he has no intention of rejoining Conservatives, stating that the party left him, he didn't leave the party. Cadman said he has to follow the wish of his constituents who voted for him as an Independent, NOT as a Conservative.

Speaker re-elected unanimously. One less vote for the Liberals in the reconstructed House of Commons, our 38th Parliament. Chuck Cadman's vote may become a significant factor before the government falls, and his vote could possibly precipitate its fall. Trudeau did not approach his minority with the view that he had a mandate to govern, but Martin is sending mixed signals, according to Ed Broadbent, who hopes Martin follows the Trudeau appraoch rather than the Joe Clark approach, otherwise the government will not survive.

Fox News apologises for Kerry fabrication Here we go - another scrupulous right wing organization being exposed for what they really are all about - fabricating bullshit concerning anything and anyone who does NOT fit their corporate transnational agenda. Too bad Mr Kerry. They need to have their broadcasting licence revoked.

kimmy....you are jumping to some strange and probably incorrect conclusions. Do you think David Walsh was a crook? I don't. I think he got tken by the Suhartos, the former Indonesian Royal Family, just like many of the Bre-X investors. Why do you think the RCMP dropped their investigation?

Layton pumped for parliamentary balancing act Now we will see who has the cahones, who has the political skills to survive.

Trudeau led the way; and the USA followed. What other Canadian leader could say that. Precisely. The US is a dying regime, and eventually Canada's future will better represented in Asia than America. The US is now morally bankrupct with their born again Christians, and economically bankrupct with their their debt.

MS, have you ever lived in Alberta? Have you worked 18 hour days pushing a shovel through grain so the rest of the country can have cheap grain? Have you ever spent a day on an oil rig platform grunting to make sure the ROC has cheap oil? Have you ever tried to make equipment run at 30 below with a wind chill of minus 50? I highly doubt it. You know absolutely nothing about what makes Alberta tick. We may be a province full of rednecks and roughnecks but we are not bloody well scared to take a chance and we do not believe in getting something for nothing. Yeah, we are "get in your face" when we are pissed off. We are a province that is used to building something out of a pile of dirt and grass. We are a province based on strong family values. But it seems that when we speak our mind, we are called whinners while you tout yourself as the enlightened one. Get off the bloody high horse, you don't live here, have never lived here so you know nothing about Alberta. Come and spend a few years walking though cow shit or losing your limbs on a rig, then you can spout what ever rhetoric you want to. Lighten up. That was a tongue and cheek response to the commie comments. And sure I've lived in Alberta. I remember one winter night, it was 40 below, a tree branch cought my eye and knocked my eyeball right out of the socket and it was just hanging there on my cheek. If I hadn't had a can of motor oil to keep my eyeball in, to prevent it from freezing, untill I got to the hospital, I might have lost my eye sight. Fortunately now all I have to do is give it a shot of WD40 once a week, and everything is fine.

ICEBERG = DEFICIT (this isn't rocket science)

The reality is Dubya dropped the ball. Instead of closing in and capturing Osama, he aborts the exercise, so that he, Tricky Dicky (where have I heard that phrase before) and a few others from Big Oil can make a few billion on Iraq's oil. WTF does this have to do with terrorism and the attacks on the WTC? DA NADA WHEN THE F*** ARE YOIU DUMB AMERICANS GOING TO WAKE UP, AND THROW THE BUMS THAT HAVE CONTROL OF THE US OUT?

Now folks, what really matters is: NEWSWEEK: BUSH LEAD GONE, KERRY TAKES THE LEAD Dubya screwed up big time in the first and apparently the only debate of significance.

So Bre-X is a winner after all: BRE X DEBUTS AT FRASER DOWNS OPENING

Bre-X was an Alberta company, or was it?

Nonsense, if you want the problems to continue unabatted in BC keep the Campbell Liberals in power. A good example is their candidate in the Surrey by-election. The Campbell Liberals couldn't get a credible candidate to run for them. They ended up with Mary Polak, one, if not the, most polarizing person in the entire Surrey community. It took the Supreme Court of Canada to finally give her a well deserved slap and settle her down. Come on folks, this is the 21st century, and even Spain has recognized same-sex marraige. Time to get over it, and move on. The Campbell Liberals are playing the politics of division. Let's bash the gays, let's bash the environmentalists, etc. The latest crap being spewed out by Cabinet Minister Falcon is he wants another lane across the Port Mann bridge. Like that is really going to solve the congestion, and do wonders for the traffic in Surrey. Good strategy - let's pit one community against another. This is one of the major urban areas in Canada. Screw the car lanes, the automobile induistry, and the oil industry and let's get good rapid transit out to the Fraser Valley. Unbelievable brain dead solutions from a Campbell Government Cabinet minister. Unfortunately, similiar to what we have seen for the past three years, and to be expected. LIberals won this riding last time with 58%. You want to see how unpopular Gordon Campbell's government is, watch this by-election. My guess is that this time around, the reasonable Carol James New Democrats, and their John Travolta look-alike entreprenneurial candidate Jagrup Brar, will grab at least 50% of the vote.

Another deep intellectual thought from the right side of the spectrum. Would you care to elaborate about a bit more specifically what you mean by that comment? My understanding is that when it is crunch time, such as the two World Wars Canada was there, and was there in all its splendor. Pray tell, WTF do we need military might for these days? Perhaps you are afraid the Acadians might mount an insurrection in the Atlantic region, and take down the duly elected government in Nova Scotia? You don't have to worry about that, as Darryl Dexter and the Nova Scotia New Democrats will be looking after that little task themselves shortly.

First you save, they you spend. Whatsa matter with dat? Much better than the other way around.

Help......we are being inundated with Alberta fascists. Who let so many out of their cages all at the same time? Seriously though, what's in a label? It is the person's policies that count - either they deliver the goods from the right or the left, whatever, the important thing is, do their policies work for most of the people in society, and are they making sure that their policies, which for the most part need to be for the majority in society, or hopefully they will not get elected, are not crushing the lest fortunate, the meeker elements, of our society. The National Energy Program is a good case in point, and for most Canadians the program worked well. Alberta historians need to get out big erasers and correct some of the revisionist history floating around in Wild Rose country.

Jack Layton said tonight, Tuesday he takes his tiny desk in the big House of Commons, and good things will come out of small packages. Great performance this evening to an obviously partisan crowd but with impact: Martin's answer to Canada not participating in Bush's Iraqi misadventures, is to join his Star Wars scheme. Canada must atone for its sins. Time to rock & roll folks - you ain't seen nothing yet!