Moonbox

Layton just committed political suicide outside of Quebec. This is something the Liberals and the Conservatives will hang him on next election and he'll flop so hard in Ontario because of this it won't be funny. 51% for Quebec to secede? Right. Not going to happen. With the number of crybaby whiners boneheaded French Canadians there are in his party, the NDP is just going to end up the spiritual successor of the Bloc with the pretense of being a national party. Jack Layton the joke everyone. Stand back and watch the show.

You know what? I'm really not going to spend hours looking up every MP's resume. Instead I'll invite you to peruse their credentials, particularly Peter Julian's, and ask what qualifies him as (from his own website) as Critic on International Trade, Gateways and the Vancouver 2010 Olympics in 39th Parliament; Critic on Globalization, the Treasury Board, Natural Resources, Transportation You would THINK that anyone serving as Critic for such areas, PARTICULARLY the Treasury Board, would have some sort of educational background to support it. When you're in the NDP, however, that's not the case. His credentials are that he was previously a financial administrator, community activist and manual labourer. I think it's safe to say manual labour doesn't really provide any background knowledge for the Treasury Board, nor does being a community activist (that's just a pre-req for being in the NDP). Interestingly, one of his qualifications is he was a former financial administrator, which means sweet 'f' all unless given context. Financial administrator of WHAT??? His own household likely, but I'd truly hope to be proven otherwise. That's the sort of thing the NDP does to pad the resume, however, to make it look like their candidates actually know anything about the world and how it works.

Hey you can brainlessly vote to elect a bunch of non-achievers with no understanding of finance/economics, little education and zero experience if you want. That's completely your perogative. Whether or not that's a smart thing to do on the other hand, is an entirely different matter.

Nurses already have specialized education to put on their resumes and the certificate for IV in this case would just qualify her for extra work. In that case, it's actually worth something. I'd love to know what 'certificates' this clown has. Most of the other party MP's have these things called 'degrees' and 'credentials' that most NDP MP's seem to lack.

I'd sure like to know what a 'certificate' means. It's clearly not a degree, nor is it a diploma, so what the heck good is it? What sort of 'certificate' do you get from a university that was worth putting on a resume? Fact is that most of the NDP candidates are nobodies with no qualifications.

I know it's a rallying point for any anti-Harper people out there and a really sexy thing to protest, but we'll be flying 40 year old designs by the time Canada takes their first F-35 delivery and there really aren't any other jets out there that can compete with the F-35. I take exception to how much Harper has been lying about the cost of the program and whatnot, but we're going to need to replace our CF-18's sooner rather than later and we might as well do it with another plane that will last us 30-40 years. Nice forum name btw...

You mean wear Bob Rae ran Ontario's biggest deficit ever and left the NDP in Ontario a smoky ruin? Harper should be thanking Bob Rae for his majority. It was Ontario's fear of Bob Rae style NDP that had people abandoning the Liberals and flocking to the CPC in the GTA.

Why are people even humoring the OP by responding to these threads? You are pleasing comrade chairman.

I think it's kind of silly to say that election spending has little impact on the outcome. Regardless of whether or not you have a good message, if nobody hears it nobody will acknowledge it. For the other parties to compete they'll simply have to get their supporters to fork up some dough like the Tories do. Put your money where your mouth is or don't cry about the results. The contribution limit is $1000 so the bulk of fundraising dollars is NOT coming from wealthy health care haters. It's coming from everyone that supports the conservatives.

What do you mean? Premier McGuinty took us down the same road Bob Rae did. Overspending, higher taxes and record deficits will be his legacy. He helped increase the cost of energy in Ontario. He raised taxes after promising not to. He ran a $16B deficit in ONE year and he introduced the HST. All of this will usher back the dominance of the Big Blue Machine and likely a loooong set of PC governments in Ontario.

I'm sorry after you spelled it as critizism I could't read anything else you said without laughing. What were you talking about?

HAHAHA I was thinking that earlier this week. He has to have been the most die-hard Liberal we've ever had on this forum.

Ummmm...

Good prediction!

WWWTT where are you now? Maybe you meant 20 years from now?

I know it's really funny to look back at these threads and see how idiotic a lot of the dipper comments were.

HEY DAVE. The compiled polling predictions were coming in at 144-160 CPC seats and that's what I was telling you. Where you at right now? Got any facts to back up YOUR blathering? Wait...you've been totally proven wrong now. Have a good night and enjoy the next 4 years.

I'm wondering where Dave_ON is right now....We need to continue a discussion we were having earlier today.

NDP support is rising. I'll not argue with that. It's what...10% higher than it was last election? At whose expense? Not the Tories. Their support is flat. The NDP rise has come at the expense of the Liberals and the Greens. The Tories are polling around 10% higher than the Liberals and NDP, who are almost dead even. We'll see how the vote splitting goes lol. We were talking polls and predictions. You attacked someone's predictions because he was a partisan hack, yet he's backed by the polls. His opinion and mine are based on the polls. What are yours based on? Could it be.............nothing??? A total red herring. What does his bias have to do with anything? We were talking about his conclusion and the polls that thus far support it. It was up to you to provide some contrary evidence, which you completely failed to do aside from saying, "NDP support is rising." We've had about 2 weeks of media coverage to show us that but WELL DONE for noticing. You've been posting here for two years big guy. Your vapid responses in this thread are pretty consistent with your posting history. I believe our argument started when I asked you: "What about the article do you take issue with? You can rail against it all you want, but tell us why his predictions make no sense, rather than wet your bed over it because you don't like what he's saying." Your best response was, again, that the NDP support is rising. Anything else? Do you have anything to refute that aside from EKOS, the major pollsters are predicting between 144-160 seats, which would support Frum's prediction? I'm fascinated what your response will be!

Parts of London are nice. Some others make downtown Kitchener look good....

Okay bud.

Sorry, I'll add London Fanshawe, Windsor and maybe one or two outside of that. 85% of the NDP's support is in those areas because they're largely dump ghettos economic wastelands desperately in need of subsidies. Outside of that their support plummets. When your posts actually have some substance, rather than glib responses like, "Conservative hack - ignore what he says" perhaps I'll spare you my condescension and contempt. David Frum's prediction is, regardless of his bias, supported by most of the polls. Your disagreement is based on your dislike for the anticipated results.

They're looking to gain seats in Atlantic Canada as far as I can tell now that Whiney Williams is gone. They don't really need that many seats.

It was random as far as I can tell. Neither myself nor anyone in my household has ever voted NDP or ever intended to. I'm not a member of any party nor do I have an election sign on my lawn.

The problem with wiping out the centrist party is that the centrist elements then scatter in opposite directions. The soft-liberal left would go to the NDP and the soft Liberal right would go to the tories. People for some reason seem to think that the collapse of the Liberals will lead to their entire base voting NDP all of the sudden. Jack Layton and the NDP are not well liked in large parts of the country, particularly in Ontario.