Moonbox

As far as I'm concerned the Toronto Star has about as much credibility as Fox News. Okay maybe Fox is a little worse but the consistency of the bias is pretty comparable.

If you knew what the insurance sales tactics were that the banks employed you might feel differently. I'm not so sure what the method is online, but I do know that the banks are pretty sneaky in selling their rip-off insurance for credit cards etc.

The issue is clearly a matter of ethnicity and you can't even say it isn't. There's a reason the proposal is an embarrasment to the party and to Rhuby herself. It's so blatantly unfair to the average born and raised Canadian that the brightest minds in the world wouldn't be able to justify it, let alone a moron like Rhuby. The fact that she proposed it at all demonstrates that she doesn't give a crap about the non-immigrant Canadian. You can't just say "It wasn't my idea it was my constituents" and pretend you're not responsible for it. The drafting and presentation of the proposal is 100% her choice and if she proposed it knowing it would bomb she's at best an idiot. If she thought it was a reasonable idea then she's an even bigger idiot for thinking there was any merit to it.

Kimmy that made my day. I lol'd. Nicely said.

I'm going to go with liar, because all politicians are proven liars and we tend to be very forgiving of that.

She didn't get one or two questions wrong. She didn't know the answer to ANY of the above questions. Either she's a fraudster or she's the dumbest woman in the world.

I agree. Regulating prostitution does nothing but make it safer for the prostitutes themselves and the people who use them.

Because I am human.

The Bloc is only 18 years old. It was created almost out of protest after the collapse of the PC party back in the 90's and its goal was sovereignty. Since the late 1990's that goal has been snuffed out. As an actual party on the federal scene, it's only been relevant for 5 years worth of minorities. This is what's kept it alive since the idea of independant Quebec dissapeared. Under a couple of majorities WITHOUT the purpose of seperatism, the Bloc would no longer serve any function and les Quebecquois would figure this out on their own. They're french, not stupid.

I'm just making the observation that Mr. Canada, like yourself, is so dedicated to his chosen team that he's lost all sense of objectivity. The passion obsession you demonstrate in promoting your views leads me to the cheerleading comparison, minus the skirts and pom-poms of course.

To me, and the majority of the country, it appears as though she's trying to pull a fast one on us. If she's not being dishonest then perhaps she's just having a hard time disguising her contempt for the average born-and-raised Canadian. This proposal has so little merit that either her concept of fairness and what's right for Canada is all screwed up, or she's every bit as stupid as people perceive her to be.

My sarcasm radar is going bonkers.

That will show 'em! Seriously though. You'll vote, and more than likely it will be LPC.

Obviously. You can also be made irrelevant by constantly being left out of the balance of power. The Bloc has accomplished nothing lately and is not likely to accomplish anything for awhile. The only way to keep Bloc MP's out of power is to marginalize the party. A majority will certainly do that but so would avoiding the unfair appeasement of Quebec by ALL the national parties.

By the way Mr. Canada, quit it with all the mundane threads. We get it. You are in love with Stephen Harper. I would pay good money to put you and Jdobbin in a room together and watch you two have a cheerleading fight. It would be good old fashioned LPC vs CPC fun.

That was funny

It's pretty logical that governments should grow as they move on. I won't say Harper's not a big spender, but the only exception of big spending we've seen in 40 years is Jean Chretien, and all he did was pass the buck to the provinces. Trudeau was by FAR the worst and most excessive spending PM.

We'll all remember you said that. I'm sure there is a long way to go, but it'd be interesting to see your predictions pan out. Yeah...tax cuts totally discourage corporations from doing business here.....

I agree with this. The Americans, believing themselves to be the centre of the world, didn't feel they needed Canada. I think Obama realizes that in the interest of friendship and future support for Canada it's better to exempt Canada from this agreement. Our economies are so intertwined anyways that restricting each other didn't help anyone. Buy American makes sense to keep Mexican and Chinese garbage from putting people out of work. It doesn't make sense when Canada by and large plays on a level field with big brother down south. Obama knows this.

The advantage of being well-funded PRIOR to an election being called is pretty big.

Oh please. Where there are sheep there will always be a shephard. That goes for all the parties.

Some people think that to have an independent voice you have to automatically not agree with anything the US says. Unfortunately Canada can be independent AND agree with the US at the same time. We're probably the two closest and most integrated countries in the entire world. It's not really all that strange that the US and Canada share some VERY similar goals and interests. I know it got really popular bashing Bush and the (lol) neo-cons, but that doesn't change how close we are to the United States. We never lost our independent standing. The fact that Canada's foreign policy doesn't mirror your own is simply too bad for you.

What on earth are you talking about? What have we lost in the last 3 years that we hadn't already lost before? Get real.

I suppose it doesn't matter that this was Liberal practice for a VERY long time as well...

Perhaps, but as we all know politicians often set standards for themselves that they can't fulfill. Promising health care improvements during the Chretien years were 'standards' the Liberals promised to run on. We can see how that turned out. Not raising taxes was a McGuinty promise. We see how that turned out almost immediately after he was elected. Politicians say a lot of things and a lot of the time do the opposite. As Shady mentioned before, you seem to hold the other parties to a higher standard than the Liberals. You have a VERY VERY VERY well known history of this on this forum.