Moonbox

I think I got $100. The HST will NOT do what the Feds promise it will. It's going to cost people that pay taxes more money. All it's really done is add taxes to things that weren't taxed before. Enjoy your next home purchase btw.

Topaz I do agree with that. I was disgusted with the way the auto bailouts happened and it's one of the reasons I'm not really all that thrilled with Barack Obama. He and Harper sold out taxpayers to bail out (hold back your shock) the idiotic pension plans of the unions that ran their respective companies into bankruptcy in the first place. The shareholders and creditors of GM and Chrysler ended up with next to nothing. The Unions somehow got away clean. I found it rather fascinating how Barack Obama's biggest campaign contributor was the UAW and how he then proceeded to fleece the taxpayers who elected him to scratch the back of the union that funded his election bid.

Let me rephrase. Instead of "uneducated, unskilled", I'll say, "high-school educated, and skilled at walking around and dropping pieces of paper in boxes." Actually, I think my first statement was bang-on.

The government should stay out of the business of a Crown Corporation? News for you Topaz: We pay taxes to support Canada Post. The notion that Canada Post's largely unskilled and uneducated workforce should have free reign to disrupt a relatively vital Crown Corporation and try to force taxpayer to pay wages and benefits that are unavailable in the private sector for the same qualifications is a JOKE. Topaz I see your use of logic has not improved over the last several months. Whether or not you disagree with the Tories' spending up to this point does not in any way disprove the fact that they saved us money by not allowing a union of losers to shake us down for wages they don't deserve.

So none of the reserves in Southern Ontario have good soil? I find that strange, since I see so much profitable farmland surrounding them. How about we all just agree that we don't care how they live, whether they go back to killing each other in inter-tribal wars, starving through drought/famine and living shorter lives, or if they instead choose to continue mooching off the public purse. I think most of them can agree that they're not getting the vast majority of their land back.

Is that the same right that allows uneducated, unskilled employees of essential public services and crown corporations to shake tax payers down for salaries and benefits they'd never get in the private sector? I for one, am totally outraged.....

Yeah making them all instantly wealthy would certainly improve their conditions. While we're at it we should also ban the burning of fossil fuels to save the polar bears. Or we could just not do that and instead do something that isn't completely idiotic.

As predicted, a bunch of un-qualified, poorly educated nobodies who know next to nothing about the portfolios they're shadowing. Alexandre Boulerice for the treasury board? I dare anyone to find out what his educational and professional background is. Robert Chisholm for International Trade? He's done nothing but work for Unions. Given his background, has the NDP decided that international trade is bad?? We already know Tom Mulcair is a total wingnut given his Osama comments. My personal favourite, however, is Peter Julian, shadowing the Industry Minister. Last time I checked, his resumé included such profound experience as: General Labourer, Political Activist...period. Bravo NDP. This is going to get REALLY funny over the next 4 years.

You would like to think that I'm sure, but the rise of the NDP is the sole reason the Conservatives won a majority and will the reason the Conservatives win the next election too. The 'centre' of the Canadian political spectrum is FAR FAR FAR closer to Conservative ideals than to the NDP. You only need to look at how well the provincial NDP has done in Ontario for the last 20 years to see the support they get here. Anyone working outside of the public sector, outside of a menial labour union and making a decent living typically doesn't vote NDP. There's no reason to.

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.