Moonbox

Exactly. Less crying. Less whining. More hard work.

I don't even think you know what you are trying to say. Sure, the BoC would probably buy the Russian-held dollars back, but it would be at that day's exchange rate, which might be better or worse. So what? As for what this means, I would say very little. It means that Russia thinks Canada's currency will boom in the near future, or at worst be more stable than the USD. As for all currency fluctuations, it's good for some and bad for others.

Are you 15 years old or something? Thisn is one of the dumbest things I've read on this thread for awhile. You're pretty certain this was the cons doing huh? Based on what? That you don't like them? I don't like the NDP and I think they're a bunch of weasels. That also means that Haiti was their fault....right? That's how this works right?

Shhh...Topaz...don't talk like that...otherwise the KGB will come for you

This is something I didn't know/remember: Chretien prorogued parliament something like 4 times himself. Why is the government allowed to do this? Clearly there's a precedent and one party isn't better than the other, but it's still sand in the eyes for most Canadians.

Poll from Globeandmail This is the kind of arrogant blunder opposing parties dream of. I didn't think it would be as big deal as it is but I'm glad it turned out to be and I never understood how stupid Harper and the Tories could be about this. Edit: Fixed Link

Haha nice. I can't wait until I can say this about global warming 10 years from now. Hope everyone is still lurking these forums then. What would do with out mass-hysteria?

You got me good there...Mr. Moonbeam. ZING! As for Harper, I don't even like him and I won't be voting for him again, so so much for me being a neo con lol. This is what I mean by 'rant'. Nothing you say really makes any sense. We all understand that you don't like Harper. That's fine. I don't blame you. The rest of what you're saying is just a bunch of poorly written, poorly thought out and meaningless fluff. You're full of hot air and rhetoric and that's generally why you get so little feedback from your posts. ....................

Another barely intelligible, poorly thought out rant. Good job Oleg. Keep it up.

He'll reappoint Jean. There's no reason not to. She's shown herself to be non-partisan, independent and an all-around good GG. It'll look good on him if he reappoints her and bad if he doesn't. It's almost 100% certain he'll offer the job again.

I really don't like the opposition, but proroguing parliament in this case is pretty arrogant from where I stand. I've generally supported Harper since 2006 but I think in this he is showing just how much contempt he has for the average voter. I'm not paying for him and his friends to relax for the winter. I'm paying for him to run the country and we're still not out of the recession right now. I didn't mind proroguing last year but unless Harper can give me a good reason for him to do it again I'll not be voting for him next time around.

No, that's not what they ultimately said. They thumped their chests and went on about calling an election, and the GG, a Liberal appointee if I recall correctly, decided that it was stupid to irrationally run into an election immediately after another. Use your brain. Since then the House HAS supported the CPC. Proroguing is a delaying tactic and in last year's case it was put to GOOD use. Nobody wanted an election and nobody wanted a coalition other than the dippers and a few of the more stupid LPC supporters. The LPC turned out to want nothing to do with it either. Aren't we dramatic?

Even I'm a little confused by why we need to prorogue. I'm pretty unimpressed. I'm going to ask my Board of Directors to prorogue my office...and still get paid. Surely there's no problem with that right? It at least kind of made sense last time. This time it smells REALLY bad.

I agree. This is a pretty stupid topic and you can probably imagine how unsurprised I was by who the original poster was....

This whole thread is pretty lame and I hope you guys aren't serious.

I'm sorry...I have to .... There will NEVER be a climate change agreement until ALL the important industrialized nations of the world agree to be bound by the same terms. The Copenhagen Treaty was ludicrous. It was about as palatable as what I left in the toilet this morning. The whole thing was a farce. I'm not against a climate treaty but if they're going to do it then China, Pakistan, India and the rest of the develloping world has to also agree to be bound to it otherwise it's pointless. Without that all you'll see is more jobs leaving North America, going to Asia and NO net reductions in carbon would be realized. The important leaders of the world (Obama included) have no intention in signing lopsided idiocy like what was tabled at Copenhagen and EVERYONE with even a PINCH of brains knew. The EU knew it, which gave them a free ticket to act like they cared and so they could agree to sign a treaty that would never actually be ratified. This is all smoke and mirrors and I'm suprised by how many people are falling for it.

He doesn't need two homes. Nobody does. Suzuki preaches about lowering our carbon footprint and not consuming as much as we do, yet he lives in two different places. Quadra is a quaint and very pretty island, so I get it, but it still is something to nitpick an environmentalist when they are living and commuting to and from several different residences.

Good riddance to Copenhagen indeed. It was obvious from the beginning that nothing was going to happen. Half the countries that DID say they'd agree to a legally binding treaty did so knowing that the US and many others wouldn't sign it. It was an absolute joke of a treaty proposal.

I work for a bank and this is a VERY responsible move on the government's part. There's already strong signals pointing towards a housing bubble collapse in Canada. How many jobs did we lose this year? How much have housing prices STILL gone up? Pretty stupid if you ask me. There are thousands upon thousands of Canadians out there getting mortgages who have no business owning a home and who are a couple weeks of layoffs away from defaulting at any time.

I'm not really arguing the morality of any of this, because clearly I can't. The hypocrisy in the West, however, runs SO SO SO much further than this and we seem to pick and chose when and where we get morally outraged.

Is it bad that I don't really care about this? I wouldn't care if it was under the Liberals, the NDP or the Bloc for that matter. I haven't heard ANYONE outside of this forum talk about this either. I doubt it's going to really become much of an issue to be honest, as terrible as that sounds.

Bill I normally agree with most of your posts but if we took the emotion out of everything then there wouldn't be anything worth discussing here.

and be made Governor General

Value. There's nothing magical about it. Lowering taxes is an investment. It's almost like investing in an RSP. You lower your income in the SHORT term but the money that you put in potentially grows. Lowering taxes encourages investment. As far as taxation goes, the idea is that while you might lower income for the next couple of years, lower taxes will in the future encourage a larger tax base and thus higher revenue. It's certainly not a simple equation in that y-z=x as there are tons of different things to consider but there is merit to it. Don't be dumb. The use of natural resources are fundamental to any economy. They're there to be used. You can't 'audit' our economy and then subtract from its growth the depletion of our resources. That wouldn't make sense.

Such an audit wouldn't help you prove your point. Your logic, as usual, is totally borked. We were talking about taxes. There is AMPLE history of economies growing as taxes decrease. As far as I know there's no history of them growing when taxes decrease. The depletion of natural resources really has nothing to do with the equation. Reagen's country is not even close to insolvent. They'll have to print money and reduce spending drastically but the problem is due to a GREAT number of factors. Tax rates had NOTHING to do with the sub-prime fiasco nor with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The situation in the USA can be blamed on everyone, rights and lefts included. The ignorance and stupidity of the masses and the arrogance of the rich both combined to create a truly impressive debacle.