Moonbox

While I'm not a huge Wal-Mart hater bought my milk there yesterday, what they did was absolutely illegal and against the best interest of everyone. If you think Wal-Mart is actually doing your community any good, you're sadly mistaken. You're never REALLY saving that much money shopping there. They undercut their competitors barely so as to keep their margins high enough to be one of the most profitable corps in the world. Wal-Marts don't create wealth for communities. It's a veritable siphon of wealth sending money down south and overseas to shareholders while employees working there don't even make enough money to live on. These low-wage employees are burdens on our social welfare and healthcare systems which, in the end, cost the average Canadian taxpayers more than they would if they were being paid fairly. Wal-Mart is a HUGE polarizer of wealth wherever it goes, and while I applaud their successes in supply-chain management and material cost-control, I'm disgusted by such blatent bullying.

Americans are even more ignorant than they are capitalist. It's completely laughable to even think that Canada is a SOCIALIST country. Americans like to frame and label things that are different to what they understand and declare them evil. There's a reason my family calls down south Jesus Land instead of the USA, because their political beliefs are about as well-founded as Catholic dogma. Sure, Canada may lean more towards socialism than the USA, but it's still one of the most capitalistic countries out there.

Your economic theory isn't very sound. Having kids costs money. Agreed. Why are things so much more expensive now though? Because women everywhere in the world work now and Canadian women have to as well to remain competitive. Yes, this means daycare and more expensive housing etc, but is it the fault of immigration? Not really, it's just a changing economic paradigm. Canada, being a first world nation, is actually BETTER equipped for large families than most other places in the world. Canadians simply don't want to have kids because they'd rather spend their money on vacations, useless SUV's, big-screen tv's and houses they can barely afford. Without immigration our population would shrink, and the workforce wouldn't be able to sustain the economy. Read up on Liberal immigration policy first. What the conservatives are trying to do is get and keep SKILLED immigrants. They are also trying to push through legislation to allow ministers to more quickly process QUALIFIED, LITERATE AND SKILLED immigrant applications rather than a first come first serve policy that the Liberals support. Liberal immigration policy is about as lax as it can get. It's no secret why Toronto and Vancouver are liberal strongholds. It's because the populations there are largely asian immigrants and the Liberals pander to them. This is FACT. How could you possibly argue against bringing skilled and qualified immigrants into Canada ahead of unskilled beggars unless you were pandering to the immigrant population?????

I live in Guelph and try to follow even the bi-elections fairly close. I'm finding that people don't really seem to care about it. Voter turnout I anticipate will be really low. One thing that I find funny, however, is that there are people going around town destroying CPC signs everywhere, as if for some reason that would sway everything. Guelph does have a very strong CPC constituency, but it is one of the fastest growing cities in Canada (on a per capita basis) and is quickly becoming another satellite commute of Toronto. The LPC has basically dominated here federally for the last 15+ years and will probably do so again. Even with the loss of long term MP Brenda Chamberlain, I don't think Kovach has a chance here, although i will be voting for her anyways. Urban Ontario will continue to vote Liberal, while smaller communities will continue to vote Conservative.

Quote your source if your going to start using specific numbers. As far as breaking them down, the Liberals have less support in Quebec than the Conservatives do. The Liberals cannot be elected without Quebec. They've never been able to. Ontario has favored the Liberals forever, and that's only because the GTA contains over 50% of Ontario's voters and the Liberals have always pandered to it's gigantic immigrant population. Aside from the GTA and Vancouver, Liberal support is nothing remarkable. What I really find interesting, however, is that the minor parties on the left command 3/10 voters. That helps the Conservatives. The left typically never votes Blue anyways, and the more support the minor parties get on the left, the worse off the Liberals are. Harper is no fool, you're right. He knows things could not look much better for an election.

Harper is hoping to call an election because Dion has proven himself to be a completely inneffectual leader. Even supporters of the Liberal party don't believe in him. Dion has absolutely zero charisma and won't be able to convinece Canadians of anything. He's been threatening an election all year, but all that's for show. He has to show his supporters he's doing SOMETHING even though he knows he can't. Canadians laugh at him, his party is broke, and nobody wants ANYTHING to do with his retarded carbon tax plan. I don't think the Liberals could have made things any easier for the Conservatives in a fall election.

It's because Canadians don't have enough babies. That's about all there is to it. Think about that for a few seconds............. There...you're 0.05% less retarded now. The Liberal Party is the immigrant party these days. There is a reason the liberals garner the VAST majority of their support from large urban areas in Canada. It's because they are largely immigrant communities now and the Liberals have made it VERY easy for immigrants and their entire extended families move to Canada.