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Ok Good 14 is fine, but the prohibition on adults have sex with teen-agers should be extended to include all adults: Not just authority figures. Perhaps limit to authority figures at 16. No. Create a regulatory climate where drug dealing will have no place to exist. The punish is harsh, deals with violent criminals, and can be reversible in the case of false convictions. Works for me. Fine Fine Not bad. A lot more sane than those wackos in the GOP south of the border support. :-)

BC: The Conservatives are getting crushed here compared to their 2000 results, likely due to Campbell's unpopularity reflecting badly on right-wing politicians here in general. Both the Conservatives and Liberals will be pleased to see the eco-populist-libertarian-whatever Green party weakening the NDP the though, but many believe that Green supportters are very soft and may vote strategically. Alberta: I'm surpried to see the Conservatives at only 54%. That probably puts them in trouble in Edmonton. I'm expecting small Liberal gains here if these numbers hold. Sask/MB: While some argue that these NDP numbers are low, remember that both of these provinces have a very weak Liberal Party provincially, which has allowed the provincial NDP parties to take centrist/3rd Way positions on a number issues, thus attracting moderate voters who likely vote Liberal federally. ON: I'm surprised the Liberal numbers are still so high in Ontario. I suspect this will be different next week, to the boon of both the NDP and the Conservatives. A lot of McGuinty's left-leaning supporters provincially will punish the Liberals federally for the health care premiums, which may allow the NDP to get into 25% territorry. I would be very surprised to see the Conservatives below 32 - 33% Quebec: Many any argue that the CROP poll is more accurate than this one, but I really can't tell. The CROP poll has a larger sample size and more "reasonable" numbers for both the Liberals and the Bloc. (34 and 42 respectively) That being said, I'm a bit susipicous of the CROP poll, as it places the NDP at 15 and the Cons at 10. Either way, expect the Bloc to win in excess of 55 seats unless things improve significantly for the Liberals. Always remember though, that that there are at least 12 - 13 seats that the Bloc won't win no matter how obscenely well they may do in the popular vote. Atlantic: Harper's denigrating comments about Atlantic Canadians have hurt the Conservatives here, and unless Atlanatic Canadians come around or Harper finds a way to reach out to them and make ammends (which he's certainly intelligent enough to do, as much as I dislike his politics), expect embarrassingly low results for the Conservatives and possible losses for the NDP, whose gains may be offset by a Conservative Party bleeding away support to the Liberals. Godin and Alexa should win easily though.

The NDP, the Cons, and the Bloc (which gave me a lot more respect for them...Knowing they'd sacrifice seats in the name of a fairly proportioned government.) all support PR.

I disagree. The most important thing the Liberals and Conservatives must do to remain viable is to make Canadians believe that they are different (when they tried working together to take out the NDP in BC by instituting a preferential ballot, Liberal and Conservatives didn't buy it and voted Socred as a second choice, ensuring the Liberals and Conservatives decades of irrelevance in BC provincial politics) unless we are in times of war or other international emergency. To maintain this façade, Liberal insiders are more than willing to accept an NDP coalition as a temporary inconvenience. (Remembering that should they win a majority again, the Fibs can easily dismantle PR, go back to the old system, and still win the apolitical idiots who vote for the sake of voting demographic by a Fidel Castro or Saddam Hussein-like margin.) Conservative and Bloc won't happen though. Duceppe himself, a former Maoist, is considerably to the left of even Layton (while I jokingly refer to Layton as "le choix progressiste" and Duceppe as "le choix Maoiste", the BQ as a whole is not as far left as the NDP) and would not be able to work with Harper (and vice-versa). And should the Bloc attempt to depose Duceppe to get into a coalition, the Quebec sovereigntists will federally schism into social democratic and right-libertarian facations tied in someway to the PQ and to the ADQ respectively.

hehe... Vote yes... Imagine a country with no territorial lock-out, no laws against Peer to Peer, copyrights that actually expire as they were originally intended to, no private corporations spying on our bandwidth...

May be in trouble? Saying that the Fiberals got guillotined would be an understatement: HAMILTON EAST - HAMILTON-EST After the period prescribed by the Election Act, the official poll-by-poll results will be posted on this web site. Après la période prescrite par la Loi Électorale, les résultats officiels bureau par bureau seront affichés sur ce site Web. 187 POLLS OUT OF BUREAUX DE VOTE 187 Candidate/Candidat(e) Political Affiliation/Appartenance Politique Votes % AGOSTINO, RALPH ONTARIO LIBERAL PARTY PARTI LIBÉRAL DE L'ONTARIO 6362 26.6 CRUGNALE, TARA PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE PARTY OF ONTARIO PARTI PROGRESSISTE-CONSERVATEUR DE L'ONTARIO 1772 7.4 DARTSCH, RAYMOND GREEN PARTY OF ONTARIO PARTI VERT DE L'ONTARIO 448 1.9 HORWATH, ANDREA NEW DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF ONTARIO NOUVEAU PARTI DÉMOCRATIQUE DE L'ONTARIO 15185 63.6 TURMEL, JOHN C. INDEPENDENT INDÉPENDANTS 120 0.5 The Golden Horse Shoe's gonna be fun come June. :-)

Incidentally, a friend of mine has gone to that bar and told me that the owner did not have a problem with heterosexual couples kissing.

I can't wait for coalition governments to become the norm when electoral reform comes a-knocking.

Definitely Helene Scherrer: http://www.cbc.ca/arts/stories/scherrer20040413 Heritage Minister Hélène Scherrer is promising to fight to make online music swapping in Canada a crime. In an interview with the Globe and Mail, Scherrer said she intends to draft legislation in the coming days to make the use of file-sharing sites like Kazaa against the law. "We are going to make sure that downloading stays illegal. We will make it a priority so it is done as quickly as possible," Scherrer told the paper. I'd vote Bloc if I lived in that riding. (Or in Lasalle-Emard, for that matter...lol)

Well, Bush's brother is boinking Thai sluts provided by Jiang Zemin's son. Meanwhile, Chrétien and Clinton are likely playing golf with Chinese dignitaries.

I'm glad to see that the Conservative Party of Canada can count on your aptitude from political analysis.

This woman is as stupid and politically inastute as Kim Campbell: http://www.cbc.ca/arts/stories/scherrer20040413 Louis-Hébert has Bloc routes, and Scherrer will make sure the Bloc will reclaim it, espcially given the Liberal collapse in Quebec.

Bouchard joining the CPC? Where did that come about? Dumont is a good possibility, but Bouchard was quite red as Tories go when he was one.

Tibetan people will never be able to reclaim their rightful homeland as long as they are -- due to imperialist Beijing policy -- its monority. For that reason, all Han Chinese who settled in Tibet after the establishment of the People's Republic of China should be expelled, as they are nothing more than unlawful loiterers. Those who have lived there for generations and who were well-established in Tibetan society long before the invasion (likely very few, given how closed off Tibet was from the world) have every right to continue living there.

I'm a federalist and a social democrat from Central Canada and would vote BQ or CPC before voting Liberal. Ironically though, Harper is the only party leader born in Toronto. That being said, I really don't think having all 4 relevant parties led by people originally from Ontario and Quebec is very fair to Canadians in general.