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  2. Bob Rae to end bid for Liberal leadership: CTV

    in Federal Politics in Canada

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    That's what I was getting at though. Its not like living here can make you in touch with the entire country.

    Don't you think it's important that a Prime Minister prefer to live in our country over others?

    I'm shocked that the best the Greens can do are an American and that the Liberals can only find leaders from France and/or elsewhere.

    It's a PR problem more than anything, though it's not nearly as bad as it would be down south.

  5. Canadian Political Polls

    in Federal Politics in Canada

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    Today's COMPAS poll shows the Tories above 50%.

    COMPAS: CPC 51, LPC 20, NDP 10, BQ 8, GPC 6

    Canadians Call for New Election; Harper Would Win Big Majority, Sweep Seat-Rich Ontario and Overtake Liberals in Quebec

    A Canadian Business/COMPAS Poll

    Canadians Call for an Election

    Below are highlights from a new Canada-wide, COMPAS Research poll on the recent turmoil in the House of Commons. Permission is granted to publish or broadcast results provided COMPAS Inc. is appropriately cited.

    For comments or inquiries, please contact COMPAS President Conrad Winn at (416) 598-0310 or on his direct cell at (416) 460-5844.

    By a more than 2:1 margin, Canadians call for another election if the choice faced by the Governor-General were between inviting Stephane Dion to form a government and hold a fresh general election weeks after the most recent one. That is the key finding from a national representative poll completed December 4, 2008.

    If an election were held today, Stephen Harper would win a large majority based on nation-wide support of 51% compared to 20% for the Liberals, 10% for the NDP, 6% for the Greens, and 8% for the Bloc. Harper would sweep seat-rich Ontario with 53% of the vote compared to 24% for the Liberals and 10% for the NDP in that province and would surpass Dion in Quebec with 32% of the vote compared to 19% for the Liberals and 35% for the Bloc.

    Key factors in this lightening speed transformation of public opinion:

    * 66% of Canadians oppose the Bloc Quebecois having a say in who forms the government;

    * 48% have confidence in Stephen Harper as Prime Minister in the current economic climate compared to 14% for Michael Ignatieff in second place, 11% for NDP leader Jack Layton, 8% for Stephane Dion, 4% for Bob Rae, and 3% for Gilles Duceppe;

    * 58% believe that the Coalition's real or main motivation was a power grab while 28% perceive the Opposition as honestly believing that Harper is a poor manager of the economy;

    * 61% believe that the Liberals, following their drop in support in the October election, should not be trying to form a government.

    http://www.compas.ca/pages/FrameMain.html

  6. Dion to step down, reports say

    in Federal Politics in Canada

    Posted

    The part i heard from Harper was complete fear mongering... and apparently everyone ate that up.

    I am hoping Canadians aren't as stupid as i think they are at this particular point in time. A coalition may not be the answer... but don't make the mistake of giving Harper a majority government in the process.

    Elizabeth May, is that you?

  8. Coalition Destructing Already

    in Federal Politics in Canada

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    http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/f...r-pressure.aspx

    Word from the Liberal emergency caucus that is currently taking place:

    Ivison - “Is the coalition unravelling?”

    Liberal MP - “It’s coming apart at the seams.”

    http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/f...-take-long.aspx

    "Within an hour of Prime Minister Stephen Harper winning a two-month reprieve, some Grit MPs were pulling back from the idea of trying to replace the Tory regime with a Liberal-NDP coalition propped up by the Bloc Quebecois.

    Toronto MP Jim Karygiannis says the coalition idea is finished and is calling on Stephane Dion to resign the Liberal leadership sooner rather than later.

    ... Newfoundland MP Scott Simms says all MPs need to give their heads' a collective shake and get back in touch with what their constituents want them to do: fix the faltering economy."

    Karygiannis had a lot to say. Here's a transcript as reported by the Western Standard:

    "The coalition -- the way that we're going right now -- it won't survive. I can't see it surviving. We have somebody who can't communicate and someone who can't communicate, its hard, its very hard...

    "My French is limited. But I can tell you one thing: if I can communicate in English, I can communicate in English. If you can't communicate to the other 60 percent of the people when they listen to you -- and its a terrible speech and we bombed in the election. Well it says it right there, we bombed. We went from 96 seats to 76 seats...

    "I know the NDP are vicious, and vicious when it comes to electing people of Parliament... It's not that I have mistrust of the NDP, I just think we need a better communication's person. Our communication sucks, it was shown last night. What else is there to say?

    If you don't win the air war you don't don't get nowhere. If you don't have air support you can't win the ground war. We don't have ground support... and right now the air war, and the ads the Conservatives are going to throw at us, are going to be vicious."

  9. liberals demand Dion out NOW

    in Federal Politics in Canada

    Posted

    I am hearing on CTV Newsnet that liberals are starting to come out and demanding dion to quit now and not later. As well as a leadership race sooner rather then later.

    I caught some comments by Ignatieff on CPAC where he seemed to be on the defensive about comments made by a Liberal caucus member who apparently characterized the Liberal caucus as in conflict. However, I could not catch the name of the MP or the specifics.

    Anyone?

  11. Online petitions for and against the coalition

    in Federal Politics in Canada

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    130,000+ signatures on the anti-coalition petition with dozens being added by the second. How is that petition gaining so much traction? That's impressive. By far the most active on petitiononline.com as far as I can tell (it hasn't been updated since December 1st, but the most active at that point has only 40,000 or so signatures).

    On the pro-coalition petition, there are less than 20,000 signatures.

  16. Newspaper Endorsements

    in Federal Politics in Canada

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    Your point didn't have any amendments where you first made it. It was that 90% were employed by corporations. Period. Full stop. It wasn't true and when asked politely for evidence of that, you replied "sad." Then you said it wasn't the point and said you meant indirectly as well. Certainly that wasn't evidence from your glib reply that this is what you meant and even then you didn't show a link to how you came to that conclusion.

    I say around 80% of the workforce is employed by the private sector. Around 20% of the population is employed in the public sector. Those are the historical numbers in the last number of years. A citation was provided and that is when you decided to say you meant public sector people who are indirectly employed by the private sector. Give your head a shake. That would make it 100% then. C'mon, in for a penny in for a pound. All people are employed directly or indirectly for the private sector.

    I expect when confronted with numbers you don't wish to provide, you will say anything to justify what you said.

    If the moderator has not reminded you of the rules yet, I'm sure that will be coming. Use proper names as a measure of civility or risk whatever action that results from it.

    Actually, the number wasn't the point.

    And your babysitter did stop by, thanks dobby.

  17. Newspaper Endorsements

    in Federal Politics in Canada

    Posted

    Between 18% and 23% of Canadians have been employed by the public sector over the last 25 years years.

    You keep using corporations when surely mean private sector. Perhaps if you defined what you meant by corporation, it would help.

    And perhaps if you addressed the point, which you have apparently agreed to, it would help, dobster.

  19. Could it be true?

    in Federal Politics in Canada

    Posted

    CPC, Liberals and NDP all claim to be tough on one aspect of crime or another. But only CPC has a leader who's a social conservative. Given that the Liberals are stuck with the most ineffective leader in generations, that Harper ranks high on leadership, that the Green Shift has not been embraced by most Canadians, that Canada has one of the strongest economies in the world and best banking system in the world, you'd think that CPC would today win a majority. But I suspect CPC'll do no better than in 2006. Why? Canada will not hand over a majority to a social conservative even if that social conservative claims to no longer be a social conservative.

    I'd be happy to see a financial conservative as Prime Minister. CPC will need to find a leader who's a financial conservative, not a social conservative.

    Harper's increase in spending on the CBC as well as his overall increase in Arts spending in the past two years are not what one expects of a financial conservative. His trivial cuts to Arts spending in Quebec, his trivial cuts to programs which he opposes ideologically and his censorship-like Bill C-10 (withdrawn too late last week) are what one expects of a social conservative.

    The Bloq's rise in Quebec is due to Duceppe reminding Quebecers that Harper is a social conservative. In the next election, Dion's replacement as party leader will do the same in the rest of Canada.

    In what respects is Harper a social conservative?

  20. Warren Buffett Agrees with Harper

    in Federal Politics in Canada

    Posted

    I can understand attacks on Harper but Warren Buffett?

    Warren Buffet is a lifelong Democrat who has donated billions to charity and plans to continue to do so rather than leave a huge inheritance to his children, still lives in the modest home that he purchased in 1958 and complains about the fact that under George Bush, he pays proportionately less taxes than his receptionist:

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...7062700097.html

    Earlier this month when Buffett announced that he'd bought shares of General Electric, so did I in response. Following Buffett's investment strategies is a safe investment strategy.

    And while I have no use for a social conservative like Harper, Harper's suggestion of a buying opportunity was probably correct. It may have been politically incorrect to say so but that's another matter.

    Harper is a social conservative?

  21. Newspaper Endorsements

    in Federal Politics in Canada

    Posted

    Given that a corporation is the most common form of business, 90% seems reasonable unless someone can show that greater than 10% of the woprkforce are employed in the public sector.

    Well, I will concede that more than 10% are directly employed in the public sector, but MANY of those jobs would not exist but for corporations. Accordingly, at the very least I stand by the suggestion that 90% of people are emplyed, directly or indirectly, by corporations.

  23. Are CPP funds at risk?

    in Federal Politics in Canada

    Posted

    Didn't think so. I'm sure you will be upset if the Tories ever do put their plan through. You might want a few of those Liberal tax cuts then.

    I trust Stevie & Co. when it comes to putting cash back in my pocket without taking it out with the other hand. Oops, did I just violate forum rules again?

    Wonder how many times Harper will be allowed to lead with just a minority by his own party. He already says his government won't last. Do we say less than three months? I am doubtful on a coalition of the Opposition but does the Governor General go to an election through Christmas again?

    Hard to say. But I still think there's a very good shot at a majority here. If there isn't, I suspect the CPC will govern as if there was a majority. The LPC is bankrupt and in shambles, and there is no other alternative. A coalition is not possible, and even it if it were, it wouldn't last. People will come to their senes.

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