Wayne McQ.

Oh please Heinz is not going under, they are just moving their manufacturing to another location. How immature of McDonalds to decide to stop using Heinz Ketchup just because Warren Buffet now owns Burger King. A & W also uses Heinz Ketchup, but they didn't have a childish temper tantrum and announce to the world they are going to start using inferior ketchup, when everyone know Heinz is the best, Period! IT's thicker, richer and generally better tasting especially with fries. I once purchased Campbell's Tomato Juice in the US, because I like Tomato Juice with beer, but Campbell's is not and never will be able to compare with Heinz for consistency and quality, therefore, I will no longer be stopping at the Golden Arches for any food products!

This is the end result of pure corporate greed, thousands unemployed, while the corporate executives and their bought and sold politicians make out like bandits all the way to the bank, or the nearest offshore tax-haven.

Not in this lifetime, as all countries look after their veterans, as they unlike people like yourself were willing to put their lives on the line for this country, while obviously you are a coward. As the NDP has stated, "If the Conservatives are unwilling to look after injured military veterans, then stop producing them, and don't send any into harm's way. " I was always of the belief that before politicians should be permitted to order soldiers into battle, they should first have been required to serve in active infantry battalions, so they know what they are asking of these soldiers.

Anyone in Canada that thinks that striking theri wives is okay has no place in Canada! Women are not chattel, women are not property to be ordered around like virtual slaves, WOMEN in Canada are EQUALS to and man, and should be treated as such. Any immigrant male who treats his wife in such a manner should be immediately deported, while their wives and children should be given permission to stay and become citizens, as they have a right to be free thinking human beings.

The reality is that our whole society is out of whack when we pay Business Graduates and lawyers more than medical professionals or teachers. It doesn't take a very intelligent individual to become either a lawyer of a graduate with a MBA, so why are they being so favourablly treated in our society when they contribute so little? We have even allowed these MBA and lawyers to creep into the hierarchy of government and the senior ranks of public services, while we are eliminating the jobs of the front-line civil servants to make way for more MBA's, this is crazy. In education without teachers the children are graduating without the skills necessary to be successful in life. ON the advice of these bean-counting MBAs we are eliminating teaching positions by socially promoting children through the education system even though they do not have adequate skills to go on to the next level, and we wind up graduating kids with a diploma not worth the paper it is printed on, it ends up in many instances of being little more that a certificate of completion for crayon class. Maybe instead of wasting all of this money on hiring lawyers and MBA, we should instead be spending money for professionals in those areas, as that would make much more sense.

Let's turn this around. While I don't condone her ignorant comments and would never vote for her, I'm happy she let us all know what a bigot she is before we go to the polls. As for feeling offended, hurt , and prejugdiced against I'm wondering how the English speaking people in Quebec feel when the province has actually passed legislation that virtually makes the English language illegal, yet Ottawa and the ROC sits by and does absolutely nothing to stop this discrimination. Canada is supposedly a bilingual country yet Quebec and parts of NB gets to opt out, talk about injustice! NB is basically bankrupt, the English and many French speaking NBers are packing up and leaving yet they are still wasting $Millions on the failed concept of bilingualism, because in NB the Francophones no longer wants just bilingualism, they want duality throughout the whole of NB.

Why would the Harper Conservatives sell ACL to SNC-Lavilin, a corporation presently in the midst of an international corruption scandal?

Are you really naive enough to think that enabling addicts to stay high is helping the peoblem? We have Mayors and former Mayors from BC running around telling us all that Marijuana should be legalied, becuase of the gang violence between the competing gangs for a share of the drug profits. THey are naive enough to believe that legalizing marijuena will somehow eliminate the violence concerning illegal drugs. I'm here to tell you that this is just stupid thinking, because the same people that are selling pot are the same people that are trafficking in Meth,Heroine, Cocaine, Crack-Cocaine Ecstasy as well as a mariad of prescription drugs, and they have no intentions of giving up this easy source of income.

I have to disagree on privatizing Canada Post, because the one reason for privatization is to allow a private corporation to make a profit, that's the name of the game, and there is no way that regular service to rural and remote areas will continue on a daily basis. In fact it wouldn't be very long before the contractor would be demanding additional compensation in order to just maintain existing services, as well as postal rates going through the roof. When businesses are required to pay higher postal rates, guess who will be paying the biil, the consumers as usual. I say that because CN once owned Marine Atlantic which serviced NS to NL, and NB to NS, and NS and Bar Harbour, ME. I have lost count of how many times they have threatened to pull service from a vital transportation links between Saint John, NB and Digby, NS, unless the provincial and federal governments gave them money. They wanted the job, but they only want it on their terms. If they aren't happy they use blackmail to get additional taxpayer dollars. I can foresee any corporate entity that takes over Canada Post doing the exact same thing to protect their profits. That aside, I have a problem with a private, for-profit corporation handling sensitive personal mail, and wanting to do it, "on the cheap," to increase profits. Don't tell me that we won't end up with minimum wage employees with sometimes questionable backgrounds, including criminal records, because we will.

Right on! We should also put an end to immigrants bringing in family members who are seniors, unless these immigrants are willing to post a bond large enough to provide for all costs of care including the full costs of health care. Pensions should also not be made available to senior immigrants unless they have worked and paid taxes in this country for a minimum of 10 years.

Are you for real? The police arrest perpetrators, (habitual criminals), and then it is then supposed to be up to our joke of a justice system to put these people on trial. Unfortunately the Crown prosecutors being the lazy bunch that they are, enters into pleas that basically allows criminals to plead to lesser charges. Once it gets to our appointed, and unaccountable judiciary they also allows this joke to take place. In the end, they are sentenced to incarceration, it is often no where near long enough, considering the crime committed. Once in jail they become eligible for parole, (also a system comprised of appointees who are not accountable to society), and before we know it, the criminal is right back on the streets committing more crimes. Our once appropriate justice system has been gutted by successive Liberal governments, with the help of their socialist friends in the NDP, who seem have this naive idea that there are no bad people in Canada, so why the need for prisons? Very likely why they are arguing against spending any money on prisons. Their idea seems to be that criminals are going to get out of prison at some point anyway, so why put them there in the first place. Instead just send them to programs lobbied for by organizations like the John Howard Society, & Elizabeth Fry who make money from these useless programs.

You basically answered your own question regarding the bizarre motives that drives Iggy, and the Liberal Party of Canada, and lets not forget the NDP, The Greens or that group of separatists from that other country, Quebec. All seem to be against anything the Conservatives suggest. My wish is that the clowns in the opposition would get to work for a change and instead of spending all of their waking hours looking for ghosts in closets. We pay these clowns to move legislation forward that will improve the safety and security, as well as the welfare of Canadians. We don't pay them to act like kindergarten children, insulting, catcalling and shouting down anyone who doesn't agree with their socialist agenda. Just get to work for a change, or resign and go find a job in the real world, the private sector. Were they to act this childish in the private sector, they would be fired before the first day was over. Grow up people, and do the jobs you are being paid to do!

Any law that basically makes a woman property of the husband as Sharia Law is intended to do, has no place in Canada or in any other civilized country. If Muslims want this type of law, I suggest they climb back on that plane or carpet, and fly the hell back to whatever backward country they came from. Canada should have one law for everyone, and if cultures from other parts of the world don't like that they can always leave, nobody is begging them to stay.

I believe that the single source contract was entered into because in effect there is ONLY one contractor that meets the specification requirements for the newest generation of stealth fighter jets, and all others have decided to bow out of research and development or have put their expertise into development of this particular aircraft, including Canada's aerospace industry who has already benefited from the research and development. All other NATO participants are signed on for this particular aircraft so it would make sense for Canada to have the same aircraft and access to the same parts when required. Or are we looking at another Chretien deal where the contract ends up being cancelled costing the people of Canada hundreds of millions of dollars in cancellation fees and then have the same government contract with the same firm to build similar helicopters at twice the money as was originally contracted and get inferior aircraft? Let's also not forget about the submarines that Jean Chretien bought for our navy, and in which one brave Officer was killed and several others injured during an on-board fire before the subs even made it back to a Canadian port. By the way, are any of them even seaworthy yet? The Liberals simply put, have no credibility whatsoever when it comes to anything military, and for that matter neither do the NDP or the Bloc-heads. Given their druthers, Canada would have no military.

This is a red-herring perpetrated by the Liberals to make gullible people think that something is really wrong with this contract, and the reality is that only one aerospace company makes this 5th generation of aircraft, and the rest bowed out. It is also a reality that we as a nation are part and parcel of NATO, and everyone of our partner's in NATO has already placed orders for this newest tactical fighter jet. I'm also very sure that were the Liberal to gain power the first thing they would do is similar to what bonehead Chretien did with the helicopter contract that was signed by the Conservatives prior to Chretien taking office, he would cancel it and pay $Millions if cancellation penalties and then turn around and down the road order virtually the same helicopters only at a much higher price. When are people going to learn that Liberals count on gullible stupid people to believe whatever it is they say, but smart informed people have come to realize that Liberals by nature or incompetent pathological liars and frauds. I'm sure that under our agreements with NATO we are required to have up-to-date technology to contribute as our share of the missions and these aircraft since they are the same as those of other NATO countries, parts would be interchangeable amongst the member nations for these aircraft, and thus make maintenance costs considerably less than maintaining supplies on a different aircraft. It makes little sense to send Cessna aircraft into combat with supersonic fighter jets, but then the Liberals have never been known to want to spend money to properly equip our armed forces. I remember when Chretien sent out troops to Afghanistan with virtual targets painted on their body's by sending them into a desert combat zone in olive-drab camoflage gear, and then making a feeble excuse as to why the proper uniforms were not provided prior to being assigned. I also won't forget the bargain basement moth-balled submarines that Chretien purchased and in which a brave Officer and fellow submariners were injured in a fire aboard these useless vessels. Not sure, but I don't remember reading if any of the 6 have ever been certified as seaworthy.

Sadly the sheeplies in Ontario have no recourse to paying this tax transfer from the corporate sector to consumers. We in BC at least have Recall legislation to make our politicians accountable to the people. Sadly still is that the corporation who will benefit from this tax transfer do not keep their money in Canada where they will ever have to pay their due, but instead they operate off-shore where they can be assured that the governments of the West cannot hold them accountable for taxes due. These corporate welfare bums have politicians who are bought and paid for so that they can transfer their manufacturing operations to Third World countries and have been allowed to avoid paying their fair share of of the social safety nets for those countries who have lost those manufacturing jobs. That has to change if we are to survive with livable wages and benefits to support our own people.

Sadly there is little difference between any of the political parties presently in Canada since they are all following a strict corporate agenda, and as far as I'm concerned the Bloc-heads should not even be allowed to occupy seats in the Parlaiment of Canada since they seem to have no loyalty towards Canada except the transfer payments their province receives from the taxpayers of Canada. We need to have politicians whose goal it is to represent the wishes of the electorate not those of their corporate masters, but I fear that if they were to start doing he jobs that the electorate are paying them to do, they might lose the lucrative brown envelopes with the bribe money corporations and their lobbyists are so eager to pass around. I am beginning to understand at 63 years of age that politicians by nature are pathological liars and many of them just happen to be lawyers. If we think of lawyers, and consider the fact that appointed and unaccountable judges are in fact lawyers, is there any wonder why our judges are timid in finding criminal fault with any politician, and instead they find fault with petty bureaucrats instead? God forbid our elected politicians be held accountable for criminal acts of fraud and misappropriation of taxpayer's money!

My thinking is that Harper is right when he says that losers don't get to form coalitions. If the Tories repeats as the party who gains the most seats as it has with the past elections, it is up to them to endeavor to form a coalition with opposition parties. The last time a coalition was suggested by Stephane Dion it was basically to ignore the will of the people by ignoring the party (Tories) who gained the most seats of any other party and instead form a coalition that contains no members of the party who was rightfully elected to form the government. What they were proposing was not a coalition, nor was it democratic without the inclusion of the Conservatives who were elected with the most number of seats. This suggestion was made because Dion desperately wanted to be PM and would have done anything to achieve tat goal, but he knew or should have been smart enough to realize that the people of Canada neither trusted him and the Liberals, nor did they want him as PM. Obviously Canadians also did not trust the NDP after what Bob Rae did to Ontario when he was the Premier of Ontario. As for the Bloc-heads, they represent nobody except Quebec and their separatist ways, and should have never been considered as a partner in any coalition government. Aside from the fact that it was the Conservatives who were elected and it was up to them to form a coalition so that they could govern with a majority, instead of spending all this time with MP's of other parties especially Liberal who were furious with the people of Canada that they were finally found to be incompetents and liars.

I read a very interesting book written by former Liberal Paul Hellyer called; "The Evil Empire." This book outlines how money is created out of nothing but air. At one time banks had to keep a reserve of the money they had on deposit but that was done away with and now the money you borrow from bank for mortgages, cars and other commodities is basically just virtual money that in reality does not even exist. Banks can loan out whatever they want in the form of loans and they do not have to have that money on deposit in order to do that, and they charge you interest on money they do not possess to loan out. Paul states that if everyone demanded the cash that is supposedly held by their banks on deposit in savings, chequing, and investment accounts, the bank would have to lock their doors because they do not have the money to cover those deposits, as they have loaned that money out multiple time over, and the government has allowed them to do this. When you apply for a car loan for instance, the bank will either make an electronic transfer to the dealership or give you a bank draft sating an amount of the purchase. In both cases real money is not exchanged, instead it is virtual money and on that virtual money the bank charges you interest on money they don't really possess. The book is a real eye-opener about our banking system, and it is scary how much control corporations have over all of our lives.

I lived in NB when the HST was brought in by Liberal Premier Frank McKenna, and Frank told the very same lies that both Dalton McGuinty of Ontario and Gordon Campbell of British Columbia is telling their citizens, that the HST would create investments, it would create jobs, and the biggest fairytale of all, prices to consumers would go down to reflect the savings the corporations would have because they would pass along those savings to consumers....ALL LIES, never happened in NB, NS, OR NL, and won't happen in ON or BC either. Jobs continued to be outsourced to foreign shores, corporations pocketed their savings as a result of this tax shift and still continued to hold out their hands for taxpayers money whenever they wanted to modernize their plants, but no new jobs were created. If any people think that politicians are there to serve the people, they are absolutely wrong. Politicians are there to carry out an agenda developed and lobbied for by their corporate masters. The only way we are going to be able to wrestle Canada back from the control of the corporations is to change how we elect our politicians. They need to be made accountable immediately whenever they lie, and not wait until the next election. Deals they put in place that are not in the best interests of the people are often far to expensive to reverse, and that needs to change, by recall legislation and not like we have here in BC that is virtually impossible to work. Right now in BC we are trying to force the government into either holding a referendum or repealing the legislation to implement the HST, but that will require obtaining the signatures of 10% of registered voters in each of the riding's. The procedure to recall a politician is even more onerous, and needs to be changed in such a manner is that it is workable. For far too long we have allowed our politicians to lie and steal from the public purse and then go unpunished, and that needs to change.

The Greens are little more than the NDP on steroids. If you remember back, Elizabeth May was willing to give up her claim to fame to be involved in a coalition government with the NDP, BLOC-heads, and the Liberals if only they would name her a Senator. She would do anything to insure herself a place at the trough, with the other power-hungry pigs. Thank you very much, but I would never vote Green, nor would I ever vote Liberal again. Yes; I am ashamed to admit it, but I voted Liberal in the last provincial election in NB, and now that same Liberal government is attempting to sell the virtual sovereignty to the Hydro Quebec, a wholly owned crown corporation of the Government of Quebec. They have always called NB Little Quebec now the Liberal Premier, Shawn Graham is about to make that a reality, by selling crown owned NB Power to them, without a mandate from the people to do so which will give Quebec a virtual monopoly of electricity exports to the New England states, while blocking access to the distribution network for NS. & NL.

I was not a resident of BC long enough before the last election to vote, but I have to tell you as someone who originally came from NB where the HST was imposed, Gordon Campbell is a liar on two fronts. Jobs are not created with the introduction of the HST, in fact the number of jobs decreases, especially in the service industry which has never before been subject to PST. Secondly, prices won't go down because corporations will pass along their savings to consumers by lowering their prices to reflect the transfer of taxing responsibility to consumers from the corporations, as those saving will simply represent additional profits to be added to their bottom line of the corporations. The same line was fed to teh people in Atlantic Canada with the introduction of the HST, and it was not long before the people realized they had been lied to, but by then it was too late as the deal had already been signed. This is quite simply a wealth transfer from consumers to the corporations, as if they are not already reporting record profits. These self-serving politicians should be charged with election fraud the same as someone who writes cheques knowing full well there is no money in the account to cover the amount on the cheque. Somehow, we need to make these lying politicians accountable to the people. If that means putting these lying thieves behind bars, so be it. Gordon Campbell outright lied to the people and covered up the true financial picture of the province's finances in order to secure a victory, and that is no different than stealing from the people. In many senses it is far worse since he is stealing democracy from the people.

Your ignorance is showing through in your hate for anything Conservative, when the real thieves and liars in Canadian politics are and was the Liberals with their backroom deals to shovel taxpayer's money to their Liberal friendly advertising corporations during ADSCAM. Instead of sitting in caucus many of those in the Liberal Party should be wearing prison garb instead of tailor-made suits. Sadly a few minions were scapegoated while the people who really made those decisions skated. As for the deficit, this was not a Canadian made recessions but a world-wide recession, that regardless of what Iggy and the lying Liberals will tell you, they could not have done one thing about it that Harper hasn't already done. In fact, Canada is being praised for the decisions made by the Harper government that has allowed Canada to rebound faster than most countries around the world.

I agree, pack him and his family onto the first airline headed back to the Middle East. We have eough citizens of convenience already in this country and it is time to do away with duel-citizenship, and any family who supports terrorists should be sent back to the country of their heritage.