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But why only on foreignets? If it's a good idea for foreignets, then it's a good idea for Canadians too.

So if I understand correctly, we want to nail the Chinese but spare all the other ethnic groups.

They do. It's called property taxes. It's just like a Canadian buying US property. I would have raised the requirements even higher.

They do. It's called property taxes. It's just like a Canadian buying US property.

Sure, as long as we respect the Canadian value of the presumption of innocence and not engage in the barbaric cultural practice of the presumption of guilt through racial profiling.

That I could accept too.

My case might be a bit of an odd one. I'll probably be voting for my local NDP candidate because she has some good ideas to present to Parliament, but still hope the Minister of Finance will be conservative-leaning.

Among parties with seats in the house, maybe a Conservative-Liberal, Conservative-Green, or Conservative-NDP coalition, otherwise a Bloc-Green, Bloc-Liberal, or Bloc-NDP coalition.

Harper treated Ignatief like a traitor for having worked abroad. He has treated Mulcair in the same way for having dual citizenship. He wants to set up a ridiculous barbaric practices tip line as if 911 doesn't suffice. Now he's comparing banning the niqab across the public service. What's next?

They are also possibly the two most authoritarian parties too in wanting to dictate how people dress, etc.

A Conservative-Bloc coalition would actually concern me. They both present some good ideas, but they are also possibly the two most xenophobic parties in Canada.

A Libertarian-Bloc coalition would have good points of its own, especall with regard to decentralization to the provinces and replacing Federal official bilingualism nationwide with Federal official monolingualism at the provincial level.

If you could not get a majority Government, what would you consider to be your ideal coalition? As for myself, I would be leaning towards a Conservative-Libertarian government. I find the Libertarian Party to be too capitalist and the Conservative Party not enough. I also like the Libertarian Party's emphasis on civil liberties which would counterbalance Conservative xenophobia and excessive suppression of freedom in the fight against terrorism. A Libertarian-NDP or Libertarian-Green coalition might be my second-preferred choice due to the NDP's position on the debt and the Green Party's tendency towards user-pay taxation.

I'd like to see a statistical comparison of voters who vote for a party vs. those who vote for the best candidate. As an example, I can't imagine myself voting for Steven Harper, but I could imagine myself voting for a competent CPC candidate if my riding had one.

Now that I think about it, I might still vote for my BQ candidate. She does have some good ideas too, though in my riding everyone knows that strategically it's between the NDP and Liberal Parties.

Here's an example of how strategic voting and pro-rep can be problematic. My local NDP candidate has some very good ideas that she could present to Parliament (with my local Bloc candidate having shared some good policy ideas of he own too) while my local Liberal and Green candidates are mental midgets and my local CPC candidate does not even appear to have an e-mail address at which to contact him. However, though I'm leaning towards voting for my local NDP candidate, I worry about the NDP's apparent hostility towards free trade. So essentially I might be voting for my local NDP candidate while hoping that the Libertarian Party gets as many candidates in as possible, followed by the Bloc and then the PCP, followed by the Greens and then the NDP. As a party, the NDP ranks last on my list of preferred major parties, yet as a candidate, my local NDP candidate is ranking first right now. One advantage with FPTP is that it does in fact allow me to vote for a candidate instead of a party. How would pro rep allow this if it forces me to vote for a party instead of a candidate?

I now find myself in an odd position. Since my local NDP candidate has presented some really good ideas, I'm strongly leaning in her favour thinking that as a opposition MP she could introduce some of these ideas to Parliament. Yet while I might vote for her, I'd be doing so hoping that the NDP not win too many seats. Its opposition to free trade concern me.

What I do support though are fuel taxes and airport security taxes to make the air travelers pay for their own airport security. I could support a break-even exit and entrance fee for all at border crossings to cover the cost of border crossings. But the idea of charging foreigners only while exempting Candians sounds like fishing for a handout or a desire to be milked from the foreign tourist tit.

No. That money would go towards skills training for people who lose their jobs in the tourism industry as a result of this. Also, let's not forget reciprocity. We do that to others, their governments will likely reciprocate the deed.

Lawyers have a clear interest in voting CPC with the arrest-and-detain-without-proof, trial, and appeal culture that they so promote. I'm just wondering, when the court rules in my fiancée's favour yet again, will the CBSA appeal yet again? It certainly helps rich lawyers I suppose.

Now you're confusing elections. It was three Ontario provincial elections ago if I remember correctly.

The PC party's big mistake in Ontario was to promote equality under the law for all religious communities, and they paid the price at the polls. The Green Party of Ontario paid the same price for the same reason. The Liberal Party of Ontario was most adamant about defending the separate school system but only for Catholics and Protestants and were rewarded accordingly. The NDP which also passively supported the same by keeping mum on the matter was also rewarded for not challenging this discriminatory status quo.

There is more to a free market than just trade deals. Too much of the Canadian economy is overly regulated domestically too, including packaging and labeling, public media, and health care. While I'm very pro-trade and tend to lean CPC or preferably even Libertarian on that front, it's less predictable which party will support deregulation of cultural and linguistic industries except for the Libertarian Party. Outside of that party, it will tend to vary from candidate to candidate, sometimes varying with the party leader too.

I got an e-mail from my NDP candidate also supporting such deregulation, but less committal, not at the expense of English or French and only if her caucus supports it too. The Bloc candidate had no language requirement and was prepared to support it independently of her party if necessary. As for my CPC candidate, I'm not even sure he has an e-mail address. If I can't reach him during a campaign, how will I reach him as my MP?

The news media will add to the sample size. In the last year alone a Briton was deported for working in Canada without authorization for helping his Canadian girlfriend build her DIY patio. The CBSA has had problems with Akwesasne residents. More recently in the last month a CBSA Officer forcefully pulled a sickly elderly man out if his car for not complying with an order to get out of his car. Jimenez. Plenty of other examples.