G Huxley

A few months ago I just googled her name and google text prediction provided 'Rona Ambrose Salary' a few million isn't bad for being Harper's shill: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/01/19/mp-pension-most-expensive-stephen-harper_n_1216677.html She's also among the top for government travel bills: http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/canadian-politics/taxpayers-spent-2-2-million-flying-mps-spouses-across-canada-last-year-expense-report-shows Top-10 amounts spent on travel for designated traveller (2012-13)Rona Ambrose (Conservative, Alberta): $45,476.45

Ambrose had plenty of time to prove herself in Harper's cabinet and she showed how she was willing to say anything Harper wanted her to say for a considerable sum.

A lesser variant of the Kim Campbell treatment.

It seems that Ambrose got the Kim Campbell treatment. No one wanted to take the fall, so they put her as the fall person.

The very base.

Ambrose was one of the worst and highest paid of Harper's shills.

Looks like a nice appointment. I especially like this part: "Dion won’t have a lot of time to get comfortable. A number of high-profile international summits — including climate talks in Paris, a G20 meeting in Turkey, and a Pacific nations summit in the Philippines — loom large in the coming months." http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2015/11/04/dion-tasked-with-resetting-canadas-international-image.html I think Dion is the logical choice for a new Kyoto.

We are out of options. The population must be reduced.

If the NDP are going to claim they are democratic they need to demonstrate it by showing democratic tendencies and intentions. Sidelining other parties from the debate process shows that they are not truly democratic. In fact talking to NDP campaigners this election was interesting. Some even admitted that they aren't democratic. Well OK never expect to get my vote in my lifetime and don't expect to draw many others. The Liberals although I didn't vote for them either, to their credit were the only of the main parties that actually showed integrity towards democracy in this election and they won in a landslide, a good sign that the majority of Canadians still believe in democracy.

Democracy means all leadership candidates from the parties are on the table and the voter decides after seeing a fair even representation of the options.

We're talking about DEMOCRACY not a business. You clearly don't understand the meaning of the word democracy like Mulcair or Harper.

Not it's a HUGE CRIME. It is anti-democratic. It is a complete affront to Democracy in Canada. It is also the polar opposite of what the NDP claims to be. (democratic)

His anti-democratic move was to not participate in the normal debates so that other parties would be sidelined as a result of those debates being called off.

For everyone until humanity drastically reduces it's population.

Mulcair is a disgrace to the party for his smarmy anti-democratic stance/tactics this election. At least Layton had the sense to backtrack when he tried to do the same thing initially.

"1) Technically I'm not vegan." Vegetarian? 2) If the world was vegan, over population wouldn't be as much of a problem. It would still be a problem. 3) Western countries do not have an overpopulation problem, so even if we all had 1 to 3 kids, it wouldn't be problematic for the earth. Western countries do have an overpopulation problem. This is clear from the species we have decimated and the environments we have destroyed from the buffalo formerly roaming the plains to the massive agricultural run off from the Mississippi into the Gulf of Mexico and the massive dead zone it has caused to the Pacific gyre and the Amazon which is being decimated to supply Northern markets with beef and soy beans. 4) Do you think it's hypocritical to eat meat and be a member of the Green Party? I often think of the paradox all the time. It depends. Mcdonalds yes. Sustainably fished wild salmon, and deer on the other hand would still be green. There are many hypocrites who vote green.

"You seem to of the mind that if only everyone was peaceful, we would have peace. Quite true." Thanks I am glad you came to the same conclusion. "But that's not the world we live in, if we are peaceful that does nothing to stop those that are not. However armed opposition to the forces of oppression and tyranny does produce a much better, more peaceful world. We are much better off because of warfare against Germany, and proxy warfare + military buildup against the Soviet Union." It would be better again if Germany had not engaged in warfare at all. "That's why other societies need to be hawkish to prevent it. South Korean is free for only one reason - armed opposition to the North. If the South was peaceful back then, it would be ruled by Kim Jong Un today." It does not matter that evil dictators 'should' be peaceful. They are not. Given that reality, being peaceful ourselves does not bring more peace, it just encourages more aggression. "That's why other societies need to be hawkish to prevent it. South Korean is free for only one reason - armed opposition to the North. If the South was peaceful back then, it would be ruled by Kim Jong Un today." The UN wasn't being hawkish in defending SK, it was 'peacekeeping,' an expression virtually forgotten as a result of the neocons hawks. "It does not matter that evil dictators 'should' be peaceful. They are not. Given that reality, being peaceful ourselves does not bring more peace, it just encourages more aggression." And how are you different? Both you and the 'evil dictators' agree on hawkishness. Their mentality is not necessarily that different from your own.

BC_Chick even from a vegan perspective you should be for lowering the population.

Ageing people if they saved up money could live in another country like many do. What is better for old age than a bit of sun?

" That is an argument for a strong military, not again one. In this case acknowledging that we do not face threats because of the US." No it's the perfect example, because the 2nd world war was started by anti-peace hawks and ultimately it backfired on them and they became occupied. "Plenty of African countries had armed uprisings. But the greater point is that the imperial countries faced plenty of violent rebellion all over the place....making it less necessary for rebellion to happen by violence subsequently. That is still an example of force for the sake of freedom, ultimately making freedom easier for others. We gained freedom from the British because the British empire was declining and could not hold on anyway. But they didn't get that way by the magic of a circle of peace pipes. They were beaten back, starting with the Americans." There were multiple factors at work and the Americans were one of them, but after the 2nd World War there was also a major anti-imperialist sentiment which the Labour Party followed through to release the colonies. "The most obvious example of force vs not would be Korea. South Korea is a great place to live, and that was fought for. North Korea is probably the worst place on earth. If the military was not in Korea, the whole place would be like the North. Germany would killed far more people, and taken the UK if not for force from the allies. Communism would have put even more people into misery and poverty than it did, if not for a strong super-power opposition and proxy wars. The world is a better place for those interventions." Again North Korea were the anti-peace HAWKS, so again you show that hawkishness is wrong and makes societies miserable.

One word: Outsourcing.

Why not simply let the population decrease and do nature a big favour?

I am for the One Child per family policy.

"Time to learn the difference between and independent country and one with personal freedoms. The two are not related." It certainly wasn't the country of the Africans. Imperialism is a burden yes I agree.

Yeah an 'independent' apartheid state. "Proven false so many times, not the least of which is Nazi Germany. "Mostly because the British Labour government of the time made a conscious decision to divest itself of most of Britain's empire." So the British Labour government demonstrated peace. That's the idea.