salamander

Nope. Neither have the Conservatives ever tried to take money away from other parties.

Why is white the opposite of multicultural? French, German, Italian, Polish, not to mention British, they're all white, but also of different cultures. Many rural areas attract people from predominantly one area over others so you get pockets of one ancestry over another. Also, one need not live near other cultures to have exposure to and experience with other cultures. One can travel, or have lived in another part of the world and have been immersed fully in other cultures but now reside in such places as you describe. Lastly, such areas as you describe pretty overwhelmingly vote Conservative, don't they, so why do you care?

What makes more sense: that a bunch of trained people at Elections Canada screwed up the way they calculate hundred-thousand-dollar rebates, or that the most partisan government we've had in decades is just flinging faeces and seeing what sticks? But a judge will decide, and either the Conservatives will win, or they'll assail the judge for being a Liberal plant and appeal.

Martin was flirting with majority territory in polling in '06, but we all know how that election turned out. And as has been noted in this thread, Harper unilaterally called the last one and we also know how that one turned out. Why does everyone think people hate voting so much they'll punish those who make them do it?

If the Conservatives would put a tenth the effort into actually governing as they do into finding ways to stick it to the Liberals, they'd probably have a majority already.

So you admit that's what the Harper Conservatives are doing? Self-destructing and bringing down Canada? It's all well and good for an opposition party to boldly put forward good ideas for the salvation of the country, but the Government will either poke it full of holes, ridicule it, bury it, or steal it. And the best that the opposition can hope for if it's a really good idea is the last option, and then they get no credit, so where's the motivation?

Like he did after he lost the leadership to Dion? No, he stuck around after that. Then he must have split the day after the last election when the Liberals had their butts handed to them. But no, he stuck around after that too. For a guy who supposedly will leave at any setback, he sure does stick around.

Me, I can't wait for the next election. I've voted in a handful, only a couple of times Liberal, and none of those times with any real conviction. Chretien was a very capable PM, and Canada did well under him, but he wasn't very inspiring. I want to exercise my franchise because not only is it my right, not only is it my civic duty, but it is my passion. I may have been that rare youth who actually was interested in politics and tried to keep up. I want to see if Ignatieff is made of the right stuff, if he's got some good ideas, if he's really been spending his summer hammering out some big platform and has been holding it close to his chest. I want to see if I can vote Liberal and really mean it. I want to see Ignatieff and Harper go at it one-on-one in the debate and see if something exciting happens. See if one of them blows the other out of the water or if they just lock horns and shove each other around. I want to see some decisive judgement of Ignatieff and more so of Harper. I don't want another Conservative minority. He's had two kicks at that can. Either give him a majority and let's see what he's been keeping in reserve, or kick him out of the PMO so we can get the next guy into the leadership of the Conservatives and see who he is and what he does (or she). If it's a Liberal minority, I hope it's big enough that the NDP alone wield the balance of power and I hope Jack can grow up a bit and realise he'll never be PM and might as well work with what he's got.