Bryan

Teachers. Right. They would say that, wouldn't they? I'm sure they do love how grossly overpaid they are, and how the NDP has lit huge piles of money on fire without regard to outcomes. Our education system has really gone downhill in the last 10 years. It's not just less than optimal, it's really bad.

Your "contacts" are wrong. Our public education here is utter garbage.

That is actually a really good idea. I wish they would do that in Manitoba.

Kids will bully ANYONE if they are allowed to. Sexuality has nothing to do with it. The wrong hair or clothes, listen to the wrong music, etc. You can't pick out one thing at a time. The eventual list will be far too long, and the resources to deal with them all will take away from real education. No bullying policies are a very good idea. Using it as an excuse to promote special interests is a very bad idea.

Promotion of the gay agenda has no place in public education. Good on Alberta for standing their ground against left-wing indoctrination.

Sad to see him go. Jim was one of the classiest MPs in parliament. Brought honor to the position. The best finance minister this country has ever had by a very wide margin. That he was able to do so much under the conditions he had to do them was absolutely remarkable. Others will look to emulate his economic management for generations to come.

I have not seen a single one of those on this site.

There are a few on this board who seldom argue based on actual policy. What they are actually opposed to is the colour blue, and the letter "C". Blue says or does it = bad, Red or Orange says or does it = good is as deep as the thought process gets.

If it's not the ID, which changes do you actually question then? The closest thing to a legitimate disagreement that I've seen is over which building an investigator's office should be located.

Cash grab is the true motivation for most ticketed offences. Safety may be a factor, but generally isn't.

I understand that you really like to spend other people's money. You want that stuff, YOU pay for it. It's not the government's job to indoctrinate children into their specific brand of social engineering. Culture is a real thing you get from your family and peer groups, not something you get taught by the government.

There's only one reason anyone would be opposed to ID requirements: they INTEND to commit fraud and are concerned they might not get away with it.

The only thing that is lame is your goofy left-wing partisan spin. No one is being disenfranchised. Everyone has the right same rights to vote, and an incredibly generous 39 ways to show that they are eligible.

That why we need these new regulations, so that we can START gathering the evidence. With rules in place to catch fraud, we'll finally know when people try to do it. The way it is now, we'll never know.

All of the social engineering stuff related to bilingualism, multiculturalism, sexuality, etc. The only buffoonery in this thread is coming from you.

Not "now", that's always been one of the biggest problems, and it's been mentioned several times in this thread. We have no mechanism in place to prevent or track fraud. That absolutely is a reason why we need to start.

People think it works that way, because that IS how it actually works in practice. How you wish it would work isn't relevant.

That's similar here too. The places with the highest home values are often the places with the least public transit. I think you have the relationship backwards though. People who are most likely to take public transportation are least likely to afford to live in those areas. It's not keeping transit people out so much as it is people who live in those suburbs don't use transit so why waste money building it out there?

Both the party and the candidate's names are on the ballot. Different people cast their votes for different reasons. If you think people don't vote for the party, YOU don't understand our electoral system. The number of seats for the party you want is the only thing that really matters. The names attached to most of those seats is almost irrelevant.

The population of Alaska is not majority Russian openly campaigning to join Russia and actively seeking Russia's help to protect them from the US.

And we've had that happen on several occasions, including our previous PM. It often is followed by a large drop in support in the next election. Kim Campbell was soundly defeated, Paul Martin was reduced to a minority, then defeated. YOU don't, most people do.

That too. I'm extremely jealous of people that learn to be efficient in multiple languages. I've been trying to learn Spanish for five years now, and it's very frustrating. I can order food, ask a few simple questions when shopping, but not much else. I'm screwed if someone actually wants a serious conversation.

We already pay far too much in taxes. The continual rise in taxes especially must stop. Education taxes are the most insidious, because they can always use excuses like yours to brow-beat people into digging deeper. If anything, it's time to start cutting those taxes. The real solution is for school divisions to allocate the tremendous amount of funding they already get in a more efficient manner. Stop with programs that don't actually facilitate functional education, stop paying executives so much, stop spending so much on infrastructure, adjust catchment lines to even out enrolments instead of just building new schools while closing others.

No one is talking about not having public education. We already have high quality public education that we already pay a tremendous amount of money to maintain.

They already are paying for it handsomely. What you're talking about is the exact opposite of democracy, it's extortion.