Bryan

No because they have directly targeted the Conservatives for things ALL parties were doing, turned disagreements over what the regulations require into media circuses, changed rules and retroactively went after people who were following the rules as they were written at the time, and because they ordered people to lie on their expense claims (threatening to have them expelled from Parliament if they didn't).

You must not travel much. That's standard procedure in many countries.

I have no opinion on Rob Ford either way, he's not my mayor.

This legislation is a long time coming. Elections Canada has been acting as a partisan agency for too long, and this level of oversight is sorely needed.

I know. It's awesome. Hope it falls faster!!!

Some have accused a certain highly litigious person of doing something very similar.

This. You can sign in with anything, it doesn't have to be real. My Discus account points to a yahoo email that has no personal information connected to it at all. All my comments at news sites always get posted, and my letters have been printed several times too.

Personally, I hope it falls a lot farther. It's not as if prices on this side of the border have come anywhere near to compensating for our money being at (or close to ) par for so long. Most things are still cheaper in the US for a variety of reasons, so the strong $CND really only helps if you when you spend it outside the country. It doesn't make your mortgage or utility bills cheaper. Having our dollar with a high relative value to the US has been mostly a negative for me personally, as all my clients are in the US. Up until a few years ago, I used to be able to charge less than my competitors, yet actually end up with more in my pocket after exchange. The lower $CND goes, the higher my purchasing power goes at home. I'll gladly take having my winter vacations cost a little more in exchange for having more money for everything else throughout the year.

Brigitte DePappe again? This is, what, the fourth time (?) this professional protester has weaseled her way past security to protest. You'd think the RCMP would know to watch for her by now.

The AGW hysterians have no compunction about using localized weather patterns to promote their claims. Moving the goal posts for everyone else seems to be the totality of their defense.

The Target buildings themselves are fine here. The entrances are the same as the ones in Minnesota or North Dakota - wide, open, well lit, etc. The selection is nowhere near what I'd expect from a Target - not even close. It's not really very much like a Target at all, so what was the point of coming to Canada? The PRICES though. Exceptionally high. Most items that I've priced out and/or shopped for, are literally the priciest I've ever seen anywhere.

Your loss. He's one of the smartest guys on Canadian TV right now. His presentation is crude, no doubt, but he does his research. He's far more informed than all of the talking heads at CBC combined.

Also, It's not exactly a secret that Brian Topp really wrote that letter.

That's the Liberal version of fiscal management. Just leave your obligations for things like health and education unpaid, then claim to have a "surplus". It's all smoke and mirrors, they never once had an actual money-in-the-bank surplus. There was always tens of billions in unpaid bills they were conveniently neglecting to count -- all the while they were also taking billions out EI coffers for general revenue. That's what so amazing about how good of a job the federal Conservatives have done fiscally. They restored the health, education, and other transfers to the provinces that the Liberals had cut, went on to increase health spending year after year, did not have access to the EI-as-a-slush-fund plan, and were forced practically at gunpoint in a minority parliament to spend far more than what their own budget had called for. All the while, they reduced consumption taxes, reduced business taxes, and reduced personal income taxes. The end result has been a stronger economy, more government revenue, and very quickly returning to a positive balance sheet.

I wonder if that's going to be the theme for the Liberals going forward: let Justin say anything that comes to mind, then cover his ass with a "just kidding" every time he says something really dumb.

Not every province has approved all treatments/drugs uniformly. It's easy to call it a cost decision, but there are more factors than that. Ethically, they can't prescribe something they can't vouch for. In Ontario's case, they've studied the efficacy of Avastin for colon cancer, but not for brain cancer. The problem is, Avastin is controversial. There are almost as many studies showing it doesn't help as there are that show it might. Even in the US, approval for the use of Avastin for cancer treatment is being pulled back for some types of cancers, as the reality is not lining up with the promise. It's already been pulled for breast cancer, and the FDA is currently looking at pulling it for brain cancer as well.

The CPC MPs are by far the more representative to their constituents than the other parties, at least in my area. The LPC MPs in particular are so useless when it comes to even answering phones calls, that my CPC MP is the action MP for several nearby ridings as well. People know that their LPC MP absolutely will not lift a finger or even make a phone call, so they have to go to a neighbouring MP to get their concerns addressed. One nearby (former) long term LPC MP lost her seat in the last election primarily on that issue. The craziest part is, the worst of the worst when it comes to do nothing politicians in this area, has just announced his intention to run against our MP in the next election. This guy is currently my city councillor, and he's exactly as I described above; will not return a phone call or an email, is never in his office, and no one can actually name a single thing he's actually done. When people here need just about anything, they have to call up the councillor from the next ward over if they actually want a response.

You act as if those are two different people.

Right. Because he's being so quiet, isn't he? Besides, how is it a crime? The worst possible scenario is "here's the money you owe, now go away and stop telling people that you don't owe it." Wow. If that's the biggest "scandal" they can pin on Harper, he must be the best leader the western world has ever seen.

It was Pat martin's legal bills that the NDP paid when he was sued by Racknine over his robocall allegations. Mulcair's legal bills were paid by the PQ LPC, but yeah, it was $100,000. Either way, angry Tom is a hypocrite.

Me too. Nothing I've seen so far even remotely qualifies as scandalous.

I think you mean NO premiums (no co-pay or deductibles either). Most Canadians have never been faced with either the wait lists or any kind of "gatekeeping" -- my family and I never have. We get what we need when we need it, always. The rare time you might run up against a wait list is a more than welcome tradeoff for never having to worry about if you're covered or how you're going to pay for it.

The reporting has been pretty bad. They still keep acting as if Duffy told them something new. Yes, Harper uncovered Duffy's extravagant expenses and ordered him to pay it back. So?

Considering that there was no evidence of anything on that video, you're the one looking pretty silly. All you had was an unproven accusation against a couple of people who didn't actually do anything. No violence, no property damage, just standing there while holding a rock. That's a HUGE difference from molotov cocktails and burning police cars.

"Codes in the policy"? How they calculate the rate, I don't know the formulas, but they've never asked me those question, not ever. There's never been any mileage limit of any kind on my car insurance, regardless of which type of coverage I had.