Bryan

Dangerous is dangerous. When it comes to public safety, whether the perpetrator is doing what they do with intent or out of mental distress is irrelevant. In both cases it's what they do that is important, not who they are or what they used.

EI is an insurance premium. It's accounted separately from taxes. That is is going up a little is small price to pay for the significantly lower overall tax bill that we have now compared to before the Conservatives took office.

Where are these inflated prices? Prices have been dropping like crazy for TVs and monitors.

Good catch, but you know what I meant. The NDP have been in power since 1999 and they have not been in a minority situation. Everything they've done is 100% on them, as no opposition was in a position to influence it. Filmon's PC's before that did have a minority stretch, however.

As usual, charter.rights makes insane claims without anything to back it up. What colour is the sky in your world?

It isn't even close to the same thing. The Liberals left our finances in a total mess, and the bills had to be paid. Once that was taken care of, and the more measured budget was presented, the united opposition (in a minority parliament) put the proverbial gun to the government's head and ordered them to spend. Even with the amount that they did spend, they still kept bitching that it wasn't enough. Even NOW as they have a majority and actually CAN make their own monetary decision (and are making plans to reign in spending) the opposition is STILL bitching that they aren't spending enough. In contrast, the NDP here always had a majority, and the opposition was always opposed to the spending increases, and the wasteful programs.

Things are not nearly as rosy here either. The NDP has grossly mismanaged funds and resources. Under the PCs we had balanced budget legislation. Real actual surpluses were banked and put away BY LAW. The NDP has burned through all of that and racked up a $billion in on the books debt, in addition to mismanaging Manitoba Hydro to the tune of several $billion, and more than doubling the welfare rolls. WRHA has been a bottomless money pit too. It's going to be an absolute mess to clean up after these idiots. They just light piles of money on fire for no reason. There's a reason our previous finance minister was called a "Weapon of Math Destruction".

They pay it all back, pay their taxes and their regular E.I contributions, and still make enough to live on? You sure about that? Because that raises a completely different question. Ruins? He's fixing the damage that the idiot Liberals inflicted for decades!

Not everyone waits for the government to save them. My son is a seasonal worker. His "main" job is landscaping and lawncare/property maintenance. That ends one first snowfall. In the winter, instead of expecting the government to give him a handout, he gets a different temporary/seasonal job. Our social safety net is for people who end up in dire situations through no fault of their own. People who suck the government teat ON PURPOSE are committing fraud in my book.

I agree they are! Electing more and more Conservatives in five consecutive elections! We finally have good government that's repairing the damage the left-wing loonies did over the past few decades. The country is finally on the right track! CWB and the gun registry now, soon the HRCs and the charter of rights and freedoms...

By knowing before the season even starts that they will be out of work, and deciding not to plan ahead.

Except, people who work seasonal jobs on a year in/year out basis (like PEI fishermen) are abusing the system. For them it's not insurance IN CASE they lose their jobs, it's their expected source of income every G-D winter. They KNOW the job ends at a certain time, they have the whole year, EVERY year to plan for it, and they refuse, expecting to have the government bail them out. And they have the gall to complain that their claim is not being fast-tracked? That is some nerve.

That is the dumbest suggestion I've heard on this board in a long time. Hunters and Farmers having to use a central armoury? How does that work when a coyote is attacking your chickens at 3 am? Drive to the armoury in town, hope someone is there, check out the gun, drive back to the farm and hope there are any chickens left?

Which is significantly more than they were guaranteed in the agreements with the Crown. The Federal Government goes above and beyond what is required, and all they get is idiots on the left LYING and saying that they are UNDER funded. The people in Ottawa don't "get" anything. It's a pool of money that they PAID into. Exactly. $7200 is many times more than $5.

I'm quite comfortable with the strong leadership that we do have right now, it's the low standards of the NDP that scare me.

Let me guess, you're a proof reader for the CBC?

The idea of an NDP federal government is quite possibly the most terrifying thing I can imagine. I've never been one to own guns, but that would probably inspire me to start stockpiling them.

$5 per person vs. $11 billion a year.

Read the treaties for yourself. http://www.canadiana.ca/citm/themes/aboriginals_e.html You'll see commonalities between them, $20 or so for the chief, $5 for the band members, so many acres per family, a few supplies, a school... The guarantees are very minimal compared to what they've been getting. We've gone above and beyond.

I think this is the thing that people are not taking into account when they make statements like "we aren't living up to our agreements". The fact is, the bands have been given many times more than was required. Each treaty is different, but the basic requirements were as you said; a few acres of land, a very small sum of money, a few supplies, and a school if they wanted it. Nowhere in those agreements is there any guarantee of anything close to what they are already getting.

I know who the racists are. They are the ones who keep saying it's the white man's fault. Who keep saying that the natives are not capable of surviving without our help.

By that token, no wonder the Feds don't care about the Quebec lawsuit... they already know that it's a federal jurisdiction. Whether Quebec likes it or not isn't relevant.

The big difference is if that happened to your house or mine, we'd clean it up ourselves, then see if we could get compensated down the line, usually wayyy down the line (if at all). In Attawapiskat, they just threw up a shack beside the house and waited for someone else to do it.

Prove it.

From now on, I'm boycotting any company that announces that they are boycotting something else. Starting with Chiquita and their boycott on Alberta oil.