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Yep. Also those who don't want the NDP to remain in opposition forever, let alone return to being a third/fourth party. His answers to Ashton seem very sensible to me.

Topp's actually really impressing me with his answers on capital gains taxes. (And wow, Martin Singh is getting aggressive.) And, yeah, Nash drives me insane when she dodges questions.

Yeah, it happened before I was born and I'm not that young.

Thanks.

Has the debate been archived for streaming anywhere? Didn't catch it live.

To be boringly anal, in both of these cases, it's the measuring tool that is more or less accurate, not the system itself, since any unit can be subdivided, right?

Yeah, my experience is very similar to Bryan's.

How so? Using smaller units doesn't make a system more accurate.

I don't know anyone in Canada who's under 40 or so who thinks of gas in gallons. Even when I lived in the US, I always had to convert back to litres.

I've lived in Ottawa, Montreal, Toronto, Windsor, and Regina. Windsor is the ONLY Canadian place I've been in where people use Fahrenheit. Edit: I actually enjoyed blowing people's minds by telling them how the crazy Windsorites liked to use Fahrenheit.

Tbf, just because the government was in contempt of Parliament doesn't mean that the public has to take Parliament's side in the dispute. Parliament has the right to demand anything they want and the government should oblige. They were found to be in contempt: they faced the consequences and lost a vote of confidence. However, even after recognizing this, the public is certainly entitled to decide that Parliament's demands were unreasonable and the government should be allowed to proceed with their actions.

This is the key sentence from that article:

My membership cost $5 last year, actually.

I don't sneeze at his achievements at all, to be clear, but surely those doctorates are honorary, right?

There's a difference between fiscal responsibility and economic conservatism. Doer was the former but I don't think he (or even Romanow) was really the latter, certainly not by American standards. NS, MB and SK have the highest tax rates on higher income earners after Quebec, for instance: http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/tx/ndvdls/fq/txrts-eng.html . They've not followed supply-side economic policy in any sense at all. The NDP governments have not been in a rush to privatize things either: socialized telecommunications and auto insurance corporations are still going strong in SK, for instance. And, of course, Republicans are economically conservative but fiscally irresponsible.

Until recently, I always thought of the OLP as one of the more left-leaning governments on the continent (on the minimum wage, green energy, education, community health care) but increasingly, I'm starting to think they've just been making stuff up as they go along.

OK, at least I know where you're coming from now. I guess I have a hard time making that comparison, considering how different federal and provincial issues are.

Yes, as dre mentioned, these are all things that are covered in mandatory history and civics courses.

OK, so are you just defining "Liberal policy book", "Conservative/PC policy book", and "NDP policy book" in terms of what those parties stood for 30-40 years ago? Afaict, the Liberals are a fringe party in SK, with less than a quarter of the support that the Green Party has.

Voted 2:1 but I'm actually also on board with CPCFTW's nationalization schemes. What do you think of having a socialized bank/credit lender?

Scribblet, where has anyone accused Toews of calling the bill's opponents pedophiles? Even the thread title says "Toews says we support child pornographers", which is a pretty straightforward inference from the fact that Toews "invited opponents to go stand with them". The title is not "Toews says we are child pornographers".

If you just mean that the NDP has governed moderately and not radically, then I agree. However, I don't really think their policies have been the same as the McGuinty Liberals' (who might come closest to them), let alone the Charest Liberals' or the Campbell/Christy Liberals'. As you mentioned earlier, they do seem to have been much more fiscally prudent than the OLP, which makes a big difference.

I've no qualms at all about the MP I voted for (and volunteered for), although he's not my MP anymore.

I'm not sure what you're getting at but no.

Ha, I totally still thought MPs do read every bill.