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No, I do not. Let the market set them. There are enough credit card companies that the competition should do it. Now, there is a need for some regulation, or at least the firm application of existing laws. This is based on an internet search for my son who asked a question about a company that offered a credit card at a very low rate. I googled it and found a bitch site where all kinds of people were dumping on that particular company. I guess their favorite trick was to advertise a very low rate, but if you were late paying, the rate skyrocketed. So they would mail you your bill one day before it was due. Well, neither Canada Post nor the US postal service are that good. A total rip-off. That kind of thing needs to be addressed harshly.

But he'd kiss the devil to get votes.

That was for credit card rates. What a joke. That would push most lower middle class and under people to where no company would give them any credit at all. Too much risk. They need the high rates to cover the losses.

The same as my wish for all.

Or maybe it shows that massive changes are really, really necessary? Scary stuff in some ways.

The Canada Wheat Board sucks. Just thought I'd get us westerners back into the game.

Come on - it has always been the left that takes great pride in spending other people's money.

In grades 1, 2 and 3, the teachers basically were afraid of her and sort of shunted her off to the side, stacking library shelves, etc. What saved her was that her grade 4 teacher had taken a masters degree studying gifted children. She worked with our daughter a lot. Found a therapist to work with her. Got her head on straight and got the school administration to understand the situation. She is a hero. By the time she entered junior high, she had her act together enough that she could put up with the silliness most public schools display. Yes, our public system does a great job, at an enormous cost, for the challenged, but at the detriment of the average and gifted.

Another characteristic of the socialist dogma. Reduce everyone to the lowest common denominator. Equality of outcome at it's best.

What an amazingly, well reasoned and data filled argument. I bow to your superior debating skills.

I guess the "you're as bad or worse than we are" argument just don't cut it.

My daughter was a gifted student. The system we have rewards the idiots and punishes the good ones. The major difference between a conservative and a socialist. A conservative believes in equal opportunity. A socialist believes in equal outcomes, no matter how much you have to screw the good ones and carry the a**holes.

And where's the constitution. Keep dodging, but it won't work.

In Alberta, the government decided to grant private schools the same grant per student that they gave to the public systems. Then they instituted a rule that said you could opt out of paying the school tax part of the property tax if your kid was in a private school. With those things, the private schools aren't out of reach anymore. But I do not have data to show they are cheaper, I will admit. Thought there is proof that they are better, given standardized test results.

Dang, punked, I really hate agreeing with you, but this. ^^^^^

If I ever had any doubts about my labeling Clark as a very red Tory, punked just made my day.

I so much agree. Robert Stanfield was the first casualty of "charisma" that I know of. A brilliant man, a great leader, everyone who ever saw him in person just raved about him, but he looked like an undertaker on the freaking TV. Great way to choose a government.

Did you even read my post? The "adaptible" label to me is rationalizing the Libs willingness to say whatever they think will get them votes, irrespective of their policies or constitution. And I am bemoaning the fact that the Cons learned so well from them that they now do the same thing. What didn't you understand about that?

Unfortunately, we don't have a sarcasm icon.

That's your reality. I guess we will have to wait four years to learn what the plurality thinks.

I'm not saying Canada is libertarian, I'm saying it would be better if it was, and that I am hoping it will become so.

As I said above, I have no problem with the lady, I have a problem with the NDP, and the Cons, and the Libs lying through their teeth. I still haven't caught May in a lie, but she hasn't had much chance yet.

My mock outrage was in the hypocrisy of the lying, not the result of the election.

I think what we have is way closer to my dream than it is to yours. And by the way, my wish for you is the same as my wish for me. A chance to live in a society of people who believe in the same things each of ue do. I will thrive and you will starve.

Plus, I'm from the west, Rob Ford doesn't register out here. I don't know what is your problem with a guy who obviously the plurality of Toronto folk like.