Queenmandy85

I've learned not to try and predict elections. They have a tendency to twist in the last few days. (Orange wave, Kim Campbell's crushing defeat, JT's charge past the NDP in 2015.)

You are forgetting the Government of Lester Pearson. 5 separate scandals going on at once. Among them, the Spenser affair, the furniture bibery scandals (3 Cabinet Ministers involved), the Parliamentary Secretary to the PM offering a bribe to the Lawyer representing the US Governmnet to not oppose bail to mafia hit man Lucien Rivard. The grits went on to win the next election.

Besides you and me, not many I suspect.

At least you don't whine and complain about it.

When you are the only one in the battalion who is in step, you are the one who needs to change. I am a militant Monarchist but I am not stupid enough to believe anyone else believes that. Harper was was smart to shut down any effort to re-ignite the abortion debate or the same-sex marriage debate. Government is there to administer and solve problems.

Your participation begins in the nomination process. If nobody steps forward that you think would be competant, you need to recruit someone. You need to build a campaign around them and get out the vote. When I say politics is our national sport, it is an analogy. It means we need to camaign hard to win, but staying within the rules of sportsmanship and keep stupid ideolgy out of it. It means that the day after the vote, you laugh and share a beer with your former opponents because when all is said and done, governments have an extremely narrow range of options and the party lable really doesn't make much difference. I have to ask what about Canada is broken? The economy is pretty good, the government is functioning. We have a new NAFTA agreement and a workable relationship with the US. The pipeline impass will probably be resolved after the next BC Provincial election unless Weaver gets to be Premier (unlikely). MacKenzie King understood that a government needs to recognise a problem early, formulate a solution, but do nothing until the public also sees the problem and demands the government do something. Our weakness is in our education system. We are graduating citizens who are not fully educated in Math, Chemistry, Physics, History and Politics.

Doug, politics is a paricipation sport. Just writing a cheque is like buying a ticket to a hockey game. It doesn't make you a hockey player. Do you attend meetings, stay in contact with the Riding Association executive, attend policy conventions? OTOH, it shouldn't need saying but if your views are not shared by a lot of people, chances are your views are not viable. It may be time to re-examine your position.

We all had the opportunity to put in politicians we like but most voters did not participate in the 2015 election or the NDP and CPC leadership races. Voting is only the end result. How many of you worked on the campaign of the candidate of your choice? Not just the election, but the nomination. How many people did you drive to the polls? How many friends did you call on behalf of the person you wanted? If you don't campaign, don't complain. If you don't get the MP and PM you want, you didn't try hard enough. Stop whining, get off your ass and get out the vote for your candidate.

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You make her sound like the way people describe President Trump. As it is, I believe I have a better chance of becoming POTUS than she does, and I was born in Canada.

Who cares?

You mis-read what I said. I said that terrorist actions by a few idiots could cause the government of an independent Quebec or Alberts to request aid from the Canadian Forces to defend the right of Quebec or Alberta to secede peacefully. The campaign by the OAS in Algeria or the FLQ demonstrates how easy it is for a few people to disrupt the peace.

I do not see how we could avoid a civil war or at least a terrorist campaign in any province were to separate. A possible scenario is a terrorist campaign forcing the government of an independent Quebec or Alberta to request aid to the civil power from the Canadian Forces. Two dozen people could damage the strategic infrastructure in Alberta or Quebec.

If we reduce the population, housing becomes more affordable.

Do you have a problem with science? The anthropological definition is the definition based on science.

It is all silly anyway. Where a person comes from is irrelevant. My problem with immigration is there are too many people in Canada. Wilderness is what has always defined us and we are losing it. We have to find a way to gradually reduce our population. However, as the planet heats up, we are going to be bringing in hundreds of millions of people. None of us on this forum can change anything, so our best course of action is to embrace change. Life is too short to worry about things we cannot change.

So a billion plus Caucasians living on the Indian sub-continent are not the predominant race? I would advise you to contact your geography teacher and request a refund on your tuition. The people of India and Pakistan, most of the middle east, and Europe are Caucasian.

Those individuals must take responsibility for their choices. No one put a gun to their head and said you must borrow money.

I'm sure that is great comfort for the tigers.

Philippines - 41785 Mongoloid India - 39790 Caucasian Syria - 34925 Caucasian China - 26850 Mongoloid Pakistan - 11340 Caucasian USA - 8410 Caucasian Iran - 6485 Caucasian France - 6350 Caucasian UK - 5810 Caucasian Eritrea - 4630 Negroid As you can see, according to IRCC, of the top ten source countries, 7 are predominantly Caucasian. As to what a western country is, where do you draw the line?

The horror

So what is your complaint? "If you hate this country..."

But he did get the most seats. I am reminded of General MacArthur's response when as Military Governor of Japan, he introduced Parliamentary democracy with universal suffrage and there was a complaint that a winning candidate was a prostitute. He asked "How many votes did she get?" In a democracy, the voters are always right.

Back to the question of Alberta: an independent Alberta would be strategically vulnerable and divided. It is two centres, Edmonton and Calgary, connected by a long single highway. Calgary is self identified as conservative although I sense a strong liberal streak of entitlement (my personal and possibly flawed observation.) Edmonton tends to be more progressive. How would this tension manifest its self as an independent nation locked in on three sides. Would the large international investors wish to stay? Many Albertans would leave for jobs in BC and Saskatchewan. Separation makes no economic or political sense.

Representative Harris' pedigree is irrelevant just as the allegation that the President's grand father ran a whorehouse in the Yukon. A person's actions are the only basis for assessment, not who their parents were.