Queenmandy85

That is another way of saying they are trying to get support from people who voted NDP. We call that broadening the tent. As Captain Barbossa said, "Them's a lot of big words and we're but poor Pirates." The high spending part is a continuation of Prime Minister Harper's policies. He was dealing with a global economic collapse, while the current government is dealing with the worst health emergency in a century. With all party support, Canada has so far held the death toll to under about 40,000. The US did not respond in the same way and they have suffered the worst catastrophe in it's history. When the situation required it, the Canadian governments federally and provincially worked as a team. Yes, the could have done more, in hindsight, but they were reacting without a playbook. The lockdowns worked. The only way that could happen is by making it possible for people to stay home. The same team work helped the NAFTA re-negociations. Governments are high spending because running a country is expensive. The problem is the people need the services but are reluctant to pay the taxes to support it.

Government is like a train. Elections decide who gets to play with the throttle and the brakes and who gets to blow the horn and ring the bell, but the train still follows the tracks, no matter who is driving. If you get a maverick engineer who makes a turn to the right or left where there are no tracks, the whole she-bang goes off the rails and we have a train wreck.

The government is a reflection of the electorate, as it should be. Since the electorate are basically in the centre, that is where the government needs to be.

Potentially the greatest mass extinction since the permian. I don't want to cause thread drift. So I'll just say that science should never be political. Science is serious while politics is sport. Politics should be fun and not a spectator sport. If Poilievre becomes Prime Minister, he will do pretty much what Prime Minister Trudeau would do. If he doesn't, he won't be PM for very long. His cabinet will have a number of people who have been around the block a few times and won't take kindly to being told what to do by Poilievre. The secret to being a good PM is don't fall for the myth that you have any power. You have to listen to people who know what they are talking about.

Minority in 1957. About 209 seats IIRC in 1958. Then a minority in 1962.

2. Mulroney and John Diefenbaker 2 outta 3 ain’t bad. ?

What do you mean by "narrative? Carbon dioxide and methane, along with several othe greenhouse gases regulate the re-radiation of energy from the earth. This has nothing to do with politics. It is a scientific fact. We have known for decades that the level of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere control the re-radiation of energy from the earth's surface. You can test it in any undergraduate lab in the country. The results will always be predictable, measurable and repeatable. Hal Schwartzberg of the RCA Space Research Labratories in Princeton, N.J. said, "The measure of the rigour of a science is the index of its ability to predict." Have you discovered a flaw in the physics and chemistry regarding the re-radiation properties of carbon dioxide and methane ? I would like to know what the flaw is and the source of your research. I have the same question about Covid 19. Have you discovered that all the virologists and immunologists are wrong and you are right? Your comments seem to indicate all the world's scientific issues are political, some sort of slick grit trick. Politics is supposed to be fun but if you take ideology too seriously and let it over ride actual science, we are in for trouble.

Now you have the picture. No matter which party forms a government, they have only a narrow range of policy directions to choose from. With a problem like inflation, Climate change, the pandemic etc., there is only a couple of solutions and they are similar to one another. The solutions to all problems lie in the centre. You do not win voters over by telling them they are wrong and you are right. The voter is a lot smarter than most of the people on this forum...including me, of course. I've been working on campaigns for the Progressive Conservative party since the 1960's, but I still have a lot to learn. Well, you may be in luck. If we end up with Mr. Poilievre as leader, we could end up with Mr. Trudeau running the show until 2029. Pop Quiz: Who is the only Conservative to ever beat a Trudeau? Which two Conservative leaders won the largest majorities in Canadian history?

To beat Prime Minister Trudeau, you need to take liberal seats. Who in the leadership race is best positioned to convince disaffected liberals and independents who used to vote for Trudeau, to vote conservative. Or would you like to see the Conservative party that is ideologically pure being the third or fourth party.

Bourgault, Lewis and Baber have no hope of beating Prime Minister Trudeau and Bourgault and Baber are embarrassments to the Party. Why give the grits ammunition in the next election. We should have learned our lesson about giving these people the platform to damage the party's chances when we had Tom Cossett and Peter Pocklington.

What could they have done differently? The same people who say we shouldn't be spending our future generations wealth are advocating selling off our future generations means of survival. (ie. coal oil and iron.)

"Where you stand on any issue depends on where you are sitting." Alfred E. Neuman.

But, without that nudge, they could have lived longer. I don't know about you but, if I get the chance to live longer, even if it is just minutes, I'll grab the chance with both hands. Death is the worst event in everyones life and must be avoided at all costs.

I'm a bit slow, but it suddenly struck me that two other similar protests occurred in the US. Protesters occupied neighbourhoods in Seattle and Portland for almost a month in 2020. The ironic thing is I am guessing the people who suppported the trucker's occupation in Ottawa condemned the Capital Hill Organized Protest (CHOP) in Portland and Seattle and vice versa. Does anybody see the hypocrisy here? People are funny.

We have known this was coming for 45 years. I remember talking about the greenhouse effect in 1975 with my dad at the supper table. We needed to educate people about what happens when we pass the point of no return, when it becomes a self generating effect. We should have been doing that in the 1970's and started phasing out fossil fuels then. We should have been building nuclear power plants around the world back then. If we had, the cost of mitigation would have been a lot cheaper.

I don't want to cause thread drift, so I will point out that the image I described of Mr. Poilievre is the image many centre - centre right voters have of him. To win enough seats currently held by the grits in Ontario and Quebec, the Consevative party needs a Red Tory like Brown, Charest and Aitchison.

I think I just described Scott Aitchison. I think I will consider him as my first choice.

1. That is how it appears to me. Nerd is a great description. 2. Yes. 3. When he says the CBC is bad, he is telling me I am wrong, and by inference he is smarter than me. Of course he is wrong about that. 4. I am piecing together statements he has made. His support of the illegal occupation of Ottawa is an example. 5. Mr. Poilievre has failed to provide a hint of any positive solutions to climate change. He is not alone on the political stage in that matter. I crave a leadership with real vision to face the coming crisis. I want a leader who works with political rivals to achieve great things to overcome global warming. But, as a militant Monarchist, I have learned politics is a venue of unfulfilled dreams.

Mr. Poilievre will need to abandon many of his positions from the leadership race if he intends to win a federal election. The defunding of the CBC is a case in point. Politics is an exersize in building support. Remember the firestorm Prime Minister Mulroney unleashed when he thought it would be a brilliant idea to pre-empt Coronation Street to hold a press conference. CBC is a national institution created by a Conservative government and it has a large base of support. It is not just politics. It is Quirks and Quarks, the Nature of Things, Under th Influence, drama, comedy etc. Why would any politician tell a significant body of voters to kiss his ass? Political parties serve one purpose. They do not exist to promote some stupid ideology. They exist to win elections. We need leaders who are pragmatic, not ideological. Mr. Poilievre has campaigned on a format of ideology. The majority of voters disagree with him. For him to say he is smarter than the majority of people is pure arrogance. He has laid out a platform that is at odds with what voters want. Therefore, he must either flip flop and be called a liar, or stick to his platform and be called a loser. The only Conservatives who have won elections are Red Tories who can draw support from liberals.

So your answer is to continue to let it mutate until it comes back with a 40% death rate. In 1350, one day, Sevastopol had a population over 200,000. A week later, there were 7 people left alive. Covid may disappear on its own or it may come back more legal than ever. That is what happens when you give it a large enough pool.

How would that stop the spread?

You've never lived in Norway, have you.

Try sitting in the waiting room of a walk-in clinic and look around. Almost everyone will be looking done at one of the most remarkable devices in world history. With that little smart phone, you can sit waiting to see a doctor paid for by the government, and communicate instantaneously with anyone in the world. In addition, you can tap into an almost unlimited library of information. My phone cost $2200 and it was money well spent. There are those who slip between the cracks due to untreated illness, but that is not due to government. You can blame taxpayers who will not pay for the services required. Inflation is global and a direct result of Covid and the war. Taxes are also a result of covid and over population. Rising real estate is due to over population.

The 3 issues you mention are underfunded because taxpayers do not want to pay for those issues and government can only do so much. The treasury took a huge hit with the covid crisis and coming on the back of that is the war in Europe and then the really big one which is the battle against climate change. I cannot imagine how we are going to pay for that except by borrowing from many future generations, and ironically, they are the ones who will thank us for spending their money. As for compensation for people who work in government, you get what you pay for. If you won't pay for good people, you won't get good people.

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