justcrowing

I was trying to remove the other post but can't. No, I was not thinking about that. It's just something that just "amaze" me (can't find the right word).. not confined to politics in particular....but just the overall way of thinking and attitude. But now that you've mentioned it, it's an example. I have wondered what if fate had had it the other way...that the suicide planes did not hit the Twin Towers but instead obliterated downtown Toronto or Ottawa. How would we have reacted then? What if the US proceeded to do Afghanistan and Iraq because of Canada...would we still have the same hostile reactions towards the US? I guess this topic just meant to point out. I'm sure the other side will have something to say too about the Conservatives. If Toronto or Ottawa were attacked in the manner of the Twin Towers, we would be sending aid to the families of the suicide bombers. We don't have the military to retaliate nor the backbone [thanks to Liberals] but we might proceed to tell them how naughty it was and never to do it again. My tinfoil hat is on.

Nawh, the Liberals are just plain jealous the Consevatives snagged their top dog!! Currently there is no law in place that floor crossing is illegal and until there is such a law - fair dinkum!! Liberals did it to the Conservatives and would continue to do so.

Anyone for Osama bin Laden as Liberal leader?

When we vote for an MP what exactly are we voting for? If it's the man or woman, then what are the voters of Vancouver-Kingsway complaining about? If they wanted Emerson to represent them in Ottawa, they’ve got him. He is their representative and, in the parliamentary tradition now too often forgotten, it's his duty to act and vote as he thinks best in their interest and in the national interest. He is not, or should not be, a delegate obliged to follow instructions from the voters back home. He ran as a Liberal and, he says, would have been happy to serve in a new Liberal cabinet. But that option was not available. When the Conservatives won and Harper offered him a place in his cabinet, Emerson had to consider whether he could best serve his constituents by sitting on the Liberal opposition benches or crossing to sit on the Conservative government side. He decided he could do more for Vancouver-Kingsway, and Vancouver in general, if he were in the cabinet. He is almost certainly right. So, again, why are the voters outraged? The answer is that they did not vote for Emerson so much as they voted for the Liberals. Many election studies have found that most people vote for party first and candidate second. Party is often a synonym for party leader, in this case Paul Martin. And leaders stand for values and policies. http://www.cbc.ca/news/viewpoint/vp_westell/20060210.html

I nominate the guy that does the TV commercial "hands in your pocket" He could put his hand in the pockets of the taxpayers. -

Maybe Stronach & Brison will cross the floor again and get plumb positions. Nawh, they are going to run for the Liberal leadership - now that is peachy.

Maybe Emerson left because he no longer wanted to be a part and party to corruption and lack of ethics. Ooops, Emerson was a Liberal so maybe it wasn't ethics.

Dosanjh was provincial NDP, Emerson was elected as federal Liberal although I understand your point. Dosanjh was unelected, I believe, and he did serve as Health Minister under Martin. Did I get it wrong?

From listening to the news - it stated that Emerson was the best man to settle the softwood lumber dispute. Yes, he was a VP of one of the large lumber companies in B.C. Also, Vancouver had no representation and Harper campaigned upon fair representation from all regions. Since Vancouver went Liberal, it stands to reason Harper would seek out a right leaning Liberal for the position. What would any of you critics done in this situation - leave Vancouver hanging without representation? Are you wanting a parliament that works or one that is crippled? Seems the Liberals recruited Dosanjh from the NDP and gave him a key cabinet position - that did not make it right but Liberals were basically shut out and needed someone.

I am listening to the news as I type and the news media is delighted with Harper's cabinet choices including Emerson who they deem as an excellent choice for the post. Of course, Liberals are frothing at the mouth - priceless!! No law is yet in place regarding crossing the floor and until that happens & since Emerson was wanting to switch since the last election, it's fair dinkum. Stronach and Brison got Liberal cabinet positions immediately upon crossing or was I dreaming? No matter what Harper does, he will be damned so Go Harper, go and I hope the cabinet you picked is a good and honest one !!

Apart from the 26% who utterly rejected rightist policies, anyway. You know, those ones that now have absolutely no local representation in parliament. The ones that the reformers, if they were actually interested in fair representation, would be outraged about.... but not a peep out of them. Funny that. So now the shoe is on the other foot. Not a peep when previously there was no local Western representation in Parliament. Were the Liberals interested in fair representation or even outraged about it - Funny that!! Mulroney rejected fair representation as much as any government that has taken power. Funny you don't mention that though. That was then and this is now.

Careful, you might be labelled racist and gender biased. She would make a perfectly wonderful Liberal Leader. Go for it Hedy. ANd you've successully gotten yourself labelled as halfwit. Is that the best you can do is attack someone personally? Ya'all sound pretty silly with the racist and gender argument. Ya failed the test!!! What do you call that? I can't help atttacking you, you're a magnet for it. Why not try disproving rather than attacking ... the racist argument is pretty stupid. Hedy would make a great Liberal Leader - now surely you must agree.

Careful, you might be labelled racist and gender biased. She would make a perfectly wonderful Liberal Leader. Go for it Hedy. ANd you've successully gotten yourself labelled as halfwit. Is that the best you can do is attack someone personally?

Apart from the 26% who utterly rejected rightist policies, anyway. You know, those ones that now have absolutely no local representation in parliament. The ones that the reformers, if they were actually interested in fair representation, would be outraged about.... but not a peep out of them. Funny that. So now the shoe is on the other foot. Not a peep when previously there was no local Western representation in Parliament. Were the Liberals interested in fair representation or even outraged about it - Funny that!!

Careful, you might be labelled racist and gender biased. She would make a perfectly wonderful Liberal Leader. Go for it Hedy.

Border guards have wanted to be armed for the past 35+ years. Summer help recruitment are University Students. Job requirements, etc. ................ Salary range: $ 43,928 to $ 48,558 annually Applicants should be aware of the possible need to have and maintain a certain level of fitness in order to perform the duties of a Customs Inspector. Failure to meet the minimum requirements for any of the training courses mentioned will result in termination or demotion. The pool established as a result of this selection process may be used to staff positions on a full-time, term or permanent basis. Conditions of Employment: Possession of a valid driver's license or personal mobility to a degree normally associated with the possession of a valid driver's license within the limits of the CCRA Travel Policy. -Willingness to travel -Overtime required -Willingness to work a variable work schedule, 7 days/24 hours, weekends as well as statutory holidays -Willingness to operate a government vehicle -Willingness to maintain and wear a uniform -Willingness to use protective equipment. Conditions of Appointment: Successful candidates must undertake and successfully complete an extensive training program for new recruits. This will include eight weeks of training at the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency College . Candidates must also complete the Officer Powers training, as well as Use of Force training . The Use of Force training requires significant physical exertion. Candidates must pass the second language test achieving a BBC rating. For more information on second language requirements please consult the Public Service web site at http://www.psc-cfp.gc.ca/ppc/sle_pg_01_e.htm Reliability/Security:Enhanced with Airport Access Job description and duties: Protection of the Canadian society and the Canadian economy. Contributions to the competitiveness of Canadian business and facilitation of legitimate international travel and trade through the efficient and effective processing of the movement of people, goods and conveyances across the Canadian border.

C'mon baby, let's do the Liberal twist... tra, la, la, la!! * Topic is Hedy Fry for Liberal Leader... There was no attack only facts, only facts!! * Scribblet hit the nail on the head ... Fry stands a good chance of winning based on policitcal correctness and not on her outstanding "ethics". Those ethics were well publicized at the time. * She could win on her lack of merits, and her scandals which would be embraced as okay by Liberals. Liberal corruption keeps getting them elected. * Are you saying because she is a woman and of a different race, she should not be criticized in the same way any other "wannabe" politician is criticized? Well, if she can't take the heat, then she should get out of the kitchen. * If I criticized Stronach, what excuse would you use since you cannot say it is "racist" but of course, you could use the gender excuse, right?. * Liberals have criticized Grewal so does that make the critics racist and gender biased? According to respondents here, then we could accuse the opposition of being racist and gender biased. Ya'all sound pretty silly with the racist and gender argument. Ya failed the test!!!

So you're equating being non-caucasian and a woman with campaign irrelgularities? Just another stigma that would prevent her from getting votes? Whether or not she seeks it she hasn't got a hope in hell of getting it but there are some voters out there who wouldn't consider your first two criteria automatically disqualify anyone. What would the next election slogan be? Vote for Harper. He's not a ______ _______ (supply your own racial and gender based slurs, two words maximum). Is that the best you can do is jump on the stigma bandwagon? Fry would be elected on the basis of politcal correctness. What the heck, why not - she is excellent and would most certainly improve race relations by declaring in Parliament that in Prince George " & I believe she added Kamloops too, that crosses are being burned on lawns. But there was a piece in a BC Newspaper at that time where Fry was seen with a group of women burning a cross at the steps of a Catholic Church. That kinda sounds to me like she was stirring up hate. I wish I could remember the ugly comments Fry made a fews years back at a Status of Women's conference and calls for her resignation were made. And that, has nothing to do with race or gender but mouth.

Why I think Hedy Fry would make a good leader for the Liberals - * She is not white. * She is a woman. * She's better known for contributing to the improvement of race relations by declaring in Parliament that in Prince George "crosses are being burned on lawns * She supports the feminists. [status of women]. Anyone remember her controversial remarks? * She was also the doctor who while being a Liberal MP bragged about issuing a false drug prescription for someone, knowing it was going to someone else. She was reprimanded by the B.C. College of Physicians and Surgeons for this unethical conduct. The Liberals kept her on. *Fry's supporters backdated membership forms illegally allowing Fry to continue to sign up members after nominations officially closed. Fry denies it, but the Liberal party has declined to show its own membership forms to compare if the date stamp looks like the real thing.

Upon evaluting the pros & cons debated here about SSM I conclude that Opposite-sex marriage is also the affirmation of the unique bonding that arises from a heterosexual relations that serves as a bridge between past, present and future generations. The deconstruction of opposite-sex marriage leads to the unravelling of society. Public benefits should not be awarded to promote personal or special-interest agendas. Public laws are intended to protect and promote public interests, not private lifestyle preferences. Legal marriage is a public institution established to achieve public purposes, which is to encourage the birth and the raising of children; it is not meant to promote private interests. My tin foil hat is on.

Albertans are unwilling to change, unlike Ontario and other Provinces re their politics. I've lived here all my life all of it under a Conservative or Social Credit banner. We haven't been Liberal since 1905-1921. And I gather Alberta has survived very nicely without socialism in it's fullest form. B.C also did very well under the Social Credit banner, then along came NDP and it was downhill all the way. Now B.C have Liberals and things improved but I do not believe BC Liberals are into socialism in the manner Federal Libs are.

Chretien and Martin were public figures too, but as leaders of the Liberal Party that CBC relies upon for its existence gave them the benefit of the doubt. Can you imagine if the NDP was in power and the same thing happened to Layton? I can see the CBC headline now: PRIME MINISTER LAYTON SELFLESSLY REFUSES TO SLEEP IN ORDER TO UNEXPECTEDLY VISIT A HOSPITAL AND SEE IF PATIENTS ARE SLEEPING OKAY AND IF THEY MADE NEED ANY ASSISTANCE Think Layton would be handing out welfare chits for those personal items patients might need. Newbie - I don't care who is in power - it is none of everyone's business to have full knowledge of anyone's medical records - would you like people to snoop through yours & have it published in every newspaper? Every human being including politicans who are also humans, should have a degree of privacy and since we crow that we are a tolerant society then we should be tolerant enough to grant some privacy to politicans.

Swedish socialism .... Kind of reminds me of Canada under the Liberals especially when Martin said on National TV "I do not want Canadians to fend for themselves". Income tax we currently pay is slowly creeping up to the 60% range and that does not include other taxes we pay which would increase that figure. http://www.newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v256...0256-000051.htm By the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Swedish economy was tanking. Western Europe's post-war capitalist economies caught and passed Sweden relatively quickly. And by the 1980s, Sweden was on the verge of collapse. Businesses fled for more friendly tax jurisdictions in continental Europe and the U.S. Sweden experienced a brain drain as its sharpest minds fled to market-driven economies that rewarded knowledge and know-how with wealth. Entrepreneurs in Sweden were painted as pariahs. Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad told Fortune magazine that Sweden's tax bureaucrats and politicians at the time routinely accused him of "using people" and "just wanting to make a profit." By 1989, Sweden's unemployment rate had risen to 12%. Social spending had driven the government's budget deficit to 35% of government spending and 13% of GDP. Swedish welfare provisions stipulated that anyone fired or laid off from a job could get up to 80% of his original salary in public assistance. Consequently, absenteeism in the private sector approached 25%. Free, comprehensive national health care made Sweden the "sickest" country in Europe - so long as government picked up the tab, Swedes demanded the highest care for the feeblest illnesses. The system buckled. Because almost everything was provided for, and because of income tax rates approaching 90% in the highest brackets, Swedish households accumulated almost no savings, making them even more dependent on social programs once the economy soured. In the early 1990s, the Swedes revolted at the ballot box. A neoliberal coalition led by Carl Bildt took power. Bildt quickly went to work. He capped national income taxes at 50%. He set corporate taxes at 28%. He rolled back regulations on telecommunications and banking. While hardly the epitome of laissez faire capitalism, those modest changes alone set in motion the path to Sweden's economic rebirth. In 1994, the Social Democrats regained power - mostly because Bildt's slashing of government services ignited a backlash. But the signs of recovery were already in place, and so the Social Democrats, led by finance minister Goran Persson, followed Bildt's lead. More privatization of government-controlled industries. More tax cuts. To that they added more cuts in government spending, and a real effort to balance the federal budget. The result? Native Swedish entrepreneurs who fled the oppressive tax and regulation codes to start businesses elsewhere brought their businesses and payrolls back to Sweden. Sweden today is home to some of the world's top telecommunications firms. In sharp contrast to the eugenicist philosophy of Sweden's ruling 1940s socialists, the streets of Stockholm and Goteborg teem with entrepreneurial immigrants from Asia and the Middle East. Fortune reports, "from 1995 to 1999, venture capital and private equity investment in Sweden rose 201% annually, against 40% in the U.S." Sweden of course is in no danger of becoming a shelter for tax-oppressed U.S. business. Education and health care are still free (and, consequently, still on the verge of collapse). Though corporate tax rates are reasonable, personal income tax rates are still inordinately high. And the lingering haze of conformity that comes with rampant socialism still holds a good number of Swedes in despair. Sweden's suicide rates are among the highest in the world (much higher than latitudinally similar, low-sunlight communities in, for example, Alaska). Alcoholism is rampant, and this in a country where the state owns all the liquor stores. Even Per Stalberg, singer for the socialism-espousing Division of Laura Lee admits that the everything's-taken-care-of life of a Swede leaves something to be desired.

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadA...le.asp?ID=19878 It is hardly a surprise to learn that the current government in China – a regime that has moved China economically into the modern world by taking what Mao had condemned as the “capitalist road” – has moved to suppress the book and prevent its appearance and publication in the mainland. Politically the regime still calls itself Communist. It operates a one-party state, controls all sources of information , suppresses dissidents, imprisons them in the Chinese gulag, and engages in mass suppression of the peasants and factory workers, who are forbidden to organize and try to rectify the horrific conditions in which they live.

In my opinion - Harper has never made it a secret he suffered from Asthma. Are some of you saying that a cold accompanied with Asthma requiring an emergency visit to the hospital, that Harper should have taken the time to first phone the media? Unbelievable!! I presume that this kind of thinking, that if he has a diahrrea attack, he should tell the news media about it because Canadians need to know whether it was viral or what did he eat to upset his stomach?? Unreal!!