fellowtraveller

Do you think that the people who provided us with the Occupy street theater are 'have nots'?

That's easy: as much as we can get for it.

Are you in favour of the cheapest possible gasoline?

I'm hoping for Justin Trudeau or Sheila Copps. Both would be even better.

Wrong. Mostly what we have in the West are economic refugees from the East. Note that Alberta has just elected a very red Tory premier........ Really? Could you explain what it might be?Economists are just accountants, minus their wacky sense of humour.

No, I said that the examples of politicians I gave were just dicking around at real work, which in their cases included pretending to work as lawyers or teachers.

You'd have to ask them why they don't want to govern Canada. They rejected a move to the middle at their last policy convention, again, with Layton presiding. Keep thinking that Mr NDP.Please. The Liberals ruled for 13 years with 40%, smack in the middle.. You guys really do not get it, which is great for Canada. It scares the shit out of you that the Tories did figure out that they needed to smack down their extremes, and get middle Canada to buy in. Both were accomplished. The NDP has done neither and are obviously seriously challenged to keep their party together while trying to do it. Nope. Saint Jacques failed in this, as has every NDP leader that has tried to get the loony left to STFU and give the party a real chance. Their gains in Quebec are short lived, they made little to no headway elsewhere in Canada. Buh-bye next election, Quebec will rejoin Canada next time around.

What makes it half assed is that he was a dilettante for the first 50 years of his life, he didn't need the money, only did it a few years likley out of boredom. He just played at life for the first half century or so. Very few of us have that kind of luxury.Get a job indeed.

perhaps 6000 out of a workforce of about 280,000. It is nothing, really, compared to what ordinary Candians are and have faced.

If he actually said it, Pierre should have taken that advice himself and gotten a job. His 'career' consisted of being a student for many years, pretending to work as a lawyer, a few months as a soldier until booted out, a few months as a civil servant, then a half assed appointment as a law professor until he entered a lifetime of politics. He came from wealth and never broke a sweat earning a nickel in his life.

No that is not why the Tory vote has a solid base. The Tory base is solid because of what just occurred, which you have failed to note. WQhat happened was that the Tories moved to the middle, and in the process they bumped the Liberals to the edge of oblivion. The NDP have - under Jack Layton as well as every other leader- steadfastly refused to do the same. It comes up every policy convention, and is routinely flushed. Unless your 'moderate' candidates Dewar and Mulcair are determined to flush the radical leftoids from their party, they will never get anywhere towards an assumed goal of running the country. Layton couldn't do it, and neither can they. They cannot even talk about it during their campaigns, the hard left in the NDP would lynch them. Buh-bye next election, Quebec won't be repeating what they just did.

Oh, and I love how the OP as per usual starts with a massive strawman- that Harper is 'so vulnerable'- then creates a flight of fancy off that fiction. If Harper was so vulnerable how id he a) just win a majority govt without support from Quebec? and survive 5 years as a minority? Really, this is just the usual separatiste gobblydegook and sour grapes over the slow and painful death of soveirngty. The only way Harper will be vulnerable over the next several years is if the NDP does the unthinkable and elects a moderate leader with the will AND means to move the NDP to the center. Even then, his position is very solid. Quebec will have a tough tough choice next time because they are going to be sorely disappointed by the ineffectiveness of their NDP caucus real soon. o they want a place at the big table or not, and doubly so in the abscence of a separation option. Hard, hard times ahead for the OP and his friends.

Thanks for that utter lack of historic perspective.The main reason we did not impale ourselves on the greedout embodied by the subprime mortgage collapse was because of our Bank Act, which you will be astounded to learn was was not enacted by Chretien. It has been around since about 1880.

I am commenting on the marijuana issue. It doesn't matter what the law is or will be, many ordinary people smoke it regularly, and many more people smoke it occasionally. Any law is unenforceable. We have already watched this movie. Large numbers or real and faux conservatives smokie the devil weed too.My advice: smoke a joint. Calm yourself.

Neither of those are Pakistans worst enemies. Their largest threats are internal: corruption, radical Islam, ignorance and shitty leadership.

The fascists always reveal themselves

I doubt there will be any change, the cops just do not have much heart for enforcement when so many ordinary citizens simply refuse to obey the law. IMO, we just saw an example of it with enforcement of gun registration. Regarding grow ops, think back to the pre-hydro, pre-BC bud days when the best smokeables were brought at great risk from all over the world. Higher cost and poorer quality then made no difference to the growth in people smoking regularly. As long as two factors exist: profit and demand- the product will be available. There is no way to put this genie back in the bottle. The simple reality is that far too many people from too many successive generations like to smoke, and that includes a fair few cops, prosecutors and judges, not to mention legislators. Being frightened off growing your own does not mean they will be scared off smoking now and then.

I think that perhaps you are not actually aware of what happens today in Canada. Weed possession laws are barely enforced at all in many if not most jurisdictions. Many places you would have to work hard to get charged with simple possession, and often the charge is part of a string of charges i.e. somebody gets caught with a joint in pocket while getting busted for something else. A shift to outdoors? Ah no. That would mean a huge drop in quality, something nobody that smokes the very high qulaity product widely available now is going to accept.

I think you are just choking on the fact -not opinion- that the NDP staffers were caught lying.

but you can see that neither Clement or his staff act as editors of Hansard in any way. I see. You do not support due process, if he displeased you once he is automatically guilty of whatever you choose thereafter.

No, they could not pass through this through their govts, unless it is in the sense of a peanut passing through your digestive system.Possession, sale, or weed are criminal Code offences. Federal law. What is the most effective counter to federal law is for mass disobedience of the law, which is what happens now for the most part. It is why the cops don't enforce weed laws mostl;y, where would they start and end?

But having read the article, you would now agree that the NDPn staffers are liars, and the tone of the article shifts quite significantly as the author acknowledges that the editors of Hansard are not Tony Clement, and that they routinely edit lots of stuff and did so as per usual in this case.

every city is getting billions in provincial and federal money for transit? I don't think so. Edmonton has to perform unnatural acts to get a fraction of what should be their share. I think they are being punished for electing a NDP MP. Twice.

Stats Canada makes pretty good coin by selling demographic info to anybody who pays. I don't think they'll be selling the corporation. You could cream a couple billion out of Health Canada though and almost nobody would notice.

Why stop regionally?Capital TTC projects are already heavily subsidized by the province and feds, why not extend the toll to other provinces to pay for GTA infrastructure?