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  1. Scotty
    Shall I look back and find some of the things youv'e said about Harper?
  2. Scotty
    You guys on the left seem to think technicalities are very important when the opposition uses them to pass bills against the government's will but using technicalities is somehow immoral when the government uses its majority in the senate to quash the bill. Hey, the senate turning down a bill is how our parliamentary system works too.
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    Greedy Ontario teachers made secret deal with Liberals for raise. Money taken from fund for special needs children to help them graduate is going to increasing teachers salaries instead

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    In today's Globe we see just how hypocritical and dishonest teachers claims of caring about students really are. Their continued threats and demands for ever higher salary for ever less work area always couched in terms of how they're protecting children and education, but it doesn't come much more nakedly greedy than this. The last deal Ontario high school teachers made with the Wynn government, kept secret, was that money for their raises, after Wynne said there was no money for raises, would be taken from a fund for special needs children. In addition, the government financed raises for teachers by diverting money from a fund for special programs that help struggling students graduate. Just... wow. The Wynn government also directly paid a million dollar bribe to the teachers union. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ontario-paid-1-million-to-union-for-labour-peace-with-high-school-teachers/article26900173/ Note that even before this Ontario teachers salaries reached between $74,000- $94,000 ten years after being hired. Here is a listing of teacher salaries and benefits from 2012. Obviously, they are higher now. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/education/anatomy-of-an-ontario-teachers-paycheque/article6015968/
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    The only thing which really matters to me when I measure what I pay is my own tax rate. It is not a consolation that some guy a few blocks away is paying little or nothing.
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    Harper appointed 18 senators in one fell swoop in 2008 to fend off the Liberal majority joining its approval to the three amigos trying to unseat him. After that there was no Liberal senate. You mean passed by the opposition against the will of the actual government?
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    With tons of namecalling. Your assumption about motives is revealing. It is simply not possible to discuss immigration without going into the pros - AND cons, which means delving into immigrant failure rate and detrimental effects on Canada, as well as possible ways to improve things. That will automatically queue the politically correct to attack mode.
  8. Scotty
    It IS that hard, especially since Francophones have a demonstrated history of being much more intolerant to fractured French than Anglos are to fractured English.
  9. Scotty
    Taxes as a percentage of GDP is one way of measuring things, but it seems more distant to ordinary people than actual tax rates. And I remain unconvinced Trudeau is going to be able to increase program spending without increasing taxes to cover them, unless he plans on endless deficits.
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    My impression is public service salaries at all levels in Canada, including uniformed members like police, fire, and even the military, are higher than anywhere else in the world. I haven't seen a detailed study, but whenever I've compared say teachers salaries here with teachers salaries in the US or Europe, or firefighter or police salaries, ours turn out to be way higher. It might be the Canadian entry is more complicated because of the variance among provinces, which also have very high tax rates. Many other entities don't have provinces with taxes. Those at the lower spectrum pay few or no income taxes, but that just means taxes are heavily toploaded on those in the middle and upper income levels. It's not mandatory to have a car, not in a city with transit. It's not necessary to have video games or even computers, let alone high speed internet and full cable packages. Cell phones are also unnecessary.
  11. Scotty
    He wasn't blaming the voters, he was blaming you. Christie Blatchford had an excellent example, taken from John Ibbitson's book about Harper, who, unlike most politicians, is far from an extroverted person. "Though Harper knew the press would be there,” Ibbitson writes, “the situation threw him. “Impulsively, he reached out to Ben and shook his hand, something he would never have done otherwise. “That was enough for bloggers and commentators to conclude that Stephen Harper was an emotionally sterile father (and human being) who couldn’t even muster sufficient intimacy to hug his son.” I remember the moment vividly, and the absolutely savage beating Harper took for it. I even presumed to identify with him because I recognized something of myself in how he acted. Unlike the more modern mortal, who can take selfies of herself with fish lips without a trace of self-consciousness, I also tend to act unnaturally, to freeze up and get all weird, before a camera or a certain kind of crowd. I know a fellow traveler when I see one, and in that awkward man and that awkward handshake, I saw one. http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/christie-blatchford-stephen-harper-was-always-a-political-outsider
  12. Scotty
    This idea from a lot of people that the Conservatives lost for being conservative is patently silly. If anything, they failed to excite conservatives by being not very conservative on most matters. Kenney always comes across as calm and good humoured on television, and has never struck me as hyper partisan. When he went on a middle east trip some months back, for example, he invited the opposition defense critics to accompany him. How often did Harper cabinet ministers do that?
  13. Scotty
    Because he's a frequent commentator on the politcal panel shows. The moment he entered politics the knives would be out, along with the jokes about how he believes the world is only 10,000 years old and can't tell which way a river is flowing.
  14. Scotty
    There is way too much stuff floating around about corruption allegations with the Quebec Liberal party for the Tories to choose Charest.
  15. Scotty
    Not to mention if you get too enthusiastic about it a lot of those who have it are going to leave.
  16. Scotty
    Harper put this in place because it was unfair for the government to be able to call an election whenever the time seemed best for its own re-election chances. It was, in retrospect, a dumb idea, because it meant he couldn't call an election in early spring, when his chances would have been far better. Had he called it before the oil slowdown began to bite the economy and before the Duffy trial he would have probably done a lot better. Now that your party is in power you're calling for the old rule to be put back in place so the Liberals can call an election whenever it's more advantageous to them?
  17. Scotty
    I like how you've already pronounced them collectively guilty, and called up the firing squad without a single solitary shred of evidence any one of them did anything wrong. Do you have gulags in mind for those who think different thoughts than you? Maybe re-education camps?
  18. Scotty
    What have I said about Trudeau that isn't based on evidence to date? I realize you're a fan boy of his now, but most of us are more cynical based on life experience.
  19. Scotty
    Because if you can get something for nothing a lot of people will go for it even if they don't need it. A lot of middle class people shop at the Salvation Army even though they don't need to because they get such bargains. I'm willing to bet if you follow the average food bank person home you'll find they have a couple of TVs, cell phones, cable, internet, video games, computer, maybe even a car.
  20. Scotty
    Once Trudeau puts his tax increase in place the top tax rate in New Brunswick is going to be almost 60%. I bet a lot of people there are going to be working less to make sure they don't cross that line. What's the point of putting in extra hours if the government takes almost everything you make? Sixty percent for income tax plus municipal taxes, plus HST plus gas taxes. I bet that puts you near a 70% tax rate. Canadian taxes are already almost the highest in the world, and this will just push them higher. If I'm reading this chart right, Canada's taxes are far higher than most European countries already, and most of those countries have better social services than we do. They don't pay their public servants the enormously high salaries we pay ours, though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_rates
  21. Scotty
    Sure would be good if you had some of that uhm... what was it called again... evidence, yeah, evidence, that charities were targeted for political reasons or that anyone within the public service was biased.
  22. Scotty
    If 27% are women but you have stated that for political reasons you will appoint 50% that means that in all likelihood you are going to have to select women for positions who are much less qualified than available men. And where do you get the idea the cabinet size will be 24? It could as easily be 40.
  23. Scotty
    In what country?
  24. Scotty
    There is no evidence they are doing anything else.
  25. Scotty
    I don't remember the Liberal Party ever having a problem with jamming the senate with party bagmen. They've done it most of my life and never expressed any issues with the place until Harper took over. I assume now that he's gone their issues are, as well. They'll appoint as many senators as they can and welcome back the senators Trudeau booted out in his PR stunt. I bet the loyal liberals are already jostling each other to get at those well-paid cash-for-life jobs.
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