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No, it doesn't. But thinking that does.

Would you like to find anything about either of those two which matches the depths of blustering idiocy of your party's deputy leader? Not to mention the fact she has so much support within the party. And I wonder how long it's going to be before the love-in ends and the media starts asking Layton about his affection and admiration for Fidel Castro.

You don't know anything about the NDP "grassroots" - which is among a long, long list of things you don't know anything about. Grownup. Yes. Some day, maybe in a couple of decades, you might graduate to that level, too.

Trost is a backbench MP. And being anti-abortion doesn't make you a nut job. Libby Davis is deputy leader of your party, and believes invisible elves with high explosives blew up the world trade center, and that it should be illegal for business to 'discriminate' against people who can't pay their bills.

Okay, let's talk about "ill informed". What do you actually know about the niece and her qualifications? What do you know about the qualifications for the job? What do you know about how she was hired?

No, the NDP is not going to win, and not going to form the government, but let's have a little fun with this. It strikes me that one of the reasons the silly types are willing to consider the NDP as a serious party is because nobody has previously considered them a serious party, and so nobody pays a lot of attention to some of the goofball beliefs they have. Libby Davis, as an example, Deputy Leader of the NDP. Libby is a fruitloop who introduced a private members bill to amend the Canadian Human Rights act to prohibit discrimination on the basis of social condition. That's right, some banker refusing to lend a bum a million dollars could get taken to court because he's discriminating against the poor! Davis has also stated that Israel has been occupied territory since 1948. In other words, that the state of Israel is not a legitimate state, thus requiring Layton to apologize to the Israelis. Davis also introduced a petition in the house for an investigation into the World Trade Center attacks. That's right, Libby Davis is a 'truther' who thinks the WTC buildings were brought down by the CIA. And why hasn't Layton gotten rid of her? Because he can't. She has too much support in the party. Which ought to tell you something about that party...

I wouldn't even say they qualified as minor. I'd say petty, but even that is probably an exaggeration.

Single highest cost? You don't think a tax of 20% - 30% might be considered marginally important if they could go elsewhere and not pay it? These are organizations which will jump through a thousand hoops to add a quarter cent per item extra profit.

You voted NDP because some guy on a web site is a nut job but it doesn't concern you that the deputy leader of the NDP is a nut job? What cabinet position do you think Libby Davis would get in a Layton government? :lol: It sounds more like you voted NDP because, well, gee, everyone seems to like Jack now, so that must be the thing to do...

Low corporate taxes are not any guarantee of nirvana. And all large, labour intensive manufacturers are contracting work overseas to areas of low labour costs. What makes you think low tax costs won't have a similar affect?

More desperate crawling into the gutter to fling out laughable, cheap muck. An ex-aide's girlfriend's niece worked for an MP? How's about Jean Chretien's son was a brutal rapist? Or does that not count? How about Jean Chretien ordered the Business Development Bank of Canada to 'loan" his business partner, an ex-con, $250,000 of taxpayers funds, which was never paid back, and said ex-con was later investigated for arson? How about Paul Martin Junior abolished the Ports Police, thus clearing the way for organized crime to control Canadian ports. And then one of his shipping companies got caught smuggling in a massive haul of cocaine? No, of course not.

I guess I must have been asleep that year. Could you remind me?

I thought it was based in a smug sense of moral righteousness...

Mercedes and VW, etc are Germans. They take great pride in being German companies, and it is unthinkable that they would move elsewhere. The same goes for Toyota and the like in Japan. Problem is, Canada has no such corporations. In fact, most of our major corporations aren't even headquartered in Canada. We probably have fewer homegrown large companies than anyone in the western world. And these international companies have no loyalty to Canada whatsoever. That has been a lot of movement within Europe from tax-heavy nations to tax-light ones for business. That's why a number of EEC nations are grumbling about Ireland's low tax.

2 that I can think of... One of Mulroney's problems was that the Tories just didn't have much of an organization in Quebec, so when he won a landslide all of a sudden, a whole bunch of pretty iffy characters wound up as MPs for the first time. The NDP is in even worse shape, and basically had to accept virtually anyone willing to run for it in a lot of ridings. Many of those candidates are pretty iffy when it comes to their ability to act as a member of parliament without embarrassing the party.

The only thing I found disappointing was that someone didn't come in while he was beating Jessica Alba and throw him through a window. :angry:

I think both were bullshit, but at least his was succinct.

Oh what is freedom, really? Hmm? Define it in realistic terms. It means you're free to move around, to look for different work or residences, to meet and chat with people however you want, to live life without fear of some nazi/commie type tossing you into a gulag because you offended him Isn't that basically it? How do you need to be able to vote for that? Half the people in this country don't bother to vote. Does that mean they're not free? If the vote was taken away they wouldn't even notice. Debatable. What's the personal deduction these days, about $20k? If you make a really low salary you not only don't pay income tax you get a big refund cheque which probably, given your low income, and the rebates, covers about anything you'd be contributing in sales taxes. Why? It's a perfectly logical view, goes back to "he who pays the piper calls the tune". Say you and a friend decide to buy a car between you. You pay twenty thousand, and he pays one thousand. Are you going to share the car equally? Not bloody likely. Yeah, but don't forget, there are a lot more low income earners than high income earners, so they'd still have a ton of clout - if they paid at least some taxes. But if you're a 'no rate payer' as opposed to a low rate payer, why should you have influence? You are, in effect, a leech on society. I contribute to charities. But the charities don't get to tell me how much I have to contribute, or vote to make me contribute more. Why should they be able to?

No, the Left is relying on getting its money from ME. There are two main problems with the Left. One is it likes to take as much money as possible away from productive workers in order to encourage non-productive people to be even less productive. The second is their habit of presuming their superior morality, and insisting on bringing in laws to make people conform to that 'superior' morality.

I think it's perfectly reasonable to point out the astounding hypocrisy of people who want to vilify a candidate because she was in the same room with a guy who had terrorist sympathies while remaining silent about their own leader deliberately meeting with a man with terrorist sympathies. And by the way, you don't get to give instructions on what I or anyone else say. I'm doubting that.

Of course, that could be and probably is all so much BS

The Killer Inside Me. I clicked on it while surfing channels and saw maybe sixty seconds. It made me, not physically, but maybe emotionally ill. Awful stuff. I would rather watch any amount of porn than that sort of nasty, deliberate violence.

I don't have any great commitment to democracy - as opposed to freedom. And as far as I'm concerned, if you are contributing nothing to the tax base you should have no say in how it's going to be spent. I would agree that the tax rates for low income earners should be lower than for high income earners, but they should have to contribute. Where is your democratic fairness in masses of people who pay no income taxes voting in parties who promise to raise income taxes?

They raised the rate to 8.9%? In Canada, the provincial tax rate on those earning over 150,000 is from 11.5 - 21%. Our federal taxes are higher too. A guy looking at the difference in jurisdictions is going to more heavily influenced the greater the tax advantage is elsewhere.

They don't have to move the resources, they can move head office. Where are all the decisions about Saskatchewan's Potash being made these days?