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You know Canada has had gun control legislation since the 1930s so what I would propose is wanting to strengthen our current gun control laws and I think we can move on from there. The long gun registry was just to appease the people after the 1989 incident.

Ya after the last few comments I think Canada has a real good chance of remaining as one country(/sarcasm). Yikes there is just as much division now as there was just after the NEP or after the Charlottetown accord.

Well the Liberals discovered that NAFTA and the GST were good policies and why would a government want to damage themselves to remove something they promised in a campaign. If it is something that benefits the country economically then I say keep it.

We need a centrist party for one important thing having a policy to cut taxes and be about compassionate conservatism. That is one important thing and another is being balanced on foreign policy instead of unilaterally supporting Israel. Another important reason for having another party is to save Canada from separating and having a party that is strongly supported across the country. Also, another important reason is because voter intention is low and Canada needs strong leadership and a moderately ran economy and one that is led by someone who is pragmatic and willing to work in the old Tory tradition which is about parliamentary democracy and about middle grounds and compromise. That is why we need a centrist party.

Apparently no one saw the website http://www.centristparty.piczo.com/?cr=5 on the platform page and saw that if our party was created we are against the long gun registry and we would abolish it but not in the way the conservatives are doing it. We would not be as partisan but would abolish it. We would just abolish it and let it go.

How about for one important thing having a policy to cut taxes and be about compassionate conservatism. That is one important thing and another is being balanced on foreign policy instead of unilaterally supporting Israel. Another important reason for having another party is to save Canada from separating and having a party that is strongly supported across the country. Also, another important reason is because voter intention is low and Canada needs strong leadership and a moderately ran economy and one that is led by someone who is pragmatic and willing to work in the old Tory tradition which is about parliamentary democracy and about middle grounds and compromise. That is why we need a centrist party.

Well I know for a fact that the current Harper administration has people who are not worthy of political office since they want to put down the opposition to the point of crippling the political parties and that is not part of the Tory tradition which states that working with the parties to find middle ground and compromise is part of parliamentary democracy. I thought you knew that the Alliance side is the side which dominates the party more than the Progressive Conservative side and PCers I talk to in Atlantic Canada say that the party is dominated by the Canadian Alliance members and I talked to PCers in the Progressive Canadian party and they said the merger was bought and paid for by people who wanted the merger and they never gave voice to what the PCers within the Progressive Conservative party wanted which was all members agreeing to it. Check out David Orchard's site and it tells you exactly what went on. Joe Clark never wanted it and he was the only PC MP by 2004 and the Conservatives wanted to silence him and Peter MacKay was nothing but a liar and PCers joined the Green Party by then with about 4 to 5 percent support. I think a PC Party successor will be a truer alternative than the Green Party since the Green party will only be seen as an environmental type party but never as a centrist party which they are. Lastly, how can you explain the problem with low voter intention and the division of Canadians by Harper and what has to be done to fix that problem. I think this party is being created for all the right reasons and I will stop at nothing to create a party that is a blue liberal/red tory type party between the two major parties built on positive solutions for everyone.

Well why do you have to hold your nose and vote for anyone. In today's politics we have to vote against someone but not for someone. You don't say anything about voter intentions maybe when this next election comes around 50% or even lower. If a party can do that I see no harm in wanting to help bring up voter intention and I am on here to help make sure this party gains awareness with other people and nothing more. I don't want anyone to re-enlist to anything I am mainly trying to see if people want to help create the party or just be electors and we need 250 electors and if the party helps bring kindness, respect for opponents and a good moderate economy in the process I say it is good for all of us.

I am not trying to be mean with the whole intelligence thing but the truth is in the US they would rather stay firm on an issue than do the right thing and I think that Harper wants to import that approach to Canada and I feel we deserve a lot better. Also, you said the environment is a waste but eventually all countries will need to face those things. On Iraq, he did admit it I think I saw in an interview once. No one knows where he might stand on a war with Iran.

Canada needs a new party also to save Canada from splitting up. This Centrist Party is a good idea so it will bring people together and not divide them to win an election. As moderate conservatives, we need to think about the next generation and about protecting essential services and protecting health care and education. Those are the main priorities and also the economy and the environment.

Conservatives like to play on emotions.

not on the environment and definitely in the canadian alliance world when he wanted to invade iraq.

I keep telling people that Harper wants to turn Canadians into Americans who think they are the only country in the world and don't know about the world around them. He may even want to make Canadians stupid enough so they can't locate countries on a map like Americans. Also, just watch if Harper gets to have his majority intelligence of average Canadians will start to go down especially in science and math.

Harper is making Canada look like fools on the international stage. I say the sooner Harper leaves the better.

The whole merger in 2003 was a farce. I talked to people in the PC party and they told me the truth about what went on and they said it was bought and paid for by the Conservatives and the merger was a done deal. You say that the party was fair but it is now owned completely by Canadian Alliance people and what voice do red tories have. Oh ya that's right Harper thinks there is no such thing as red tories and they are just Liberals. I wonder what Conservatives would say if you told them blue toryism is not real they would be up in arms.

I want positive people to actually give their unbiased opinions about the idea of a party between the two major parties one that is fiscally conservative and socially progressive and wants to cut taxes to stimulate growth and has an environmental plan and won't spend like drunken sailors on the military like the Conservatives are.

The whole point of this post was not to waste other people's time but to give them a choice and to talk kindly about what they would want to see in a party that may or may not get created in the future and like everyone who ever comes to my topic always says rude things. What do you people want miracles? I mean this is the kind of stuff you get from people who are elitist I guess.

Well we are at the point where we need about of the 250 electors we have 25 so far and we need one more officer and a president but so far we have the other things which are the leader, vice-leader, 2 officers, an agent and an auditor. The website is on http://www.centristp...iczo.com/?cr=5.

You guys are making a mockery of what I am trying to create I think it is best if you engage in discussion about the fact that both the parties are not working for all Canadians and they could care less if voter intention goes down and more voters will turn away from voting. That is what I want being discussed.

Harper and his party members are beneath the way it means to act Canadian.

I will never be like Harper and nominate celebrities but people who know what they are doing and are capable people who have experience in growing jobs and in small business. That is where the jobs are and where opportunity is had.

Well I only mentioned Joe Clark, David Orchard and Danny Williams since they are statesmen who are worthy of the House of Commons and we need to send people of principle and not bottom feeders.

Harper wanted to model his party not after the PC party which tried to tackle Trudeau's deficit but instead wanted to model it after Ronald Reagan's party from 1980 onward which he was the one who created the largest deficit at the time and it only got worse until what you see right now which is a country on the verge of depression and being owned by China. I hope Canada seeks trade with other countries and gets away from being America's main trading partner. It would do us good in the long run.

The Conservatives claim to be fiscally responsible but they are the biggest spending government of all time and they have created larger government but the Liberals gave the Conservatives the best possible fiscal situation in the entire G7 in 2005-2006 so the Conservatives just claimed the situation and said it was their doing. Never give neoconservatives government because they just create debt and deficit.

That is why no Canadian should ever be loyal to just one political party and that is the reason why our system of government is in tatters and that is why Canadians need to constantly be looking for another choice to vote for. In terms of the principles of what they both stand for they both stand for increasing the size of the military, health care being just public, both for same sex marriage and abortion, both for freedom of religion, almost the same policy on the economy, both are with big business pretty much. Yup no real choice in who to vote for.