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Canada is doing pretty damn well, and has done well under Harper. Keep doing what you're doing Steve.

Yet, Canada has slipped in most comparative indexes over the last decade. Health, Education, Innovation, Competitiveness, Happiness, Press Freedom, gender equality, child poverty, etc. are all down. 'Keep doing, what you're doing Steve' if you're aiming for eventual 3rd world status.

Shady, again with the deflection. I don't support Iran...but why do you support SA when it is the largest source of state funds for groups like ISIS? Yet at the same time encourage wars against terrorist groups? #hypocrite

Shady is too dim to see his accusations of hypocrisy implicate him as well.

Because it creates jobs for Canadians. Give Saudi Arabia weapons. Canadians get jobs making instruments of destruction. Saudi Arabia gives those weapons to ISIS. Canadians get jobs policing the Middle East. It's all part of the economic strategy of the Harper Government™.

I think CC is claiming that history is more complicated than some let on.

BS

Was the Rediscovery not dependent on Arabic translations of the texts? If I'm going to play your broken logic game, DOP, this is the part where I claim you're denying that the texts were convert to and from Arabic in the Rediscovery. You're "denying" any of that happened.

You're not. You're just bringing up something irrelevant from hundreds of years prior because Muslims are bad. We can't talk about the good things that have come from them. They bur...

It's not about colour or race. It's about radical Islamic ideology.

Call it whatever you want, Harper is cashing in! The only problem Harper has is that it doesn't happen enough for him to get a bigger poll boost and ME aggressive expansion campaign.

Imagined, radical, Islamic, ideology.

I'm in a pretty solid NDP riding, so my vote is immaterial. But, every time I think of actively supporting the NDP again, they start playing games tossing principles overboard to get elected! Than said: #1 objective is still anyone but the Cons.

What TM actually said was they would let the subway go ahead. Very different from "promising a subway."

"Let"? Are they to stop it? They have no jurisdiction over provincial infrastructure. That statement is even more stupid than what I thought he said.

OK Shady.

Here is a question though, has anybody ever gotten something of value out of over a hundred million bucks worth of Econ. Action Plan advertising...

Andrew Coyne had it right. Conservatives like Shady are just going to repeat the mantra that Harper can do no wrong. Even when he's blowing millions on useless garbage and racking up more debt than any previous governments. Harper has the worst economic record since RB Bennett. Yet, Conservatives like Shady don't live in reality. They don't care about the numbers.

And projections are she will surpass him. At last count only about 400K to go.

She has a long way to go to catch Barack 2008... I thought she already passed Barack 2012. I could be wrong.

http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2016/12/hillary_clinton_inching_closer.html

What's the strawman, Shady?

I notice Harper gets a little shaky, (or is that shady?) when Trudeau gets to his feet and quotes the latest IMF report. Then there's that 46,000 jobs lost last month.

Forget the snapshots, they're almost meaningless. The trend over the last 7 years has been lower net job creation than more than half the OECD. For a party that markets itself on Jobs and Growth, they're not doing much for jobs growth.

I guess now we don't really need their oil that much we may as well go ahead and bomb them.

Got it, sorry. You did say that in your opening. My mind was on the recent events. My bad.

WWWTT, CC states that we can't afford PM Harper's government so this leads to the question as to who can we afford, is the NDP going to cause the same problems a different way? As it stands at the moment if you are stating that we cannot afford the conservatives you are implying that we can afford the NDP

And the NDP or Liberals are going to be more business friendly? This stat is of course skewed by the World recession that is still bein felt.

LOL! It's the recession!

You keep saying it's the same and the entire point is it's not, both qualitatively and empirically.

Fine, it's same same but different. The "greatest"generation got the depression and war. The baby boomers got the Cold War a booming economy, Woodstock, then stagflation then high interest rates etc. Gen X got the end of disco and the beginning of grunge. Millennials? We'll see what they get. The point is each generation gets a raw deal and gets its share of opportunities. stop complaining and do something. 

Millennials get to own dubstep. Poor bastards.

I hate Hillary. You're just changing the channel because you can't admit that Trump calling for Hillary to be assassinated is a non-partisan issue. How you two can still support him is beyond me. It shows that you care more about teams, than having any sort of principles.

OK Einstein, please show me where I have ever supported Trump. If you equate pointing out the absurdity of the left's outrageous "Clinton assassination" claim, with "supporting Trump", then you are even more simple than I thought. You're probably the most partisan person on this message board, so to be calling someone else partisan is actually pretty comical.

Again, Republicans have criticized him for it as well but you keep talking about your favourite strawman, "the left."

The USA is NOT Canada's go to excuse each election cycle.

Then tell Shady to stop bringing it up.

I guess the boys got their wires crossed there somehow

I personally think he just doesn't want to be seen as turning down $15B in business.

So coward, I suppose.

The so called 'liberals' advocate job discrimination on the basis of what's between someone's legs. It's not just the conservatives.

Shady already mentioned that. Too bad those policies are to alleviate discrimination, eh?

Two wrongs don't make a right.

That's probably correct. I think that has to do with who he had to choose from and who could best fit in each position, in his view. As the Liberals say, they see all of the ministers as equals. They may change the rate of pay for Ministers of State to reflect that.

Update from CBC:

a senior government source speaking on background told CBC News that what was presented to the public on Wednesday is, in fact, what's real: all 30 are full ministers.

Some of the Treasury Board statutes pertaining to cabinet roles, however, have to be changed to give all these roles full ministerial status and salaries, retroactive to Wednesday.

You Ontarians need a "none of the above" box on your ballots this time around.

ONDP are a good alternative! Hudak is too right wing!

Yes we need a none of the above box because as Boges mentioned, stock footage is tantamount to $1 billion dollars wasted.

I said another. I didn't say the other. Learn the English language maybe?

Tell us again how you're not a Conservative.

I'm not. There's a good chance that in the next provincial election I could vote NDP (I did last time but they are getting a bit long in the tooth).

I fail to see how your response is relevant given the question I asked. Did you not understand my question perhaps? I specifically asked about shootings, not Homicides. Further to that I really don't believe any person has killed thousands in Toronto. As such I would say your response is undisputably meaningless hyperbole.

Full power to the strawman Angus! You keep pushing your strawman, hold it up high for everyone to see, then exclaim, "Behold everyone, the debate is now about what I present to you! Everything else that anyone may bring forward to the debate has no relevance! Therefore, I am right!"

Now you have me laughing. You talk about strawmen right after you post some hypothetical nonsense about killing thousands and being heralded a hero! Do you actually read what you post? Your original statement was a strawman of such epic proportions that you hands down win the irrelevant post of the decade without contest.

I actually have trouble seeing why. A school is a government entity that receives government funding...at least most are, anyway.

That's what I figured. They got one particular judge out of hundreds to rule in their favour. Easily appealable if the school wanted, but not in time for the prom most likely.

Smallc: Chances are there just haven't been any legal challenges that invoked the Charter before.

Agree with Boges.

6.8%

The NDP will pay back whatever a court decides it should pay back.