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How do you get daycare for every Canadian chikld for $15/day without increasing taxes? Do you find his silence reassuring? The money fairy cometh?

Thatcher was the perfect leader for the Uk at a point when they were basically bankrupt. True, any dsiplay of spine by a leader paralyzes many with fear and loathing, but she did it right for the most part. She was the very first Brit leader in a generation or more who recognized that the social contract was not divorced from a need to pay for it.

I will defintiely check this out, if only because Oscar Isaac is a lead actor. That guy is on a serious roll the last couple of years, does a superior job in every movie..

I've been trying not to embarrass you by pointing out WHY the provinces, or at least Alberta, are notified. I can see you cannot help yourself though, politicizing a situation and thereby demonstrating that you don't understand and worse don't give a rats ass about those affected and what the actual result will be for them. I'll explain it slowly and simply, then you can jump in and start blustering again. The GIS supplements are paid only to low income seniors. If you have even a middling income, you don't get them at all in addition to OAS. In Alberta, the Alberta Seniors Benefit Program tops up the seniors income, and one of the qualifying criteria is that you are receiving GIS. So what is the net result? Follow carefully here Wally! If the senior was underpaid by OAS, they'll be overpaid by the Seniors Benefit. They will have gotten what they were entitled to, but from the wrong funding source. Most of the OAS underpayment is going to end up with the province, because the seniors have already been paid.

Waldo I just love your sources. Any comment from other candidates?

Nothing was caught by the Alberta government. Front and center in your own link: And this inexperienced retard running Human Services in AB might want to note that OAS is a federal program, none of which has much to do with Alberta. It does of course affect Albertans. The sole way the AB govt might be marginally affected is in the seniors supplements it provides- though OAS and the supplement are generally not inculded in taxable income\seniors benefits topups.

Do you think Mulroney should be executed for forcing NAFTA on an innocent Canadian population? Chretien jailed for failing to repeal it despite having promised just that, followed by 13 years of opportunity?

Deputy Ministers-civil servants-are not appointed from political parties. Even in Alberta. Until now. The normal career progression is serving as an Assistant Deputy Minister, often in several Ministries, then getting a crack at a DM position. Not this time. Why do you support corruption? Why do you hate freedom?

The civil service in Canada, even in Alberta, has not been polticized previously. Deputy Ministers and ADMs are traditionally not party hacks, they are professional bureaucrats and survive changes of government. The appointment of political types to a ministers staff is common, this is entirely different and new: appointing political types to senior civil service jobs. They should appoint ecperienced civil srvants to these posts, which has been the practice for... forever. Now they are appointing partisan hacks. That meets your approval? I expect more. Come on.

Ryan Goins might have played his way into Devon Travis' job.... Goins is a better fielder, his hitting is much improved and he is starting to get on base often and moving up in the batting order....and he can run too. Somebody needs to talk to Ben Revere about the concept of 'situational hitting'.

Now the NDP are appointing political hacks from elsewhere to the most senior civil service jobs. Truth and transparency in government, a fresh wind blowing through Alberta......... Why does it smell like a stale fart then? http://www.edmontonjournal.com/Veteran+strategist+appointed+civil+service+role/11288626/story.html

from the article : And all of those things exist in Canada, unchanged by Harper. Gun control and licensing: check. Universal health care: check. Good public education: check. What's the problem?

there is no Crown Corp for water. It is long long long past time for Canada to abandon supply management, with or without TPP.

Layton had the muscle to move the party to the middle, which both he and Mulcair know is essential to gaining power federally. It is and was the only logical step after their success in Quebec last time. I don't think Mulcair has the same swat.

Bingo. What happened to our young idealistic teacher?

Perhaps a further realignment is more accurate.... The Cons gained a majority by cannibalizing the center last election, from the Liberals. They could do that because enough Canadians were convinced that after 5 or 6 years they could not find that Secret Agenda. And that is where the votes have always been in Canada: we do tend to like politicians who squat hard in the middle, not matter what they call themselves. The NDP rank and file have rejected a shift for decades, and I am not convinced that Mulcair has the weight to do it. Layton could have and would have, except for that whole inconvenient death thing.

Jays are getting a reality check from the Yankees, two losses in a row.....

No that was not the conclusion, Gomery was not permitted to arrive at 'conclusions'. $2 million was what the Liberal Party decided was what they stole And you conveniently missed a couple of zeroes on the $200 million or so sent to lonelyheart Montrteal ad agencies.

I've gotten to the point where I don't watch Allen unless somebody reliable tells me it is really good. I don't know how he gets funding from producers any more, not many of his flicks make a profit. I saw a documentary called Amy recently, about the late Amy Winehouse. I didn't know much at all about her or her music beforehand. It is very well done. I still don't like her music much, but her story is pretty sad. She was pretty much betrayed by anybody she trusted. Worth seeing.

The Yankees lost in a bad way last night. They were ahead 4-2 in the 10th inning, and ended up losing in the 16th.

Ontario is so buried in debt that Wynne is running out of options to raise cash. It is hard to imagine that the ORPP will be solvent in a couple of decades if the principal is spent now. Oh well, another horrible legacy of our stupidity to be passed to our children...

Is there any way any federal govt in Canada can avoid boosting taxes and borrowing heavily for the foreseeable future?

I spent the weekend with a 6 week old baby. She had the same blissful lack of self awareness as some posters. Sorry for the thread drift.

It is part of an unsecret agenda.

Mostly the pollsters are ignored. Call display. No thanks. Same for web stuff.