Big Blue Machine Posted June 26, 2004 Report Share Posted June 26, 2004 If you were premier of whatever of province you live in, would you support the federal party? I would if I was popular in the province. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamcanadian Posted June 26, 2004 Report Share Posted June 26, 2004 I think that premier's should stay out of the federal campaigns. The best example at the moment would be Dalton McGuinty, he has not helped the Liberal cause purely as a result of his unpopular budget. This is a quote from todays Ottawa Citizen: "Paul Martin's campaign team believes Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty is damaging the prime minister's election prospects every time he speaks, and have asked him to disappear from sight until the federal election is over." It is probably wise that premiers stay out of the federal elections unless otherwise asked by leaders of the federal parties to participate. They may be of the same party in principle but keep in mind that premiers are only interested in what is good for there Province. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
August1991 Posted June 26, 2004 Report Share Posted June 26, 2004 Should Bill Clinton, Geo. Bush (Jnr/Snr), Jacques Chirac, Vladimir Putin, Tony Blair or Michael Moore get involved in a Canadian federal election? Why not? Dalton McGuintey, Jean Charest and Bernard Lord at least are Canadian citizens and presumably will have to make a final choice about where to put an X. This is just politics. (BTW, why are editorials in English newspapers not signed by the journalist? Do all members of the Globe & Mail editorial board support the Liberals?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reverend Blair Posted June 26, 2004 Report Share Posted June 26, 2004 (BTW, why are editorials in English newspapers not signed by the journalist? Do all members of the Globe & Mail editorial board support the Liberals?) The unsigned editorials are the view of the editorial board of a publication. A balanced paper will publish opinion pieces that support and counter the editorial board's viewpoint. If you want a good example of what the op-ed pages should look like, pick up a Winnipeg Free Press for a few days. It is, editorially, a pretty conservative paper. If you read the opinion pieces (the signed bits) in the same paper you will find that it shifts left, right and centre. Should Bill Clinton, Geo. Bush (Jnr/Snr), Jacques Chirac, Vladimir Putin, Tony Blair or Michael Moore get involved in a Canadian federal election? Why not? Yes they should. Our policies affect them and theirs affect us. They, and their citizens, cannot vote in our election but they should be able to scream from the roof-tops, just like we scream from ours when they have an election. This is just politics. Everything is "just politics." Politics have a very real effect on all of us though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caesar Posted June 26, 2004 Report Share Posted June 26, 2004 Premiers are voters too and have every right to get involved in Federal elections.. However, I think that any involvement of BC Liberals would be detrimental to the Federal party. These BC Liberals are right wing Conservatives and would not be welcome. It is confusing to many uninformed BC ers who are confusing the two. The Conservatives will get votes in BC from people who hate the BC Liberals who spout the same rhetoric as Harper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caesar Posted June 26, 2004 Report Share Posted June 26, 2004 August; the globe and mail is a pretty open minded paper. It is the Can West papers that all spout the same conservative nonsense ( the support the BC Liberals, too) Can West has too much control of what we are told. The own most of the newspapers, tv stations, and radio stations. We are not getting unbiased news anymore; propaganda and nonsense. Much of what should be of interest and public knowledge is ignored when it doesn't go with the conservative right wing notions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
takeanumber Posted June 26, 2004 Report Share Posted June 26, 2004 Last time I checked it was a free country for the most part. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Blue Machine Posted June 26, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 26, 2004 Anyone else opinions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Blue Machine Posted June 27, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 27, 2004 I think Michael Moore should keep his fat nose out of this federal election! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idealisttotheend Posted June 27, 2004 Report Share Posted June 27, 2004 I agree that Moore and Nader have no buisness trying to 'influence' the result in this country. Moore should stick to America until and unless he proves he actually understands the issues etc. As for Nader, I thought it was common courtesy to stay out of other nation's elections? I think if the provincial premiers got involved in the federal campaign it would only cause confusion. After all the Charest and Campbell Liberals are really Conservatives, the PC party doesn't exist federally anymore and the NDP is quite electable on the east coast and in the west which is different from the NDPs situation in Ontario. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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