Bill C-6 Debate Filibuster Drinking Game

[cybercoma]

Harper has changed the election funding landscape so that parties have no choice but to kowtow to their base for funding. He then tacitly backed the lockout and introduced legislation that would force the union to take less than it had already bargained out of management. What choice does the NDP have but to take radical action in defense of its traditional base?

Another great perspective on it.

[Evening Star]

Harper has changed the election funding landscape so that parties have no choice but to kowtow to their base for funding. He then tacitly backed the lockout and introduced legislation that would force the union to take less than it had already bargained out of management. What choice does the NDP have but to take radical action in defense of its traditional base?

If someone were truly cynical and Machiavellian, he or she might deliberately do this in order to further marginalize the Opposition and paint them as dangerous radicals. That would be cynical and Machiavellian though.

[Evening Star]

Admittedly, the NDP haven't helped themselves out much by failing to drop that Commie stuff from the preamble to the party constitution.

[CPCFTW]

More to the point, they're trying to paint the NDP as socialists, bent on destroying the economy by tying up legislation that would get the mail moving again. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Stephen Harper could call Deepak Chopra and end the lockout right now. CUPW workers would go back to work on a rotating strike, which would allow the mail to continue to be delivered. The Conservative caucus is dishonestly trying to blame the postal stoppage on the unions, when it was the Labour Minister and Canada Post that stopped the mail. She said, and I quote, "We will not table back to work legislation until the mail stops." Two days later, Deepak Chopra locked the doors and legislation was tabled that rolled back Canada Post's last offer. Clearly, the Conservative government and Canada Post have brought the postal system to a grinding halt, not the unions. Yet they continue, for over 40 hours now, to blame the union, employees and the NDP for this. In this way, they benefit by knowing the bill will be passed anyway, but they also get the opportunity to slander the NDP in the process.

How is that to the point of a filibuster drinking game thread?

And why would they end the lockout so that the workers can resume rotating strikes when the lockout was because of lost revenue from the rotating strikes?

Edited June 25, 2011 by CPCFTW

[Evening Star]

Elizabeth May reads from the Parliamentary Rules handbook. Take a shot.

WTF was with her question just now? "We need to remember that unions are not always perfect and corporations are not always evil"? Is she filibustering too now?

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Heh, I guess I need to remember that she's probably completely sleep-deprived by now.

Edited June 25, 2011 by Evening Star

[cybercoma]

I'm disappointed she didn't read from the parliamentary rules handbook. I was looking forward to taking another shot.

When the members of the Bloc Quebecois break out the scotch, everyone take 2 shots.

[capricorn]

I couldn't even find a French-language stream of the whole debate, actually.

(I'm streaming. I don't have TV.)

ES, when you say "streaming" do you mean on the internet? On the CPAC site, you can click "floor" which is located under the video panel: then, there is no translation and you hear it in the language of the speaker. Works for me.

[Evening Star]

ES, when you say "streaming" do you mean on the internet? On the CPAC site, you can click "floor" which is located under the video panel: then, there is no translation and you hear it in the language of the speaker. Works for me.

Thanks! I was streaming on the CBC site.