CBC loses court case

[Guest Derek L]

Sorta like the ones where you call Harper a dictator and assume he'll fuck up the country?

I'll make a claim. In four years the Global economy will finally be turning around and Harper will get credit for it. Prove me wrong!

You’re wrong, PM Harper will declare himself Generalissimo Harper, dissolves Parliament, lock-up all dissenters into his new Gulags, then realize, hey, we don’t need any further elections…….Didn’t you get the group email on the secret agenda?

Remember:

-John has a long moustache

-The chair is against the wall

-There is a fire at the travel agency

-It wounds my heart with a monotonous languor

[olp1fan]

harpers already undemocratically pro rogued parliament to save his ass before

.. twice!!

[Guest Derek L]

harpers already undemocratically pro rogued parliament to save his ass before

.. twice!!

That’s why he should just dissolve it……..Think of the money that could be saved………

[blueblood]

Sorta like the ones where you call Harper a dictator and assume he'll fuck up the country?

I'll make a claim. In four years the Global economy will finally be turning around and Harper will get credit for it. Prove me wrong!

Oh I don't know about that. There are some big global structural problems in the global economy that will take a long time to fix. If Harper can keep unemployment where it is, he will have done well, which will be tricky because ontario's jobs can be done in Asia.

The global economy is harpers main concern and could very well sink him next election.

[blueblood]

assume? hes already fucking up the country

Yes saskatchewans unemployment rate at 3.7% and billboards with job offers in Alberta and Saskatchewan are really screwing up the country...

Edited November 25, 2011 by blueblood

[Smallc]

Manitoba doesn't exactly have an employment shortage, either.

[blueblood]

Manitoba doesn't exactly have an employment shortage, either.

True, but I haven't seen billboards with job offers.... Yet......

[WWWTT]

Yes saskatchewans unemployment rate at 3.7% and billboards with job offers in Alberta and Saskatchewan are really screwing up the country...

Keep holding your breath BB!

WWWTT

[Smallc]

True, but I haven't seen billboards with job offers.... Yet......

You and I live in the wrong part of Manitoba for that.

[blueblood]

Keep holding your breath BB!

WWWTT

Keep holding my breath for what?

[Evening Star]

Another hunch?

Why didn’t they vote in the last federal election? The Tories, promised their crime bill, the F-35, prisons, cuts to government spending, scraping the long gun registry, all well involved in Libya, and it didn’t seem to trigger a response in terms of voter turnout………Now they are delivering (to a degree) or in the process of, on what they spoke about……..What has changed between then and now…..we’re talking a mater of months………I’d say the biggest impact on the next federal election, that has occurred to date, will be the death of Jack Layton.

The next federal election battle will be between the Liberals and NDP fighting for title of official opposition……

The real question for the next election will be if the Liberal Party can claw back the left of center and progressive vote from the NDP…….

I think it's really too early to say anything. Even a month before the last election, I knew of exactly one person who thought the NDP would become Official Opposition. Even on Babble, no one else really took that proposition seriously.

[Guest Derek L]

I think it's really too early to say anything. Even a month before the last election, I knew of exactly one person who thought the NDP would become Official Opposition. Even on Babble, no one else really took that proposition seriously.

For the most part I concur…..four years is a lifetime in politics and anything could happen, be it caused by the various parties, in both a positive and negative (Based on where you stand) light in the public’s eye, and/or event(s) could occur, by no fault or design, of the various parties that could effect each parties fortunes in positive and negative light (Again based on your viewpoint)

I will suggest and predict (Granted from a biased and to a small degree, and inside vantage point) that any and all potentially “controversial” bills/legislation/agendas/decrees/manifestos etc will be tabled, voted on and passed prior to the summer break in 2012.…..at the latest mid fall of next year, around the same as the US presidential elections……..after that, and up to our next Federal election, PM Harper will become the Canadian version of Ward Cleaver……..after winning said election, rinse and repeat.

Barring some political scandal, with traction, or World events truly out of Harper’s control, but would impact Canadians in a negative way, causing the Tories to bare the brunt, I think Harper’s (and the CPC) destiny is his own to set……….Once Harper retires, as it stands currently, I’m not as optimistic with the Tories fortunes.

[olp1fan]

oops

Edited November 25, 2011 by olp1fan

[Guest Derek L]

I'm sure Harper wants to be Canadas longest serving Prime Minister..but he has to beat Pierre Trudeau's 15 years as PM

You need to open a history book........See PM King and Macdonald

[olp1fan]

You need to open a history book........See PM King and Macdonald

hence the oops

[Guest Derek L]

hence the oops

To beat King's record, PM Harper would have to be Prime Minster until ~2028, putting him at 69 years of age.....it's possible.........and he'd be the longest consecutive serving Prime Minster.......

[olp1fan]

According to what happened today the Cons are backing off CBC

so they lose, Canadians win

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/1091899--releasing-records-would-undermine-competitive-position-cbc-says?bn=1

A Federal Court of Appeal decision released Wednesday said that had the committee read them and commented on them, the matter would have been rendered moot.

Conservative MP Dean Del Mastro, the parliamentary secretary to the Prime Minister who had put forward the motion, told the committee Thursday that he no longer saw the need to read those documents and so agreed to return them to the CBC.

That had opposition MPs saying the government had climbed down from the brink of interference with the judicial system.

“We were at a point, potentially, of constitutional crisis,” NDP MP Charlie Angus (Timmins–James Bay) told reporters after the meeting. “I’m glad the Conservatives have backed down on this because what they were doing was very dangerous.”

Edited November 25, 2011 by olp1fan

[Guest Derek L]

According to what happened today the Cons are backing off CBC

so they lose, Canadians win

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/1091899--releasing-records-would-undermine-competitive-position-cbc-says?bn=1

A Federal Court of Appeal decision released Wednesday said that had the committee read them and commented on them, the matter would have been rendered moot.

Conservative MP Dean Del Mastro, the parliamentary secretary to the Prime Minister who had put forward the motion, told the committee Thursday that he no longer saw the need to read those documents and so agreed to return them to the CBC.

That had opposition MPs saying the government had climbed down from the brink of interference with the judicial system.

“We were at a point, potentially, of constitutional crisis,” NDP MP Charlie Angus (Timmins–James Bay) told reporters after the meeting. “I’m glad the Conservatives have backed down on this because what they were doing was very dangerous.”

Forgot to add:

Some of the disputed requests were made by media outlets owned by Quebecor Inc., whose newspapers and television network have been running an ongoing series of negative stories on the spending habits of what they call the “state broadcaster.”

“Quebecor’s strategy is clear,” Lacroix told MPs on Thursday. “Their properties will continue with their campaign. They believe they can benefit from diminishing the role of the public broadcaster. They have a self-interested agenda and they will continue to use Access to Information and do stories in their newspapers and on their television stations to pursue it.”

[olp1fan]

Forgot to add:

Quebecor can keep trying but the Cons won't push the CBC anymore

They've realized that they should pick their fights carefully

[Guest Derek L]

Quebecor can keep trying but the Cons won't push the CBC anymore

They've realized that they should pick their fights carefully

No, they’ll regroup and implement a different strategy….

[olp1fan]

No, they’ll regroup and implement a different strategy….

like amending laws? isn't that machiovillain

[Guest Derek L]

like amending laws? isn't that machiovillain

machiovillain? Who's that? A Wrestler?

It's Machiavellian and no

[olp1fan]

sounds pretty underhanded to me

maybe the next time the libs should get a majority they should ban the cpc from elections

Edited November 25, 2011 by olp1fan

[Guest Derek L]

sounds pretty underhanded to me

maybe the next time the libs should get a majority they should ban the cpc from elections

You forgot, Generalissimo Harper isn’t going to be burdened with further elections

[olp1fan]

You forgot, Generalissimo Harper isn’t going to be burdened with further elections

hey if anyones capable of calling martial law to get his way its harpo

the man constantly called coalitions undemocratic but the thing is that'd mean the current british government is undemocratic

Edited November 25, 2011 by olp1fan