Topic Importance in 2015 Election

Smallc · May 16, 2015

How about the issue of diversifying the Canadian economy beyond stripping and selling raw resources?

If that was all we did, you might have a point. Canada is, for example, a global leader in clean electricity from hydro power and exports a great deal of it. You don't think it's clean and you're wrong...about this too it seems.

msj · May 16, 2015

http://www.vancouversun.com/touch/story.html?id=11050670

Two surprising things about this latest poll:

First ...

"The NDP would win the popular vote in B.C. if a federal election were held tomorrow, according to a new poll,

35 per cent of decided voters in this province would cast their vote for the New Democrats, compared to

29 per cent for the Conservatives and

25 per cent for the Liberals."

There we have it ... the Orange wave continues.

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Not surprising at all. Look back at 1988 when the Federal NDP won the majority of seats in BC.

We have an important reason to vote for them: the Liberals are only able to win in urban centres (and even then, just a handful of seats) and the CPC wants to impose the Northern Gateway Pipeline on us which has led to a surprising number of people like me who vote for the BC Liberal party (who are closer to the CPC than Trudeau's LPC) to despise them and, therefore, hold our noses to vote for the NDP.

The hope is to have some kind of minority government where the NDP have enough power to prevent the pipeline.

Perhaps a dangerous game to play as I do not want the NDP this close to the levers of power but there it is.

With the NDP in power in AB, this could give an advantage to the CPC in BC in that some of us may let our guard down thinking that the provincial NDP will save us. I hope not.

Argus · May 16, 2015

What about Alberta? You need to pay attention to reality.

The PC party is not the Conservative party nor anything like it. It is the Liberal party wearing a blue dress, much like the federal PCs were. They had no small c conservative fiscal or social beliefs or policies.

Edited May 16, 2015 by Argus

jacee · May 19, 2015

I think the biggest issue in the next election is ... Harper.

Good review here:

harper-worst-prime-minister-history?

Michael Hardner · May 19, 2015

I really thought he would have the Pacific or Euro trade deal in hand by now, and maybe so did he.

It feels to me like the Harper era was mean to have these achievements at the centre, given his background and focus. Will he have something to announce by the end of the year ? If so, will people care at this point ?

jacee · June 9, 2015

Ya I think the Senate expense scandal is an election issue.

Perturbs me that we're paying expenses for Party business in particular:

http://www.cbc.ca/m/news/multimedia/senate-expenses-who-owes-what-1.3106114

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Edited June 9, 2015 by jacee

Keepitsimple · June 10, 2015

Predictable that CBC's Power & Politics never once mentioned that of the 30 senators with questionable expenses - 15 were Liberals and the 4 worst offenders were Liberals with expenses far greater than Duffy - and the 5 "least" offenders were Harper appointees. After all - the Duffy narrative makes it seem like it's all Conservatives - so why change it, right? Thanks again CBC for your objective reporting.

Link: http://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/exclusive-breakdown-of-sums-that-30-senators-are-alleged-to-owe-1.2411218

Derek 2.0 · June 10, 2015

Predictable that CBC's Power & Politics never once mentioned that of the 30 senators with questionable expenses - 15 were Liberals and the 4 worst offenders were Liberals with expenses far greater than Duffy - and the 5 "least" offenders were Harper appointees. After all - the Duffy narrative makes it seem like it's all Conservatives - so why change it, right? Thanks again CBC for your objective reporting.

Link: http://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/exclusive-breakdown-of-sums-that-30-senators-are-alleged-to-owe-1.2411218

And of course, P&P host Evan Solomon just got turfed for pimping high end art.........It seems the "star-power" at the CBC is just as bad as the Canadian Senate, yet nobody is calling to get rid of the CBC? It should be said, the Senate has nearly a $100 million annual budget, yet the CBC is over a billion...hmmm

Michael Hardner · June 10, 2015

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Lang#Conflict_of_interest_controversies

Amanda Lang - still employed.

"Toronto's NOW Magazine reported on January 16, 2015 that Lang "came to the defense" of Barrick Gold, a mining company that had employed her then husband, in an on-air CBC segment. [19]"

It's the right-wing journalists, it seems, who hold sway at the CBC. What do you think ?

Derek 2.0 · June 10, 2015

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Lang#Conflict_of_interest_controversies

Amanda Lang - still employed.

"Toronto's NOW Magazine reported on January 16, 2015 that Lang "came to the defense" of Barrick Gold, a mining company that had employed her then husband, in an on-air CBC segment. [19]"

It's the right-wing journalists, it seems, who hold sway at the CBC. What do you think ?

Lang's father was a PET cabinet Minister and her brother ran as a Federal Liberal.....to say nothing of her Keynesian economic commentary....Lang is hardly right-wing......that was O'Leary's shtick...

jacee · June 10, 2015

Liberals are right wing.

The Liberal machine is a corporate machine. Liberal 'charity for the poor working people' shtick is patronizing pap to soothe the masses, keep them subservient and pacified and 'grateful for the table scraps thrown in the street for them'. Keeps us from rioting, you know.

She's defending Barrick Gold fercrissakes.

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Conservatives, on the other hand, try to keep the masses (ie, us) living in fear so they can impose harsh restrictions on our freedoms ... to keep us from rioting.

When John Nuttall and Amanda Korody that drug-addled B.C. couple whose only connection to jihadi terrorists seemed to be an undercover RCMP officer pretending to be one were convicted this week, Blaney again assured us that ISIS has a knife to the nations throat and only C-51 can save us.

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Edited June 10, 2015 by jacee

Michael Hardner · June 10, 2015

Lang's father was a PET cabinet Minister and her brother ran as a Federal Liberal.....to say nothing of her Keynesian economic commentary....Lang is hardly right-wing......that was O'Leary's shtick...

Did not know these facts - thanks.

Derek 2.0 · June 12, 2015

Did not know these facts - thanks.

Don't get me wrong, I still think Lang should have been turfed too......

Bryan · June 12, 2015

The Liberal machine is a corporate machine.

That much is definitely true. It makes me laugh when people try to claim that the Conservative party is bound to corporate interests. Removing corporate funding and limiting individual contributions really took the knees out from under the LPC. It barely had any effect on the CPC, because their support was already primarily comprised of smaller donations from individuals.

PIK · June 15, 2015

The senate will have nothing to do with the election. You cant blame the senate on harper or the native thing. But hey keep on dreaming.

Argus · June 15, 2015

The senate will have nothing to do with the election. You cant blame the senate on harper or the native thing. But hey keep on dreaming.

It will certainly be mentioned by the opposition, to tie into their theme that Harper is distant and doesn't care about ordinary people. They will want to put him into the same collective group as well-off, corrupt senators. The NDP will certainly play off this theme, notwithstanding the fact that most of organized labour, which is their mainstay, is made up of relatively well-off, economically privileged public servants.

Vancouver King · June 15, 2015

The senate most certainly will be a key issue in the coming election. In fact, it is already taking a toll on Con/Lib support including the once thought unmovable Conservative core base. Testimony directly linking Harper's PMO to a political cover-up is now timed for early October, probably the final death blow for a tired, undeserving regime.

Ask yourselves this: what issues have contributed to the current Con/Lib astonishing decline and more to the point, what issues between now and the election will serve to turn them around?

PIK · June 15, 2015

And argus so will trudeau gaffes and tom's refusal to pay back the millions the NDP stole. But none of that will matter.

overthere · June 16, 2015

The NDP is also a corporate machine- big unions are big businesses too, with self serving agendas.

Keepitsimple · June 16, 2015

The NDP is also a corporate machine- big unions are big businesses too, with self serving agendas.

And you'll soon see them jump on the NDP bandwagon. Look for the unions to be throwing millions into anti-Harper ads.

cybercoma · June 16, 2015

The NDP is also a corporate machine- big unions are big businesses too, with self serving agendas.

Hence why they no longer have a double vote at conventions and the party banned their political contributions in Alberta. Keep trying to weave that false narrative about the NDP though.

Smallc · June 16, 2015

Hence why they no longer have a double vote at conventions and the party banned their political contributions in Alberta.

I think we should dwell on what used to happen. It's what you would do if we were talking about another party or group.

PIK · June 16, 2015

The problem with tom , who I actually like ,is the people behind him. He is going to have to silence the extreme left to win or they will bring him down.

overthere · June 16, 2015

Hence why they no longer have a double vote at conventions and the party banned their political contributions in Alberta. Keep trying to weave that false narrative about the NDP though.

The NDP in Alberta banned contributions tp poltical parties from both unions and corporations. Yesterday.

Oh, I see, you want us all to pretend it was in the spirit of 'improvements to democracy'. I get it. Let's all pretend that it wasn't done because the NDP doesn't get much in the way of corporate donations in AB, know that the level of union membership is low so that avenue of fundraising for themselves is limited, and that by doing this they starve their competition of a source of funds unavailable to them in any case. Should we be whispering?

And oh yeah unions nationally ARE big business that are also very secretive about what happens to their members money........Here is some more 'false narrative' about what big labour is up to to the tune of millions of bucks: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/unions-centre-left-interests-to-begin-ad-campaign-attacking-harpers-tories/article24924913/

overthere · June 16, 2015

The problem with tom , who I actually like ,is the people behind him. He is going to have to silence the extreme left to win or they will bring him down.

Worse: he will have to loudly and publicly move to the center, part of which will involve exorcising/gutting the left wing of his left wing party. The other part will be convincing centrist Canadians he is sincere in that. Good luck with both.