Conservative Anniversary

[tml12]

Canada has its own identity the Harper gang would have us change ourselves to blend with the USA.

Evidence of this, or are you just doing a margrace style "HARPER IS AMERICAN!" drive by slander?

There is no evidence of that, it's just been the Liberal rhetoric over the past 35+ years.

[Saturn]

A full year in office and Canada's New Government has accomplished nothing besides brainwashing the public into thinking that they have achieved something.

The Federal Accountability Act provided only 1/3 of the measures they had promised. Aside from reducing political donations to $1,100 and protecting whistleblowers by giving them $1,500 for legal advise, the FAA won't do a thing to "clean up government". The FAA is a pathetic joke. In the meantime, Steve has been appointing friends left and right to all sorts of positions - appointments which were supposed to be made by an independent committee.

Transparency in the Conservative government comes down to running a tight dictatorship, choosing which questions can be asked by the media, releasing documents that are so heavily blacked out that only the column titles can be seen and occasionally leaking info to gauge reaction and adjust policy accordingly.

Tightening jail terms for criminals while judges are in short supply and line-ups at the courts are getting longer won't do a thing to reduce crime.

The Childcare plan came down to telling women "Here's a 1,200 bucks in taxable income, now stay home and take care of your kids" and giving working women a choice between leaving their kids with the lady down the street who runs a daycare in her basement with a dozen kids in front of the TV or well, staying home.

The 1% drop in the GST amounted to $100 in annual savings for the average family and the cost savings which were supposed to trickle down to the consumer, well, they got lost along the way, duh! The result is minimal savings for Canadians, which were more than wiped off by increasing personal income tax rates, and a $5 billion waste that could have been put to much better use, such as paying down the debt or investing in infrastructure.

Wait times, well, we know what happened to those. Steve may end up getting some sort of a promise for wait times reduction on one type of procedure for preschoolers and then he will hail it as some sort of universal fix for the whole health care system.

The fiscal imbalance will be fixed by dumping more money in Quebec. Another great fix and "a promise kept".

On the environmental front, Steve's Clean Air Act got a lot of bashing, so he has taken it upon himself to re-introduce all the old Liberal environmental programs, which he canceled only a year ago, under new names. They were completely useless do-nothing programs a year ago, but now they will suddenly become effective. Next thing you know, he will be re-opening all the Status of Women offices he closed down.

Harper got us deeper into Afghanistan and he's handing out contracts left and right for military equipment, while at the same time our military doesn't have money for fuel to patrol our coasts. Good job, Steve!

Overall, the Conservatives have proven to be even more hypocritical and incompetent than expected. It's time to end this experiment called "Canada's New Government".

[jbg]

The Conservatives know they can't reshape Canada in their perverted image without a majority, but they also know they can't show their real hand before they get it or else they never will. Now I understand they've already fooled you and that's fine, but don't come at me with weak crap like that argument.

I am not a Canadian, and in fact know little about its system. Isn't it true, though, that even a majority can melt away by virtue of party defections (think post-1988 PCPC government)? Isn't that a major check on what this supposed homicidal maniac could do.

[geoffrey]

Sure. CUPE thinks it's my responsibility to raise others children. That's wrong in my opinion.

But you are the first to scream in support of forcing people to have children against their wishes, no?

Do you read anything I have to say? That's not at all my position on the abortion issue.

[jdobbin]

I am not a Canadian, and in fact know little about its system. Isn't it true, though, that even a majority can melt away by virtue of party defections (think post-1988 PCPC government)? Isn't that a major check on what this supposed homicidal maniac could do.

Sort of like how Democrats became Republicans? Of course I don't know much about America. Is it the land that we fly over to get to Mexico?

[Melanie_]

Is it the land that we fly over to get to Mexico?

Yep. Cuba, too, just where all of us 'Peggers wish we were every January.

[Ricki Bobbi]

Do you read anything I have to say? That's not at all my position on the abortion issue.

Of course he doesn't read what you right.

All he does is accuse of of *screaming* for daring to disagree with him.

[Saturn]

Sure. CUPE thinks it's my responsibility to raise others children. That's wrong in my opinion.

But you are the first to scream in support of forcing people to have children against their wishes, no?

Do you read anything I have to say? That's not at all my position on the abortion issue.

I read about you being a practicing Catholic and about you opposing the evils of gay marriage and abortion, which was nothing but a murder. That's the general stance of Conservative supporters: Force people to have unwanted children but don't make us pay a penny for these children because children are their parents' responsibility, not ours. As usual, Conservatives are completely inconsistent in their opinions.

[tml12]

Sure. CUPE thinks it's my responsibility to raise others children. That's wrong in my opinion.

But you are the first to scream in support of forcing people to have children against their wishes, no?

Do you read anything I have to say? That's not at all my position on the abortion issue.

I read about you being a practicing Catholic and about you opposing the evils of gay marriage and abortion, which was nothing but a murder. That's the general stance of Conservative supporters: Force people to have unwanted children but don't make us pay a penny for these children because children are their parents' responsibility, not ours. As usual, Conservatives are completely inconsistent in their opinions.

I'm a practicing Catholic too but the Church's views do not always influence my politics. Lots of Catholics are self-described "Christian Socialist Communitarians" who support a strong welfare state and are moderate on social issues (not me, by the way). These individuals are also supportive of troop withdrawal.

Don't think religion plays a role in everyone's politics.

[jdobbin]

I'm a practicing Catholic too but the Church's views do not always influence my politics. Lots of Catholics are self-described "Christian Socialist Communitarians" who support a strong welfare state and are moderate on social issues (not me, by the way). These individuals are also supportive of troop withdrawal.

Don't think religion plays a role in everyone's politics.

Won't you go to hell for disagreeing with the Pope? How is Catholicism work? Is it a buffet where you pick and choose among the rules?

[tml12]

I'm a practicing Catholic too but the Church's views do not always influence my politics. Lots of Catholics are self-described "Christian Socialist Communitarians" who support a strong welfare state and are moderate on social issues (not me, by the way). These individuals are also supportive of troop withdrawal.

Don't think religion plays a role in everyone's politics.

Won't you go to hell for disagreeing with the Pope? How is Catholicism work? Is it a buffet where you pick and choose among the rules?

Catholics do not go to hell for disagreeing with the Pope...there is much open dialogue within the Church about various issues. Probably 95% disagree with, say, partial birth abortion but lots of other issues can go 50-50.

Your comment represents a complete blissful ignorance of our religion.