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Who will be the next leader of the land of hockey players, seal beaters, and poutine eaters? Who will be the next leader of the land of hockey players, seal beaters, and poutine eaters?

09-17-2015 , 08:57 PM
wow harper tried the "other parties want to throw open the door to hundreds of thousands of syrians" type card
09-18-2015 , 09:45 AM
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Originally Posted by uke_master
Anyways, you never answered the question. Why the NDP hate when, imo, they are so damned similar to the libs?
the NDP irks me. too socialist. i'll be honest though, i really dont know much and my post was based on broad assumptions. i dont know much about any platforms.

just know cons right, libs middle, ndp left. dont even know where green is. i'm guessing also left.

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Originally Posted by uke_master
anyone watching teh debate? mulcair far better than trudeau first 15
I need cliffs on debate. Will look for a good online source.
09-18-2015 , 01:23 PM
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Originally Posted by housenuts
the NDP irks me. too socialist. i'll be honest though, i really dont know much and my post was based on broad assumptions. i dont know much about any platforms.

just know cons right, libs middle, ndp left. dont even know where green is. i'm guessing also left.
Green is very much left-wing. NDP are no further left than the Libs at this point, and don't really know what they want to be under Mulcair imo.
09-18-2015 , 01:55 PM
There was a time calling the NDP socialists was accurate, but no more, and certainly not anywhere close to mulcair.

Consider their big policies. They want a balanced budget, unlike the liberals. They want to cut small business taxes. They want to freeze income taxes, unlike the liberals which are taxing the wealthy more. THey want corporate tax rate far beneath the Chretien years and below the average on the harper years. They want the cap and trade program the liberals have previously supported. They want the child care program the liberals previously supported and all parties are dumping money into. They don't go as far on pot as the liberals. Both the liberals and the NDP want to end income splitting. Etc etc etc

See what I mean?
09-28-2015 , 11:10 PM
I missed it but caught The National. So who won the debate? "The threat we face today is not CSIS, it is ISIS!"
09-29-2015 , 09:04 AM
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Originally Posted by Oroku$aki
I missed it but caught The National. So who won the debate? "The threat we face today is not CSIS, it is ISIS!"
Munk center?
09-29-2015 , 02:50 PM
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Originally Posted by uke_master
There was a time calling the NDP socialists was accurate, but no more, and certainly not anywhere close to mulcair.

Consider their big policies. They want a balanced budget, unlike the liberals. They want to cut small business taxes. They want to freeze income taxes, unlike the liberals which are taxing the wealthy more. THey want corporate tax rate far beneath the Chretien years and below the average on the harper years. They want the cap and trade program the liberals have previously supported. They want the child care program the liberals previously supported and all parties are dumping money into. They don't go as far on pot as the liberals. Both the liberals and the NDP want to end income splitting. Etc etc etc

See what I mean?

Thats the thing with all their promises no way they run a balanced budget. I respect Trudeau for telling the truth were gonna run defecits. Any party that says we will not is lying. Even Harpers recent balanced budget is a myth
09-29-2015 , 03:24 PM
Sadly for the NDP, the main reason what you say is very likely true is that they don't have the balls to propose substantive revenue increasing measures. Income tax frozen, small business cut, corporate tax less than libs and less than average under cons. There just isn't money to do increasing spending more than a small percentage so they throw out a couple little token programs, can't pay for even those, and still get called socialists

Not that there is anything wrong with a few tens of billions of deficits.
10-02-2015 , 08:07 PM
kinda disappointed that trudeau has trouble speaking french
10-02-2015 , 09:03 PM
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Originally Posted by lumberajack
Ofcourse he is.

I'm ready for the election to be over, it's been over a month of Facebook friends arguing who to vote for and all I see when I turn on the news. I don't know how the Americans do it.
10-03-2015 , 07:33 PM
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Originally Posted by lumberajack
Here's the other side of the argument, 'infinitely worse than tobacco' apparently. What century are we in again?

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...ticle26641248/
10-05-2015 , 10:37 PM
I have no respect for the blatant lies about facts. Like I get that every politician will sell/market their position but to say that marijuana is 'infinitely worse than tobacco' is too much for me to handle. Let's try not to get to the American standard where we just make **** up with no regard to the truth whatsoever.
10-07-2015 , 08:23 AM
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Originally Posted by Shifty86
Ofcourse he is.

I'm ready for the election to be over, it's been over a month of Facebook friends arguing who to vote for and all I see when I turn on the news. I don't know how the Americans do it.
Whats funnier is they spend a year picking the leader of the party and rip each other to shreds and tell you how they suck. Than they all say the guy they pick is great. US politics is so screwed
10-09-2015 , 10:34 AM
Now Harper is blocking refugees?
10-09-2015 , 10:45 AM
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Originally Posted by lozen
Now Harper is blocking refugees?
Most micromanaging PM ever. Still didn't know about Mike Duffy though.
10-11-2015 , 11:05 PM
Well never thought I would ever say this as an Born and raised Albertan. Voted NDP in the provincial and Trudeau in the federal I guess hell has frozen over
10-15-2015 , 11:24 AM
I'm still at a loss with my vote.
Voted con in the past.
Still an open vote right now.
10-15-2015 , 09:35 PM
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Originally Posted by housenuts
I'm still at a loss with my vote.
Voted con in the past.
Still an open vote right now.
Riding? What are your bigger issues you care about?
10-18-2015 , 05:22 PM
The one thing that gets me is we have the CDN Advertising council and the adds that are exempt are political. Harper's ads are blatant lies .
10-19-2015 , 01:29 PM
HuffPo Canada projects


CBC poll tracker projects
Con: 118
Lib: 146
NDP: 66
Grn: 1
BQ: 7

(170 needed for majority)

It'll be interesting to see if there's a similar case to the UK polling in their federal this year, where conservative performance was widely underestimated by pollsters. Last (Canadian) election this type of thing happened, and Conservatives outperformed their projected pop vote share by 4%, while Lib and NDP underperformed by 1% each.

Last edited by STA654; 10-19-2015 at 01:36 PM.
10-19-2015 , 04:03 PM
Jean-Marc Leger (biggest pollster in Quebec) thinks English Canadian pollsters are bad at polling in Quebec (maybe cause 80% of us are FRENCH?). I hope he's right and that the Bloc is underestimated. I'd like them to get 12 seats for official party status. Gilles Duceppe is by far the most progressive leader of the major parties.

Other than that, I'm hoping for a Liberal government. Not because Justin is anything special, but Harper and Mulcair are lol.

      
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