CanPol: May(?) 2011 Election. Vote today!

[Fake Boris]

Any competent observer can understand the ill effects of oil sands without resorting to rhetorical connotations.

This said, I wasn't aware that 'tar' was such a bad word in English.

[Asher]

Any competent observer can understand the ill effects of oil sands without resorting to rhetorical connotations.

This said, I wasn't aware that 'tar' was such a bad word in English.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_baby

[Fake Boris]

Okay, I read some overviews.

Layton clearly won the debate. He sealed it with this quote:

“That’s been a hashtag fail."

Followed up by his description of the temptations of crime life:

"With the bling and everything that comes with it."

And he has already won the French debate.
(translated freely):

"The Bloc has got a team of defensemen only. The NDP can score goals."

Edit: Duceppe's answer: "We've always had more player on the ice than you did."

[Fake Boris]

Duceppe: "Quebec has no choice to stand up at the UNESCO - it hasn't got a seat."

Hahahaha

[Wezil]

[Wezil]

Oink Oink.

Two Vaughan Conservatives have quit their riding association over a $10 million federal grant given to a health care project spearheaded by MP Julian Fantino’s former fundraisers.

“I’m a Canadian and a taxpayer first,” said Richard Lorello, who ran as a Conservative candidate in the riding in 2008. “It didn’t look right to me. If it was the Liberal party doing this, (the) Conservatives would be jumping up and down.”

Tracey Kent, a five-year member of the association, also resigned.

The federal government announced in March it would give $10 million to the Vaughan Health Campus of Care, a private non-profit group founded in 2007 with the intention of bringing a hospital to the city. Despite its population of 300,000, Vaughan doesn’t have a hospital.

Michael DeGasperis, the hospital group’s chair, and Sam Ciccolini, the director, ran Fantino’s successful byelection fundraising campaign in November 2010.

“It seems to me like we’re rewarding people for helping Mr. Fantino on his campaign,” Lorello said. “It doesn’t look right. It’s inappropriate.”

http://www.thestar.com/news/article/974515--vaughan-conservatives-quit-over-10-million-grant?bn=1

[notyoueither]

You are presuming it won't drop further.

I repeat, that is a huge one day drop.

How's this going for you?

[Ben Kenobi]

Must be your wildly successful tutoring business that took up all that time.

No, I picked up another full time job.

[Wezil]

How's this going for you?

Did I say something wrong. Did you not make that presumption?

[Wezil]

Your presumption was actually wrong. His leadership numbers are rising. See my comment on the public earlier.

Fortunately he is still stuck in actual poll numbers and cruising to yet another minority.

[Wezil]

Where we're at:

John Moore: What does it say about our country that the guy who wins a leaders’ debate is the one who can restrain himself from telling everyone to %$#@ off? If Canada were an eligible young lady and the leaders were suitors her best option might be to commit sati. Offered the choice of prime ministers in the room Tuesday night most Canadians would probably have selected moderator Steve Paikin. Second choice would be the guy who wants to break up the country.

It tells us even more that the loser was the guy who spent the most time talking about democracy. Imagine that, addressing this country’s democracy deficit during an election campaign. What was Michael Ignatieff thinking?

The Conservatives have bet on the fact that voters don’t care about pointy headed notions of Parliamentary democracy and the sad thing is that they are right. For five years the Prime Minister has treated Parliament as a nuisance. His ministers disregard the best-practices advice of the civil service and even go so far as to alter documents to insist otherwise. Top rank civil servants have been frozen out and fired for pointing it out. Stephen Harper’s disregard for Parliament is like a form of aphasia; the core message of his whole campaign is that he is incapable of working with a third minority mandate.

Scott Reid thinks Canadians care about this week’s dust up over a leaked Auditor-General’s report. But we already knew about the orgy of spending on bandstands and paddle boats. The only new allegation is that some fancy bookkeeping was involved and since no-one blinked when the Tories used fancy bookkeeping to overspend in the last election, why would they care now? I’ve grown so cynical about this government I now suspect the final draft of the A-G’s report is damning but the Conservatives are pretending to implore Shelia Fraser to release it while counting on the fact that she can’t and won’t. By the time Parliament reconvenes, who still will care?

It is wishful thinking on behalf of the Conservative’s enemies that this affair rivals the Sponsorship Scandal. To the average voter contempt for Parliament is an abstract concept that can literally be shrugged off by the Prime Minister. It is shameless but in politics, shame is a bit of an abstract concept as well. — National Post

[Asher]

No, I picked up another full time job.

How did you get a US work visa? Or are you an illegal?

[Asher]

How's this going for you?

Referring to this, I take it.

[Fake Boris]

I haven't had much time to reply to the latest posts.

Asher, re: Quebec pussying when the time comes to separate.

This isn't true.
Both in '80 and '95, sovereignty was polling at ~40% when the referendum was announced. In '80 it remained just that, in '95 it surged to a near-majority after a pretty good campaign.

Both significant times in history when sovereignty polled above 50% (post-Meech and post adscam), the federalists were in power.

[Wezil]

Ask the honest question (Hint: "separation") and see what the result is.