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What? No Ben post confidently predicting an increased Con majority? I am greatly saddened.
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Stop Quoting Ben -
He was banned for getting too many predictions wrong.Click here if you're having trouble sleeping.
"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones." - François de La RochefoucauldComment
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Apparently. Trudeau is looking forward to meeting Putin.
There's nothing wrong with the dream, my friend, the problem lies with the dreamer.Comment
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No more CF-18s in Syria
Opening up relations with Iran
Taking in more refugees
What else was he promising?“It is no use trying to 'see through' first principles. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of ManComment
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legal potLibraries are state sanctioned, so they're technically engaged in privateering. - Felch
I thought we're trying to have a serious discussion? It says serious in the thread title!- Al. B. SureComment
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Make the rich pay! (a couple of % points more taxes for high incomes + middle class tax cuts).What else was he promising?
More infrastructure spending.
No more 'active combat' in Iraq and Syria.
Stop anti-'brown people' activism.
Gender parity in cabinet appointments. (They elected 50 female MPs, so this is quite doable.)
Unicorns and Rainbows!There's nothing wrong with the dream, my friend, the problem lies with the dreamer.Comment
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Our new PM at Toronto's Gay ride parade... Not very gay...
Also, Stephen Harper has resigned. By press release. Doug Ford has said he's interested in leading the Cons.There's nothing wrong with the dream, my friend, the problem lies with the dreamer.Comment
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Canada actually did something right for onceComment
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Both the TSX (Stock Exchange) and the Canadian $ went up yesterday. I guess they didn't get Harper's memo, or maybe the economy can survive without him.
I do expect a huge spike in unemployment in the next couple of months when the Con PMO political staff are let go. It will be interesting to see whether Trudeau dissolves PMO, INC. and goes back to normal staffing levels. I would also love to see an audit of the Harper PMO; this will never happen, though.There's nothing wrong with the dream, my friend, the problem lies with the dreamer.Comment
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Shamelessly stolen from another post on another site...
No, I did not steal that from somebody on Something Awful.Comment
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yes. Canada was quite conservative until the '60, and began regressing to 'old timy' values under Harper. Canadian citizen living abroad were not allowed to vote this time, and people with Canadian dual citizenship were next to be disenfranchised....in 1960, the government of John Diefenbaker extended the vote unconditionally to the First Nations. Meanwhile, the provinces had begun granting the franchise to Aboriginal people in 1949 when British Columbia became the first to do so.There's nothing wrong with the dream, my friend, the problem lies with the dreamer.Comment
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Oh jeez(\__/)
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(")_(") This is Bunny. Copy and paste bunny into your signature to help him gain world domination.Comment
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My brother, who has taught in Taiwan and has only Canadian citizenship, wasn't allowed to vote. Harper said dual citizens had to 'have skin in the game' if they wanted to vote. Harper is/was an evil dyck.There's nothing wrong with the dream, my friend, the problem lies with the dreamer.Comment
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Which riding would an expatriate be a part of?
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If you still have a spouse or parent living in Canada, you would receive a special ballot for their riding. If not, it would be your last riding in Canada.
Most democratic nations, including the US & UK have ways for expats to vote. The 'Fair Elections Act' that the Conservatives brought in a couple of years ago, disallowed expat voting, and made it more difficult for students and first nations people to vote, requiring them to have ID most didn't normally have. This law was opposed by all the opposition parties at the time, and Elections Canada, and arms length organization. The funny thing is this galvanized both students and first nations groups that did end up voting in record numbers. While no breakdown is possible, I suspect most voted against Harper's Cons.There's nothing wrong with the dream, my friend, the problem lies with the dreamer.Comment
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