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[Canada] Politics of the Democratic Friedmanite Republic of the Government of Harper
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I, personally, had never even heard of this before today. I wouldn't wish Ford on anyone else, at all.
Thank you. That is the nicest thing that has been said in theis thread in a long time.
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Our own constitution does.
http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/Const/page-5.html#s_92A
I am speaking of the moral imperative. This conversation is in the context of the NEP or a Green Shift-like carbon tax, which would apply to oilsands development, and why such a policy is/would be grossly and uniquely unfair to Albertans, given, for example, that federal regulations exist on, say, uranium or potash, which are non-renewable resources, or fish or forestry, which are renewable resources.
I understand the legal decision-making process. Furthermore, the NEP's existence overlapped with the existence of the Canadian Constitution, so clearly this section does not reserve all decision-making with regards to oilsands development strictly to the Albertan government.
It's not so much about wanting Calgary to have Ford, but more about stealing their mayor. But honestly, with how things have been going in Toronto lately I don't see Ford accomplishing much of anything before he gets the boot.
I just figured we'd take out an ad in the Sun saying they're giving away cocaine and bacon grease in Calgary.
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Now to see how Scheer rules, and show us what kind of Speaker he actually is...
Québec court tells Vic Toews he can't destroy the gun registry, now sit down and STFU.
Well, not quite. It's just a temporary injunction against the delete-trigger-happy Toews until April 13th, the date the government lawyers are scheduled to present their case. And according to one source I saw, it's only for the data that involves Québec residents. But the money shot quote is "Quebec government lawyer Éric Dufour said the granting of scuh an injunction is unprecedented in Canadian law, as it is the first time a court has stopped a government from enacting a law."
And don't give me some shit about "other provinces do it too". Yes, they do, but Alberta is the only province whose entire economy literally relies on it, and as such it's in Alberta that we need to make the point to the entire country that this shit has to stop.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/04/05/pol-ferguson-committee.html
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Thank you. That is the n
Do you ever stop? Oil companies are moving to more sustainable drilling techniques. These take time to implement and develop.
Comming from Quebec I really don't consider the provincial govermet as "incompetent".
When it's all said and done here dude it's Alberta's resource to manage. You can stamp your feet and call people names and all that is going to do is make people ignore you.
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http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Canada/20120405/Alberta-promote-plan-end-homelessness-120405/
The article has now been updated with the PMOs response from Thursday evening...
So now they are flat out admitting that the misled Parliament... but you know, they didn't actually spend any money, so no biggie, right?
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The article also has some poetic-justice news:
I hope they go out of business completely. Hell, I believe that's the lightest punishment they deserve. Voter misleading and suppression should be equal to treason, and Wudrick should be thrown in prison.
He's the in-house attorney, so I doubt he has much to do with the day-to-day operations of the company.
If it is, the liberals should have no problem keeping Edmonton Centre, Wildrose 2nd with the PC and NDP far behind.
You're right. Elsewhere, the article referred to "Wudrick's firm", so I got the impression he was actually the CEO. But he's just a lawyer working there.
God I hope not.
In that case the Wildrose are being elected MLAs for life in SE Calgary.
If I recall correctly, lawn signs are a good sign of decided, homeowner voters, as well as an indication of a campaign's strength and competence. However, undecided voters don't put up signs nor do condo dwellers or renters (typically), which means that lawn signs tend to be biased towards conservative voters, who are more likely to be homeowners and lifelong party supporters.
It's weird. Having lived in the UK, Ontario and Alberta I wouldn't have said "Oh Alberta is distinctly more right wing". I guess that reflects my social circles more than reality though.
Also Castro is sending Harper hate mail now.
Alberta's not really more right wing than Ontario, it's just permanently right wing whereas Ontario flips from time to time. The provincial PCs ran Ontario for 42 consecutive years and aside from 1993-2003, the federal Tories have always done relatively well. People forget just how conservative a lot of Ontario is.
That's true. There can be a bit of perspective bias on this though; take for example, me. I am ~30 years old and during my lifetime the Mike Harris government(s) have been the only PC terms, majority of the rest have been Liberal governments aside from Bob Rae's NDP term. To an Ontarian similar to me (or younger), who hasn't really done any research beyond what has happened during their lifetime it can appear as if Ontario has always been pretty staunchly Liberal.
Ontario's typically been PC though, not Conservative.
Confusing these two is at the heart of Harper's strategy.
There's very little difference between the Harper Tories and the Harris/Hudak Tories.
Over the past 30ish years, the PCs have been in power for 11.5 years, the Liberals have been in power for 13.7 years, and the NDP 4.7 years. If you only go back 20 years, the Liberals and PCs have been in power for an almost equal amount of time, so I guess appearances are deceiving or something.
There's quite a bit of difference.
There's a good reason Harper is keeping the backbench quite on the social-devolution agenda.
I'm not sure what you're saying. That a difference between the Federal and Ontario Conservatives is that only the former has fundies? Well that's wrong given that Hudak's campaign distributed pamphlets about how the Liberals were teaching kids in school to be gay. That a difference is that the Federal fundies get muzzled? That's really not much of a difference if we were to grant it, and we really shouldn't given how vocal and proud the backbenchers have been about curtailing abortion rights by cutting funding to Planned Parenthood and how one has launched a full-blown parliamentary committee to redefine life as starting at conception.
Harris never fought the culture war head on if he did at all. Neither did guys like Joe Clarke or Brian Mulroney. The appeal was to the general "fiscal conservative" sentiment.
Also, there's a strong anti-left sentiment in some parts of Alberta, so it really doesn't matter what happens, they'll always vote for the most visible right wing party, regardless of how ridiculous that party is.
Back when I was just barely old enough to vote and voted in my first election, I talked to people in my hometown that said they would vote Liberal because they've always voted Liberal, so this is probably a common theme among voters, regardless of which party they're voting for. It's kinda depressing.
They aren't paying close attention, but they are paying some. Look at Stockwell Day's image vs Harper's.
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I've heard this at home in Newfoundland, so it's not just you. And yes, really depressing.
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