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[Canada] Politics of the Democratic Friedmanite Republic of the Government of Harper
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He made alot of money.
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http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/1169520--mpp-elizabeth-witmer-leaves-tories-for-wsib-post?bn=1
Also, WSIB? Christ, I'm not sure she knows what she's getting into....
EDIT: More #HarperHistory
Not just Harper, but also Baird and Scott Armstrong. I'm not sure which party strategist told them this would be a good idea, but that person needs to be fired.
Fixed.
In any case, I must agree with King as far as Woodsworth is concerned:
Woodsworth, a religious pacifist, voted against the motion completely alone; the rest of his party supported the motion. We have the benefit of hindsight, knowing what the German dictatorship would do over the next 6 years - Woodsworth had no way of knowing that, and nor did anyone who voted in favor of the war. Certainly we weren't interested in coming to the rescue of those targeted for liquidation in any case: we turned-away the majority of refugees trying to escape the teeth of the Gestapo.
It's a good thing that we participated in the war, but we were not sending troops into Europe with some selfless agenda of rescue.
'“CCF, NDP, same difference,” Harper responded curtly.'
What is he, a 13 year-old girl now? Is he going to start making the "whatever" symbol with his hands every time he disagrees with someone across the aisle? Perhaps he will begin to make an L shape on his forehead at Mulcair during question period when nobody else is looking?
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Actually, there was strong evidence regarding the German's actions against "unfavourable" minorities through Jewish groups from quite early on. While I agree, this isn't exactly why Canada got involved, I think your point here of painting Woodsworth as some great hero of the people for voting against WWII is ridiculous. We do have the benefit of hindsight, but Hitler - and the Nazi Party's - extremism wasn't exactly a closely guarded state secret.
Walkom: Ottawa’s low-wage immigration policy threatens turmoil:
What the fuck, Conservatives? So the plan is to bring in people from poor countries who will have no vested interest in Canada's future to drive down wages and the standard of living while raising the unemployment rate?
Do we have a need for skilled labour? Yup.
Do we have high youth unemployment, especially amongst first nations? Yessir.
Could we get those guys trained up by tomorrow? Well...no, we'd probably need a few years.Fuck that shit, get us some foreign workers! Right away!
And we want to be able to pay them as little as possible! We can do that!
Why are we hiring any local workers at all? Beats us! Dumbasses probably should have insisted on self-imposed paycuts.
Sorry, reading that, from my own experience trying to get a trade, that means I'm fucked and whole lot of other people from "the wrong side of the tracks". Wealth disparity widening policies suck balls.
I mean, corporate handjobs are to be expected. But bringing in immigrants to take jobs? That's the kind of shit conservatives generally complain about.
I voted for them and finding out about this is pissing me off. So you're not wrong.
No party wants to deal with immigration though, legal or illegal. It's a huge problem in this country and this will only make it worse. They really expect them to just leave?
Blah blah gun registry blah sponsorship scandal blah blah other parties are pro-hitler blah.
Base appeased.
I don't know, this issue is pretty red meat for many.
Then you're much more optimistic about our fellow voters than I am. I fully expect Conservative voters to suffer massive paycuts and/or lose their jobs because of this, blame the Liberals for it, and vote Conservative even harder.
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One might argue that truly excellent Canadian art has no real monetary value and that if the Canadian government ends up selling it off to private collectors - nothing in the article explicitly mentions galleries only - then as Canadians, we may have lost a significant cultural cache. Like if the French sold the Mona Lisa.
Also, art accumulates in value. Also, selling it all off at once in this manner under a political directive is effectively a fire sale.
It's moot. Apparently Baird called it off
Yeah, I'm not 100% sure how much extra money this sort of thing would end up generating. Maybe hanging the stuff in public galleries would get more people to visit and raise revenues through ticket sales.
It'd be like selling off the Parliament building to a condominium developer. Sure, we get a few million dollars now, the new housing would benefit many Canadians, and the Commons and Senate can just rent a conference room in a hotel at much cheaper annual cost than maintaining a 100-year-old stone building. It'd still be a national embarassment if they did it.
Selling some paintings that almost no one has ever seen and which, in some cases, have been stashed away in boxes for years is hardly a national embarrassment. Do you prefer the current plan: Keeping these great national treasures hanging on office walls in Tunisia? It's not like they'd be selling them off to private collectors. They'd be going to publicly-accessible museums and galleries, which I'd say is inarguably the best place for them.
http://www.thestar.com/news/cityhallpolitics/article/1170530--mayor-rob-ford-says-he-ll-try-to-defeat-liberals-in-kitchener-waterloo
Or, they could go with a sane plan, and rent them out to museums and galleries to show, to make sure that they retain full control over important peices of Canadian culteral heritage. The only other acceptable solution would be to "sell" them to Government owned Museums, who could show the peices or rent them out, as I would assume they are better equipped to handle the management of artwork and culteral items.
TORONTO ANNEXES KITCHENER-WATERLOO.
University of Toronto and York University squabble over who gets Waterloo and who gets Laurier.
New Spadina line extension to Waterloo to be completed by 3075.
City council split between urban, suburban, and really fucking rural councilors!
This comment is just .. weird.
Yeah, he's not helping his cause here. Now he's just looking like a spoiled brat to me.
Harper would never do this. He would go off and create his own fundie party, then use it to come back and take over his original party.
It would have been better if he'd just shut up and dealt with being independent due to having a temper tantrum. Now everyone knows he's a prideful idiot, who left on a whim due to a temper tantrum.
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