Canadians Swing Right.
 

I don't mind so much. It's going to be a Minority Government. Let's see how this goes.

Bush will be happy now that he has his puppet

so who won?

martin are you conservative or liberal?

duke

Conservatives ,minority government

Harper wins Tory minority government, CBC News projects Last Updated Mon, 23 Jan 2006 22:09:22 EST CBC News

Conservative Leader Stephen Harper will become Canada's next prime minister, as Canadians have elected a Tory minority government and ended a 12-year reign of Liberal rule, CBC News projects.

At 10 p.m, the Tories were leading or elected in 99 ridings in central and eastern Canada, the Liberals in 89, the Bloc in 39 and 20 for the NDP.

harper should set martin as the finance minister

not gonna happen

the good news is the canadian dollar will now drop again to pre 2001 levels :1orglaugh

I hope it's not only in your dreams ...

But fortunately we'll be able to keep Bush's new puppet on a tight leash. He's only got a minority gov't to play with for now.

I'm predicting we'll be back at the voting polls again inside of two years.

i hope we get a good 2 years of lower canadian dollar

i love spending $ in toronto & montreal on vacation :thumbsup

funny how everyone thinks Right = Bush puppet.
Not even close

everyone ends up our puppet, give it time

Unlike the dumbasses we have here in the US, hopefully the Canadians will be smart enough to realize what a huge mistake they made, and correct it in a timely manner.

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How did the vote break down?
was it close or a landslide?
any actual numbers?

just glad the liberals are out myself!

canada has weapons of mass destruction

its what we call a "minority govt"....the winning party doesnt have a majority of the seats in parliament, so they will need the assistance of another party or two to get anything major done...

the last liberal govt was also a minority govt, thats why it didnt last very long..

The only way anything "Right wing" will get done is if the BQ supports them... and after the election run I don't think those two sides like each other much right now.

nah, he's pretty supportive of Bush's causes... Harper even wanted to send Canadian troops to Iraq, he's quite the douche.

But the liberals got caught stealing. I still voted for the theiving liberals over the conservatives. But alot of people wouldn't, and who else do they have to vote for?

NDP? Green party? that's a laugh.

give it to the conservatives, if anyone can hide stealing, its them!

From everything I read it's the opposite. If the conservatives won majority it would strengthen the dollar as they were supposed to cut taxes including maybe getting rid of the GST.

Now it looks like the cdn $ will drop a tad hopefully since it's not a majority goverment. Then again if they get rid of the GST it will probably strengthen (damn if you do, damn if you don't situation for those of us getting us checks)

Here's a recent article
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...Y&refer=canada

i doubt anyone does. but harper's platform is similar to bush

taxes have nothing to do with the dollar. their platform may be viewed as one that causes deficits which would drop the dollar. their numbers don't add up and if it did go up unless changes were made to keep the country in the black the dollar would drop.

what economists don't factor in with a conservative is the "stupidity" factor

they are owned by corporations...and lets face it, harper will be a bush fuck buddy....even though he will make every attempt to make it look otherwise

give it 8 months....

Taxes are very much tied in with the dollar.....you lower taxes, the economy does better, interest rates can be raised....currency stays strong. Dropping taxes does not necessarily mean that there will be a deficit, in fact the opposite can be aruged, it keeps the economy strong, creates more jobs (more potential revenue), less social assistance needs, UI etc.

worked in the states...

the conservative platform doesn't add up so them lowering taxes could hurt unless they don't offset the revenue decrease. if they're gonna lower taxes it should be corporate incentives to increase good jobs and spur productivity growth which is lacking. that would help much more than creating a few more jobs at zellers when people have a few more loonies in their pocket

this might sound really american of me

but wtf is a zeller & a loonie? :1orglaugh

Zellers is like K-Mart.. Loonie is our 1 dollar coin as we got rid of singles a number of years ago. Stippers need to wear fanny packs to collect their tips... ;)

http://www.ctv.ca/

Con - 124
Lib - 103
Bloc - 51
NDP - 29
Ind - 1

I know there's at least 1 riding where it was so close there's a recount.

they will only cut the gst by 1%. not get rid of it completely

harper said it himsel last night

ya thats what he said all along...cut by 1% then 2% in a while

I dont know but I hope the dollar drops...nice to see the canadian public will actually stand up against the liberal government for being so corrupt and lying to us

the conservatives brought in the 7% GST last time they were in power...damn nice of them to lower it by a percent or two..