the bottom line is that if a party gets in that ruins the economy and starts spending like crazy and raising taxes and interest rates go up, the repercussions last for many many years :2 cents:

bottom line is simple. how did laytons name pop up in a smear campaign 2 days before election day that would result in a breach of trust for a police force?

you guys got some nice trees over there for sure, but it's time to look at the forest.

police have always backed harper due to his pro-cop, pro-prison stance.

it was an obvious leak to benefit him.

meaning our paramilitary forces are now involved in the politics in the country? or has that been going on for some time?

deju vu:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen...deral_election

Immediately prior to the Christmas break, in a faxed letter to NDP candidate Judy Wasylycia-Leis, the Commissioner of the RCMP, Giuliano Zaccardelli announced the RCMP had opened a criminal investigation into her complaint that it appeared Liberal Finance Minister Ralph Goodale's office had leaked information leading to insider trading before making an important announcement on the taxation of income trusts. On December 27, 2005, the RCMP confirmed that information in a press release. At the conclusion of the investigation, Serge Nadeau, a top Finance Department bureaucrat, was charged with criminal breach of trust. No charges were laid against then Finance Minister Ralph Goodale.[94

you do realize those "conservative" banking laws were enacted under paul martin (a liberal) ?

all conservatives did was not tear those laws apart in favor of a more american pro business version (which was really just an issue of not getting around to it yet, given their current policy).

we should go back to the middle of the road liberal party but the current leader is to much of a tool.

NDP is still a better choice since they will spend their time fixing the pro business "mistakes' of the harper conservatives, getting us back to the liberal middle again.

it seems many of the NDP candidates are very far from ready to do anything...one is a part time waitress in a bar, another a conspiracy theorist, ect, etc..

http://www.torontosun.com/2011/04/29...to-our-country

ezra levant is a bigger kook than any of those in the article.

snort.

you hear that these new fighter jets can't fly in the rain?

exactly why, as a person from vancouver, are we paying for jets that can't fly in the bloody rain?

is vancouver a strategic write off if this is the case?

the state of canadas banks and rules are not as a result of the conservative government. they are the idiots who lowered a sales tax for no reason putting canada back in debt.

Socialism is a form of corruption. It is really that simple.

I get the Toronto Star delivered here (left leaning), and read a bit of it every day. Coincidentally, the best part is *always* the page near the end of the first section where readers write in with their 2 cents worth. Go figure.

Then a few days ago I read a foreign written piece on our elections here, from a conservative financial perspective. It was a bit eye opening, moreso than the local coverage.

It made me think that my own values are aligned with who the right are supposed to be, however the party who purports to represent those ideologies here are the Conservatives, whose actions I rarely ever agree with.

I think the problem we have in Canada right now as far as parties and elections go is that we have 2 left leaning parties and one far, far right wing party, whereas most Canadians would feel best served by a slightly right of center leaning government.

The foreign written article had a banker in Toronto quoted as saying that if the NDP wins, the dollar would go into a freefall as investors would de-leverage themselves from Canadian holdings. A great example of how conservative/business governments can threaten and enact vengeance on voters, and how the businesses play politics to ensure they get their guy in power.

So if Socialism is a form of corruption, then what's spending ~35 billion dollars on fighter planes that no other country will buy (india just said they're buying with a European firm the other day) and putting up a network of prisons we don't need, also at many more tens of billions of dollars? That's corruption too.

Where can I vote against that? They're just not representing the wishes of Canadians.

looks like you got your wish