Reply #3: I think the timeline on this is more than "coincidental" with Harper's tenure. [View All]

[BobTheSubgenius]

More than anything else, he would love to be a Republican. Before the last election, he floated the idea that maybe it wasn't too late for Canada to get in on the fun in Iraq.

He is also talking about rolling back our socialized medical system, which will HOPEFULLY be his undoing. For some reason, his comment that Canada is a "second-tier socialist" country went absolutely nowhere. Imagine if a Democratic President said something similar about the US.

Sadly, however, most people vote with their wallets, and things aren't so bad here, economically. Our other main problem is...Ignatieff is very, very poor choice as the leader of the Liberal<1} party. Many of the points the Cons are scoring in the media at his expense are hard to argue, being as how most of them are his own words. [br />
*sigh* If only Paul Martin's government hadn't become so complacent and arrogant. Their overall record was terrific, I think, but Harper was able to beat the "corruption" drum over two transgressions that would seem SOOO insignificant, (and one was, even hyper-objectively, TINY) compared to what some in the Senate and Congress have managed to 'achieve.'

Randy Cunningham alone would have BURIED the Liberals' sins, yet the Repugs seem to continue to elect (way too) many of their candidates.

Our politics are so boring, in comparison to yours.


<1> It ain't that liberal....and until relatively recently, I'd have said that the Conservatives aren't THAT conservative. Certainly, their modern history, until Harper, has been little like that of what you might think was their American analog, the Republicans.