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Mon Jan-23-06 10:38 PM
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I never thought I'd feel so good about finishing second. |
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Seriously. Harper's power has been held in check. The Bloc has lost some traction. Even the NDP improved their fortunes. And the Liberals will have a chance to take a long hard look at themselves, and hopefully clean a little house at the top.
All in all, not a bad day's work.:P
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Mon Jan-23-06 10:41 PM
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Could have been a lot worse.
But I'm still pighoued that our Conservative candidate got elected for the 38th time. x(
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Mon Jan-23-06 11:29 PM
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18. mine did too...I think they said mine had been in office since the 80's? |
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Tue Jan-24-06 12:27 AM
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27. Groovy. I was mistaken! |
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Mon Jan-23-06 10:43 PM
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2. unless you are one of the people who benefitted from Liberal |
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governance. Gays got screwed tonight. No government will ever grant gays rights again after this.
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Mon Jan-23-06 10:49 PM
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3. Well...free vote or no free vote....Harper won't be able to overturn |
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Mon Jan-23-06 10:56 PM
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6. He has 124 votes already |
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and probably the independent. That is 125 and it appears he only needs another 31. I assume the Bloc isn't monolithic in support and the Liberals and NDP can't make their members toe the line like they did last time. This doesn't look good unless I am way off on the Bloc, he only should need about 20 defectors from the Liberal and NDP.
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Mon Jan-23-06 11:06 PM
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9. I don't think all Conservatives would vote to overturn marriage equality |
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Mon Jan-23-06 11:09 PM
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This isn't the old PC party but instead the Alliance. Maybe one or two might defect but I honestly doubt any kind of mass defection.
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Mon Jan-23-06 11:12 PM
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12. Then I hope the country is in for a rough and tumble |
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next few years. . .because if there is anything a wingnut loves, it's divisive politics. And Harper already has a history of outrageous statements.
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Mon Jan-23-06 11:41 PM
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21. it won't matter what they do. |
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the supreme court has decided this issue. the charter of rights and freedoms trumps any legislation.
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Tue Jan-24-06 12:23 AM
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25. The Supreme Court has already said that gay marriage is protected |
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Any legislation can be challenged as going against the Charter.
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Tue Jan-24-06 11:42 AM
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31. Notwithstanding clause? |
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Sure, he said he wouldn't use it.
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Tue Jan-24-06 01:59 PM
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32. If Harper even dares whisper that he will use the NWC, notwithstanding |
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clause, he will go down in a non-confidence vote and will lose big in the next election. He knows it so you can be sure that will not be in the picture while he is in this minority position. What will be interesting is to see if he can keep on the duct tape he put on his radical base for the length of his minority government, I suspect not! They will want blood and he won't be able to deliver, it is positively delicious.
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Tue Jan-24-06 03:17 PM
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34. It will be a huge temptation for him and his party |
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So, that will be interesting. Privatizing health care (at least partially) will also be a great temptation for them, as will sending troops on a new American adventure.
I don't think Ralph Klein is really that happy about Harper's success. The Alberta Conservatives were in grave peril near the end of the Mulroney term. It was only the defeat of the federal Conservatives that saved them, as they need that federal-provincial tension to exploit with voters here.
Manning has to be annoyed too - he so wanted to be PM himself. So Harper may have lots of enemies in the background, even from his own side.
I guess what I am saying is that all sorts of unknowns come into play now.
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Tue Jan-24-06 03:23 PM
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36. Yep, and don't forget Peter McKay, he is very much working |
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in deep background to unseat Harper, of that I have NO doubt. All in all, sitting back objectively, it is going to be a fascinating year, imo. Who supports Harper on what bill, will his base keep the duct tape on their mouths for the duration of the minority government, who will be the next Lib leader. As you stated, all sorts of unknowns come into play.
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Tue Jan-24-06 02:56 PM
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33. I desperately hope he tries to |
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Ohhh, the image of the smackdown that would ensue...
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Tue Jan-24-06 09:02 PM
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38. Ohhhh, boy. Let him TRY to use it... |
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I'll quit my job and work full-time to try and stop him.
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Tue Jan-24-06 03:20 PM
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35. No, the Bloc is *relatively* monolithic in its support for equal marriage. |
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Not 100 per cent, but fairly close. I wouldn't worry too much. A bill limiting equal marriage would be voted against by the NDP, the Bloc, and (should the party brass decide to whip them anyway) the Liberals. It would have to go through three readings in the House, which would take a lot of time (no one's going to fast-track a private member's bill when there's government legislation to put through), and after that it would either be handily defeated by the Senate. And if it even got through there and was given Royal assent, the Supreme Court would almost certainly strike it down immediately, especially if there had been a close, acrimonious vote in the H of C.
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Mon Jan-23-06 11:40 PM
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what do ya mean? harper's 'promised free vote' is DEAD now. he'd LOSE it. and he's not gonna win any friends by pushing his bigoted views on the issue. and besides, the supreme court has decided the issue.
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Tue Jan-24-06 09:53 AM
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30. Not according to his chief lt |
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he was on CBC last night saying there would be a free will vote.
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Mon Jan-23-06 10:51 PM
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I think the NDP will benefit the most, and that's fine w/ me...
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Mon Jan-23-06 10:59 PM
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7. NDP and Block are the big winners |
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If the Conservatives get a minority government, nothing will get through unless either the bloc or the NDP go along with them. I really don't see much of a difference.
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Mon Jan-23-06 10:51 PM
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5. I knew you folks had enough |
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more people with sense than we do down here for Harper to win a *mandate* Do you think * would share Jeffy with him? Ha.
Congrats on it being not as bad as it was here in 2004! :hi:
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Mon Jan-23-06 11:01 PM
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8. Yeah I'm pretty proud of my country tonight!! |
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I think it was a just verdict. Paul Martin may have been a crackerjack book balancer when he was Finance Minister, but as a Prime Minister, he has been a complete dud. Harper is held in check, the Liberals can clean a little house, get their shit together. I'm a happy guy.
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Mon Jan-23-06 11:08 PM
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10. How soon do you think he'll give up being the leader of the Liberal party? |
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Who's looking to succeed him?
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Mon Jan-23-06 11:19 PM
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14. I think there's a scheduled leadership review this spring.... |
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....it's a mug's game to guess who might run to try and knock him off, if he weren't to resign first. I do doubt he will remain as leader if he tries to hang on. Possible names to run, if I could be that mug, maybe Belinda Stronach...maybe Michael Ignatieff (Harvard prof., intellectual type)...maybe some outsiders too. Way too early really to guess.
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Mon Jan-23-06 11:32 PM
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19. if it were Bellinda there's no way in hell I could support her |
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Mon Jan-23-06 11:16 PM
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Mon Jan-23-06 11:42 PM
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i wish we still had chretien.
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Tue Jan-24-06 12:03 AM
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24. I'm glad for you CLS, now I |
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hope we get lucky down here and 2006 lives up to your DU nick!
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Tue Jan-24-06 12:26 AM
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26. Wouldn't that be sweet??!! |
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I would soooo LOVE to gas my nickname and come up with a new one!! But I'll hold on to the little bastard as long as the other little bastard remains in the White House!;-)
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Tue Jan-24-06 07:21 AM
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28. We're working on it! I would so love to |
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see you gas that nick also!! :hi:
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Mon Jan-23-06 11:23 PM
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15. Well, maybe just barely. |
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Who knows what we'd've accepted if Diebold had been..."contracted" to help out?
You guys don't have less sense, as you put it. WAY too many voting irregularities mitigating that theory.
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Tue Jan-24-06 12:00 AM
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23. I live in red central in NW PA, they DO have |
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way less sense here, seriously. It's "We're fighting them over there..." bullcrap regularly in the local rag coward call-in line. Until gas is $6 a gal. and there is 10 loaves of bread on the shelf at the grocery and 30 people in line, they will not get that * is a dictator that did this to them to help his base.
And PA just embraced Liebold across the state it seems. Argh. It is getting harder to live here all the time.
I wish you all great luck with the new bunch.
I hope Canada is not considering going electronic? Please say it isn't so!
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Mon Jan-23-06 11:25 PM
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16. I too breath a great sigh of relief.....NO MAJORITY FOR CONS! |
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Mon Jan-23-06 11:28 PM
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17. that's very much how I'm feeling |
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Tue Jan-24-06 07:36 AM
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29. I'm OK with this result. |
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Here in the 'land of the living skies' the NDP was shut out again, but there was an overall gain nationally..........Obviously, the good of the collective trumps my personal disappointment.
Being 'buried' in right wing media might be having an effect. We really are smarter than this.....honest!!
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Tue Jan-24-06 03:32 PM
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37. I'm very disappointed with my home province |
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for the second election in a row. It's scandalous that there are no NDP MPs from the home of Canadian democratic socialism. Nice to see, though, that the popular vote was higher than that of the Liberals, although I would have preferred that to translate into some seats.
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Tue Jan-24-06 09:14 PM
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39. If I Were Canadian... |
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...I would probably vote NDP. The Liberals seem like they have some real problems, & I would never vote Conservative. But what are "riders"? I was watching the CBC coverage last night on C-Span, & they kept mentioning them. Are they like voting precincts in the US?
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Tue Jan-24-06 09:20 PM
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And yeah, they're like Congressional districts in the U.S. Each riding is represented by an MP (Member of Parliament). And to ignore a bunch of nuance that usually doesn't apply, the party with the most MP's forms government and their party leader becomes Prime Minister.
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Tue Jan-24-06 09:27 PM
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And I also discovered last night that I had been pronouncing "Regina" (as in Regina, Saskatchewan) wrong. I thought it was pronounced "Reg-ee-na", not "Reg-eye-na".:P
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Tue Jan-24-06 09:33 PM
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42. "Ridings", actually... |
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According to answers.com, a riding is an administrative division or electoral division in Canada. Originally, it was "any one of three former administrative divisions of Yorkshire, England", and then we adopted the word for our use, but now even the English don't use it anymore, just us Canadians. The etymology of "riding": Middle English, alteration of trithing, from Old English thrithing, from Old Norse thridhjungr, third part, from thridhi, "third". Given the nordic derivation of "riding", it wouldn't be that much out of place if we were to refer to the House of Commons as the Althing.
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