Election Time in Canada. Conservative government loses vote of non-confidence

Gotta agree with this. Iggy is hardly going to get people clamouring to the polls on election day to move him into 24 Sussex.

And someone should make an attack ad focusing on Layton's shameless whoring for the camera at Gretzky's in Toronto during the gold-medal hockey game at the Vancouver Olympics. Clown.

http://torontoist.com/2010/02/jack_layton_wants_you_to_make_sure_you_see_him_celebrating.php

And I agree, the Bloc should be outlawed. Not that it will happen but a guy can dream.

 

It's unconstitutional to fund an arena in Canada? And parties should not be banned in a democracy

 

I have no problem with the Bloc being in parliament. If Quebeckers feel that they best serve their interest they shoukd have the right to make this choice.

I will vote for Harper as I think he has done a great job leading the country.

He is not exactly Mr Charisma but that is fine with me.

Iggy is turning out not to be the 2nd coming of Trudeau that Liberals slavishly desire plus he looks a second rate vampire.

 

No Canadian politics.

 

As long as we don't discuss the Poutine Party

 

Oh, c'mon. A constitution isn't supposed to reflect the views of ANY group of voters. You don't have rights that are voted on--that's the whole point of a constitution. It's not some game where you get to change the rules any time you feel like it.

And it's hardly democratic when you advocate that certain parties be disallowed.

Harper's biggest challenge if he wants a majority is attracting women voters. He hasn't actually charmed them and his party doesn't have a reputation of championing things like universal day care or reproductive rights.

 

Its called Canada. It's in our genes.

 

Iggy isn't the second coming of anything. He's kinda the Canadian version of Kerry.

 

The problem is the Bloc isn't acting in their best interests. All the BQ and supporters are really accomplishing is preventing effective government at the federal level for ALL Canadians and pissing off the rest of their fellow countrymen who are soooo tired of the separation threat. The voters are being manipulated by this party under the ruse that the Bloc knows what's best. BS. What is best is to recognize that as a separate state Quebec would be bankrupt (morally and financially) in a few years and then want to rejoin Confederation 'if it could get a great deal'. Corruption is rampant and everyone knows it.

Only in good ole' Canada could such a divisive political entity exist at the federal level.

 

I know corruption scandals have dogged the Conservatives and Liberals. What about the NDP? Of course a fourth-party really isn't in a position to deliver on bribes.

 

Italy scoffs at all this concern about 3 or 4 parties dividing power.

 

Before the Bloc there was the Party Quebecois. And before that there was the Quiet Revolution,---"Maitres chez nous". This is not a new phenomenon and is not going away either at the Federal or provincial level.

The "threat of separation" is outdated. Quebec isn't going anywhere. That ended with the last referendum.

And quite frankly there's nothing inherently wrong with a minority government. And Harper, for some reason known only to himself, has acted all along that he has a majority.

The problem isn't Quebec. The problem is a PM who refuses to work with opposition parties and confuses our parliamentary democracy with a US style republic.

The government is Parliament. It's up to Parliament to decide how the country is to be governed---not the Prime Minister acting all on his lonesome.