doralh

A member since December 01, 2006 16:53

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Harper has "poisoned the well" in parliament - path forward is uncertain (2008-12-01)

• I don't see where harper poisoned the well. Rather, it's the NDP, Liberals and Bloc who have defecated in their own nests. Of course no one would expect the ...
• I'd sure like to separate from people who have no respect for the wishes of the voters. It's true that the CPC didn't get over 50% of the votes, but they got...
• I suppose ogopogo that you are a constitutional expert. At least in your own mind. Perhaps you could lower yourself to the level of us ordinary Canadians and...
• There are problems with laws and rules. First problem is that they are all made by a small group of politicians, and as such they can always be changed by an...
• Good points. The main achievement of the Liberals during the previous two years was to absent themselves from the House when a vote was taken.
• This so called coalition will not be a coalition at all. It will be simply a tool of the Bloc. Duceppe is playing Layton and Dion like Victor Borge played th...
• The sound of the backfire seems to have caused a ringing in the ears of the "coalition".

CPAC-Nanos Daily Election Tracking CP 37, LP 26, NDP 19, BQ 10, GP 8 (ending October 1) (2008-10-02)

• I agree. The format is the worst I've ever seen. The moderator made little or no attempt to maintain civility. Nearly every time the PM tried to speak there ...
• Sorry about the unintentional double posting.

Last week should have been a good week for the PM - he was sideswiped (Video Blog Post) (2008-04-07)

• I agree completely. I'm fed up with the media telling me what I should think, say, eat, wear, drive, plant, cut down, how many children to have, and which pa...

Canadians want limits on accommodating minorities - SES Research/Policy Options Survey (2007-09-25)

• I couldn't agree more. The questions do appear to be rather fuzzy. But the answers would seem to show that most Canadians are rather bigotted. I suppose the ...
• Good morning Blossom, I'm not really going to pursue this question, because when I read all of the comments so far, it seems to have degenerated from a disc...
• Blossom, As usual your comments are reasonable and reasoned. I wish more people would follow your example. Over the past 4 or 5 years I have left several for...
• Good morning Bernie.I don't think any of the posts on this site are private, so don't feel that you're butting in. You have made some very good observations....

Duceppe Provokes Election Showdown (2007-09-22)

• The most interesting aspect of Duceppe's challenge will be watching the Liberal response. It seems to me that Duceppe has put the Liberals between a rock and...
• You may well be right. Since you are in central Canada, where the election will be decided, I'm willing to concede that you have a better view of the probabl...
• Parnel; As a small c conservative I would agree that a little competition is a good thing. But from where I sit Dion is beginning to look like a latter day D...
• I agree that if Harper were to lose he'd be up for replacement. But it would take a while because there is no replacement waiting in the wings. But he won't ...

New SES Research Poll - Federal Tories and Grits Close - Harper Best PM Advantage Weakens (2007-08-14)

• Of course Ontario does NOT always vote Liberal. I don't see these numbers as very important. I think that the 4 point loss for the NDP were soft NDP supporte...

New ailment strikes leaders - Nik's Sun Media Column July 31, 2007 (2007-08-01)

• Desperation? Probably, but it could wind up as a good move, as more and more climatologists and paleoclimatologists are deserting the man-made global warming...
• you may well be right. The way I look at it, it could be worse. At least Dion doesn't scare me. I could even see myself voting for a Dion led Party, much lik...
• Hi blossom, I'm not so sure that I find Liz May all that trustworthy. Hold on that!! I think that I would trust her to be totally inflexible and unwilling t...
• A truly bigoted comment parnel. Lots of mud but no ground to stand on. But I wouldn't insult Ontario residents by saying that it's a typical Ontario comment....
• Parnel: In answer to your question, yes it is bigoted for several reasons; primary among them is that you have not offered any evidence that there was anythi...

Summer will be serious for PM - Nik's Sun Media Column July 16, 2007 (2007-07-16)

• The two brushfires will likely become major forest fires if Harper keeps on making small blunders. Many voters don't have a clue about Afghanistan or fiscal...
• blossom, Thanks for the kind word. I have had some experience as you were so astute as to deduce. Mostly at the municipal level but some at the provincial l...
• Just wondering..... How does a few girls playing soccer justify the killing and maiming of thousands of other innocent children with bombing and land mines? ...
• Not to put too fine a point on it, but I wouldn't trust any documentary produced by any government ... In that I have to agree with Regina beach boy to an ex...
• e guye, I was NOT referring to the suicide bombings. I was referring to the bombing by NATO ( read American ) bombers. I could have also mentioned the orang...
• Sure, I'm an Alberta redneck and proud of it. A couple of points; I was born in 1930 and grew up in a province that was so poor that people quite literally w...
• My apologies. In my previous post I mentioned SSP. Of course I should have written SPP. Sorry about any confusion.

The Green Party: Political Force or Political Phantom? (2007-03-04)

• Sure the Greens should be into the TV debate. So should the Flat Earth Society and every other political movement that can show that someone voted for them. ...

Harper Cabinet Recalibration - Will it make a difference? (2007-01-04)

• The cabinet shuffle is a slight shift to the left, and a little bit more marginalizing of the original Reformers. With Toews out of Justice who are the Radi...
• I'm amazed to find myself agreeing with kwlawson after disagreeing so many times before.
• It's amazing what the shift of one seat can do. I don't believe that an MP should be able to switch parties that easily, but in this case it appears that Dio...
• Would I be jumping to conclusions if I assumed that you don't care much for bureaucrats? Neither do I.
• Another minority government? Probably. Dion PM? Probably not.
• The Green Party sure looks left of center, and some of its candidates in the last election looked left of Karl Marx. That's all moot at this time because the...
• I don't think that Dion is specially credible on the environment. But it doesn't really matter because when the Clean Air Bill comes out of committee it wil...
• The problem is that a Wacy Bennett comes along so rarely. And if one came along today he would be turfed into the can for being "politically Incorrect". I h...
• Well Blossom, I think that you heard right. I didn't see all of the interview, but I saw the part where she vigorously applauded her own job as Minister for ...

National Political Scene - Year in Review - What are your predictions for 2007? (2006-12-27)

• I think that even the Wizard of Id would have trouble making political predictions for 2007 Perhaps the only certain prediction is that the Federal parties ...
• Mike, your reasoning is probably better than mine as far as the Liberals and NDP are concerned. Almost nobody in Alberta will admit to supporting either of t...
• I don't see how any Federal Party can win an election based on fiscal imbalance, however it's defined. The Conservatives can't win without Alberta, and Alber...
• A very well reasoned comment. Regarding hydro developments, I'm not so sure that they are all that "green". I've never visited any of the sites in Newfoundla...
• Very amusing philosophy Ken Chapman. First of all, the future has no facts. The future exists only in our imagination. Your future is, I'm sure, much differ...
• Well Ken I'm glad that you think that taking from the rich to give to the poor is an absurdity. You haven't addressed the absurdidty of Albertans paying more...
• I've always been underwhelmed by the tax transfer dodge. The Feds try to convince us that if they don't raise our taxes that's the same thing as giving us mo...
• Climate change? Well, maybe...and maybe not. So far there is more political science involved than there is environmental science. This is a question that ev...
• Well ken, you did a lot of research for that commentary. And it is obvious that you do look at the question objectively. I appreciate your candor vis-a-vis t...
• Hollinm, you're right of course in that analysis. To put it another way; if you believe in the danger from greenhouse gas story you should be condemning Li...
• I'm sure no NDP supporter, but I don't see them losing seats in BC. If anything I expect them to knock off a couple of Liberal seats. Starting with Hedy Fry....
• You want only one, supper? How about 60 who signed a letter to the PM last summer. Have a look: http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/story.htm...
• Sorry supper. My intention is not to call people names. If you assumed that I was calling you names then I apologize most sincerely. However, I cheerfull...
• Mike, I'm sure that Suzuki is very sincere. (I'm also sure that Al Gore is sincere, but I'm not really sure just what he is sincere about.) And I agree that ...
• Bull's Eye!!! You cut straight to the operational heart of today's cabinet shuffle. There should be some interesting viewing on CPAC in the next session of P...
• Mike, I agree that elected politians should not be free to jump into and out of political beds with impunity. I would suggest that they should resign and st...
• "...Conservatives reading the same polls...." That's the trouble with politicians. Most of them would rather be re-elected than be right. I didn't even know...
• You know supper, I'd love to see the changes that I mentioned. I used to be involved in politics when I was young and foolish. I won a few elections but none...

Wheat Board President Fired (2006-12-20)

• I agree with Blossom. It seems to me that Harper must have a political death wish. The question of the Canadian Wheat Board is still discussed in rural curli...
• Well kwlawson, I don't know what planet you're from. You should get off you anti-Quebec hobby horse and open your eyes to real life. For starters, how about...
• Fairness to all. What a great idea. As a general principle who could disdagree? but the devil is in the details. With the exception of Dawson Creek and area...
• Well, at least Westerner states that Mr. Measner was wrongfully dismissed. Not a bad concession for someone who obviously would like to see the Wheat Board d...
• Kwlawson, I give you full marks for passion. Unfortunately. passion is a poor relative of logic and objectivity. I don't know where you got the idea that Chr...
• A lot of people voted for Trudeau, again and again. If he was so bad then that must indicate that voters are stupid. You obviously don't know much B.C. his...
• "Let the farmers survive on their own, like the rest of us." Just who is is surviving on their own? Oil companies which make money so fast they can't count ...
• Good comment.Quinn. To put it another way, it seems like it's anti-American to be pro-Canadian. We haven't had a PM who really stood up for Canada since D...
• Here he goes again. Apparently kwlawson doesn't know that the majority of Directors on the CWB are ELECTED by the farmers, NOT appointed by government. When ...
• kwlawson sounds like one of those people who can't be happy unless they are making someone else miserable. But all the same I join in wishing him/her a very ...
• Perhaps he can get big political donations from Cargill and other foreign owned grain companies. As for people changing their votes; I can see a lot of Albe...
• Thank you Blossom for your kind words. I'm sure that all of the readers will appreciate your kind wishes for Christmas and the New Year. I'm afraid that I ...
• blossom, even the Bloc doesn't deserve to be saddled with people like kwlawson. Still, it's an interesting idea. You know, I don't condemn the Bloc. At leas...
• Hey blossom, you're smarter than the average bear !!! That dates me I guess, because you have to be ancient in order to remember that cartoon line. The mai...
• `You're too kind...and too intelligent. Why aren't you a member of Parliament?
• I don't really know what colour the bear was. It was 50 years ago and we had a black & white tv. The phrase was intended as a compliment because that's the w...
• Regarding corporate and union donations: I suppose that TorontoCrawler is referring to Bill C-2....which has loop holes big enough to drive a Toronto politic...
• Blossom, I ran for a seat in the Provincial Legislature in my province back in the 1960s. (I lived in a different province then) I stood for an opposition pa...
• The Arrow decision is a long way off the subject, which is the Canadian Wheat Board. Also, ditto, the robotics industry, if indeed such an industry exists w...
• Right on, Mike. Don't let the arrogant whiners like kwlawson spoil your day.

Who has the best chance to defeat Stephen Harper? (2006-12-01)

• I'm a former Liberal. Actually ran for the Liberals in BC about a century ago. I'm now a swing voter, generally, but my local Conservative candidate is doing...