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The Federal Tories - Poking Ontario with a sharp stick (Sun Media Column) (2008-03-31)

• Nik. It sounds like pay-back time from the conservatives for Ontario!

Afghanistan Vote and the Issue Environment (Video Blog Post) (2008-03-14)

• Hello Nik, This is the interview that I recently mentioned on this blog that you had on CTV. An enternte was finessed because until 2011, however, we h...
• Thanks Mike, I am saving my strength for a worthwhile forthcoming Federal election. To be fair, it is madening that 80 MP's voted against Dan McTeag's ...
• Hello Tom, Just read your post...I am not receiving my mail, and I am going to notify Nik. As usual, its a terrific post, and can enjoy discussing without...
• Hi hollinm, I am sure that Parnel replied in his true fashion to all of this denial nonsense. Just once, and in all fairness hollinm, could you not adm...
• Hello robini, Long time no hear from you...As an ex-Military guy I greatly respect, and thank you. After 9/11, the spin and lies about invading Iraq, y...
• Hello MRM, Mike did a really terrific job answering for me, and I thank him for saving me the trouble of having to respond. I can't figure out blind fa...
• Hello Tom, I believe that we have already agreed on the first paragraph. If Obama wins, it does take more than a year to get out of Iraq. They have as man...
• MRM, Security certificates - Geneva Conventions, etc...Abu Graib, in the US,etc... It's not the Committee, it is the Courts that have decreed that we d...
• Tom, One cannot deny that you report history with much wisdom, and integrity. You fully understand the political games. Hopefully with Obama at the hel...
• Hello Tom, A couple of times I tried to reply to your great expose - unbiased... For some reason, each time, and for some time now, I get email replies f...
• MRM, Government? not committees, and for lack of a better word...I don't remember why I used this word... Needless to say that I am happy to hear that ...
• Hello Tom, As soon as Parliament resumes, and in very little time, we shall have the feel for when the next election is scheduled... Selling our Space ...

Election fraught with risks - Nanos Ballot - Lib 33, Con 31, NDP 19, BQ 10, GP 8 (2008-02-08)

• Hello Nik, Good job on the medias, and as usual, always a professional! You know that it always hurts me to the bone when I see the bloq ratings in thi...
• Hello Mike, It's been a while...thanks. The time must be ripe...we do not want to get into an unwanted, triggered, costly election unless Canadians dec...
• I am back Gordo05, As Sir Walter Scott, or is it Raleigh so said: "My Native Land" Breathes there the man with soul so dead, whose heart had near'd wit...
• Hello hillimn, What a surprise! I was just going "roger & out"... the pq just announced that they will vote against the budget...I think that the 'b...
• Hi Tom, Good show! I say that we shall probably see two provincial elections before a Federal election is called.I would even predict that 2009 is goi...
• Hello Gordo05, I thought that I had already responded to your post. I always commend Nik for being truly professional, however, Nik stated that his pol...
• Hello Gordo05. In one of my latest posts this is exactly what I said; that Mr. Harper better be careful what he wishes for!!! Politically, we are on th...
• Hello Gordo05, How well I understand you...Think about it... Mr. Harper in his platform campaign stated that he would do away with the vastly Liberal S...
• Gordo05, There is no other alternative... If I may suggest, it would be very uplifting, and interesting to use your talents, and offer this help person...
• Hello zhimmy01, Yes, I do ramble, trying to bring examples, whether in Canada and the US. so that hopefully we pay more attention, and not just the "spin"...
• zhimmy01, Isen't it the other way around - Mr. Harper has Canadians on a short leash? After reading your first post addressed to me, and reading this s...
• Hello Gordo05, Please let me thank you for responding in your usual kind manner, and your perceptions, political or otherwise, are always right on. Wh...
• Hi Gordo05, I think that M. Dion's planning for repairing our future infrastructure, and having a fund that both Provinces, and Municipalities will be ena...
• Hello Nik, Just watched your latest poll on Duff this evening, and you have to admit that your poll is what I have been predicting all along, a Liberal wi...
• Hello Gordo05, So did I... They are two different individuals - J.C. already had a mandate, was politically savy, and was not dealing with a conspiracy...
• Hi Gordo05, Yes, I heard, and mentioned in my two minute ago email to you. John McCallum set the record straigh today, and I agree with him that any one p...
• Hello calmecalm, I do not remember Obama bringing the issue to the front on Caucasian vs African American...Wasen't it Bill Clinton, who until now had bee...
• Hi calmecam, Something that I have never mentioned before on this blog...I can actually "neigh"; one of the most beautiful sounds if one owned horses! ...
• Hi calmecam, I love your sense of humour! That and barbecues... Cheers,
• Hi calmecam, Lord Chamberlain! Our history has taken a strange twist, and the zealots want to control us at any cost.
• Hello Calmecam, Of course you are right... The cost of an election is not the issue, but it is the results of such an uncalled for election. One that i...
• Hello calmecam, I sense that you and others on this blog, and I could all really get along very well. I shall take the time to answer later, because y...
• Hi calmecam, Sorry for this delay, and I have found your response to be quite elevating...Yes, indeed, the " the beauty, and nobility of horses", and all ...
• Hello Gordo05, I just love reading your thoughts, views, and opinions. I also respect your candor, and your insights, and your depictions, that denote you...
• Hello Gordo05, I just responded, and lost my whole email! This one is going to be short! I was just as disappointed as you, however, there would be ...
• Hi Bernie, As usual, hearing from you has cheered me up! I feel exactly the way that you do, and Gordo05,.. However, think about this, if I may sugg...
• Hi Parnel, I see it your way... Pretty soon, the PM will no longer be in a position to attack anyone if we keep getting scandals that voters can unders...
• Hi Bernie, Well we know what happens to those who vote for the welfare of their constituencies, such as MP Bill Casey...In this harpercrite gov/t one is w...
• Hello Nik, I heard you on 940AM radio with Charles Adler, no conservative friend of mine, and you stated what I have already posted that scandals, and soa...
• Hellooo Bernie, Absolutely right about Charles Adler, but that your son might be listening to Mr. Adler does not denote anything wrong, or that you have n...
• Hello Nik, Yes, I understand, and thank you for taking precious time from your agenda, in order to answer me. I respect you all the more for this. You ...
• Hello Bernie, Pretty soon we shall have to rent :-)space on this blog! - The Cadman Affair is all important, and all week S. Harper ascerted that he w...
• Hi Bernie, Just emailed you, and had so little room to do so that I was getting cross-eyed! Therefore, I am using an old post to gain a little more room. ...
• Hi Bernie, I love your line about the more prevalent "narrowness of mind of men trying to fit in to smaller spaces"...Indeed, it is not how we were though...
• Hi Mike, Love your appropriate comments. I believe, in answer to your questions, it is that conservatives are screaming to be heard, and voters will ma...
• Hello Mike, Since the Dan MacTeag Private Citizens' Bill re. a good Bill, that would be good for all Canadian families who want to invesst, and send their...
• Hello Mike, Very well said, and thought out! What I like is that we are from the same province, and we see eye to eye. This is most encouraging to me...
• Hello Nik, Just heard you on cpac with Peter Van Dusen, and it all registered...I am happy that you are not a politician, and you should be giving your un...
• Hi calmecalm, Just read your post, and pretty much is happening as you had depicted. Where is the PM in the "House" this week? James Moore is respondin...
• Hello calmecam, I had better pay more attention to your posts...I am spellbound, and you have opined my most hopeful fantasies... You bet, since JFK, a...

Too many election risks (2008-01-22)

• Hello Nik, I agree that the numbers will not give S. Harper his majority. The Manley Report was not very enticing for S. Harper either. It pointed at him ...
• hollinm, Wrong - my head is too groggy to decipher any of this, but am happy to see that some are paying attention, and bringing out very important and t...
• Hello Canuck, First opportunity to clear the air with you...When a Liberal asks for answers, the Opposition states that we are whining. When a Liberal doe...
• Hello calmecam, I have read some of your posts, and would like to join with you, personally, and as a Liberal would want to extend my best wishes for Bill...
• Hello Gordo05, Nice to hear from you, and yes, decency is a rare animal in politics these days. I had also emailed Mr. Casey in order to congratulate, an...
• Hello Gordo05, It is really exiting to have someone on board as yourself on this blog, and I have always felt that it is a privelege that Nik hands over t...
• Hello Nn-aligned in Toronto: I agree that Harper will not have it so easy in 2008, and unless the Press and Medias turn on him that he will probably sai...
• Hello Bernie, So nice to hear from you... In this, as Jim Duff on 940AM radio said last week, Province is going down the 'toilet" to use his exact word...
• Hi calmecam, How right you are - Who knew about Linda Keen until the PM made her known to us all? That's probably why he fired her late at night, withou...
• Hi calmecam. You give a good depiction of what is happening, and yes, this person that appeared on Mike Duffy, has to be the meanest looking of them all. ...
• Hi Gordo05, One can always discount the 'bloq', and although they had proudly stated that they would vote against the budget, with the NDP, G. Duceppe dec...
• Hello Gordo05, Just started to read your article, and shall finish later, but just to let you know that although I have not yet read James Travers' articl...
• Hi Gordo05, Not complicated at all; just good reading and telling it as it is! How long can this charage go on? You have nailed it, and only voter insp...
• Hello Gordo05, I was elated at receiving this reply from you this AM. Thanks. I can understand your frustrations, and am also worried about the directi...
• Hello Gordo05, Yes, I am aware of all the counter arguments, however, Pervez Musharraf has made it clear that any intervention in Pakistan from an outside...
• Hello Gordo05, You think like me, but you say it so much better than me! Nik, you did say it right! Gordo05 I finally had to go for a long walk i...
• Hi Bernie, Good to hear from you. I guess we are both tired; at least I am. You know me better than that, and above all, I hope that I am a humanitaria...
• Hi Gordo05, Yes, Yes, Yes!!! Don't forget to read my predictions to Nik's latest question also... I warn you that my predictions are pretty good, at b...
• To Bernie, Hello Friend, Love it... That's exactly how I felt before responding to your post! Keep in mind that nothing that I say is ever personal;...

Federal Political Year in Review - Challenges and Opportunities for 2008 (2007-12-27)

• Hello Nik, It certainly will not be the NDP, who will call an election, unless they are still impressed with Tom Mulcair, and feel that he is going to car...
• Hi Jan from Whitby, What about the 22, not yet amended, Amendments to the Accountability Act? Have a great New Year.
• hollinm, Thanks, and if I have the time this year to keep up with all of the nitty-gritty, we shall have a lot more fun! Enjoy this ending of 2007, bec...
• Hello Nik, I would especially like to wish you a Very Happy, and Successful New Year, and thank you for this opportune blog that gives us the possibilitie...
• parnel, An illusionist; definately deluded, and possibly in self-denial like most Harpercrites! I believe that this is the second time that I rate "agr...
• Hi hollinm, So have I, and thanks for saying so. I just hope that I am up to par, and have the time to dispute all issues with you this coming New Year. ...
• Season's Greetings Bernie, Although I can agree with all that you wrote, and you have given a good perspective of the reality of this year's politics, I h...
• parnel, As the old saying goes, anything but Harper! They are the silent majority that will make their voices heard at the polls at the next Federal el...
• Happy New Year Bernie, I shall make this fast, since I have been getting phone calls, and emails all day long, from family and friends, and from far away....

New Nanos Poll - Canadians moving away from all party leaders (2007-12-03)

• Hello hollinm, Difficult to believe that we are back to where we left off. Haven't you heard that at Bali, Canada is not well perceived, by all countr...
• Hi hollinm, thought that I would surprise you and make a small comeback! Good question. Sounds as though each Province is going to take those matters int...
• Hello Nik. I have a somewhat different perspective on this one. Mr. Schreiber is no fool. He has been someone's patsy, and is using all he can to stay ...
• hollinm, its the same old rhetoric. Re-read Zena; she has it right! This new gov/t inherited huge surpluces, and is squandering it. Did you read Thom...
• Hello Tom, It's been a while, and am thoroughly surprised that you agree with this. You had been far more astute in the past, and hope to see you posting ...
• Hello Tom, Van is simply repeating what harpercrites would have us believe. They stomp on his personal image, and have laboured laboriously to repeat this...
• Hello Tom, Boy, are you up to parr! This is the kind of opinionated writing that I like to read from you. This is good reading! As I have explained to ...
• Tom, I forgot to mention, that now, and only now, are some realizing that John Turner would have been a brilliant PM. You are right about that! I hope tha...
• Hello Bernie, As soon as I read your first line, I knew that this message was from you. I missed exchanging ideas with you also. I had not forgotten you, ...
• Hi hollinm, Somewhere in one of your posts you mention the Outremont riding election? This is the perfect occasion for me to set the record straight, and ...
• Good evening Bernie, It is always so great to read you, and you sound to me like the "new era" style politics that Barack Obama's and Justin Trudeau's of ...
• And a good day to you also hollinm, If one is to be taken seriously, one has to get one's mind out of the gutter, and learn not to be too gutteral, woundn...
• Hi hollinm, Well perhaps the Irish in me came out a bit strongly, but you know that I do not like disparaging words about anyone. Your last paragraph remi...
• hello hollinm, I shall have to cut my answer short since I am sorry that I do not have much time. I don't think that there is much love lost for anyo...
• hollinm, Thanks for the update, but perhpas not all Canadians are watching that closely! Certainly, if they stabilize the dollar. The bad news is that ...
• Hello hollinm, I always respect your opinions, and understand your arguments. For instance, you mention Kyoto... Yesterday, John Baird was absent fr...
• Hi hollinm, And yes, all parties met until 11:00PM last night in a very eloquent debate about the issues of security, and what is right for those patient...
• Hi hollinm. I think you are missing the point. Darfur is in Sudan. Chad next door. 1- Block the airways whereby the janjaweed deliver arms, and use t...
• Hi hollinm, I haven't noticed the Press and Medias being too kind to the Liberals? Especially not to S. Dion. Just yesterday, Al Gore, stood on the pl...
• Hi hollinm, I guess that I am not getting my point across - In the "House" the reason that the three opposition parties wanted to wait, was to have those ...
• Hi hollinm, Cool off! Either I do not explain myself very well, or you miss the point. As to the magnanimity, re-read other posts whereby I have called fo...
• Hello hollinm, I don't know if I should thank you for dragging me into this conversation, but remember how Mr. Harper has a natural disdain of the Liberal...
• Season's Greetings hollinm, I have also been away, and just finished posting whence your post appeared. So happy for your new laptop; they are great, how...
• Hello Leda, Since I found your reply in my inbox, I presume that you are addressing me. Yes, well I am not sure whether you are speaking of Kyoto the "...
• Slung like a real conservative, Leda. Happy trails!
• I hear you loud and clear, Zena... Either some are in denial, or asleep... The US has just injected another $200billion dollars into the US economy, an...

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

• Hello Nik, As you know it was the adq in Qc who started this ball rolling. With the rest of Canada, I believe that it will be simpler to identify with sol...
• Hi Jim McDonald, I felt just as you did, especially the first day, I gave up. It is by chance that I picked-up on the second day, and discovered by listen...
• Good morning Bernie, Surprised to hear from you so early this am. Actually this is not about security, but about what we perceive as able to live with ...
• Always well thought out parnel. However, I am not sure that you understand that the main choice is French, unless you really come from an Anglophone famil...
• I have to disagree...Canadians want to accomodate realistic accomodations, and this conversation is to help to integrate them, and not stickmatize them to gh...
• I like your thoughtful expose. It counteracts some of the same arguments which we have all brought forward, and helps to broaden the discussion. In view of t...
• Hi doralh, This is the point. When journalists (women) go to Muslim countries, they have to wear the head gear, and respect the law and traditions of that...
• Hello PMK, You have a great point...I am sitting on both sides of the issue so to speak. This debate is going to be very complicated, and just today, I re...
• Good evening Bernie, It is late, and I shall probably talk some nonsense. Yes, I understood what you meant, and as I always respond, you always make a lot...
• Good evening doralh, Sorry to hear that you had to take so much abuse when you were young. I din't! I was however, in a private school (co-ed) in the U...
• Hello doralh, I can understand, at least feel empathy for what you had to put up with. I also very much appreciate that you went to the trouble of explain...
• Hello Bernie, I answered you earlier today, and had problems of some kind when my computer froze and I lost my post...This seems to happen to me only. -:)...
• Hi Bernie, Just read your post, and Tom's first post! I believe that we all agree on those principals, and that we haven't heard the immigrants calling fo...

Duceppe Provokes Election Showdown (2007-09-22)

• Hello Nik, The word "destabilizing" came to my mind also... I have complained for some time that no one is paying attention to our provincial politics ...
• I agree that duceppe is deceitful enough to play against the Liberals and that he is eyeing them mostly and feels that the Liberals are perceived as weakened...
• Hello Elwan, I appreciate that you also include Qc as part of Canada, and nothing makes me angrier when I hear Qc and Canada!!! It makes me boil!!! Qc alr...

Reading the entrails of the Quebec By-elections (2007-09-16)

• Hello Nik, I don't! Even should Thomas Mulcair, former Minister of the Environment win this by-election will have no future adverse effects for the Liber...
• Hi Parnel, I agree with what you say...S.Harper has a way of jumping the gun on issues, taking sides to quickly and then having to tone down, and blame th...
• Hi hollinm, What you are saying is more and more true, but in this province of Qc don't believe all that you hear. One can only expect the unexpected. ...
• hello hollinm, As you know I always pay attention to what Craig Oliver on CTV has to say. He wasen't exactly blaming S. Dion, but telling the party that t...
• Hello parnel, Iggy's delegates were mostly stary-eyed ladies! Although the Press doesn't like S.Harper, I agree that for many reasons, they are bantering...
• Hi hollinm, As long as the Harper gov/t is in power, I do not want a majority gov/t. Already this gov/t has taken action as though it had its majority, an...
• Hello hollinm, I have just had time to digest your first paragraph...My answer to that is why don't you vote for Conrad Black? O.J. Simpson? Parish someth...
• Well said parnel, and I truly believe that we are going to see real action in the "House" when in session next October, and from the Liberals.
• Hello hollinm, and happy that you are back! I do not remember hurling insults at you since this is not my style...Perhaps I stated that we could have a mo...
• Yes, hollinm you are absolutely right, Mr. Harper did not have to come back with a Throne Speech, however, it could be his way to force an election from the ...
• Hello Friend, Sounds as though you are going to keep me busy... All the same: I still hold my belief that there will be no Federal election...The parti...
• Hello hollinm, I had an idea that this was a response from John Baird. OK...how about the softwood lumber deal whereby we lost by signing 1 day ahead o...
• Hi hollinm, Bet yah that there will "not" be an election...
• Hello hollinm, I just do not understand the way you think? 4 yrs (actually only 2 yrs) can be a long time if one is on the wrong course!!! However you...

Harper Tories Should Tread Carefully on Elections Canada Issue - Nik's Sun Media Column (2007-09-10)

• Hi Ken, At last, what a whiff of fresh air ;-) - (Hope that this signifies a smile). More bullying from Mr. Harper, and straight out of Australia. He r...
• Hi Tom, I am glad that you reminded us of this. S. Dion has been asking Mr. Harper about it, but we still have no answers. What about all those millio...
• Hi Jan, Of course you were not speaking of Mark Maynard, nor Mr. Kingsley who retired after 15 yrs service and one who cleaned our electoral process, and ...

Green Party of Canada - Likely the Political Wildcard in the Next Election (2007-08-30)

• Hello hollinm, Could you arrange for a formal platform debate between Elizabeth May and Stephen Harper for me? I would willingly do my part in engagin...
• supper, You make sense to me! Anybody remember when black & white teles were introduced in the US market; many Canadians were frightened about its impa...
• Hello Nik, Absolutely! Liz May has already been quite outspoken at her dismay re the Environment and about S. Harper's lack of comittment. I think that...
• Hello Regina, No Liz May chose S.Dion because she knows that for the last 18mths before the Liberals were brought down, that M. Dion was tracing an import...
• Hello Integral Green, Some must even remember seeing the ad last winter when M. Dion was depicted as having brought about a great achievement in gathering...
• She must be leaving it up to you!
• Hello Nik, It's not about what I think about this not so new minority gov/t. postponing to reopen the sessions in Parliament as previously scheduled for S...

Jack Layton & the NDP - The Minority Challenge (2007-08-27)

• Hello Nik, If there is one thing that I am sure of is that you, Nik, must continue to publish regularly in the Sun Media, and not just temporarily. Ja...
• Hello scottbelyea, Thanks for pointing out the word 'meritorious" by which I meant - 'not deserving" such as not having merit! I am wondering what the...
• Hi hollinm, All I can say is that we have to look at the larger size picture for the future of all on this planet. This is no longer about politics, but a...
• Hi, Perhaps, I would just vote for you!
• Hello Bernie, You really have my attention! If you write a ballad I shall keep a copy. Our minds must have crossed on this one with regards to Mr. Layt...
• Hi James, You are right that "proportional representation" seems a brighter solution for the future. This present system is definately too outdated to ins...
• Hi hollinm, This is your best and most objective posting. In reality, you are stating what both, I believe, Bernie and I are saying. What I sense from Ber...
• Hi parnel, What a great scenario - remove the nightmare!
• Hello Bernie, This is where I would disagree with you. You must keep writing, and in your own very special enthusiastic way how you feel, and see options,...
• Hello Tom, I see Jack Layton as having the "butterfly effect" syndrome which is not good for any party. Perhpas the NDP would have more to gain to join...
• Hi Concerned, This one I can pick-up on. Why - the policies are great, but Mr. Layton has the ability to always cow-tow in his very special way to the Har...
• Hello Tom, Just lost my 5,000 word post to you about Afghanistan. I watched Norine MacDonald, President of Senlis Council, and just cannot repeat this who...
• Tom, Happy that we see eye to eye, on the Afghan issue, and understand the basic dilemmas that this new gov/t is closing its eyes to, and refuses to admi...
• Hi Bernie, I just read your post quickly - I shall to reread it. Not sure about what you are saying about the MMP system of voting. As I understand it:...

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

• Hi Nik, Just lost my first post? Today's Cabinet shuffle is an "Exercise in Futility". Peter MacKay was an asset insofar as that he is young, outgoing...
• Anyone who knew Phil Edmunston out here, liked and appreciated his councelling. He was with the CAA, and wrote one book a year called "Lemons", I believe. Th...
• It was no secret that M. Dion was travelling this summer, in order to get to know the grassroots, rather than the crowds. The strategy was to get him known o...
• I am a disbeliever also. It has been about two Federal parties from the start...and it is going to remain that way until the next election. The support th...
• PMK, you certainly nailed it right! I fully agree!
• I am in full agreement with this statement.
• Hello Bernie, I also agree with what you say...that he has never really done much harm, but although you know how I feel about the corrupt 'bush' administ...
• Hi Tom and Bernie, Just to put my two cents in - "Labelling" must be ensured also. Pretty soon we are also going to be eating 'cloned' meats off the shelf...

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

• Hello Nik, There is absolutely nothing that you have stated that I can disagree with! In this symbolic 'nation' state, we have a problem with the Fren...
• doralh, I certainly hope that you are right! Cheers,
• Hi doralh, On the first paragraph, you took the words right out of my mouth! "The Liberals are not frightening, especially M. Dion. As far as the politics...
• Hello Tom, Cannot disagree with you either. For me, it is no longer about the party, the politics, etc... but hopefully about a Leader who will listen to ...
• Hello hollinm, I realize that we can never agree since our alliegeances, and social values are so far apart...for all citizens of this great Country. W...
• It seems to be always about Qc...Ontario's vote is to be considered also. That's where the population is. However, perhaps if the voting percentage went up i...
• Hi doralh, OK, I agree on her determination and strong will on policies. This is why I would vote Liberal. What was seen at first, as a quality on this PM...
• Hello Bernie, Whoof.....As usual, it comes from the heart, and I was anxious to see what you would have to say. You always go straight to the heart of the...
• Hi Harlan, I liked your comparison, and Stephane Dion has always been a wild-card, but one that usually targets it mark, and achieves his goals. Although ...
• Hello Parnel, I am happy that you responded to someone in Alberta, because I would have been far more disparaging, and could not have gotten my point, and...
• Hello Elwan, How can one refute your realistic analyses, and comprehension of what happened at the last election? One would have to be blind! I would l...
• Well hollinm, now I can better understand what you are saying...Some of it is absolutely true. I shall start by disagreeing by stating that I believe in n...
• Hello Parnel, Well said! Stephane Dion "shines" from within, and is not part of a cast and mold for stardom. He is not an opportunist, but a plugger wh...
• Hello Tom, Although I would assume that we have the same political aspirations with regards to policies, I disagree, and humbly so, that I would like to ...
• Hi Bernie, You did not reach the right person with the NDP...Take my word for it, because they are inviting people to go to meetings, and regularly. They ...
• Hello Bernie, I just wrote you a terrifically long post, and pressed "cancel" rather than preview. I could honestly cry. I am not going thru the mechanic...
• Hi Bernie, No I am not familiar with any of those words, unfortunately, and happy that you responded and have enlightened me to what I fugured were very...
• Hello Tom, In California the money is there, and Arnold, who is married to a Kennedy, certainly helps. California is Democratic, and altho Arnold is (R),...
• Hi Bernie, Perhaps, it is because a couple of week's ago, the Medias and Press where literally thrown out of a Hotel in N.B., where a Harper caucus was ta...
• Yes indeed, Greetings Tom, and Hello Nik, I would like to see Tom's post right up there on the Leaderhsip Board...Tom deserves to be right-up there! I ...
• Hello Bernie, Great to hear from you, and I have already copied your questions for the great day ahead, and please do not hesitate to send more. (Trivi...
• Hi Tom, I find Ambassador Wilkins always arrogant, and along with the 'bush' administration as though he owns Canada! One always feels that he is the boss...
• Hello Tom, Just as I started reading this post, I just knew that it was from you, because of the substance that you bring to the forefront, and more so th...
• Bernie, Just saw General Romeo Dallaire, whom you mentioned on CBC accidentally. I thought that he was much older, but not so, it would seem, and was i...
• Hi Bernie, I believe that I did answer this post...however, I wish to reiterate that the Liberal party (Stephane Dion) has a weekly e-mail newsletter, eve...
• Hi Tom, Just can't resist asking; "since when"? That is at least, the way the older generation of Americans would have answered...but, I do get the m...
• Bernie, Nice that you expounded on this subject and giving Romeo Dallaire's the credit that he much deserves. Funny, that after you mentioned Stephen L...
• Hi Bernie, I agree whole-heartedly until your last two paragraphs, and not that I disagree with those, but see it a bit differently. I think that I ha...
• Bernie, I must hurry also, but if everyone was as consciencious as you are, we would have higher voter participation, and this alone, would make a huge di...
• Bernie, I had to return to explain why I believed that M. Ignatieff made a direly, and not negligeable mistake, almost inconcievable, in my eyes, and on t...
• Hi Bernie, Do not worry about it, and I cannot always answer daily, especially during the summer...One cannot always have access to an internet connection...
• Bernie, On the Premier's conference; it is a good beginning. A step in the right direction for the future of our Provinces, and a huge step ahead of our n...
• Bernie, This is the continuation of the first part: It follows: (CBCnews/media) Instead of repeating the same news all all day long, and CTVmimickin...
• Tom, Not that I want to start on the subject of securing our Artic waters again, but I did hear David Aikan, Senior Editor for CTV, explain that the Liber...
• Hello Tom, So far, I fully agree with what you say in the first paragraph, and this is what I meant in my disorderly fashion post yesterday. The police is...
• Tom: Post 2 of 2: Out here, we have been warned this eve that the harvest of 'blueberries' will not be bountiful, because the bees are disappearing in gr...
• Hi Nik, Your predictions are good...Pauline Marois is getting a seat in a riding whereby a 13 yrs minister is going to abscomb to letting her get elected ...
• Hi Bernie, You have me in stitches...-:) You can't die yet, because who would I post with? From your own postings I get the feeling that you are not abou...
• Hi Bernie, I had promised to send you some of the notes re. Thomas L.Friedman, columnist for the N.Y. Times, on his book the "World is Flat", and am wonderi...
• Bernie, Did you get to see the (3) Leaders Press Conference today? I did! I thought that Pres. Calderon of Mexico was probably the most generous, an...
• Hi Tom, From what I did hear, only the US have those navigable ice crushers to navigate out there. Besides, how do we know that there is really oil out th...
• Hi Bernie, Well said, and I am glad I asked you. Personally I am for free trade, however the tariffs that we are being imposed is outrageous; just with...
• Hello Tom, Thank you for all those explanations, and I shall look at a map ASAP. I get the impression, and for some time that you see me at being at is...
• Hello Tom, Your wealth of information on this matter, and your patience at sharing your knowledge with the rest of us is much appreciated. There was a ...
• Hello Tom, The word "SHOULD" rings a bell !!! Thanks for the specific info., and I can understand your concern. Now I am starting to register what I h...
• Hello Bernie, I also agree with what you say, and appreciate the length that you go to in order to inform us. Yes, typing can be arduous! When Koffi An...
• Hi Tom, This is very much so...However, 'bush' asked for it when he sent emissary missile probes, (sorry always at a loss with the military expressions), an...

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

• doralh, That's a pretty smart answer, and you have had prior experience in politics to know this to be true.
• scott, This "new" gov't, along with blaming the Liberals for 13 yrs of mismanagement, has abosulutely turned things around into total disarray...compared ...
• Hi Ken, Well said! except that I can not imagine S.Harper as kind or gentle...quite the opposite.It's his Autocratic party, his agenda, and he is the boss...
• You hit the nail on the head Pressman... Past history has shown that no one can manage Afghanistan. The military will backfire on us, and continue to brin...
• Regina, I expect that you also saw the "play" that untrained Afghan actors brought to Kandahar, whereby, a few chairs were set in the sand, and when two v...
• Anvil, I can only hope that you are right. Since Mr. Harper never seems to learn from his mistakes, and never listens to his critics, he is on another col...
• Well done Bernie, You haven't minced your words, nor your thoughts. And what's more, you are absolutely right!!! It has been inconceiveable to me how t...
• doralh, I feel likewise about info. re. Afghanistan. In the Eastern part of Qc there seems to be more anti-war sentiment against this upsurge in Afgha...
• Hi doralh, Sorry to disagree on this one, but there was a time when Alberta did need help! You are right though, when you say at what cost do a few goo...
• I am wondering where you got the information that all of the Conservative caucaus is satisfied, since we know that they are muzzled, or ousted if dissatisfie...
• Tom, I do not think that you are at all naive, and know that it is not in the nature of this PM to learn from sorry lessons...I am with you that Afghanist...
• doralh, You certainly have an important point, and it always amazes me that we can not trust, even our own government. Sad to say. But you are entirely ri...
• doralh, You certainly have an important point, and it always amazes me that we can not trust, even our own government. Sad to say. But you are entirely ri...
• doralh, You certainly have an important point, and it always amazes me that we can not trust, even our own government. Sad to say. But you are entirely ri...
• doralh, You certainly have an important point, and it always amazes me that we can not trust, even our own government. Sad to say. But you are entirely ri...
• doralh, You certainly have an important point, and it always amazes me that we can not trust, even our own government. Sad to say. But you are entirely ri...
• hollinm, With all due respect, as you know, the caucus is not responsible for ousting its members, but obey the dictates of their PM, and that goes for al...
• Hello hollinm, Here we go again, and with all due respect, and putting aside information being leaked to the Press, is also a normal procedure in governme...
• Hello Bernie, I am having a great summer actually, and just grateful that we haven't had excruciating heat as others have had unfortunately! I have not...
• Hi Tom, I like the "drunken sailor" part! However, I do not believe that they are stoned deaf, and blind...They are never out of earshot, and have tr...
• Nanny state? Would you expostulate please. Perhaps you mean that this gov/t is trying to give monies to the Provinces, and relieve itself of having to act a...
• Hello Tom and Bernie, I think that we are in unison and this is what I am alluding to Bernie, that "unless the PM has a vision/understanding of where the ...
• drgmobile, To be fair, and I do not disagree with all that you have said. There is truth to this. This new gov't has been amateurish, and to quick to j...
• I get the picture hollinm, and just for the record let me tell you that we do disagree on a lot of matters! For your information, just today Congress made...
• Hello Nik, I think that you really summarized it very well, by describing that, "one cannot put the toothpaste back in the tube"! Have a great summer!
• Hi Bernie, Bet yah it won't work this time, because this trick has been pulled out of the hat already too many times since this new gov;t has been in powe...
• You forgot to add, anvil, that he acts like a bulley, refuses to recognize his mistakes, and even breaks his promises, and before getting known, and getting ...
• After reading e guye, and hollinm's opinions, I was happy to read through your enlightened opinion, and I feel that I am back with both feet steadily on the ...
• It was nice to get an unbiased reply from you JamesH, and I agree that we are all a bit stymied at baggering and comparing this new gov/t, and the parties, a...
• Smitty you certainly know what you are talking about, and have written a really good piece for both parties to assimilate. Your insights are very astute. Th...
• Hi Bernie, no apologiy necessary, and happy that you picked-up on Smitty's well-thought out article. I am wonderting though, if as you say, S. Dion should...
• Hello JamesH, I just finished listening to the Democratic debate on CNN, and it's going to be some time before they get out of the mess 'bush' has put us ...

Conservative NASCAR Sponsorship – Likely more risk than political payoff (2007-06-21)

• Russell, Very well thought out, and this a very low key issue, which is not going to affect many voters. However, it bothers me like every other strategy t...
• Yep, they are spinning on their two right lopsided wheels, and accellerating constantly on a right somersault! The Three Stooges could muster such a landing...
• Hi Bernie, You got it! Great!
• Hi Bernie, again, Canadians do not want an election at this time...Even S.Harper has said it repeatedly. I still repeat that they will never get a majori...
• Hi Nik, Just read the piece, and sorry that I interpolated on this one when I answered Bernie!
• klawson, I believed that your privelege to blog had been removed by Nik? Since you are always the first to insult people, and personally, and that you fin...
• Hi Bernie, I appreciated the time that you took to answer, because of yesterday's comments, whereby I answered Nik, and then realized that I had made a m...
• Mike, That was the best response yet, and glad to have you aboard in this Province!
• :You know, Bernie, one of the big problems, is that if you watch CBC or other channels, we are shown mostly the Western provinces, in Qc, only what is visual...