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Who Canadians trust on the issues (New Nanos National Poll) (2008-07-07)

• Maybe this once Nik has read it wrong: http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/456475 Excerpts "OTTAWA–Most Canadians still want aggressive government ...
• deb,Conservatives don't get the consumption tax isue because they are working it in reverse which continues to show how backwards this government is. Harper ...
• Because [EDITED BY MODERATOR] the smart people will consume less and the abusers will pay more. The tax sytsem will be rejigged to punish GHG emitters and th...
• regina bum boy,Meech lake was the incubator of the bloc and the start of the 1995 referendum campaign, It is you who is rejjiging history.
• Deb, "trolls" is the right woird and the onjes we have here are vociferous enemiies of the Liberals and have never used any logic that does not swim in toxic...
• Hollinm/Mervin, you are a troll and continuously post anti liberal slogans on every newspaper blog/article/columnist in Canada.
• Well I will be voting Liberal and wroking hard to unseat steve and his band of do northing liars and thieves
• Foxer, you ideals and ideas of what is truth are so biased as to be like a fairy tale.
• regina bum boy,,,,,,,,its better to swim uphill than to be a lair and cheater. Harper is both.
• Ah yes MRM has it right again with his BS. The poll was taken last week dummy and I thnk the furor in BC is gouing to die down once Campbell hits back at the...
• But I was talking to everyone here to show people how stupid and biased you are. And I succeed
• MY POST WAS ABOUT A POLL STUPID
• IS THIS OK AH?
• Regina bum boy, Mulroney was the author of the meech lake accord that was profoundly flawed just like Harpercrite's Quebec nation accord will screw us up in ...
• and MRM still hasn't learned to tell the truth.
• Who will you blame when oil prices collapse this time and there is no NEP to blame. The west has TWO sources of income and they are basic commodities. You ca...
• Hollinm, everythgn you say about Green shift is based on your great ability to speculate o everything that makes Liberals look bad. Go see your shrink an...
• Dion is trying to save the west from its own stupidity on several fronts. 1. It elected Steve Harper 2. They believe the environment is someone else's re...
• first of all I don't count BC as the west;lotus land is more appropriate. For things produced in the west it is still about oil and wheat, both commodities. ...
• And hatrepr did us all a favour by ripping billions out of the income trusts while having lied about it only months earlier. He launders money also and lies ...
• sadly for you but if you read those plls closely you will note that Dion is hitting on thos emost likely to switch to his party in an election. Quebecers are...
• There are more than enough Bloc, NDP and green votes that can be harvested to beat Harper and that's just a start. Wait unti the full liberal platform is unv...
• No one agrees with you except the already converted ignorant right wing nut bars. I read those blogs for amusement and disdain because most of them are not t...
• FOXER, 1. How can someone who does not delegate be a good leader? How can someone who has buried the environment issues be a good leader? How can someone wh...
• I love it when all you desperate tories get into semantics about why harper hasn't shown his hand yet. HE HAS NO HAND TO PLAY ON THE ENVIRONMENTAL FILE. Dion...
• You don't know that ebcause all you do is post on right wing rags where you rea dthe same garbage day in and ay out. The scientific community likes his plan;...
• a company doing around $1MM in revenues and suing for $12MM is ajoke and will be tossed out pronto. The Liberals have pretty bright legal types to give them ...
• Just go and check where roughly 80% of alberta's and Sask. revenues come from and I think you will see its from nonnrenewable resources all of which are comm...
• Keep those wet dreams coming...I love to see you squirm and make up stuff along the way in the hope you can keep your useless party in power....fortunately t...
• Let me simply suggest to you that I know a lot more about the situation in Quebec than someone living in LA LA land. I've just come back from Quebec and le...
• coming from you the resident tory liar, selective plagerizer, and all round idiot that is a compliment.
• I think if you went back and checked those facts real closely you would see I am closer to the truth than you are. Remember that downstream production is par...
• Dion does not flip flop. He is a practical person who is always open to better thoughts. Yoy tories wouldn't knbow because of the bankruptcy of your party's ...
• Your sick and demented tory mind has no clue...Dion does not suggest that women should be barefoot pregnant and in the kitchen like Harper and his right wing...
• You need to look at all jobs that are both directly and indirectly attached to commodites and you will see I am correct. Then again you don't want to see bec...
• Now you're a polling expert...lets get Nik to hire you......what a dumb thought process you have.
• 1. you're full of crap.......no brown envelopes huh...just pure money laundering and a bribe offer to Cadman....nothing much!!! As for the G8 read all the p...
• Not just an attack machine but a lying attack machine just like the attack ads. Brainwashing is bad stuff. Too bad they haven't been given the wakeup call.
• Hollinm, you don't counter my arguments. You sling tory mud and BS as you do on every blog you write to in Canada. At least the liberal koolaid is not...
• What kind of stupid nonsense are you promoting now? The liberals want to collapse the Alberta oil indusrty? What drugs do you take...they must be illeg...
• Fox is giving me a run for my money? jeez!!! Why don't you be a man and give me a run yourself instead of tring to get a proxy..are you that chicken sh*t?
• What a bunch of [EDITED BY MODERATOR]!!! You sir are a [EDITED BY MODERATOR].
• MICO,Racist pig is what you are!!!
• 1. The Cadman issue is still alive because Harper tried to kill it with his lawsuit and now his wannabe MP, Cadman's wife, has perjured herself in the face o...
• Good and I'm glad the Tories are not worried...it will just make the election that much harder to swallow and then harpercrite will be gone form the politica...
• When Don wins the vote on the left Harper will not be able to touch him in an election. Winning is what counts a sharper showed us with his money laundering...
• You have it wrong again. The liberals solved the separatist crisis. They love the bloc and for different reasons other than separation threats. It gives th...
• I love it when you whine and moan about superfulous stuff. Tells me how lost and hopeless you really are in your desperate attempt to bolster your deadbeat t...
• I put forth reasoned arguments all the time but slug it out with you idiots when need be. MRM is an idiot plain and simple;Hollimn is possibly a paid tory bl...
• My duty to avoid the west being screwed is to vote liberal and keep all the rednecks out there quiet and stop their chauvinistic ways.
• Your [EDITED BY MODERATOR] is getting worse..... take a pill. You are simply spouting nonsense in your desperation to take down the liberals.
• How come you never ever discuss harper's weaknesses in the polls and the fact he can't get over his IQ in party popularity. Why don't you talk about Mrs C...
• Hollinm, I grew up in Roman Catholic Quebec where the church squelched any attempts at legalized abortion and many young women weere maimed or died as a resu...
• Lets see what you Tory wonder boys think of the latest Elections Canada tory scandal. http://www.thehilltimes.ca/html/index.php?display=story&full_path=/200...
• No the only question is whether Harper will resign on election night or hang in until the party turfs him. I'm very happy we are "stuck" with Dion. The...
• Again I don't consider BC to be the "WEST". Yes its technically in Western Canada but I call it our pacific province becasue its on the other sidfe of the ...
• Well those issues you bring up can and will work in reverse. Harper is slowly but surely becoming a very hated PM and the Libs will make sure his reputation ...
• more [EDITED BY MODERATOR] from you.
• maybe you ought to read the article below from the Hill Times that now shows elections Canada accusing the Tories of violating Federal income tax law with t...
• Your bias notwithstanding no one is making Dion look like a fool. Many many knowledgeable people are now paying serious attention to his plan and soon many m...
• Here it is since you're too lazy and you won't go and find it below: http://www.thehilltimes.ca/html/index.php?display=story&full_path=/2006/july/10/swap/&c...
• Racism has no place in our society.
• We Liberals certainly don't want to stop you from saying what you believe. It gets more votes for our side.
• Sad but true you are arrogant along with some other choice words.
• Your thoughts on harper echo mine exactly and for the same reasons. That is why I am so adamantly opposed to any government he heads up.
• YOU MUST BE A TIME TRAVELLER THEN: YOUR LINK BROUGHT ME TO THIS SITE; http://communities.canada.com/MONTREALGAZETTE/blogs/onthehill/archive/2008/04/30/ne...
• april 30 polls are always quite useful in July...stupid as stupid does. so much for your inside knowledge of Quebec. But just in case you want to know from a...
• GO CHECK THE LINK AGAIN. It was an April 30th poll as if you didn't know The reason for posting the 2006 Hill times article is that the file is getting hot ...
• Yea go for it...and have fun with an almost three month old poll.
• I don't know what BS they use to feed you right wing nut bars but keep on eating it and enjoy the diaherra that follows. Again your posting of a poll almos...
• Good thing you don't care about copyright laws but NIk has been warned about your violating those laws. Typical tory BS'er will do anything to try and win......
• stupid remarks as usual
• You claimed you had advance information on that poll and you sure did......THREE MONTHS AGO..........what a bold faced lie. The rest of your stuff has no...
• Here's what you wrote AH: "hehehe - seeing as I posted before this article was written, seems like I know quebec just a little better than you after all, do...
• You are a liar and got caught...plain and simple
• You are an even bigger liar because you have been around longer and told more lies...your friend just needs more time to catch up. IDIOT and LIAR...what a t...
• [EDITED BY MODERATOR] like you are in every group......you're like the guy who hits the John when the bill comes...all talk and all lies
• Your post is stupidity personified.
• You forgot to add who the trunk monkey was............Stephen Harper no less...BRAVO!!
• there is no full moon here tonight...so you must be howling at the tories instead

Democracy Online - Pushing the limits or creating a new frontier (Video Blog Post) (2008-07-04)

• Nik, I would agree that the internet is still a more transactional than transformative agent right now. My personal interest in the internet originally w...
• One of the upcoming issues of our times will be electronic or on line voting to increase the use of our democratic privileges. That will be the real transfor...
• The fact remains though that the internet is here to stay so how does one ensure that we don't all live in that narrow space you seem to indicate we have cre...
• Leda, Is it controlling the message or trying to ensure a focus of lies and innuendos do not become prolific.
• True socialists do not particulalry like media like the internet fo getting ideas out because they cannot get the masses organized in the streets which is th...
• of course they love the street stuff...they and their union brothers use a form of intimidation in big rallies to get their people "motivated" while others s...
• Jack is a wannbe Liberal but has painted himself into a corner and the Liberals would touch him with a ten foot pole.
• I was just throwing an idea out and it may well be a stretch but time will tell. Socialists usually like social action as their preferred method of getti...

Liberal Green Shift - High Risk and Potentially High Reward (Video Blog Post) (2008-06-23)

• I think Nik is right when he says this is partially about winning votes on the left and nibbling away at the NDP and Green Party voters. I would also say Que...
• Dion's image is far from being beyond repair. He can, through this initiative, turn his personal popularity around almost overnight. He has intestinal fortit...
• Jan from Whitby,,,,still the Tory jokster I see. The tories have no plan because they will lose their Alberta votes if thye came up with a real plan. B...
• where's the vaunted Tory plan? Thry ar enot even trying to promote it and in fact my guess is that the hypocrites they are will force them to now address the...
• Hollinm I would rather my cost of living go up,which it won't, for a better environment than a toxic economic plan that's now unfolding with Flaherty. His vo...
• They are not buying your argument in the east. Who cares if they pay more tax in the west when the GHG's they produce is one of the prime causes for climate...
• Rusell, good point and similar to one I made earlier in a slightly different vein. The Liberals are out to regain left wing and green votes that have been pa...
• Erich, very good post and one that takes the wind out of that wesrterner's sails once again. He is in every newspaper blog spouting his antiliberal nonsense...
• ursus...what do you expect from someone who can't even spell his handle right? Dion's plan,while complex will be "dummied down" for the average voter to u...
• Russell, you are correct Consumption taxes are the way of the future and Harper knows that but is simply a populist reformer from the west and has to please ...
• Tom your point that we get the goverment we elect while true is only partially correct. If we had proportional representation I would agree wit you more. Y...
• Calmecam....Layton has never hidden his ambitions and is not a principled Dipper. he is very power hungry and believes he should be PM and Oliva the deputy. ...
• NAITO....you slant on the left a little too much. your liberal observations are very biased in general.
• Calmecam, I've been a lonely soldier saying just that for a couple of months now. The writing is on the wall with the way Flaherty and his populist ideas wor...
• Calmecam...again you are right on target. The tory strategy is to destroy central government as much as they can and leave the federal treasury devastated. R...
• Emissions won't go up under the plan because the taxes will kill the polluter. If you mean emissions in general then give your head a shake....the only way e...
• Mervin, Feckless is the same word you use in your G&M attacks. The libs will not only not lose the next election they will win a majority and I will be ver...
• Calmecam, The time is coming for proportional representation(PR) in Canada and that should be done long before we tinker with the senate. The fact Canada is...
• RSharp, I don't think my POV on PR changes that but in fact enhances the one man one vote issue. If the tories get 20% of the toal vote and only 1% of the s...
• huh?..first past the post is the lesser democracy of the two. PR gives every party that gets sufficient votes a voice in parliament. Most of western Europe h...
• You won't change the competence level by paying more money...you'll only get greedier crooks running. Run offs cannot really work in a parliamentary syste...
• Rsharp Sorry, that's not the way I understood your post. Now we agree.
• One of the understated issues about GHG emissions and Dion's plan to prioritize the environment is the fact that expnsive oil plus punishing taxes fro GHG's ...
• Tom Good...Dion does not intend to run on that one issue. Surely it will be a focus and rightfully so. But, he has also wrapped other initiatives around his ...
• Degres, Reducing consumption taxes was a very bad idea. Dion plan is taxing excess pollution not energy. If the production of energy uses "dirty" me...
• Its better marketing than showing an oily blob to voice your disapproval of the green shift.
• On Larry King live last night there were poeple from a movement called "rock the vote" who are appealing to youth to vote. This group is not new but are star...
• You don't know the full details. Dion himself has said it is a work in process and he would be consulting with the Canadian people during the summer......mor...
• larryl, I think his posts are very interesting and factual.
• You belong on a Nazi blog
• Dion told the sun editorial board it was a "work in Progress" and that he and his caucus would be consulting with Canadians over the summer to get further id...
• We get the green shaft every day from harper/flaherty their fiscal mismangement but we will get the green shift and lower taxes from Dion.
• That's quite hypocrical coming from a dipper. Layton helped harper ge telected by alighning with him and now he's getting his payback in spades. He is despic...
• The only real income tax reduction you've had in many many years came from the Liberals. The GST reduction is a sham and the recent so called reduction has ...
• We'll see when the deficit and rescession are in full bloom. Flaherty is a liar.
• I'm not here to be spelling champion. Liberals will embrace her environmental program for more vote harvesting and win more votes back from the dippers wh...
• Is that why unemployment is rising and factories are shutting down and house prices are now falling.....becasue of tax breaks? What nonsense and stupidity...
• He can't help himself because the tories only do unbelievable stuff and have no vision of the future or the present for that matter. But you hit the nail on...
• We will all remember that Jack layton helped elect the tories..that is the reality of the NDP...supporters of the Tory right wing agenda
• You mean to spell tory cr**ks and li*rs
• Reducing the consumption tax is much like the government simply printing more money as it feeds higher costs for goods and services. The oil embargo of t...
• Get lost....why should I go back through a weeks worth of newapaper articles and do your research. I told you it was the sun editorial boad meeting Dion had....
• degres, complex problems need resolve and determination to solve. Our trading relationship with the US can only grow if we have a set policy with predetermin...
• Its funny the looney right keeps on saying how liberal the G&M is but they endorsed your leader last election.
• They now realize their mistake however.
• Jan., we're stuck in a time warp? The poster brought up crap abut Liberals from 20 years ago and fails to react to comments about the preposterous suppor...
• Erich, your post is good and I agree that hard facts are needed. Dion himself has stated he will use the summer to fine tune the plan and bring forth definit...
• What utter nonsense....I suppose the wheat board that built all those rail cars and presented western farmers with economic means to get their wheat sold was...
• Hey you stole that from me...the green shaft is the income trust lie set out by Hapercrite/Flaherty and they will soon deliver another shaft with a budget de...
• Speaking of learning you should read Saturday's G&M investor page in the ROB section. The feds have taken in 5% more in revenues and increased spending by 5....
• So far no one here has come up with any detailed analysis on Dion's plan except from partisan lines of thinking. Dion has opened up a whole new level of ...
• degres, If the nation is that fragile it doesn't deserve to survive. Dion's clarity act legislation after the 1995 referendum applies to all provinces. Th...
• larryl, The comment about indirect and user taxes means more GST not less as the populists would have you believe. The tories are playing dangerous with our...
• I agree a majority government is needed to help solve the taxation issue but a populist tory government is not it. Everytime the Tories, either federally or ...
• How many ways can Dion explain revenue neutrality and still get your attention. Of course the details are not fleshed out. He did state he would use the audi...
• hollinm, you are all over every newspaper with your anti liberal garbage and never ever bring up an actual direct fact. "Too cute by half"...is that the same...
• He has promoted it and all you can do is say it won't withoutr any thought or evidence to the contrary. I'd say you are biased and without reasoned thoughts ...
• see my othe rpost to you in the same vein
• Of course you don't remember the times when oil went down to $10 a few short years ago and the west was screaming bloody murder. It will come again and it wo...
• I don't think he did. He has combined the environment an economic plan that meets or beats Kyoto over time, but not in time, while the tory plan never meets ...
• Westerner, the NEP acted like a good equalizer for the whole Country which is what is supposed to happen. Remember we do live in a federation not in fortress...
• Pay us back for all the subsidies we gave you over the years....with interest
• He hasn't got a hope in hell because your buddy the denier has pushed any action back so far as to make it impossible. Plus, Dion needs the western tax money...
• Why has Baird not disclosed that consumers and Canadians in general will pay more taxes as a result of the Tory plan. Why has baird not sislcosed that hi...
• Another dumb shot.....Chretien only signed Kyoto as he was going out the door and martin ran a minority government against the deniers.
• Another stupid post
• The smell of bull fertilizer is coming from you.
• Fertilizer comment meant for westerner
• larryl, the fertilzer smell is permeating that guy's brain. Your time frames are correct.
• Jan, If Dion says his shift will be tax neutral don't you think those increased costs will become tax deductible in the shift. Dions taxe's will begin at th...
• I see you've for now stopped the slanting yourself and instead approving of others lies and fairy tales.
• Show me the proof of that and don't show me the northern premiers press conference which was full of inaccuracies and false innuendos mainly because they suc...
• Maybe so, but you do get the point, I'm sure, that your grade two thinking is still very immature,badly slanted and biased.
• As stated earlier the press conference was full of the teat sucking those guys need to show to every government in power since they have no tax base of their...
• I can supply lots more of those since you're such an easy target to hit.
• MRM, I'm saying those premiers are blowing and sucking at the same time. The press reported the press conference correctly as it was supposed to do.
• mrm, WHERE'S THE PROOF. And where's the comparison with your dear leader's plan?
• Don't worry...you're no strain on me whatsoever as you're child's play, but, I pity those who have to live with you day in and day out.
• Nik, here's a pretty good article that brings home the major changes in the way "Green" is now viewed. The Americans are now getting it and the Liberals are ...
• There are any of those opinions around. Where is Harper's comparison? That is the question I posed. Left leaning means NDP by the way and they are usually...
• degres, When is the best time to tax pollution? When gas is $5 a litre? $10? We have the resources and riches in this country to manage this tax shift w...
• I think someof them wear their cowboy hats too tight also....LOL
• WhAt a stupid answer? You can't answer the question posed so you obfuscate and slant stuff again and try to change tact. Dion's plan is not law therefore...
• Mervin/hollinm...you are far too busy bashing liberals on every newspaper blog in Canada to keep it up here. We understand your fatigue. What you continue...
• hollinm, that's pure bunk. He will increasingly tax pollution and enact targets at the same time. You know that but are unwilling to think it through. His ta...
• Just always remember that Angus Reid is a Tory pollster and even advertises on tory blogs. Also remember he was the pollster with the worst call in the last ...
• I know you lie because saying you have friends is the big lie. I too have many friends and everyone says its a move in the right direction but that he's n...
• BS..educating and getting input are in the same vein. You only wish I could lie like you so you would have company here. Shooting the messenger? I don't ...
• Not a bad start at all to serious changes. People are going to get educated and will warm up to this. Dionis first oout of the gate and will most likely cont...
• Mervin/Hollinm, Calmecam shot down every argument you had several days ago and you backed off because he was all over your lack of logic. Read those again an...
• Blah blah blah...go read some of the anti liberal stuff you spread like manure across just about every newspaper and blog in the land. One poster here ma...
• Nice comeback but no dice. He took everyone of your arguments and sliced/diced them pretty intelligently. The only misinformation that gets put out on th...
• Read Jack Mintz's article in Saturday's NP.
• My truth never hurts......it propels me to bigger and better things. Your version of the truth is simply spouting off, racism and astrong bias against a ...
• Do I sound like an MRM or hollinm.....gimme a break
• Another balanced article on the environment change in our population's habits: http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/450941 An excerpt: "But on rare ...
• What you seem to forget and refuse is the fact the green shaft has been given to us already by Harper...he simply forgot to have Baird mention the shaft part...
• Did you do any research on the think tanks and did you read the Mintz article? Probably not since your best answer is to call me a liar...Your perverted sen...
• Does Dion run around using attack ads that demean his opponents? Does he insult people incessantly? that's what harper does and that's why he gets no res...
• hollinm, Interpreting the results is what you are not doing. rsharp read from the results and gave a fair interpretation of the poll. Even the worst cas...
• mervin/hollinm, you have become fully delusional. Some of the other blogs you post on sound the same way. I do consider that anyone who pokes fun at ...
• It is racism becasue it targets his place within the Canadian federation. Granted he should be bilingual to be the PM but he has a better grasp of the Englis...
• hollinm, telling those provinces to get with the program is the absolute right thing to say. Are they supposed to be left alone to pollute ad nauseum? Wai...
• rsharp, I strongly disagree with your Iranian thoughts. They are the perpetrators of the palestinain crisis through the Syrians and hezbollah. That is an abs...
• larryl is a little over the top?...coming from you that qualifies as the joke of this blog site. You are disgustingly dishonest in your opinions. and obvu...
• C,mon hollinm you are attacking Dion becasue you fear him. Harper knows the guy will be a very tough opponent to beat because he is principled and honest, tw...
• Again you coitinue to drive falsehoods. I have met dion twice and he had no problem being understood speaing English to a bunch of United Empire Loyalists wh...
• You can continue to live in your US conspiracy world. I believe otherwise and have lived and travelled extensively in Iran and the middle east and was in the...
• Al you is copy cat my accusations...you're one sick puppy. You couldn't catch me in a lie if your tried. You refuse to do your own research and then call...
• I SAID TO GO CHECK CDHOWE FOR YOUR ANSWER...I'M NOT YOUR LIBRARIAN.....WHAT STUPID COMMENTS. OTHERS HAVE CAUGHT YOU SHORT CIRCUITING THE TRUTH AND HAVE ...
• How's your french?
• meant for holinm...how's your French?
• Mervin/hollinm Say whatever you want about Dion but the fact remains he is still standing after all sortsd of attempts on his political by harper and his go...
• You mean to tell me that because Dion has yet to register fully with voters the spearatists will win more seats. Tell me that after this summer and the next ...
• Hollinm, that is as dumb a comment as I've heard and MRM makes a bunch of really dumb ones. The fact is that all Canadians will pay that carbon tax as it ...
• Tom, Canada has far too many natural resource riches for us to develop with Canadian companies, and money, only. Foreign owned corps pay Canadian taxes keep ...
• I will bow to your prognisications when you are sober again!!!
• the Liberals have 70% of the lectorate thye can appeal to..harper is down to 30% max But keep drinking that koolaid
• Mervin, at least mine is not growing with repetitive lies in every newspaper across Canada. In factI'm looking at a mirror right now and my nose is small an...
• are you my spokesperson now AH? Argument was won when Dion hit the newspapers with his plan.....you said he would be gone by now, couldn't win anytihng a...
• MY party's MP had a booth in town yesterday with the Liberal moniker on it and the green plan announcements with it...Dion was nowhere in sight. Again you...
• larryl, wrong again about the Chinese. Their government has raised fuel prices about 18% in recent days and will have to raise them more or revalue their cur...
• Keep spreading the lies and slanted crap. Iggy has been very instrumental in developing the plan and is 110% behind it and has openly stated that. How many o...
• What you are trying to get me to do is give you my insiders report on the Dion meeting with the institute. I paid for my member ship. do the same and you can...
• BS you are quoting from some dumb poll that rated Obama on top of every Canadian politician. Your stupidity and slanting of the truth knows no bounds. rsh...
• Disney world of challenged tory minds
• Dream on.....hopefully its somethng in the water you drink and thye'll clean it up. Mcguinty is at 45% currently and Tory is at 37%..not very flattering ...
• Its also of interest to note that the most recent high level appointments of Harper have no hope of winning a seat in the next election. fortier is so far be...
• Its too bad you don't read the papers. Go google Emerson and Fortier articles over the last ten days or so and you'll see its you who is full of crap. The B...
• Here's another poll from the G&M online just picked off the net: OTTAWA — A new poll suggests the federal Conservatives have lost key support amongst wom...
• You two have become two thirds of the three stooges....flaherty could be the third!!! Speak to me about polls now that another one has just been publishe...
• Yes mervin, I deny all your BS as unadulterated crap and is the same on every blog you appear on.
• Here's yet another poll to make you change your diapers: http://www.decima.com/en/pdf/news_releases/080610E.pdf An excerpt: Preferred government after t...
• Note: The above poll was taken earlier in June and showed national preferences at 32% Tory and 31% Liberal w/o averaging out the overweight of the Alberta T...
• the polls become inaccurate when the vote for one party in a smaller population base gets too high. Statisically speaking that is. I'm no expert but just try...
• You already bleated about those polls earlier but neglected to post the full details about the decima poll I listed. Again your lies and BS show up and you ...
• MRM,You are full of crap on defense. The many countries that are CAPABLE OF ATTACKING US are not ones we have to worry about. We have NORAD by the way. As...
• Show me where CDHowe is NOT supportive of the Dion plan AH. My other point was that the bully Harper as Prime Minister of the land could not outpoll the l...
• degres, with all due respect to your opinion if you don't tax energy now usage won't go down and consumer costs will still go up. The only way to punish the ...
• I never said we didn't need a strong military capability but there is no smoking gun as you might be suggesting. Then again you are brain damaged so I shpuld...
• hollinm, how come your energy rich province has not reduced the price of gasoline at the pump. Is that another Liberal plot. Your feckless leader lowered GST...
• The Liberal party has never ever hurt the poor. In fact the welfare numbers in Canada have come down dramatically between 1993 and 2005. That was higher, if ...
• kyoto became law in 2005 and guess who has been i power since then......you ten year time line is just more babble garbage. The libs had no time to implement...
• poor sick and demented loser...it hurts when your party can't win. They can't win because they don't know how to govern. Harper is soon to be a dead man walk...
• You're a full psychopath...don't be humble and of course you're a great fiction poster
• show us the link to your CDHowe article of July 3 and if you think jack mintz was endorosing the tory plan you are sicker than previously thought. Mintz h...
• Input the words and my response from the web site is shown....you are a fn liar again. I'm a member of cdhowe and know how it works..you sucker punch oncemo...
• MRM, still waiting for the CDHowe link as my Googgle does not appear to be working as well as yours and since the Dion meeting with them was off the record ...
• Hey stupid the mintz article was the same one I told you to read last week. Go check my post.....the article was not favourable to the tories but was balance...
• The only word that comes to mind with you is IDIOT.
• Here's more of the truth for you stupid. http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=633029 Liberals contend their plan will address 75% of the carbon e...
• First of all quoting full articles of some publications without permission is a violation of copyright laws. Get it yet stupid? The writer used the word s...
• http://www.nanosresearch.com/library/polls/POLNAT-S08-T310.pdf I note that Nik's latest Sun poll shows the Liberals in front on the environmental issue as...
• Idiot , you need to read up on copyright laws and also note every newspaper article is copyrighted. Quoting pieces from articles is ok and reprinting press r...
• See my previous post where it confirms your desperation on behalf of the despicable tories you so love and admire. Harper is now losing the battle on all...
• I didn't miss a thing as I pulled that poll from another site and not the Sun which I don't read. That poll was the only thing linked. so, in another of yo...
• One thing I've accomplished here is to make you aware that your'r previous behaviour and use of slanted articles and lies are no longer acceptable. In ot...
• Can you not differentiate between "pieces" of articles and "full" articles. IDIOT
• no you dummiy...you never quoted from the CDHOWE Institute and had some phoney character who referred to them. The actual dion pice is in side their web site...
• "And they intend to turn the Conservatives’ new child tax credits into unconditional universal benefits, effectively turning them into baby bonuses — even th...
• Tells me that, as usual, you know nothing about copyrights laws and are as stupid, if not more so, than I've come to understand you.
• Another "brilliant" response from the the blindly most anti liberal person around........talk about an idiot!!
• Why don't you plagerize something from the real environmentalists instead of copying garbage from Conservative rags and lies from Baird's speeches. And t...
• Liberals running on the left and managing on the right makes them a centrist party and has nothing to do with being ethically challenged. They get their vote...
• TRUTH ALWAYS HURTS DOESN'T IT?
• THREE MAJORITY GOVERNMENTS AND ONE MINORITY IN 15 YEARS IS NOT A LIE BUT A FACT OF LIFE..WHEN WAS THE LAST TORY GOVERNMENT IN POWER THAT LONG? MULRONEY SE...
• TN, a very good summary of things green. I believe Dion has taken the lead in Canada and possibly in the western world with his plan. His plan needs much m...
• I heard you were on life support and/or simply brain dead.
• Its better to run on the left where the votes are than to run a negative hateful campaign of ies and money laundering to get elected. The Harper so calle...
• MORE OF YOUR LIES
• LETS SEE HOW THE TORIES DO WHEN THEIR MONEY LAUNDERING SCANDAL FINALLY HITS HOME DURING THE NEXT ELECTION CAMPAIGN
• MRM, Now suddenly George Bush has converted to a GHG reduction proponent while you and your favourite party doodle in the sand. Useless and stupid go togeth...
• TN, a very good post and you have summarized the things I've been saying but watch the tory nutbars come out of the gutter and tell you the people you have q...

Nanos-Policy Options Poll - Immigration as Nation-building (Video Blog Post) (2008-06-06)

• Nik, In Northern Alberta, contractors have been given the ability to bing in guest workers. These guest workers are mostly from Eastern Europe and are genera...
• I agree Tom, but the skilled trades imports can be a model for doctors, dentists etc. They could be brought into these remote but high labour content areas a...
• rsharp...my two kids were educated in the canadian system and are doing just fine. You canexcel in the Canadian educational system and you can excel even if ...
• hollinm... you missed McGuinty's point totally. Ontario sends $20 billion more to Ottawa then it receives back in various forms. Flaherty was simply trying t...
• hollinm..I never said Mcguinty. I said Ontario and supoose I should have added the "people of" but regardless. Ontario has been paying equalization monies...
• I like the fact GM discovered a problem and acted on it very quickly. Growing inventories can just happen when suddenly a product can fall out of favour just...
• I agree that simpler accreditation must become law across Canada AND BE GOOD IN ALL PROVINCES
• hollinm....first things first about being partisian. Did Brian Mulroney slow down transfer paymernts to Quebec or did he increase them dramatically over the ...
• One of thie other issues on immigration is the fact each province has input into immigration. They can decide on their own who gets in and who doesn't if the...
• Maybe with a decentralized federation we would not have been ripped off by Flaherty's income trust fiasco. Unfortunately the rest of your stuff is just an an...
• The reason they didn't deal with ALL the former problems created by Mulroney is that lying Brian nearly bankrupt the Country and they had to step back while...
• Nik, I have also come to believe that Canada has nothing to fear with an expansion of free trade to include full labour mobility between Canada and the US an...
• hollinm; 1.Mulroney inherited a baby boomer deficit that every other country had a the time. He increased the deficit until canada had the worst debt oer ca...
• Absolute BS and more lies you were taught by the Harperites.
• Schools right through university should be free and subject to the student keeping certain academic levels. the more we educate the better off we all are.
• No hollinm, I was thinking of ways to make us more competitive. Giving housewives more spending money is not the way to a more compeititve country. Many m...
• No housewives are upset with harper's attempt at bribing them with that $100 a month. His real intent is to see women stay home and be good mothers/housewive...
• Only one comment to your very biased and unrealistic argument. Why does Flaherty want a national securities regulator if that is a provincial responsibili...
• So for security fraud its ok but not for education to have national standards?
• http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080610.wbernier0610/BNStory/National/home "On Tuesday, Le Devoir newspaper reported that Ms. Couillar...
• larryl, you have missed two of my remarks in this thread obviously. The workers imported inot Northern Alberta are all educated in Canadian methods and our w...
• the royalty issue is a whole other discussion and not for here but would like to discuss it in another forum. As for company greed in immigration I think y...
• My world thinks that a teacher who has passed the quaificiations in Newfoundland can teach with thsoe same qualificiations in BC. That's my national dream. ...
• larryl, Would you rather get around on a bicycle and not have heat for your house in the winter. Take your choice.
• A. You went way off topic with wild unsubstaniated rumours in order to simply slam the Liberals. B. The Bernier blog is still active but was by passed C. y...
• go check yourself...its well marked
• you are a typical tory suporter and need attack ads and lies to survive. I will continue to haunt you because its fun to get the truth out and call your lie...
• Here it is and it follows one of my posts that you can surely locate: Parnel No housewives are upset with harper's attempt at bribing them with that $100 a...
• Your old fashioned idea of school no longer works in the computer age. Kids are sending homework to their teachers by email and doing exams on line and can e...
• BS
• BS
• I love private enterprise and don't want government directly running anything.
• larryl, let me say unequivacbly.... I am a capitalist but I do believe in Canada's mixed economy that provides us with cheap education and access to full med...
• larryl, the only fear I have is the continuing maangement of our economy by the Harper Tories. These are the real fear mongers. Other than that I think w...
• True but it will survive better without Harper really screwing it up
• Hollinm, I thought you were referring to the almost $1B Harper handed Charest that he in turn gave away to voters as an election bribe. The Liberals at leas...
• Degres, As usual it was just simply more MRM hate literature against the Liberal party;there was no othe rindication anywhere that the lady was a liberal or...
• Subjects do wear out here larryl. Sometimes low IQ's from Tory assault teams take over as well.
• The money Charest received was disguised as equalization money. Surely you jest when you effectively state Quebec had been shortchanged in equalization payme...
• I'd rather see some of the western provinces go before I see Quebec go. The real spoiled children of confederation are now the westerners. Thank Brian Mu...
• My concern is not social programs because the west loves them as well as the east. As for independent thinkers do you really think there are more truly s...
• Obviously you have lived away from Ontario for far too long. The entrepeneurial spirit is alive and well here just not as easy right now to make money as it ...
• larryl, so you're saying the same things I'm saying except you're being socially correct...LOL
• I am a longstanding Liberal who has voted strategically inthe past as well. Unfortunatley any other votes in Canada other than Lib or PC are effectively wast...
• the only time voting for other parties would make sense is if we had proportional representation.
• That would mean changing our parliamentary system for a republic type system and Canadians are not ready to do that. It would also mean major changes to our ...
• Strong coments to people who are way too biased to realize it are not insults but simply serve as wake up calls. Unfortunately their thin skins cannot take i...
• You may simply wish to enjoy the early morning solitude also. There are different types of fishing also
• either....there is not much to discuss and tories cannot discuss stuff because they are too embarassed by the scandals breaking every day.
• or possibly your lies
• not you
• larryl, before you came on this board I was strongly pointing out slanted pieces he was posting that led one to believe a partial story. This guy is a master...
• Northgirl, you are very wrong. Canada is a country of immigrants and in my opinion we should be bringing in more not fless. Skill levels are another issue...

The Bernier Resignation - Is it more than political "eye candy"? (Video Blog Post) (2008-05-30)

• C'mon Hollinm...you know very well there is no depth on the Tory front bench and there is no depth in Harper's own office. Everytime he unleashes something i...
• MRM has poted more of his selective crap;here's more form the crop poll: "The survey also found the level of dissatisfaction with the federal government h...
• Hollinm, if you think Liberals are over the top on issues here's another zinger or two of reality for you: http://www.thehilltimes.ca/html/index.php?disp...
• Westerner, Give us your brilliant analysis on why Dion is inept. Please give us some details of your views. We wait with baited breath.
• Broughad, no one thing will bring the Tories down in a general election. They have given the Liberals so much ammunition to work with its not even worth sing...
• At the end of the day the Bernier issue is one of sheer incompetence on the part of the government for first appointing him and then ignoring the signals tha...
• As it appears that 72% of canadians are prepared to happily pay a carbon tax I would say you struck out again on Dion. he's way ahead of you in anticpating w...
• Calmecam, The Tories are very nervous over the in and out scheme and it shows. I truly believe there will be charges just based on the fact money was sent a...
• Calmecam, these people love fairy tales that make Liberals look bad. The truth is not part of the equation especially if they can get the rumour going strong...
• Calmecam, Of course if they can make up a story they will. They all live on fanatasy island dreaming of a forever elected majority Conservative government w...
• I can't comprehend becasue you won't explain yourself. I need detailed answers man!!
• Alfeeee.....BS..c'est [EDITED BY MODERATOR].
• rsharp, MRM will call you a liar just for the sake of it. He loves Liberals
• westerner, give up... you've met an intellectual Liberal who can bea tthe piss out of you any day.The fact you love HARPER makes you even dumber.
• http://www.cbc.ca/national/blog/video/at_issue/in_berniers_wake.html This "AT ISSUE" panel from kast night will keep many tories awake trying to figure ou...
• westener... I beleive your last comment is really appreciated by calmecam. NB: "Erudite comes from the Latin adjective ērudītus, "well-instructed, learned"
• No rght winger can be an intellectual.....Steve Harper proves that. Dion has a proven record as an intellectual............Harper has a reputation of a b...
• hollinm maybe just maybe the mainstream of Canadian life is on the left of the spectrum. After all the vast majority of Canadians vote on the left. Maybe...
• hollinm, go out and buy bigger underwear. You're too uptight. Rae and Iggy both have buried the hatchet and both are very much in support of Dion and the...
• The liberals are being given a very nice gift by the Harpercrites. They want the budget to pass because it has been reconfigured more to Liberal ideals in co...
• MRM, coming from you that's a compliment. Dion would not want your vote..sick and demented minds need Liberal health care though.
• Hollinm, surely you jest about liberals and high taxes. your brain has been washed by the populists who don't thin k about balanced budgets. The midget finan...
• Mike Fear not; the in and out scheme and other scandals now being investigated will all surface in time for an election. thre Tories are so shi* scared thye ...
• CALMECAM...I've been saying this since year one of his tyrannical reign. The likes of Reynolds and the bulldog Baird are simply hitmen in the big scheme of t...
• calmecam, I used to do that when we started out here but these guys kept on with outrageous insults about Dion and they nneeded to be answered. All these guy...
• They have to veto the budget to do that because Harper attached the immigration bill to the budget..talk about accountability!!!!
• Well I guess you'll have to wait until the bill reaches parliament. I just tried to google budget hearings/revisions for this year an nothing came up. I had ...
• I'm still waiting for your answer on this post: http://www.nikonthenumbers.com/topics/show/69#comment_6513 Blaming him for a policy he has yet to unvei...
• Westerner, I'll even make it easy for you(sort of a paint by numbers approach) Here's a dictionary definition of inept: 1 : lacking in fitness or aptitud...
• In other words you can't answer the bell with direct stuff.......just another chicken sh*t tory.
• MRM, Nobody said they were stealing money.....they were stealing an election. You are full of crap once again. Show me where the alberals are facing the sa...
• you didn't give one
• As usual you quote some article and the whole story is missing the real punch line. The fact of the matter is that the current deadline is a soft one, unde...
• its your logic that is way off base. You take every little poll and take it way out of context. Dion could care less right now how he's labelled. He's rebuil...
• Where have I ever called myself an intellectual. Again you slant things to suit your purpose with more BS. I can call you braindead however for thinking you ...
• They were caught in the process of stealing money from the Canadian people if they were claiming those illicit fund expenditures. My larger point (which you ...
• The liberal family is truly behind Dion and the press has even stopped suggesting that there are knives out for him. The real truth is that Dion was busy put...
• More drivel from the peanut brained tory think tank. The fact of the matter is that the Liberal party is a big tent party and can accomodate many pov's and a...
• I did go to bed and awoke hoping to see your answer....but alas my dream of an answer was thwarted.
• LEDA..... I certainly do not think that stealing an election with illict funds is minor. The Tories have committed the same sins they accused the liberals of...
• Please show us the deep talent pool from the west. You mean the failed former environmental minister or you mean the industry minister, a liberal. Give your ...
• Why bring on an election we can watch the Tories sink further over the summer. Word is that Harper, ever so confident, will porogue parliament until November...
• degres, then why are you here if there are no concerns.
• at least degres is not repetitive!!!
• No depth behind Rae and Iggy? We have a former FM;we have other former cabinet ministers who will run next election. We have a party in renewal bringing in ...
• I would agree if it was an omnibus bill. This isn't. A budget traditonally stands on its own as it is the major bill a parliament passes. chretien always pas...
• Hollinm, And we thought you were sleeping the whole time
• there you go again with false and misleading statements. the June 4th date is effectively a reporting date. The law is very easy on those who haven't paid by...
• larryl.....that is racist and uncalled for.
• I said there weere changes agreed to in committee that I have read about but cannot find anything on the final bill that is being presented to pass. You will...
• 1. You say Dion looks goofy...so you are judging a man on his looks. Pretty demeaning in my world. Then again you like to follow your shallow leader in your...
• MRM the only liar here is you. Dion is far too smart to lie and in fact does not need to as he is fully capable of taking the heat for his actions. Unlike yo...
• The so called bumbling fool is going to be your majority PM and that's better than the bully,liar and briber who now runs our government. Read my other p...
• MRM, Coming from you the biggest bigot on this blog thats a hoot!!!
• larryl, you're right, but it sounds like discrimination the way you say it. I am a quebecker by birth and a proud Canadian who greatly believes in the duali...
• MRM, Remember that the last poll on is on election day when you call Dion dopey and hopelessely out of it in the personality polls. You can't seem to walk a...
• I fully stared I could't find anything on committee changes because nothing is published,that I could find, but mark my words there were changes. I will emba...
• I am directly calling you a [EDITED BY MODERATOR]. You have specifically stated that the Liberals will be implicated in the same "in and out" affair. Not onl...
• I wouldn't leave it open with you inside.
• Mike, the obvious thing here is that none of the other parties read the act the way the Tories purported to. They had all read it and applied it according to...
• I am not going back in to read it again but suffice to say that extensions will be easily obtained and if you published that part your answer would have bene...
• You are only restrained because its you who gets caught in the lies that everyone else here sees clearly except hollinm of course. If I'm a potty mouth so...
• MRM's joke of the day. Pot calling kettle black!!!
• its not about gonads Westerner its about proper timing. The chicken sh*t tories have rigged this vote timing so that if an election were needed it would be i...
• Flaherty is a mental midget... I don't know what height he is. Calling someone a liar is a direct hit on their actual lies. You will note I only speak mo...
• Calecam...I don't think for one minute he's being uberflexible in his interpretations. He doesn't quote things verbatim but does intentionally slant them aw...
• After running the country for 76% of the last 60 years or so some bad deeds were bound to be done. The Tories had many more scandals in their 24% of the time...
• Mike, I agree absolutely that the Tories bent the rules. Harper's arrogance and greed for power made that happen and I believe criminal intent was involved. ...
• Flaherty is a conservative!!!! or are you ashamed of him also?
• Camecam...I see it all very clearly and with a clear conscience also.
• Just incase you think we are all LIBERAL freaks. I have voted tory in the past and likely will again......just not for this current bunch of incompetent egos.
• MRM, in your convoluted logic every appointee made by the liberals was partisian and Harper's appointments are not. Simply put you have again slanted your pi...
• larryl, You can say what you want about Dion's election as head of the party but please remember he was very well rated within the party,and in the press, f...
• http://www.thestar.com/Canada/Columnist/article/435223 Chantal Hebert seems to have hit the nail on the head with her commentry today. Harper went into...
• The Tories are really grasping at straws to deflect their stupidity over the Bernier bobble. This one really smacks of serious desperation: http://www.ca...
• well that's something you have to prove me wrong on. He collected his money long before the rules changed and he refsued to identify his financial supporters...
• One thing about Liberals is that they are loyal to the leader through an election. After every election the leader has to get reviewed and then the knives co...
• Good for Mulcair...he's a one term wonder and won't be around for the next parliament. He got turfed from the provncials for having too big a mouth..of cours...
• You're right..there was an interparty war and it took away all Martin's energy when he finally got the prize. In the end Chretien stepped down when he was re...
• Frum's ideas of free and open elections make me think that our system is far too regulated. Why not jsut let politicians raise as much money from any sources...
• larryl, I know, and have met, Martin personally both in and out of office many times and I can say with absolute certainty that you are wrong about the issu...
• NAIT...you call it resignation but the demotion to the back benches was too much for his ego. He was clashing with just about everyone in Quebec and was dete...
• MRM, wrong again. Dion is not unpopular within his party and is slwoly coming of age. He, as I've stated previously doesn't care right now about personality ...
• Chantal Hebert has hit the nail on the head for reasons why the liberals haven't toppled Harper. They know his arrogance and his very poor quality cabinet wi...
• it looks like the so called Kennedy scandal blew over pretty quickly when the Tories realized how desperate their accusations looked.
• Calmecam..The liberals have not had trouble raising money as they raised over $12 million so far for all of the leadership candidates plus their normal cours...
• Calmecam...to bad MRM has disappeared for a week. I'd love to see his very slanted answers that will only condemn Liberals no matter what the facts.
• hollinm , you have gone to great lengths to make sure everyone knows you detest liberals. You have made comments that you would never ever trust anything a l...
• Glad to see you're getting in the spirit of things Hollinm. See my other post about this issue.
• With all your comments about weak Liberal leadership..the tories have their own vacuum. Harper,who has never had a real job in his life and had never left NA...
• Hollinm, this should jangle your nerves just a little more: http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=bba5c522-ea9a-45b6-94f8-b188f12ecf9d ...
• Partially true.. it was known the position offered would be unacceptable to his big ego and therefore the onus was then on him to quit or eat the humble pie....
• NAIT...just remember that CROP has the worst accuracy record of all the pollsters including Leger. they tend to lean toward the nationilist side in Quebec. T...
• The pundits? revolt? How about democracy at work? Just because the party is not run by Nazi strom troopers like the Tories doesn't justify the word revolt...
• At least they get to express their concerns in an open forum. The Tories would be terrified of that happening. I see this a sall good for the party and the C...
• I am all for an election for the same reason but the downfall I want is for a different leader.
• Dead on Mike.... in no way has the Tory misinformation machine fooled most of us with their continued lies and obfuscations. It seems their desperate support...
• Mike, unfortunately you ar enot going to change a rabid dog from being in attack mode all the time and trying to inflict the rabies on his victims. Harpers g...
• MRM,Too bad yours is plugged up. buy some ex lax and expel those dirty devils inside you. It will feel a lot better after.
• Mike, Dion is a master thinker and he has some very good brain trust around him who also want him to wait. They rightfully believe that Harper is on his way ...
• MRM, if the cons actually do go to court their victory will be strictly symbolic. Canadian courts do not fgive out large sums for frivoulis stuff and this is...
• Mike, That and coming out with Moore's weak defense of the so called doctorred tape when he could not or would not answer most of the pertinent questions. ...
• MRM, you have not posted a true end to end fact on here yet. Your slant is all based on your sole belief that Harper is God (as of 6000 years ago) and Di...
• Everyone who comes in contact with you here, except your acolyte Hollinm, takes issue with your versions of facts.......they all see the slant. selected exce...
• MRM, I wish you would stick to reality. Just once!!!
• Here's the real story about Tory coverups and attack ads: Jun 10, 2008 04:30 AM James Travers OTTAWA — Here's a quick quiz that also asks the next e...
• Who should I use? You and other right slanted types. You haven't gotten it correct yet and in fact you are trying not to answer his column by using the NB di...
• I still think its funny and hits home......too bad you're so plugged up you can't laugh.
• It seems Travers was not far off the mark as today's RCMP testimony has been published. Liars bribers and thiefs......Conservative party of Canada motto.
• Here's the latest good news for the Country..Tories down to 32% and voting rintentions sliding away from them according to this poll. http://www.theglobea...
• I simply posted the preeminent stuff that indicates the failures of the tories to deliver good sound economic management for the Country. Again you bypass...
• Vandaphil1...why do you think the Tories unleashed the "oily" attack ads a week or so ago when they didn't even know Dion's overall green plan. They were ter...

The Economy - Political Opportunity and Minefield (2008-05-26)

• Nick, first of all the liberals will play their green card with good economics and visible tactics. They will propose income tax cuts with GHG taxes paid thr...
• MRM...you can't be serious asking someone to check their numbers. That;s got to be the biggest insult hurled here because you have absolutely no knowledge of...
• Yep the liberals were hypocritical about income trusts for sure...give your head a shake man.
• BS.........MRM is the champion hypocrite here.
• Canada has become one of the wealthiest and healthiest Countries because of the so called "tax and spend" Liberals. We owe our lifestyle to that form of gove...
• Chaning the act was never in doubt and again you skew facts. The promise made by harper was that he would not tax existing trusts. The Liberal bill would hav...
• Tom Good....I somewhat agree. There is a new leadership building in our parliament and the Liberals for one are building a team of competent people who can...
• Laureen, as a typical westerner you simply dislike Dion becasue he's a Liberal. That's a fact of life where you live. The US is far from bankrupt and is ...
• Ho hum more right weing garbage...the bloc is a left of center party;the NDP are far left. Nationally: Libs=34% NDP=17% Bloc= 9% Total=60% The undec...
• Leda get ready for your nightmare
• Tom, there is no point in forcing an election until there is certainty the population wants an election and that the opposition can win a majority. The Liber...
• Tom, Canada doesn't need an elected senate just yet. We need to clean up our elected parliament first into something that is better than "first past the post...
• And why they have run this Country for most of the last 60 years......make some sense before you post garbage. The Liberals have been exceptionally good stew...
• The bloc a right of center party...the joke of thw eek has just been written aby the most ipolitcally ignorant poster here. They are the most left socialist ...
• Leda.. read this article and see how much in control the tories are. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080527.wberniermartin26/BNStory/Fr...
• Here's an interesting comment from an ottawa newspaper: http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/editorials/story.html?id=9104411f-f51b-4782-8ba3-c93f89ad17...
• From David Frum's thoughts, Add to the fact that Joe Clark is suggesting that Harper is a lousy PM and economic manager and you have the old Tory party with ...
• Tom, the bloc got 10% of the vote and a much higher proportion of seats,something like15%, than their 10% which leaves a whole bunch of people disenfranchise...
• The libs are not forcing an election now not so much because of fear of losing but simply because polls tell them there is no appetite for a national electio...
• Or maybe Dion knows when its time to change his public image. The fact that Harper has much less than stellar reviews means that Dion can slide right up the ...
• Good point supper. I think Liberal sunshine days are coming back. Albertans are like sheep with voting intentions so they really don't count. Pun intended.
• hollinm ask Quebeckers today how they fell about the cons. after the bernier debacle. And it is a debacle when the Country's face to the world turns out to b...
• The Proportional representation option was not well presented to the people of Ontario but it still got sufficient votes to try it once again. Mcguinty is in...
• Here's more for you to have nightmares about Hollimn;the people are thinking and speaking out against Harper and his total lack of open/green government: ...
• The population is not satisfied with harper unless you call 33% satisfaction. The fact is they see the minority kept in check and like it that way for now...
• MRM, anything is better than the junk and garbage you put out here.
• You haven't even seen the policy yet and you are fear mongering because the party central told you to do so. Live your fantasies now. Reality comes next.
• Reform the HOC and get PR in plac eand then deal with the senate. How can you reform the senate when the parliament that sets the rules is basically dysfunct...
• Tom , so do I feel lucky but that doesn't mean we can't improve it. PR is one way of spreading our democracy even deeper.
• calmecam...that was great post and in it you exposed the lies sprouted here by the rabid right wing fans of Harper and his intellectually deprived government...
• MRM..I see you are commenting like you're a legend...and I think you are also...........in your own mind
• No we simply counter your BS
• MRM keep on having those wet dreams... maybe you can bribe some illiterate afghanis to vote for Steve.Otherwise he's toast.
• Jan you have as much economc sense as your MP.....the mighty midget!!
• Hollinm...why are the Tories trying to manage the country as de facto Liberals if they are so bad.
• MRM, that is simply more of your bullsh*t. The liberals clearly stated they saw no reason to change the existing trusts. Your lies are getting worse.
• Income trust broken promises have cost the treasury not helped it. I not only felt the impact personally but the Country lost out badly because the mighty id...
• LEDA, take a tranquilizer and relax. This country has been governed by Liberals for most of the last 60 years and we are still the best place to live in the ...
• What is well put? The soap or the BS
• Sow us your proof about the vast majority of Canadians who don't agree with me. The polls I see are all under 50% for those initiatives with lots of undecide...
• Hollinm, at least we liberals spread it around and are not nasty narrow minded jerks with small minds. The Tories are the most hypocritical party to ever gov...
• MRM, Absolute BS as usual...it shows why you were a filed private in the military. Thje Liberals have always been the most business friendly party because...
• MRM, I would rather be likened to a left winger than a nazi.
• Larryl, hollinm won't discuss facts. They make his day sad becasue the ones he can discuss are all tory failures.
• larryl, you are possibly quite correct. the anti Quebec feelings from some quarters in the west are disgraceful and despicable.
• rsharp, MRM has a mind? that's news...LOL
• remember your smart ass comment last week? Go find them yourself...paybacks are hell.
• I love the west and do 75% of my business there.............mainly because they need the help...LOL

Leadership Tracking - Harper personal image untouched by controversy (Analysis with video) (2008-05-09)

• Nick, some good points there and there are some things the Liberals and others are doing to move away from the condemnation approach they have been using whi...
• Having such a large number of undecideds has to be worrying for the Tories who only have Harper to run on. Harper is not the leader people think he is. He si...
• If one of the two main parties had a charismatic leader his talents wouldn't matter so much. I think Canadians are looking for the next "Trudeaumania" to kic...
• Well Hollimn I'm prepared to let the people decide. A bunch of red neck tories will not dissuade me or the Liberals from going forward. Keep on trying.....pu...
• That's if Baird can keep the Mounties from his doorstep.
• How you can say that Harper's numbers are rock solid tells me you can't read. He hasn't destroyed Dion and Dion has other agendas than to be popular right no...
• You all seem to forget that the environment is going to be an issue, Dion will package it with a whole vision for the country and may well choose to wait unt...
• Hollimn, Dion's numbers have not gone south but are stable and that's good in my opinion. The Harris poll on the same day as Nick's said much the same thing ...
• Those things are not sticking now per se but Harper's numbers are not growing. So, keeping him in neutral so to speak is alright for now. And 31% is not exac...
• degres, there was a story in the Ottawa papers the other day about a local scandal where Baird's name keeps cropping up...I believe it involves the criminal ...
• Its not ok for Dion to flip flop but its ok for Harper and his midget FM to flip flop over Income trusts among other issues that has cost taxpayers and voter...
• You're entitled to your opinion but I also hear a lot of the same things about Harper. You are apparently isolated in the west where everything that is Liber...
• Keep dreaming hollinm
• Stuff from five months and one month ago....garbage as usual
• MRM, at least I'm that tall...what's your excuse.
• If one could see the future life would be sweet. I continue to harp on the fact the Liberals will determine when they are ready for an election. They are not...
• You couldn't predict your way out of a sand box in that context because you have no clue about the Liberal party's internal workings. Dion will be in charge ...
• Hollinm...go back to the polls just before the 2006 election and the reverse was true on the economic confidence. In good times it is easy to project confide...
• Here's more comments from Nick that were in the Calgary Sun today... "Pollster Nik Nanos said broad enthusiasm for all three men is waning. Some 33% of ...
• From the mornings Calgary Sun...read on hotshot. "Pollster Nik Nanos said broad enthusiasm for all three men is waning. Some 33% of people polled answer...
• Bravo Bernie, finally someone here who echoes the truths I've been stating and understands that Harper is not the leader we want for Canada.
• One more time I will quote Nick from the Calgary Sun today: Pollster Nik Nanos said broad enthusiasm for all three men is waning. "Some 33% of people ...
• Keep the dream alive...but it will become a nightmare for you I'm afraid. Nick was overly generous in calling Harper the teflon PM. 31% is certainly less tef...
• Undecided is not disaffected...just more BS you dream up. Tom Good has stated quite nicely that the undecideds are far from disaffected and are really swin...
• la de da...more BS
• Oh wow..39% for a PM who ran on competence.....give your head a shake; that is an absolute failure in the context of how he ran for office. Competetence and ...
• Tougher legislation with government goons running around to do smell tests. That's really brilliant thinking...add more overhead to government with virtually...
• I think another issue has cropped up In Quebec for Harper..The right wing ADQ got hammered in each of three byelections there today doing significantly worse...
• Georgine, The fear instilled in Tories is one where they know they cannot really cave in on the envirionment issue because they never really subscribed to GH...
• Yea right...if so why did Harper try to cozy up to Dumont last fall and why is Charest avoiding Harper like the plague these days. The ground is going to...
• The meeting was private and if you read other press reports on that meeting you would note that Cahrest would not have a photo taken of the two and refused t...
• I love this poll: Story: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080513.wpoll14/BNStory/National/home PDF tables: http://www.theglobeandmail...
• Absolute BS;you haven't a clue as usual about that issue.
• MRM, try being balanced in your snippets of lies you try and portray: Harper and Charest do not currently enjoy a good relationship. And, since Charest h...
• So hollinm please read the latest poll results from today's G&M and see if I'm still wrong about my theories. The Country is in major distrust mode of th...
• Yep and then you could have a government that was all things to all people and we would be broke. goo stuff!!
• they are sick of the partisian mud slinging but we have a PM who can only throw dirt around to discredit the others because he has nothing else to offer. Dio...
• I still say Nick is the most reliable but this was not the same type of poll that Nick does and these other guys usually err on the conservatives side of the...
• Georgine....Harper is THE lie, the big one at that
• Our dream is becoming your nightmare Hollinm I will leae you to fret over Dion for the enxt week or so while I bask in the real civilization of Italy.
• Hollinm the word potential was used to give you some hope...Harper hasn't a chance next election if you want it straight up
• Hollinm quit the BS about liberal party corruption.it was very few people taking advantage of a poorly designed program....plain and simple. What about Vi...
• My my you two rabid dog tories like takling to each other.....I hope you both realize you are going to be losers if not already so.
• the gutter politics of the right begets even more gutter talk...don't you ever get the message or are you that constipated?
• Good post Georgine!!!! Telling the truth to Tories is good business for liberals
• Chretien had a majority government for his full tenure....Harper can only ever have wet dreams about that as he won't even get a second minority term. That's...
• MRM, You only wish I was a Liberal advisor and not the Joe Q public guy I really am. I am part of the Canadian majority who detest Harper and his gang of d...
• I stated that Charest would not be seen in public a few months ago with Harper after one of their meetings and that is a fact. The fact they meet privately a...
• Proof of criminal behaviour is not easy in his case but a bribery attempt was made and the liberals have made sure that impression sticks. They cannot get an...
• Why not make Flaherty head honcho for the bank of Canada? Vic Toews is competent? When did that start...Oh yea about 6000 years ago. I forgot about right wi...
• The only shame I know of these days is being a Harper supporter. Your comments about people being closet Liberals are disgusting. I am an open liberal and pr...
• The fact there are no criminal charges yet does not mean its over. There are going to be civil suits coming up. You IQ couldn't tie my shoes and you were pro...
• More BS from a sorry loser
• so where's Harper's knockout punch if Dion is doing so badly. 33% to Dion's 31% which is even in real terms. He has tons of religious right tithing money to...
• Hollinm keep on preaching to your self. We don't mind you wasting your votes on a losing proposition..
• You are as coherent as a drunken soldier and i'm trying to simply reach you down at your level.
• I wasn't proven wrong. We have succeeded in planting doubt about Harper's ethics and more will come out.
• Your continued lies and fantasies about Paul Martin tell me you are a very demented person. Your accusations about him are absolute disneyesque and plain ign...
• You are absolutely wrong when you say Harper is beating Dion two to one........I really hope you don't believe the garbage you write. Dion is lagging in p...
• Dream on silly boy...the environment policy is not and will not sink like a rock. David Suzuki just came out and stated that Harper is taking us backwards on...
• What you seem to forget with your anal analysis is that kyoto is expected to produce incremental results which means the pace will pick up once momentum kick...
• BS, you obviously haven't a clue about my real politics.....I am probably more fiscally conservative than most red necks and religious right who are simply p...
• MRM, you are simply green with envy and have no clue about real politics. A country full of your types would not be my Canada but fortunately I'm a true demo...
• How Tory of you to make those answers so impartial. All idiot talk and fantasy island stuff. Dion has not lost an election either. Income trusts for o...
• Bernie you are correct...Tories don't bribe. Their PM's take the bribes in cash and do it while in office.
• You couldn't exercise self control if you tried........your party's lying propaganda machine wouldn't let you.
• You proved nothing about Martin except the fantasy you play out in your own mind. You only proved you are able to libel a former FM.
• I guarantee you Harper crite will not allow that issue to get to court. It will simply die. He wants it off the front pages that badly.
• Maybe you should offer to be Bernier's speech writer as he's about to get dumped for saying things that bother the Fuhrer. Another Quebecer who can't cut i...
• What facts have you issued about Martin that are not some fabricated and deluded nonsense about tax changes he supposedly made just for his company. You are ...
• Just because the mounties have decided not to lay charges you take that as gospel.....try asking the guys who spent years in jail for wrongful convictions ho...
• He didn't say Canadians are demanding higher taxes........he intimated they are willing to pay for a greener environment and that carbon taxes are good. He ...
• I think you should go back to studying creation 6000 years ago. it looks better on you. Ha, you think two years under the Tories have produced the reduct...
• You are full of S**T...... don't advocate stupid tax reductions but do want meaningful ones. I don't advocate breaking tax promises. You and MRM should con...
• I'd rather my leader be a buffon as oppsoed to a liar and briber. I'd rather he be an open politician as opposed to being a bully. I'd rather my leader be gr...
• Here's the biggest and most hypocritical piece of the accountability act as Harper has exempted a whole whack of people from the prying eyes of the Ombudsman...
• MRM, Here's another snippet to prove your BS isn't working: "They want Mr. Harper to know that his government's laissez-faire economic policies, which favou...
• MRM... don't ignore the remark:"I'll ignore the stupid remark." Its pertinent. Your continued libeling of Paul Martin comes from very biased sources via ...
• rsharp.....he is not only secretive he is also trying to limit the powers of the bureaucracy and make them accountabile only to him thus bypassing the audito...
• You have proof about Martin in only your own demented mindset...Mulroney has already acknowledged he took the cash. That's real proof. The gutter sniping...
• Harper is already destroting the Canadian economy.....look at Nick's most recent poll to see peoples' perceptions of the economy. That will eventually transl...
• You always think dion this and Dion that always negatively. The Canadian will see it differently. I think the next set of polls will show the Liberals on top...
• Hollinm,There you go with alarmist falsehoods. Who ever said anything about shutting down the oil sands or other mining operations. Its about managing the en...
• No but it wasn't written by a failed private in the military.
• Being called a lerftie is an insult....then again you can't tell the difference between an insult and a comment. There are effective tax cuts and useless one...
• I notice our Tory fans are too timid to touch this one.
• One comment only...MRM counters my points with newspaper clippings that are well slanted to read that his POV is correct. He has no factual basis for calling...
• If I had someone to argue with that makes sense than I would . rabid dog western right wing views don't make for a consensus of any kind in the real world in...
• As usual you take some report that suits your style of misrepresentation of facts. http://www.oecdobserver.org/news/fullstory.php/aid=164 "This under-...
• Here's Nick's latest poll numbers actually showing the Liberals on top albeit by a very slim % much as I had predicted earlier in the week.. http://www.nan...
• I'M LEANING SO FAR TO THE RIGHT TRYING TO UNDERSTAND YOUR LIES AND INNUENDOS I'M ABOUT TO KEEL OVER
• YEA HE'S SO ACCURATE HE'S NOW BASICALLY DENYING THE IRISH ECONOMIC MIRACLE THAT OCCURRED OVER THE LAST TEN YEARS OR SO EVER HAPPENED.
• Bigots are you my friend.
• More of your slanted garbage I see. The program cuts i the early part of Chretien's first mandate were absolutely necessary as the Country's debt position wa...
• More MRM garbage and slanted propaganda.
• http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080523.liberals24/BNStory/National/home Maybe this will shut you up about liberal finances. The party...
• Everything has pitfalls. At least other idreas were well though ut and not just populist reacationary stuff like the way our esteemed dictator and his midget...
• I think you missed the sardonic part of my friend remark. You are the biggest bigot here with your lies and innuendos about Paul Martin and other slanted s...
• Who is the left wing moron? are you being bigoted again? For your information I am far from left wing which is something you couldn't understand if you tr...
• you are not right on anything.
• Truth hurts doesn't it............and the Liberals are now ahead in some polls. more truth serum for you to swallow.
• Don't worry Georgine. it will be his last summer as PM and then we can hide him in the hall of shame. You also note the sorry tory fans won't respond to ...
• Your idea of a public record is to be as selective as you can be to twist facts to your lower tastes that are really lies and innuendos.
• The newset joke is the fact that Harper's party is now behind in the polls against a party that has a so clled loser as leader. Harper has the force of gover...
• Mor slanted and stupid comments. Read the G&M article today and tell me the party is in the state you portray it to be. Your lieing and cheating on news r...
• Ah taking little victories wehre you can find them. When I previously stated they were effectively tied you poo pooed that. What a BS artist you are. The l...
• Dion is not forcing an election because is advisors are telling him that a majority is within reach if he continues doing as he is and harper continues screw...
• I just did and the baysitter said..... who is that know nothing who lies and slants everything? She thought MRM was short for M&M because of the candy a**ed ...
• I did and they referred me to your posts about Paul Martin.
• Polls are turning and the red necks are retreating...makes sense to me. The character assasinations of Dion haven't done the job so its back to square one fo...
• MRM, At least there are wits and we are not totally witless like some here.
• rsharp,Its worse than nonsense its propaganda of the worst kind. He slants articles and statements and pretends its the truth becasue thye come from somethin...
• Was Paul Martin ever charged with anything related to his business or anything for that matter? Other than a bunch of press clippings that could have been pl...
• I was reading from your party's web site when I wrote that.
• At least they were adult.
• So hollinm, please tell us who paid for the Dion atack ads. Those were smears. Please tell us who uses the most viscious taunts in the HOC...is it Dion or H...
• I did hit the button and up you came.
• You meant to say the last lie or slanted view. Or you meant the last insult. Back in the trunk you go.
• Rsharp, and he actually believes he adds to this debate with viscious hatred of certain people with innuendo and other press garbage that went no where.
• MRM, you and your other western ally are also right on cue. Neither of you will dsicuus the fact that the Tories are losing ground and are now behind in th...
• Boy are the Liberals ever cratering!!!! Wake up hollinm and realize your favorite team is not going to repeat. They are now hanging on for dear life.
• By the way McGuinty has shut down two of the coal fired plants so far. And the Bruce upgrade currently underway will replace most to of the remaining coal ...
• http://www.mapleleafweb.com/old/education/spotlight/issue_29/csl.html?q=education/spotlight/issue_29/csl.html http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/martin_pau...
• Slant slant slant....Dianne Francis is the antithesis of a good reporter. Give your head a shake. I proved your point is as stupid as you continue to make...
• then its still fair game to say Harper bribed Cadman or attempted to as his voice was on the tape,,,,but you say because the RCMP laid no charges he's innoce...
• You ar simply astounding in your slanting of news... we were not discussing delays but simply the replacement of coal power. the rest of your stuff is nonsen...
• Suzuki has no real alternative to Nuclear power as gas and wind can not provide Ontario with enough power. The waste issue is real and very manageable but wh...
• I know more than you think about what goes on in Khandahar. I have consultants there on the ground who report almost daily to our JV office. As for the r...
• Its obvious that you cannot stand being challenged on your many phoney beliefs driven by reading press releases. Its not only myself that goes after your ign...
• At least my siblings are all legitimate and all born from the same parents.
• The problem with your slanting of facts is that you squirt out some half truths and then buy in to them yourself hook line and sinker. Suzuki is a great en...
• where's the link or have you not twisted the facts on it yet
• The original conversation was about coal fired vs nuclear power and you said they were not getting rid of the coal fired fast enough. When challenged on that...
• No current poll shown in the TO star as of right now..so I must assume once again that you have dredged up some other BS because your credibility here is zero.
• That's a poll you probably just created for yourself
• Asusual the Angus Reid guys don't ask the real questions and the real sub header in the poll is the following: "Disapproval of Dion hits 60%, but “Neither” ...
• Its obvious your western centric location leaves you blind to happenings here. Lakeview coal fired plant was closed two years ago and one more has closed nea...
• hollinm, talking to them alone is the only intelligent convesation that would go on here and I wouldn't have any fun with you all. Too bad your distaste ...
• The poll is way of base in Ontario where every other pollster gives the Libs higher numbers that Reid. Those results in fact if accurately broken down are go...
• http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/429906 Here's the first of a series of articles by Canada's largest newspaper highlighting the secrecy Harper o...
• That's an Angus Reid poll... believe it at your own risk
• Bear, here herre. But you have set yourself up ton be attacked by the tory wolves here. they have no teeth however.
• Westerner, I am not an Easterner nor a westerner................I AM Canadian..you are a BS artist
• MRM, keep on playing with yourself ...the torty time is nigh.

The House Returns - Ethics, Accountability and the Big Picture (Nanos Sun Column) (2008-04-28)

• Good point NNL........the Tories have sworn to beat the Liberals to a pulp in order to make themselves the Natural governing party. So far they have failed m...
• Pearson ran the most productive government of our times and he was in a minority over two terms and five years. However, the parliament had a role to get thi...
• westerner, where's the proof that ontario is the most unfriendly pace to do business.Alberta has scrwed the oil patch with its new agenda for collecting roya...
• when you elect people with hidden agendas as a minority government you get distrust for them from the majority. Nothing wrong with having to prove yourself,s...
• ronmack...you have lived most of your life under a liberal government and this country has thrived at the very top of the list of all countries in the world ...
• Go to the federal superintendent of bankruptcy web site and look up Grande Prairie and various other communities around there;you'll see many many more than ...
• Why are the polls turning south for Harper and his gang of incompetents;people are noticing. It's because they are now tainted with unethical stuff all aroun...
• ronmack, you are delusional. Nick's last poll gives the Liberals 50% of the Ontario vote. That includes 905, 519,705,etc and also 416 where they will win eve...
• I'm fully aware of the Lberals and adscam. I have accepted that there were bad apples in the party. When will you accept that Harper is decidely crooked and ...
• Liberals are status quo and the beloved tories are down 4 points from last election and not moving up at all. Dion is becoming less and less unpopular and...
• I think your description is, of course, way off base. But then a tory supporter who understands the real world doesn't exist on this board. I notice you dn't...
• There are plenty of goofy people in this Country then because one of the reasons that Harper cannot grow in the polls is because people don't trust him. His ...
• Want to hear the sad story of the government's mismanagement as well. There's more food there than in the party garbage you're trying to separate out. At lea...
• How do you know he's not the man to lead Canada....your super hero was much less popular as leader of the opposition. The fact remains that people are simply...
• They are fighting this thing through the courts because it is a serious embarrasment to their so called ethics platform. The guys that ran on accountability ...
• I think you need to check your facts once more. The liberal vote in Ontario has grown and in fact in Nick's recent poll they were at 50% ithere. So the major...
• Hollinm, At least your list of scandals is growing and you're not in total denial anymore. That's a start. As for those scandals not getting any resonanc...
• Of course they have switched tactics. The economy is the next rung on the Tory ladder to fail. the scandals have resonated and they understand they cannot li...
• Hollimn, no matter how you try and deny it, the Country is in trouble economically. We are riding overheated prices of commmodities and once they settle down...
• Westerner that was in 1993..you need to update yourself. The Tory lies and cheating have far outstripped the Liberals who were at least practical enough to...
• Tom, you cannot say that the center has a poor CEO. he hasn't been tried yet and in fact with all the turmoil he has seen in rebuilding his own party I would...
• Hollimn, you live too close to the center of gravity there in Ottawa and you have no clue how the rest of the country is thinking. Not many people watch ques...
• Hollimn, you are correct. The media has been wrong before. They all see another minority tory government if an election was held today. I say they are wrng a...
• Parnel understands very clearly what happened. And parnel also clearly understands that the guilty are being charged and sent to jail. I have said there were...
• MRM, Keep having those wet dreams but check your facts before going into fantasy land territory.
• Blocking the sale of MDA was another dumb populist move that had no basis in fact. There is no economic loss or loss of soveringty..that was simply BS on the...
• Jan from Whitby...coming from flaherty's riding makes me wonder about your sense of right and wrong. The people in the Liberal party, contrary to your belief...
• Andrew Coyne's article basically said the tories were stupid to try and skirt around the edges. The last poll is very typical of the way polls go in fede...
• Regina beach boy....Yep, they sure are evolving. Polls indicating their support at between 30 and 36% are real harbringers for majority government levels of ...
• Keep dreaming about a putcsh in the Liberal party. I like it when people are surprised.
• Harper got caught with his pants down and he's not going to pay the price until he absolutely has to and he will moan and groan until then. If he was smart h...
• Right. Rocket science is hitting it out of the park. The Liberals know how to win and what to do and will do it when they see its time to take Harper out. He...
• Wishful thinking dear beach boy......the opposition has had a field day with the Tories in committee where all the work gets done. Most of harper's legislati...
• I hope people never forget either adventure in ripping people off. I hold the Liberals accountable just as miuch as the Tories...you should try it some time....
• Because they knew the bigger picture and had a good eye for things like that. The Tories only play politics and never give a damn about the consequences.
• I never said I follow the Liberal line hook line and sinker.....my opinion is such that I would have written to Dion had he been in power and told him what I...
• A carbon tax will be revenue neutral as it is in BC. of course revenue neutral is foreign to spendaholic tories. We'll see how well Harper comes out on th...
• We'll wait until oil prices do their cyclical thing again in the next year or so and the whining will be loud from the west blaming the Ottawa manadarins aga...
• I'd love to see Mulcair be in charge of the Dippers. Check his record in Quebec and see why Charest effectively dumped him. He won't even win that seat again...
• Jan, I don't know where you got your numbers on Chretien/Martin but I suggest it was the same fantasy park as hollimn and NRM went to. the only deficits they...
• Waht's wrong with spending tax dollars collected on things that are good for the Country. We should be a leader in GHG reduction. We are rich enought o affor...
• I see the Tories are going full out in damge control mode and I'm fine with that. Someone mentioned to me today it seems like they are throwing every plausib...
• Dion was at 15% six months or so ago and is now at 27%...my math tells me that's going north not south like your guy is.
• The Tories said anything they wanted during the last election campaign only to have lied consistently. The government should show leadership and the oppositi...
• 'm talking about personal popularity which was at 15% or so and is now at 27%. Party wise he's been solidifying his base and is doing just fine.
• I agree and he will certainly note your comment. He may nationalize Exxon and Alberta at the same time.
• Flaherty's stimulus package of driving the economy into the ground is a hoot. He has zero credibility and his erstwhile attack on Ontario is furhter proof he...
• westerner...you are a hoot!!!
• Of course you are not alone in your assessment. However, Dion is working on his principled approach to government and is not at all concerend about his perso...
• Just trying to reach down to your level.
• I don't swallow all the Liberal koolaid; I leave that for tory lovers who blindly follow the fuerher to ultimate destruction
• I am a typical Liberal who is honest and as pissed off as you are that some rogue Liberals in Quebec took advantage of the party. Your ignorance is that y...
• Jan from Whitby...you are as ignorant as your MP with the dumb comments ypu produce here. MY sweat has somewhat helped make Canada the economic powerhouse it...
• October 2007 was a life time ago in federal politics...can you not do better than that.........................jeez. Harper is not at 44% now so what are you...
• Things will be much better when they disallow red necks from voting for anyone
• the FM was full of crap as usual...the province is not on the verge of has not. Ask people who really know the score.
• Keep those wet dreams alive....I love it.
• I meant to say harper is now at 44%.
• The big difference is that a liberal government will run a balanced budget process............the tories will bankrupt us like Mulroney nearly did.
• No I didn't fall for that...I assumed that the GST would create consumption taxes for the government.
• Don't forget to send us money..we sent you money for over 100 years.
• read the original bill and the final one and then tell me there were no changes..what you are writing is pure tory propaganda and plain BS.
• I can think of 33 million reasons...is that enough?
• Then we must escalate it to be $1 billion and counting.... the amount they lied about in the income trust scandal.
• I think I have done my homework and I know you are wrong...then again you are a tory so denial is a common trait.
• I think [EDITED BY MODERATOR] and criminals should be exempted from voting
• I've offered plenty of proof.....but tories only take their own proof as evidence. And then they go into denial......don't worry its treatable by ten or more...
• I'm not here to debate silly numbers I guess.......Dion is doing just fine and I'm ok with his numbers.
• That means I should watch my back or I will get a tory hit.
• Not a hope in hell..why would anyone give up Montreal for the sterile west where even Viagra does not work.
• Martin has a net worth of over $225 million..have you been that successful. Shipping has changed over the years and they responded well and contin ued to ...
• yes boss
• I don't know where you get your rumours but they are not from reliable sources, which I've suspected in any event. PM the ex PM was the only shareholder of C...
• If you read the bank article you would not that certain things need to happen first. And this quote from the G&M article: "Ontario Energy Minister Dwight D...
• There is an archived letter from Harper in his role as president of the NCC to Jean Chretien in 1999 belittling the Liberals for putting in campaign spending...
• I could care less about your wet dreams on Martin and his offshore operations. Of course you didn't mention tha tmost of his business was done offshore as we...
• Here's good news for the [EDITED BY MODERATOR] at Tory Central saying the economy is fine. from the G&M on line: "Canada's economy shrank 0.2 per cent in...
• All deserved...simple suggestion don't respond to my posts
• You only emphasize the good things and avoid the major blunders this government has or is creating as I make sure you see the whole picture from a different ...
• No because then I can respond to yours.....you twist stuff so nicely you have to be a Tory.
• More of your fantasies and lies of course and without any proof at all. Zero in fact.
• 1. Going back to Trudeau years(he retired in 1982 or so) is telling the big lie....if you put things in perspective, in the western world, every government o...
• All I asked for is the facts....you twist and turn every piece of logic einto some fantasy deal and this is more of the same. Show me one true example of Ig...
• The liberals will make a fiscally sound decision. They always do. The plan is simply not quite ready for prime time and there is no hurry until they are in p...
• No I am not a tory and therefore don't lie and cheat or exaggerate. I leave that to the red necks. Ontario has been the principle supplier of funds to the R...
• Why would I respond to your dumb stuff? Go read the newspapers from the last few das and see what BOC and other bank economists just said. You are some kin...
• Idle chatter from the stiffs who work the political press. I know absolutely that Iggy is not sabotaging Dion or working behind his back. And I know that...
• In case you feel vindicated by MRM his reports on things are so slanted and censored as to be the big lie iteslf. I figure he works for the Tories. His disgu...
• Hollimn, your recall is just as bad as MRM's facts. 1, Canada had a free trade agreement wit the US long before Mulroney came along. The auto pact was f...
• See my response about the mental pain you think I endure. The only pain I endure is your falsehoods and snippets of truth you put out to cover off the real t...
• He'll be PM before he resigns after being in office several years.
• And pray tell how much is it going to cost to evaluate every Company that pollutes and then force them to pay.................every judge in the land will be...
• I can continue to educate you but it would be fruitless I think because your head is buried in the Tory sands of right wing populism..
• Non aligned...wrong again. The Libs looked at Mulroney's books after taking office and simply realized there was too much debt to fool with any dramatic chan...
• I put forth many points................ all valid and I call a spade a spade.
• Hollimn comment....."So parnel's only come back is to accuse the Conservatives of all manner of things without ever providing a shred of proof." Shame on ...
• If the in and out scheme is not part of government then the Tories should deal with it and stop avoiding justice from happening. They have used every legal p...
• supper,That's the only answers these guys can ever bring up...dredging up the past and obfuscating the current situation. Their lies about Chretien and Marti...
• dead on Richard...MRM is pretty thin skinned and I think some pity is in order here. But then again it sfun tearing him apart...........LOL
• He's not hypocritical.................he sees through you just like I do and appreciates the fact I call a spade a spade. Your derisions of grandeur are real...
• I call a spade a spade and leave it there. Try it sometime but be honest and truthful as opposed to being like a Tory party bagman.
• There have been articles you have selectively quoted and not pasted the whole thing. The rest of your stuff above is pure garbage.
• Just like a real tory...scared to death of the liberals who have governed this country wisely for many many years and brought great prosperity to the land. U...
• I'm in a great mood and Liberals are in a very good mood overall watching Harper self destruct with his gang of useless ministers.
• I think the GST is a brilliant tax. I seen how well VAT works in otherCountries and I like how its collected and how governments use the revenues. They are o...
• Here's a tory report card: A woman, married three times, walked into a bridal shop one day and told the sales clerk that she was looking for a wedding gow...
• Here is a good peice written for the National pest by Ralph Goodale, this precisely what I have been saying about this unaccountable government who are econo...
• More bully politics from the Harper hypocrites....some accountability. http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/420582 This article discusses a new p...
• YOU JUST PROVED MY POINT ABOUT FABRICATED STORIES. Where have the Liberals formally put forward a tax shifting plan for GHG's. Of course they are thinking of...
• Hollinm...did you and MRM go to Disneyland together? hearsay evidence sworn to by the party is very admissable in court and then its up to judge to decide...
• Keep on living fat dumb and happy...at least the Liberals are proposing things and not being totally paralyzed watching the economy sink like a rock and a de...
• 13 years of being in power and re elected four times...when is the last time a Tory government lasted that long. As for accomplishments Chretien and co finis...
• I can't stop laughing at your post long enough to attack everyone of your positions there. What a hoot. I'm simply not going to lower my standards with that ...
• Wrong again; the $18 million to manage an election is a gift from the taxpayers of Canada as per the EC act. The Tories get the same amounts and can't spend...
• You who say the press has a herd mentality should be ashamed of your "proof". The fact remains that Dion is popular within his party but also runs an ope...
• Harper is guilty as hell and you know it. The fac tthey have many millions to fight this in court only makes it more likely there is a coverup. The in an...
• Your real translation is that the Tories might keep taxes low by creating a huge deficit...that's real management in your world!!!
• You bet!!!! the difference is I know fabrication as created by the Tory twosome. That's why I'm able to shoot down the stupidity you're fed from central ops.
• Duh...the tape is supporting evidence and if its backed up by the crebile witnesses,his immediate family, then guess what. Hearsay evidence properly conne...
• MRM...obviously you never look in the mirror. Your comments, lies and edited stuff might fool a grade one kid but we are more than that.
• You bet you are........the extracts are generally not the central plot in the article as you swim upstream looking for dirt.
• I think you are missing one key ingredient in you're analysis...the Tories have done nothing for over a year (and their first year was nothing to write home ...
• If the Tories think the in and out scandal is going away here's more on it: I fthye wer eopen and honest most of the things below would have happened by now....
• Nick's opening line in this blog was from harper's accountability speech...here's another view of how his government works the other way. Idealogical terrori...
• Here's more on Harper the bully: Tories kill information registry http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/420873 An excerpt: "It's another exa...
• BS you have no idea about life in a tory government...control control control...and they must be in charge of the total sgenda.
• No I'm using your toy as a dildo...just to try it out
• that's been my point all along ...an unaccountabile government hiding behind phoney legislation
• Fat dumb and happy is not a personal hit but simply a description of a condition that is borne of being a supporter of a mean spiirited government. I notice ...
• Then that's why you are slap happy.
• The left is split and has always been but the Liberals always fashioned a majority. The right will be further split after the social debacle this government...
• Those will be tears of joy after the enxt election when we get rid of this dirty government who even cheat on scientific studies to please their right wing n...
• Show me where all the major donors to Harper's campaign are listed. You will have produced a major coup if you can. You simply don't get it about election ...
• translation my a**.....I justify everything I say...... but you bury your head in the sand and come up with delusions about Harper's misdeeds which are becom...
• Why should he embrace it while he's still forming his opinion on it. Stupid comment from one of Asper's minions.
• Is it? Most economists are now predicting a deficit as the Country has zero or no GDP growth over the last two and probably three months. Flaherty loves d...
• they won't...they simply love to libel and slander one of the most succesful PM's we have had...13 years and three majority governments some failure
• Keep that wet dream alive and we'll discuss it after the election when harper resigns in disgrace being beaten by such a wimp.
• The joke will be on you pal............and again look up hearsay evidence and see what it says.
• More BS. There have been many hearsay convictions,rare but its been done. Besides it's not hearsay evidence from his immediate family if the swear that was ...
• That is the most stupid comment yet.
• Keep dreaming!!!! The nightmare follows
• But were practical enough not to...therin lies the difference between good government and a bunch of idealogical terrorists.
• Where do you dream up these so called logical thoughts? Practical in the sense the GST tax was already in place,and the deficit was much worse than the To...
• Better than being a dumb ass government like the one we have.See my post above;it explains the difference nicely. You and MRM can vie for the dumbest comment...
• Your typical dumb answer.....not one article even comes close to suggesting that except for the weak responses of the Tory damage control team.
• Hate to rain on your parade even though you are or were an Ottawa mandarin. The day after the next election they will continue to get their quarterly fun...
• I haven't run from anything; its you who doesn't even comment on certain issues out of embarrassment for your party. And some of the wek and feeble stuff you...
• Where's your standard denial of the facts on this new scandal
• I read other papers as well............I'm not that idealogically blind. I see things with a wide perspective and broadly objective midset. I don't dislike a...
• rsharp...why do you think its important to ge tout all the tory messes now? The libs know the Tories are the party of dirty tricks and are now watching them ...
• Being direct is one thing but trying to call me out on issues that are clearly partisian simply shows the narrowness of your opinions and your so called proo...
• You truly cannot get past your narrow point of view;it makes sure you have no sense of humour or imagination. Think about that while you scour around for mor...
• Funny I can't seem to find them unless your taunts are the answers. That's par for the course.
• Is that your best answer about Harper's strangling of scientific evidence. Figures doesn't it...!!!!!
• 1. The balance of power in terms of corruption has shifted....income trust lies,bribery, in and out scheme, tampering with scientific evidence,etc. are all o...
• 60 seats in Quebec...ha ha ha ha.......Are they merging with the Bloc?
• No not at all but simply to balance out fund raising that will include historic methods. Its unfair to demand one party change their methods while the tories...
• 1. What relevant ewxperience did harper when he was elected? trying to make Dion seem inexperienced when he has cabinet experience and is bright as well tell...
• I don't know how to tell you that being equal in the polls with a new leader doesn't sound all that desperate to me. The Libs need an issue to push them o...
• She said she believed there was no insurance policy offered but is not backing off the suggestion something was offered for his vote. then again she is curre...
• It seems the Tory faithful don't want to take this one on. Too embarrassed I guess.
• At least the Liberals were honest enough to allow the inquiry to happen...Harper will never let his mismanagement get subjected to public scrutiny... but it ...
• Typical of the deny deny deny gang from the Tory side.
• I'm glad you were such an insider of the party but since you detest them so much I will just assume its business as usual and you're just spewing more BS.
• Your mind has been locked in neutral for so long it doesn't know fact from fiction and couldn't learn even it was unlocked.
• Maybe you read what people are saying about wikepedia...its become a home for liars and those wanting to have their own POV established as the truth. Then ag...
• I get the right responses from people that offer intellectual stimulation. By the way what is "witt" Wikpedia says its "wit"...LOL You lost me with your ...
• I would "fare" very well but have decided not to slink down to your level. Both rsharp and myself think you are not worth of debate. Check that on Wikepidea
• I never suggested going back to the old ways per se. But equal is equal and Harper further tilted the playing field after his piggy bank was full. The libera...
• Living in the west does obviously slant your views of the world. The libs will support industries in need much as is done in almost every other Country in t...
• And the Liberals will show how Harper played bully politics by making every vote a non confidence one. Two can play the same game. Harper will be made to app...
• Your partner in crime here reported on an Ipsos Reid poll that is in yesterday's TO Star showing the toriews at 34% to the Libs 29% but with the Libs ahead o...
• Taxing exports at the "border" is not taxing Canadians....the rest of your nonsense is useless drivel. we have serious inflation in case you hadn't noticed. ...
• If you notice I answer intelligent conversation and you don't make the cut most of the time.
• Yep standard Tory damage control. As for more juicy stuff coming keep watching and listening. The Libs don't want the public to see more than one scandalous ...
• There's been several articles on web blogs and in the papers just this past week about people changing facts on Wikepedia... it apparently is becoming just a...
• Here you go the first one that popped when I goggled wikipedia errors in Canadian politics: http://calgarygrit.blogspot.com/2007/08/wikiality.html Couldn...
• Hollinm.....maybe you might want to guess who wrote this piece before you open the link. http://www.thestar.com/columnists/article/420905 Excerpt: Eco...
• I was talking about a severe recession in terms of government intervention. Of course those are only my views about what maybe done...no politician would tou...
• Do you for a minute think that the US fed didn't just bail out the big banks there? Have they not subsidized farmers and biofuel producers? Are they not bein...
• You only know the truth if you're rallying around the populist flag of convenience. You plainly cannot see other POV's. Maybe some of the scandals will dr...
• I have not dodged asny issue...you took crap from wikipedia and slandered one of Canada's most dedicated public servants, maybe not the best PM, but certainl...
• You have your POV and many others have theirs. The do nothing Tories are not moving at all and only when prodded with a sharp stick. We still have separt...
• Is this piece from Dion in QP sound fuzzy to you Hollinm?: Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion accused the Prime Minister of leading “the most secretive governme...
• more BS...........hahaha
• I think you shamed that uniform the way you write today. I have done my share as well in not for profit volunteer positions in major charities. I have work...
• Most of ytour tirade is simply propoganda but please show me how the poor benefit from GST reduction. They spend most of their income on rent and food. Many ...
• Flaherty has stolen billions particularly with his first of many lies. The poor management of the economy is like grand theft and will be shown as such . ...
• I'm not so sure about that. The prosecution haven't seen the full file just yet and the police are far from finished their fraud squad review to decide wheth...
• Have a good life and keep fighting those make believe wars. There are other ways to serve a Country than by putting on that uniform which is something yo...
• The Liberals have no vision?...they have been making policy announcements all over the place in recent months. Just because you don't like them does not mean...
• I see in today's papers that Clements is doing major damage control and tripping all over himself to cover up the fact they massaged scientific reports. ...
• more blah blah blah= BS I thought the strippers were brought in for intellectual stimulation of the soldiers in different parts of the country.
• Your feeble approach is typical of blowhards. Do the feds get royalties from Nfld resources? That might wipe the silly smirk of your face.
• How can you say tha tthe Liberals have entered into a defacto coalition with the Tories. While polls show people are not enamoured with Tories they also are ...
• Tom, Read this morning's papers and see if Dion is not going to get attention for a bold and daring move shfting priorities of the tax system to green initi...
• Its obvious to me you were in the military;you point and shoot first then ask questions later if they are still breathing. I said the feds get royalties fro...
• You take a newspaper article and try to dissect it as total fact?? WOW!!!
• I think that's the plan. Dion is not a tax and spend guy. He is also being advised by the fiscally conservative people in the party and they have been doing ...
• Nest time I spell it it out in large capital letters in very simple grade 6 level writing.
• No but our next PM will: Dion weak, uninspiring but still more likeable than PM: poll The Canadian Press May 8, 2008 at 2:52 PM EDT OTTAWA — A new ...

Federal Tories and Grits Tied - Are NDP voters in Ontario strategically parking with the Grits? (Nanos Poll completed April 9) (2008-04-11)

• This confirms my beliefs that the politics played by Harper and his gang of incompentents are not resonating with Canadians. Many of them are withholding sup...
• Hollinm...your continued ignorance of the strength the liberals exhibit masks a warning that Harper is not delivering the goods. He is simply not trusted bec...
• Why is it likely Harper would form a minority government after an election? He has failed the electorate and no matter how you slice and dice Dion he has not...
• I know a lot of Tory types who won't vote for Harper because he lied to them about income trusts and they are long time conservatives.
• Right on Attila
• You are right, there is no remedy for a tarnished leader and Harper is one...he has lied and bribed. He's toast. Dion is far from tarnished except for ...
• Hollinm,Keep on swimming against the tide........I like watching that
• Keep on dreaming Hollinm...your next one will be a mightmare
• You mean Flaherrty...the mousey character who plays at being a finance minister. We know how thin Tory ranks are but he is at the bottom
• I'd rather you have a nightmare than the whole Countey if we had to put with Harper for several more years. Thanks for offering to sacrifice a little of your...
• Hollinm, your arguments are equally repetitive and without merit and nobodt believes the things you say and even a poll by the besy National polster out ther...
• hollinm, maybe you should drink some of this koolaid that much pretty much sums up why I'm a liberal and not a Tory with no vision. http://www.liberal.ca/...
• Hollinm, I wonder if you have read this piece about the dysfunctional stuff going on within your beloved party. Harper will have them taken out and shot at...
• I can imagine all those things with a Liberal government and a deficit ridden constitutionally divided Country if Harper stays in power
• So you are telling me Harper is a Liberal now? If that's the case people will elect the real Liberals to ensure social justice and surpluses are maintained
• Senator caught saying Verner hates Bill C-10 GLORIA GALLOWAY Here's a snippet from the article: From Saturday's Globe and Mail April 12, 2008 at 12:...
• There's no desperation here except to get rid of these poor economic managers, liars and bribers in a hurry. Dion has a super team of experienced people who ...
• 1. Number 1 tells me you haven't a clue and are making it up as you go...I know for a fact that what you said is absolutely false. Getting candidates to run...
• I'm not gloating over a tie..........I'm gloating over the fact that Harper has tired every form of bribery and can't grow in the polls against a supposedly ...
• Harper has failed the country and we need fresh faces in government to ger rid of the cynicsm we now see from that bunch of incompetents who's ministers have...
• We could back to Muldoon's follies if you want to live in the past. I live in the present and this government is full of liars, bribers and an unbelievable a...
• My so called vile stuff is in direct response to your diatribe. Mike Duffy reports the way he sees fit and as you all know the press is very biased and truth...
• More drivel from the tory playbook.
• Canadians now know that none of their elected Liberal members were responsible but they also know that Harper was seen and heard on a tape giving the ok to b...
• Covering up your tracks on name calling doesn't cut it with me. you have been umerciful in your attacks on Dion mostly unfounded garbage put out by the Torie...
• You will also note sooner or later that the Liberals while apparently sitting on their hands have simply been following a strategy of not taking Harper's tau...
• Nick, maybe your directive here might be to those who whine all the time about the truth being told about their party leader. Tell them to simply put me on i...
• Once more time Nick...please review what has been said about Dion in particular here. I will also remind you the next time since it appears that squeaky wh...
• I think the Liberals are building a strategic war chest that will simply overwhelm the poor performing Tories and they will have a lot of depth on their team...
• I think another poll this coming week would do further damage to the secrecy prone Tories. The Afghan torture story is going to get sme play and will mostcer...
• Dysfunctonal is a good word to describe the current government. Minister Verner has to bring a bill to the house that she detests. Does that fit your use of ...
• Keep your wet dreams alive and have a good time. Your theories are all absolute bunk and you are supporting a party of gigantic economic and social polic...
• Drink more koolaid...waht do you do when the brainwashing website Harper puts out for answers has not been updated? In other words pure garbage and Ipsos ...
• That's fine with me.......but at least I speak the truth and it hurts. read Chantal Hebert in the TO star this am and see how confident your special party is...
• Of course being a tory supporter you didn't read the right article. http://www.thestar.com/comment/columnists/article/413527 "The notion of a Harper te...
• Blah blah blah...more stuff from your minders!!! Again I ask why hasn't Harper grown in the polls if his opponent is so weak
• Not really...I did say she dislikes Dion did I not......then again no one fed you that answer obviously so its hard. We understand
• If harper wasn't so stupid in setting a fixed election date he could have called one by now instead of being trapped by Dion.
• rsharp..talking sense to rabid Tory right wingers is like climbing mount everest. You soon run out of oxygen and your brain starts to act like them.
• I see Nick's latest Ontario provincial poll has the provincial liberals at 45% and the tories at 30%. This is trending very similar to federal voting intenti...
• Here's another federal poll for you to consider: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080415.wpoll15/BNStory/National/home Nick's poll ha...
• I'll stack my expertise up against yours anyday!!!
• I do believe that but thought you need to see a poll that you wouldn't post here.
• the poll out this morning in the G&M is continuing to show the weakness in Tory fortunes.
• oh my a victim of justice...the poor Tories..........your analysis is pure bunk as usual
• So where have you increased the factual level that this is a Liberal and left wing press conspiracy. Of course the Liberals are going to show up and furhter ...
• Further to my last post.........the two elections Canada bureaucrats involved in this scandal are Tory appointees. So show us again how this is a Liberal co...
• You're way off base again...two newspapers today said both are Tory appointees and they are correct. The fact they get appointed through the HOC means squat ...
• The committee overseeing the elections Canada issue has been dysfunctional becase the Torichairperson keeps walking out when the subject comes up. Do some re...
• From a current online G&M article: " The “in-out” scheme was first brought to public attention last August and the opposition has asked that the alleged sche...
• I don't embarrass myself because I read stuff and then I repeat it as I read it. Your distrust of the press lets you wing it because you assume everything ...
• There's absolutely nothing in your diatribes to make me beieve that you are correct in anyrthing. The simple facts you point out show your blind belief in ...
• we agree on nothing. Stop drinking the koolaid and you will understand the realities.
• Here's more "good" government from the sorry Tories: "Unfortunately, because of the tactics of the Conservative Party, the work of many House committees ...
• vandaphil...spoken like a true tory koolaid drinker. 1. Liberals are paying off their debt and are doing just fine. They can mange an election campaign ...
• The spin is coming from you.........moving money around that effectively exceeded the allowable limits had the potential to sway votes with more advertising ...
• Did Martin not replace the hot money that was donated to the party. Did Martin not admit there was probable cause for ther Gomery commission. He could not sa...
• Wel you can stick to your extremely biased and ignorant appraisals but I will continue to carry on waging the war against the dastardly affronts we've been h...
• Gomery completely exonerated the politicians but I guess that doesn't register with Tory party HQ. I can provide support for almost everything...and where i...
• jealous are we?
• Again you are very selective with your facts. The whole sponsorship debacle definitely was run out of the PMO. BUT and a big but, the PM nor his FM knew ther...
• It was a "red" sunset.
• What about the 6% tory lead you spoke about earlier today...wow, you are something else.
• from the G&M: "Yes sir, there is room for everybody in Mr. Harper's Red Populist Nationalist Alliance – everybody, that is, but conservatives who believe in...
• Apparently you only read the party rag so we try and open up your mind a little to the real world out there.
• More on Tory methods of accountability..talk about sleazy politics. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080420.wtories21gta/BNStory/Natio...
• Its on the front page of the online edition: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080420.wtories21gta/BNStory/National/home
• This blog does not copy the full site address.
• Its not a better article;this guy is so right wing even George Bush considers him as gone too far right. His best line flies in the face of the Tory law o...
• then tell the PC party to stop stonewalling the investigation and let the world decide if they were ethical or not........their antics speak of the usual Tor...
• Its also interesting that the liberals had notice of the spin act the PC's were trying to pull off yesterday. What a bunch of thugs,trying to slip something ...
• LETS SEE IF THIS IS SMOKE AND MIRRORS: "Documents released Monday lay out allegations against federal Conservative Party, including that invoices may have...
• The damage is done and I'm ok with that..the crooked tories will go down fighting but they will go down. your desperation is showing
• The koolaid kid is reeling because his handlers cannot defend themselves any longer...forging invoices to cover off the money laundering is pretty serious st...
• Not at all.... my goal is to see Harper the hypocritre destroyed politically and its well on the way. He is no good for Canada and in fact is dangerous. ...
• THEY WERE NOT BRIBED..THEY CHOSE QUALITY OVER SLEAZINESS
• and you forgot the biggest winner...changes to the income trust legislation. You also need to understand that tax cuts othe rthan GST are simply returning...
• Accountability was at the top of your list....Wow!!! have they ever shone brightly on that legislation. Wouldn't it be wonderful if they were hoisted on thei...
• Your suggestion is patently wrong. Consumption taxes are the best tax according to almost all economists and therefore your logic doesn't hold water. Income ...
• the Liberals admitted their sponsorship program was poorly managed. when will the /tories admit they laundered money and attempted to bribe Cadman. They are ...
• You've obviously run out of logical arguments. Dryden's child care bill was passed an being put into operation when harper killed it
• Give your head a shake Hollimn....the tories are all screwed up over unethical practices and even the PM was trying to skirt the issue today in his press con...
• You have caught me in no lies.....your wishful thinking isn't going to happen..
• the Koolaid song is an expression I started here............but like a true tory you would steal anything to make your selves look better. People see thr...
• When Flaherty pays back the Billions he stole from income trust investors I will then suggest the payback. Making mistakes in government has only one payer....
• Still copying the song from a Liberal music sheet...pretty typical no oriignality there. Chretien's goal with that money to was to outspend the spearatist...
• Trying to drag Dion into the morass of Adscam is pretty damn silly but then tory supporters are very anxious to cover up money laundering schemes. This carto...
• The Cartoon refferred to is in the Montreal Gazette for Thursday. It is Aislin's editorial cartoon
• Adscam is long past the due date and people are not reacting to that anymore.
• I could care less if the money laundering sticks...they are guilty as hell and the public is aware of their lack of "ACCOUNTABILITY".....remember that..........
• blah blah blah........nothing said of any consequence as usual. you can continue defending a crooked government, your perogative
• The people in Quebec are still using the Bloc as a battering ram to bring the ROC to its knees. They feel privileged and the nationalistic fervour is still s...
• Here's another Quebec view of Harper's party: http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/aislin/index.html It is Thursday's cartoon.
• That's your spin which is going to be proven very wrong very soon. 30 something percent is not what I call popular.......jean chretien had a 65% approval whe...
• Your comments are getting stupid...there was no robbery of $100MM by the Liberals. The government of the day screwed up a program. Plain and simple. lets...
• More BS...when did I ever say there was a green/tory conspiracy. Your hallucinations are getting worse as the money laundering crisis gets deeper into the fa...
• Read it again koolaid boy. I was talking about libs and green not tories and greens. any party worth their salt would not align themselves with the dirty tor...
• We agree to disagree. I will take my vision of Canada over Harper's defacto breakup policies. The rest of your stuff is simply too subjective and I'm not...
• 1. IT IS MONEY LAUNDERING. THEY distributed money to 67 different ridings who were mostly going to be losers and then had the money come back to them. There ...
• Liberals are showing lots of vision...you just don't see it yet. But you will...pucker up and wait.
• You must have had your wheaties today...you are shreiking the koolaid song.
• Calling your comments stupid does not implicate Gomery at all..just your less than fertile mind. And stealing my song is just like a tory.........thieves all
• Be patient
• Check the TO star today....Harpercrite is at 43% and going down in peoples minds. No charges pending because the RCMP have yet to state their case. Give yo...
• KEEP SINGING KOOL AID KOOL AID
• YEP THE RCMP WERE IN ON THE RAID JUST TO PROTECT THE TORIES CFROM VIOLENCE.
• Well stated rsharp
• The Grits are demanding they review further elements of the in and out scheme lke the altering of invoices. That's "show business" also known as two can play...
• I'm never ever frustrated; I just want Harper out of office ASAP. The sign of a weak mind is one who won't see past their nose. I have 20/20 vision and go...
• It appears you don't read well and I'll leave it at that. Read my last post again. Did I say who was reviewing the doc.s? I also clearly said the Liberals a...
• I have never backpedaled and you certainly have not proven me wrong or even close.Keep on trying to exonerate crooked and lying tories. I admire your tenacit...
• I'm not gay
• I'm a liberal after all!!!
• Typical of all tories..go on the defensive right away. I never said I was homophobic and in fact I'm not. I see in today's news more people steppinging o...
• Here's some more good news that seems to follow Nick's poll of two weeks ago. http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/418966 Gloomy outlook hurting Tori...
• How about the latest polls that show just how popular mr populist is? More to come, happily and you Harpercrite lovers will be squirming.

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

• Wahy should we castigate them when they are in their element as good Tories. That scandal will enbolden their right wing nut base.
• I didn't hear any of the participants in the tape say it was their youth. They simply admittted their bigotry and apologized. I think they should resign plai...
• Maybe its time Canadians start seeing this government as one of continous denial. Harper is hiding on the Cadman affair and is trying to bully this latest fl...
• There's a difference between insensitive and bigotry. Look it up. Bigotry is not something to be forgiven and forgotten............unless of course you're a ...
• Amen brother.
• So you agree with the opening poster that bigotry against gays ok 16 years ago but because "times have changed" its ok to forgive and forget. Does that mean ...
• Did the tories not promise, among other things they failed to deliver on, to leave Income trusts alone during their last election campaign. We know the damag...
• Of course not.....dictator Harper does his own thing.
• Never never land is you trying to convince the great unwashed that Harper is the second coming. Apparently the press hasn't seen the smoke signals yet.
• Reading and digesting the whole conversation would mean taking the blinders off for some.
• Academy awards are often given out for people on death row claiming their innocence. .
• WOW...they do walk among us!!!
• No it's not when his leader effectively accepts his poor judgement and bigotry and yes I do condemn the party for not standing up to that bigotry.
• The more the merrier.........the silent majority is with me.
• He kicked others out of the party for lesser sins, like opening their mouth to disagree with the [EDITED BY MODERATOR] Prime Minister. Where is the consisten...
• Name me one Liberal politician who was named and charged in that scheme.
• Just a wannabe!!!
• I didn't know the BBC was private, nor the French government channels or the Italian ones............where do you get thids garbage?
• With all due respect Nik others are using derogatory names for Dion so I suggest playing fair on all sides is the right approach
• Well call me naive. Neither Paul Martin nor Chretien knew about the money kicked back to the party money which was paid back once discovered by Martin. D...
• Wrong again.....the government charges a so called TV tax that goes directly to the BBC. I just went over that with some one last week while in London. The I...
• And that is an opinion of our PM that I have. Harper does not believe in real democracy. He simply wants a majority to do as he pleases with his idealogies.
• Thre choir boy comment was certainly deserved because some here are simply totally in tune with Harper and effectively call him their choir master. Funny the...
• Mcguinty has inherited baggage for the whole Country. Most immigrants land in Ontario.The vast majority of economic issues are surrounding the auto industry'...
• You preach such crap.... a fee for service is a tax and everyone in the UK has a radio or TV and thus pays the tax. Jeezz admit you are wrong just once and h...
• The valley is lush with low hanging fruit just waiting to be picked when properly ripened. The hump is locked in the overripened category and will be thrown ...
• We will simply see who follows who at election time. Election abyss like the tories getting only two seats in 1993 after 8 or 9 years of lousy Tory governmen...
• I am not "loosing" any arguements with you. There's none to "lose". The consumer fees are in reality a tax like it or not because everyone is forced to pa...
• I'm very positive for our country as long as its not run by idealogues and populists. I prefer a strong central government and a strong social policy... not ...
• He will cope just fine...he plays rope a dope with Harper and Tories in general very well. After Flatulence's last outburst the feds had to write a check to ...
• wrong again... it was Charest and the Elsie Wayne who were the only ones elected in 1993. Of course you know these facts intimately like you know about UK f...
• Sorry about being wrong on every issue...that confirms to me you are from the chosen bunch of very right wing conservatives.
• rsharp.....You forgot to mention bribery of independent MP's and being soft on homophobes for the bad leader.
• One simple remark to your "treatsie".....I am not a clarvoyant and don't pretend to know what goes on in Harper's head. Try thinking the same way about Dion ...
• You probably haven't drunk the koolaid as neither have I so we will soldier on making sure Harper does not get re elected and the real story about his goals ...
• Of course he's predicting that...that statement was made after the koolaid arrived from the Tory propoganda machine
• Why should Dion elaborate on his policies when there is no election call just yet? There is no logic in that other than Toriees wanting the policies so they ...
• You mean like the level of contempt most knowledgeable people have for Harper. Things go both ways you see. Harper is smart and cunning...the cunning wil...
• I'm glad I get under your skin.........now if you would only understand simple logic we could be friends.
• Keep drinking that Koolaid;there is not a poll in the Country saying that or the Tories would be galloping towards the polls.
• It only counts at election time and the Liberals have not yet chosen the event to take Harper down so we will let him squirm and make beklieve he is on top. ...
• Harper does not want an election or he would have forced his own defeat by now.
• Harper is a dictator and a bully and I will keep saying it.
• Check back on some of your previous comments about Dion. You and others here have made many derogatory comments about him. My comments about Harper are an e...
• You can argue all you want about polls that I see going one way or the other. The Liberals control their own destiny and can decide when the government will ...
• Imigration is non starter for Dion and The tories will find out how emotional that issue is. Dion and his team is far smarter than you realize and you will s...
• I'm too busy enjoying the evenings in duabi to take this any further since the intellectual level has degraded
• Dubai is not so right wing as it is entrepeneurial. This is a state that pays for all medical expenses of its citizens and only charges 25 cents a litre for ...

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

• Harper is becoming the master magician in Canada. He and Flaherty are going to make our surpluses disappear and have it all blamed on Ontario.
• Get used to the next generation of dividers...Harper wants to divide this country economically.
• A you mean the almost one billion dollars he gave Quebec at election time last year was to further connect the country economically. I get it now. And this l...
• Jim, a very good take on the issue. This government is more and more about bashing opponents than governing. I saw John Baird on TV this weekend and he was w...
• I call it bribery and direct interference into provincial affairs. They are supposed to put that money directly into programs that are "National" in nature. ...
• Lowering taxes and creating a deficit are not in the interest of Canadians and that is where we are headed. Typical tory populism with no program and no real...
• Better than being to the right of Hitler
• No he's not a real person just a wind up doll......LOL
• There will be a deficit if the current trend continues, face facts. Government revenues are down, slipping further, and spending is much higher. Expo...
• Transferring responsibilities for spending taxpayer money to those who actually spend it was a good idea that Martin had as it also made them responsibile fo...
• They will be useful to the Liberals in helping not to split votes. Remember they have an informal alliance. And sooner or later people will realize that the ...
• Neither is yours....the facts are that Harper tries to bully the premiers into accepting money on his terms and several have objected and gone to quiet negot...
• BS, the money in year one was already earmarked by Paul Martin and your other fact is pure smoke and mirrors. The Liberals in 1993, inherited a $43 billion t...
• Mike Harris was the hero of tax downloaders. And he was the one who screwed Ontario's economy for a generation. The Chretien/Martin transfer cuts wer...
• According to you Hareper has done wonderful things. I continue to ask one simple question. Why are the polls not reflecting that considering the fact Dion is...
• You and I both know that there will be several other polls showing the parties neck and neck. Harper has not grown in the polls or he would be galloping towa...
• Finally some more sanity here.
• You obviously haven't read their platform. The only so called "left" leaning item in their program is the environment. Read up on them instead of swallowing ...
• AS FOR LIVING IN THE PAST.....you have brought up Trudeau at times. The economy is slipping,spending is up and tax revenues are down....is that clear enou...
• McGunty is no left winger and he has run a practical down to earth government which we needed after the Mike Harris fiasco. He will win as long as he choose ...
• Its ok for people to run down Dion but is unfari to run down Harper........Puleeeeeezzzeee, enough of the hypocrisy
• You'll get it one day...keep on believing.
• Latest poll out: Decima: Con 32% Lib 30% Ndp 13% Grn 12% Bq 9% ...Decima
• Ah but the leader of the opposition can be a clown and useless etc and be called such by you but it is unfair to say those things about Harper........Harper ...
• Another good post...keep it up rsharp but remember you are dealing with Harper's bully squad. They probably even go to the party site for their programmed an...
• That's your view again but polls are polls and Dion is not nearly as unpopular as you make him out to be. He has a great team and thye are wroking together...
• Its amazing the fear these Tory types exhibit over Dion who is useless according to them. His work on the ground and his rebuilding of the party and his grea...
• So do I hope he sticks around... we need an honest, ethical PM and we don't have one now.
• rsharp you need to spell reality in large letters for neocons...especially Flaherty
• Everything you say is a right wing fact and everything everyone says that is contrary is left wing spin.........think about that for a minute. Some people ...
• The Liberals have always been the party of social justice and assistance to aboriginals. Proof of that is they generally that vote when aboriginals are an im...
• Keep thinking that way, we lIberals like that.
• I notice you didn't report the Decima poll on the same day........more right wing spin from you.
• He's not having a meltdown;he like a lot of us are tired of the whoremongering done by Tories starting at the top with attack ads against their opponents, br...
• April fools day was earlier in the week. Then again some here are stuck in a time warp. Once you get over the fact Harper should have been running away ...
• Again you twist things... my point is that Harpercrite is doing nothing to convince Canadians to vote for him and he had the opportunity to do so when the Li...
• He will win also!!!

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

• robini, keep on dreaming. the only blue you will see across Canada is blue skies as summer arrives. The liberals do have a platform and will unveil it at the...
• That is exactly what is happening.....the liberals are choosing the weapons and will call the war when they are ready. Good post
• Pure bunk. The Liberals have always supported the military and were the ones who originally engaged Canada in peacekeeping efforts in politically hot places....
• hollimn, 1. the country did not vote for change in the last election as much as they put the Liberals on hold.....36% was not a vote for change but simply a...
• Get your drift? not a chance!!!
• Where is Harper being proactive on the tax front. They claim they lowered taxes with the GST cut but make more than that of indexed taxes at the pump and ref...
• Yep, you sure can..........its a reality pill. LOL
• The Liberals will have a platform and a well thought out one that will simply outflank anything Harper can whine about. We are in times of economic uncertain...
• Its a placebo!! However, the reality pill takes longer to wear off.
• Coming from a tory supporter, that's a compliment. I knew it was a typo but I guess I should have explained myself more simply.
• And it ain't the face of Harper;so it will be another draw if you are correct which you are not. The rabid right is going down. This Country cannot stand tha...
• No you will see balanced green taxes. The liberals have been the most financially prudent government in the history of the country over the 13 years they wer...
• No hidden agenda. That's for the Tories and things like the income trust big lie. The Liberals will unveil their agenda in plenty of time for people to un...
• You are alone with your Tory friends here. The real silent majority doesn't follow these blogs but mostly won't ever vote Tory.............that's 67% of the ...
• Flash back to HARPERCRITE'S days as leader of the opposition and you will see the same angry approach. Its called face time. Writching..the Tory lovers h...
• The Tories have also got to worry about health issues because they have done nothing to help the provinces there. Paul Martin made billions available to the ...
• The population have test driven Harper and generally don't like what they see. 33% is not a ringing endorsement when his opponent is apparently so weak. His...
• Yep the natural governing party is sure dumb and indecisive and shallow. They have ruled the Country for around 70% of the time in the last 60 years and we h...
• A tory stalker......pretty typical of the breed...LOL Waht will come out of Harper's mouth when he is regularly accused of being dishonest in an election ...
• I thought tories liked sniping...they are good at it.
• So do you think they would rally around Layton? The Liberals have the most to gain in an election and have the most potential voters behind them including ma...
• Dion did not cave in to avoid an election. His point,well made and listened to, was that Canada shold not be the only ones sacrificing lives there. And the b...
• that's a joke and a half.
• In yesterday's byelections the Liberals won 40.7% of the total votes cast vs 24.5% for the Tories. That tells me something is up in the land.
• Spin spin spin...just like the elcetion losses.harper was claiming victory today when he achieved 24% of the votes cast vs 40% for the Libs
• keep on spinning; You are creating lots of wind energy. The greens will not gethose votes in a general election. Even you understands that by elections are a...
• Did not Mulroney not deliver deficits of huge proportions and brought on the bloc and other scandals. Has harper solved poverty or even improved it by one pe...
• Being afraid and being strategic are two very different things. Why go on harper's terms when he can control his own agenda. That appears to drive you Tories...
• I'm not but the Tories are suggesting that Quadra was a breakthrough for them. My point is exactly that;they were poorly attended votes but the tories are ...
• I think that's coming as Dion grows into his role and now that he has an improved team in the HOC with him. I think he has had a pretty decent strategy up ...
• 1. Dryden had every province on board as I recall. 2. I do not wish for a recession but I don't see Harper doing what is necessary to avoid deficits that wi...
• The strategy is simple. Don't defeat the government until you can win the election with a wedge issue. The fact Harper delayed byelections that were favorabl...
• When have you last heard "hidden agenda" from the Liberals? When was the last smear job by the liberals by way of attack ads that were totally misleading? ...
• Time will tell......in the mean time this is going nowhere because some people have their head stuck in tory sand. LOL I've said my piece and will let it ...
• Oh yea like the almost $1 billion he gave to Charest who turned around and used it as pork barrel money to buy his election..............keep fooling yoursel...
• With intelligent comments like that our discussion is over.
• No,The choice is deal with low life attacks or have a healthy debate. Guess where your dialogue is placed. And I'm trying to be as politicially correct as ...
• Then maybe Harper is a Lada in that context.
• Of course you also forget to state what was spent during Mulroney's time or did you simply want to forget he was PM. The Liberals believed, until Paul Ma...
• You lie like Harper. I have driven them many times and they are unreliable, uneconomical although cheap to buy because there is nothing to them and definitel...
• You live in a dream world like the commies who thought LADA's were great cars. You also forgot to mention that Chretien/Martin bought subs from the brits. I ...
• I have very patiently argued the facts but it appears the rebuttals are always selective. You mentioned the libs did not spend on the military and convenient...

What will be the impact of the Cadman affair? (Video Blog Post) (2008-03-09)

• I think the Liberals are doing a great job at undercutting the Tory brand of accountability and ethical government. The Tories are self immolating and I thin...
• Maybe they offered to pay the uplift in his commons insurance policy once he was no longer an MP. That is possible to do and has been mentioned as one of the...
• Changing parties is tantamount to changing jobs and therefore merit higher positions as an ncentive to move. In the case of Cadman he was effectively offered...
• As I have stated earlier the Liberals are doing a very good job of undercutting the only good thing Harper had going for him..trust and honesty. Sooner or la...
• I think you will find that Paul Martin was simply thankful for his vote. No more than that.
• HOLLIMN, I think its great the way you downgrade Dion's chances. it will make his victory that much sweeter.
• That's silly!!!
• What you view as an embarrassment is simply the Liberals having a policy of toppling the government on their terms not the NDP's.They have decided they will ...
• EMERSON WAS A LIBERAL BOUGHT BY THE CONSERVATIVES!! He was given a cabinet post like others who switched sides. Cadman wa soffered a bribe to vote against...
• Flaherty and Harper will, if they have not already, drive us into a deficit with their stupid tax cuts. The GST did not need to be cut at all. The social ...
• Your comment on Rae and spending is not such a sure thing. He has become more fiscally conservative in his old age. Flaherty has been spending his way to a...
• Changing parties and being offered Cabinet posts in a minority government is possibly the only thing that can be done to get some proper talent on board. Eac...
• hollinm....if Bob Rae or anyone cannot change stripes then you should read some of Harper's diatribes from when he was a talking head for some of the right w...
• You are oviously not paying attention to Dion closely enough. He is being very strategic and principled. He's forcing Harper to bend on all legislation while...
• and you people all believe Flaherty's BS that he has lowered taxes while he sucks us dry with hidden taxes like the gasoline one.
• Don't worry my MP knows who I am...LOL
• Passing off Harper as a real PM is the biggest joke. He is a bully and a thug.
• Go read Harper's stuff from when he was a think tank geek... he's no economist in my opinion at leas tnot the way he thinks and runs this government. Dion ha...
• Baird is simply playing bully politics like his boss. They figure intimidation is the way to make the opposition weaker. They also figure that attack ads wit...
• "The CPC is simply following past practice"....... they are supposed to be the party of responsible and accountabile government but now you say they are simp...
• Dion is simply being single minded at this point as he sees an opportunity handed to him by the Tories who have run on accountability and honesty but have pr...
• The Liberals and Paul Martin in particular were tainted by Harper's accusations of Liberal dishonesty over Adscam when in fact Martin called the commission a...
• Gomery was interviewed today and said the Conservative government is in danger of allowing the same things to happen because they concentrate too much power...
• The party found out upon an internal audit that some adscam money found its way into party coffers. The party, upon Martin's orders, paid it back immediately...
• And there is only one party who believes that all things run through God. Stock Day and his ilk are still there and are the ones who raise the mos tmoney in ...
• The word "intentional" is libelous on its own and it was not the party who did it. Misguided civil servants and some petty Liberal hangers on is more the sto...
• The Liberals wiped out a $42 Billion deficit left behind by the disgraced Mulroney Tories who had the Country so mad they reduced Tories to two seats. How's ...
• The conservatives only know denial and bully pulpit stuff.....the fact that Harper has such thin skin that he has to actually try and sue the liberal party a...
• Well MRM with ignorance of the facts that you display there is no point in continuing any discussion on this with you. I suggest you read Gomery and then ...
• Nik, things are civil; facts are not from some posters. That's all I'm pointing out in terms of continuing a discussion. Keep up the good work Regards,
• hollimn,All you are saying is that there appears to be "no smoking gun" in the Cadman affair so the Tories can't be held to account for something the family...
• We'll remember your comment about Chretien when Harper finally falls over ethics and honesty because you will be skatiing the length of the Ottawa canal with...
• Nonpartisan, for what its worth, I am a die hard Liberal and I think the Libs deserved to be put in the penalty box last election because Martin, a very nice...
• Dion and the Liberals simply needed some ammo to have in their arsenal when the election is called to neuter the Tories and their so called "ethical and acc...
• You seem to forget that the Libs are building some ammunition against the day harpercrite says he's honest and upstanding in an election campaign. Its tha...
• Let me ask you a question in return for the nonsense you just posted. Why did Canada reach top level status with the UN in most indices for democracy and wea...
• my last post was directed to hollimn and not Mike who wrote a very good post.
• I live in central Ontario and no one here thinks Harper is a leader,far from it. The only place they do is in Alberta where everyone who votes is like a tory...
• We did vote for Mike Harris and look where it got us.
• It got you the most fiscally responsible government in Canada's history and it saved you from having more conservatives in office. The federal conservatives...
• MRM, That is correct. Deficits are like the scourge. They are a disease of incompetence and Harper is well on his way to that level. His so called finance mi...
• If the "good tory government we are getting" is so hot why are the polls continuing to track both parties as being pretty equal in voter intentions. Truth is...
• I agree... bring on the election and we'll see how much resonance the "Cadman Affair" and other issues get and we'll see just how good Dion can be. Gladiator...
• Better to be gladiator than to be a bribery expert, a liar on income trust taxation and civil service bully among other features. I think you will soon see...

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

• We don't take the Liberal spin hook, line and sinker. But we do know BS when we see it and Harper has been flinging his half truths and skirting scandal by h...