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Canadians polarized on idea of Harper majority (April 18) (2011-04-20)

• Well, Mr. Nanos, you forgot ethics in your poll of issues. Funny about that. And my how you have for years skewed your best ever bugaboo, leadership, in M...

CPAC-Nanos Tracking CP 37, LP 26, NDP 20, Bloc 10, GP 8 (ending September 29) (2008-09-30)

• I never get called. I think I've been blacklisted. lol
• From Truthout. Replace McCain with Harper. And Palin with every Tory who isn't Harper, from Ministers to speechwriters. lol.
• Darn. Forgot the insert! McCain has confirmed he does not have faith in an unscripted Palin's ability to represent the campaign to the world. By going al...
• Hmmm. Harper's puppy love of Bush isn't an issue. Think again. Look at the hoopla just today! I keep sayin' it, the last Bush poodle and we're goin' to re...
• Nice opinion westerner. How about facts? Refer to opinion polls that show Bush to be the most reviled US president all over the world in history. Refer to...
• Do you send your inane one liners my way just to get me off the "newest" list? I think you might. Are you a machine? Your thoughts aren't quite human..
• No. That Harper is a Bush clone is very much the issue. Both are failed neo-con freaks. You know. Military madness. Free trade (for corporations, not pe...
• Farley Mowat got blacklisted for writing about shooting his 22 at an American jet flying 50k feet over Nfld. I've donje much worse. (Laugh out loud.)
• Good evening, Foxer. Nice opinion. No facts. Pity
• Hey, "fear and smear" are my words! And they apply to your guy, not mine!
• Good thing you confessed to making it up. Nik might have suspended you!
• No. The economy is but one important issue and Harper is very weak on point. He blew the budget surplus on tough guy stuff like military, security and poli...
• Agreeable all. Except maybe the division of powers among the feds and provincial/municipal governments. What made sense 150 years ago might not now. In fa...
• Thanks for the reply. The Constitution is quite clear but I think the "national interest" comes first. We are locked into an antiquated division of powers ...
• Well, look at the "security and prosperity" shenanigans going on among Canada, the USA and Mexico. Radical change by stealth and secrecy. That could work a...
• We're already the smallest, Canada is a decentralized as you get, next to maybe Switzerland. Are we nation or not?
• k. Nik has suspended TPC and MBAGS for inappropriate comments. I have a post on point and I invite you to read it. http://nikonthenumbers.com/topics/show...
• I've generally learned that our federal government is puny compared to the roles and spending of "lower" levels of government, in comparison to the USA, Brit...
• For sure. The Atlantic provinces as one. I would also amalgamate the entire Quebec-Windsor corridor into a single metropolitan area! lol Which is to say,...

CPAC-Nanos Tracking CP 36, LP 26, NDP 20, GP 9, BQ 9 (ending September 28) (2008-09-29)

• Ten points! That's insurmountable in just 2 weeks. Or is it? Trust that Mr. Harper will continue his gaffes (including his "team" of poodles). Trust Mr. ...
• Hmmm. You are fascinated by the unknown. I'll take the tried and true, thank you.
• Get with it people. If Mr. Harper wins a majority we are in for a sea change the likes of which we've never seen. He will turn back the clock on every soci...
• Any opinion about the scary prospect of a Harper majority meets with stiff resistance from many of you folks. "Silly" and "Chicken Little" are among the kin...
• k. I will answer all 20+ posts, almost all of which will be nasty, like yours. Let's see, I must have missed my Valium today, I'm dumb, Chicken Little, ran...
• A true economist would recognize economic trends, like the mess on Wall Street. Harper doesn't or isn't willing. He gets way more credit for his academic...
• Foxer, Mssrs. Goodale and Martin are dishonest? May I have your evidence?
• I expect he's had a huge impact, for the better. An opinion leader..... out front with what counts. Good on him.
• thx elf, I do feel lonely out here, sometimes.
• Foxer, I ask again. Mssrs. Goodale and Martin are dishonest? How so? Back your crap up, my good man.
• I believe you took my words and inserted different names. How novel! My point was that Mr. Harper is an an alleged economist. Yeah, so how come he's run u...
• westerner, Harper hasn't blown the $10 billion dollar windfall he was handed by the (Chretien/Martin) Libs? Do you really want to debate this simple fact?
• What's with that anyway? Two 1 or 1.5 hour job interviews of 5 people all at once for the "highest" post in the land?
• First, it's a fact that Harper's Commons' speech plagiarized from another Bush poodle (Howard) to blindly support Bush's immoral, illegal and murderous war. ...
• Actually, ~25%. Because about a third of us won't vote. And how do we know their "his" books anymore?
• Informed1, good advice. I confess to periodic lapses but I keep trying to stay civil. Criticize what is said, not the person saying it. And, when it comes...
• Harper does run this site, in a way. His minions overwhelm the few of us with any sense of fairness, integrity and dignity. I'll give Foxer a little bit of...
• I am accountable for everything I do in business. If I don't produce, I don't get the work. It's that simple. I think you missed my sarcasm. It was very ...
• If the Tories win a majority, Dion will resign. That's the kind of man he is. If Harper doesn't improve (much), I'm not sure. I think the NDP will increas...
• What, are you full time on this site? I'm taking a day off. I understand the levers of power and from whence they came. I don't understand those who accep...
• It's more than that. The Cons and Libs, in particular, are comfortable in their shoes. Proportional representation will detract from their representation a...

CPAC-Nanos Tracking CP 36, LP 27, NDP 19, GP 9, BQ 9 (ending September 27) (2008-09-28)

• Phew! But Harper still has a 9 point lead. Methinks he or his party would have to do something monumentally stupid to blow it now. Or Bushco does, which s...
• I am comforted by these projections but the Tory campaign has been described by none other than Nik as a train wreck, and might yet attain majority status. ...
• Peggy, I'm saddened by your attack on Dion. I just listened to him on Rex Murphy, where he took some tough hits from obvious Tory plants..... starting off s...
• 1, Afghanistan didn't attack the USA 2. Harper will continue to deregulate anything in the way of the private sector, "sans doute." Environmentalists, wor...
• Foxer, more predictable trash talk from a trained poodle. I listened to the entire Rex Murphy show. Mr. Dion was respectfull or all callers, no matter the...
• Foxer, a fool and his ideas are soon parted. 1. Let me say this again. Afghanistan didn't attack the USA or Canada. It may have harboured bin Laden but i...
• Foxer, your comments are demented. You question Mr. Dion's voice pitch and head bobbles. You, Sir, are unworthy of debate. Let me be clear.. I am looking...
• "looks like," "sounds poor." Foxer, I have higher standards.
• Foxer, you seem to insult anyone who disagrees with you. Or is this a chance encounter?
• Thanks MRM. Your repeated nonsense keeps me inspired. "Nobody cares?." I believe a whole lot of us care. Which is why, I hope, we can stop Harper from wi...
• westerner, grow up. We adults care about our families and the future for our children. Do you really believe Harper and his 19th century philosophy is of an...
• MRM, you are the easiest pickins' on the site, bar none. You're so..... automatic. Predictable. Almost like a machine.
• Saddened, yes. Disheartened too. The Cons have it over the rest of us and you folks represent maybe 20-25% of the electorate. Our electoral systems sucks.
• HC, good post. You support your points, although still disagreeable to me. Let's agree to disagree on a few things: 1. You appear to believe that Afghanis...
• MRM, please reread your attack against me that you just posted. It's strangely familiar to about 20 or so previous attacks. I'm still standing and your slan...
• Good night, guppie.
• Now I buy tha! Darned if my paper isn't screwed up on Sat. and Sun. I guess I could chase it down but it's another level because, of course, it's been out-...
• I was doing my best to put you to bed, a deserved end to a fruitless debate. You will never come around. Nor will I.
• Is Parnel = MBAGS. Is that established? Can't be,
• Mulroney would be a good addition to the Senate. It's much maligned but if you look at its work products (reports not votes), it adds much to the debate. M...
• lol. larryl, I get raked over the coals so often on this site. So I try to make friends! We could us some, huh?
• Parnel, TPQ and MBAGS, is this true? MRM, Foxer and westerner, are you a conspiracy?
• Mr. Harper's fear and smear tactics scare me. I don't trust this man for a minute. Look at his record! Look at what he has said about his own country vs. ...
• I watch and listen to the CBC all the time. The regular and ad hoc pundits they hire are almost uniformly RW. Give me facts or cease with the whistle. Now...
• He's not confessed yet, to my knowledge. On another of your posts, you may be right about door-knocking being a better use of time than blogging during an e...
• Lex, thanks for the lesson, however misgotten. Canada was not "compelled" to invade and occupy Afghanistan. Uuuh. North Atlantic Treaty Organization? Afgh...
• I have a problem with god, whether Christian, Muslim or any other. If one existed, s/he's one hell of a f-up. Billions of people actually pray every day ...
• Geez, Lex, Harper is pandering to the religious right. that's his base for Pete's sake. Your post makes no sense. What are you trying to say
• k. Wheat boards are beyond my level of comprehension. Except this. The power of numbers. And the opting out stuff. So big corporations with bucks can bu...
• gretag, I am in total accord. We are getting lifeless coverage about the election from the MSM. It's sickening. What will Harper do if he wins a majority...
• I don't know the mechanics of the CWB. I confess. But, as a betting man, I can almost guarantee that whatever Harper wants to do is to the detriment of yo...
• Mr. Harper is scary. Come on people, speak up!
• I blow you out of the water but you get the highest rating? Maybe Nik needs to fix his system?
• Let me get this straight. Harper isn't the candidate of Christian freaks?
• k, unprompted, I'm sorry. Not all religious people are freaks. Far from it. They seek ways to better themselves and others. But the religious right down...
• Good post, Foxer. But I think the evangelical vote down south is very worrisome. These 80 million or so people go to church every sunday. And pray to who ...
• Thou shalt not kill. Or steal? Or covet? Compare that to the Bush/Harper rhetoric.
• Foxer and MRM, where did you go? Stumped?
• Hey, I'm a godless creature, as are most on the left (meaning kinder, gentler types). So the Cons have the god-fearing types all to themselves.
• I liked Mulroney's Irish smile and he did have a good singing voice. A baritone. Very manly, you know? Which is a big reason Mr. Dion is taking it on the ...
• Foxer, thank you for calling me "nuts." I was simply exploring and asking questions. How deferential of you. Have you heard of the RAND formula? Somethin...
• Teehee. The ability to sing is not a prime ministerial credential. Wait. Maybe it is. Harper sings from the same song book as.... aaahh,,, why go down th...
• Let's agree to disagree. We're occupying their country, propping up an American puppet regime, causing death and destruction, refusing to talk to the enemy ...
• I said I was sorry already. I'm very down on religion but I have no qualms about individuals praying to some higher being. For most of us, especially those...

CPAC-Nanos Tracking CP 39, LP 25, NDP 19, GP 9, BQ 8 (ending September 26) (2008-09-27)

• It is mean. As if Dion's party platform isn't there for all to see, better for the 95% of us who aren't rich buggers. And for our children. I understand h...
• I don't feel Mr. Dion comes across as "all-knowing" or arrogant, as a previous poster wrote. I think he leaks humility too much, which may have been is undo...
• I don't much like official Alberta for those reasons. Their governments are particularly anti-Ottawa (aka Canada) and pro-Big Oil, no matter what. Trudeau'...
• Imagine, all those profits going to citizens, aka taxpayers. What an awkward thought!
• Foxer, Dion isn't humble "at all" and we Harper detractors are brainwashed and stupid. Thanks for confirming my opinions. And arrogance is OK, if you are t...
• Foxer, your credibility wanes again.
• My, what a snide reply. Did I touch a chord? Do you really believe that, in 2008, there isn't any government apparatus of any sort to operate an oil compan...
• I never understood why Canada has been locked into federal/provincial arrangements dating back some 150 years. Regarding resources, commerce (e.g., stock ex...
• MRM has difficulties with the truth sometimes. Actually, quite often. He's blinded by the light. Maybe, it's because the the extreme RW has never made it ...
• Excuse my ignorance. Where is Parnel? I miss him.
• Mine are 22 and 26. And they are my constant delight. If I spent less time on this (and a few other) bloody websites(s), I'd be a better father!!! lol
• Hehe. This is too funny. Westerner believes Parnell has reincarnated himself MBAGS? Too much.
• Hey Zab, welcome to the calm. If you can keep it. Williams did indeed stake a claim for his people and we need more of that. The Alberta Tories continue t...

CPAC-Nanos Tracking CP 39, LP 24, NDP 19, BQ 9, GP 8 (ending September 25) (2008-09-26)

• christine, don't the media have a duty here too? Why can't/don't our TV networks and newspapers explain this simple logic? I would suggest because they're...
• Agreed. Communications 101.
• Mr. Dion has a real image problem and I wonder why? He sure doesn't deserve it. He is more trustworthy and decent than Mr. Harper, so what gives. Am I off...
• Money. Yes, a big factor. The Cons have it and the Libs don't. No money to counter Harper's 2.5 years of often cruel attack ads on Mr.Dion. He took it on...
• Poof. They give up. Congratulations, Christine and larryl.

CPAC-Nanos Tracking CP 40, LP 25, NDP 19, BQ 9, GP 8 (ending September 24) (2008-09-25)

• Good point. Harper continues to expand the definition of crime.... in his pathological definition of good vs. bad. I have no problem with locking up violen...
• Lex, sorry, you make no sense. The point of this debate is drugs, especially soft drugs. It is not incredible how a parolee smoking a joint or drinking a be...
• I don't condone potheads. They're sick. But that's the point. They're not criminals.
• Who the hell are you to intrude on our private conversation? A paid rat, I suspect. Come on. Confess.
• My, things are not working out as they should. But I will never give up hope for human decency until its over, Mr. Harper hasn't a decent bone in his body...
• You are a newcomer with zero credentials. Not a single fact to back up your bravado. Until you do, you remain a [EDITED BY MODERATOR}.
• Foxer, "Nobody buys the whole 'scary' Harper routine any more.'? Nobody? That's a bit of a mistruth, n'est-de pas? Harper isn't mean and vindictive? If ...
• MRM, "never" is a pretty strong word and perhaps a mistruth, n'est-ce pas? I blew Foxer away yesterday with a sourced fact about the USA's homicide rates be...
• You look good, Tory 101. Wait, that's a picture of Mr. Harper.
• Thank you for calling me a liar, I am getting used to it on this site. I must admit I feel lonely..But those who deny the truth like you will never do me i...
• MRM, you rejoice in the public humiliation of a kind and decent man. Yet you support an obviously mean and vindicitive leader, whose vision will set Canada ...
• Foxer, you repulse me, but that's only my opinion. You are so blind of the facts and common sense that I wonder why I waste my time with you. You call Mr. ...
• If you believe Harper will fight to decriminalize soft drugs, then I have swamp land in Florida for you. Please. Show some respect for readers.
• I believe we have the "toughest" criminal justice system in the free world (next to our friendly neighbours). We lock up and recommit thousands of people ma...
• Foxer, Harper follows instructions? How novel a thought. I thought he was a leader.
• I'm with you larryl. There are indeed strangers in the house, and they are nor friendly. Where did they come from? Did you invite them?
• How do you know Dion "doesn't listen to anyone."? That he isn't following a set plan? Sounds like more mistruths to me.
• Thank you for inviting me in. I don't know about this one. Who does? The American, British and Israeli spooks have been up to no good for a long time, wit...

CPAC-Nanos Tracking CP 37, LP 26, NDP 21, BQ 9, GP 7 (ending September 23) (2008-09-24)

• Don't Harper's Wars on Terror/Crime Violate UN Conventions? Look at these: Article 37 (rights of kids) Parties shall ensure that: (a) No child shall be ...
• Hey Lex, notice how Harper's hidden agenda got swallowed up by trash talk and trivialities? Funny about that. Mr. Harper would indeed dismantle the CBC, pi...
• christine, Harper's war on crime is an obscenity, a crude step backwards in Canadian progress. No matter one's age, lock 'em up. Expose them. Punish, puni...
• Credibility comes from facts. What are yours?
• C'mon. A few million bucks to a few marketing/communications shysters in Quebec flogging the Canadian flag in hockey rinks? Big scandal. Harper is so pro...
• Yes, Foxer, we should emulate the American's wars on drugs and crime. There's a shining success story, what with 2 million citizens in jail, mostly black an...
• I've commented many times about Canada's child soldier and how our refusal to get him out of Gitmo is shameful. At least the Liberals admit their mistake an...
• Homicide rates in US, UK and Canada, 2000-07, per 100k? 5.7, 2.03 and 1.85, respectively. This, Foxer, is a fact.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_co...
• Far as I can tell, he was in a compound under attack by the Americans. He or another person may have thrown a grenade in self-defence. He was fighting a wa...
• The Americans charging others with war crimes? That's irony, but not even remotely funny. Canadians fought in Spain and Vietnam because of their beliefs. ...
• Foxer, you're all alone on this, at least among real experts, as opposed to prostitute-like talking heads. He may have fought back against America's invasio...
• k. Which would they be? I can't follow the trail. I can tell you Mr. Harper is a veritable Neanderthal, by which I mean really backwards. Kids can't have ...
• So a 15-year old kid shall be detained and tortured for 5+ years. No problems with you. That says it all.
• Foxer, you go lower with each passing day. The Americans were the attackers. The kid was defending. How can you call him a murderer? You are, if I may be ...
• A joke!. That was a joke. You and yous can vote us back to the stone age if you wish. That was another joke. k. I'm not the funniest guy in the world. B...
• MRM and Foxer, you defend the detention and denial of the fundamental rights of a Canadian citizen who was 15 years old when he committed his alleged offence...
• MRM? Foxer? I'm waiting. .
• Nobody's talking about turning Khadr loose. He would get his day in court up here. But a very high percentage of those released from Gitmo back to their ho...
• MRM, Khadr was tortured - he's been subjected to cruel and unusual punishment since Day One. Oh wait. You mean torture as the Americans have redfined it!...

CPAC-Nanos Tracking CP 38, LP 27, NDP 21, BQ 8, GP 6 (ending September 22) (2008-09-23)

• Flash back to Mr. Harper's early August meeting with his most trusted political advisers. Trusted Pollster: Mr. Harper, you have to call an election right a...
• Nah, I posted what I believed to be a pretty good spoof on the previous day's commentary. So I reposted. Maybe it wasn't so good. I think making fun of ...
• Foxer, you suffer from cognitive dissonance big-time. You are all emotion. You are locked in, on automatic pilot. If I was a betting man, I wouldn't gi...
• Foxer, you're upset. I stand by my posts, accessible to anyone. Yours too! I just pointed to your use of ridicule to attack Mr. Dion. Often, very offensi...
• You say so little about nothing. Nothing! A wasted read.
• larryl, you're right. I should have known. Harper's a liar.... such as telling Canadians that the Liberals will raise the GST for a week plus, when he knew...

CPAC-Nanos Tracking CP 35, LP 30, NDP 22, BQ 7, GP 6 (ending September 21) (2008-09-22)

• If each day gets the same weight, the Tories scored 31, the Libs 30 and the NDP 28 yesterday. Tories: (38 + 36 + x)/3 = 35, so x = 31 Libs: (29 + 31 +...
• Nik? Enquiring minds want to know, with due respect to your proprietary secrets. Your continuing accuracy compared to other pollsters means they are worth ...
• And, pray tell, how does it work?
• Hey, Zab, you strike me smart. What are you doing on the sidelines?
• larryl, I guess what we know is that we don't know. Not really. Nik has to weigh in. He's either on vacation or his lawyers have him tied in knots.
• I refer you to my above calculations. Where am I wrong? Maybe I need a slap in the head.
• Foxer, what are you doing presenting six numbers, at least two of them wrong? (39 39 39 38 38 31 38). Within about one point, you say, due to rounding we ca...
• Yes it does, very much. Thank you. But couldn't a mathematician calculate the precise numbers on any given night, within 2% or so, 19 out of 20 times? Bet ...
• The darn CBC didn't broadcast my reasons 8 million Canadians will not vote in two weeks: 1) they don't have to 2) they don't like the choices 3) they d...
• Yeah, I get the apples and oranges part. What I figure is that there's a way to decipher averages (2 days) vs. actuals (most recent day), to really nail dow...
• But Foxer, you're adding up averages and actuals. aren't you?
• There's a mathematical solution. And it isn't a hard one.
• The Cons just five points ahread, two days running. Not quite the 15+ spreads running in the MSM, owned by somewhat suspect sponsors. Nik is likely the mo...
• Seatbelts are compulsory. We're an increasinlgy rules-driven country. Gracious, what could be more of a civic duty than to vote every few years? So, I say...
• Who will REALLY make the best Prime Minister? Flash back to early August, a meeting between Mr. Harper and his most trusted political advisers. Trusted Pol...
• Foxer, I am offended by your racial slur. Is that the best you can do?
• Leaders must be honest and trustworthy. Respectful of others. Caring. Have a platform you can support and a team to carry it out. This is very simple. E...
• It is absolutely true that the Libs connived to assist the Iraq war in ways that fell under the radar. But that's not the issue. Mr. Harper says that in 20...
• Informed 1, you appear to be a hinking man but appearances can be deceiving. You insult me without the slightest back-up. Do you disagree that Harper has s...
• I think the Liberals, NDP and Green parties are locked in the past, willing to form "coalitions" after an election but not before. That's just dumb, especia...

CPAC-Nanos Tracking CP 36, LP 31, NDP 20, BQ 7, GP 7 (ending September 20) (2008-09-21)

• If these numbers are a straight average of three days' polls, Mr. Harper must have had a very bad day yesterday to have dropped so much. The financial mayhe...
• Hi Foxer. Friends? I used be good at math. Doesn't (39 + 38 + X)/3 = 36 means X equals 31? I can't believe Harper has fallen so low. Nik???
• All campaigns suffer losses as the skeletons come out. Proper front-end screening could prevent that except, one's private life and history are increasingly...
• Well, a rising tide might spark some interest among apparently bored Canadians. Easily half of us didn't think we needed this election. Now, we're beginnin...
• Foxer, when you're the underdog, you grasp at any straw.
• A well thought out reply. With proportional representation, Canadians would have a chance at their vote counting. None of the big parties agree, of course,...
• My, that would be a national tie, n'est-ce pas? Holding my breath until tomorrow's results.

CPAC-Nanos Tracking CP 38, LP 29, NDP 18, BQ 7, GP 7 (ending September 19) (2008-09-20)

• KRB, Harper did defeat himself, by dissolving Parliament. Perhaps you overstate in calling Sponsoship the worst scandal. The most investigated, maybe. Som...
• gretag, right on. Mr. Harper couldn't care less about food safety, nor environmental/ worker/ consumer protection. He's a privatization/deregulaion ideolog...
• westerner, I think you've captured this campaign's essence
• Something Light I am forever amused by uniforms, such as soldiers wearing camoflauge for desk jobs at home, the boys in blue, priests in skirts and men’s su...
• Yeah. How about those new-style shoes for (wo)men with about 3 inchea extra toe length. People actually buy those monstrosities? Fads are such a big thing...
• I wish.
• I liked his aquine event. He didn't deserve the derision.
• Peggy, robini and MRM, what are you, a mutual-support society? Get your heads out of the sand! Your personal attacks against Mr. Dion are working in his fa...
• Geez. Who cares about officios' backgrounds? What are the issues? On these, Mr. Harper loses, time and again.
• With all due respect. what are you talking about? The PM or the m of foreign affairs in army fatigues, the solgen in a police uniform? An agricultural mini...

CPAC-Nanos Tracking CP 39, LP 28, NDP 18, BQ 7, GP 7 (ending September 18) (2008-09-19)

• Big Labour is the cause of our distress? Working (wo)men are greedy, strike-riddled dinosaurs? Uh, who's the dinosaur? Take a close look at the guys that ...
• The Ritz affair has legs. The medical profession and PIPS have publicly castigated Mr. Harper for his government's casual handling of the listeriosis file an...

CPAC-Nanos Tracking CP 39, LP 30, NDP 18, BQ 7, GP 6 (ending September 17) (2008-09-18)

• The Ritz affair has legs. The medical profession and PIPS have publicly castigated Mr. Harper for his government's casual handling of the listeriosis file a...
• Foxer, signed off on you but your response gives me no choice. 1. I am not a Liberal. In fact I am usually NDP and proud of it. I'm for the workin' man, t...
• User 1, Foxer is of rare intelligence. The Libs are going to spend $70B we don't have. That's a lie. It was Trudeau, not Mulroney, that caused the latter'...

CPAC-Nanos Tracking CP 38, LP 31, NDP 17, GP 7, BQ 7 (ending September 16) (2008-09-17)

• A New Ball Game Nik is the closest to reality among all pollsters so it is likely that another Harper minority stares us in the face. I can live with that....
• Bernie, I hear and understand your points. Anyone who professes otherwise can't read. This election is about Conservative snow jobs, regarding war, the env...
• Me too, Imagine a secretive, vindictive control freak, taking over our great country. It is as scary as scary can be.
• The UK is suffering big-time from financial shenanigans of all sorts. Then again, the thousand or so top dealers in paper nonsense (not to be confused with ...
• Wooh, I hope you're right. Quebec almost always votes with the winner. I'm one of them. Surely we will see that, when it comes to issues of war and peace ...
• TPQ, my riding has been Liberal since forever. Civil servants who know who butters their bread.
• m BAGS, what a shingle! I never expect the mainstream media to play fair. Hell, their owned by corporations, with a pro-business. pro-status quo bias. Les...

CPAC-Nanos Tracking CP 38, LP 31, NDP 17, GP 8, BQ 6 (ending September 15) (2008-09-16)

• Last night. I was refreshed by closer numbers and a host of bloggers who weren't willing to write the Libs off quite yes. As the only real alternative to Mr...
• Anybody But Harper. Read what James Laxer has to say about the financial meltdown in the USA: "Black Monday showed, for those who needed the lesson, that t...
• Foxer, I don't believe a single word you write. For starters, not a single named source of discontent. Have you not noticed? Dion has kept the Liberal tea...
• I think the recently-deceased Parliament was working as it should. The Liberals agreed to pass a slew of feeble Tory bills about a 1% cut in the GST, road-r...
• Foxer, you have no supporting facts. Name one Liberal Minister or MP dissenter. One will do.
• A plane grounded for safety precautions. Like that's Mr. Dion's fault? Your credibility wanes again..
• It doesn't look good right now for our country. It looks bad if Mr. Harper wins and implements his hidden, hateful agenda. But I still have hope. On the o...
• Never heard of former Minister Liza Frulla but I'll take you at your word. Yes, keep posting any criticisms you can find from Liberal MPs or ex-Ministers ab...
• Foxer, you are laughable sometimes. You speak to Mr. Harper's initiatives for women when your party can barely nudge 20% women candidates. Compared to almo...
• Foxer, get real. Mr. Dion''s Green Shift didn't cause this election. Harper did. Because he knew it was now or never. For him, it was all downhill from h...
• Foxer, maybe I wasn't clear. If "they exist in droves," name one. Name a Liberal MP who has criticized Mr. Dion's leadership in any substanital way or even...
• If I may spread this discussion to larger issues. Economic performance and environmental protection are really important issues but what about individual ri...
• Foxer, read this about the largest demonstration in Alaskan history, mostly by women who disagree with the would-be VP on everything. And understand why we ...
• Well, Foxer is good. I suspect he blogs all over the place, under different names. But I don't know that. Is he paid for what he does? Maybe but likely n...
• Foxer, for the 3rd time, name one!
• I knew one of you would react by name calling rather than dealing with the facts. Thanks.
• Foxer, you call me "despicable" so I'll be signing off now. Too bad. You made some great points, however misguided.
• Adieu, Foxer, and may peace be with you. I'll miss you over the next four weeks. Too bad you didn't want to deal in facts. Too bad you chose to misreprese...
• westerner, I think you missed my point. You name-called and provided zero support for same. Those aren't "facts." Just the opposite.
• k. I assume someone I could likely name was censored here. I feel for him because I have been through that in a very serious way. Calling anyone a name is...
• I agree TPQ. If Mr. Layton is so able a Canadian PM, he should say how . The Greens? How do they differ? I'm really upset that, in the year 2008, we don't ...
• Some one get on this. It's a biggie!
• westerner, come around. For the 3rd or 4th time, what are the facts supporting your accusations? You're the accuser. Do it.
• larryl, it's hard to withstand the constant barrage of name-callers we suffer. Nik is perhaps too lax on their side, or perhaps we don't protest enough. I ...
• westerner, come again? I think you might be cornered because your responses to date make zero sense. Zero.
• westerner, don't be a baby. Go to the original thread (Laxer). And refute any of his statements. One will do. Two would be a bonus.
• So long, westerner. You still have not dealt with a single fact. Not one. Tell that to your grand kids.
• Hmmmm, westerner. a total turtle-like response. Facts man! Facts!
• westener, you disappoint. Have you no response?
• Yeah. Westerner, where did you go? To bed, I can understand. Turtling for lack of a response is more likely but I'm a forgiving guy.
• TPQ, I can count on one hand the number of times I've flagged a post on this site as inappropriate. It's just not my way. I don't think the other (dark) si...

CPAC-Nanos Tracking CP 37, LP 31, NDP 18, GP 9, BQ 6 (ending September 14) (2008-09-15)

• Ha. Ha. I like your wit (most of the time). Interesting stuff here re Mr. Harper going after Mr. Layton to whose benefit and where the ABH voters will fina...
• Great point. I am cured of my despondency. Shame on those (many) media pundits and pollsters who have written off Mr. Dion, the only true alternative to Mr...
• larryl, do not write off a kind and decent man. Someone you can trust and with a great team. Someone with vision. More action on the environment, more hel...
• We need to start a "debate" thread. I'll go first. Subject: The Economy Q: Mr. Harper, you are an avowed believer in free enterprise and markets and wan...
• I can't resist. Read this LPC communication: September 15, 2008 Harper's Index - Week One Number of campaign events that Stephen Harper has held so far t...
• fortescue. methinks you're getting a bit nasty. The Libs don't believe a tax will solve everything, that the war on crime is about jaywalking or any other o...
• Foxer, no, you're wrong. Obama would esalate the war in Afghanistan while Mr. Harper is now saying, "We're outta there." Good for Mr. Harper, even if his p...
• Q. Mr. Dion, you are perceived as caving to the Conservatives on almost countless votes on bills with which you disagreed. How can you explain this? A. We...
• Wait. The GST is a regressive tax. Your ability to pay doesn't count. If you're a business, you just pass it on. If you're a "bad" business, it doesn't m...
• Peggy, Mr. Harper doesn't hold open news conferences where he can be questioned by the media or the general public. Mr. Dion has held about 30 since the cam...
• Peggy, you excuse Mr. Harper's 100% manipulative/secretive ways because Mr. Dion goes to schools and talks to students? Your logic excapes me.
• I understand what he says. But then, I'm listening.

CPAC-Nanos Tracking CP 38, LP 30, NDP 17, GP 9, BQ 6 (ending September 13) (2008-09-14)

• Geez, I hope so. A lot of we ABH voters are pretty despondent right now. We need a PM who has good judgment, not someone who would recklessly commit our tr...

CPAC-Nanos Tracking CP 38, LP 30, NDP 15, BQ 9, GP 8 (ending September 12) (2008-09-13)

• No offence to Albertans, but they are a wasteland of delusional thinking. Caught up in their own greed. Not giving a s**t about their fellow Canadians. k,...
• Well, I'm only saying that Albertans at some point have to wake up and smell the roses. They have this vast oil wealth, but to be extracted at great cost. ...

CPAC-Nanos Tracking CP 38, LP 31, NDP 14, BQ 9, GP 9 (ending September 11) (2008-09-12)

• So Nik is committed to a polling strategy that tracks nationally, when everyone knows regional tracking is all that matters. And to polling on three question...
• Come on people. Who really has the best vision for Canada? Is the most competent? And the most trustworthy? I submit that at least 60% of Canadians belie...
• Nik, a second reminder to you. If you continue polling on this basis, you will have let the country and your profession down. Your questions turn this into ...
• Thanks Nik. I confess to frustration and it certainly isn't you or your polling tactics. You are one of the good guys. I'm worried sick that Mr. Harper'...
• larryl, buddy, I dispute Nik's questions as reported but his integrity? Not for one second. It doesn't look good for we ABH-ites but 4 weeks is a long time...

CPAC-Nanos Tracking CP 37, LP 32, NDP 13, BQ 9, GP 9 (ending September 10) (2008-09-11)

• Will you vote? If not, hang up (politely). If so, are you an absolutely committed voter, no matter what happens during the campaign? If so, hang up. Now ...
• Nik, if you continue polling on this basis, you will have let the country and your profession down. Your questions turn this into a personality contest, whe...
• Thanks for a reply that didn't attack me Phew! Polls are such a drag. aren't they? We might want to eliminate them but we can't. We might want them to ...
• My point was that two of the three questions are about "leadership," when those questions have been fundamentally skewed by Mr. Harper's two plus years of me...
• This isn't about winning friends. I have the greatest of respect for Nik but don't like the focus of his poll, this time, because it's not a level playing f...
• Hollinm, I just read your vitriol on The Star's website. You get around. Let's see: 1) an election on false pretenses, not about a dysfunctional Parliame...
• You are so dead right. Mr. Harper is a malicious, vindictive control freak who couldn't care less about ordinary Canadians trying to make ends meet. For th...
• So Nik is committed to a polling strategy that tracks nationally, when everyone knows regional tracking is all that matters. And to polling on three questio...
• Hey larryl, feel lonely? Me too. I'm not even a Liberal but the Tories' never-ending supply of bloggers ripping me apart wears me down.
• NBF"s? What or who might they be?
• That's a scream, larryl, because the insults I suffer from the Tory brigade are unending. In your face insults. Not facts. That is the Tory way. And the...
• hollinm, you were doing ok until you ventured that Alberta's oil wealth is its alone and the rest of Canada better back off. Canada doesn't work that way. ...
• So as not to ask a leading question. In my view, that is why your polls are more accurate. And it happens to be ethical! Don't tell anybody. It would b...
• hollimn, you lose. You justify your bully, beyond belief. Canadians want a "kinder, gentler" (wo)man to run the country.
• Yes. but he's still doing it There's no stoping him.
• I wouldn't trust Mr. Harper with a bean bag. He's an incompetent fool with a failed agenda. His vision of an emasculated federal government is precisely wh...
• Where did you you go hollinm? Debating the character of our next PM is not to your liking?
• Your personal attacks on Mr. Dion define you and all Tories. What is it about this man you find so distasteful, especially in comparison to Mr. Harper? Let...

LP 35, CP 33, NDP 17, BQ 8, GP 7 - Harper leads as best PM (New Nanos Poll) (2008-08-29)

• Let me get this straight. Mr. Harper intends to cause an election in violation of his own law and even though he expects the same (minority government) resu...
• I don't have much time fot the misguided but let me try. I get The Citizen and like all Canwest newspapers, it is to the right of Ayn Rand. It has several ...
• It was General Hillier who got us into Afghanistan, promising Paul Martin there would still be sufficient troops for legitimate Canadian military interventio...
• Hillier's lies got us into the mess "to kill scumbags," n'est-ce pas? Harper wanted to send more troops to get killed or maimed, for nothing, true or not? ...
• k. I'm back from a month in France. I am more convinced than ever that Euiropeans know how to run countries! Mass transit galore, within and among citie...
• Paul Martin's decision to form the Gomery commission was probably the worst political blunder in recent Canadian history. He tried to do what was decent and...
• He did the honourable thing. And you have no proof otherwise. Shame on you! I am pretty sick of those who refuse to rise above their biases.
• MRM, I've been away for a while but I notice you are as disrespectful of others as always. You need a coach.
• Foxer, of all the contributers to this site, you rate among the lowest. Your prejudice bleeds. Your logic sucks. The Liberals and Mr. Dion have it right o...
• I love a good debate, Facts count. Mr. Harper's record is dismal in every area that matters to Canadians. If only we can get the electorate to focus on jo...
• This is nothing, No guilt of wrongdoing, Nothing.
• Twinkie? What kind of person are you? Not much of one, I gather. The Liberals would without doubt get us out of the Afghanistan quaqmire sooner. The Libe...
• k. I've slung impolite stuff at Foxer and you. I thought I had cured myself of that! I'm sorry. But I did back up my points. I reserve forever the right...
• Some talent, Foxer. Ask voters these questions and you get the picture very clearly. Mr4. Harper is yesterday's man. Leaving aside the NDP/Green/Bloc part...
• Lots of people care about the war, but they're not logged on! That we're essentially fighting for one side in a civil war is blind foolery. Afghanistan has...
• No. I stand by my position. Hillier lied and Canadians died. About the scope and duration of Canada's war-making, for starters. About reconstruction. Th...
• Far as I know, not a single Liberal PM or MP has been found guilty of anything in, well, decades. Am I wrong?
• There is nothing more contemptible than risking the lives of others for petty reasons. In pushing Canada into this fruitless war, General Hillier did that, ...
• I think in terms of who will make a differance. Harper scares me. On matters of war and peace, the environment, the economy, justice, etc. Mr. Harper is ...
• k. We're "pathetic" and "childish," which "sickens" you. Perhaps it is your head that needs to be "straightened out." We are in Afghanistan as a sop to t...
• Far as I know, Mulroney accepted unmarked cash while he was PM from an arms profiteer, and stowed it away unreported to the tax man. Uh, I think that's ille...
• Harper is dead wrong on matters of great importance to Quebecers: the environment and the war in Afghanistan. His "laissez-faire" attitude about government...
• I have always had a low opinion of Mr. Mulroney, but he was much more worthy a man than Mr. Harper. The latter is an ideologue, incapable of pragmatism. So...
• Are you denying that he fought hard to get Canada into this war militarily, on false pretenses? How stupid, uh sorry, misguided can you be? Hillier was the ...
• Hmm. I am now "low," a liar and a coward because I believe the Afghanistan war was a huge mistake. Let me get this straight. Afghanistan attacked Canada an...
• MRM, you have hit new lows.; I am a "liar," "low life," "guilty," "blinded." etc. May I suggest that you get real. I don't hate Americans. I hate the cur...
• Such trite but entirely expected comment from a (fool). With what aspect of the Bush agenda do you agree?
• Whatever aspergers syndrome is, I'm sorry for you. But that doesn't forgive your ignorance.Stay with me here. Blair, Howard, Bush and Harper. These would ...
• MRM, your dreams are my nightmare. Do you really believe we can bomb and occupy other countries to get our way? In 2008? Not likely.
• What total crap. Foxer, give your head a shake. The US went into Afghanistan in violation of the UN Charter and international law. Period. Iraq too. We ...
• Ghengis Khan. Not Attila the Hun. I got them confused. The points are: 1. Afghanistan is neither a just nor, initially, a legal war, as Afghanistan di...
• I read that the war falls below the economy, the environment and health care among issues to many voters, in part because Canadians have been bamboozled into...
• The Liberals are in rough shape financially and the party better pick up its fundraising efforts. But to suggest its demise is surely absurd. Far as I know...
• A direct quote from some Macleans' site. "Given his intense attachment to Afghanistan, it's little wonder Hillier pushed for the chance to shift Canada's ...
• Please read what I quoted and if there are any factual errors please provide. What is in dispute? How do you know the source is left wing? . How many ye...
• Boxer, this will take time but your irrational remarks warrant the effort. 1. Thank you for calling me dishonest with myself. I have accordingly asked m...
• I believe it. Mr. Harper is the most right-wing leader in the English-speaking world, excusing Geroge Bush, about to be relegated to the hirtory's dust bin,...
• No. I think we expect our government to respect international law, the UN Charter and the sovereignty of nations. I say again, Afghanistan didn't attack th...
• MRM, as if you don't know. The economy, where Mr. Harper would sit on this thumbs while Mr. Dion would take action. Ditto matters of war and peace, the env...
• I have facts. You spew something else, entirely disingenuous. The Brits and the Aussies got rid of Mssrs.Blair and Howard because of their war-mongering. ...
• Nope. I'm not wrong. Blair and Howard are gone because of their support for Bush''s incredibly stupid wars against Iraq, Afghanistan and terror generally. ...
• MRM, Hillier pushed to escalate Canada's involvement fronm defensive to offensive, in Kandahar. You can't deny it, no matter your spin. Give up! Let the f...
• Your single example of protest in favour of guns for anyone commends you. I am Nazi-like am I, for comparing Harper to Bush. Clean up your act Foxer. You'...
• Precisely which Liberals "(stole) tens or hundreds of millions of taxpayers money."? Of the hundreds and hundreds of Liberal MPs and Ministers, past and pre...
• Well, larryl, all parties have incomplete candidate lists, the CPC is just less forthcoming regarding how they're doing. No surprise there. As for MRM's al...
• MRM, you need to step back. You continue to name-call and lie. The Liberals are "bribing" would-be candidates. Please support your allegation. You can't....
• You two are really a scream. You waste so much energy and space on this site. Can't you go off-line with your self-congratulatory vitriol. I head today th...
• Foxer, your ignorance is showing. A million plus Canadian voters don't deserve representation in the debates? How anti-democratic can you possibly be? I b...
• The something in common is personal attacks. The Repugs down south and the Tories up here. But it isn't working this time and both nasty parties will go do...
• Thanks for your condescending BS. Harper is scary and most Canadians have the same premonition. It's his hidden agenda. He would take us into more wars wi...
• MRM, you are beneath contempt, again. The Liberals will field about 33% women candidates compared to less than 20% for the Tories. What part of those FACTS ...
• Foxer, you are a total, monstrous sexist - a joke to any thinking (wo)man. You can denigrate women all you want but let me give you a clue why you're wrong...
• MRM, your post is not worthy of reply
• Foxer, your ignorance is there for all to see. You defend keeping Ms. May out of the debates about the future of Canada, despite her huge following. I need...
• Foxer, you are so laughable I can't help but like you. You are actually predicting both a Harper majority and the NDP replacing the Liberals as the main opp...
• MRM, thank you for calling me ignorant. Your constant insults detract from every post you make. You and Foxer are so delusional trying to justify the MSM'...
• Still predicting the Liberals will likely come in third. Your credibility continues to drop.
• Theft: Name one (recent) Liberal Minister or PM who has been charged let alone convicted of any crime Mispending of billions: Name it and I will give you ...
• Are you relying on MSM polls? Shame on you. Don't you understand the dynamics? Follow the money.
• Foxer, get real. Which Liberal Minister/MP has been convicted? No one. Your accusations are the lowest of the low. Bureaucratic waste I can live with. Ha...
• Poor boy. It depends on the facts, doesn't it. In this case, facts would be proof of ignorance. I am in great supply of same and I regret to inform you th...
• I think the fact that the NDP, Liberal and Bloc parties will produce maybe twice the percentage of women candidates than the Tories paints a picture so vivid...
• Fine. The NDP and the Liberals are fielding 50% more women as a percentage than the Tories. And the Tories have so many important Minister who are women, n...
• MRM, I feel lonely, because rabid Harperites like yourself dominate the airwaves, including this site. But I do indeed have the comfort that truth is on my ...
• Thank you MRM, for your proof of ignorance. If you really believe that more women will vote for Mr. Harper than Mr. Dion, you win an award of some ignoble k...
• Yes, I can. Mr. Harper would: 1) get us into America's wars against whichever country they determine to be evil, no questions asked 2) continue the "fre...

Both Harper and Dion face greater risks than their rhetoric suggests (Nanos Sun Column) (2008-07-21)

• Voters are fickle and can be swayed during a campaign. A single event/issue can throw the match. The media can throw it on non-events! Mssrs. Harper and D...
• Foxer, we have been through this drivel about about Harper's alleged leadership qualities many times before. Harper is the last Bush poodle standing and all ...
• A very thoughtful reply. I am somewhat disarmed here in France and away from my desktop resources but let me try. Any reasonable person will agree to the M...
• Well, I am relaxing, except for the odd letter to the editor of The London Times, lol Subject: The Times in Review As a Canadian in France enjoying a month...
• larryl, I am so impressed with French trains. I took the TGV (train de grand vitesse) from Paris to Marseille. Phew. Dinky little Miramas gets more trains...

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

• hollinm, you attack Mr. Dion's "mangled English." Is that the best you can do?
• hollinm, you call Dion "feckless" and state that Canadians "can't stomach the guy" trying to "screw ordinary hardworking Canadians out of their hard earned m...
• parnel, you are not lonely. Many of us support your vision of a truly free and democratic country. Free from American and corporate domination. Free to pa...
• Well, if the USA/Israel attack Iran, look out. Because Iran is no Iraq or Afghanistan. Its ability to disrupt oil supplies alone could send shock waves tha...
• The debate is over on PR. Only a few "Anglo" and 3rd world countries refuse to recognize the inherent anti-democratic nature of the "first-past-the-post" el...
• You didn't! You'll have to change your handle! BTW, I've voted NDP just about every time since whenever.
• That's what I said, I think. PR is the ONLY truly democratic option.
• larryl, I disagree, As if this complicated world can be be governed by either Tweedle-Dee or Tweedle-Dum. I present the USA as the best example of a failed...
• Tom, I don't think Mr. Dion's proposals are "panic." First, look at the satelite pictures of the melting Arctic over the past 20 years. This is called evid...
• Election technology sucks. Totally unaccountable. Easy to defraud. Give me back the paper ballot, capable of recounts. It's worse than that. In the USA,...
• Tom, we are, next to the USA, the most prolific users and wasters of energy, water, food and any other resource you want to name. It's a fact. As a society...
• We (Canadians) are environmental brutes. Simple as that. The facts are there, beyond dispute.. Government regulation could fix it but that's not in vogue ...
• You are entitled to believe American belligerence towards Iran is warranted. Such entitlement does not equate to logical thought, asborne out by your own wo...
• Your incessant, indecent attacks on the integrity and competence of Mr. Dion, a good man superior to Mr. Harper in any human quality you want to name, may no...
• Uh, excuse, me. Didn't that latest Decima-Harris poll place the Libs at 44% and the Cons at 37%. Or am I dreaming?
• MRM, 44%-37% in the Libs favour over the Cons, straight up, have no meaning to you? I think I'm on to something here. Blind loyalty is no virtue, my frie...
• MRM, Iran may sponsor what you call terrorism but is has not invaded, bombed, murdered, maimed, destroyed, overthrown, subverted or stolen a hill of beans co...
• hollinm, you grasp at straws. Mr. Dion's English is easily understandable 99% of the time. If you want to criticize a leader, make valid points. Like thei...
• Thank you for the insult, hollinm. Don't worry for me though, I'm used to it. What it is about is, absent other choices, who do Canadians want to lead th...
• MRM, how do I put this to you kindly and understandably: 1. The USA is the most powerful country the world has ever seen, by far. 2. George Bush is the m...
• MRM, "most" means 50%+. How misguided can you be?
• lol. I leave people with no idea what I'm talking about with some frequency. I was referring to your previous post where you stated "most Canadians won't v...
• hollinm, you're batting 1000 with your insults. I respectfully request that you read my post finding attacks on Mr. Dion's English skills trivial in the big...
• Mr. Harper apparently drew cheers on Parliament Hill yesterday, and good for him. I'm sure he's trying his best to do what is "right" for the country. That...
• MRM, no man is a mountain. A leader needs a good team to reach the promised land. I'll take Mr. Dion's team over Mr. Harper's, anyday, anyhow. Yes, I've v...
• MRM, you give only two reasons to vote against Mr. Dion: his allegedly poor English and his new Green Shift policy. Not much of a case. Dion is easily und...
• You might be right. I can't think of the last candidate to run on higher taxes who won. It's one big gamble. But if properly reported by our "free" press,...
• hollinrm, your grasp is slipping. Mr. Dion's plan is progressice, plain and simple, meaning advantage to the poor. Do you have a problem with that? As fo...

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

• Mobility rights are near the top of any list of universal rights and freedoms. We trumpet free trade but that covers capital, not labour. In Europe, there ...
• Geesh. You guys are hard on Canadian youth. I have more faith. Our education system and curricula are what you make of it. The ability to excel is there ...
• So, unions are the root problem with both our educational system and the auto industry. Why stop there? Almost the entire public service is unionized. Tha...
• hollinm, your post was definitely an anti-union tirade. My point was simply that unions don't dictate the direction taken by the auto industry or our educat...
• I don't understand. The Tories scuttled Mr. Martin's day care plans, despite agreement with all the provinces. So how did Mr. Martin cause harm to your fri...
• Good question larryl. I'm a Johnny-come-lately to this site and I never see anything from these people either. Who are they? Leaders have to be around to l...
• Are all bloggers on this site independent? Do any actually work (or volunteer or contribute) for/to a particular party? Should they declare their potential...
• I have never voted Liberal in my life. But I am get tired of voting for parties that have no chance of winning. We are so overdue for proportional represen...
• I crashed the leadership convention when PET took home the prize. The whiff of grass in the stairwells was "breathtaking." The Mounties must have been on o...
• This site isn't run my RW pollsters, but it is dominated by RW posters. They spew tired and failed neocon absurdities, support and vote for each other, etc....
• MRM, "slimy," "twisted" and "moron." These are very disrespectful, regardless of the other person's opinions.
• It is amazing how biased polls can sway public opinion. And, in Canada, most pollsters are decidedly pro-Harper, pro-America, pro-Israel, pro-business, etc. ...
• All quiet on the Western front. I am frustrated, too. I think we need to help Nik design a new poll concerning which party and which leader would be best fo...
• I always liked the NEP. Conservation and recycling? Trudeau was 30-odd years ahead of his time. Nationalizing an oil company to get a window on these croo...
• I think Nik shows zero bias. He wants to ID the next PM before anyone else. That's all. And he's done it going back several elections now. As for Mr. Dion...
• Nelson Skalbania said, "Never fight with a pig." I think he used to own the Canucks. The point is, walk away from those with whom you have no potential to ...
• larryl. I keep defending Nik because, to me, he has no bias.
• The point is well-taken, regardless of origin. I think he was in a legal squabble. When you fight with pigs, you get soiled. Your personal hygiene becom...
• Love that shot at the media. But then they're a big target. They run in a pack, don't you think? And the print/electronic "journalists" I read and see lar...
• Well, maybe they have a life and they are out with their dear ones on a Friday night. I'm a widow. so to speak. My partner works a lot.
• We are indeed the only ones left. At least, in my brief time on this site, I've never witnessed such "disquiet." But then, the slogan, "Tory times are toug...
• Capitalism is the way it is. The hope is that we can derive sufficient benefit from this given. Governments can tax and regulate corporate activity. Clear...
• I have never voted Liberal in my life. But I have always lived in Ottawa-Vanier and Gatineau where the Liberals have always won. Since Confederation! So, ...
• We're close to facsim. Meaning a marriage of government and business to oppress us. But most Canadians, including the traveling public, don't see it that w...
• Hey Nik, this is to suggest your next political poll: 1. Correct sample size, etc, with the right questions. Our job here is to eliminate those who will vo...
• k. So Parliament is gone and the political theater is over for a few months, save a H of C committee bent on investigating alleged Tory election spending mi...
• Yes I did and I am dumbfounded by the balance in this bill: The following summary is provided by the Congressional Research Service, which is a nonpartisan ...
• For the next six weeks or so, Nik is the closest thing to reality we will see. What's your next poll about, Nik? Please. Not "leadership."

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

• The Bernier scandal is the beginning of the end for Mr. Harper's claims to leadership superiority over Mr. Dion. Harper appointed this light-weight in a hap...
• For the past year I have fumed at the mainstream media's buy-on to Harper's attacks on Dion's so-called "leadership," including the CBC and the Toronto Star....
• parnel, Harper can't wait for the summer recess and he will again waste huge amounts of tax dollars by proroguing Parliament in the fall. He's on death row....
• calmecam, you are several breaths of fresh air. I am perhaps somewhat guilty in my anti-Harper positions, when he has many redeeming qualities. He's smart....
• The Bernier scandal is anything but "eye candy," according to the Toronto Star's editorial today. It calls for the House of Commons public safety committee ...
• Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven (which doesn't exist). Blessed are they who mourn, for they shall be comforted (but not ...
• MRM, all calmecam is asking is that we respect differences of opinions instead of name calling. Hey, I'm as guilty as the next guy. Attacking the credibili...
• k. What can they do to us? 1. Tax us, or not. 2. Send is to war, or not. 3. Take measures to enhance prosperity, or not. 4. Provide for the disadvan...
• I am warming to this discourse.
• If the Tories win the next election, the world will not come to an end. Canada will benefit or suffer the consequences but the rest of the world will hardly...
• "Detente." Reeks of the Nixon/Kissinger..... wait..... uncalled for. I'm in, for sure. Smokers often can't quit the first time they try. Doesn't mean t...
• The Liberal "tax and spend" line from the Conservatives has served them well for decades. I think the Liberals can counter, this time, given the success of ...
• Who knows. Not me. But the MSM has definitely turned up the heat on Mr. Harper. His free ride is over. I suspect the media wolfpack has been waiting fo...
• Rex Murphy just spent his entire show on the Bernier scandal, and the audience was mixed as to whether this was a major issue or not. I suggested he was pre...
• MRM, I don't think it's fair to call Mr. Dion "spineless" because his party choses not to bring down the government. If Mr. Harper was in his shoes and, kno...
• I have had occasion to witness self-inflicted harm. I know of federal prisoners who went in on relatively minor charges but never got out, because they held...
• Latimer!!! Darn. I hate looking stupid.
• I love the mud analogy. Some guy in Vancouver (Skalbania) said it best, "Never fight with a pig." But, in Canada, the spelling would be "flavour" and "hono...
• CBC Radio One, Sunday afternoon's, 16:00 hours, ET. He draws things out and together like few can.
• MRM has a point with many Canadians. What are the Libs doing, voting with the Cons with such regularity? What they're doing is reading the polls. Canadi...
• calmecam, I trust that the truth will out before we again get to vote in a federal election. But, what say you about the mainstream media? CanWest, the Sun...
• Thanks calmecam. To me, the corporate media (pro-business, pro-Conservative, pro-USA/Israel) are so dominant, you have to forgo the lot not to be indoctrina...
• My honour is in tact for at least three or four days now. Of course, I've been busy working, golfing, etc. Isn't it grand the life we are so lucky to live....
• k. calmecam, there is a groundswell of interest in your "credentials." You've made your mark and people want to know. You are bound to answer the followin...
• hollinm, I plead guilty to your accusation that I am "way out in left field." Meaning I promote peace, help for the disadvantaged, environmental, worker an...
• How? What did Mr. Martin do wrong?
• parnel, do you have a real job? How do you stay on top of all this stuff? Wait. You're in Dubai. With 16 hours a day to kill. Right? Jealous
• Vandaphil1, yours is a huge leap in logic. We have no idea when CSIS checked this woman out, how thorough it was and what concerns were passed on to Mr. Har...

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

• larryl, your numbers are accurate; the attacks from MRM and Jan unfounded. The Tories have been the "tax and spend" party since "Lyin' Brian." Same thing ...
• There are a lot of undecided voters out there, and I think the "personality" contest between Mssrs. Harper and Dion will be the true test. Right now, Mr. Ha...
• Tom, proportional representation is the only way to go, democratically- speaking. To address your concern about fringe parties, all one needs to is set a th...
• The Tories as economic stewards have been dismal failues. Just off the cuff.... They blew the federal budget surplus gift-horse from the Liberals on nonsen...
• But what if the two parties are the same, as in the "greatest" democracy of all time, the land of the free. A Republican or Democratic victory won't change ...
• Thanks for the totally unsupported stab, holinrm. My heart breaks.
• I can see 50% +1 as a proper criterion for head of state, but not for state or provincial representation. The number of voters disenfranchised by our first-...
• holinm, you may not have noticed that Harper's leadership abilities have taken a major hit the past while. His judgment in selecting a sex-crazed buffoon as...
• larryl, hollinm (and MRM) are rabid Tories, who will defend the indefensible until the cows come home. That the former was a banker for so long perhaps give...
• MRM, you typical name-calling replies betray your stripes. Of which you have few.
• Tom, answer the simple question. Why disenfranchise 10-20% of the electorate by the FPTP system? Why not design a system where every vote counts? Also,...
• Is that the best you can do, MRM? Pitiful.
• Another holinm and MRM lovefest. You two are a shame on the concept of free speech. Now, think for a minute. Try real hard. Mr. Harper may suffer a mi...
• MRM, you are rarely worthy of a response. We need more military/security spending like a hole in the head. If you believe otherwise, you are in a category ...
• Your constant personal attacks on Dion are tiring. Get a life.
• But Tom, if a party receives 5% or 12% of the national vote and gets zero or only a handful of MPs from the exercise, how fair is that? The disenfranchise...
• MRM, do you have a life beyond Nik? Your insistence on always getting the last word leads me to conclude......
• LEDA, your mother would wash your mouth out with soap!
• I live in Gatineau and. before that, Ottawa-Vanier. Both have been Liberal forever. All my life, my vote had counted for nothing. I think Dion is startin...
• I object to your use of the term, "spineless" opposition. The vast majority of Canadians haven't wanted and still don't want an election. Might the opposit...
• You know what, larryl, you just might be right. It's the free ride he'd give to the US and Big Business that I worry about. I mean. these guys rule the world.
• MRM, how hypocritical you can be. My criticisms of Mr. Harper are entirely warranted. He is an outrageously incompetent PM and no replacement in sight. Pi...
• None? Mr. Dion has intelligence, judgment, compassion and humility. The best policies and the best team, which he empowers and supports. Mr. Harper has no...
• calmecam, from a philosophical point of view, how do Canadians decide for whom to cast their vote? Morally. Patriotically. Personally. Financially. Do...
• Yeah buddy, that's how I feel. Harper is that much of a danger to the future of Canada. He is dragging us into the American morass. He has got to go.

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

• I will. Mr. Harper is a disingenuous, vindictive control freak. He has a hidden agenda (vision), which he will spring on us should he ever get his coveted ...
• How about balancing the federal budget, left in ruins by the Cons. How about signing on to Kyoto, along with 150 or so other countries. How about credible ...
• MRM, are you for real? Chretien took over from Mulroney, not Trudeau. Neither PM Chretien nor Martin made any personal gain from their stewardship and I de...
• MRM, are you for real? Are you a paid CON hack? Dion has it all over Harper in terms of vision (policies) and a team to deliver the goods. Harper wins on ...
• MRM, are you for real? Am I a communist? Are you crazy or just nasty? Read what I say and, instead of calling me names (a la Stephen Harper), deal with ...
• MRM, did Paul Martin act dishonestly in any way for personal gain as PM? When and what? If you can't prove your smear, retract it. If you won't retract it...
• MRM, I keep challenging you because you accuse Mr. Martin of dishonest conduct when there isn't a shred of evidence. He's not even under investigation. Do...
• Hollinm, the CONs' vicious, personal attack ads against a fair and decent man who refuses to play gutter politics is not a winning strategy in Canada. Harper...
• You and MRM are a tag team whose buffoonery needs leashing. It is the CONs who have blown the budget, not the LIBs. It is the CONs who stand alone in the w...
• Whoops. I forgot. Australia recently had an election and the pro-environment party won. So it's the Bush administration and us, all alone. Isn't that a clue?.
• It is Harper's defence "strategy" that gets me going. We haven't been attacked in almost 200 years. The only time we go to war is to defend out allies from...
• Mr. Transparency pulls another fast one. This "man" is the most secretive PM since WW !!, when at least there was an excuse. I don't even want to talk abou...
• MRM, when you accuse another man of dishonesty w/o proof, you dishonest yourself. When the man you accuse is as squeaky-clean as PM Martin, you only look foo...
• That's why I put the the word "stategy" in quotation marks. It's little more than a shopping list, and largely for killing machines of which we should have ...
• I am a free-thinker, unconstrained by party lines. I believe in freedom and democracy, peace, environmental protection, social justice, help for the disadva...
• I invite you to read this. http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/14762
• MRM, you state that Suzuki is a "kook." You win the name-calling award, hands down. If I was to bother to troll thru your posts, I could pull out a hundred...
• It is clear to me that Mr. Harper is a control freak. The antithesis of the modern-day manager. One who gathers a good team, delegates to, empowers and suppo...
• I can site you a hundred polls showing profound public ignorance.... just ask Americans about Saddam's involvement with WMDs and his buddy bin Laden. With a...
• holinm, Mr. Dion hasn't had his shot yet. And you ignored my points regarding the fallacy of polls and regarding the question of leadership. I'm sorry I em...
• I'm sorry you find me pathetic. What I'm trying to explain is that, when the chips are down, Canadians will vote for the party with the best policies, the b...
• What improper, dishonest or criminal act did Mr Martin commit? Else, forever hold your peace. Fat chance of that, to "He who always must get the Last Shot ...
• I am sorry you find me to be a vile hypocrite. Yet, I ask again, name a single dishonest or criminal act committed by Paul Martin? That his former compan...
• k. What was dishonest or criminal about any of that by Mr. Martin? You don't seem to get it?
• I read these numbers with disbelief, because they defy logical analysis. The Tory vision for Canada is virtually identical to the failed Bush doctrine. Sup...
• Excuse me? What total nonsense you spew.
• MRM, you appear incapable of intelligent commentary. Take a break. Leave us in peace. Ir is entirely predictable that you will respond. You always, alw...
• MRM, your comments are unworthy of a response beyond this.
• Hi parnel. Good post. I, too, question the one-on-one comparisons between Harper and Dion that favour the former. What criteria are being applied? Is "le...
• MRM, you again misrepresent the facts. Bear said we (don't) need Harper like we (don't) need a bunch of other "leaders," including Bush who is indeed Mr. Ha...
• hey westerner, where have you been? Sowing oats? While Mr. Harper is strangling Crown corporations, agencies and programs for "special interests" he disagr...
• Well, I don't hear too many clamoring to get rid of milk and egg marketing agencies. This is a classic case of Conservative ideological nonsense, regardless...
• hey westerner, why is anyone who disagrees with Harper a communist? Do you really consider the Toronto Star a communist newspaper? Seeking the greatest g...

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

• The Big Picture is one that ties all the loose ends together. What Canadians face is a single right wing government devoted to the failed Bush administratio...
• Geez, I should check my spelling before I post!
• I call the Bush admin. "murderers, liars and thieves" with great regularity. I call Mr. Harper and co. "warmongers" and like names, truly deserving descript...
• I stand behind every one of your quoted excerpts from my comments. There is not an offensive word, anywhere. What are you talking about?
• I like that. Good on you, parnel. The Tories' laissez-faire approach to governing is so wrong when we face crises on several fronts. These guys don't have ...
• This speaks volumes for the pundits. Obviously, they're not into investigative journalism. Journalism period. But parnel has a larger point. The Harper g...
• k. You have libeled both Mssrs. Chretien and Martin, accusing both of illegal personal gains while elected officials. I defy you to name a single instance....
• The Liberal party's finances are a mess, no doubt. But their poll numbers remain respectable. When an election is called, the Tories' financial advantage d...
• LEDA, may I suggest you do a bit more research before making such claims. What the Tories did was apparently illegal. No other party is accused of anything...
• My. My. I guess you like a secretive, vindictive bully over a democratic and inclusive leader. Speaks volumes for you.
• parnel is right. Mr, Harper is history. He is simply too mean for Canadians.
• MRM, you missed my point, again. LEDA cited perfectly legal donations by unions as an indication that the NDP was somehow tainted by the same brush as the T...
• Governments in power get in trouble, not necessarily earned. It's all about ther ability to cause harm and piss off groups with like minds. That is why I d...
• MRM, get real. The Tories are guilty as sin on the "in and out" scandal. Their own people are owning up. The best lawyers in the land won't get them off. ...

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

• The gap in Ontario is really startling and shortchanging the province by ten federal ridings didn't help Mr. Harper's cause either. But, if Mr. Martin dropp...
• Those attack ads have worked. Not on policies. On personalities. I wrote this a while back but no newspaper would publish the sucker. Hmm. Is it that ba...
• Here is why the mainstream media have got it wrong about Mr. Dion.: 1. Restoration of Trust and Unity within the Liberal Party: Mr. Dion won the Liberal le...
• I think Libveral volunteers and voters will come out in droves to vote against the most right wind PM in living memory or longer. And, isn't money off the ta...
• Let me give you an example. Start your questions with, who is a better leader, Mr. Harper and Dion? Given the (false) bias in the perceptions of Canadians ...
• Not the CBC I watch. Chantal Hebert loathes Mr. Dion. Andrew Coyne. Don Martin. All the Tory, NDP and other political reps who get equal time. To which ...
• Well then, hollinm, the debate is over. But let me reply to the few points you chose to make. Mr. Dion knows that 80% of Canadians don't want another elect...
• k. You got me on this one.
• I am biased. Against organized religion, for sure. If there is a Christian, Muslim, Jewish or any other god, (s)he is doing one heck of a lousy job. Again...
• No. The Golden Rule is to "Do unto others as you have done unto yourself." Jesus would be overturning tables all over Wall and Bay Street, were he around t...
• In which newspaper? The Torstar. which is even-haned as you can get? On which network. Look around, my man. The MSM is owned, lock, stock and barrel by,...
• Well now, for once you have judged me correctly. Nothing confusing about it. Jesus was some kind of a prophet, I guess, and his teachings are wonderful. O...
• You are quite a trio, MRM, hollinm and westerner. I've observed you for some time now. You are like trained poodles. Independent thought? Never. Party L...
• I feel for Parnel. The pack he's against use words like "vile." Why are they excluded from reproach?
• Suggestion. Let's talk about the next election. When. Why. And who will win!
• Let me reply to myself. I think that many Tories and Liberals are itching for one. Those in safe seats. Otherwise, humm. Don't think so. Safe seats? My...
• 1. I didn't call Harper any names (this time). 2. I am not far left (I am left of that). 3. I am not railing or spouting (I speak with a great calm in my ...
• Well, I even numbered my issues to simplify the debate. Let's try again: 1. War and peace 2. The environment 3. Health care and education 4. The eco...
• US defence spending at $84 billion for 08/09. How wildly inaccurate can you be. The Iraq war. alone, is heading ror three trillion dollars. Last I looked,...
• So what does "procurement," a line item from the USA's $650 billion annual military "budget," have to do with the price of eggs? The topic is war and peace....
• I do. More serious still are the constant insults hurled at parnel by you and your gang (hollinm and westerner). Watch out. The Moderator is at the door.
• I lived in the Ottawa-Vanier riding for several decades. It includes blue-nose Rockcliffe but it has voted solidly Liberal since Confederation. Now I live ...
• I'm a beer drinker. My mouth goes down hill from there. lol
• Chantal Hebert doesn't deserve her job. She is parochial and, as I've said many times, patently anti-Dion. Someone so consistently biased should be fired. ...
• Dead wrong, MRM. Throw in "one-offs" like the wars against Iraq and Afghanistan. Nuclear weapons. The security-industrial complex (the CIA and 100+ other ...
• If you believe the "party line" that ONLY 80-90 thousand Iraqis have been killed as a result of this unnecessary war, may you go in peace. I assume you belie...
• parnel, you have the Tory gang on the run. With cause. Mr. Harper's so--called leadership is falling apart at the seams. Funny thing about dictators. Th...
• Some "independent" assessment. The total number of innocent civillians killed is more like one million. Many millions more maimed for life. Many millions ...
• k. By my estimation, it's 1-0 for the peaceniks over the warmongers. Do you really want to argue Harper's environmental record next? Let me see, the USA ...
• MRM, do you not know that Iraq Body Count only counts deaths reported in newspapers and on TV? It's simply not a credible organization. Johns Hopkins Schoo...
• My. My. The Tories must be a bit blue. The latest Canadian Press Harris/Decima survey shows mounting challenges for the Conservative Party. • Nationally, ...
• Against a man who precedes both the Dion and Martin eras. I don't think so. As parnel stated, not a single elected Liberal has been found guilty of any ill...
• I take offense to your name-calling. What do you mean by effete? Too much of his feminine side showing for you? Wimpy? Homosexual? Of course, maybe you ...
• On Friday, September 14, 2007, ORB (Opinion Research Business), an independent polling agency located in London, published estimates of the total war casualt...
• MRM, get real. The point is, every Iraqi and American death was unnecessary from the start. The war was and remains illegal, unjustified, horrible, etc. A...
• Well, the Clinton camp, for sure, but aided and abetted. What do you think about a Dem or Rep president? Does McCain have a chance? Will whomever make a d...
• Protectionist of what? Free trade? Sure, the Americans are going to shut down the gift of Canadian oil, extracted at huge cost. Not. Canada has lost more...
• I do not and would not speak to the Liberal position. I'm not one. Your beloved Tories want to treat the developed and developing world alike, as if we hav...
• Last I looked, our per capita income was about $38k, and the USA's was $46k. This compares to China ($5.3k) and India ($2.7k). My, they are "very wealthy" ...
• Sorry. The numbers I gave above are "purchasing power parity" per capita, an even better statistic on relative income. By the way, you harp on China and ...
• I am most offended by your slurs. Can't you respond without calling me loony or wildly whatever? It's funny how those who support the troops want them to s...
• MRM, you are a [DELETED BY MODERATOR], as predictable as Fox News. Your support for Harper's war and occupation of a far away land that never did us any har...
• MRM, where do you get this "500 million starving" Chinese from? And how many Chinese are dying from "treatable diseases" that the government chooses to igno...
• Nik, maybe I'm not right for this site. I accuse MRM of being a "trained poodle," a totally supportable statement (he even quotes straight from the Tory pla...
• No. If I or my ideas can be called loony, effete, wacky, wild and worse, why should I apologize for calling MRM a "trained poodle?" If you choose to take a...
• You are wrong again, MRM. China has "achieved" a 10+% growth rate, for the past 15 years. And your own stats show that those living in poverty has been red...
• k. What's your point? That China is evil, period? Is it due no credit for its gains over the past two decades? I'm no expert, but I think I'd rather be p...
• Whatever the $40 mililon. That was Chretien, n'est-ce pas? Since then, we've had two Liberal leaders. A slight disconnect, methnks. If you want to talk ab...
• My. My. I'm missing a debate here. I think I'll hang my hat with a squeaky-clean politician who wants to serve us. That would be Stephane Dion. Harper? ...
• k. You are calling parnel a liar and a fool. For the first time, I am going to report your comment as inappropriate. You need to be reigned in.
• It's Richard. And I liked what you had to say. My Mom keeps telling me to "Grow up," too!
• No. This is perhaps the battleground of the next century. It's you or me! I stand for caring and sharing. You? I stand for peace. You? I stand for my c...
• Ditto. I wonder if Nik has a "three strikes and you're out" rule. lol
• The greater our disconnect, the more pliable we are. But, to my knowledge, Mssrs. Dion, Ignatieff, Rae, Goodale, etc. are untarnished by long-ago events tha...
• So you accuse Mr. Dion on being "in on the take," without a shred of evidence. You equate the war in Afghanistan with "defending our country." You are fine...
• Vandaphil, I am struggling to understand your logic, or lack thereof. It is clear as day to most of us that we in North America are dominated by extreme rig...
• No. Progressive taxation means those who can afford to pay, pay more, pay more. The GST is inherently regressive. Everyone pays the same, rich or poor. N...
• Well, I most certainly would have cut income taxes for the poor before cutting the GST. What amazes me is the percentage of tax collections from individuals...
• In 1953, Canadian corporations and individuals payed almost exactly the same to federal coffers. By 1975, individuals we're paying more than twice as much a...
• MRM, please, think about what you write. The number of corporations in Canada has increased in tandem with the number of Canadians. We are in a race for th...
• Last I looked, the Tories have wasted $10-15 billion on offensive military equipment. etc., when we haven't been attacked since 1812. To support Bush's wars...
• I'm not so sure, hollinm. The Libs are on the right side of the Afghan war.... less attacking and killing and more aid and reconstruction. They're also the...
• Ottawa lost 1600 jobs today, due to the closing of a Dell and another company's call centre. Probably to India or Pakistan. The high Canadian dollar is the...
• MRM, there is nothing inconsistent in what I said. The Liberals would extricate us from the "killing scumbags" approach brought to us by Mssrs. Hillier and ...
• No need to get hostile. General Hillier pushed and pushed for this war and the Liberal government reluctantly agreed for a set period of time, on General Hi...
• I buy it, and I think I'm on Bernie's list. lol
• There is nothing in the UN mandate that authorizes the use of military force. Nothing. And the USA has its own armed forces in Afghanistan totally outside ...
• The Nuremberg Principles define war crimes as: a. Crimes against peace: i. Planning, preparation, initiation or waging of a war of aggression ...
• MRM, you haven't disproved anything. The UN Security Council did no such thing. Resolution 1368 spoke to bringing justice to the perpetrators within the pu...
• So is is the resolution you are hanging your hat on? The use of the word "combat" is conditional on it being in accordance with the UN Charter, i.e., in sel...
• MRM, let's agree we are of two opinions. Here's a third by Michael Mandel, professor of law at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto. He specializes in intern...
• As I have proven, the October 2001 American bombing and invasion of Afghanistan was NOT authorized the UN Secuirity Council, and therefore a violation of the...
• MRM and vandaphil, your repeated name-calling defines you.
• MRM, do you have to ridicule, name-call or otherwise insult me in every reply? Do you always have to have the last word? Are you not capable of admitting mis...
• MRM, the 6.5 year war in Afghanistan isn't even close to being won, and never will be, short of genocide of Iraq proportions. We're fighting way more than t...

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

• Geez, I have to say, give the guy a break. Sixteen years ago?? Now, a good number of Canadians harbour the belief that the Tories, should they ever win a m...
• I am so disappointed that the Liberals caved on Afghanistan. Sure they won a few conditions, but we should have been "outta there" by early 2009. This war ...
• I don't remember when I came to accept gays as equals. Heck, I used to hitchhike in my late teens in a baby blue and white sweater to get them to pick me up...
• k. This is too lively too resist. 1. The MSM in Canada is so RW it compares only to the the land of the free, the good old USA. 2. In Europe, there is r...
• Hmm. My presumed total domination of this site by three or four rabid Tories appears to be not quite true. There are others out here who think straight and...
• parnel, there are some pretty nasty things said about me that remain posted on this site. I'm not happy about it. But I accept my fate. Free speech is enti...
• I've read, "let the voters decide," and, given the 16-year space between action and exposure, I tend to agree.
• Hey Nik. You are getting challenged, these days. Wonder why? lol Keep up your good work!
• So, Nik. When is your next poll? Are you going to ask about leadership without qualifying the term? I'm especially interested in that. A good leader has ...
• You are predicting the Liberals will win fewer than four seats in the next election? No further comment.
• My. I sense that I am being boycotted. Or am I just a "conspiracy nut."
• Hollinm, you appear to be a BMOC around here, and I'm uncertain of why. You are great at accusations and insults, just sort of name-calling. But it's the s...
• Well, I've posted several "perfectly reasonable" opinions over the past few days, and not heard a twerp from the Big Three, MRM, westerner and hollinm. Thes...
• They are in hiding! They can't all be out with their partners. Should that be (stop).
• I invite any impartial reader to read my "rants" vs. yours. And then decide. I would hazard the guess that about 8 of 10 would select my arguments to yours...
• MRM, you and westerner, hollinm and a few others appear to own this site. This is to announce a hostile takeover. And money doesn't count. Only arguments. ...
• I have never rated myself or others. Never reported anybody for inappropriate comments. You guys operate and attack and whine in a pack. It's really quite ...
• Now, I think Parnel will agree, that's funny.
• I am no Liberal. But I believe in fair play. Dion is getting the "Joe Clark treatment" and it is cruel and undeserved. I am disgusted that the Libs cut ba...
• Tell me. Which Liberal Minister or MP has been found guilty of corruption of late. The Gomery enquiry was a farce. Ralph Goodale, so unfairly accused by t...
• Please name me a single Liberal MP who has publicly disavowed Mr. Dion over the past 1.5 years. Name one. Dion has healed the fractious Martin-Chretien yea...
• For you dismiss the Kelowna Accord and the childcare deal Martin cut with all ten provinces w/o a shred of supporting evidence is perhaps disingenuous. But ...
• Sometimes, the good gets lost in the bad. Well said, Istacey.
• Open revolt? I challenged you before to name a single Liberal MP who has publicly disavowed Mr. Dion. Name one! A couple of party hacks in Quebec among ...

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

• Quick. Who would you vote for, Harper or Dion, when it came to matters of war and peace? Standing up to the Smirking Chimp, next door? The environment? C...
• My, you are a [EDITED BY MODERATOR]. Is this your [EDITED BY MODERATOR]? I didn't compare Harper to Hitler. I was demonstrating that his supposed superi...
• Harper was elected PM with about 25% of the eligible vote, which is about what he has now. Your cadre of delusional correspondents need to give their heads ...
• Nope. Never voted Liberal in my life. k. Maybe for Trudeau. Dion's policies? Take the illegal, unjust, murderous, unwinnable and wasteful Afghanistan wa...
• On the ability to inspire? I think not. Harper's flogging a failed agenda. On the ability to coerce obedience? k. I'll give you that one. On knowledge...
• k. We better start numbering the issues. I like what you say. 1. Afghanistan What part of "illegal, unjust, murderous, unwinnable and wasteful" don't yo...
• Well no, actually. The party needs Ontario. And if you look at the numbers posted on this website from just one month ago, the Libs are ahead. Whenever a ...
• You westerners are such suckers. You believed Big Oil when it told you there was enough oil out there to last for generations and, then whoops, it's all gon...
• Again, a thoughful analysis. But wrong. I'll keep to my numbering system. 1. Afghanistan Illegal, unjust, murderous, unwinnable and wasteful. Invading ...
• Easily extractable oil, of course. Not the oil sands. Go ahead. Devastate your province. Waste all that natural gas and water. Pollute to your heart's c...
• I'll respond, MRM. On which important issue facing Canadians do you wish to debate? Let me give you a list. 1, War and Peace 2. The Economy 3. The En...
• We are talking non-renewable resources here. Meaning, if we use it up, it ain't there for our children and theirs. Get it? Our profligacy will go down in ...
• War. We haven't been invaded since 1812 and no country could afford to invade us now. Not China. Not Russia. Not even the good old US of A. Harper has t...
• Now. That's quite an observation. Let's look at the right wing media. The entire Sun chain. CanWest. The Mop and Pail. CTV. Golbal. Hmmm. What's l...
• Oh. And that's where Big Oil steps in to save us, right? Wrong. These demons will screw us until we're blue. They will fight environmental movements, m...
• Dear westerner. You are the most deluded correspondent I have ever bothered to answer. The terrorist threat against us is real, and our security agencies...
• Last I looked, the US outspent China on military stuff by about 20 to one. And that doesn't include "one-offs" like Iraq or Afghanistan. Or it's nuclear an...
• What's clear to me is that I have found a website where debating right and wrong went off the rails some time ago. You Tory freaks and whores need to revisi...
• Whore: a venal or unscrupulous person Freak: a person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed Neanderthal: a crude, boorish, or slow-witted person....
• Best wishes to you, too. But think a bit about this. Are you expressing free speech, because it's what matters to you and your family? Or not. You say t...
• I have never read so much saying so little. lol
• Dion made a serious mistake when he caved on Afghanistan. Yes, he's less war-like, but can Canadians discern the difference? Canadians also don't want an e...
• He won the leadership, fair and square. Marked by civility and open debate. He hung his hat on the environment, economic prosperity and and social justice...
• Now that I look at it, in this system, your [EDITED BY MODERATOR] response should not even make it to the leader board. Support your statements. Or don't s...
• Is that because of your entrepreneur talents? Or, like the Saudis, because you happen to have some stuff underground that others covet?
• MRM, I am sorry for stating that you had made a simpleton response. As I told Nik, my Mom would have washed my mouth out with soap.
• westerner, I am sorry our dialogue got to this point. As I told MRM and Nik, my mother would have washed my mouth out with soap. (Yep, I go back that far)....
• It is true that voting in the United States is like choosing Tweedle Dee or Tweedle Dum. There is no difference. Up here, there is. And we have the luxu...
• I remember living In Europe and being outraged by a feature story by Time Magazine (International) about free elections arriving in Spain. I was there and, ...
• westener, what claptrap! Money talks? End of story? No. Our mission is to help the disadvantaged. At every turn and twist. Always.