[Newsbot]

Title: McGuinty says Harper has agreed to give Ontario 21 more seats in Parliament
Category: Political
Posted By: bootlegga
Date: 2008-12-17 10:42:59
Canadian

[bootlegga]

More vote buying...

[mtbr]

bootlegga bootlegga:

More vote buying...

looks like he was buying votes in BC and Alberta(how can he do that) as well.

[uwish]

mtbr mtbr:

bootlegga bootlegga:

More vote buying...

looks like he was buying votes in BC and Alberta(how can he do that) as well.

[ridenrain]

pearls to swine.

[hurley_108]

Harper knows Quebec's just about a lost cause, and when you're working out of 75%, a majority is hard to make. With 21 more seats in Ontario, a proince in which he did win a majority of the seats last time, he's mattering his own chances of forming a majority government. It's not vote buying, it's stacking the deck.

[bootlegga]

hurley_108 hurley_108:

Harper knows Quebec's just about a lost cause, and when you're working out of 75%, a majority is hard to make. With 21 more seats in Ontario, a proince in which he did win a majority of the seats last time, he's mattering his own chances of forming a majority government. It's not vote buying, it's stacking the deck.

No, I'd say it's vote buying, because when the next election rolls around, I'm sure he'll be telling every Ontario resident who will listen about how they're getting more say in federal politics. It's nothing more than a bribe to get Ontarioans (?) to vote Conservative.

[ridenrain]

You can just bet that those new seats will be quite a ways away from Toronto too.

[mtbr]

and if he would have gave them less which was the original proposal what would the Liberals say?

[bootlegga]

Probably...

[uwish]

mtbr mtbr:

and if he would have gave them less which was the original proposal what would the Liberals say?

wait! stop right there! no need to bring reason into this!

[IcedCap]

with the Tories initial proposal the new seats would've gone Ontario 10, Alberta 5, BC 7, funny how now Quebec's all but lost and they're way up in the polls in Ontario we're suddenly getting 11 extra seats. Wonder how many of those 21 seats will go to urban ridings?

[PluggyRug]

IcedCap IcedCap:

with the Tories initial proposal the new seats would've gone Ontario 10, Alberta 5, BC 7, funny how now Quebec's all but lost and they're way up in the polls in Ontario we're suddenly getting 11 extra seats. Wonder how many of those 21 seats will go to urban ridings?

All of them I hope.

[Tricks]

Lets see electoral districts were changed in 97, again in 03, and now in 09. Pattern? Of course not.

Also, the three provinces are the most under-represented based on population. While Quebec is over represented.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_House_of_Commons

But why should that matter. Harper is clearly evil.

Seems some of you really need to get over your hatred of Harper and look a little more closely at what he is doing. He isn't perfect, but he isn't Satan either.

[PluggyRug]

Tricks Tricks:

Seems some of you really need to get over your hatred of Harper and look a little more closely at what he is doing. He isn't perfect, but he isn't Satan either.

Won't happen Tricks, the hatred of common sense eludes all that is left thinking.

Maybe a genetic inferiority.