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Forum: Canadian Politics Topic: As if the Liberals havent done enough damage??!! |
| Winnipegger |
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Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 6:41 am
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| And the Charlottetown Accord. That one also recognized Quebec as a "distinct society". Voters rejected it in the referendum. Quebec is one province among 10, each province has it's own unique culture and character, the original constitution of 1867 gave provinces the authority and responsi... |
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Forum: Canadian Politics Topic: Tory bill aimed at cutting greenhouse gases in half by 2050 |
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Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 6:11 am
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| Your graph shows global temperatures have gone up with CO2. The chart shows mean temperature ahs increased by 0.5-0.6°C about 1930 to 2005. That's 75 years to heat something as large as our planet. The most dramatic increase has been from 1987. This coincides with CO2 increase, there is an effect. T... |
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Forum: Canadian Politics Topic: Women voters turning away from Tories |
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Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2006 8:00 am
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| This is so petty! I expected elected officials to behave as adults when in the House of Commons. Yelling over a minister while she's giving a speech is neither acceptable nor forgivable. We need some basic decorum in the chamber. The individuals yelling were of both the Liberal and Conservative part... |
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Forum: Canadian Politics Topic: Tory bill aimed at cutting greenhouse gases in half by 2050 |
| Winnipegger |
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Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 1:44 pm
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| This chart gives a strong corelation between CO2 and temperature, shown over the last 150,000+ years. Methane is also charted, and shows CO2 and methane moving together. http://pubs.acs.org/hotartcl/est/99/apr/0043-99scho1.ev.gif It comes from Learning From Polar Core Ice Researc... |
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Forum: Canadian Politics Topic: Tory bill aimed at cutting greenhouse gases in half by 2050 |
| Winnipegger |
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Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 10:24 am
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Replies: 42
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| Woo hoo! I science debate with references to real published papers! Don't you love being Canadian. I'll have to look this up and get back to you, I have to get back to work now, but grainfedprairieboy I am impressed. I'm known as a bit of a brain on one message board that has members from all over t... |
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Forum: Canadian Politics Topic: Tory bill aimed at cutting greenhouse gases in half by 2050 |
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Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 8:43 am
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Replies: 42
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| CO2 isn't the strongest greenhouse gas, it's just the one for which we have measured concentrations over multiple ice ages. Did you know that ice cores from the Greenland ice field show weather went from the temperature climate we have today to a full ice age in just 10 years? Many scientists though... |
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Forum: Canadian Politics Topic: Which tax would you eliminate? |
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Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 7:13 am
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| Oops. People stopped posting. Don't let me stop you, I really want to hear what you have to say. I feel the debt can be paid in a reasonable time, then we can completely eliminate one major tax; which tax is the question. But what do you think? As for only paying down to 25% of the current debt leve... |
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Forum: Canadian Politics Topic: Tory bill aimed at cutting greenhouse gases in half by 2050 |
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Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 5:10 pm
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| The Conservative plan deals entire with vehicles. They don't contribute the majority of pollution. What about all those coal burning power plants in Alberta? I worked for TransAlta from November 1995 through June 1996. They produced all the power for southern and central Alberta, including Calgary a... |
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Forum: Canadian Politics Topic: Which tax would you eliminate? |
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Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 4:29 pm
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| The GST is not even being used to pay down the debt solely. It has itself tied in other programmes. GST takes in about 28 billion dollars every year. So when we have this so called surplus which was this year what 13.2 billion going down towards our debt? Where is the other 15 billion going? If GST... |
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Forum: Canadian Politics Topic: Which tax would you eliminate? |
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Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 3:25 pm
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Replies: 89
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| You've forgotten the Capital Gains tax, good sir. :) Capital Gains tax is a line item on your Income tax. If you eliminate Income tax, you eliminate Capital Gains tax. From the Department of Finance website: capital gain An increase in the money value of a capital asset such as a share, bond, parce... |
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Forum: Canadian Politics Topic: Which tax would you eliminate? |
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Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 5:45 am
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| I set a limit of 30 days for this poll. Let's stay on target, the fourth option is to slowly pay down the debt while slowly reducing tax. This won't free much money because tax reductions mean there won't be much available to make payments to the debt, and slow debt reduction mean the interest won't... |
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Forum: Canadian Politics Topic: Which tax would you eliminate? |
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Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 9:42 pm
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| Assume for the moment that the government was able to completely pay off the debt. Which tax would you eliminate? There are 3 major federal taxes: Personal Income tax, Corporate Income tax, GST. Once the debt is gone you can get rid of one, but not two and certainly not all three. The government nee... |
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