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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Harper's destructive collection |
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Posted: Fri May 20, 2011 8:14 pm
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| There are experts: those are (ostensibly) the Deputy Ministers of the public service. Depending on the capablities of the Cabinet Minister, they can take some or most of the responsiblity for the department. |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Harper's destructive collection |
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Posted: Thu May 19, 2011 10:38 pm
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Thanks for the memories |
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Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 6:53 pm
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| Filibuster Cartoons Title: Thanks for the memories (click to view) Date: April 17, 2009 Well that's the end for a while. Check out the blog post below for the full explanation. In the meantime, be sure to check out my archives. I've got nearly eight years' worth of material covering most of the rel... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Canadian Counterfactual |
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Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2008 9:30 am
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| OK, since its a really boring election, my mind has wandered a bit, and one of JJ's earlier comments put a thought in my head. Go back to 2003. Paul Martin is basically on top of Canada's political world, the Alliance has just gotten back on its feet (if not its earlier position), and Peter MacKay h... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Dis-May'd |
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Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 8:48 pm
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| Comaprisons with the Block are unfair because the block should never have been allowed to run as a federal party in the first place. Why not? Canada is a democracy, whoever the people vote for should be represented. If we start to deny people representation based on their views, there is no use for... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Dis-May'd |
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Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 2:16 pm
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| I'd say the best idea would be to do it like they do in Germany: Have one round with every party leader (Above, say, 2% or so) on domestic issues, then knock it down to the top 2 for foreign policy and other matters usually for the executive. |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Sens Cartoon |
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Posted: Sat May 26, 2007 7:52 pm
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| Thanks for the response, J.J. You really are a class act. For your anti-nationalism thing, I actually agree with you on most of the points, though I still can't really see it in the cup finals analogy...really, sports is all about oppositionism. It would be an interesting counter-factual if the trop... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Sens Cartoon |
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Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 7:26 pm
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| Yeah, I'm torn on this Cup. On one hand I want Ottawa to bring the Cup back to Canada. A nice byproduct is that Pronger wouldn't get one either... On the other, I've been a fan of Selanne since BEFORE he came to the NHL (and even more as a Jet) and I'd like to see him get a ring. It's a toss up, bu... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Sens Cartoon |
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Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 2:57 pm
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| Hey, J.J., neat cartoon, but the opinion section... I've noticed in your guides, in just about everything else you talk about, you ascribe any motivation of pan-Canadian feeling to anti-Americanism. I guess if you convolute everything to fit that thesis, it could somewhat work, even if it is for tri... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Our Crops to Water |
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Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 10:22 pm
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| Well, of course the government of British Columbia's main expense would be health care...that's most of the provinces' main expense anyway. In the Atlantic provinces, sales taxes were first introduced specifically as "health care" taxes. Well, if the Conservatives are interested in two tie... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Our Crops to Water |
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Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 1:45 pm
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| Well, J.J., we reached that point 12 years ago with the debt crisis...and it was solved. Why? Because the party in power's opposition was blown to pieces, and (I know you'll disagree with me here) didn't have to herd cats like a USA party does to pass legislation. Party discipline has its problems, ... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Dion the new Day? |
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Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 5:22 pm
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| Hey J.J., great work as usual, but a minor noticing: You seem to be suffering from a "label creep." I also noticed it in your Obama/Clinton cartoon: Not every politician needs to have some sort of label on them. Unless Harper messes up badly, Dion's screwed. These out of election polls are... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Dion-mania! |
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Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 7:25 am
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| It's amazing how much shallow, inaccurate analysis of Ronald Reagan there is in this thread. Have you even read a of the man? He wasn't an idiot, he wasn't a tool being manipulated. He was an intelligent, ideological, forceful man who knew how to leave expertise up to the experts. If you disagree w... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Dion-mania! |
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Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 1:15 pm
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| This was a play-it-safe pick, in my mind...if the party wanted to risk reaching out to the west, Kennedy would make the best choice. Ignatieff probably would have been a disaster, since everything they pick on Steve for he supports, and Rae was just too much of a gamble, with his record. Dion will,... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Dion-mania! |
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Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 9:34 am
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| Still quite accurate. Well, not really...since, of course, French-speaking Quebecois have been pretty much in control of their destiny since the Quiet Revolution in the 1960s, and even before then it was just lack of French Quebecois participation in economic matters. Englishmen weren't the only pe... |
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