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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: An open letter to my fellow Canadians concerning the parliam |
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Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 10:40 am
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| A thorough and thoughtful synopsis of the situation and one with which I largely agree with. Excepting for this:- If we are to automatically negate the possibility of the opposition of forming a coalition upon defeat of a government motion of confidence and thus immediately go to a general election ... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Capitalist Rant and Denial: The C.D. Howe Institute |
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Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2009 2:51 pm
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| run a business, while paying decent wages Isn't this an 'oxymoron' in the private enterprise biz, Ed? It depends upon your definition of decent wages! The unionized push for always getting MORE is not perhaps unreasonable compared against the obscene amounts taken by the "corporate bosses" but has n... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Harper Government at Right Angles to the rest of the World? |
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Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2009 9:07 am
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| Yep, lets bail out the U.S. based auto companies but ignore out own manufacturing sector when building ships, aircraft, nuclear plants, helicopters, rapid transit, wind turbines �. The list goes on. Trouble is as the piece says its not just Harper, this has been going on for a while so that by now e... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Climate Warming Consensus Exposed As Fraud |
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Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2009 12:33 pm
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Replies: 53
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| “Now I have to unplug a frozen drain pipe under our parking lot. What are the scientific opinions on how to do it ? Hook up a politician to one end and harness all the hot air? As for the rest of this discussion, we have had it before on these pages, IMHO it matters not whether global warming or cli... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Bush Aids Detroit (aka B.A.D.) |
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Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 7:13 am
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| And now it seems that the Canadian government has followed suit, the news and blogs are full of outrage at Harpers senatorial appointments but hardly a word about the $4B to the auto makers. There is some indication that there are "conditions" attached to the Canadian deal but it would seem that we ... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: 21 new MPs proposed for Ontario? |
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Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2008 2:58 pm
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Replies: 4
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| Apart from the timing of this which, coming from Harper at this time looks suspiciously like trying to appease Ontario voters and MPs prior to a possible confidence vote in January, I have very mixed feelings about it. As a rural resident I must recognize that the additional MPs will represent mostl... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Harper to stack Senate |
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Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2008 11:05 am
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| It is correct to say the PM has the right and perhaps the obligation to appoint senators it is also clear that he has said he will not, and in fact has expressed a desire to abolish that chamber. This from the PMO website dated 7 Sept 2006 "The Government is not looking for another report. We a... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Deal to Rescue U.S. Automakers Is Moving Ahead |
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Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 7:46 am
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| Great chart DR C, strikes me that the unions can either be part of the problem or part of the solution, given today�s news from the U.S. it seems they have chosen to be part of the problem by continuing to resist wage concessions. Given the substantial difference between auto workers compensation (w... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Budget surplus questioned. |
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Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 7:26 am
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| "due to the prorogation of Parliament, the December 2008 Reports of the Auditor General of Canada, Sheila Fraser, and of the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development, Scott Vaughan, will be tabled at a later date when the House of Commons is sitting. The media lock-up planned for ... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Governor General Michaelle Jean: An Unlimited Disaster |
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Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 2:59 pm
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Replies: 24
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| I do believe that she should have publicly spoke up regarding the unusual request by Harper and her reasons for allowing the prorogation even if she had little choice if following tradition / convention. She had an opportunity to speak to the dangers to our parliamentary democracy and did not use it... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Governor General Michaelle Jean: An Unlimited Disaster |
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Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 12:20 pm
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Parliamentary procedures, a proposal. |
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Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2008 11:05 am
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| Welcome back Marcarc, it has been a while! You said "As for 'what to do', the choice for us is slim". I agree entirely, which is why my post focused more upon possible future changes to minimise this sort of impass in the future. I was hoping to get a discussion going about how to protect and enhanc... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Prorogue Granted |
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Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 11:37 am
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| Pro-Rogue or Pro-Democracy, that was the question yesterday. Today we have our answer. When a Prime Minister can suspend parliament in order to avoid a particular vote by the elected member of parliament and does so just a few weeks into a parliamentary session, then we are on the verge of a dictato... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Harper�s resignation would defuse crisis |
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Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 7:43 am
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| Just found this from a New York Time piece, hardly a Canadian source but if true is even more scary given his threat to "use every legal means possible" to remain in power. ...there is wide speculation, which the prime minister has not denied, that he may try to prevent the vote by asking ... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Harper�s resignation would defuse crisis |
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Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 6:16 am
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| Harper (or more accurately The Harper Regime) cannot see the difference between Democracy and Dictatorship, or maybe he can and simply does not care. If he is allowed to suspend parliament for two months to (temporarily?) avoid a vote of non confidence the we will, for that period at least, be gover... |
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