[Scape]

Harper's aides have suggested the prime minister is likely to drop the election writ on Sept. 5 or 6, with Canadians going to the polls on Oct. 14.

[Arctic_Menace]

Why does it link to a Fallout site?

[LightStarr]

I'm not sure. The release date may be the 14th.

[Arctic_Menace]

In any case, election or not, it looks like I'll have to get my ass to an advanced polling station in Ottawa over the Thanksgiving weekend....damn living in North Bay for school...

[Scape]

Oh crap. Sorry guys

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/s ... TopStories

[ridenrain]

Muke Duffy interview, then Kory Teneycke, then Dion.

http://watch.ctv.ca/news/latest/to-the-polls/#clip87270

[Tricks]

Arctic_Menace Arctic_Menace:

In any case, election or not, it looks like I'll have to get my ass to an advanced polling station in Ottawa over the Thanksgiving weekend....damn living in North Bay for school...

Most colleges/universities are specially set up so that no matter where you are from you can vote there.

[Reverend Blair]

Harper is manipulating the election date for cheap, short term political gain. It's exactly the rationale he gave for setting fixed election dates, except back then he was whinging about Liberal election timing. He is breaking the spirit, if not the letter, of his own law. It's cynical to the point of absurdity and strongly hints that Harper is hiding something.

So that leaves a few questions.

1. How cynical are Conservatives?
2. Why do they feel they are above the law?
3. What's Harper hiding?

[saturn_656]

Fallout rocks my socks.

[bootlegga]

lily lily:

$1:

The prime minister's spokesperson, Kory Teneycke, said that Dion was asked if he would support the Conservative minority government until the fixed election date, but refused.

How can he make such a promise? How can Harper seriously ask him to?

Besides, I'm sure it was all just a misunderstanding. Harper probably meant for the election to be Oct 2008, but someone left off a small bit of the loop, making the 8 look like a 9.

So see? He hasn't broken a promise at all.

LMAO

[Scape]

Are there any undecideds at this point?

[DrCaleb]

Scape Scape:

Are there any undecideds at this point?

Nope. Harper started his tenure of anti-croneyism by appointing a key election aid to the Senate and giving him Ministerial control of the biggest pork barrel of them all, HRDC.

He's ending it by breaking his promise of fixed elections, by forcing an election a year early. And I though he was doing a reasonable decent job of actually getting things done despite having a minority government.

My mind has pretty much been made up since day 1, about who I would not be voting for. He had a chance at my vote, and promptly lost it, and nearly won it back. Too bad, because I can't see any party worth my vote right now. All are corrupt and none of them represent my values.

[Scape]

I'm pretty much of the same mind on that as well. I think this is a ploy to try to use the green shift against Dion. They have to strike now and make it quick thus the 1 month only window for the election campaign. Harper can keep his crew on message for a month without too many gaffs.

[Robair]

Scape Scape:

Are there any undecideds at this point?

I know I'm not voting for Harper. But other than that I'm undecided.

His latest trick against the CWB has been to remove the spending cap for the board's elections. So now we'll have pro open market members with bottomless pockets courtesy the big ag companies. That's just his latest trick. There's a pretty long list.

He seems way more interested in ruling according to his ideals in this matter than he is in actual democracy. I'd like to kick him in the junk.

[saturn_656]

I'm voting for the Conservatives.

1) I oppose a Carbon Tax.

2) Dion is not PM material.

3) I will not even consider voting Liberal until they ditch all of Chretien's old boys.

The NDP are straight up wing nuts. They are not an option for me.

In my mind I never really had much of a choice. It was the CPC or abstain.