Federal Election Called for Oct 19, 2015

[Hemi-Cuda]

Originally Posted by Canuck-Hater

That's the problem the NDP have had this campaign, they spent too much time going after Trudeau when they should of been attacking Harper.

Their problem is Muclair. Layton was personable and charismatic, Muclair is devious and untrustworthy. The best thing he could do for his party is to step down after the election, lest he completely undoes all of the gains that Layton made. I wonder if his ego will allow that though

[Flames0910]

Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda

Their problem is Muclair. Layton was personable and charismatic, Muclair is devious and untrustworthy. The best thing he could do for his party is to step down after the election, lest he completely undoes all of the gains that Layton made. I wonder if his ego will allow that though

Mulcair was effective standing up to Harper in parliament, but they switched gears for the campaign. They should have played to his strengths instead of trying to stay above the fray and hold onto their early lead. They also seriously underestimated Trudeau.

[FlamesAddiction]

Originally Posted by Flames0910

Mulcair was effective standing up to Harper in parliament, but they switched gears for the campaign. They should have played to his strengths instead of trying to stay above the fray and hold onto their early lead. They also seriously underestimated Trudeau.

The Liberals have generally ran a more positive campaign which I think has worked in their favour. People are sick of doom and gloom.

[northcrunk]

Originally Posted by troutman

This Week: Our All-Party Election Science Panel

http://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/this-...anel-1.3260552

- Lynne Quarmby, Green Party candidate in Burnaby-North, and professor and Chair of the Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at Simon Fraser University
- Gary Goodyear, Conservative Party candidate in Cambridge, Ontario, and former Minister of State for Science and Technology
- Marc Garneau, Liberal Party candidate in NDG-Westmount, and a former Canadian astronaut
- Megan Leslie, NDP candidate in Halifax and her party's environment critic

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

It was laughable when he was appointed Science and Technology minister due to the fact he is a evangelical creationist and even funnier that the CPC thinks he is a good choice to put in this debate.

[dammage79]

Is this the truth? Harper appointed a creationist to minister of Science? And this person is running again? What the actual frack?

There's few groups of people I loathe more than creationists. They're the dumb people you could hit them in the face with a brick and say "this is a brick", and they'll argue with you until the end of days that it is not a brick. Ugh. If I were considering voting PC at all during this election, that would have immediately swung my vote elsewhere.

[rubecube]

Originally Posted by northcrunk

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

It was laughable when he was appointed Science and Technology minister due to the fact he is a evangelical creationist and even funnier that the CPC thinks he is a good choice to put in this debate.

It's pretty funny too when you think about it in comparison with the other participants.

"Tonight we will be having a debate on science and the environment. Let me welcome our guests, a molecular biologist and biochemist, an astronaut, an environmental lawyer, and....a chiropractor?"

[rubecube]

Does anyone know that backstory on this? Because at first glance, it looks shady as hell.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/harp...case-1.3257994

The Harper government forged a partnership with a major Canadian accounting association, formalizing it as an adviser to the Canada Revenue Agency, at the same time as the group was fighting the CRA in court to shield the files of multimillionaires who had stashed money offshore.

CPA Canada represents and lobbies on behalf of most accounting firms in Canada, including KPMG, which the government was pursuing in court at the time to obtain a list of wealthy clients enrolled in an offshore tax scheme in the Isle of Man.

Three months before the government announced the partnership, Prime Minister Stephen Harper himself met with CPA Canada and the heads of KPMG and other major accounting firms. The exceptional visit on Aug. 13, 2014, to the industry association's headquarters in Toronto was recorded in the federal lobbying registry.

In addition to CPA Canada's intervention in the KPMG case, the association has also been campaigning for limits on what accounting firms have to provide to tax authorities when clients are being audited and investigated. The campaign has included lobbying Ottawa bureaucrats, politicians and their staff on related topics for several years, a review of lobby registry records shows.

[Grimbl420]

Originally Posted by Blaster86

Lets all take a break from learning about CPC candidates saying stupid and bigoted things and turn our focus to CPC candidates doing illegal and illicit things!

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/10...n_8261194.html

Bonus: A Liberal MP is probably next for shady things involving the same people!

Same guy

A Liberal candidate is accusing a Conservative MP of lying about her views in a pamphlet in which he attacks a former political foe with the same first name.

Parm Gill, the Tory incumbent in the hotly contested Greater Toronto Area riding of Brampton North, sent a letter to constituents — at taxpayers’ expense — in July slamming his opponent “Ruby” for championing an expensive policy that neither the Liberal party nor the current Liberal challenger supports.

...

Gill is facing off against Liberal candidate Ruby Sahota. But the Ruby who championed that policy was the former Liberal MP, Ruby Dhalla. Dhalla introduced a bill, C-428, in 2009 that sought to reduce eligibility requirement for monthly Old Age Security pensions. The bill was not supported by the Liberals — their pension critic opposed it at the time — and it was never moved or studied.

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/08...n_8028556.html

[northcrunk]

Anyone else remember Davinder Shory?

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgar...fraud-1.947432

The Bank of Montreal is accusing Calgary Conservative MP Devinder Shory of having ties to what is believed to be Canada's largest mortgage fraud.

There has been so much material on these clowns I'm amazed they ever get elected.

[rubecube]

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

http://conservativepartycanada.ca/20...igenous-women/

Zimmer said a national inquiry was not necessary. Instead it is time for action:

“One of the major drivers of missing and murdered Aboriginal women is lack of economic activity or simply put lack of a job.

[MarchHare]

As he had previously done for past provincial elections, Nenshi sent the same set of questions (about Canadian cities in general and Calgary in specific) to each of the four federal parties and gave them two weeks to respond. Each party's unedited answers were posted to http://www.citiesmatter.ca/ today.

Here are the questions:

Question: What are your party’s plans to fund public transit in Canada and in Calgary?
Question: Should your party form government, will you honour the Federal Government’s commitment of July 24, 2015 to fund The City of Calgary’s Green Line LRT project?
Question: How does your party propose to fund the municipal infrastructure gap?
Question: What policy changes will your party implement to increase the supply of affordable housing for all Canadians?
Question: Does your party support providing increased and sustained federal investment to increase the supply of new affordable housing and replace aging social housing assets?
Question: Does your party support amending the Income Tax Act to eliminate the capital gains tax on donations of real property to registered public charities for the purpose of providing perpetually affordable housing?
Question: Will your party support the FCM’s call for innovative tax incentives like the Rental Housing Protection Tax Credit to preserve existing rental units and promote construction of new rental units?
Question: What is your party’s position on the ‘improved’ Urban Aboriginal Strategy adopted in April 2014?
Question: What policies will your party propose to support urban Aboriginals and help urban Aboriginals participate in the shared prosperity of our community?
Question: How will your party foster reconciliation and healing with our Aboriginal population and how will you foster greater understanding and cooperation between our Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal populations?
Question: Do you support an inquiry into missing and murdered Aboriginal women?
Question: What plans do you have to combat poverty in Canada?
Question: How would your party’s anti-poverty policies support The City of Calgary’s poverty reduction initiatives?
Question: How will your party support settlement services in Calgary?
Question: How will you make it easier for new Canadians to certify their academic and professional credentials and integrate quickly into our labour force and economy?
Question: What are your Party’s views on the Federal Government’s changes in 2014 and 2015 to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (“TFWP”)? Should the TFWP be revamped to provide a more effective way to permanent residency and citizenship?
Question: What should Canada’s response be to the Syrian refugee crisis?
Question: How will your party’s agenda support community policing and crime prevention in Calgary?
Question: What is your party’s position on medical marijuana? Should your party form government what direction will you give municipalities on the contentious issues of medical marijuana dispensaries?
Question: Working within the existing CPS Crime Prevention and Reduction Continuum and Canada’s National Counter-Terrorism Strategy, CPS has developed the ReDirect Strategy to prevent youth radicalization by engaging youth-at-risk in early intervention. What measures will your party take to prevent youth radicalization?
Question: Calgary has relied heavily on the Federal Disaster Assistance Initiative to repair and rebuild needed infrastructure after the flood; however, in February 2015, the Federal Government changed the funding formula. What is your position on the changes to the Disaster Assistance Initiative formula?
Question: Will your party help fund large and small flood mitigation projects in and around Calgary?
Question: How will your party improve rail safety in Canada?
Question: How will your party’s economic policies keep Calgarians working?
Question: What are your party’s policies regarding the energy sector? Do you support the construction of pipelines to connect Alberta’s oil and gas to markets in other parts of Canada and for export overseas?
Question: Does your party support the development and adoption of a National Transportation Strategy?
Question: How will you diversify Calgary and Alberta’s economy?
Question: Good decisions are based on good data. What is your party’s position on the long-form census?

You can read the responses at the above link.

Spoiler re: the answers from the Conservatives:

Spoiler!

The Conservative Party of Canada did not submit a response to our survey before the deadline or by the time we published the site. When we receive the Conservative Party of Canada’s response we will post it.

[Looch City]

Originally Posted by MarchHare

Question: Good decisions are based on good data. What is your party’s position on the long-form census?

That is the exact opposite of what CPC and Harper believe in (and do).

[rubecube]

Just saw on Facebook that +42k students have already voted in the first three days of advance polling. Hopefully the trend keeps up.

[Ironhorse]

Originally Posted by rubecube

Just saw on Facebook that +42k students have already voted in the first three days of advance polling. Hopefully the trend keeps up.

So the NDP and Libs should have an early lead?

[MarchHare]

Originally Posted by rubecube

Just saw on Facebook that +42k students have already voted in the first three days of advance polling. Hopefully the trend keeps up.

By +42k, do you mean 42,000 additional students have already voted compared to the number who voted in advanced polls during the last election? Did whoever posted that on Facebook link a source?

[sworkhard]

Originally Posted by MarchHare

By +42k, do you mean 42,000 additional students have already voted compared to the number who voted in advanced polls during the last election? Did whoever posted that on Facebook link a source?

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cana...ents-1.3263621

[MarchHare]

Originally Posted by sworkhard

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cana...ents-1.3263621

"We see more people voting by mail, more people voting from abroad, more people having a vote on campus," he told host Rosemary Barton. "This week in the first three days we had 42,000 students who voted," he said. "So all across we see Canadians quite engaged, and that's good as far as I'm concerned."

Answering my own question courtesy your link: a total of 42,000 students have voted so far.

[MarchHare]

Just saw this linked on Facebook. I voted for Kent twice previously in provincial elections; I'm thrilled to live in his riding so I now have the opportunity to vote for him a third time.

[AcGold]

This is such a weird election. Two leading candidates; one's an untested fresh face that really may do anything if elected with very little to go on in terms of concrete answers, the other is a lying conman that also has no concrete answers but has so little respect for people he can't even be bothered to fake charisma.

Vote for the known evil or the unknown... what a ridiculous election.

[Blaster86]

Originally Posted by AcGold

very little to go on in terms of concrete answers,.

He's backed up almost all his spending promises in the platform they released. He's the only one giving concrete answers (or atleast as close as you get in politics)