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Originally posted by duncan+May 1 2005, 11:44 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (duncan @ May 1 2005, 11:44 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-CaptainCrunch@May 1 2005, 05:05 PM
And while elections may be based stupididly on rep by pop, you can't base running the country on that.
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1 person- 1 vote.
yeah, that is a stupid idea. Damn democracy.
the most amazing thing of this argument is that everyone keeps commenting on evil Ontario being the reason the Liberals are still in power.
-the conservatives lost 5 previously Tory seats in BC, as well as two new seats.
-Ontario elected 22 new Conservative MPs in 2004, the biggest increase in any province.
--PEI was 100% Liberal
-the Liberals swept the North again
-the conservatives lost their only seat in Quebec
The conservatives gained more ground in Ontario, than Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba combined, even after a brutal Provincial Tory government. If you want to see where the Conservatives failed go further East, where they failed to gain a single seat in Quebec, or improve at all in NFLD, they actually lost ground in NB and NS, while PEI was 100% Liberal. [/b][/quote]
I think no one can argue that there definitely are some Tories in Ontario... problem is they are not the majority. They are also the big swing in the elections.
And I agree, Eastern Canada is a big problem for the Tories. They need to get in there... problem is many Easterners love the big-ticket welfare systems that the Feds operate there. Would you want to stop the gravy train? Many in Eastern Canada do, but not nearly enough.