Maybe a moon..... a useless waste of space that appears on the horizon day in, day out. Regardless of the question put forward to him in the house regarding the Gomery inquiry, he replies with the same old sad line. You could set your watch by him.
Scott Bison was part of the old Conservative Party. Does anyone even know or remember how this new Conservative Party even came about? Peter Mckay promised that if the old Conservatives made him leader that he would NOT merge with the Canadian Alliance. That is the only reason why he got the votes to become leader. Unfortunately, once he gained leadership, he merged with the Canadian Alliance. Scott Bison left when this happened because he did not support this merger.
In regards to to who supports the Bloc: Not many, that is why we don't vote Liberal. The sponsorship scandal is fuelling the fire of Quebec separatism by a landslide compared to ANYTHING that has happened since the last Quebec referendum. Good politics by the Liberals.
Why do people keep forgetting that the sponshopship scandal started because the Liberal Party was attempting to put money into promoting FEDERALISM. as in UNITY, in Quebec. They had no intention of driving them away, quite the opposite in fact. Their huge mistake was that the spent the money irresponsibly and recklessly so that everyone lost track about where lots and lots of money went. And also, this happened more than 10 years ago, shortly after the last referendum, when Jean Chretien was PM . When Paul Martin (who did not even get along with Jean Chretien) came into power, he brought new people so why the current Liberal Party is taking all the heat is a little unusual to me but I guess we need to hold someone responsible, but are they the right people?
In regards to Joe Clark: Good. He is a failure, and a turncoat.
He retired after thinking that new leader Peter Mackay would hold to his promise of not merging with Canadian Alliance so to call him a turn coat is wrong. He never supported this new Conservative Party in the first place. If trusting your own political party is a failure, then those are your words, not mine. [/I]
Kilgour won in Edmonton by 132 votes (+0.33% vote share) over the Conservatives while McLellan won by 721 votes (+1.35% of vote share). BTW, she won in 1993 by a mere 12 votes. This is in contrast to the other Edmonton area districts that voted with AT LEAST +10% of vote share difference and as much as +35% difference. That is not a "hard time swallowing him".
I would have to disagree. You try running Liberal in Alberta and actually winning. Regardless of how many votes these MPs won by, the fact that they WON is a feat in itself.
I'm sick of hearing the words "corruption" "lying" "evil". Every party has made some terrible mistakes. But we are being hypocrites too. Ralph Klein crossed over from the Liberal to the Conservative party. Why isn't he branded a traitor? Why do we continue to generalize an ENTIRE province, let alone the most populated province (Ontario) as horrible, evil, and the enemy. It almost seems like some people don't even vote according to party policies but just to spite a WHOLE province of people who we assume are all the same. What about the MANY Ontarians that vote Conservative? Why do we got so angry about how Ontario only votes Liberal, Ontario only votes Liberal when it is clear that most Albertans only vote Conservative? If one political part can not be in power for so long, why do we not apply this to our provincial elections where the Conservatices have been running the province since I can remember? At least Ontario has elected a Conservative Premier, even an NDP. Yet, here in Alberta, provincially, federally, it is always the same, sometimes I wonder why I should bother voting.
Why do we continue to assume that Alberta is practically the only province that supports this country when clearly, we neglect one of our biggest contirbutors to the GDP, which is WHEAT, not oil, WHEAT, which comes mainly from Saskatchewan NOT Alberta. We complain that oil prices are so high even though we live in Alberta. Yet farmers in Saskatchewan are encouraged to have TWO JOBS because they are forced to sell their wheat at cheap prices (cheap food policy) so that Canadians can buy a loaf of bread at cheap prices. And now, we call a woman we don't even know, never even met, probably haven't even listened to, a power slut, a prostitute, a power bitch who sold her soul.
Please, as Canadians, let's try to be open minded.
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