Yup this ones brutal and wish they would hold to their guns a little bit. Or better yet claw back equalization tenfold.
Again, this represents only a fraction of what the coalition will spend if they form government with the bloc holding ransom over every decision.
Yes, a coalition would be a disaster....I guess we just need to elect a Liberal majority to avoid that. They appear to be the only ones who are going to be prudent with the money!
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PS: Surely you must be joking. You aren't still talking about a coalition that doesn't exist? I saw Harper make the comment again yesterday and I'm not even sure that he believes it anymore....its just lame.
If we had the Liberals and NDP in charge during this recession, the deficit would have been a lot larger IMO.
Hypothesis contrary to fact!
But I'll play along... if we, however, had the Liberals in charge for the recession and the threee years prior, the deficit would be smaller.
During the recession, a Lib-NDP government wouldn't have been much different from the Cons, because the Cons had to doa lot of what the Libs/NDP wanted them to do anyways to avoid losing confidence. Sure, that makes them partly responsible for the stimulus portion of the deficit, but then they also deserve credit for its effects.
Ideally for Canadian citizens post-secondary education would all be free....
Disagree... students get benefit out of education, so they should be paying for the benefit. I do think education should be available to all (edit: who meet academic requirements), but that can be accomplished through loans.
Disagree... students get benefit out of education, so they should be paying for the benefit. I do think education should be available to all, but that can be accomplished through loans.
Well you still have to make the academic requirements....so its not just open the floodgates. Its simply removing the monetary issues for students...anyway, way off topic really.
Disagree... students get benefit out of education, so they should be paying for the benefit. I do think education should be available to all, but that can be accomplished through loans.
I sort of agree, except that you can work that standard backwards and apply it to K-12... which I do think should be a public service. I just draw the line at post-secondary... if you want that you have to find funding for it yourself.
Just in general... I do think there should be Government Post-secondary Grants available for some. There were rumblings a few days back that the Grit platform will include a Canadian version of the GI Bill... hope that's true.
I sort of agree, except that you can work that standard backwards and apply it to K-12... which I do think should be a public service. I just draw the line at post-secondary... if you want that you have to find funding for it yourself.
The difference is that K-12 is minors, whereas post-secondary is adults (roughly). Obviously the government benefits from an educated populace, so a subsidy is appropriate. I just don't think it should be a 100% subsidy.
Well, you have to figure that the liberals and NDP are both left wing options, so having them work together isn't as unpalatable as having the side of politics that you do not subscribe to in full charge.
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Isn't that actually a point in favour of the Conservatives, though?
Right now, the Conservatives are polling at roughly 38% nationally against all the other parties.
Presumably, all of those 38% would prefer a Conservative majority. So, this poll would seem to indicate that there's 12% of the population who does not support the Conservatives but would prefer a Conservative majority to a Lib-NDP-Bloc coalition.
Presumably, most Bloc and NDP supporters would favour a coalition because it would finally be a chance for their party to have some level of control in government rather than always being in opposition, so I'd assume most of that 12% is from Liberal supporters who would prefer a Conservative majority to a Lib-NDP-Bloc coalition. 12% of the total is about half the Liberals' support. If enough of them hold their noses and vote Conservative to prevent a coalition, it could be enough for that majority.
Ontario and Quebec are the only 2 provinces that would prefer a coalition to a Conservative majority. Quebec isn't surprising because the Bloc would hold the balance of power whether it was an official member of the coalition or not.
44% of Ontarians would prefer a Conservative majority to a Lib-NDP coalition. If they were able to convert that into receiving 44% of the vote in Ontario, it would be a landslide.
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Right now, the Conservatives are polling at roughly 38% nationally against all the other parties.
Presumably, all of those 38% would prefer a Conservative majority. So, this poll would seem to indicate that there's 12% of the population who does not support the Conservatives but would prefer a Conservative majority to a Lib-NDP-Bloc coalition.
Presumably, most Bloc and NDP supporters would favour a coalition because it would finally be a chance for their party to have some level of control in government rather than always being in opposition, so I'd assume most of that 12% is from Liberal supporters who would prefer a Conservative majority to a Lib-NDP-Bloc coalition. 12% of the total is about half the Liberals' support. If enough of them hold their noses and vote Conservative to prevent a coalition, it could be enough for that majority.
This all assumes that a Lib-NDP-Bloc coalition is the only alternative to a Conservative majority, and it isn't. And if Bloc and NDP supporters would really prefer to be in government than opposition, they wouldn't be Bloc or NDP supporters.
This all assumes that a Lib-NDP-Bloc coalition is the only alternative to a Conservative majority, and it isn't. And if Bloc and NDP supporters would really prefer to be in government than opposition, they wouldn't be Bloc or NDP supporters.
If the Conservatives keep hammering the Liberals about a coalition though, that's what they hope to have happen.
It would be good to know where the people's original support lies. I find it hard to believe that it's a bunch of people who say, "I support the NDP, but I'd rather the Conservatives form a majority than have my party be part of a coalition government", but you never know.
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"It's a polarizing issue, but in a way, that can work in favour of the Conservatives," said Darrell Bricker, CEO of Ipsos Reid, which conducted the poll. "This is an argument that divides the population in a way the Conservatives need to have it divided."
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This video from the last campaign might explain why Harper keeps the media behind the fence and limits the amount of and type of questions they can ask while he is on the campaign trail:
I'm not surprised. Ignatieff has absolutely no hope of running this country properly, he is so out to lunch it scares me to think of what he'd do as PM. But that doesn't stop people from voting for him. There are a lot of people that have an unreasonable hate towards Harper, and will vote for anyone but him.
