canada politics

So... Apparently there's rumblings about 'uniting the left' in Canada, i.e. the dippers and the grits joining forces into one big leftish party. There are still pissed off old-timey PC conservatives in Central Canada that are now forced to vote for a social conservative party because of the...

I recently ran across the JREF forum and saw a "Non-USA politics" session and so I've decided to talk about an issue that is affecting me on a personal level. I live in the Montreal area and live with my parents. I'm currently having a hard time finding a job due to my lack of French and this...

What does JREF think? My guess is bribery or influence peddling of some sort, though fraud is also a possibility. Maybe it has something to do with her hubby love's penchant for sniffable delights? "I hate cocaine, but I love how it smells." - Jaffer, 2004 Anyways, will be interesting to...

Well like this should be a shock to anyone: Canada complicit in torture of innocent Afghans, diplomat says In a damning indictment of how Canada handled prisoners early in its southern Afghan mission, a government whistleblower says all captives that Canadian soldiers transferred to local...

:mad: My local MLA has said that the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is no longer needed. :mad: Thankfully it is just this one idiot who believes that the Charter should be scrapped. I mean it is not like the Charter really defines the type of country Canada really is or anything...

PRima facie, sounds good to me: http://www.ndp.ca/press/cullen-introduces-bill-to-improve-rcmp-oversight What does JREFF think?

The CHRC (Canadian Human Rights Commission) is back in the news. I have posted a few things in the past on what appeared to be a dangerous trend for the CHRC being used as a weapon to silence opinions. There were a number of controversial prosecutions for opinion pieces which raised a lot of...

I had a conversation recently about the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation with a person who holds conservative opinions. He was quite opposed to the idea of the CBC as a whole. Part of this was his belief that the CBC is liberal media; for sure it's not Fox, which probably causes anyone with...

An interesting post on Cato's site points to some interesting trends with America's Northern neighbor that look like something from Ronald Reagan's wet dream: Some contrast with the USA, even in Reagan's peak years. Not only that, Canada shames the US with it's liberal immigration and trade...

Canada has barred Goerge Galloway, the British Member of Parliament who called for the assassination of Prime Minister Tony Blair, from entering the country on national security grounds. Nice to see someone in Ottawa understands what "Stand on guard for thee" means.

Newsweek's Fareed Zakaria has an interesting opinion piece on Canada's position in the current economic crisis: For most of the last 12 years, Canada has had a liberal minded government that kept the banking regulations in place and ran up budget surpluses instead of deficits. Only recently...

In the ongoing thread about the Parliamentary shenanigans in the Canadian federal government, the issue of Quebec separation has come up once again. A frequent topic of political discourse in Canada, although it has been quiet as of late and may remain so after Charest got a majority government...

Ok... so we get the advantage of 36 day election campaigns, but sometimes we have em close together! The Conservatives may face the fall of their government after presenting a budget with none of stimulus demanded by the opposition - and with a poison pill to end the 1.95 per vote public...

Pretty bold move . . . http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601082&sid=aEE0fC5RZcOg&refer=canada

Okay, this is the first thread on the upcoming Canadian election. My evidence that Harper will drop the writ is abundant, but here's an article from today: Layton predicts election For our friends in the U.S. and around the rest of the world... Because the party leaders are already chosen...

Today Prime Minister Harper formally apologized for the treatment of aboriginal Canadians in Canada’s notorious Residential Schools. For over one hundred years the purpose of the schools was to suppress aboriginal culture and language and to instil Christianity in native children. They did this...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070502/wl_canada_afp/canadauspoliticsanimaloffbeat_070502173737 Hmm.

Well, for anyone who's interested in the Canadian election but doesn't have much information on it, I thought I'd review some of the more, well, interesting mess-ups: - The conservatives proposed a tax cut to families with young children to help with daycare. (This differs from the Liberal plan...

OTTAWA, Ontario (Reuters) -- Canada's Parliament was set Tuesday to approve legislation that will allow same-sex marriages across the country, despite fierce opposition from conservative legislators and religious groups. A majority of parliamentarians support the legislation, which would make...

... ummmmm, well the PM isn't going to talk human rights exactly. Actually, he's not going to talk about it at all. He'll let someone else do that. He's just going to make sure we're in line for some of those lucrative contracts.;) From the CBC

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6685653/ Does this not seem reasonable?

Unlike the US, 7 out of 13 Canadian jurasdictions now allow for same sex marraiges. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20041105.wsamesex1105/BNStory/National/ This is in addition to Sask becoming # 7. Alberta will fight this tooth and nail but I'd expect a court challenge...

Today is election day up here. So far, the atlantic provinces seem to be voting status quo....Liberals with 20 seats, Conservatives with 5 seats, NDP with 3 seats. (total seats in parlaiment are 308)

Cutbacks crippling Armed Forces, Martin told Globe and Mail Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2003

So Canada, apparently operating under some strange influence of rationality normally uncharacteristic of governments, is trying to change the laws to make possession of small amounts of marijuana a misdemeanor instead of a felony. They're not even legalizing it; they're making it punishable by...

For those who had followed the previous thread about Canada and its stance on the Iraq war, there are a few other things to note: A recent Ipsos-Reid poll showed that most people were against the war. However, the strongest opposition to the war came from Quebec (something like 80% opposed)...

Ok, I'm not sure how much coverage this got in the U.S., but yesterday our Liberal Prime Minister Jean Cretien officially stated that they would not support the U.S. in a war in Iraq that was not sanctioned by the U.N. Fair enough. I strongly disagree with the decsion, but I have to live with...