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There's also the fact that in Canada not giving away taxpayers money to someone is considered the same as muzzling them.

I can't count how many times, even in the news, that I heard people say it was "dictatorial" and that he was destroying those with opposing views.

Yes indeed, this is the legacy of decades of welfare statism in this country. I myself have been involved in arguments with leftists who screamed blue bloody murder that Harper was going to cut a small percentage of arts funding (the capitulating Harper reversed that decision, of course. Pragmatist idiocy.). The nihilist/Obamabot with whom I had this argument wheedled that "If the arts go, there goes OUR CULTURE!" To which I replied "Any country that is dependent upon taxpayer funding for artists has no culture and is a doomed country full of bad art at best, propaganda at worst. There should be absolutely no taxpayer funding of the arts."

The incoherent expletive-filled diatribe to which I was then subjected will not be repeated here. I turned and walked away while the leftist and his fellow drones sputtered and yammered in impotent rage.

I wonder how many of us realize that Canada's goose is cooked?

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I wonder how many of us realize that Canada's goose is cooked?

I wish, then perhaps we could carve off a little piece for all the rational people... Say one of the larger coastal Islands... The Queen Charlotte's should suffice. <_<:D

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I wish, then perhaps we could carve off a little piece for all the rational people... Say one of the larger coastal Islands... The Queen Charlotte's should suffice. :D :D

Good plan...know of any experienced soldiers who could train our military? :twisted:

A couple of Aegis cruisers and a squadron or ten of F-22s would be a good start to keeping Galt's Archipelago safe....

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This week the newly elected *minority Conservative government of Canada gave a fiscal update to parliament as part of it's speech from the throne. That update was surprisingly (and correctly) lacking in any multi-billion dollar bailout package for the auto or any other industry. Instead the Government of PM Harper proposed to cut government spending, review all government programs and (the shock and horror) actually cut some perks to politicians and Bureaucrats!

The biggest thing that the Harper Conservatives have promised to do is to scrap a perverse system of federal funding for political parties under which every party receives $1.70 for every vote cast for them. This move would save about $30 million every single year.

All of this has had me quietly and even not so quietly cheering on this new government.

But it was too good to be true.

Astounded and frightened that their gravy was going to be cut off the other 2 main parties in Canada have decided to try and form a coalition to bring down the minority Conservative Parliament. But since they don't have enough members of Parliament to beat the Conservatives on their own, they are actually going to rely on the Separatist Block Quebecois to achieve their coup d’etat.

This can be done with the approval of the **Governor General (Canada's unelected, government appointed, royally approved babysitter :P )

Before you ask, yes, the separatist party, who's only purpose is to try to destroy my country is also supported by my Taxes through the vote subsidy to political parties. :o

*A minority government is one that wins the plurality of votes in the election but that does not hold the majority of seats in the House of Commons. This means that on certain issues designated as "matters of confidence" that if all the other parties vote against the ruling party that party is said to have lost the confidence of the House and the government falls.

** Governor General is Canada's Head of State and the Queens representative in Canada. It is within her power in this case to dissolve parliament and either call for another election or ask the party that achieved the second highest number of seats in Parliament if they can form a coalition.

Although it has never been done in a situation like this the prevailing wisdom from constitutional experts is that since the government has so far not had the "confidence of parliament", it is being defeated on the speech from the throne (which is a confidence motion) and since the election was only 2 months ago that the Governor General could very well ask for this coalition of Liberals, Socialists and Separatists to form a government!

This has the possibility of ripping this country apart. In the last election in the western provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia the Liberal Party and Socialist NDP only won 21 riding's. The Conservatives won 71.

That landslide for the Conservatives was offset in Ontario and Quebec where the Liberals and Separatists and to a lesser extent the Socialists won more riding's in those more populated provinces.

I'm not a fan of the monarchy, I'm certainly not a fan of the appointed babysitter Governor General, and if this soup sandwich goes the way some people are thinking it will, no one will be able to call this country a democracy any more.

So to recap. The conservatives have taken a prudent wait and see approach to the global crisis, they have started to cut government spending and tightening the proverbial belt as it were (like individuals are told to do in times like these by governments, go figure!) and because of these cuts and the fucked up interventionist political idea that they are "not doing anything to fix the economy" the other parties are going to try to steal my right to vote to determine who is in charge!!!

I'm pissed.

Anyone need a middle aged soldier?

If you want to know more look at almost any political article here.

Alternative energy sources are, I think,

and there is that direction which will deduce the world from crisis.

The epoch of oil and gas monopolies will end.

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Alternative energy sources are, I think,

and there is that direction which will deduce the world from crisis.

The epoch of oil and gas monopolies will end.

What does that have to do with the post you quoted?

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