Canadian Politics

PJ_Soul said:

I don't care what you have to say anymore because of the way you conduct yourself in this thread. Whether I are or disagree with you on any given point has become totally irrelevant to me.

Alrighty then
You have yourself a wonderful day, and the fact is you were never very relevant to anything going on anyway. Happy voting!

PJ_Soul said:

1ThoughtKnown said:

PJ_Soul said:

I don't care what you have to say anymore because of the way you conduct yourself in this thread. Whether I are or disagree with you on any given point has become totally irrelevant to me.

Alrighty then
You have yourself a wonderful day, and the fact is you were never very relevant to anything going on anyway. Happy voting!

Lucky for me, being very relevant to what is going on in this thread is not a goal of mine. I have no idea what your goal is... but i assume it's to irritate people.

I believe (actually I know) I have stated unequivocally that my goal was to bring objectivity to this thread. Outside of pjfanwillneverleave. No one was giving Harper an ounce of credit.
It was simple conservative bashing and I couldn't allow that to continue unabated.
You see, politicians at the federal level have to make some tough decisions, and they are not always good and never unanimously accepted by the electorate.
Harper has irritated me with some of his decision making, his reclusiveness (like Axl Rose is our PM sometimes) and Bill C-51.
But he has done some really good things. Forgiving Haiti's sovereign debt to Canada is 2010 was an amazing humanitarian accomplishment. We should all be proud as Canadians we have given that nation a chance to get back on its feet.

But no one here wants to admit his government has accomplished anything, because it does not align with their agenda, which is Anybody But Harper.

You have a right to feel the way you do, but I also have a right to state my opinion. The fact you are irritated is because you realize that mixed in with my antagonistic approach (did not come without provocation) there are some valid points.

Plus, it's ok to hate Harper but not Trudeau around here. I'm the voice of reason

With that day off......did that someone also put up some signs?

http://daveberta.ca/2015/10/paranoid-election-signs/

Paranoid election signs attack Liberals, NDP and Mainstream Media

^^^
Don't completely agree with the sign. Libs or NDP won't destroy Canada.
The mainstream media however, is a joke. Lead by the irresponsible journalism of the CBC

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Very astute opinions for sure

Hahaha.....you can't make this shit up.

The Tories deserve another mandate – Stephen Harper doesn’t

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/editorials/the-tories-deserve-another-mandate-stephen-harper-doesnt/article26842506/

Vote Libertarian!!

1ThoughtKnown said:

Vote Libertarian!!

That would be great if the Libertarian party gained some momentum in Canada. I'm all for anything that would split that right wing vote. We need a Wildrose party at the national level!

1ThoughtKnown said:

^^^^^^^


https://www.libertarian.ca/platform/

Seeds will grow just fine!

Out of interest I read through the platform. Some points I agree with, some I disagree with, and some I think are unrealistic to the point of naivete.

Agree with decriminalizing sex work, particularly for the sex workers but also the patrons, provided they don't engage in acts that are otherwise illegal. I'd still like to see a mechanism to charge pimps who are abusing or using undue pressure on sex workers (some of that may come under the mentioned human trafficking, but some won't)

Agree with decriminalizing illicit substances and putting more money into health care services, with a range of goals from abstinence through harm reduction.

Agree with repealing C-51

Agree with reducing barriers to immigration

I'm cautious about changes to health care provision, particularly allowing private health care. There is ample evidence that for-profit, private health care is more expensive and provides on average poorer care; there may well be pockets of excellent care but these are swamped by the ocean of poor to no care.

Don't agree with eliminating all foreign aid. Canadian foreign aid has provided major benefits to some countries. Sure, there are some corrupt governments but the way around that is not be not providing any aid. They haven't defined what they mean by "remittances"; I can't hear that without thinking of the term "remittance man", which essentially means paying that obnoxious relative to take his troublesome self over to the Colonies and stop being an embarrassment to you. How does this play out for foreign aid? And the "unilaterally ending all tariffs on foreign goods" falls under the category of hopelessly naive.

Don't know what they mean by "full property rights". I have my suspicions but would need to read more what they intend.

Disagree with the position on gun ownership/laws.

No-one can really argue with "Find and eliminate systemic discrimination against indigenous peoples". What is intended by "blanket guarantee of sovereignty for all indigenous peoples"? In BC, for instance, first nations groups have already laid claim to greater than 100% of the total land mass of the province, since the claims of different bands often overlap. How could these claims to sovereignty be recognized?

And finally, there are no free markets, nor any free market economies. I'm not sure if there ever were, but there certainly aren't any now. Goals around these come under the "naive" heading for me.