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Kirkhill,
I am always amazed at your political/biological analogies...
I am always amazed at your political/biological analogies...
George Wallace said:Weeeeee! Elizabeth May's turn (in reference to why people don't want to vote):
"It doesn't matter who I vote for, the Government always wins"..............Well D'uh!
Of course the Government wins. That is what we are electing members to Parliament for; to create a Government. :
uncle-midget-boyd said:...
Is there any such a thing as a 'cut off date' for a party to enter a candidate?
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E.R. Campbell said:Nominations close at 1700 Hrs on the 21st day before the election which means, I guess, if I am counting correctly, on 23 Sep 08.
Edit: removed an Elections Canada link (to the nomination form) that would not work.
Why not what you have, one of the greatest countries ever known to man, a proud, English-speaking country?Kirkhill said:And Canada will become a series of distinct "colonies" (in the microbial, Petrie dish type sense) isolated by their natural geography into distinct cultures......
Unlike Liberals (and strident Nationalists) I don't consider this to be a problem. I consider it a natural stage in the evolution of a population (mitosis - the spreading of the seeds of a stressed organism).
With the establishment of a variety of healthy and growing independent cultures we can then hope that our politicians will find new opportunities to bind us together on the basis of symbiosis (mutual advantage between discrete organisms) or even meiosis (sexual reproduction between two separate organisms resulting in a related but distinct new organism).
Mitosis
Symbiosis
Meiosis
We are truly Slime. ;D
JBG said:Why not what you have, one of the greatest countries ever known to man, a proud, English-speaking country?
The Canadian prisoner's dilemma
Why vote for any party? David Warren is mad as hell and doesn't want to have to take this any more:
We are all prisoners of the Canadian consensus
..all parties are committed to preserving Canada's dysfunctional socialist health care system. All are committed to the continued heavy regulation of private enterprise generally, and to choking small business in particular with red tape. All are committed to maintaining a crippling tax burden, and a tax collection system with arbitrary and unaccountable powers of search and seizure. Moreover, in the name of the "global warming" imposture, all are committed to significantly extending the leaden hand of government micro-mismanagement into every aspect of our daily lives that may touch even tangentially on "the environment."
And to take a subject of special interest to me, none is prepared to defend our country's common-law heritage, and due process in our courts (especially our family courts). None will vindicate the most elementary rights of free speech and free press. None will lift a finger when journalists and many others are hauled before "human rights" kangaroo courts, and put under star chamber inquisitions, as if Canada were exactly the sort of country our fathers fought in two World Wars.
The debates are seldom if ever about which direction we should be going, but rather, how far and how fast we should proceed along the pre-determined highway. This is the "Canadian consensus," shared by the various self-appointing and self-regulating elites in government, law, media, and academia...
Read the whole thing. Very much along my line of thinking - a society almost closed to real debate on far too many issues.
Mark C.
Old Sweat said:I just don't trust this poll of polls. The various companies ask different questions, may use different methodolgies and distribute their collected data differently. Did they include the two firms that accurately measure data in Quebec with a sample of about 1,000 compared to the national firms that have a sample in that province of about 250, with most on the Island of Montreal?
Apples plus oranges plus peaches plus pears equals fruit flies.
George Wallace said:But if we average them all, it still looks like they have about a 7% lead.
E.R. Campbell said:Yes, but see Old Sweat's comment: averaging them, which is, essentially, what the Good Grey Globe's Poll of Polls does, means you are averaging apples, oranges and pears - and you're not even gong to make good marmalade.
E.R. Campbell said:• Under-funded education (academic and applied (practical) – at the post secondary level, and