I'm sure that people in the east thought the Reform party was bad for Canada when it first arrived on the scene, but the Reform party never wanted Alberta to separate. Not like the Bloc, who actively campaign for Quebec to leave Canada.
I like Quebec in Canada. The province is unique and adds a special flavour that makes Canada more interesting, but so does PEI. Funny how you never see PEI crying for more money from the rest of Canada even though they have very little industry or job opportunities. (Thanks PEI for sending my husband to Alberta!)
So, why does Quebec think that they are MORE special than any other Canadian province? Why do they continue to vote for a party that wants to separate from Canada, then whine when they don't get that hockey arena paid for by the rest of Canada. They are pro's at using threats to keep Canada "unified".
Quebec politicians often seek de facto bribes from Ottawa — whether in the form of cold cash or more symbolic gestures. And usually, Ottawa gives in. This explains why our equalization system is skewed so as to deliver a multi-billion-dollar jackpot to Quebec every year; not to mention Paul Martin’s “asymmetric federalism,” and Stephen Harper’s declaration that Quebec constitutes a “nation.” These shakedowns have come to define the Canadian political condition. On Wednesday, Mr. Duceppe took things to a crassly chutzpadik new level, demanding that Quebec receive a cool $5-billion from Ottawa as his price for supporting the upcoming budget. How did he arrive at this figure? By adding together a bunch of stale demands from yesteryear — including $421-million for dealing with the great ice storm of 1998.
Are you kidding me? Is this what Quebec really wants? Do they have no shame? Quebec has gone from the victim to the predator, but we already knew that didn't we? I keep thinking how the western provinces have so much in common with Quebec. We all want more control over provincial jurisdictions. We want the federal government to stay out of our way, and give us room to grow. Where the western provinces differ from Quebec is that we want to do it without welfare from all other provinces. Quebec has no excuse for taking transfer payments from other provinces. The transfer payments are like bedbugs, once you have them, they are very hard to get rid of.
If Quebec keeps voting for the Bloc, they will continue to isolate themselves from Canada, and I hope that isn't really what they want.
My message to PM Harper is very serious, it could mean the difference between a united Canada or a nation in pieces (Hint: It's not Quebec that will separate).
Do not give in to Duceppe's demands, it is blackmail, plain and simple. The Bloc MP's refuse to sing "Oh Canada" in our Parliament, a blatant snub to ALL Canadians. Do not give any money to an arena in Quebec. If this means you will not get a majority next election, so be it. You need to show Quebec that they can not blackmail us anymore. They might even surprise you and vote for you because you stood tall on issues that concern ALL Canadians, not just Quebec.
To the people of Quebec, think very hard about what you do to Canada when you vote for a party that wants you to stop being Canadians. Stop being so selfish. It's easy to vote for the Bloc as a protest (or that's how you justify voting for a party that wants to destroy the Canada we know), but understand that it makes other Canadians angry. Angry because you do not love our Canada as much as we do, if you did you could never vote for a separatist party. NEVER.
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Funny, though, that every time Quebec goes to Ottawa cap-in-hand they prove that they would be an unviable independent country. All of the free money they get from the rest of Canada would have to be borrowed. Add to that their already huge debt and you would have a country in worse shape than Greece.
Duceppe and the Bloc are charlatans and have basically used and manipulated Quebecers for their own self-interest. Can't really think of anyone, not even Liberals, who have been so underhanded and duplicitous.
I think this time the bloc has gone a bridge too far. No corporate tax cuts so they can have an arena.
Call their bluff. We now know what price they demanded for their support of the coalition. What else is in their minds.
Give in to Quebec and lose the west, simple. Give in to Quebec and lose Alberta. We will soon have a strong leader not a patsy.
Rather than an arena in Quebec, I would support financing a referendum for them, that all Canadians could vote on, stay or get out. They might get a huge surprise at the result.
It is obvious they can't support themselves or they would not keep coming to us with hat in hand. Those aerospace jobs would be appreciated in Manitoba, to make up for the ones that were stolen from them, again to satisfy the blackmailers.
I would love to see Bill 101 across Canada, only substitute the word english for french.
"We will soon have a strong leader not a patsy."
Oh...is Harper going somewhere?
Second shoe drops, Ted Morton resigns as finance minister.
And now let's play compare and contrast!
To the people of Quebec, think very hard about what you do to Canada when you vote for a party that wants you to stop being Canadians. Stop being so selfish. It's easy to vote for the Bloc as a protest (or that's how you justify voting for a party that wants to destroy the Canada we know), but understand that it makes other Canadians angry. Angry because you do not love our Canada as much as we do, if you did you could never vote for a separatist party. NEVER.
But then after that impassioned flag waving, we see this:
(Hint: It's not Quebec that will separate).
Can you explain "Alberta Separatism good, Quebec Separatism bad"?
Obviously you do not love Canada as much as we do here in Ontario (hint, we were called Upper Canada before we gave the name to the entire country).
Obviously, it is the leader who was born in Ontario, who understands the rest of the world because he has actually lived in two other counties, who will be able to bridge Quebec and Alberta, the two enfants terribles of Confederation.
Or we could go with Steve, who thinks we must have our corporate taxes lower than Ireland's (see how well that's worked out), and doesn't think having corporate tax rates already HALF those in the US is good enough. He wants to make sure all the profits from outsourcing our industry stay with the outsourcers. I'm sure in an earlier time, he'd be against confiscating the spoils of piracy as well.
johndoe124 and MaryT, agree totally with your assessment.
SQ thinks Harper is a strong leader! SQ, you are slowly climbing out of the dark keep going, you can see the light, go towards it! The anger will leave you and you will feel a new purpose in your life!
Hey LS, guess where our current and future PM was born? It starts with O and ends with o. Thanks for playing.
Iggy might understand France, he does holiday there often enough, wasn't he just there over Christmas? Iggy will NEVER understand Alberta, ever. How much time has he spent in Alberta? 10 hours max? He has a habit like Chretien of flying over Alberta to get to BC. He can't bridge anything, he only has support in Montreal and Toronto. The vote against abolishing the long gun further isolated rural voters from urban, that's Iggy, the great splitter of Canada, into urban and rural, east versus west.
Hey LS, guess where our current and future PM was born? It starts with O and ends with o. Thanks for playing.
Our soon to be former PM was even born in the same city as Iggy!
You're welcome. I enjoy playing. Based on what you ignored, thank you for agreeing that Alberta separatism and Quebec separatism are equally repugnant.
Considering Iggy would make failure to register firearms more of a traffic ticket offense rather than a criminal one, it would seem he is bridging the rural urban divide. What was the reason the long gun registry is so bad, but the short one is not? I keep forgetting your talking point. Was it the old NRA canard about protecting us from a tyrannical government? Please say it is, so I can laugh at your shrill (am I allowed to say that word?) support for buying 65 stealth fighters, any one of which would overpower your shotgun in short order.
Hand guns have been (or should be) registered in Canada for many years, long before iggy took his absence from our country.
So why does iggy think hand guns should not be registered, and just the same as a traffic ticket. That will never bridge the gap between rural and urban.
The difference between AB leaving and Que is we would do it without years of blackmailing cdns to stay.
If the separtists were serious, they would demand their mps refuse any assistance from the govt via equalization, special language rights, and show their people they could make it on their own. Failure to do that puts all bloc voters in the greedy, gimme class.
Hand guns have been (or should be) registered in Canada for many years, long before iggy took his absence from our country.
Why should they be registered, when you don't think long guns should be? Do long gun bullets somehow not kill people?
So why does iggy think hand guns should not be registered, and just the same as a traffic ticket.
He doesn't think they should not be registered. But thanks for slavishly following the CPC spin machine's lead. Today's ads, with clips taken out of context to put words in Iggy's mouth, trying to imply things he never said, are right in line with what you are doing here. I guess desperate times and all that, no?
However, given the large level of non compliance, he wants to get all guns registered, you know, like the cars. No need to jail people because they have grandpa's old forgotten shotgun. We have the "voluntary disclosure" programme for people with tax problems, it would be the same for this. There's encouraging compliance, and then there's vindictiveness. The petty vindictiveness of the CPC, evidenced by all its supporters here, is probably the biggest difference between them and everyone else.
The difference between AB leaving and Que is we would do it without years of blackmailing cdns to stay.
Boo hoo hoo. They are still separatist scum and they are traitors. Why do you support traitors? Why do you hate Canada?
Harper hates Canada, he says you won't recognize Canada after he's done with it. Do you remember Obama's "gaffe" about 57 states. That was no gaffe. He'd just come out of a meeting with Harper's representatives planning the anschluss. Sorry, they only want 7 provinces. Some will have to be combined, because they want all the land the provinces and territories stand on and the resources under them. They're going to spin it as we are lucky we get statehood, and not territorial status like Guam. But only 14 elected Senators. They'll combine Ontario and Quebec, while there will be a North Alberta and South Alberta, so that the Tea Party will agree to the new states and more far right senators.
Considering Iggy would make failure to register firearms more of a traffic ticket offense -that is what you said, and hand guns are firearms so he is against registering them just give out a ticket.
And why not read the entire statement the PM made re not recognizing Canada. YOu might get educated.
Considering Iggy would make failure to register firearms more of a traffic ticket offense -that is what you said, and hand guns are firearms so he is against registering them just give out a ticket.
And that little bit of "logic", ladies and gentlemen, is a prime example why majority Harper would be so dangerous. Not only do they condone torture of people, they also torture language so it always supports their extreme views.
I didn't know there was a problem with otherwise legal handgun owners failing to register them. Is there? If not, then making it a ticket offense is a reasonable way to bring these gun owners in from the cold so to speak.
he is against registering them just give out a ticket.
Ok, so the government is actually against registering cars, since you only get a ticket if you fail to register? Okey dokey. And you expect us to vote for your leader with that kind of baloney? I hope I'm still allowed to say ha ha ha here, we have to politically correct in hunterland you know.
And why not read the entire statement the PM made re not recognizing Canada. YOu might get educated.
It certainly was an eye opener. Of course Lenin talked a good game too, until he got his majority. You do know the Russian word for "those of the majority", don't you?
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