Canadas next election

Harper and Co have demonstrated they really aren't cut out for it. They are mediocraty through and through. They haven't performed terribly but they really haven't exceled at all in any department. 

This is definitely the time for us to shake things up politically to help us out economically. Best alternative is Ignatieff and the Libs. They've got experience. Not a lot else to be honest. But it's more than the cons have right now .  What we really need is vision. A strong position that is clearly defined. All parties right now are pretty bland on that front and are clearly pandering to whoever they can for a vote. It's quite disheartening.

The only way I'd not want to see an election is if Harper and Co started negotiating and actually working towards something worthwhile, rather than bullying and being inert.

We want our leaders to bicker and fight.  If they are bickering and fighting amongst themnselves than they aren't passing more oppressive laws.  Indeed, the founding fathers of the USA intended on lots and lots of fighting amongst the 3 government branches.

Yeah, but does it have to cost us 300 million dollars an election.

It's not that we need another election, it's that NOTHING stopped the Conservatives from escaping opposition parties last fall by emptying the House of Commons. Like cowards, they knew very well a minority couldn't manage to run a country through recession and other much more important issues... and choose to mock out the democratic process and shut down politics altogether by silencing the Liberals, the Bloc, the NDP and THE population rights to have them all (public employees, btw) working at solutions when & then.

Divide & Conquer. No wonder Québec wants out by declaring unilateral Independance after yet again another referendum on Sovereignty... that confederation is a mess of regional interests, centralized abuses, packaged deals with the wealthiest provinces (as of now, Alberta Oil and Newfoundland off-shore stuff), coordinated plans to favor banking & financial systems.

What did you expect, an ex-reform party fused with right wing extremists willing to promote country wide projects & perspective & innovation & honesty?

Or a corporate machine buying billions worth of military equipment (4 obsolete British submarines or helicopters or transport planes or tanks or...!), plunging their dirty hands in the UIC funds, still declaring deficits of operation, lowering the GST at 5% (oh, really... whatta gift -- anyone checked the **untaxed** prices lately?), photo-opping themselves in Nunavut claiming territorial powers (gee, welcome to the Northern frost, some polar bears will soon have to swim around trying to figure out how the Kyoto accord should help them hump aboard cargo tankers in open sea corridors), watching lumber industries collapse, showing up at G8 summits with a big capitalist smile, spending money on THEIR bureaucratic retirements... should i continue?

You bet we need an election, and the only way to resolve the whole double-tear decisional Canadian problem is to pack a deck of 75 Blocists in Ottawa and yell soooo long to this stupid mess while stating clearly; we have better things to do with our lives than keep sustaining a corrupted mecanism that bought a Referendum result on October 30th 95.

But (lucky you, federalists) urbanized Montréal is soooooo stuck in a Liberal past, they'll ship (once again) a few potential ministers in Ontario that Ignatieff would promote for helping to save Canada from perequation history. This country owes us 50% of everything, debt included. We invested in it, we built it, we cared for it, we educated it, we defended it, we even believed it would be fair, equal, just to ALL - one day.

Cuz, enough WAS enough.

We need a future, not a vault for the rich.

And to make it even clearer (since i was interrupted by an important task).

250 years ago yesterday, in Québec city the British military defeated the French colonists on "Les Plaines d'Abraham" and soon after took over Canada as a result.

Two things were planned to commemorate this event.

1) Reconstitution of the battle field itself with "theatrical" characters, cannons, rifles and the whole strategic plans of Wolfe & Montcalm without forgetting the native tribes alliance with the British.

2) A recollection of plenty more pivotal events in a cultural format that allowed readers of documented texts to express a living history. "Le moulin à Paroles" aka -- "Words Mill".

The second option won the debate, somehow.

The current Liberal prime minister of Québec, Jean Charest... took (on behalf of the National Assembly) out the political support for the "spectacle" that included a reading of the FLQ manifesto; controversy -- indeed.

But DO take a peek at this Gazette article or this commentary, would you mind?

Both of the above journalists can't deny history. You have your own rights to interpret whatever happened in October 1970. In the meantime realize this too from only me, i was fifteen back then... when the Trudeau's army showed up in the streets - it only meant one thing; repression emprisonned, insulted, over-reacted, propagated hate & fear, and certainly killed Peace & Liberty possibly forever, also.

Imagine the turmoil, a silly party of war without bombs could have done to the people of Québec.

Conquered, but not dead. Got that, Gazette? Go ahead and translate if you must.

Great Britain is in Europe. Nous sommes en Amérique et vivants puisqu'il ne s'agit pas de culture mais plutôt de droits humains rationnels et mérités par la foi, le courage et le travail.

I agree with what you've said, except for the part about the military. Right now, we have an incredibly small, badly overstretched army that not only has to defend Canada, but is also commeted to peacekeeping over seas. now sure its going to cost billions of dollars, but we need to upgrade our military.