CANADIANS!! Stop the coalition!!

[CAPPINJACK]

@OP:
Actually idiot, there is nothing undemocratic about this. If you think about it, 38% of Canada voted for the conservatives, the rest, 62%, voted for the other guys. And who makes up the coalition? You got it. The other guys. I don't know about you, 62% of the vote > 38%. Seems pretty democratic to me. Besides, it's less to do with voters and more to do with house confidence. The house has lost confidence in the "leader", and now he's going to have to pay for that loss of confidence. This is how the system works.

This is the same kind of Karl Rove inspired fear mongering that's expected from conservatives. "Don't support the coalition! They're made up of evil frenchies who want to destroy us! Don't support the coalition! It'll mean the end of democracy as we know it!" Fuck you Stephen Harper and fuck your facist party. You've proven nothing except that Albertans have no place being in a position of power for the country.

 

[CAPPINJACK]

Canada was stunned Monday when it was announced that The Stanley Cup will be
awarded to the Toronto Maple Leafs, *** stupid analogy cut ***

This is possibly the dumbest analogy I've ever seen. First off, the teams would have to play the opposing teams AT THE SAME TIME for this to even be remotely accurate. Not to mention you'd have to let the fans say whether the goals are any good or not. This is yet another chain email (I got the same thing in my inbox this morning) by an idiot conservative not smart enough to just "get it". Surprise, surprise.

 

[PedroSteckecilo]

That popular vote percentage has been cited anywhere from 30-50%, I'd stop using it as a statistic, apparently the numbers are very wrong somewhere.

 

[Anton P. Nym]

The carbon tax is a way for the rich to get richer. Just for the sake of example, if someone was making $1000 and their income tax was $400, the income tax is halved, so they only have to pay $200. Someone was making $500 and their income tax was $200, the income tax is halved, so they only have to pay $100. With the carbon tax, now both have to pay an additional $100.

On top of that, that's not even an accurate number. That's just an example. I've seen the numbers, and the carbon tax is actually a sorely bad thing.

Not in my experience. Then again, I take public transit, don't own a motor vehicle (big credit there) and rent my residence; which takes a big bite out of the tax right there. Add in that I keep my power bills low and the biggest hit I take is buying imported food. The tax credit more than covers it for me, and I'm earning a lot less than anyone in the CAW.

Admittedly the Carbon Tax would've been really bad for the Tar Sands development, but then again anything that takes into account the costs of waste processing for that project beyond "dump it in a pond and hope it goes away" hurts it in some way or another.

-- Steve

 

[Random Argument Man]

Well Michaelle Jean just letted Harper close the chamber. So thank you for ignoring us for 1 entire month.

Now you're gonna see Harper play the kind card, kissing babies and bla bla.

 

[Anton P. Nym]

Well Michaelle Jean just letted Harper close the chamber. So thank you for ignoring us for 1 entire month.

*sigh* CTV and the Globe and Mail just broke that... dammit, now this thing has to hang-fire for another nigh-on two months. That's just not good.

All I have to say is that Harper had better crank out one heckuva budget to justify this to me, and that if I have to spend the holidays listening to CPC attack ads I'll burn effigies of the SOB.

-- Steve

 

[shatnershaman]

...Because we all want the carbon tax, right?

That is not in the coalition's plans. Neither is closing the Tar sands. The coalition parties compromised, which is what a coalition does. I don't like the fact that the GG let the PM prorogue the House so he can hide from the confidence vote over his budget. I wonder if he will put his sweater back on and get some babies and puppies to hug.

 

[Stammer]

B-but Stephen Harper looks like a pedophile.

Spoiler: Creepy PM

That or he could pass as a really bad Bond Villain. What with that cat and all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrliDQs1Jps

And Stephane Dion looks like a moron... at least here.

 

[Rolling Thunder]

Bring me my machinegun, it seems another right-winger has emerged onto my forum.

 

[Anton P. Nym]

I meant to post this yesterday, regarding the original post, but had a "senior moment" or something.

No petition on the Internet is worth anything other than the paper it's not printed on. No one in government will take it seriously because it's too easy to cheat... and there's no investment in time and effort to set one up, so every crank on the planet can start one and every bored sociopath can lard 'em up with frivilous/false signature.

If you really feel that the coalition is that bad, get out of your chair and go start a real petition. One on paper, signed by real, living hands, that one can present with a nicely-heavy thump on the desk of your Member of Parliament. Phoning in your patriotism doesn't impress anyone; going the extra mile for it might.

-- Steve