Question about Canadian politics

[Mudcat]

just to show how out-to-lunch I am on current events:

Do we have an election coming up? Or are those ads taking pot shots at Michael Ignatieff just Conservatives with too much time on their hands showing their zany side?

Didn't we just have an election? In fact didn't we just have a few?

[mathdotcom]

just to show how out-to-lunch I am on current events:

Do we have an election coming up? Or are those ads taking pot shots at Michael Ignatieff just Conservatives with too much time on their hands showing their zany side?

Didn't we just have an election? In fact didn't we just have a few?

Please tell me you don't vote.

No election in sight.

[Brock Landers]

canadian elections are a joke

[mathdotcom]

canadian elections are a joke

Agreed but kind of ironic when coming from an American.

[Brock Landers]

Agreed but kind of ironic when coming from an American.

my wife is canadian, i know all about them. And the fact nothing is done on any set schedule makes them a total joke.

[StyleQ]

just to show how out-to-lunch I am on current events:

Do we have an election coming up? Or are those ads taking pot shots at Michael Ignatieff just Conservatives with too much time on their hands showing their zany side?

Didn't we just have an election? In fact didn't we just have a few?

The feuds between these two parties are merely political bickering - but are definitely indicative of an upcoming election (when exactly - is yet to be determined, and may not be known for many more months). The Libs want another stab at Parliament with Ignatieff at the helm, but the general public is probably weary of another looming election in Canada.

[mathdotcom]

Pros to having no set schedule: You don't get an election campaign that lasts 2 years (ahem, Obama v. Hillary, Obama v. McCain)

Cons: Incumbent party has a lot of control over when an election is called and is of course used to their advantage

[Matt Rain]

the general public is probably weary of another looming election in Canada.

You can say that again. **** that noise.

[Bread]

Mods please move this thread to the Private Zone. I'm over all the Canadian bullshit.

[Matt Rain]

Mods, please slap Bread around at the bash. Lou, you've got first dibs.

[Mudcat]

Yeah I just did what I suppose I should have done in the first place and checked the dates of recent federal elections:

28 June 2004
23 January 2006
14 October 2008


That is more than a little nuts. And now they're revving up again, looks like.

[Mudcat]

I don't hear Belinda Stronach's name much any more. For awhile she seemed like a power to be reckoned with on the national stage.

I would bang her. I'm not sure what it would be like to have a Prime Minister I would bang but I am willing to find out.

[Mudcat]

Mods, please slap Bread around at the bash. Lou, you've got first dibs.

You know what it is? Bread is pissed because I compared him to Diefenbaker.

That's right, I hit him with a Diefenbaker bag !


PWNED !!!

[Bread]

I just can't take it any longer. You guys have taken over my life. All I think about is Canada and the group of misanthropes that I know from there via this website.

From here on out, this is the only Canadian I want to spend any time with.




Time to tap into the syrup behind that maple leaf

[mathdotcom]

I don't hear Belinda Stronach's name much any more. For awhile she seemed like a power to be reckoned with on the national stage.

I would bang her. I'm not sure what it would be like to have a Prime Minister I would bang but I am willing to find out.

Stronach is not even an MP anymore, let alone the fact she was never even the leader of a political party.

[Bread]

This one's a little trashy for me or Muddy, too fair for Plommer, but I have a feeling she's right up Matty Rains alley.

[Bread]

Actual photo of Mathdotcom

[Bread]

LOL, the one on the right doesn't appear to be as proud as the other one.

[Bread]

Seems a little extreme to me...



Possibly a better way for me to take out my frustrations.



I'm pretty sure this chick is packing a hakapik in her bikini bottoms.



Sickler's girl begging for him to touch her.



Where Buzzy keeps his victims.



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Nicky Santoro's mom looking for him on the streets of East L.A.



Mudcat expresses himself with a different kind of needle in his arm these days



This guy actually seems pretty cool.



Herman trying to convert

[Mudcat]

Happens every time. You start talking about Canadian politics and everything gets sexy and freaky and wild.

[mathdotcom]

Actual photo of Mathdotcom

Bread I have a much firmer ass and actually wear a mink with Canadian flag sewn in both shoulders.

[robzilla]

I agree that our elections are crap.
I wanna vote Liberal, but I hate this guy in all the ads.
I dont like Stephen Harper either.
I'll have to vote NDP again.

[Matt Rain]

This one's a little trashy for me or Muddy, too fair for Plommer, but I have a feeling she's right up Matty Rains alley.

Don't like her boots.

[Mudcat]

Pretty predictable that the Conservatives would take this approach with their rhetoric.

I suppose the Liberals will come back comparing the Conservatives to the American far right Republi-zombies.

It just seems to me they should wait until an actual election has been called before going at it. Right now, they should be focused on governing.

This kind of random slap-fight is distasteful.

[Nicky Santoro]

you think you're out to lunch? i swear i don't even know who the PM of canada is anymore, unlike when i was a kid, i knew them all.. Trudeau, Mulroney, Chretien...


I swear, if i sat in a restaurant and the PM walked in, i woudn't even recognize him.. that's how out of touch i am with politics.

[betplom]

you think you're out to lunch? i swear i don't even know who the PM of canada is anymore, unlike when i was a kid, i knew them all.. Trudeau, Mulroney, Chretien...


I swear, if i sat in a restaurant and the PM walked in, i woudn't even recognize him.. that's how out of touch i am with politics.

I bet you would recognize Jaques Parizeau in a restaurant when he orders poutine.

[betplom]

I just can't take it any longer. You guys have taken over my life. All I think about is Canada and the group of misanthropes that I know from there via this website.

Bread you immigrated to the wrong country, you missed Canada by about 1500 miles.

Dumb fukk.

[Mudcat]

He missed his chance. There is no room for anyone else up here now.

[Bread]

I could've been Fiveteamer's father. He could've used a strong father figure in his life like me.

[buztah]

Canadian politics, whilst appearing shambolic at first glance, are in fact highly structured and present unique flexibility vis a vis scheduling of elections so as to facilitate democracy (or the appearance thereof).

[Mudcat]

There are pros and cons.

If we end up with a 2010 election, that will be 4 federal elections in about a 6 year span. Those things cost money. And that means that politicians are spending a lot of time campaigning rather than doing their jobs.

I find 4 elections in 6 years to be overboard.

[mathdotcom]

First he shows how embarrassingly ignorant he is regarding Canadian politics.

..... then he weighs in with his opinion.

Thanks.

[Matt Rain]

First he shows how embarrassingly ignorant he is regarding Canadian politics.

..... then he weighs in with his opinion.

Thanks.

[dwaechte]

There are pros and cons.

If we end up with a 2010 election, that will be 4 federal elections in about a 6 year span. Those things cost money. And that means that politicians are spending a lot of time campaigning rather than doing their jobs.

I find 4 elections in 6 years to be overboard.

Don't be surprised if there's an 09 election.

And the attack ads serve a purpose even without a set election because the current opinion polls play a big part in determining when each side wants it.

[mathdotcom]

It's because of the successive minority governments. Once someone wins a majority it'll go back to being an election every 4-5 years. If an election in '09 can grant someone a majority, then the politicians can indeed "do their jobs" since they won't have to worry as much about public opinion with an election threat always hanging over their heads.

The costs of an election are trivial compared to the monumental blunders governments make on any given day. Look at the bailout GM just got. If we were in an election campaign right now maybe it wouldn't have happened...