Canadian Politics Mega-thread - Page 52

On January 07 2019 09:54 GreenHorizons wrote:

Marxist-Leninist inspired movements. Did you want more on what Marxism is or something else?

On January 07 2019 08:02 JimmyJRaynor wrote:
All this government money being spent on public transit and it is resulting in longer commutes. The York University subway extension was funded by the Federal, Provincial and Municipal governments.

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2019/01/06/fix-the-transit-fare-fiasco-at-york-u-for-all-our-sakes.html



The Toronto Star is a very pro-liberal newspaper. Its nice to see them publish an opinion that calls it like it is.

On January 08 2019 02:52 Rebs wrote:


Absolute joke, whats sad is that the Liberals totally deserved to get dumpstered and its ended up with an even stupider replacement. Bad news all round.

On January 08 2019 10:35 JimmyJRaynor wrote:

I do not think Kathleen Wynne is a stupid person. i'd say she is more "book smart" than "street smart". Her intelligence level is fine. Getting Ontario back to what it was ( from say 1960 to 2005 ) is an extremely difficult task. For many decades Ontario had a level of economic opportunity similar to many of the most prosperous US states while at the same time having a very good social safety net. That is damn hard to pull off. Former leaders Davis, Peterson, Rae, and Harris made it happen.

Wynne had a very tough job to do and she failed. That does not mean she is stupid.

Ontario used to be very good. Alas, it is no longer. Mcguinty is the #1 culprit. Wynne inherited his mess.
https://www.thestar.com/news/ontario/2008/04/30/ontario_becoming_a_have_not.html

"Ontario has long been considered Canada's economic engine. Now it's slated to wear a new label: `have-not province.` "

On January 07 2019 09:00 JimmyJRaynor wrote:
They were the PC Party of Canada from 1942 to 2003. They went from "Progressive Conservative" Party of Canada to the "Conservative Party of Canada" in 2003 when they merged with the Canadian Alliance.

I think the name "Progressive Conservative" Party was them trying to say " we are `right of center` .. we are not far-right-wing "

On January 08 2019 14:45 Falling wrote:

Actually, while that may be true during the Mulroney and Joe Clark era (Red Tories) that's not really exactly it, or at least not originally. I always assumed because there was a Progressive party that it was an alliance between the Progressives and Conservatives,

On January 07 2019 08:46 GreenHorizons wrote:
This caused me to somehow finally discover that Canada has a political party that calls itself "The Progressive Conservative" party or "The PC party" for short. I don't even know what to say to that other than wow.

On January 08 2019 14:45 Falling wrote:
Turns out it was a recruiting effort. John Bracken was the Progressive premier in Manitoba, but federal Conservatives wanted him to be their leader. He only agreed if they changed the name. Didn't work though. Most of the Progressives didn't join the Conservatives. Then the Progressive Conservatives lost the '45 election to King and then Bracken lost his seat in '49. But the name stuck.

On January 27 2019 07:07 JimmyJRaynor wrote:
https://www.thestar.com/vancouver/2019/01/25/it-would-be-great-for-canada-if-us-drops-extradition-request-for-huaweis-meng-wanzhou-ambassador-says.html

Trudeau "asked" McCallum to resign...and McCallum just resigned. I think he wanted out... he had to know his kind of talk would lead to this outcome.

On January 25 2019 23:42 JimmiC wrote:
So far the entities to put there support behind Maduro in Venezuela are Syria, China, Russia, Iran, Cuba, Turkey, and the NDP party of Canada. It is sad that their foreign policy is basically ifthe US and Brazil support it we are against it. I expect more from a major party leader. It is sad I want a left party I can support but this level of lack of basic research into what Maduro has done and is doing to his people is embarrassing.

On January 25 2019 23:42 JimmiC wrote:
So far the entities to put there support behind Maduro in Venezuela are Syria, China, Russia, Iran, Cuba, Turkey, and the NDP party of Canada. It is sad that their foreign policy is basically ifthe US and Brazil support it we are against it. I expect more from a major party leader. It is sad I want a left party I can support but this level of lack of basic research into what Maduro has done and is doing to his people is embarrassing.

On January 28 2019 03:11 JimmiC wrote:
As I just mentioned above, the parties official message was much better than the tweets.

On January 28 2019 22:18 JimmiC wrote:

Pretty good one to get the opinions of the MPs but ill remember your opinions when you comment on trumps twitter. Also notice how I follow up with corrections comparer to you who just keeps spouting ill informed opinions as facts and bad one liners.

Much like the world didnt name Juan president. He named himself acting president as leader of the national assembly until fair elections can be held. And the (free) world supported that. You still cant get even the order right. Even after corrected multiple times. I mean it shows your level of knowledge when you made that 8 day comment which was clearly an opinion based on reading the title of an article and not the whole thing because I'm sure even you have the reading comprehension to have figured out what they meant if you actually read it.