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http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/polls/poll_result.html


Over the last two years I've paid attention to these polls to see how close they come to reality. Fact is they have been close enough to be something worthy of paying attention to. With that said, I wonder if Liberals are watching this poll and concerned that a backlash could occur over them forcing an election...Dion made it clear he didn't like the yet announced budget and would vote a non-confidence on it...I wonder what crystal ball Dion uses for seeing the future as the Conservative MP's haven't seen or heard what the government is doing for a budget this Feb. I guess the Liberals must have a better method of stealing information than they did money from us taxpayers!

   

That's a good point SJ, perhaps Harper will recieve a visit from the ghost's of Christmas past,present and future and totally change his outlook to match that of mainstream Canada. It worked for Scrooge.

Are there no work houses ? Of course not Mr.Harper, you've cut all of the funding.

   

Yea, Harper's way off.

   

You are intitled to your opinion Delwin....If I read your smart assed comment right, you are saying that Harper isn't able to lead because he doesn't speak for the majority of Canadians? I woud say that 37% (for the Liberals) isn't a majority. No matter who gets in this next election, no majority will be won. This country will continue to split and with Dion as leader of the government, you can count on two things to happen. Quebec's PQ and BQ will push for seperation using Dion as the catalyst. Second, Dion's greed for the Alberta oil revenues will piss of "Fast Eddie" and a call from the right in Alberta, who are the majority, will make the existing push for seperation more of a reality.

So if you think 1044 people of a total of 1491 saying they don't want an election means nothing, then you are overlooking the obvious....

   

More to that....Obviously Dion is paying attention to something because he just backed down and said he wouldn't back a Bloc vote of non-confidence. Perhaps he feels a 70% disapproval for an election is something worth paying attention to.

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/War_Terror/ ... 70-cp.html

   

SJ-24,

No that wasn't my point at all. You questioned Dion's reasoning that the budget may be a reason to call an election. My point was that Dion got a taste of a Harper budget last time, he cancelled $1 billion worth of social programs. Unless he plans on reinstating $1 Billion worth of social programs, I think it is fair for Dion to assume that the budget will not be to his liking. Sight unseen.

I think we have an idea of the kind of budget which is in store, unless he completely changes who he is.

   

It did not take long for Dion to find the Liberal fence to sit on.

Already in dither mode.

The 1 billion in hand out cuts is just the tip of the iceberg (I hope).

   

   

Agreed.

   

Yeah, Delwin. Let's take a closer look at those cuts, shall we?

http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/parli ... tcuts.html



Some of the highlights:





Medical marijuana studies have been in progress since the 1960s, with no discernable result, and disputed public benefit. Classic case of cutting funding to an unproductive study.

http://www.annals.org/cgi/reprint/134/12/1159.pdf



Now, before you even cite them, cuts to fighting Pine Beetles, and to Adult Literacy and job training programs are fairly dubious ways to save money. Personally, I'm waiting to see what kind of streamlining is being done in those particular programs to boost efficiency before I render judgement on the cuts.

All the same, when this government went looking for places to save money, they didn't recklessly cut billions from health care like Paul Martin and Jean Chretien did.

   

Your right, education, womens right's, and the environment were the right cuts to make, we'll be living in a big black cave grunting like cavemen in no time.

   

Before we get too enthusiastic about cutting social spending, let's first make sure that a program isn't providing social value before it is cut.

   

Which actually leaves you, Delwin, with only about $520.9 million in cuts that you can reasonably cry over. Yet, as with everything, you think you have to claim the full $1 billion, despite the fact that you clearly cannot defend that claim.

As for the "cuts to women's rights", it actually makes much more sense to spend funding for women's programming in delivering actual services to women, in the community, as opposed to merely funding court challenges that really accomplish nothing that isn't already legally prescribed in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, while never really getting women any further ahead by providing them with skills and knowledge to make them more competitive.

One of these solutions will result in actual equality -- the other will only result in artificial equality. Care to take a guess which is which?

   

Yes. Cut education. Then the teachers can't fucking cry to get paid more cause there is no more money. Fucking teachers.

Women's rights? Last time I checked women can do everything men can do. Don't you agree?

Environment....they put out their own environment plan you twit.

   

A better environment plan than the Liberals, at that.

   

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