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slimjim Super Member
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Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2015 7:54 pm Post subject: What just happened!?!?! |
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Surprised no comment on the results of the Canadian Election. MacD, did you crawl into a hole?
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Vince Site Admin
Joined: May 25, 2005 Posts: 15701 Location: Brisbane AUSTRALIA
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Bushmaster Super Member
Joined: Jun 12, 2005 Posts: 11389 Location: Ava, Missouri
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Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2015 7:22 am Post subject: Re: What just happened!?!?! |
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Awful quiet on the other side of the border that's for sure.
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Grey_Wolf Member
Joined: Aug 06, 2015 Posts: 186
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Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2015 10:17 am Post subject: Re: What just happened!?!?! |
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Bushmaster wrote: |
Awful quiet on the other side of the border that's for sure. |
Well for me I'm still sitting here in stunned silence. I can not believe that so many people are so (_*__*___) stupid. I was also wondering how well patrolled the Alaskan border is. Any insight? At least you guys are going to get rid of your problem shortly. Isn't there an election coming soon down there? I'm so teed of I could spit.
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slimjim Super Member
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Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2015 6:46 pm Post subject: Re: What just happened!?!?! |
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How did this happen? Complacency? Or just the swinging of the pendulum? I thought you just rid of some of your gun registration laws and there was more hope for the future.
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Suzanne Super Member
Joined: Jun 27, 2009 Posts: 3323 Location: Eugene, Oregon
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Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2015 6:50 pm Post subject: Re: What just happened!?!?! |
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Another starry eyed liberal with no real political background, no tail-wind of accomplishments but handsome as the devil and talks up a good story....sounds familiar to me. The name is also familiar and I'm sure that helps a lot. Harper did a good job (what do I know) of keeping the economy more level and on track compared to the US. It was Harper's friends and appointees feeding from the trough that was his demise and it was always perceived that it was Harper that was up to no good. They even painted him as a tyrant for establishing anti-terrorism legislation and calling him a racist Islamaphobe and anti immigrant.
Well so here we are, Trudeau's far left will now roll back the gains of Harper's balanced budgets, slashing red tape and taxes while keeping a healthy welfare state. Must have read Obama's biography (and liked it).
Suz
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Grey_Wolf Member
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Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2015 7:24 pm Post subject: Re: What just happened!?!?! |
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If I had the answer to that I'd fix it all for the next election - sadly four years from now. The media in this country has been very anti Harper for a long time. Apparently he wasn't very "media friendly". So there was a lot of anti Conservative slant to the reporting. For some reason the national media is quite pro liberal - I guess the liberals promising to increase the funding for the cbc (national broadcaster) carried some weight.
On top of that you have Atlantic Canada going completely liberal because they promised to change the rules for EI (employment insurance) that Harper had changed to make more difficult to collect. This area has a high rate of unemployment with a lot of seasonal employment in fisheries. So eight months of EI and four months of work. trudeau will make it easier for them. Sprinkle in a little spending here and a little there and poof your in. It seems that people can't make the connection between government spending (all those nice things they "give" you) and higher taxes.
As far as the guns go yes we did get rid of the registry and some of the other goofy restrictions. But not enough. We still can not use a hand gun for hunting, hell we can barely use a hand gun. The liberals campaigned that they would not bring back the registry (they grossly underestimated it's cost originally) however they did say that they would sign on to the UN treaty that Harper did not and we all know what that entails. A means of tracking and identifying who has and where the firearms are. That sounds like registry to me - no? It does not bode well for us on that front. The liberals are definitely anti gun. Not sure if it was trudeau (but certainly a liberal) that said the only people in Canada that should possess a firearm is military and police. I'm still so mad at the sheeple I could spit.
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Grey_Wolf Member
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Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2015 7:30 pm Post subject: Re: What just happened!?!?! |
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Suzanne wrote: |
Another starry eyed liberal with no real political background, no tail-wind of accomplishments but handsome as the devil and talks up a good story....sounds familiar to me. The name is also familiar and I'm sure that helps a lot. Harper did a good job (what do I know) of keeping the economy more level and on track compared to the US. It was Harper's friends and appointees feeding from the trough that was his demise and it was always perceived that it was Harper that was up to no good. They even painted him as a tyrant for establishing anti-terrorism legislation and calling him a racist Islamaphobe and anti immigrant.
Well so here we are, Trudeau's far left will now roll back the gains of Harper's balanced budgets, slashing red tape and taxes while keeping a healthy welfare state. Must have read Obama's biography (and liked it).
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Pretty close analysis Suz. The liberals over the years have been far worse than the Conservatives for feeding at the trough. That's the part that I find maddening - it seems people have forgotten all the scams from the liberal days. Honestly the liberals make the Conservatives look like boy scouts. Yeah that anti immigrant stuff, all he said was refugees could come but the process would not be short-cutted to allow for proper screening. Wow lets not make sure we aren't letting in terrorists eh? Te libs love having people waiting with their hands out.
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inthedark Super Member
Joined: Jan 31, 2011 Posts: 913 Location: Ontario
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Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2015 12:49 pm Post subject: Re: What just happened!?!?! |
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Suzanne wrote: |
Another starry eyed liberal with no real political background, no tail-wind of accomplishments but handsome as the devil and talks up a good story....sounds familiar to me. The name is also familiar and I'm sure that helps a lot. Harper did a good job (what do I know) of keeping the economy more level and on track compared to the US. It was Harper's friends and appointees feeding from the trough that was his demise and it was always perceived that it was Harper that was up to no good. They even painted him as a tyrant for establishing anti-terrorism legislation and calling him a racist Islamaphobe and anti immigrant.
Well so here we are, Trudeau's far left will now roll back the gains of Harper's balanced budgets, slashing red tape and taxes while keeping a healthy welfare state. Must have read Obama's biography (and liked it).
Suz |
At the height of the economic freefall 2006-2008(?) going on in the world he promptly spend 55 billion dollars putting the country further in the hole, but keeping the effects of the global recession from harming the country too much.
Don't get me wrong I used to be a Liberal but our family did a vengeance vote to the Conservatives (Reform Party) 8 years ago and while I agree that Harper did do some very good things he also is the only prime minister to be held in "contempt of parliament" and not disciplined because he was the leader of the sitting majority in the house. I don't agree with fear mongering and cutting the public service to the bone, firing or muzzling scientists and letting government services and infrastructure (Literally) disintegrate.
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inthedark Super Member
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Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2015 12:52 pm Post subject: Re: What just happened!?!?! |
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I also don't agree with the Liberal position on firearms ownership and use. This was the main reason the family all voted Conservative in the first place.
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Ron
War is sweet to those who have no experience of it, but the experienced man trembles exceedingly at heart on its approach - Pindar 518-438 BC
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inthedark Super Member
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