Canadian Election: Tories take the lead: poll(even in Ontario!)

National Post - Canada ^ | Monday, January 02, 2006 | Eric Beauchesne

[Element187]

Does Canada have national healthcare? Does Canada have welfare for the "less unfortunate"?

The US hs the same institutions.


first off were talking about canada.. second off, medicare is not a full blown national healthcare system like canada.. 3rd, im sorry but canada's policy lean closer to france(aka masters of the nanny state) than the USA.

[KC_Conspirator]

Mr. Harper has managed to avoid looking "unreasonable and reactionary" in this campaign, Mr. Bricker said, suggesting that will make it difficult for the Liberals to scare Canadians into voting Liberal, as they did in 2004.

Well thats one tactic. The other is to espouse an anti-American message. These same tricks are done all the time, especially in Europe. No offense, but like Mark Stein, I have little hope that some actual grown ups will win in Canada.

[kajingawd]

"...but canada's policy lean closer to france"

what policy is that?

[kajingawd]

"Abramoff Pleads Guilty, Will Cooperate (20 Congressmembers Under Investigation!)"


We might not be able to vote a majority, and you can keep on putting all Canadians in the same boat.

Good thing your 2 party system is immaculate /SARC/...a * system * of relativity in it's purest form...

The whole western hemisphere is in chaos...

We are capitalists...how can we try and pretend that our system is better than the next one, while all that govern do so for profit?

Stop pointing fingers, i guess we are all in the same boat...a true revolution is in order, to restore true Law.

[Yardstick]

a Liberal official resigned after the revelation of a tasteless blog attack on NDP candidate Olivia Chow.

Does anyone here know the nature of the "tasteless blog attack" on Ms. Chow? I wonder if it was some kind of racial thing. If so, we're seeing an interesting little trend on the Left of racist internet attacks (the Sambo slur against Michael Steele comes to mind).

[Yardstick]

http://www.brandonsun.com/story.php?story_id=14278

Answering my own question here. Apparently Chow was pictured on the website next to an image of a chow dog, under the heading Separated At Birth. Not exactly racist, but pretty tasteless.

[GMMAC]

The offending item from Mike Klander Exec. VP of the Ontario Wing of the Liberal Party of Canada's blog site:

[Ninian Dryhope]

If you would have read the article I shared with you, you would have seen that even with their revised method of comparing the size of governments instead of the actual amount paid in real taxes, they still came to the conclusion that: "the size of government in Canada and the United States as measured by total government spending as a percentage of GDP. By this standard, in 2001, the size of government in Canada was 20 percent larger than that of the United States."

You pay 20% more.