Comments | fire_in_the_sky: Stephen Harper Won!?!?!

fire_in_the_sky

Stephen Harper Won!?!?!

Jan 24, 2006 01:26

Now I'm terrified. I have no idea what this is going to do for the Canadian people, but it's not going to be good. For God's sake, the first people he thanked were the ones from Calgary-South! That's basically the Bible Belt of Canada. I remember driving through that area of the country and seeing huge anti-abortion bilboards, and countless ( Read more... )

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anonymous January 24 2006, 09:38:12 UTC

Yeah mate, this is an election Canadians will regret for years to come. The same happened in Holland 2 years back and they are still kicking themselves.

zermatt January 24 2006, 09:38:45 UTC

that was me

kran January 24 2006, 10:11:48 UTC

He's got a minority government and the Senate is vastly Liberal. I doubt he'll be able to do much.

kran January 24 2006, 12:24:06 UTC

w8, u guys don't vote for senate and parliament at the same time?? you guys aren't a republic like the USA or France right??? I don't understand...

so you got a senate, a parliament, and a PM, and the head of state is the British Queen right? no president...

kran January 24 2006, 19:22:30 UTC

Right. Senate positions are appointed and they're a for life job. If positions become available, the ruling party gets to fill them with their placements.

gdh January 24 2006, 14:44:12 UTC

What specific policies of the Conservative Party do you actually object to?

fire_in_the_sky January 25 2006, 00:07:25 UTC

1) I think the GST thing is a load of shit: first off, the Conservatives were the ones that put it into place to begin with, as a temporary measure no less, and all of a sudden I should praise them by lowering it 1% over 5 years?? Never mind the fact that it won't help any except those who have the money to spend on lots of consumer goods. For the rest of us, it doesn't mean shit ( ... )

gdh January 25 2006, 00:21:10 UTC

It's so strange how different anglo-saxon "conservatives" are from continental christian democrats.

Our christian democrats are in fact more to the left than the liberals, which are considered even slightly right winged over here. The christian democrats sit somewhere between liberals and socialists.

And even though they are considered conservative, they helped legalize gay marriage and gay adoption last year, because from a Christian point of view, legalizing it means better support for gay families, better family values etc... As for health care they believe in Catholic health care, this means the hospitals are owned by the church (all the good hospitals in Belgian are catholic anyway), and they are publicly available to every1. So basically they have left winged ideas with a christian/conservative inspiration. They're far from evil unlike these "republicans"

gdh January 25 2006, 00:21:43 UTC

#1 is a valid point, but hardly makes him the Devil.
#2 is mostly a bogey-man tactic, the current Conservative Party, hasn't really proposed anything more than private delivery of health care services, which means you still wouldn't have to pay for it. Granted, there are still concerns, e.g. a for-profit health care provider might be more inclined to cut corners to be able to deliver health care cheaply, but there's been nothing proposed that actually has anything to do with the "OMG two-tier fuck-the-poor healthcare!" propaganda of the other parties ( ... )

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