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Tuesday, Dec 2, 2008

For those of you that are framillier with Canadian politics you know that for about the last 5 years or so the Canadian government has been a little unstable. We have had 3 elections in this time, all of them minority governments, in which the ruling political party has needed the support of one or more opposition parties to pass any laws. Up untill now everything about this power struggle has been peaceful and democratic. That has changed just recentaly.

Last week the three opposition parties united to over through the government, usually this practice is aceptable, the leading party did something to make the others mad, and create grounds for an election. This time the situation is different, the current government hasn't been in power for two months yet, and hasn't done anything controversial. What makes this situation so horrible is that if the government is othethrown we will not just have an election and let the voters decide who they want to lead the country, the opposition wants to unite the three parties and form an unelected colition government, these three parties are: The liberals, the NDP (socialists) and the Bloc Quebecoise(seperatists, and not the cool kind with droids either) These three parties want to work together to take control of Canada unelected and without any public support.

This is a grave time for the future of Canada, if you couldn't make a whole lot of sense of what I wrote, please read this:

http://www.conservative.ca/EN/1004/107731

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Wait a minute....Conservative?

I think something is a-foot because I'm trusting no glorified facists.
Posted Dec 2, 2008 12:12 pm PT
LOL, your Democrats are closer to being Fascist than our Conservatives are.
TBQH it's the most comprehensive piece about what's going on.
Posted Dec 2, 2008 1:22 pm PT
@DarthConner: Are you so certain about that? A leftwing government is far more concerned about the well being of everyone rather than the rich.
Posted Dec 2, 2008 3:40 pm PT
I really don't give a care about polotics even though I should I just know that Obama won.
Posted Dec 2, 2008 5:09 pm PT
...Wow... this is all news to me. I don't know much about politics, Canadian politics non the less, but this sounds extremely serious.
Posted Dec 2, 2008 6:33 pm PT
ahh! socialism is one step down from communism, which is bassically a dictatorship! hope all turns out well
Posted Dec 2, 2008 6:39 pm PT
@loopy Socialism is about taking from the hard working and giving to the lazy.
All socialism is is elected communism. And we all know how well that turns out...

For all the Canadians reading this, please read this if you want to do something about it
http://rallyforcanada.ca/

Also the PM is adressing the nation at 7 tonight on all major networks.
Posted Dec 3, 2008 1:30 pm PT
It can't be that bad. I live about 30 miles from the Canadian border and have heard nothing like this.
Posted Dec 4, 2008 4:20 pm PT
Parliment has been disbanded untill late January, that should cool things down a bit.
Posted Dec 5, 2008 2:00 pm PT
@DarthConner: Only a Conservative would think that.
Posted Dec 16, 2008 8:42 am PT
You got a better way to describe socialism? I fail to see why the Heroin addict on the street should get my money.
Posted Dec 16, 2008 2:27 pm PT
@Darthconner: Let me ask you, who works the hardest at Nike Darthconner? I can tell you for a fact it isn't the executives...

The society matters more the will of the individual, everyone deserves to live a life without poverty no matter how evil or lazy we are.
Posted Dec 27, 2008 12:02 pm PT
True, but isn't socialism supposed to help those people in the sweatshops? Last time I checked China was a communist country. Socialism isn't about getting rid of poverty, it's about making everyone have the same money, so in 99% of the cases, everyone is starving.
Posted Dec 30, 2008 10:16 am PT
@DarthConner: You're getting confused. Socialism is not, I repeat, is NOT the same as Communism.
Posted Dec 31, 2008 6:22 pm PT
Please expain to me how Communisim is not unelected socialism.

In addition to that: The society matters more the will of the individual, That's the founding principle of Facism
Posted Jan 1, 2009 8:05 am PT
@DarthConner: Not quite, the society as in for the people, not the wealthy businessmen. Socialism still allows those who are wealthy to prosper, just at a more acceptable level. Socialism is a society controlled by the people, not one individual which makes it unfair to be compared to Facism, which believes in dictatorship unlike Socialism.

I fail to see why you support the movement of the capitalists who don't care about the satisfaction of its customers or workers or the possibility of the class system being completely removed from society. Fairer pay and more freedom in choice. Imagine it, more people capable of going to University - that would be fantastic. Those kind of freedoms are simply impossible through Capitalism.
Posted Jan 11, 2009 5:33 am PT
The problem is that it's been shown time and time again that socialism doesn't make everyone rich, it just brings them to the same level, which is usually poverty. See: China, North Korea, France, USSR, etc. I know that most of the countries I listed were Communist, but the fact is, income redistribution is common to both socialism and communism.
Posted Jan 12, 2009 1:37 pm PT
Perhaps you should see France again Darth, they're quite conservative now. And need I remind you that once again you're bringing up examples of Communism, not Socialism.

Socialism doesn't bring everyone to the same level as you might expect, it only makes life easier for the working classes by taxing the wealthy more reasonably. There are still businesses and there are still class systems, although I don't see why you would want the latter. Take Labour's Britain during the post war era and you'll have a detailed example of a working Socialist Britain which also introduced the National Health Service (something Canada and America still lack) meaning free medical care for everyone. I fail to see what is so horribly wrong with Socailism when you have examples like that.
Posted Apr 2, 2009 11:27 am PT
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