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15 years ago @ Macleans.ca - Michael Ignatieff plot... · 0 replies · -8 points

It's painfully clear to me that my issue with Ignatieff is not his character, its his being steeped in a world of lofty ideals and next to nothing to show for those ideals, with nothing of censure for failure. I don't think the guy understands the world as it exists, only the one he would build in his head.

And I'm not interested in becoming a non voluntary funder of lofty but ill managed ideals...had more than a lifetimes worth of that thanks...

15 years ago @ Macleans.ca - What Stephen Harper ha... · 1 reply · -2 points

"...in Stephen Harper’s Canada...",

Just a sec. The opposition has been telling us that this is most definitely NOT Harper's Canada because, according to the story, the LPC and the pumpkins have been standing on guard for us. Such as that is...

"...the gulf between cultural visions on the left and right is so wide the two sides cannot even speak comprehensibly to each other."

Really? I'm pretty sure that it was Ignatieff that scuttled 18 months of involved refugee reform with the full acquiescence to his immigration critics demands. He did that because the Quebec wing squawked loud enough to scare him onto a bus.

Of course, Ignatieff the noble did this just in time for another round of national angst due to yet another boat of rent seekers allowed all and sundry merely for lying correctly.

So yea, at least spread the vitriol around Wells....

15 years ago @ Macleans.ca - The Commons: Supportin... · 1 reply · -1 points

Strange, as a vet I see the current government as the first one in thirty years to even broach the subject, let alone do something about it.

And then there is the fact that the position never existed until the current government...

If the LPC has the barest hint of a clue, they'll shut the hell up over this, as in most of our opinions, they created and enabled the rot, the very same rot I battled through for a decade until I could do no more and had to leave early due to PSAC incompetence and malfeasance...

15 years ago @ Macleans.ca - Helena Guergis in conv... · 0 replies · +6 points

As an example of a young new political class, those two fail most miserably...

Let her run. Let her constituents decide. Personally, if it comes down to risk mitigation, dumping these two early is a definite example of proactive governance...

15 years ago @ Macleans.ca - Ottawa’s stimulus fi... · 0 replies · +11 points

We desperately need to have a meaningful conversation as to who replaces Sheila Fraser this fall...she is the single person in the public sector I accept as working in my interest without qualifications on my part...

It's way to important to leave up to the status quo, and the inevitable political horsesass braying...

15 years ago @ Macleans.ca - Ottawa’s stimulus fi... · 0 replies · -4 points

Martin was a key reason I voted Liberal in the recovery of the "peso crisis". Even though I knew it would hurt me personally. As to overall governance, Martin was wholly entrenched in the mire of the LPC at the time, and frankly, if they weren't who they are, I would have no problem with a younger Paul Martin as the head of a LPC that moved centrist.

He isn't, they aren't, and the CPC is at least alive to deal with the stimulus fallout...such as it is. Frankly, the LPC is hoping to get to the fall with a passable candidate, and it won't work this time. They have to go much, much deeper to reinvent themselves as the default choice for Canadian voters.

To be truthful, I am taken a bit by surprise that this is bad as it gets. Given $56 000 000 000 reasons to pander, at least it was applied evenly, more or less. And very little is completely missing, a problem the LPC had the last go round with government intervention...

Not that any of that makes it a good idea...

15 years ago @ Macleans.ca - UPDATED: How Harper pi... · 0 replies · 0 points

Pretty sure I read that the opposition also had some input into the decision.

Given the overheated rhetoric that passes for media attention in this country, knowing or not knowing if there is truth in that will take the bloviating out of at least a half dozen unneeded or wanted MP monkey blurts before they get up a head of steam....

16 years ago @ http://www.themarknews... - The Upside of Wedge Po... · 0 replies · +4 points

I wonder how many folks are aware of how much of the descent of Canadian politics is the direct result of this critters efforts?

First task to reform of the waft and weft of our adversarial system (you know, the paralyzed one we all suffer under) is to ignore this guy and all the others just like him...

16 years ago @ Macleans.ca - Game changer—big buc... · 1 reply · -3 points

Can't help but think that this sort of practical science will play much better with the average Canadian than a spate of dubious humanities studies right now. Not that we don't need inputs from the humanities, but right now, practical trumps theory in most peoples minds...thus, most peoples desire for the right person for these chairs over forced gender equality.

16 years ago @ Macleans.ca - Mind the gap? I bet Pe... · 1 reply · +1 points

"...a sacred Canadian institution."

Interesting take. My read is many Canadians are willing to question the efficacy and need of many "sacred" inertial entitlements by default, a message wholly owned by the CPC right now. Right or wrong, the idea of the LPC looking for meaningful change in an existing department is laughable, as all Ignatieff offers is muddled mixed messages on reforms, or entirely new fiefdoms.

After the last year, less government is the new default, not more.

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