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You're just attacking the party now. You can't attack their platform, but instead just their party.

Don't forget of course harper is far from a friend of quebec

Again the ndp is the only party that supports making it easier to destroy Canada. I'm sorry but that is a major problem in the ndp platform.
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The war mongering, the muzzling of scientists, the un-protection of the environment/lakes/rivers/oceans, the secrecy, the lies, the lack of transparency, the abysmal economy/budget record, the slashing of veteran programs... That's not the Canada I know and love.

The real question is how so many of you still believe he's doing what tells you he's doing, despite ALL the evidence QUITE to the contrary.

Something you obviously don't understand, by your own decision-making and refusal to even understand the thinking people who disagree with you have.. people look in their bank accounts and see more money than they had with Liberals (i.e. less money being taken away), or in some provinces, than the NDP. In the end, this matters far more than the other politics people who tend to make no money elevate above others. To dismiss their line of thinking is to flat out ignore a rather large amount of the populace who voted for Harper. And yet again, if Harper gets re-elected, I have little faith on these forums people will comprehend why. They'll likely poo-poo it off as "must be afraid of ze terrurists".

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Harper just gives money away where he feels like it to...

I think you should really look into who has recieved money for little reason from canada over the last 8 years before mocking Mulcair for saying canada had an obligation under treaties signed by the government of canada to the imf to lend money to a pot which would have assisted greece. This obligation was signed in by harper

As well he pointed out that one of the agreements under the proposed european trade agreement would have canada obligated again to help any country in the EU during times of fiscal disaster.

While Mulcair proposed it, please do go look. Harper has given away billions already, and some to very questionable places.

So would have liked Canada being the only country outside the e.u bailing out Greece?

Wonderful. You don't support giving money to corporations for creating thousands and thousands of jobs at home but instead you support giving that money to a country Canada has very little economic ties to. Brilliant!!

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You're just attacking the party now. You can't attack their platform, but instead just their party.

Don't forget of course harper is far from a friend of quebec

You have to be joking right now.

This is what you live for.

This is you with the party names switched.

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Something you obviously don't understand, by your own decision-making and refusal to even understand the thinking people who disagree with you have.. people look in their bank accounts and see more money than they had with Liberals (i.e. less money being taken away), or in some provinces, than the NDP. In the end, this matters far more than the other politics people who tend to make no money elevate above others. To dismiss their line of thinking is to flat out ignore a rather large amount of the populace who voted for Harper. And yet again, if Harper gets re-elected, I have little faith on these forums people will comprehend why. They'll likely poo-poo it off as "must be afraid of ze terrurists".

One, I'd be surprised if even half the people voting Conservative actually ended up financially ahead. You may have, heck, most of the Con supporters in this thread may have for all I know but vast swaths of people, including those in Conservative ridings are further behind than they were 8 years ago. The country as a whole is further behind. Which leads me to point two...

At what cost? It seems the right winger 'nirvana' is 'enjoying' all sorts of money under a totalitarian government, surrounded by poor and sick people in a polluted environment. Fun...

And for the record not all people who make money, lean right.

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One, I'd be surprised if even half the people voting Conservative actually ended up financially ahead. You may have, heck, most of the Con supporters in this thread may have for all I know but vast swaths of people, including those in Conservative ridings are further behind than they were 8 years ago. The country as a whole is further behind. Which leads me to point two...

At what cost? It seems the right winger 'nirvana' is 'enjoying' all sorts of money under a totalitarian government, surrounded by poor and sick people in a polluted environment. Fun...

Under a liberal government Canada was the laughing stock of the developed world as far as the environment was concerned. Remember Kyoto?
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One, I'd be surprised if even half the people voting Conservative actually ended up financially ahead. You may have, heck, most of the Con supporters in this thread may have for all I know but vast swaths of people, including those in Conservative ridings are further behind than they were 8 years ago. The country as a whole is further behind. Which leads me to point two...

At what cost? It seems the right winger 'nirvana' is 'enjoying' all sorts of money under a totalitarian government, surrounded by poor and sick people in a polluted environment. Fun...

I didn't vote for Harper last election. Yes, I'm financially very well off, or I should say, "we" because my wife makes about as much as I do (and I vote primarily on paying as little taxes as I have to, which is already half of my salary), but this isn't about me, it's about understanding why people vote the way they do.

But.. the good news I suppose for you or others here is it seems people are ready for a change in parties (which doesn't amount to much). The shift in political waves are clearly in favour of an NDP minority or majority, but I can already see the whining happening should Harper retain, starting off with "religious nuts", "people scurred of da terr'ists", etc.

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I didn't vote for Harper last election. Yes, I'm financially very well off, or I should say, "we" because my wife makes about as much as I do (and I vote primarily on paying as little taxes as I have to, which is already half of my salary), but this isn't about me, it's about understanding why people vote the way they do.

But.. the good news I suppose for you or others here is it seems people are ready for a change in parties (which doesn't amount to much). The shift in political waves are clearly in favour of an NDP minority or majority, but I can already see the whining happening should Harper retain, starting off with "religious nuts", "people scurred of da terr'ists", etc.

Frankly one of the biggest reasons I see people voting conservative around here is that they consider themselves 'conservative' people with 'conservative' values with little regard for what the party actually does, long term consequences be dammed. Is a very ignorant and shallow way to vote.

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One, I'd be surprised if even half the people voting Conservative actually ended up financially ahead. You may have, heck, most of the Con supporters in this thread may have for all I know but vast swaths of people, including those in Conservative ridings are further behind than they were 8 years ago. The country as a whole is further behind. Which leads me to point two...

At what cost? It seems the right winger 'nirvana' is 'enjoying' all sorts of money under a totalitarian government, surrounded by poor and sick people in a polluted environment. Fun...

The biggest problem with the conservative government, is that the conservative government has been in power since 2006.

People are putting the blame of a global trend in the hands of the conservatives.

The world has grown at a snails pace since the Great Recession of 2008-09. Emerging markets have taken manufacturing from the developed world and like it or not it's killed our diversity.

Look around the globe, all of Europe, the USA, and now China have struggling economies.

If we were an anomaly, one of the only developed countries struggling economically today, maybe i could point to our government. That's just not the case.

It amazing that we are even having a balanced budget conversation. Considering the amount we are taxed, we are a seller in what has been a buyers market the entire conservative term. I really don't think we have under performed in relation to our peers by any means.

We have no way of knowing what could have been otherwise.

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From reading all of these (even Warhippy novels) one can surmise that no one party in Canada is really any good and that the majority here feel like change is overdue.

It amazes me that people can differ on who should be elected IF one particular party had our countries interest at heart.

I guess none of them really do. Here my agenda, my backers want this done. Say the right things, get elected and then f*ck it for 4 years and hope it doesn't implode along the way.

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The biggest problem with the conservative government, is that the conservative government has been in power since 2006.

People are putting the blame of a global trend in the hands of the conservatives.

The world has grown at a snails pace since the Great Recession of 2008-09. Emerging markets have taken manufacturing from the developed world and like it or not it's killed our diversity.

Look around the globe, all of Europe, the USA, and now China have struggling economies.

If we were an anomaly, one of the only developed countries struggling economically today, maybe i could point to our government. That's just not the case.

It amazing that we are even having a balanced budget conversation. Considering the amount we are taxed, we are a seller in what has been a buyers market the entire conservative term. I really don't think we have under performed in relation to our peers by any means.

We have no way of knowing what could have been otherwise.

Yeah.

If Canada is to compete with these low paying countries it signs FTA's with it has to actually be enticing to want to produce in the country. It's obvious a number of provinces run by non conservatives have been chasing production away because of these mind boggling tax policies.

To have higher standards with agreements with countries that have lower standards one has to accept that this country will lean more like the US toward consumption and debt rather than production savings and investment. Unlike the US though the unemployment will skyrocket.

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The biggest problem with the conservative government, is that the conservative government has been in power since 2006.

People are putting the blame of a global trend in the hands of the conservatives.

The world has grown at a snails pace since the Great Recession of 2008-09. Emerging markets have taken manufacturing from the developed world and like it or not it's killed our diversity.

Look around the globe, all of Europe, the USA, and now China have struggling economies.

If we were an anomaly, one of the only developed countries struggling economically today, maybe i could point to our government. That's just not the case.

It amazing that we are even having a balanced budget conversation. Considering the amount we are taxed, we are a seller in what has been a buyers market the entire conservative term. I really don't think we have under performed in relation to our peers by any means.

We have no way of knowing what could have been otherwise.

This is what so many seem to not understand. Outside of Germany Europe is pretty much broke, the u.s went through a major recession that unbelievably didn't harm Canada near as much as most thought it would. Chinas growth has massively slowed down and at the same time the world has to much oil.

And in Canada we have a balanced budget, universal health care, lower taxes then previous governments and all sorts of social programs for women, children, less fortunate, etc. All in all this Government has been pretty decent.

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This is what so many seem to not understand. Outside of Germany Europe is pretty much broke, the u.s went through a major recession that unbelievably didn't harm Canada near as much as most thought it would. Chinas growth has massively slowed down and at the same time the world has to much oil.

And in Canada we have a balanced budget, universal health care, lower taxes then previous governments and all sorts of social programs for women, children, less fortunate, etc. All in all this Government has been pretty decent.

Last fiscal year it's been close to balanced.. however the last handful of years before that the fiscal deficit was ridiculous. I think Harper can see the writing on the wall so he's finally caving on fiscal responsibility after so many years of fiscal inanity. It's really sad that this is what it takes for him to finally be somewhat of a fiscal conservative.
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Last fiscal year it's been close to balanced.. however the last handful of years before that the fiscal deficit was ridiculous. I think Harper can see the writing on the wall so he's finally caving on fiscal responsibility after so many years of fiscal inanity. It's really sad that this is what it takes for him to finally be somewhat of a fiscal conservative.

To be fair there was a global recession.Take a look at the deficits of the USA, Britain, France, Japan, etc. Pretty hard to run balanced budgets when you are one half of the two biggest trading partners in the world and your partner is in massive record debt and huge unemployment.

Years and years of previous governments majority of those being Liberal have always depended on the USA for trade. So again all in all considering most all other developed countries were far more worse off then we were kind of shows you that conservatives fiscal management wasn't that bad. Keep in mind they also lowered taxes during all this.

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This is what so many seem to not understand. Outside of Germany Europe is pretty much broke, the u.s went through a major recession that unbelievably didn't harm Canada near as much as most thought it would. Chinas growth has massively slowed down and at the same time the world has to much oil.

And in Canada we have a balanced budget, universal health care, lower taxes then previous governments and all sorts of social programs for women, children, less fortunate, etc. All in all this Government has been pretty decent.

Even the strength of the USD and their supposedly recovering economy doesn't impress this guy.

They can have their 14 trillion in debt from their unprecedented economic stimulus and Obamacare that still hasn't balance the books.

I'll take our long term Health over theirs any day.

I can't think of too many examples where government stimulus has physically payed for itself in the last 30 years.

Yet the NDP wants to pump out infrastructure like its 1916.

Ask Japan how that turned out or countless other retarded governments.

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To be fair there was a global recession.Take a look at the deficits of the USA, Britain, France, Japan, etc. Pretty hard to run balanced budgets when you are one half of the two biggest trading partners in the world and your partner is in massive record debt and huge unemployment.

Years and years of previous governments majority of those being Liberal have always depended on the USA for trade. So again all in all considering most all other developed countries were far more worse off then we were kind of shows you that conservatives fiscal management wasn't that bad. Keep in mind they also lowered taxes during all this.

He gets no benefit of doubt, warhippy will post 17 links of how the deficit was spend on covering Duffy's footprints and paying for Harper to go to hockey games, rather than bailing out Greece and paying for people to live at home with their mom.

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He gets no benefit of doubt, warhippy will post 17 links of how the deficit was spend on covering Duffy's footprints and paying for Harper to go to hockey games, rather than bailing out Greece and paying for people to live at home with their mom.

You're like a cartoon version of a conservative parrot.

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He gets no benefit of doubt, warhippy will post 17 links of how the deficit was spend on covering Duffy's footprints and paying for Harper to go to hockey games, rather than bailing out Greece and paying for people to live at home with their mom.

If it doesn't have to do with oil you immediately resort to childish name calling because you literally know less than nothing about this entire topic outside of oil.

The sooner people stop responding to you the better.

This is about an election, 3 parties competing to govern our country. not about oil, not about whining some pathetically simplistic and incorrect diatribe about the NDP you've been stupid enough to lap up from Canada's right your whole life

But an election with real world issues.

Until such time as you can actually wrap your head around that please, just go away

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