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mithridates
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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 Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2015 8:04 pm Post subject: Canadian election on October 19th |
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schwa
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Yap
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| Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2015 1:21 am Post subject: |
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| In terms of what he's done to Canada's image abroad & its flimsy dollar, Harper has to go. I like a lot of what the NDP & Greens stand for but their governance would be a fiasco. I'd vote Liberal. Trudeau has the smarts & heritage to be a positive change. |
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Fallacy
Joined: 29 Jun 2015
Location: ex-ROK
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| Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2015 1:47 am Post subject: |
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| I second schwa. Out with Harper, and in with Trudeau, though the rebel in me wants to see what the Bloc Q could do if given a chance. A viable Anarchy Party would be interesting. |
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mithridates
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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| Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2015 12:30 pm Post subject: |
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I wonder if Trudeau would end up being popular outside of Canada as well. I've yet to meet anyone who knows the name of a Canadian PM (only US presidents, sometimes the Japanese PM) but sometimes you get a leader who manages to transcend that.
By the way, check out what France has done for overseas residents instead of just taking away the vote:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constituencies_for_French_residents_overseas
Canada should look into this too. |
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On the other hand
Joined: 19 Apr 2003
Location: I walk along the avenue
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| Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2015 11:43 pm Post subject: |
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I wonder if Trudeau would end up being popular outside of Canada as well. I've yet to meet anyone who knows the name of a Canadian PM (only US presidents, sometimes the Japanese PM) but sometimes you get a leader who manages to transcend that.
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In fourteen years in Korea, I have only once had a Korean mention a Canadian PM to me without being prompted(and even the prompted ones were Koreans who had lived in Canada). Upon hearing that I was from Canada, the guy mentioned once seeing that photo of Margaret Trudeau sitting with the Rolling Stones, her panty-less crotch visible underneath her dress.
Presumably, this is not the type of international recognition that Justin has in mind when he speaks of Canada's former glory on the world stage. |
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littlelisa
Joined: 12 Jun 2007
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2015 3:43 am Post subject: |
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| You forgot the option "I can't vote because of Harper". Please vote him out if you can vote. |
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jvalmer
Joined: 06 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2015 5:05 am Post subject: |
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| You forgot the option "I can't vote because of Harper". Please vote him out if you can vote. |
If you're from an Alberta riding outside of Edmonton/Calgary, there really is no point in voting. Conservative/Reform candidates routinely take up like 75%+ of the votes. Damn you... you cons... |
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Ginormousaurus
Joined: 27 Jul 2006
Location: 700 Ft. Pulpit
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| Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2015 4:43 pm Post subject: |
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HARPER!
Yes, I'm from Alberta.  |
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catman
Joined: 18 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2015 9:10 pm Post subject: |
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| Never expected a Liberal majority. |
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jvalmer
Joined: 06 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2015 10:44 pm Post subject: |
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| Thank god. And I'm a born and bred Albertan. Unfortunately, rural Alberta is still staunchly con. |
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schwa
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Yap
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| Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2015 11:10 pm Post subject: |
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| I for one am pleased with the outcome. I'm as skeptical as the next guy about politicians in general but Canada needed a new face & an altered direction. |
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Plain Meaning
Joined: 18 Oct 2014
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| Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2015 11:44 pm Post subject: |
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| jvalmer wrote: |
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| You forgot the option "I can't vote because of Harper". Please vote him out if you can vote. |
If you're from an Alberta riding outside of Edmonton/Calgary, there really is no point in voting. Conservative/Reform candidates routinely take up like 75%+ of the votes. Damn you... you cons... |
Liberals sweep Canada's elections
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The Liberals control more seats in Quebec than they've had in a generation, dealing a crushing blow to the formerly ascendant left-leaning New Democratic Party.
They won at least one race in the Conservative fortress of Calgary, hometown of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, for the first time since 1968. |
Who is Justin Trudeau?
Go to the link for the picture.
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When Justin Trudeau was just four months old, then-US President Richard Nixon predicted the infant would one day follow in his father's footsteps.
At a gala dinner during a state visit to Ottawa in 1972, Mr Nixon addressed his Canadian counterpart: "Tonight we'll dispense with the formalities. I'd like to toast the future prime minister of Canada: to Justin Pierre Trudeau." |
Canada's election results mapped by district
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Fallacy
Joined: 29 Jun 2015
Location: ex-ROK
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| Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2015 12:03 am Post subject: |
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| Good bye, chicken pie. Bonjour, la poutine! |
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jvalmer
Joined: 06 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2015 8:04 am Post subject: |
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| Plain Meaning wrote: |
| jvalmer wrote: |
| littlelisa wrote: |
| You forgot the option "I can't vote because of Harper". Please vote him out if you can vote. |
If you're from an Alberta riding outside of Edmonton/Calgary, there really is no point in voting. Conservative/Reform candidates routinely take up like 75%+ of the votes. Damn you... you cons... |
Liberals sweep Canada's elections |
What are you trying to say? Look at the details of rural ridings in Alberta. The cons have a pretty solid base in rural Alberta. Those are riding outside of Calgary, and Edmonton.
The ridings surrounding Calgary, which contain large suburban towns of Calgary.
Example:
Foothills
cons - 46,107
libs - 8,149
ndp - 3,918
others - 2,753
46,107 / 60,927 = 75.7% for cons
Banff-Ardrie
cons - 40,617
libs - 16,517
ndp - 3,951
others - 2,383
40,107 / 63,468 = 63.2% for cons
Bow River
cons - 38,631
libs - 6,840
ndp - 2,619
others - 1,825
38,631 / 49,915 = 77.4% for cons
Living in these ridings, with the first-past-the-post system, it's virtually pointless voting unless you're a conservative supporter. Most of the rest of rural Alberta is pretty much similar.
On top of that the cons made it so that in this election parties no longer get federal funding based on the number of the popular vote they get.
However, living inside Calgary, or Edmonton, the Liberals, and the NDP do have a fighting chance in a lot of the ridings. |
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yodanole
Joined: 02 Mar 2003
Location: La Florida
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| Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2015 11:10 am Post subject: OK, yeah, I'm an American |
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Perhaps I'm not a real astute observer, but ( in the absence of a maple leaf tattoo on the forehead ), I don't usually just look at or listen to someone and say; "Ah, Canadian, eh?". It comes up when we get around to the "Where are you from?" thing. ( Disclaimer: I'm from the South. As far as I'm concerned, you might as well all be Midwesterners ). However ... I'm often told by Canadians that "We're not at all like Americans." ... Meh ... Eat food, drink beverages, know (more or less ) the same TV, movie, music idols, speak some form of English, ( either as a 1st or 2nd language ), whine about Korea ... Similar enough in the big picture. That said ...
What I am here to ask is "What are the defining issues in the dichotomy between liberal and conservative in Canadian domestic politics?" ( Key word: domestic ). Condensed, if you might be so kind. |
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