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Guy Courchesne
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 Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 1:36 pm Post subject: Did you bother to vote, Captain Canuck? |
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| Not sure how many Canadians we are in here. Did anybody vote in this election? I found the process to do it from Mexico not very user friendly. I was just over the 5-years-abroad-limit and couldn't vote anyway. |
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ls650
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| Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 1:57 pm Post subject: Re: Did you bother to vote, Captain Canuck? |
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| Guy Courchesne wrote: |
| Not sure how many Canadians we are in here. Did anybody vote in this election? I found the process to do it from Mexico not very user friendly. I was just over the 5-years-abroad-limit and couldn't vote anyway. |
I looked at the posted rules for overseas voting and I understood that folks who have declared themselves a non-resident for taxes purposes are not allowed to vote... so I didn't.
Opps maybe I'm wrong? |
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Guy Courchesne
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| Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 2:05 pm Post subject: |
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Oh, yes, I think you are right. Here's what Foreign affairs says.
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Canadian citizens may vote by special mail-in ballot, if they:
* are 18 years old on polling day, and
* have a primary residence in Canada, but are away from their electoral districts during the electoral period, or
* have resided outside Canada for less than five consecutive years, or longer if they meet certain employment-based criteria for exemption from the five-year limit
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But, points 2 and 3 seem contradictory? Can you maintain primary residence in Canada yet reside outside Canada for 5 years?
I don't think my vote would make a difference in my own riding anyway. If I were Mexican nd living in Canada, it would be easier to vote.  |
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hlamb
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| Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 2:17 pm Post subject: |
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| I applied to vote but still haven't received my ballot. Even if I get it today, there's no way it would arrive in Ottawa on time, thanks to the lovely mail system here. I live too far from an embassy to make that an option. Oh, well, I tried. |
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Brady
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| Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 2:10 am Post subject: |
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| I called the International toll-free number, and they told me that it'd be easier if I just voted when in the advanced polls when i was home for christmas, so i did it that way, not that this info's really of any use to anyone now... |
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samizinha
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| Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 2:20 am Post subject: |
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Considering the only mail that makes it to and from my door in Mexico is in the form of a bill, I did my patriotic duty of boycotting Steven Harper by voting at the advance polls as well. I have a bad feeling about Monday.  |
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Guy Courchesne
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| Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 2:30 am Post subject: |
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I'm gonna call a conservative minority government for the outcome. Liberals in opposition, Bloc a close second and NPD where they belong...clinging like barnacles to the boat of government.
Should make for an interesting, oh, 10 months before the next election. Minority governments I like, but they don't survive long in peacetime. |
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Michael188
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| Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 3:53 pm Post subject: |
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Guys,
I am still in Canada and plan on teaching English in Mexico starting August, but with the ways things are at the moment with the current election, I think it might leave on the morning of Tuesday Jan. 24.
Guy, your call of a minority conservative government is way off. It will be a majority. The liberals have done everything wrong. The conservative�s have done nothing. I mean it. They just sit back and let the liberals dig their own grave. I live in Quebec. The Bloc is going to get a big shock this time around.
The conservatives are so confident that yesterday Harper already started to blame any potential failures to keep campaign promises on the Liberal appointees to the Senate, the Supreme Courts and senior positions in the civil service as opposition to change. Here we go.
Martin is a dead. Harper will be our new PM. God! We should have a poll �Who is dumber Stephen Harper or Dubya?�
You guys are lucky being in Mexico already. I am envious. 
Mike |
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Guy Courchesne
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Yeah, I've been trying to keep up through CBC.ca I'm still hoping most of Ontario remembers Mulroney. Who would take Quebec if not the Bloc? Atlantic Canada practically lives off Liberal handout money...would they bite the hand that feeds them?
Still hoping and calling for a minority gov. |
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Justin Trullinger
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| Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 5:26 pm Post subject: |
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Don't know Harper, but if there's even the slightest chance that he might be dumber than Dubya, may God help you.
Justin |
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RyanS
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Harper is one of those leaders that doesn't stand up for his country's interests and just allows Washington dictates to control the nation. I hope its a minority government  . Else healthcare, education. social programs, and the ecomony is going to shit. I live in a really bad riding. We even have a Fascist running in our riding! Scary shit! |
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Brady
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| I gotta agree with Guy, minority conservative government, but i can't agree with the whole "NDP where they belong" stuff. They can't govern the country, but they are needed to keep a balance in the house. And if it's a majority conservative gov., well lets all start learning the words to the star spangelled banner |
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Guy Courchesne
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| the words to the star spangelled banner |
Good idea. May I? With a Canadian twist?
O say, can you see, by the winter dawn's 10 AM or later light,
What so mediocrely we hail'd (politely) at the twilight's last gleaming (round 3 PM)?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous, yet polite argument,
O'er the snowplow-made snowbanks we watch'd, were so gallantly streaming?
And Mr. Harper's red glare, with Duceppe bursting in de (h)air,
Gave proof thro' the night that GST was still there.
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the highly-tax'd and the home of poutine?
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RyanS
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| Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 5:55 am Post subject: |
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| stop loooking at me guy!!!!!!! Ahhhh!! Hes staring at everyone of my posts. |
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Guy Courchesne
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| Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 1:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Yeah, I have to fix that...sorry. There... smaller, but you still get my O Rly? look. |
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