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Ontario now a HAVE-NOT province, needs equalization payments
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ajgeddes



Joined: 28 Apr 2004
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 11:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Haha, I love how people talk like their provinces are now better and how they should be proud because they found oil within their boundaries.
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mindmetoo



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PostPosted: Fri Nov 07, 2008 5:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

espoir wrote:
massive deficit spending (its what up to 1 or 2 trillion now??)


Well, let's see if those surpluses we've had for the last 10 years continue.

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massive military spending (more than the next top 10 countries combined)


Which we should note has protected Canada and the rest of the free world. Say, how much would we have to spend to adequately defend our borders if we had an indifferent neighbor to the south?

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lack of any true national health care


I lived in the USA for 4 years and was well, well served by their private health plans. Medicare isn't a national health care system in the USA?
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sharkey



Joined: 12 Oct 2008

PostPosted: Fri Nov 07, 2008 9:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

espoir wrote:
mindmetoo wrote:
VanIslander wrote:
mindmetoo wrote:
I would like to see the federal government do what the American federal government does: funds cities directly.

there's very little that the u.s. government does that canada should emulate


Could you give me a top 3?


massive deficit spending (its what up to 1 or 2 trillion now??)

massive military spending (more than the next top 10 countries combined)

lack of any true national health care


its actually nearing 1 quadrillion dollars , no joke
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blaseblasphemener



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PostPosted: Sat Nov 08, 2008 2:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

wow, 8 bill for quebecers. And their uni costs less than half of the rest of Canada's. Nice that the rest of Canada is paying for their uni students. Rolling Eyes
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Bigfeet



Joined: 29 May 2008
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 08, 2008 2:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

blaseblasphemener wrote:
wow, 8 bill for quebecers. And their uni costs less than half of the rest of Canada's. Nice that the rest of Canada is paying for their uni students. Rolling Eyes


That's so French of them. Laughing

It's similar to how France sucks off the EU... and then demanded a 35-hours work week!
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Kuros



Joined: 27 Apr 2004

PostPosted: Sat Nov 08, 2008 10:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

sharkey wrote:
espoir wrote:
mindmetoo wrote:
VanIslander wrote:
mindmetoo wrote:
I would like to see the federal government do what the American federal government does: funds cities directly.

there's very little that the u.s. government does that canada should emulate


Could you give me a top 3?


massive deficit spending (its what up to 1 or 2 trillion now??)


its actually nearing 1 quadrillion dollars , no joke


Is fifty cents nearing $1,000?

The deficit from 2008 was $438 billion. The national debt from 2008 was over $10 trillion. That's still nowhere near $1 quadrillion. Unless, of course, fifty cents or $10 is considered nearing $1,000.
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