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SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 14 Apr 2011 07:21

apparently tweeters found Mr Harper's "stare" very creepy!


I thought it strange!


Our incumbent MP is excellent, Liberal Ujjal Dosanjh ........... but he only won by 20 votes last time. Same Conservative who almost beat him last time is running again. It will probably all come down to who can get out the Chinese vote, and she is Chinese.




Just had the tv on in the background .... so I could work on here, and hear when Vancouver scored :))


Canucks won 2-0

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JaneyCanuck

JaneyCanuck Report 13 Apr 2011 22:25

Well duh! Jack Layton is the NDP leader, of course he's any good. ;) And of course the media sideline him, and mostly show him walking with a cane -- he's just gone through treatment for prostate cancer last year and has now had hip surgery.

Audiences of young people rated him the winner of the debate, obviously.

Michael Ignatieff ... I admired some of his academic stuff, on rights theory, long before he decided to be Prime Minister and came back to Canada. (His father was a Liberal minister, he is a jetsetting academic, having lived in the UK and taught at Harvard.) But he took on yankee ways, and for instance supported the invasion of Iraq. Nonetheless he's giving a good performance as a traditional Liberal, all rights and democracy and whatnot.

I'd vote Liberal as anything-but-Harper, if I didn't live in a solid NDP riding. ;) A Liberal minority govt with NDP confidence / pressure is how this country runs best, historically.


Anyhow, the really important stuff at the moment is the Stanley Cup playoffs. Which are interminable. And which bump Coronation street off the regular schedule. So I'm going to go watch it now, since I'm here, rather than tape it as usual ...

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SueMaid

SueMaid Report 13 Apr 2011 00:17

So the 'cold and horrible' Mr Harper went back on his earlier promises? Well that's unusual for a politician. Are the other candidates any good? Apart from the accents and the names it sounds just like our pre-election debates. Same old same old.

Sue

JaneyCanuck

JaneyCanuck Report 13 Apr 2011 00:06

Want to watch some foreign politicians duke it out?

http://www.cpac.ca/forms/index.asp?dsp=template&act=view3&template_id=46&hl=e

I don't have the right plug-in, but apparently the leaders' debate for the current Canadian federal election is starting there now.

I'm off to watch it on TV!

Ah, maybe easier -- on CBC:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canadavotes2011/leaders-debate/

See the cold and horrible Stephen Harper in action. ;)

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