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« Reply #100 on: January 20, 2015, 05:16:24 PM »

Canada is about to have its 2nd gay Premier. Wade McLaughlin was the only candidate to run for leader of the Liberals, so he will become Premier in February.

In which province?
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« Reply #101 on: January 20, 2015, 05:21:46 PM »

Stephen Harper begins to ban charities opposed to his ideas.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/dying-with-dignity-loses-charitable-status-after-political-activity-probe-1.2919706

How many years before we become a Christian Turkey?
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« Reply #102 on: January 20, 2015, 05:24:47 PM »

Canada is about to have its 2nd gay Premier. Wade McLaughlin was the only candidate to run for leader of the Liberals, so he will become Premier in February.

In which province?

Whoops. PEI.

Oh. Then it's Wade MacLaughlan, not McLaughlin.
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« Reply #103 on: January 20, 2015, 05:55:25 PM »

Stephen Harper begins to ban charities opposed to his ideas.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/dying-with-dignity-loses-charitable-status-after-political-activity-probe-1.2919706

How many years before we become a Christian Turkey?

Speaking as an accountant, your assessment is completely wrong.

Here's a quick rundown:

1) The interpretation bulletin which guides the audits was released in the Chretien administration and is based on legislation and case law from even earlier.
2) Charities are notoriously bad at their accounting and staying within CRA guidelines.
3) Dying with Dignity themselves admit that they overspent on political activities!

Frankly, the fact that only two charities have had their status revoked is a minor miracle and hardly indicative of a Harper-Tory conspiracy.



I'll believe you when a conservative charity loses its status too.
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« Reply #104 on: January 22, 2015, 05:17:36 PM »


Well, that is very crass, but Couillard has worrying with Saudi Arabia. Someone accepting to work for the Saudi regime has quite dubious morals, I would say.

All of that is related to his refusal to meet with a Saudi prince during the economical summit at Davos about the blogger who was sentenced to 1000 whip lashes for blogging things the regime didn't liked (his family fled to Quebec). Let's say it's a lack of courage, which isn't surprising coming from Couillard. He spent the whole term hiding behind his ministers.
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« Reply #105 on: January 28, 2015, 04:13:54 PM »

Various news reports about Sun News (the Canadian Fox News) closing in two months if Quebecor doesn't find a buyer. They apparently lost 47 millions in three years since its launch.
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« Reply #106 on: February 18, 2015, 01:45:23 AM »

http://www.vancouversun.com/touch/story.html?id=10820072

Ujjal Dosanjh calls for a national licensing scheme for organized religion. 

That man can be oddly nuts at times. 

Well, he is yours, now. Liberal MP for a few years.
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« Reply #107 on: February 18, 2015, 04:39:55 PM »
« Edited: February 18, 2015, 04:47:05 PM by MaxQue »

No article in English yet, but it seems we are having our Benghasi now.

Diplomats endangered because John Baird and Conservatives used the money budgeted for upgrading embassies' security to lower the deficit.
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« Reply #108 on: February 18, 2015, 04:49:29 PM »

I am also very troubled by the fact the Engligh media is not reporting this. Are they afraid of critizing Conservatives?
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« Reply #109 on: February 20, 2015, 06:24:45 PM »

Another far-right social conservative in the Conservatives. Parm Gill (Brampton-Springdale) is opposed to sex ed in schools.

Why that riding only have terrible MPs? He replaced the even more awful Liberal Ruby Dhalla, which apparently mistreaded and withheld passports of the caregivers of her mother.

Again, no link since only French news are covering that. That pattern is worrying and shows than CBC and private media are plotting for Harper reelection.
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« Reply #110 on: February 25, 2015, 04:00:05 PM »

No wonder the Liberals seem to be there for a long time.
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« Reply #111 on: February 27, 2015, 07:09:25 PM »


I understand than white supremacy is the default position in Denmark (which have been often called in Quebec news, the most racist country in Western Europe), but Canada is multicultural. Made of French (1600), English (1700), Scottish (1700), Irish (1850), German (1900), Polish (1925), Italian, Black (1950) and now Arabs cultures.

There is no such things as "Canadian culture". Canada is a mix of different cultures who moved to Canada in various period. Than Bloc is using racism to gather votes isn't surprising, since they only care about French voters, a minority in the country. They don't like other minorities.
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« Reply #112 on: February 28, 2015, 03:51:40 PM »

This story has come to the forefront of the news in the last several days.  A judge in Montreal refused to hear a Muslim woman's case about her car being impounded because the woman refused, on the judge's insistence, to remove her hijab in the courtroom. 

http://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-friday-edition-1.2975615/a-montreal-judge-refused-to-hear-a-muslim-woman-s-case-because-she-was-wearing-a-headscarf-1.2976498

If we're so concerned about the causes of radicalization, making people feel as little at home in a society as possible merely for wearing certain kinds of clothing should be on the radar screen.  This kind of thing is only counterproductive.

Has anyone noticed that an increasing number of stories coming out of Quebec resemble what you'd expect to come out of the Deep South?

Don't blame the French nationalists for once, the judge is Italian (and Italians really don't go well with French nationalists).
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« Reply #113 on: February 28, 2015, 11:41:19 PM »

That judge should be fired. Clearly contradicts the charter. 

Indeed. This laicite crap coming from (admittedly only some of) Quebec needs to stop.

Ironically, Bernard Drainville, the father of the Laïcité Charter is opposed to the judge ruling. He thinks laicity should apply to government workers, not to citizens using them.
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« Reply #114 on: March 06, 2015, 04:45:54 PM »

Quebec Cabinet continues to be a gaffe machine, today the Transportation minister said in a meeting with a Gaspésie Chamber of Commerce than "wives were welcome to come with them (a trip of the Chamber to Montreal, where he would be the honour guest), since there is a lot of shopping malls in Montreal". Businesswomen in the room (around 30% of the audience) weren't happy.

The Premier forced himself to apologize, yet again. He has to force his MNAs to apologize at least twice each week (the other time this week was an MNA advertising on the website of an Islamic organism saying than it's okay to be violent with your wife if she is a bad Muslim. The MNA refused to remove the publicity because "they aren't an illegal organism and I want to have good relationship will all organism of my riding". Couillard forced him to cancel advertizing the next day and to apologize).

The same nonsense and amateurism every week.
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« Reply #115 on: March 06, 2015, 05:23:19 PM »

The frequency of casual sexism that comes from Quebec politicans in particular is amusing, in a sad way.

Through, really, can an American really note it? I mean, you have the Tea Party! Todd Akin...
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« Reply #116 on: March 15, 2015, 03:51:28 AM »

It makes perfect sense that MacKay would lead in a public opinion poll. He has the biggest name recognition. No one has heard of James Moore of Jason Kenney (outside of the Ottawa bubble of course). Peter MacKay on the other hand is a household name.

Of course leading with Conservative voters and leading with Conservative members are two different things.

1.Jason Kenney has been a cabinet minister for as long as Peter MacKay and is, obviously, extremely well known in the so-called 'ethnic communities.'  I don't really know why Peter MacKay would be better known than Jason Kenney, though I agree he likely is.

2.Given that leadership conventions are now one member one vote, there doesn't really need to be any difference between Conservative voters and Conservative members.  The last Conservative leadership campaign had something approaching 500,000 members.

Conservatives use a wierd hybrid where every riding has 100 points, spilt proportionnaly according to the votes of members living in that riding.
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« Reply #117 on: March 15, 2015, 04:35:06 AM »
« Edited: March 15, 2015, 04:37:48 AM by MaxQue »

Oh I forgot that.  That said, the leader isn't chosen by a delegated convention, and, as I said previously, the Conservatives claimed to have somewhere around 300,000-500,000 members in their party during their last leadership campaign.  Though the number of voters would likely have been far less, 300,000 to 500,000 members would be roughly 10% of all Conservative Party voters.  

As 97397 votes were cast, it would be a bad turnout.

Also, the method had a real effect. Harper got 69% of votes, but only 56% of points. Stronach (the daughter of Frank, see Austrian election thread) got 23% of votes, but 35% of points. Tony Clement got 8% of votes and 9% of points.
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« Reply #118 on: March 17, 2015, 12:56:29 PM »

And MacKay was the last, pre-merger, PC leader. I suspect that warrant inclusion by itself.
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« Reply #119 on: March 17, 2015, 06:12:29 PM »

Draft of the new Quebec electoral map.

http://lacarte.electionsquebec.qc.ca/en/

Main change is adding two ridings around St-Jérome (Les Plaines and Prévost) while deleting two ridings (St-Maurice in Mauricie and merging Mont-Royal and Outremont together to create Mont-Royal--Outremont, with domino effects on D'Arcy-McGee and Notre-Dame-de-Grâce).

Changes are very slight in other regions, if existing at all. Only one slight change in Quebec City...
Only 36 ridings are changing, 89 don't change at all.
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« Reply #120 on: March 17, 2015, 09:35:59 PM »

It seems odd that one specific area of Montreal would reduce from 4 seats to 3 with no domino effect in the rest of the city; surely population shifts aren't that concentrated.

Were these seats underpopulated due to some historical idea that Outremont and Mount Royal should each get their own seat?

Well, Montreal is growing slower than the province, so their seat entitlement went down one, which is new. Those seats were underpopulated (as was D'Arcy-McGee), but not enough to remove one seat unless you decide to remove one seat on the island. And both Outremont and Mont-Royal were the nameplace + part of Côte-des-Neiges.

Outremont was at -18.3%, Mont-Royal at -9.1%, D'Arcy-McGee at -13.9% and Notre-Dame-de-Grâce at -16.0%. Also, Mercier, which will receive the Plateau parts of current Outremont is at -17.7%.

Westmount wasn't better, at -17.6%. If Montreal loses another seat in the future, it will be in the East (Hochelaga-Maisonneuve -13.7%, LaFontaine -13.5%, Pointe-aux-Trembles -15.3%, Sainte-Marie--Saint-Jacques -11.7% and Viau -13.7%). But current borders make sense, so they won't be changed until the seat entitlement for Montreal changes or than one is getting too close of 25%. Why change what isn't broken?
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« Reply #121 on: March 17, 2015, 09:47:36 PM »

It seems odd that one specific area of Montreal would reduce from 4 seats to 3 with no domino effect in the rest of the city; surely population shifts aren't that concentrated.

Were these seats underpopulated due to some historical idea that Outremont and Mount Royal should each get their own seat?

Well, Montreal is growing slower than the province, so their seat entitlement went down one, which is new. Those seats were underpopulated (as was D'Arcy-McGee), but not enough to remove one seat unless you decide to remove one seat on the island. And both Outremont and Mont-Royal were the nameplace + part of Côte-des-Neiges.

Outremont was at -18.3%, Mont-Royal at -9.1%, D'Arcy-McGee at -13.9% and Notre-Dame-de-Grâce at -16.0%. Also, Mercier, which will receive the Plateau parts of current Outremont is at -17.7%.

Westmount wasn't better, at -17.6%. If Montreal loses another seat in the future, it will be in the East (Hochelaga-Maisonneuve -13.7%, LaFontaine -13.5%, Pointe-aux-Trembles -15.3%, Sainte-Marie--Saint-Jacques -11.7% and Viau -13.7%). But current borders make sense, so they won't be changed until the seat entitlement for Montreal changes or than one is getting too close of 25%. Why change what isn't broken?

OK, thanks. I suppose it makes sense if they're willing to keep a bunch of seats in the -10 to -15 range.

Well, it's Montreal. At every redistricting, provincial or federal, there is huge opposition to change anything. I think in 2004 federal, didn't all Bloc and Liberal MPs of Montreal Island asked together than there would be no change on the Island? Or I'm confusin with another provincial redistricting?
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« Reply #122 on: March 18, 2015, 01:20:23 AM »

Threshold is 25% of the quota?

Max, you should've probably just started a new thread on the other board for this Smiley



I plan to, but I wanted to write a detailed summary of changes first, which make take sometimes and I was wondering if we should instead do a thread for all provincial redistricting.
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« Reply #123 on: March 20, 2015, 03:26:01 PM »

CROP-La Presse Quebec poll:

PLQ 29%
CAQ 27%
PQ 26%
QS 16%

I suspect it would cause a minority government.
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« Reply #124 on: March 25, 2015, 07:46:46 PM »

Bell Media president banned its medias of showing CRTC (Canadian FCC) president footing and to quote the CRTC decision about forcing every cable distributor to allow customers to pick channels they want without having to pick packages.

CTV editorial board decided to ignore the decision after a few hours.

Yet, it's very creepy than some wealthy executive tries to influence information that way. Yay free market!
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