Canada General Discussion 1.5: The Countdown Begins

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I get a Justin Bieber vibe from Justin Trudeau.

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So there are more people who feel that Rob Ford (or basically any politician) is a greater Canadian than Carly Rae Jepsen? Please end the world.

(and apparently the idiots spelled her name wrong. Please prepare the drones)

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Anders is objectively a disgusting and repulsive waste of oxygen (who should probably have been removed from the Tory caucus if they had any sense of decency). Basically anything would be preferable to him.

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Why have Dunderdale and the PCs become so toxic in not that long a period of time?

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Why does the election have to be this year? Isn't it scheduled for Fall 2015? What does the law say?

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http://www.assembly.nl.ca/business/bills/Bill0440.htm

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Sadly the idiots in this country will probably eat it up as some great visionary policy/above-the-parties move/'working across the aisles' or whatever idiotic term(s) they hatch for this bullsh**t.

Biebertrudeau continues to be crap.

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The idea of a 'non-partisan' or 'independent' upper house is almost always retarded to begin with.

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For oakvale et al:

http://news.gc.ca/web/article-en.do?mthd=index&crtr.page=1&nid=812559

The Dear Leader is moving forward on implementing the most ridiculous of all ridiculous right-wing inanities: the "one-for-one rule".

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Please recognize my greatness (or the disgusting copyright violation from Macleans).

http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/12/20/justin-bieber-vs-justin-trudeau/

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Our mayor kicks ass:

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I guess I'll just waste my vote and vote for whichever clown the NDP puts up here then. The Belieberals continue to be total crap.

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Yeah, Poilievre has always come off as an insufferable useless hack/prick to me and I don't get why everybody loves him now. Probably because the idiot media love "young politicians" who are gonna "shake things up"

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Looks like MacDougall was right: it will be Oliver, per CBC. Hopefully just till the election. So who replaces Oliver at Natural Resources?

Do we really need one? Harper policy is letting the corporations do as they want. He could abolish it while pretneding to cut red tape.

Well, we need an oil salesman and somebody to peddle the pipelines.

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Good riddance to the worst specimen of human scum.

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I'm absolutely confident that abortion will be the top priority for swing voters hesitating between the Tories and Grits.

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Our Dear Leader had some trouble figuring out how to shake two hands at the same time (the picture doesn't do justice, but a video is hilarious):



vs.

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Hopefully there are major fireworks in the next debate between the Bloc's nutcase and the others (esp. Harper)!

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Newfoundland PCs unwilling to concede title of "biggest joke party in Canada" to the Bloc.

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My newest project is mapping religion by 2013 riding. It wqill be a long time before I can discuss with maps, but here's an interesting preliminary result.

The most Pentecostal riding in the country is Coast of Bays-Central, Notre Dame, with 19% of the riding identifying as Pentecostal!

So fetch. It's a pity people haven't made more maps or compiled more stats from the NHS data, which is still pretty interesting despite statistical issues with it. There's a ton of really interesting stuff which would be cool to map. I'd do it if I had time and the computer know-how (shockingly StatsCan are incompetent buffoons when it comes to making stats user-friendly and accessible).

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A student in one of my classes entertained us with the following big truths today:

Radical union bosses have a radical agenda and elected Kathleen Wynne
The NDP has a secret agenda of socialism
Biebertrudeau's Liberals are very clearly on the left
Tim Hudak lost because of scare tactics

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Why is Paul Calandra such a dick?

lol. I just saw the video of the QP exchange. Have the Purgatories decided to become self-parodies? If so, this is one area where I can give them an A+ grade.

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Why? NDP is set to hold most of their Francophone ridings and the LPC bombed in Repentigny even during the Chretien era.

I'm talking about Haute-Gaspésie—La Mitis—Matane—Matapédia. The Liberals performed reasonably well there last time.

That was because of Nancy Charest, a former Liberal MNA (who died in March), who had also done very well in 2008 (especially in her hometown of Matane, and the fairly anti-Bloc area around touristy Sainte-Anne-des-Monts). I would add that, to me, she did inexplicably well because I don't really get why a one-term MNA who won by a hair in 2003 would be so fetch.

The redistributed riding, where the Liberals would have finished third and the NDP second within 8% of the Bloc, takes in some parts of Gaspésie—Îles-de-la-Madeleine where the Liberals have finished strong in a lot of recent elections, though.

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"Forces et Démocratie" is a pretty weird name for a political party.

In Canada yes, but at the same time it's a very français de France kind of party name (clunky and meaningless).

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what the frig

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uOttawa campus is on 'lockdown' (just came back from campus) and the main shopping mall downtown has been evacuated. Pretty crazy, and pretty bonkers that some random guy with a rifle can enter Parliament block.