tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7147029108490505546.post3266516363914965344..comments2023-10-05T09:42:27.834-07:00Comments on Pamela Mordecai @ Jahworld: Why imagination is necessary for governanceclarabellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18046264094193801260noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7147029108490505546.post-53345215836886101112008-10-25T16:43:00.000-07:002008-10-25T16:43:00.000-07:00Pam: It sounds as if Harper is playing the same tu...Pam: It sounds as if Harper is playing the same tune that's been played on this side of the border. At a time when it no longer pleases the audience!FSJLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15803079547494458258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7147029108490505546.post-21408043341522835532008-10-25T08:45:00.000-07:002008-10-25T08:45:00.000-07:00Hi jdid:You know my response to your comments beca...Hi jdid:<BR/><BR/>You know my response to your comments became my last post. Thanks much. P&Lclarabellahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18046264094193801260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7147029108490505546.post-20382568008590657192008-10-25T08:43:00.000-07:002008-10-25T08:43:00.000-07:00Hi fsjl:However the US moves, it will affect our m...Hi fsjl:<BR/><BR/>However the US moves, it will affect our moving up here further to the north. I think you are quite right on that... (And I fear there's much doubleness in that 'right'!) This morning's papers has Canada into deficit financing, the country having elected a leader for his steady hand, his ability to lead, the very one who a couple weeks ago was assuring us that we were fine to weather any storm, the very one who plundered the country's coffers to give BIG spenders a rebate on GST, for the rebate affected little spenders far less. Do the math. A 2% reduction in tax for people who spend $20,000 a year is $400.00. That same reduction in tax for people who spend two million dollars is forty thousand dollars. So just WHO was the cut in GST benefiting? The problem is that North Americans do so poorly in Math in school! So that fat cats would have more to spend, our great leader pushed us into an empty treasury, having inherited from the Liberals a nice little cushion of a surplus. God help us! ...as I keep saying.clarabellahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18046264094193801260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7147029108490505546.post-26516646030724361792008-10-18T17:52:00.000-07:002008-10-18T17:52:00.000-07:00Jdid, you may well be right. I don't know much abo...Jdid, you may well be right. I don't know much about Canadian politics. I suspect that if the US moves further to the left or right it may have an influence on our neighbours to the north, that's all.FSJLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15803079547494458258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7147029108490505546.post-81874750615035489032008-10-17T10:49:00.000-07:002008-10-17T10:49:00.000-07:00Clarabella if I dont laugh I would cry :-)fsjl I d...Clarabella if I dont laugh I would cry :-)<BR/><BR/>fsjl I dont think Canadians would have voted much differently if the American election outcome was known. For a lot of folk it came down to Dion just never captured our imagination. Regarding that Carbon tax the Liberals did a really bad job explaining that to us. Give us some Joe the plumber examples, and maybe it flies but the word tax just scares folks.Jdidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08493622796742761799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7147029108490505546.post-80275946817978428162008-10-17T05:23:00.000-07:002008-10-17T05:23:00.000-07:00FPTP really does not represent the will of the Can...FPTP really does not represent the will of the Canadian voter, since Canadians clearly want more than two choices. STV would be far more representative (in my reasonably humble opinion), and would give voters real power.FSJLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15803079547494458258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7147029108490505546.post-57202463395597221702008-10-16T18:45:00.000-07:002008-10-16T18:45:00.000-07:00fsjl:Some really unfortunate things this side of t...fsjl:<BR/><BR/>Some really unfortunate things this side of the border: an electoral system that vitiates the will of the voters, a Liberal leader that is hamstrung by his lack of fluency in English, and some bad packaging ('spin' again!) of his Carbon Tax plan. (Dionne Brand had a good take on this. I'll see if I can find the url for the blog.) I take your point about our election taking place in ignorance of which administration will be in place in Washington. No doubt that was part of Stephen Harper's plan!clarabellahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18046264094193801260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7147029108490505546.post-45930837114075974052008-10-16T15:51:00.000-07:002008-10-16T15:51:00.000-07:00I'd say that Harper made a bet -- that he'd seem l...I'd say that Harper made a bet -- that he'd seem like a safe pair of hands -- and lost the bet. The other part of the bet, of course, is that the election took place in complete ignorance of the outcome of the elections to be held on this side of the border on the 4tn of November. One wonders how the Canadian people would vote were the incoming American administration to be led by John McCain. One wonders if Mr Harper's blue sweater would protect him much were he to have held elections with a brand-new Obama administration?FSJLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15803079547494458258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7147029108490505546.post-51792450513555654502008-10-16T11:16:00.000-07:002008-10-16T11:16:00.000-07:00jdid:You are a man of extraordinary courage for yo...jdid:<BR/><BR/>You are a man of extraordinary courage for you clearly are laughing in the face of enormous adversity! As for Stéphane Dion, his problem is at least in some part the fault of the deux solitudes, as our GG puts it. In French he's a whole lot better than in English. Also, I'd trust him with my children, as I would Duceppe and Elizabeth May. (You and I agree that Jack looks shifty these days.) The scary part is that tough times are already here, and I really don't think this guy has the imagination. (Bite your tongue, Pam! Bite your tongue!) Bon courage to us all!clarabellahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18046264094193801260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7147029108490505546.post-67378544124850055672008-10-16T08:51:00.000-07:002008-10-16T08:51:00.000-07:00lol, all I can do is laugh. The Tories did their b...lol, all I can do is laugh. The Tories did their best to lose this election. The fact that they didnt seems more a testament of the alternative leadership offered. Dion was uninspiring, Jack seems for lack of a better word somehow shifty and well the Greens barely have a foot in the door. Harper won by default and still its only a minority. A strong Liberal party knocks his crew on their backsides in two years and another 300 million. Got to love itJdidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08493622796742761799noreply@blogger.com