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| Renegade | Apr 23 2011, 06:20 PM Post #1 |
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| Bellero | Apr 23 2011, 07:29 PM Post #2 |
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Still not as bad as the libs under Chretien or should as say the libs in general. Power will corrupt any party anyway. The Torie will still be getting my vote. |
"A feather fell from the sky. The eagle saw it. The deer heard it. The bear smelled it. The coyote did all three."
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| Bellero | Apr 23 2011, 07:30 PM Post #3 |
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For those with a short memory; Liberal Party history The Liberals have evolved the practice of denial to a new level, even completely ignoring their major blunders such as: EH-101 HELICOPTER CANCELLATION FIASCO: Upon taking power in 1993, the Liberals killed a contract to replace the aging Sea King military helicopters. Few remember the cancellation cost taxpayers a $500 million penalty. Chretien, Martin and the Liberals persisted in denying their failure to get adequate replacements for the aging Sea King helicopters used by the navy for maritime search and rescue. The 40-year-old, accident-prone Sea King choppers are still in use. CFPSA/PSSA/RCMP Pension funds: Paul Martin made a name for reducing the national debt, many Canadians are unaware, the Liberals did this by taking the surplus (AKA-good management) of the Military, RCMP and Public Service pension funds and using it to publicly demonstrate they reduced debt. HEALTH CARE: While the Liberals portray themselves as the guardians of our national health care system, it was Martin's $25 billion cuts to health care funding when he was finance minister in the early 1990s that led to the crises in the health care system today. TAINTED BLOOD SCANDAL: Millions of dollars in federal funding was not transferred to victims; therefore many victims have died. RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL ABUSE CLAIMS: Of the $200 mil. spent on claims administration; only $38 million went to the victims. PENSION FUNDS LOST: Military veteran's and widow's of veterans lost their pension funds to the Liberal govt. EMPLOYMENT INSURANCE FUND SCANDAL: $44 billion in excess contributions were placed in a Reserve Fund which was contrary to the federal government's own guidelines. LAX IMMIGRATION STANDARDS: The feds can't find thousands of failed refugee claimants, some with links to terrorism and organized crime . TRANSPORTATION FUNDS LOST: Under the Liberals, our national air and rail carriers live from one crisis to crisis. Yet the federal govt. gathers billions of dollars in fuel tax revenues while investing very little into transportation infrastructure. Our roads need improvement. BUYING ADVICE: Liberals spent $6.5 billion annually on outside consultants - to buy "advice" which is largely available from within the public service during their rule 2000 FUEL REBATE: A botched $1.4 billion heating fuel rebate program doled out cash to the wrong Canadians. At that time, Minister of Finance, Paul Martin, announced the gift just before the 2000 federal election. The Auditor General later discovered that as little as 18% made its way to low income Canadians. Some rebates went to dead people, some to prisoners and students who were living at home and didn't pay heating bills. 2000 HRDC: Calling accounting problems "widespread and serious," the auditor general revealed in 2000 that $1 billion was mismanaged in job creation grants handled by Human Resources Development Canada, under Minister Jane Stewart. A recreation of the paper trail later found only a few million was improperly disbursed. 2002 CHALLENGER JETS: The Liberal government spent $101 million on luxury Challenger jets deemed unnecessary by officials at the Department of National Defence. An Auditor General's report said the purchase was rushed through on the last day of the fiscal year in 2002 which broke purchasing rules. 1995-2005 GUN REGISTRY: Originally forecast to cost $2 million in 1995, the Auditor General predicted in 2003 that actual costs would escalate to $1 billion by 2004-2005. Calculations now suggest the costs have actually ballooned to $2 billion. While the gun registry makes "paper criminals" of law-abiding Canadians and tracks them, the same law does not call for tracking real criminals with firearms prohibition orders issued against them. Liberal firearms laws have done nothing in a decade to improve our revolving door justice system. COALITION FOR GUN CONTROL: The Liberal government secretly funds the supposedly (non-governmental organization) Coalition for Gun Control which then lobbies the federal government for stricter gun control laws. 2003 RADWANSKI AFFAIR: Inadequate oversight and spending controls allowed former privacy commissioner George Radwanski to rack up thousands of tax dollars in lavish lunches and luxury travel. The auditor general also found that Radwanski and executive staff were improperly cashing out vacation, overbidding for expenses and creating a hostile work environment. 2004 SPONSORSHIP: The auditor general revealed that up to $100 million of the $250 million federal sponsorship program went to Liberal- friendly advertising firms for little or no work. The program was established to boost the national profile in Quebec after the 1995 referendum on sovereignty. However, a new figure of $355 million is from the forensic accounting firm, Kroll Lindquist Avey. This firm has looked in the past for money from such people as Saddam Hussein, the Marcos family and de-throned Panamanian strong man Manuel Noriega. It would be wise to have them look for money trails in the gun registry as well. And don’t forget the former MP who should have gone to jail, but instead became our representative to Italy… "GREAT BUMWAD FIASCO": The Liberal government bought the Weston Inc. owned toilet paper plant, an eyesore property across from the Parliament Bldgs for $36 million. It was to be the a site of a future park. The Liberal govt. then leased it back to the original owner for 25 years. BLUENOSE GRANT: A $2.3 million Bluenose grant was allocated by the Liberals but $1.9 million has been siphoned off by an ad agency. FAILURE TO COLLECT GST: A seven year failure of the Liberal govt. to collect GST resulted in fraud of over $1 billion lost through loop- holes. "MEDICAL MARIJUANA BUST": Ottawa's $5.5 million contract with Prairie Plant Systems to produce "medical marijuana" for registered users was a bust. The active ingredient was so low that the "weak" pot had few therapeutic benefits and little monetary value, yet cost tax payers over $15,000 per ounce to produce. "PRIVATE" GOVERNMENT FOUNDATIONS: The Liberal govt. stashed untold $billions in "private" government foundations which are hidden from public scrutiny and beyond the reach of the Auditor General and Privacy Commissioner CSL, CANADIAN STEAMSHIP LINES: Paul Martin circumvented Canadian health, labour and safety standards by re-flagging ships from his former company CSL. Martin fired the Canadian crews on his CSL ships and replaced them with cheap foreign labour. He registered his assets off-shore in Barbados to avoid paying his fair share of Canadian taxes. Also there was $161 million in federal development money paid to CSL which was "unknown" to Paul Martin. These are some reasons Canadians must tell the Liberals we are not interested in their belief that they are best for Canada by electing a strong and majority Conservative government, as it is starting to look, in an election forced by Mr Ignatieff. Parliament is not working because Mr Ignatieff is preventing it from working. |
"A feather fell from the sky. The eagle saw it. The deer heard it. The bear smelled it. The coyote did all three."
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| Renegade | Apr 23 2011, 09:52 PM Post #4 |
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I am not impressed with liberals either. My vote is for the NDP incumbant in my riding, looks like he will get in again. NDP will do well in this election but that will probably help the conservatives. Oh well. Certainly am no fan of the long gun registry. |
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Apr 23 2011, 10:04 PM Post #5 |
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Voting NDP is to endorse the long gun registry. Jack LAyton Whipped his caucus to vote for keeping it. Wether your local candidate "claimed" to be against it is immaterial since the NDP do not allow free votes. Don't complain when your gun ownership rights gradually erode to the point where all you can own is a single shot shotgun. |
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| Renegade | Apr 23 2011, 10:11 PM Post #6 |
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I certainly do not vote based on one issue. I'm sure there are many aspects of the Conservative platform you don't support Terry but you feel the majority best suit what you believe. To each his own, that is democracy. |
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| Renegade | Apr 23 2011, 11:56 PM Post #7 |
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-In a Steven harper majority will we see the hard core values of the far-right, anti-medicare National Citizens Coalition rise up? The rich will get the best health care, damn the rest. Let's grow the gap between rich and poor. -Watch the further erosion if democracy. Harper stated he would get rid of the Candadian Wheat Baord "one way or another" This kind of strategy is evident throughout in a leaked Conservative manual designed to disrupt parliamentary committees; in his firing or muzzling parliamentary watchdogs (including Linda Keen for nuclear safety); in stacking the Senate allowing unelected senators to defeat MP Bruce Hyer's Bill C-311 on climate change (passed by the elected House) without debate, etc etc etc. The list goes on and on. -The Harper Government was found in contempt of Parliament for refusing to reveal needed information resulting in the present election. It is his way or no way. He has promised with a majority to eliminate parliamentary subsidies to political parties based on the number of votes they receive, another blow to democracy as the Conservative party with the richest voters will always be ahead financially. Do we really want the wealthy governing for the wealthy? -Harper does nothing to elleviate poverty. The Harper government inherited a 13 billion surplus from the previous government yet immediately cut programs to combat poverty. In 2009 a bipartisan Senate committee made 74 recomendations to end poverty in Canada, all rejected by Harper goverment. The NDP are trying to alleviate poverty for laid off workers and with Bill C-501 get laws in place to safegaurd pensions and severence when companies go into bankruptcy. Sorry but trickle down economics is not the way to go, look at the US for a prime example. Yes, I wish the gun registry was dead too but man, the Harper Government as Steven would like to be branded is about as scary as a government can get! That is just my opinion and the opinion of the majority of Canadians. |
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Apr 24 2011, 12:29 PM Post #8 |
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It doesn't matter who you vote for they are ALL a bunch of lyieing, BSing tell you what you want to hear, stab you in the back self loathing pension padding pieces of $hit. I don't trust any of them. I do want to see the long gun reg. history though, and if I ever saw that usless ugly mug ignatiuf laying in the ditch on fire I wouldn't pi$$ on him to put it out |
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Apr 24 2011, 07:14 PM Post #9 |
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ya that about sums it up for me
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