Affordable housing and tuition fees were each given $1.5 billion, $900 million for foreign aid, and $100 million to protect wages in the event of bankruptcy--these are the items that were on the February, 2005 budget because the NDP party was there. Paul Martin wanted to use that money for corporate tax cuts.
During the debate Gilles Duceppe said that Paul Martin runs a NDP election campaign but when he gets into power he rules like a Conservative. This is the absolute truth and Canadians should not be misled by Martin’s rhetoric. Only the NDP party will give working Canadians the social supports that they need.
Neither the Conservatives nor Liberals would eliminate private health care as an option in a new government. Both hedged on the issue and are hiding behind the Canada Health Act. Only Jack Layton had the courage to stand up to the big health corporations and say that we will have a public health care system for all Canadians, and no hybrid system will be permitted under an NDP government. If we want public health care to be protected in this country, it’s only the NDP that will do it. That was obvious during the debate.
The Conservatives are counting on a win by default. After another scandal has surfaced, Action Canada, the Liberals are losing credibility by the day. The Conservatives are standing in the sidelines waiting for the Liberals to fall. They have no new vision for Canada and are simply making election promises that we know won’t be kept. If the Conservatives form a government, you know that Harper will become a willing pawn for the Americans, just as Mulroney was in the 80’s. Remember that Harper voted for Canada to enter the war in Iraq in 2003--how many Canadian lives would have been lost by now in that illegal war?
The NDP party is the only party with integrity and a Canadian vision for Canada. A debate is only talk: actions speak louder than words. The NDP party will give us action.
[Proofreader's note: this article was edited for spelling and typos on January 11, 2006]
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I watched the debate... gotta say that was the funniest part by far. I don't think I've ever laughed watching a federal debate before.
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"We are all in this together somehow, some more than others somehow"
Nazi Swastikas emblazoned upon American flags. American flags hung upside down. American flags burned. American flags urinated on. Signs made/displayed with anti-American hate slogans and swastikas upon them. Huge crowds chanting vile hate slogans directed against people of American national origin...American citizens including small children terrified...run "oot" of Canada...no hate crime charges (bigotry) for doing this to people solely based upon their national origin...police okay with all of it...Parliament okay with all of it...the RCMP okay with all of it...in fact political leaders instigating, leading...whipping them up into a hateful fervor...Jackal Layton...NDP/Liberal coalition...terrorizing Americans in Canada's capitol city..right by Parliament Hill...the Capital...the "PEACE TOWER", lol...OMG!!!
WHY?
HATRED OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAS BECOME INSTUTIONALIZED AND IS STATE SPONSORED IN CANADA.
Yes...THAT Jackal Layton. That's our boy alright...saw it, heard it all....Jack Layton (eh)...won't ever forget him. And I've been telling as many people in America "aboot" him and his fellow Candian hate whores ever since (eh). Toodles.
Polite
Tolerant
Progressive
Enlightened
Peaceful
Multicultural Mosaic
Adnauseum...adnauseum...adnauseum...wouldn't it be just GREAT if Canadians really COULD be those things they brag that they are? Just ONCE??? Possibly? Maybe? Perhaps just ONCE??? Please Canada. Please try it all on for size some day, okay? You may actually find it feels good to actually BE those things as opposed to merely braying to all you can force to listen that you are those things. TRY it. Please? thanks.
Jack Layton performed really well. Martin lost the campaign, nervously dancing around behind his podium while taking it on the chin from Jack. Too bad the cameras didn't show more of Martin's body language. He's tired, desperate, and not worth splitting votes away from the NDP.
Harper doesn't really say anything new. He will look after the wealthy and tax the poor. It's essential for Layton to have enough members to stand up to him - the Liberals won't be able to!
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<a href="http://www.canadaka.net/link.php?id=3846&x=http://www.freedumbusa.ca">http://www.canadaka.net/link.php?id=3846&x=http://www.freedumbusa.ca</a><br />
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posted/promoted on your sister NDP/CAP anti-American hate site...
Nor should they. Why must every health care worker be a unionized government employee? Why?
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*my* sister NDP/CAP anti-American hate site? I'm not sure I ever even visited it before. Oh ... I get it now ... the site is a ".ca" site, and I'm presumably Canadian ... so it's *my* site, just like this one is! <br />
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BTW, the products on that page are definitely in poor taste, as is whomever thought it belonged in the "funny" category. Still, the page is just linked in what appears to be a public discussion. Now, if I'm to be part of this blunt, collective-guilt lashing just because I carry the same citizenship as the bonehead who posted it ... hmmm ...<br />
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I find this approach to collective punishment amusingly ironic given the nature of the accusations you're making. <br />
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"wouldn't it be just GREAT if Canadians really COULD be those things they brag that they are? Just ONCE??? Possibly? Maybe? Perhaps just ONCE??? Please Canada."<br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_response_to_Hurricane_Katrina">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_response_to_Hurricane_Katrina</a><br />
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There you go!
Well, the silence that kind of effluence is usually greeted with could be seen as tacit endorsement.
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I find this approach to collective punishment amusingly ironic given the nature of the accusations you're making.
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Again MK, you often seem to choose posts from a particular point of view to express that sentiment.
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Thanks
"Again MK, you often seem to choose posts from a particular point of view to express that sentiment. "
Correct, I'm often very particular about the things I find ironic.
Where's Dr Caleb with my fries?
Here ya go oh hyper-intellectual one...
"*my* sister NDP/CAP anti-American hate site? I'm not sure I ever even visited it before. Oh ... I get it now ... the site is a ".ca" site, and I'm presumably Canadian ... so it's *my* site, just like this one is!"
Now...if it isn't TOO difficult...and you don't get whiplash doing so....turn your head to the LEFT as you read this comment...see where on the LEFT hand sidebar, the section of links to CANADA KICKS ASS??? Ummm...yeah...furthermore...Ductor Culleb has been frequenting that website promoting/pushing anti-American hatred and bigotry as "the Canadian way" (eh)...furthermore...Susan Thompson in her NDP political self promotion BRAGS aboot her "webring" of sites that form part of her anti-American hate collective..."CDM - Canadian 'Democratic Movement"..."CANADA KICKS ASS" (canadaka.net)..."Dominion/dominionpaper.ca"...yes...the collective WORST of Canada's anti-American HATE PROPAGANDA websites..YES..a WEBRING. Duh...Can-Uuuuh-Duuuh....GET IT YET??? Uhhh...they're ALL OVER THE INTERNET and THIS is the queen hate bee's nest. S. Thompson. And Culleb. And Jessica. And Katurine Wailin'-Cost'em. Go figger (like my "red-neck" spelling? (Call me corn fed or hillbilly again okay?) Bigot. And your INDYMEDIA article establishes the numbers but makes NO mention whatsoever of all the flag burning and anti- AMERICAN PEOPLE hate slogan signs, and chants, and threats...yes...even death threats. I was there tard boy. And my children won't ever come back to Canada because of it. How's THAT for hate crime results (eh), oh "progresive", "enlightened", one??? Pretty good result for you all (eh)??? Running off kids because of their NATIONAL ORIGIN...last time I checked your Canadian laws it was ILLEGAL to do that...BUT...seeing how it's being committed against us "evil" Americanos (eh)...it's perfectly okay by your state sponsored anti-American hate parade. Your leaders not only particpated but LED. Jack Layton being but ONE of them. And the Liberals where right in the thick of it too right along with the NDP. In fact a Jack Layton brainwashed son-in-law of mine who joined the NDeeP party particpated...and was all but have orgasms over how he actually got to "stare acroos the barricades at 'fully equiped' riot police"..oooh...how f'ing "exciting"..the kid aboot wet himself he was so happy...and he HATES any and all things American..as THIS crowd here at "vivelewehateyoudirtyamericanbastardos.ca" does...and HE is what led me here...HERE is where he got it from...and got connected to Jackal Layton his pied piper. Get a grip freak. Get a grip. It IS going to come back to roost. It WON'T be forgotten. Eh. What would YOU do for YOUR kids? Kiss the ass of those who terrorized them? Maybe YOU would. But I won't. Furthermore...I came here first POLITELY ASKING for the crowd here to stop publishing and promoting their hate agenda/propaganda against people of American national origin. They got ugly fast. And I was attacked...viciously. Jessica. Culleb (the worst of the lot). Thompson. Katurine Wailin'. I didn't even ask for an apology. Just politely asked them to stop. To consider what effect their hate messages have on ordinary people out there in the world...in Canadian society. Cause and effect. I asked them to separate their Bush attacks from the innocent people of American national origin...particularly children. I told my story. I got laughed at. And barbaricly attacked. Welcome to "polite", "peaceful", "tolerant", "progressive", "enlightened", Canada (eh). Wow. And like I said. Ever since the word has been getting broadcast all throughout America to all that will listen. Among them certain leaders in American society. And you all here have done SUCH a remarkable job of promoting how great Canadians are to the world "oot" there ever since...helping my efforts to expose you along quite nicely I might add. Pat yourselves on the back (eh). Your countrymen/women are paying the price now, and it isn't going to become any better. At this point the cat's not only "oot" of the bag, but it's run off down the street and "oot" of the country altogether. Good luck putting it back in. Anti-American hate has been "cool" to you putrid punks and has been a state sponsored control mechanism to control you ever since Trudeau. But that's not MY problem at all (anymore). It's your. You will live in your self induced fog of hate until the end of time, and noone can ever (apparently) change that. You choose to hate. Hate is your game. It is all you know. Enjoy your hate. And the consequences resulting thereof.