O’ Canada
By Patty On May 4th, 2011In case you missed it, my neighbor to the North just elected a majority Conservative government. As we all know, elections matter and it will be interesting to see how this new conservative trend in Canada plays out. From the National Post:
“Canada’s forty-first election was supposed to be about nothing. Unnecessary, unwanted, unimportant: a $300 million exercise in futility destined to produce another minority Parliament with a configuration similar to the last.
Instead, this election has profoundly changed both the composition of the House of Commons and the politics of our country. For the next four to five years Canadians will be governed by a Conservative majority government; not a Progressive Conservative government, the last of which we saw in 1993, but that of a party that consciously dropped the “p word” when it reunited its warring factions in 2003. It will also be a government which got its majority without Quebec, while facing an official opposition which draws over half its caucus from that province.”
It’s been quite the big deal here.
But Canadian conservatives are thinking people and will not deviate from the things that make Canada a strong, safe and prosperous society including
Strong gun control laws
National health coverage for all
Sensible regulation in real estate and banking
There are no knucklehead Palins or bag man McConnells or confused Tea Party mobs up here.
It’s a swell place, and I recommend all come visit.
“There are no knucklehead Palins or bag man McConnells or confused Tea Party mobs up here.”
You could argue that the old Reform Party that challenged and ultimately absorbed the existing Progressive Conservative Party between 1992 and 2004 had a lot in common with the Tea Party.
Did they support dismantling the National Health schemes or going for loose US style gun laws?
If they were for less regulation in some areas, or for lower taxes, those are things I can understand. But they wouldn’t make one into a Tea Party type i might think
The election in Canada though isn’t the rise of the right in Canada. Its the significant collapse of the centre, with the Liberals being replaced by the social democratic NDP as the second largest party.
There is a lot going on – including a big turn against the separatist bloc quebecois I understand.
They lost 3% of their vote and about 45 of their 49 seats. A lot of people, especially on the left weren’t happy about them proping up the minority Conservative Government and a lot of them jumped ship to the NDP.
A good result for Canada. And of course, Phantom is absolutely correct- Strong gun control laws, National health coverage for all and most importantly-Sensible regulation in real estate and banking, are the order of the day.
Great country with normal politics.
Huh?
3 percent did all that?
Plurality system for you. Now the Bloc only won 9% in the last election so 3% is a reduction of a third of their vote. Secondly the Bloc only contest elections in Quebec, with their vote in Quebec reducing by 15%.
This is a very successful capitalist country, with social protections.
This city of Vancouver has great wealth – attractive, new buildings, really good mass transit, many new cars, a prosperous and content population.
I’d come back
Canada is cool.
I love Vancouver- it is one of my favourite destinations.
Canada is a well run country. Sane politics.
Those are national oercentages and the Bloc is a strictly one province party
The right in Canada, like most places in the world, would actually inhabit Democrat clothes in the US.
Other then eliminating the need to register shotguns and rifles there will be no general loosening of the gun control laws. Frankly we consider american gun laws scary and insane. I own 12 rifles myself so I am not anti-gun but conceal carry and open caryy is just plain fucking stupid
Laugh out loud!
Canada has gone from being the slightly goofy and dull
“neighbour up North somewheres”,
to THE place to be..
WHAT is going on here??
Instead of “wetbacks” crossing the border into America,
are we now going to witness an exodus of “greenbacks” into Canada?!
Are Mahons and Phantom about to become “people smugglers”?!!
Will only Troll be left
all on his ownsome,
to guard the US of A?
Goodness me,
here you are going all coy and shy about Canada!
A former British colony!
(I must be having a bad dream……)
Agit8ed – Phantom and I would constitute the first Fenian Invasion of Canada since 1871. Anyway, I like the Canucks and have defended them on these pages against rightwinging ravings on several occasions.
I like the Canadians too
(I just lurve Ice Road Truckers!)
but then, I would wouldn’t I?
Seein’as how we’re related n’all,
share the same Queen
Speak the same language..
you get the picture.
You speak French?
ps.
Just lifted this from Wikedpedia,
”
Supplement given with the Weekly Freeman of October 1883
John O’Mahoney James Stephens
The Fenians, both the Fenian Brotherhood and Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB), were fraternal organisations dedicated to the establishment of an independent Irish Republic in the 19th and early 20th century. The name “Fenians” was first applied by John O’Mahony to the members of the Irish republican group which he founded in America in 1858.[1] O’Mahony, who was a Celtic scholar, named the American wing of the movement after the Fianna.[2][3][4][5] In Gaelic Ireland these were warrior bands of young men who lived apart from society and could be called upon in times of war.
The term Fenian is still used today, especially in Northern Ireland and Scotland, where its original meaning has expanded to include all supporters of Irish nationalism, as well as being used by some as a sectarian term for Irish Catholics[citation needed]. Irish nationalists, while honouring the 19th century Fenians, more often describe themselves as “nationalist” or “republican”.
No wonder you people are always arguin’
Even you definitions… aren’t!
I’m still none the wiser!
Are you and Phantom from this lot?
“In Gaelic Ireland these were warrior bands of young men who lived apart from society and could be called upon in times of war.”
Did you just kind of…get lost on your way to the bar,
and woke up in North America
with Davy Crockett hats on??
Agit8ed,
I would remind you that both are former British colonies…
Like two sons, – one to be proud of, and one to wary of!
I’ll leave you to decide which is which! …:-)
I just thought I might get a rise…..
Mais oui, monsieur!
Comme un Anglais…
You’ll need to go onto a different sort of website if you want one of those ..;)
Thought you’d gone to bed early….
Haven’t done a very good job of calming the ladies down,
have you Colm?
All hell breaking loose on the cyber front,
bombs and shrapnel raining down,
and you can’t find your helmet….
Can’t speak for Phantom but I think my crowd would have still been in Ireland at that time.
Ja
Love it.
I have a very big helmet ! But even that is no protection against Pinky and Patty in full throttle
Those Canadian Conservatives sound a bit like the (UK) Lib Dems to me.
I think Patty and her fellow Palinites-Foxites-Tea Partiers may be in for a disappointment. Let’s hope so anyway
Hi Seamus, I missed you!
Will you vote for more IRA scum this time around?
I have an aunt in Gibsons in Canada, they used to live in vancouver but retired to Gibsons, and they tell me that Canada has very lax asylum laws and that is how a lot of Al Q got into the US in recent years.
Kateyo,
or should that read…
“that Canada has very lax asylum laws and that is how a lot of disillusioned Americans got into Canada during the Nixon years…
go to montreal 3 times a year, have some ‘interst’ there, and stanley island, a beautiful place also.
Canada, a great place that still is part of our commonwealth.
Nice one.
that is history, and culture, I will desist from counter, as the prose is quite well, like a feather on the breeze on your best day with a new love……
lol
I’ve only seen Vancouver courtesy of the Merchant Navy.
I would just love to see the Grizzly bears catching salmon.
That would be something!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpIj6zyehOU
I’m not sure who the guy is in this clip,
but by the way he’s slugging it out with his opponent
….he’s probably a Fenian..
definitely, lmao
below the belt!
This is a total and complete lie propagated by the US administration to save face on their own failure to properly secure their borders.
“Did they support dismantling the National Health schemes”
They supported a serious decentralisation and the brining in of private providers.
“or going for loose US style gun laws?”
Not US style but they certainly wanted to remove some of the gun control measures in place.