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...--politicians, academics, and the electorate alike--scrambling to figure out the constitutional...
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Derek Rolstone needs to learn how to relax. Manitobans are hardly complacent and don't need to be told they are from a bitter, ex-pat right-winger living in Alberta. "Tax-and-spend" NDPers? How unoriginal. From what I've heard, Alberta is hardly Paradise on Earth. Does the term "user fees" mean anything to you, Derek? It seems you have to pay through the roof for almost everything in your new province. It wouldn't be a loss to any of us if you chose not to come back. Good riddance to negative people and their usual sour grapes. In looking for someone to blame for the Tory loss, the fingers point at everyone but the culprit. Catherine Mitchell, in her May 23 column, For the PCs, tomorrow is a new day, blames the NDP, "sufficient coin in the pocket" and by proxy the stupid electorate for...
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The Bush administration never intended to honour the outcome of fair and transparent elections in the occupied territories. The embargo, designed to punish the electorate for its choice, was the first step toward crushing new democratic institutions. The second has been to find collaborators for the American agenda and to supply them with advisers, funds and weapons for their campaign of destabilization. The final step will be to truncate Gaza from any proposed Palestinian state and make it a de facto prison for all "undesirable" aspects of Palestinian nationalism. This will culminate in provocations designed to trigger a military response from Israel, which will "justify" a war on Gazans. This would be tragic for all concerned, and the international community, especially the Arab Leagu...
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... intended to please the Canadian electorate. . First, the new security rhetoric has been consi...
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Aboriginal candidates didn't fair well in the riding during the last election. Three of the five candidates battling for the seat--incumbent MP Rick Laliberte, who ran as an independent, Earl Cook for the NDP and Al Ducharme for the Liberals--were Aboriginal, but none drew enough votes to win. But those results don't concern [Gary Merasty] or [Anita Jackson]. I think in the last election, the majority of the support went to the Aboriginal candidates, it was just split. So this time there will not be a split," Merasty said. "There's a huge outpouring of support for myself and my candidacy and the Liberal Party, based on the policies that have been announced and worked on and the relationships established over the years. So we're quite confident that the electorate will come out and incr...
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In the letter, the professors dismiss as inconsequential that [Stephen Harper] "did nothing technically wrong." The prime minister abuses his authority when he makes "cavalier use of the discretionary powers entrusted to him." Our system requires that the prime minister exercise "self-restraint," and avoid using parliamentary rules for "nakedly partisan" purposes. He then goes on to explain the process for replacing a government without an election. If the government falls, the Governor General can ask the opposition to govern. [Peter Russell] stresses that this would be no "usurpation" of power, and that it is "disturbing" that "people who should know better" disagree. Wasn't the Liberal-led coalition acting in a manner that would be "nakedly partisan"? Wouldn't the installation of the...
... of the coalition have weakened the electorate's ability to choose its government?. These sorts o...
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OTTAWA - A polarized electorate may be tilting toward the federal Liberals at the expense of Stephen Harper's Conservative government, a new poll suggested Monday.The Canadian Press Harris-Decima survey compared attitudes toward the Tories and Liberals in a head-to-head, two-party format. Harris-Decima president Bruce Anderson told The Canadian Press the poll, conducted last Thursday through Sunday, was premised on the idea of a sharply polarized election campaign in which the ballot question becomes a stark choice between the incumbent Tories and the only practical alternative.
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...Lord Byng could not set before the electorate all the facts and considerations on which he based...
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I note from the front page of Tuesday's Free Press that Manitoba's senior Liberals wanted their next leader elected from grassroots support, and not a coronation of [Michael Ignatieff]. Strange that they would not support the same right of the Canadian electorate to select their government. Is it because most of them supported Bob Rae and the coalition? Bartley Kives wrote an informative article on how charitable foundations are coping with their lower assets. The Thomas Sill Foundation, however, offers one correction. It is our pleasure to work with wonderful charities throughout Manitoba, not just those in "Winnipeg and southern Manitoba." We are the only foundation in Manitoba with this breadth of geographical effort. Serving the people of the North is a particular delight. The CPP F...
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I'm not looking forward to voting," said [Jennifer Gibson], a long-time Liberal. "I wish we had a way to reduce our carbon footprint without having to face higher taxes. I believe in the carbon tax as a policy but I just don't think the Liberals can resist the temptation to spend the money on expensive programs. I'm going to have to really think about this. Environmentalists in B.C. fear that [Gordon Campbell]'s soft sell on the carbon tax may be his undoing on the issue. Andrea Reimer, head of B.C.'s Wilderness Committee, said the B.C. Liberals sprang the carbon tax on the electorate earlier this year with virtually no warning. In fact, Reimer noted, up until the spring budget, Campbell had rejected the notion of a carbon tax. Similar to concerns about Campbell, proponents of a carbo...
