Printer's Devil on 16/10/2008 at 00:22
Quote Posted by Scots Taffer
aren't your conservatives more liberal than the democrats in the US?
Yes and no. The current Conservatives are a mishmash of Reform Party (Albertan reformers), Canadian Alliance (Reformed reformers) and Progressive Conservative (the original Canadian Torys) members. Harper (the PM) grew up in a suburb of Toronto (urban Liberal stronghold) before moving west to his current base in Calgary. Like all the major players, they govern via Royal Commission studies and a deeply entrenched federal bureaucracy, both of which can be resistant to the wishes of the ruling party. The Cons are certainly more focused on traditional right-wing concerns (business, war, mores), but the general lack of religious BS and a small military prevent them from reaching American levels of insanity.
Nicker on 16/10/2008 at 07:07
Quote Posted by demagogue
When Obama gets elected, I think it will be the first time (...in a long time? ...ever?) that it'll be American
conservatives saying they want to move to Canada. The world has gone topsy-turvy.
Got that covered.
You see, up here the Conservatives are blue and the Liberals are red. So when the neocons south of the 49th look at our riding (electoral district) maps and see a vast ocean of blue covering the prairies they will either stay home or head to the red spots and become infected by our superior Canadian sense of social justice for all.
A case of convert or die.
With regards our Tories being more liberal than American liberals... our present Conservative party is too infused with religious nutters to be the social centrists they once were. Conservative here used to be more of a fiscal philosophy - now it is more ideological.
The real issue here is that our Parliament is still designed to work as a two party system and it has not really adapted yet to the presence of four or five smaller factions. I think (and I hope) that we will seldom have a majority government in the future. If the Tories would only respect their own fixed election date law, we might get four years of decent governance in return for our X, instead of two years of posturing for the next election.
Koki on 17/10/2008 at 06:32
Quote Posted by Scots Taffer
mounted police who taste poo
Hey I liked that show! What was the name? Something with south, wasn't it?
Scots Taffer on 17/10/2008 at 06:41
Starring Paul Stuffed-Intestines.
