Maybe the chp should join forces with the http://www.absolutelyabsurdparty.ca/
I miss the Rhinoceros Party.
Those guys were great. I remember one of their promises in a Newfoundland Election was to pad the sidewalks on George Street with rubber and stuff. So that when you came out of a bar drunk and fell down, you wouldn’t hurt yourself.
Didn’t they run a bunch of candidates against John Turner, in his own riding? They were all named John Turner as well? It was hilarious.
That’s true democracy.
Then the Liberals changed the rules about official party status (the number of seats you needed to win, etc), so the Rhinos lost their tax-free status. It took a charter challenge or something like that from the Communists and the Christian Party to make them change it back.
One of my coworkers ran for the Rhino party against Kim Campbell in 1988…
yay rhinocerous.
green party candidate for rupert:
http://tinyurl.com/264of
liberal party candidate:
http://www.milesrichardson.ca/
ndp dude:
http://www.nathancullen.ca/
(wtf is the use of a “facilitator and strategic planning consultant”?)
christian heritage party :
http://www.rodtaylor.ca/
I’ll have to see how all of these dudes stand on the no-mustache tax before I vote…
oh however could i have been so careless
It worked for Social Credit, whoops, I mean BC Liberals…
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It worked for Social Credit, whoops, I mean BC Liberals…[/quote]
Well no, there wasn’t “real change” at all, was there?
The permanent forced smile of Grace McCarthy was replaced by the permanent sneer of El Gordo…
but at least the original Socreds had some vision… nationalized Hydro, ferries, built roads, dams, whole towns.
It’the ‘batten down the hatches, tighten your belts, full scale retreat’ , ‘things are really rotten and if you let us screw you over for just a little while’ philosophy of Reform, Conservative and the Right.
Things are pretty good and lots of us want leaders who’ll make things even better. This country’s not even half built yet, we need to keep on the path of progress.
BTW
a) Discovery had an interesting show the other night. On all the demand for FAST FERRIES around the world. But we’re led by so called business men who spent years trashing what they knew they were going to sell, so they could get the WORST price for us and make the NDP look bad. It’s what many of us are saying, give us a party with no dogma and we’ll elect them.
b) Harper is meeting often and getting praise from Brian Mulroney. That’s reason enough not to vote Conservative.
Heh, when the Feds wanted a fast ferry for the Nova Scotia-Newfoundland runs, they just um…went to Denmark and got one. Cheap. And it worked.
There’s been a small fast ferry between Newfoundland and St. Pierre for years now. France didn’t build it, though, they bought it.
I think the BC dream of starting a whole fast ferry industry was crazy.
We could have fast ferries, just go buy them.
You don’t see the BC government building cars do you? If they need a car, they go out and buy one.
the government didn’t actually build it. they just paid the shipyard. what they didn’t do is shop around because they hoped to ‘revive’ BC shipbuilding if it was successful.
It was also a violation of NAFTA, same as if Canada wanted a new destroyer. They have to justify why it should be built here. NAFTA helps prevent ‘reviving’ or ‘starting’ industry by subsidizing or preferrential contracts. The entire research and startup has to be privately funded, which is difficult when it comes to ships and aircraft and yes cars. Remember when the Canadian government bought Studebaker? It lasted another 18 agonizing months… or for Back to the Future fans Bricklin that died a slow agonizing death over two years gobbling up Nova Scotia’s taxpayers dollars.
First, the Back to the Future car was a DeLorean.
Second, the Bricklin was built in New Brunswick.
Third, I wonder about the accuracy of all your other posts.
sorry it’s hard to keep track of countries and provinces the size of postage stamps
yes it was a delorean… oops. same era, same failure…
oops didn’t auto-login. Anonymous apologies acceped I hope.
BTW: ad hominem…
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BTW: ad hominem…[/quote]
How?
“An Ad Hominem is a general category of fallacies in which a claim or argument is rejected on the basis of some irrelevant fact about the author of or the person presenting the claim or argument.”
Stating that your accuracy in posts isn’t irrelevant since you had two of them in the same post. Plus, I didn’t say you were not accurate, I just stated that I wondered about it.
ten points for Thumb!
Point being, the fact you knew i was talking about Atlantic province/ failed gullwing autos subsidized in that era is the irrelevance. Sometimes i have to count on the horseshoes-hand grenades-atomic bombs effect, because i’m used to dealing all day with people who can’t find the start button on their desktop…
It is nice to talk to people who ‘GET IT’
Shut up.
Sumbody esk in forum what is difference in Communist Party and Marxists. Communist is party uff the pipple. Marxists buncha crazy pinkos is never happy.
you pipple shouldn’t get excited about election every four or five years. my friend in Red China says he has election every molning.
hwah hwah! ees fonny!
Hey! They cut us off from Hooterville and stuck us in your riding! Who are these people? I don’t know any of them. How are they supposed to represent us when we’ve never seen or heard of any of them?
Who’s the Liberal guy? Is he an ‘insider’? How about the Conservative guy, what’s his history? Where do they all live?
We’ve had a sad string of useless politicians, be nice to have one that could actually help…