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Much better. Thank you. I don't think most people worry at all about cross-breeding. It's the insertion of unrelated genes that seems to cause concern.
 
Mendalla said:
To be frank, your system seems quite ridiculous to me (and a lot of Canadians that I know, including some of US origin or who are living down there) at this point and God help the person who proposes we adopt it here. This whole primary business has become a bit of a circus in recent years (the GOP moreso than the Dems but both take some blame). It just feels like the US system is just one neverending campaign, between the two year terms for some offices and the increasingly long primary seasons.

Yes, your campaigns may be interminable but that doesn't mean 78 days is any more sensible when the parties here have leaders in place and have already pretty much staked out there positions publicly well ahead of the writ being dropped. 4-5 weeks would be plenty.
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You're right. For a long time the House or Representatives (2 year terms) have been in a perpetual campaign mode and it's pretty much become that way for the Presidency (4 year terms) and the Senate (6 years). I don't think that's healthy but I'm not sure what the alternative is.
 
Well you could switch to having a Monarch but then you would be stuck with the same "players" for a long time......um wait...never mind.
 
Another discarded thought ...

Excellent useful things when dealing with the imperfect realm ...

Imagine polity crossing de floer ... bottom line activity?
 
I occasionally get whimsical about the concept of a Benevolent Dictator for Life, then realize that the first two words, in practice, are oxymoronic.
 
"If the federal government is concerned about things that can kill Canadians, they would be prioritizing a Poverty Action Plan and an inquiry into missing and murdered Aboriginal women, amongst other things. We need to stand up against Bill C-51 and a government trying to scare us into giving up our civil liberties." -- Vancouver Deputy Mayor and City Councillor Andrea Reimer
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https://killc51.ca/?src=158226
 
UnDefinitive said:
"If the federal government is concerned about things that can kill Canadians, they would be prioritizing a Poverty Action Plan and an inquiry into missing and murdered Aboriginal women, amongst other things. We need to stand up against Bill C-51 and a government trying to scare us into giving up our civil liberties." -- Vancouver Deputy Mayor and City Councillor Andrea Reimer
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https://killc51.ca/?src=158226
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Ms. Reimer seems quite on the money with this quote.

And I don't really see any sign of Harper or Trudeau dealing with any of those issues or scrapping C-51 and related measures, hence my list being down to Mulcair and May.
 
Trudeau confessed today that his support of C51 might have been "naive". Don't see him promising to get rid of it, though. He's not half the man his father was. It's not a question of being "ready" or not.
 
Disappointed in the Greens. Last night I emailed them, and today Twittered them, with a simple question - who is the Green party candidate in Etobicoke Centre. They haven't replied.
 
May not have a candidate; I'm not sure they've got the human power to run a candidate in every riding.
 
Based on their website, looks like they have not chosen a candidate yet. No one listed for Etobicoke-Centre. I did see an article which I can't relocate right now saying that all four parties still had some nomination meetings to be held due to the early call so perhaps there will be someone by election day.
 
Mendalla said:
Based on their website, looks like they have not chosen a candidate yet. No one listed for Etobicoke-Centre. I did see an article which I can't relocate right now saying that all four parties still had some nomination meetings to be held due to the early call so perhaps there will be someone by election day.
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Okay. Thank you for checking that out for me Mendalla. I had checked their website too - but thought it just hadn't been updated.
 
BetteTheRed said:
Trudeau confessed today that his support of C51 might have been "naive". Don't see him promising to get rid of it, though. He's not half the man his father was. It's not a question of being "ready" or not.
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Yeah, i noticed he mentioned that and moved onto something else instantly. He didn't elaborate. I think he's got some of his father's charisma but not as gutsy. I was very young, born in the early 70s, so i don't remember Pierre Trudeau's policies. I remember his name and legacy and old photos of him acting like a ham for the camera, dressing dandy, the flower in his lapel, and that his wife had an affair? Or maybe it was a rumour - with Mick Jagger, and he dated Margot Kidder. Canada's most well known PM, perhaps, in the world. I don't think he was popular in Alberta, though. So, not so popular with some of my relatives there. But, I remember him as a sort of larger than life celebrity, and Justin is a more mild mannered guy. I don't dislike him - I think he did a pretty good job on Thurs. but he is too centre - right for me.
 
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Kimmio said:
Pierre Trudeau established the Charter of Rights...I did know that but learned it much later.
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Not quite, but close. Pierre (with a lot help from future PM Jean Chretien, who spearheaded a lot of the negotiations with the provinces) got it written into the constitution as part of the 1982 repatriation. There was a similar Bill of Rights passed in 1960 under the Diefenbaker government but it wasn't part of the constitution and really only applied to the federal government, not the provinces (though most provinces adopted, and still have, their own rights legislation). So, really, Trudeau needs to share credit for the Charter with Dief and others involved with that earlier legislation.
 
Thanks for clarifying. I think I was reading about it many months ago when we were talking about the Charter itself but it didn't all sink in. There was something about the conservatives not supporting it or the Libs and PCs aknowledging two different pioneers - something like that.
 
i don't know who to vote for, my party the conservatives , still has harper who ,IMO, has sat at the desk too long. I don't want to vote for NDP ,$15 a day daycare sounds great on paper but there is the socialist issue where the bulk of funding will come from govt,reducing competition and accountability and has a danger of the child becoming a commodity (don't complain its $15 after all)....too soon to bring back liberals (who claim to champion for the poor, I live in Ontario...I know poor, Libbie's can't blame mike Harris anymore...it's been too long for that)....I don't know....I would like to vote conservative if harper was given his gold watch and thank you and sent on his way...... I'm at a loss, maybe I'll abstain.(if that's the correct word)
 
And thus the sense of "it wasn't so" in the "wayback" theory ... once has to account for history even if you have a fixation on present ... or the gift of presents ... presence? It just a word silly ... if god think of the chaos suffered there from being in a state of pure emotions eternally ...

Mortals when falling into that Nous are usually upset eternally about something lost ... their thoughts?
 
I will vote for a choice person if I can find one ... in proper polity (extremism) they are rare cases as polity tends to corrupt ...

Consider the arch angel M Duffus ...
 
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