AVCANADA Election Poll!

[Topspin]

Let's see your vote. I can't believe nobody's done this yet.

Poll edited for North Shore

[North Shore]

How about Christian Heritage Party and the Western Block Party - official parties as well, in my riding? And then there's 'None of the above' also a good choice in some places..

[swede]

I think since misc./political was moved practically out of sight on the index list this site has become so bland and boring no one even bothers with it.

[Nark]

I did my part as an Avcanad-ian citizen. Too bad I can't vote in the real thing. So I guess there is at least +/- 1 error in this poll.

[mantogasrsrwy]

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[mantogasrsrwy]

I'm not usually with Swede, but I think it was stupid to move the political forum to the bottom. Was it supposed to cool the debate off? I'm suprised I haven't seen anyone mention its movement till now.

[Four1oh]

Gee, as far as I noticed, this is an aviation site, so why should off-topic forums be at the top or near the top? I applaud the move, to be honest. If you want to go cause shit in the political/misc forum, it's still there...

[Dust Devil]

I come here less because of it being moved. Maybe that's a good thing.

[niss]

Apparently I am one of the few people on this forum smart enough to fly an airplane AND bookmark a website.

Look who is wearing the clever pants now!

[mantogasrsrwy]

Regardless....it's the second most popular forum on the board.

[Topspin]

Apparently I am one of the few people on this forum smart enough to fly an airplane AND bookmark a website.

Look who is wearing the clever pants now!

You might also be the funniest poster. Perhaps we should start a poll about that as well?

[North Shore]

Niss, dude, you're getting married - you no longer wear pants of any sort... that is strictly your wife's prerogative.

[Dust Devil]

Apparently I am one of the few people on this forum smart enough to fly an airplane AND bookmark a website.

Look who is wearing the clever pants now!

do you need a ppc to bookmark a website?

[niss]

I will be selling Bookmarking PPCs to people and will only hire 10% outside. 90% of bookmarkers will be hired from within our company.

[JakeYYZ]

. I'm voting for Harper .. for his policies of slow, incremental governorship…- a process that won't overturn the Ship of State but will transform it. Greatly transform it. I'm voting for his decentralization of powers, his return of power to the people..away from the Liberal elitist circles in Ottawa-Montreal. I'm voting for his integrity and principles. I'm voting against the class based political system of the Liberals/NDP (Greens don’t count).
If the worldwide credit crunch/economic downturn continues its march (It will), if oil and other commodities prices continue to tumble too (they will), Canada will start going into deficit. We will then see what Harper is truly made of: A true patriot/man of the people with a real Conservative mind set (The hidden agenda?) or an opportunist politician only worried about his party's future in power (In essence, often the true weakness of a democratic system of governance).
What I'm getting at here is in order for Canada to shed some 'socialism' it will have to be forced to do so by massive lay offs of bureaucracy and program cancellations: CBC should be first on chopping block.
A bad recession/ depression seems to be the only trigger for this and other social progroms to happen...I have my fingers crossed.

[pilotbzh]

Jake you belong to 1941.... love the year, but please drop your SUV and leave with real lives, your farm would do better with todays equipement and smarth production. you can do better if you moved forward ...

[Topspin]

Jake you belong to 1941.... love the year, but please drop your SUV and leave with real lives, your farm would do better with todays equipement and smarth production. you can do better if you moved forward ...

I actually agree with him to a certain extent. There are hundreds of government organizations that are completely unnecessary. If hard times are coming, why pay for all this crap?

A quick google search yields:

http://www.lufa.ca/news/news_item.asp?NewsID=4744
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columb ... rkers.html
http://money.canoe.ca/Comment/2007/04/26/4132147.php

Hundreds of sites like this, both news stories & blogs.

Obviously we need cops, roads, health care, social safety net, etc. But the government is just too damn big, the cost to operate it is too much, and I would be surprised if the return on taxes is less than 50%. Does that necessitate voting for Harper, I don't know. I sure as hell won't vote for Dion or Layton though.

[Dust Devil]

What kills me is everyone wants all these social programs to provide places to shoot drugs and pay to raise their own kids. Yet the items the government should be looking after like basic infrastructure is falling apart.

[BibleMonkey]

I voted NDP.
Never voted for them before, will this time -lessor of four evils theory.

I can find more to bad mouth about the others-less ( this time ) about Layton.

Lib or Conservative majority will be bad-Conservative because Harpers an American foriegn policy parrot/puppet, Liberals are lost, need Jack to keep them both in check.

I might vote for the Action Party, though-I meant to go talk to that fellow in my riding.

We could bad mouth the banks and NAFTA while cleaning our unregistered rifles....

[AuxBatOn]

BibleMonkey, keep believing what the media says...

[BibleMonkey]

BibleMonkey, keep believing what the media says...

The media was taken over by the CIA in 1975 when Bush '41 was sworn in as CIA chief-you know he negotiated to have not more than 25 CIA agents in the mainstream media as part of the deal to appoint him. eh. * eyes shift back and forth*


A little more seriously-Name an American foreign policy issue that Harper disagreed with . One he stated policy on.

[Topspin]

BibleMonkey, keep believing what the media says...

The media was taken over by the CIA in 1975 when Bush '41 was sworn in as CIA chief-you know he negotiated to have not more than 25 CIA agents in the mainstream media as part of the deal to appoint him. eh. * eyes shift back and forth*


A little more seriously-Name an American foreign policy issue that Harper disagreed with . One he stated policy on.

One of the most important ones. Canadian arctic sovereignty.

[BibleMonkey]

BibleMonkey, keep believing what the media says...

The media was taken over by the CIA in 1975 when Bush '41 was sworn in as CIA chief-you know he negotiated to have not more than 25 CIA agents in the mainstream media as part of the deal to appoint him. eh. * eyes shift back and forth*


A little more seriously-Name an American foreign policy issue that Harper disagreed with . One he stated policy on.

One of the most important ones. Canadian arctic sovereignty.

I thought someone might mention that one. Harper , despite his rhetoric, is actually in agreement with the Americans on the arctic. There are a few treaties that come into play there, as you may know-the U.S is the only arctic nation that hasn't ratified the UN treaty-the one that gives you ten years to prove your claim. The Arctic states — Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Russia, have signed the Law of the Sea Convention-and the USA won't; perhaps understandably because it would muzzle or anchor their navy from freedom of action.

President Ronald Reagan refused to sign, and actually fired the U.S. State Department staff that had negotiated it-Reagan, as we may remember had built the U.S navy back up to an over 600 ship fleet.

I'm too lazy too type it up-Russia and Canada-signatories to the UN treaty had sent scientific teams to map the arctic,( spring of '07, I think ) working together to protect their mutual interest-each having ten years from ratification to geophysically prove the boundary ( Russia has less time than Canada, which is why they were planting the flag on the arctic bed a year or so ago, and validating that Losomov ( sp? ) ridge-critical to proving their claim.

Harper isn't advancing Canada's interest in the arctic-he's doing exactly what the Americans want him to-maintaining the handshake deal that Reagan and Mulroney made-the U.S wouldn't affirm or deny Canadian territorial claims-but they would still sail their Navy through Canadian waters-but they would first 'inform' Canada-and Canada in return, agreed to never deny permission.

[Dust Devil]

and the Western Block Party - official parties as well, in my riding?

I'm saving my vote for these guys till the next time the Liberals get in and reinstall their National Energy Program again aka The Green Shift.

I would quite seriously rather see Layton PM rather than Dion.

[niss]

Niss, dude, you're getting married - you no longer wear pants of any sort... that is strictly your wife's prerogative.

She has yet to take my flying pants from me!