Sassmaster

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a minority government is only a recipie for another election in a year or so. I'm hoping for a conservative majority. The conservatives did a pretty good job in ontario, unless you listen to the liberals.

the liberals say that they got "left a defecit" of 4 billion, which is really funny, because the minute they got into power they cancelled 4 billion dollars in revenue generating programs.

The conservatives were spending 17 billion dollars a year MORE on health care and education than the NDP before them.

When you hear Teachers' groups say that the government has "slashed" 60 million or 100 million from education, they are saying it because they wanted 300 million more that year, and they only got 240, or 200 million extra.. the rest was "slashed" out of what they had already spent in their heads.

When the liberals got voted into power, a LOT of businesses either moved out of ontario, or cancelled any expansion plans in the province, and accounting firms started advising companies to either move, or start up somewhere else, because ontario was not closed to big business, because the liberals are well known for increasing taxes on any business.

Now ontario is in worse financial shape than it has been since the NDP were in power. with less revenue to spend on things like education and health care.

Teachers, who postponed contract negotiations with the PCs in ontario got a WORSE deal from the liberals than the PC had already put on the table.

Tim Baillie.

Looks like he is from Quebec..............close enough for me [img]graemlins/thumb.gif[/img]

Brandon

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Just becuase you are related to people who fight in wars does not automaticlly make your comments 'respectful'. In fact your comments were ignorant and disrespectful. Everyone of those persons who died during that war was there becuase the wanted to ensure that the quality of life in Canada was preserved (and they voluntered to be there). How much fun do you think life would be if Hilter took over Canada? - and no, you would not have been able to vote. </font>[/QUOTE]Well, you know what, Hitler would never have taken over Canada, thanks to the US's over-spending on their military. Besides, Hitler killed himeself, yea he'd be a real good leader of a country, comunist or not wouldn't he? Not to mention (sorry to say this and sound like a **** myself but), Hitler's contribution to science was remarkable, You people think he's so terrible, and your right...but his medical and biological science was WAY ahead of it's time and it would have taken YEARS of research to figure out what he had already proven. Would it be fun and games to be ruled by Hitler? Absolutely not, but I really doubt he'd have run this country into the ground as fast as the other "leaders" of this country, Hitler was extremely smart....too smart maybe, evil and bad, but incredibly intelligent.

BTW WWII was fought in europe...it wasn't a US/Canada problem to begin with untill the Japanese hit Pearl Harbour. The US's part in the war was a retalliation because they cut off oil supplies to the japanese, and then Canada went in to help them out. WWII started out as a Jewish,French and British problem.

Brandon

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Oh and not to mention...many, in fact, most of the people were not volunteer's....they were drafted..... or already in the Army/Navy.....get your story staright.

I'm not saying there wasn't volunteer's though, I know there was a lot of volunteer's.

fazes

wow buddy...take a ****ing history class

[ June 18, 2004, 10:20 PM: Message edited by: fazes ]

mike bisson

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Boy, are we ever off topic.... lol

Brandon -- I bet most of us have a relative or two that fought in a war somewhere sometime and God bless them we owe them alot.

Brandon, you are currently my number one candidate to read a book without pictures.

WWII was not a "Jewish" problem -- it was a crime against humanity.

By the way, no one really knew what Hitler and the ***** were doing at first. The Allies (Britain and France) only declared war after Germany invaded Poland. I have met survivors of the Holocaust -- my Stepfather's own Father still had the number engraved on his arm when I met him. It is a travesty that this is not taught in school.

If you study history enough you realize that wars are never fought for human rights -- it's all about how the powers that be get to slice up the pie.

As to the election -- I seldom vote on the basis of who the leader of a political party is -- again, if you familiarize yourself with Canadian politics you realize that is the advisors and beareaucrats that run the country.

Thus, I always vote for who I want to be in my riding so I can goto their office and complain. For example, I like Randy White -- not because of his party but because he has a record for fighting against crime.

JRace

I apologize. I should have worded that differently. Let me be more specific. In 1940 the gvt adapetd a draft for "home service" which allowed them to register men and women and move them into wartime production jobs. In Nov 1944 only 13,000 (less than 2% of the 691,000 in the war) canadians were drafted into the war, and most of them were from the Home service, and saw little to no combat.