Hey, hats off to the Conservatives, they're bagging Section 13 of the Human Rights Act forbidding hate speech over phone or internet, in a vote that was party line. this is the first time I've been pleased they won a majority. link

Also, this quote is priceless, "Freedom of speech is an American concept, so I don’t give it any value." I'd think it ( Read more... )

I've become increasingly impressed with David Frum, GWB's Canadian Axis of Evil speechwriter, of late. It's not that I agree with him increasingly, but he's such a breath of fresh air within the Republican party, the GOP ignores him at their peril (or, I certainly hope it's to their peril) He did (is doing?) an interesting Reddit AMA today (link) A ( Read more... )

So... in a recent post, suitablyemoname mentioned the apparent ascendancy of former Péquiste François Légault's "Coalition Avenir Québec", which has somehow gained enough support to be a significant force in Quebec politics - possibly winning a minority or even majority government in the next Quebec election, if their numbers hold ( Read more... )

I encountered what I thought was a fascinating graphic this morning. A recent poll indicates that US Republicans as compared to Democrats and independents are far less likely to want a congressperson to be willing to compromise.  Republicans favoured a congressperson who'll stick to his/her guns over one that will compromise by a 2 to 1 margin. ( Read more... )

From Michael Geist.ca:
As expected, the Government has taken another shot at lawful access legislation today, introducing a legislative package called the Investigative Powers for the 21st Century (IP21C) Act that would require mandated surveillance capabilities at Canadian ISPs, force ISPs to disclose subscriber information such as name and ( Read more... )

Here's an article from the Nova Scotian on Harper. It highlights the way he works.

Maybe Harper's not as smart as we thought.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080323.wimmigration24/BNStory/National/homeNow I understand that there is a backlog of some 900,000 people waiting to have their applications processed but what does giving the Minister the power to cap and hand pick have to do with a solution to the problem of a backlog ( Read more... )

I really did not want to get too much into this but now it seems to be spilling over the top.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080302.wflahmcguint0302/BNStory/National/homeThose of you who, like me, have no life and watched Flaherty give his budget speech in the House of Commons live remember him saying that the Federal ( Read more... )

The Conservatives may have offered Chuck Cadman a bribe to help them force the Liberals into an election back in 2005 ( Read more... )

What kind of political group is this? Budget day and not a single post or mention of it...tisk...tisk.

Anyway, here is the CBC breakdown of the budget.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/budget2008/

Nothing special really. Dion has said that he will support the budget so we are not going to be going into an election ( Read more... )