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yuriko April 14 2011, 15:44:16 UTC
What my friend said ( ... )

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mrflagg April 14 2011, 22:03:17 UTC
In part because they're more worried about the economy and jobs and health care
Which will make annoyed that people buy into the myth that Conservatives are good at financial management and the other parties aren't

Anyone that would judge that point based on one incident isn't doing much critical thinking about their vote. I'd bet they'd already made up their mind about their vote and just using things like that as sound bytes to support it.

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mrflagg April 14 2011, 21:58:26 UTC
that sounds like a politician i could support.

Really I don't think anything in that report (or even that leak) should be a shock to anyone. A stupid amount of money got spent on a bunch of projects to fix things up for some foreign visitors. Anyone that has driven around Parry Sound/Muskoka/McMurrich could have told you that.

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ministry_victim April 14 2011, 22:36:44 UTC
Now there's a politician that'll never sit inside the PMO.

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emote_control April 15 2011, 01:59:56 UTC
I don't really care about procedure if it's a matter of the public being swindled. I'm more a results kind of guy. Open the books, let someone sort them out. If it's not a matter of someone's personal rights, but is just a bureaucratic glitch, I think the public interest is more important.

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emote_control April 15 2011, 17:54:00 UTC
Addendum: according to Avaaz.org, their legal team says that there's actually no rule in place that says that the Auditor General can't just open the books if she's petitioned to do so.

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mofoburrell April 15 2011, 23:58:51 UTC
Yeah there's very little that Parliament can't do if it really wants to, I guess. And I agree with you that just because this is how things usually are done, that doesn't mean they should be done that way.

The nice thing about procedure is, at least theoretically, it gives some sort of fairness or justice to people. There is some hypocrisy in changing tradition as an opposition party when you made use of it yourself when you were in power (not speaking directly to the NDP, since they were never in power, of course).

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emote_control April 16 2011, 00:28:04 UTC
Well, that's why there's a need for a public mandate. If the public cares enough to demand that the leaders of the various parties make this request, then it's not the opposition parties who are changing things. It's actually a request from the people. It's up to the AG to decide how many signatures qualify as a mandate, I guess.

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