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OT / Our Candian friends... The Election is Over. Congratulations, I think!
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Post 1 made on Tuesday October 20, 2015 at 10:02
Mr. Stanley
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Trudeau beats Harper. Is that a good thing? Are Canadian politics as dirty as elsewhere?
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OP | Post 2 made on Tuesday October 20, 2015 at 10:15
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That got moved fast!
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Post 3 made on Tuesday October 20, 2015 at 20:24
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Politics are politics. What we don't do is make our elections a business. This was considered a LONG campaign of 12 weeks. We don't campaign for years like you. We also limit how much in bribe money, sorry, campaign funding you can receive.
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OP | Post 4 made on Tuesday October 20, 2015 at 21:02
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On October 20, 2015 at 20:24, kgossen said...
Politics are politics. What we don't do is make our elections a business. This was considered a LONG campaign of 12 weeks. We don't campaign for years like you. We also limit how much in bribe money, sorry, campaign funding you can receive.

Yeah I guess usually your elections are only about 45 days max. Ours practically are non stop!!!

The big corporations run our elections for the most part. Its almost like South America... payola baby!

Is Trudueau an all right guy!?
"If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger."
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Post 5 made on Wednesday October 21, 2015 at 12:01
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On October 20, 2015 at 21:02, Mr. Stanley said...
Is Trudueau an all right guy!?

Apparently enough voters think he is.

Hey, when is Ernie going to chime in about how the topic has a misspelling?
OP | Post 6 made on Wednesday October 21, 2015 at 15:21
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On October 21, 2015 at 12:01, BizarroTerl said...
Apparently enough voters think he is.

Hey, when is Ernie going to chime in about how the topic has a misspelling?

oops, soon, I'm sure.
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Post 7 made on Saturday October 24, 2015 at 13:30
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On October 20, 2015 at 10:02, Mr. Stanley said...
Trudeau beats Harper. Is that a good thing?

Time will tell.

Are Canadian politics as dirty as elsewhere?

nothing is as dirty as US elections, but these where the dirtiest ever here and they were dirty from the beginning
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Post 8 made on Saturday October 24, 2015 at 14:05
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On October 20, 2015 at 21:02, Mr. Stanley said...
Yeah I guess usually your elections are only about 45 days max. Ours practically are non stop!!!

they are completely different beasts. In the US you have two parties and a president that is voted for directly. This makes for a very long process since each party (unless the same leader is kept)has a leadership race just before the election as well as VP nominations

Here the parties exist "all the time" (i.e. Harper was the leader of the conservatives for over a decade and Prime minister, Trudeau was the leader of the Liberals more or less since just after the last elections (2008), Mulcair was leader of NDP since Layton left the job -health- in 2012 and leader of the opposition..... So elections are just that and, at least in theory but not in practice, the leader is not all that important (i.e. when we go to vote we vote for a local candidate who obviously will choose his political party leader as prime minister.



The big corporations run our elections for the most part. Its almost like South America... payola baby!

unfortunately that is mostly true everywhere, there are laws against it here (i.e. max donations...) but even then they are easily contravened and circumvented.

Is Trudueau an all right guy!?

his dad was (prime minister in the 70's 80's) and he was mostly good, we will need to wait and see what king of job he does.
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OP | Post 9 made on Sunday October 25, 2015 at 18:18
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Yeah I remember Trudeau's dad. Hanging out with rocks staqrs and all that stuff. Quite the party animal.


Canada seems like a pretty cool place.
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