Calling the Canadian election now.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Layton is going to get whipped like a mule, because he has NO clue how politics work.

The crazy French guy won't get 10%, which is a damn shame.

Harper runs the show for another 5 years, probably with a majority government.

[Remington]

IIRC The NDP is only 5-6% away from the Liberals' polling. Conservatives are ~40-45% so a majority is not out of the question.

Duceppe is definately bleeding ridings to the NDP.


Prediction: 50-50 chance of Conservative majority. Most likely with a Liberal opposition, but 30% chance of a NDP opposition instead (which would be cool).

[President Television]

The crazy French guy won't get 10%, which is a damn shame.

Right on. I was going to vote Bloc until I realized that I couldn't do that in New Brunswick.

[Prince Glittersnatch III]

Harper runs the show for another 5 years, probably with a majority government.

[Cain]

Ignatieff is basically Tony Blair anyway.  On steroids.  Stupid-steroids.

Critical of the limited-risk approach practiced by NATO in conflicts like the Kosovo War and the Rwandan Genocide, he says that there should be more active involvement and larger scale deployment of land forces by Western nations in future conflicts in the developing world. Ignatieff attempts to distinguish his approach from Neo-conservativism because the motives of the foreign engagement he advocates are essentially altruistic rather than selfserving.

In this vein, Ignatieff was originally a prominent supporter of the 2003 Invasion of Iraq. Ignatieff said that the United States established "an empire lite, a global hegemony whose grace notes are free markets, human rights and democracy, enforced by the most awesome military power the world has ever known." The burden of that empire, he says, obliged the United States to expend itself unseating Iraqi president Saddam Hussein in the interests of international security and human rights. Ignatieff initially accepted the argument of George W. Bush administration that containment through sanctions and threats would not prevent Hussein from selling weapons of mass destruction to international terrorists. Ignatieff wrongly believed that those weapons were still being developed in Iraq. Moreover, according to Ignatieff, "what Saddam Hussein had done to the Kurds and the Shia" in Iraq was sufficient justification for the invasion

1.  Anyone who needs to distinguish between their theories and Neo-conservatism is Doin It Wrong.
2.  Empires are necessarily anti-democratic.  It has something to do with sending armies overseas to enforce favoured policies...essentially they are de facto militaristic autocracies, regardless of whether elections may take place within certain provinces of the Empire.
3.  Herp de derp.

Edit:  Also this hilarious passage

Ignatieff has argued that Western democracies may have to resort to "lesser evils" like indefinite detention of suspects, coercive interrogations, assassinations, and pre-emptive wars in order to combat the greater evil of terrorism.

Or, to phrase it more accurately, Ignatieff has argued that Western democracies may have to resort to terrorism in order to combat the greater evil of terrorism committed by brown people.

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

Ignatieff is basically Tony Blair anyway.  On steroids.  Stupid-steroids.

Ignatieff has argued that Western democracies may have to resort to "lesser evils" like indefinite detention of suspects, coercive interrogations, assassinations, and pre-emptive wars in order to combat the greater evil of terrorism.

Or, to phrase it more accurately, Ignatieff has argued that Western democracies may have to resort to terrorism in order to combat the greater evil of terrorism committed by brown people.

Holy shit. It's like Ignatieff wants Canada to be more like the USA.

[Thurnez Isa]

My prediction Minority (or a slight majority but with only a few seats) government due to the huge red voting block in Ontario and Quebec, which I don't think the conservatives will due as well in as the media is predicting.
I have a weird feeling though the Greens might actually play spoiler this election. All the party leaders are fools and have really turned off people from the election. The difference being Elizabeth May can be as crazy as possible and no one takes her seriously so it doesn't really hurt her party as much as the others.

[Remington]

NDP is ahead of the Liberals by ~5%. We may be looking at a NDP Opposition, which has never happened before on a federal level.

Current polls:

Conservative - 34%
NDP             - 28%
Liberal          - 24%
Green           - 7%
Bloc             - 6%

[The Good Reverend Roger]

NDP is ahead of the Liberals by ~5%. We may be looking at a NDP Opposition, which has never happened before on a federal level.

Current polls:

Conservative - 34%
NDP             - 28%
Liberal          - 24%
Green           - 7%
Bloc             - 6%

Hardly surprising.  The Liberals have been weak sisters since Trudeau left office.

[Remington]

http://twitpic.com/4q95aw

[Thurnez Isa]

I'll believe it when I see it...
I mean how long can ppl be infatuated by the mustache?



Come to think of it... it is a pretty bitching mustache.

[tyrannosaurus vex]

Canada has politics?

[Remington]

Canada has politics?

It's rather similar to herpes: it pops up every so often and no-one likes talking about it.

[hooplala]

Canada has politics?

It's rather similar to herpes: it pops up every so often and no-one likes talking about it.

BWA HA HA.

Concerning the Liberals, Chretien did alright when he was the leader.  I liked living in a country where the Prime Minister would grab you by the throat if he didn't like your actions.  But then again, I also support Enrico Salazar, so...

Ignatieff is the primary reason that Canadian politics are as retarded as they are right now.  I mean, most conservatives don't even like Harper, but NOBODY likes Ignatieff.  NOBODY.  Not even his own mommy.

I rather detest the social engineering that the NDP support, but compared to the other two parties, sheesh...

[Thurnez Isa]

I rather detest the social engineering that the NDP support, but compared to the other two parties, sheesh...

I can't completely understand why their getting so much support from the french in Quebec, since Quebec has always been big on state rights. Possibly disillusion with the Bloc, or lets fuck with the Americans by electing socialists.