cairo140 said:WAIT JUST ONE SECOND? Who voted for Brian Mulroney? You're a complete..... I mean, I would be interested to hear your justification.
sysyphus said:Personally I thought Trudeau just rode on Pearson's coattails
Alpine Trooper said:Jamiethearcher, you are so far removed from the nearest definition of Canadian it troubles me that you could even remotely have the slightest form of citizenship in Canada. To vote for Brian Mulroney shows your obvious contempt for every stride this nation makes in furthering itself and its values. Thank the Lord that you are of the most extreme minority within this country.
My vote goes to Trudeau.
Goonie said:Coming from the man who said that Laurier was divisive when in reality he was known as the great compromiser?
Alpine Trooper said:Jamiethearcher, you are so far removed from the nearest definition of Canadian it troubles me that you could even remotely have the slightest form of citizenship in Canada. To vote for Brian Mulroney shows your obvious contempt for every stride this nation makes in furthering itself and its values. Thank the Lord that you are of the most extreme minority within this country.
My vote goes to Trudeau.
sysyphus said:Well hey, looking at the poll, it seems we can all at least agree that Diefenbaker wasn't the best.
Kill the Avro Arrow eh? Shower 1, Dief 0. Good.
sysyphus said:You mean someday we'll think that having signed away all the soverignty of our resources was a good thing?
So great that Mulroney's protegee Harper rushed to cut it?
Indeed a monkey could have balanced the budget. The fact that the Tories couldn't speaks volumes.
cairo140 said:Compromiser, my friend??? "Compromiser" was his mantra, certainly, and I am in no way denying the fact he made many efforts to listen to all of the different perspectives in the country. Nevertheless, the end result of his decisions DID DIVIDE the country. I'll draw upon one of several major blunders:
Naval Situation: Britain tells Canada to give them money to build their own navy. Instead of being a nice little pacifist and sat back and built national infrastruction instead (thereby pleasing the Quebecois), and instead of supporting Britian wholeheartedly by just giving them the money they needed (thereby pleasing the Loyalists), Laurier "compromised" and tried to build his own navy... lo and behold, he divided the entire country and came out of it with........ 11 boats!!!!!!!! What a navy....
Not only did Laurier divide the nation, he came out of it with a pittance of a navy.
Goonie said:Ah right... so siding with either english Canada or french Canada would have been a much wiser situation.
Simply alienate one group completely in order to unite the country. Will keep that enlightened theory in mind.
jamiethearcher said:As to soviergnty over natural resources, I don't really have an answer to you other than, we might as well sell that oil in Alberta now, before the planet switches over to a non-fossil fuel economy. Tons and tons of oil isnt going to be worth very much then, so get some money for it now.
pboily said:Apart from that, they're pretty much the same, which is to say, not overly spectacular. I can't believe how well we've adapted to mediocrity...
sysyphus said:In just a little longer than my lifetime, we've gone from Lester Pearson to Michael Ignatieff, from Robert Stanfield to Stephen Harper, and from Tommy Douglas to Jack Layton.
If this is representative of the evolution of leadership in this country, by 2020 we'll be voting for plants.
Goonie said:You do realize that the GST and like taxes are actually mildly regressive?