Politics
I am going to out myself, I admit that in my younger years I played Dungeons and Dragons quite a bit. There I said it, mock me if you must but that is the truth. In a fantasy world whenever you are out of money the characters go on a quest which brings them fame [...]
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In light of the views being expressed by various people inside and outside the party I would like to share this comment which I took from my older political blog. ED: Harper changed my views completely after this interview From CBC Your Turn: http://www.cbc.ca/canadavotes/yourview/your_turn_conservative.html Peter Mansbridge: Next question is coming from a city you’re very familiar [...]
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Sometimes when you cross the floor you are called principled, brave, honourable, sometimes you are called a whore, traitor, a cheat. Since 2005 I have had to come to grips with the parliamentary tradition of crossing the floor. It is an old tradition in our system. One that is both honoured and vilified depending on [...]
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I have only ever been in a room with Premier Ed Stelmach on a few occasions. All of them were leadership related, he was running, winning or holding on to it. On the other hand I was introduced to Premier Ralph Klein once, talked briefly with him at a function and was with him on an [...]
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In a recent discussion on Twitter Chris LaBossiere posted the statement: Every party creates policy from it’s members. In the case of the WAP I think they hide behind that to defend bad or little policy. My comment to that was to say: Chris, creating policy that no one listens to is not the same [...]
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Betty Unger the PC Senator in waiting is quoted by Jason Fekete of the Calgary Herald: “(Wildrose Alliance) certainly have got a good leader. In terms of politicians, you could say she’s a superstar. She really is.” (bold added) As the postmortem of the PC convention continues they are still worried about the Alliance, and [...]
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