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Yes, and I am sure you use the term "sweet" to refer to frustration too......  ::) I absolutely agree with you that nothing is proven, and I don't claim otherwise.  What I am saying is that a lot of dots line up, and whether you want it to or not, most Canadians (based on the polls) don't...

It has nothing to do with what Mulcair, Trudeau, or the MSM say. "Good to Go" + Novak being in the room for the conference call + "I've known Ray (Novak) for 20 years.  It's unfathomable that Ray would be aware of a payment from Nigel to Mr.Duffy and not tell the prime minister." (Kory...

Exactly.

I know the prevailing logic within the CPC is that the sooner the Duffy trial goes away (end of next week, apparently), the better it is.  But I am not so sure that the best outcome for the government isn't for the prosecution to drop the charges now, or to have the Duffy trial end with an...

In my opinion, fatigue is not the government's problem - it is credibility.  I don't imagine there are many Canadians who care that much about Mike Duffy or the $90,000.  But if this trial proves (and it hasn't yet) that the PMO (and the many cabinet ministers and MP's that followed) knowingly...

....Probably exactly what Paul Martin's team told him in Nov 2005 when the Gomery Commission Phase I Report was released, two months before election day." Harrigan

Ha Ha!  Touché!

I don't disagree with the rural-urban dynamic - that has been going on since the Industrial Revolution.  But that is not going to to be "fixed" (if, indeed, it even needs fixing) by artificially devaluing the vote of urban voters.  Nor, I would suggest, is the redistribution of ridings to be...

Rural areas are not hard done by.  Look at the population in the rural ridings compared to urban ridings.  They have always been overrepresented at the federal level, as have many other "special interest" areas (PEI, the North, etc).  Over time this shifts with redistribution (as it should)...

I am not quite sure where you are going with that.  Are you suggesting that citizens that live in cities should be under-represented in Parliament so that small towns and rural areas can keep their "vitality"???  (however dubious that link) Harrigan

I suspect the Liberals would be overjoyed if the federal result in October looked like the map you show.  All those 905-belt areas (Mississauga, Brampton, S York Region etc) look Red by my eyes, and not even the "skin-of-the-teeth just-squeaked-in" pink colour. Of course, that was then.  It is...

Which is worse?  Winnipeg accounts for 52% of the population of the province, and has 57% of the seats (though I suspect the population is closer to 57% as well if one adds the suburbs that are included in the "urban" Manitoba ridings).  In Saskatchewan, Regina and Saskatoon together account...

Agreed.  The poverty rate is declining and has been for some time, just like this rate: http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/11-630-x/11-630-x2015001-eng.htm I suppose which rate one would ignore/exaggerate would depend on which voters one is targeting.  Progressive parties tend to exaggerate poverty...

I am surprised that election topics have suddenly gone silent, though maybe we shouldn't be.  While I think there is still much to come out about the "topic which must not be mentioned", I find it hard to believe that there is/will be no impact on the federal election. Harrigan

Not sure what the doctrines states now, but in 1982 the RN had many RFA and civilian ships well into the combat zone, including in San Carlos Water.  Two of them, ATLANTIC CONVEYOR and RFA SIR GALAHAD, did not return. Harrigan

I have no idea why you think that Domain Name Hijacking is even remotely relevant to this conversation.  You clearly agree that everyone knows who the leader of the Liberal Party is already, based on their (and the CPC's) pre-election promotion.  What I find a leap in logic is automatically...

I don't disagree with your assessment on a recession, but the problem the government has is twofold: 1.  They are telling everyone that the economy is growing!, Growing!!, GROWING!!!, and that they are the ones (the only ones) who made it happen.  Yet people are seeing the dollar fall, the...

So not having the party leader's name on a sign automatically means some Liberals want nothing to do with Trudeau?  Really?  Just because the CPC campaign is "all Harper, all the time", doesn't mean that the other parties have to be a one-man show too (and in the Liberals case, they should be...

Yes, I saw your initial post, but Scoobs reminded me of a question I remember having when I was OUTCAN.  I wasn't disregarding your comments. I wasn't clear if one votes in the last riding they had been living in in Canada, or what was on the SOR (which could be a few postings earlier)?  I had...

Scoobs, your situation brings up an interesting question. So if someone is OUTCAN on a posting and has no property in Canada, do they vote in the last riding they were posted to in Canada, or the last riding that they completed an SOR for?  It seems the latter, but is not terribly clear. Harrigan