Quebec is the only province which recognizes the real necessity for higher taxes
Robert Peffers
Reform Party of Canada *cough* Canadian Alliance Party *cough*
Conservative Party of Canada and pulls it back into a solidly Red Tory
direction. The only way the Conservative Party of Canada will ever be
able to carve a majority government
out of vote rich, socially liberal, economically progressive, and
environmentally aware Ontario and Quebec
is to totally purge its American Republican-style Reform/Alliance
Western Canadian populist right-wing
tripe and go back to a proper centre-right, progressive, Red Tory
direction.
I would personally like to see Quebecois Ben Mulroney lead the
Conservative Party of Canada next.
I would also like to see Quebecois Justin Trudeau lead the Liberal
Party of Canada next. Quebecois
Jean Charest, Lawrence Cannon, Sylvie Boucher, Christian Paradis,
André Bachand and Jean-Pierre Blackburn would make excellent
Conservative leaders too. Quebecois Pierre Pettigrew and Marc Garneau
would also make excellent Liberal leaders too.
Quebecois leaders for both the Conservatives and the Liberals would
keep Canada in a more socially liberal, economically progressive,
environmentally aware, Europeanized direction as opposed to WASP
leaders, both Conservative and Liberal, who seem to worship everything
American!. WASP Canadian culture is just too individualistic,
consumerist, greedy, self-centered, and selfish for itsown good!. The
NPD should also dump WASP Jack Layton in favor of a Quebecois
socialist who would lead the NDP into a more electable and
professional socialist party along the lines of Germany's Social
Democratic Party or France's Socialist Party. Quebecois Pierre Ducasse
would make an excellent NDP leader.
Its funny how its only Quebecois, city dwellers, women, visible
minorities, aboriginals, and immigrants
who appear to have the intelligence to understand that Canada needs
progressively higher levels of
taxation in order to pay for our cherished social programs and to pay
down our budget deficit in order to
have lower levels of inflation. Of course it should come as no
surprise to anyone that those Canadians who
"hate taxes" almost always tend to be White Anglo Saxon Protestant
Males who live in English Canada.
However, I take great comfort in knowing that White Canadians as a
whole are officially projected to constitute less than 45% of the
total population of Canada by the year 2050. Furthermore, White
Canadians are officially projected to have minority status in the vote
rich provinces of Ontario and
British Columbia by the early 2030's, and are already extremely close
to minority status in cities
such as Toronto, Vancouver, and Montreal.
The vast majority of Canadians who vote for the Conservative Party of
Canada are White Anglo Saxon Protestant types who are anti-tax, anti-
social programs, anti-immigrant, anti-bilingual, anti-gay rights,
anti-women's rights, anti-abortion, anti-multicultural, anti-Quebec,
anti-European, pro-American, ignorant, uneducated, unenlightened,
untraveled, backwards, socially regressive, blue collar, working
class, pickup truck driving, common, pedestrian level, trailer trash.
I am delighted that elections after election and poll after polls
shows that the vast majority of visible minorities vote for the
Liberal Party of Canada or the New Democratic Party of Canada.
Likewise, the
vast majority of Quebecois vote for the Liberal Party of Canada or the
Bloc Quebecois. Even most
non-Anglo Whites such as Italian-Canadian, Greek-Canadians, and
Portuguese-Canadians are
die hard supporters of the Liberal Party of Canada.
The Conservative Party of Canada: too White, too Anglo, too Male, too
Americanized, too Alberta-centric
to ever carve a majority government out of vote rich, socially
liberal, economically progressive, environmentally aware, multi-
racial, multi-ethnic, multi-religious, multi-lingual, multi-cultural,
globalized, cosmopolitan Ontario and Quebec.
-Robert James (Auld Bob) Peffers
Ignatieff's tax talk taking toll: Poll
Apr 23, 2009 03:39 PM
Joan Bryden
THE CANADIAN PRESS
OTTAWA – Michael Ignatieff's musings about potential tax increases
could hurt his efforts to build Liberal support across the country –
except in Quebec, a new poll suggests.
Thirty per cent of respondents to the Canadian Press Harris-Decima
survey said they're less likely to vote Liberal in the next election
as a result of the party leader's reflections on taxes last week.
Only 16 per cent said they're more likely to support the Grits.
The damage was most pronounced in Atlantic Canada and British
Columbia, where 44 per cent and 40 per cent respectively said they're
less likely to vote Liberal.
However, the poll suggests Ignatieff's tax talk went down well in
Quebec, where 29 per cent of respondents said they're more likely to
vote Liberal and only 10 per cent said they're less likely.
Last week, Ignatieff initially appeared to suggest that tax hikes are
inevitable to eliminate massive budget deficits currently being racked
up by the Conservative government in a bid to stimulate the
sputtering
economy.
He later clarified that a Liberal government would increase taxes only
as a last resort and only once the economy has fully recovered.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Tories pounced on Ignatieff's remarks
to bolster their depiction of him as a tax-and-spend Liberal. They've
continued to hammer away at the issue this week to deflect Liberal
criticism of the government's economic management.
However, according to the poll, fully 81 per cent of respondents said
they weren't surprised to hear Ignatieff raise the possibility of a
tax hike; only 12 per cent were surprised.
Harris-Decima senior vice-president Jeff Walker said that suggests the
Tories could have a tough time escalating Ignatieff's musings into a
ballot question that will have significant impact on the outcome of
the next election.
"It might work over time . . . as part of a broader package of
things," Walker said.
"I'm just not sure this by itself is going to rally anyone beyond the
Conservative base."
Still, the poll suggests Ignatieff's remarks have hurt him among
supporters of all parties, except for the
Bloc Quebecois.
Forty-one per cent of respondents who identified themselves as NDP
supporters, 37 per cent of Greens and 46 per cent of Conservatives
said they were less likely to vote Liberal as result of Ignatieff's
comments.
Liberal respondents were torn, with 21 per cent saying they're more
likely to vote Grit and 18 per cent saying they're less likely.
By contrast, 42 per cent of Bloc supporters said they're more likely
to vote Liberal; only eight per cent were less likely.
Walker said Ignatieff may be trying to emulate U.S. President Barack
Obama's frankness about the economic challenges ahead but the poll
underscores the risks entailed in that approach.
"I think this is really where the rubber hits the road with post-
partisan politics," said Walker.
"They can't afford to lose any of the (supporters) they've got right
now. At the same time, can they afford
to be only ever speaking in very generalized, kind of Pablum
terms? . . . And so it's a very tough
line to walk."
The telephone survey of just over 1,000 Canadians was conducted April
16-19 and is considered accurate within 3.1 percentage points, 19
times in 20.
The margin of error is larger for provincial findings.
15:11ET 23-04-09
Canuck57
> I would also like to see Quebecois Justin Trudeau lead the Liberal
> Party of Canada next. Quebecois
Sorry, one Turdeau is one too many in any sane persons lifetime.
As for Quebec, Liberals have sunk PQ so far into debt and corruption
they have to raise taxes. No other choice. Probably will not raise it
enough either, as Liberals tend to get $10 more and see what they can do
to parly that with debt for $100 to spend on corruption and waste.