Posted on 12/01/2005 9:37:55 AM PST by quidnunc
I don't know where "conscience" enters into it, but Canada is now virtually a one-party "democracy," along the lines of Mexico before Vicente Fox was elected. And while Canada may have a conscience, it is absent a soul, a country devoid of any national identity except that defined by its anti-Americanism.
If Martin loses it will be because the Canadian Health System is starting to resemble Zimbabwe's.
http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/
New Ipsos Poll Puts Canada In Dead Heat
A new poll by AP-Ipsos, based on a survey done during the debate over the no-confidence motion, shows that the Liberals have dropped into a dead heat with the Conservatives on a national basis. This data has not received wide release -- in fact, I had to buy a membership at Ipsos in order to see the data. Based on a sample of 1,000 adults -- a sampling type that normally would overreport Liberal support -- the results surprisingly mirror those of the private Robbins Research poll taken earlier this month. Both parties get 31% of the national vote, and NDP picks up 18%. BQ gets 14%, all of it from Quebec.
Their support base in Ontario appears to have seriously eroded. Earlier polls show that the Liberals once enjoyed a double-digit lead in their power base. Now that lead has collapsed into a statistical tie with the Conservatives, 37%-35%. The NDP appears to have taken advantage of Liberal slippage, moving up to 21% support in the province. The Tories now outstrip the Liberals in British Columbia, where the Liberals had made inroads in provincial voting last March; the Tories have a 34%-28% advantage on the West Coast province. Liberals only have an outright plurality in the Maritimes; they lead the Tories 24-7 in Quebec but get trounced by Conservative partner Bloc Quebecois, 58-24, showing that the Liberals can expect to lose seats in the region most touched by Adscam.
Canadians: Mexicanes del Norte
The whole world is now suffering from an overinflated ego. Is there any country who doesn't think they are better than the rest (excluding Mexico)?
Off topic, but how does it feel to have a thread named after you?....
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ROFLMHO!!!!!
But Alberta is the only sane province in Canada.
Other western provinces are less insane but Alberta is the only province that has a clue.
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Canada has no moral compass.
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That's great news!
A smugness that is, unfortunately, contagious. A close friend of my childhood emigrated to Canada and became insufferable in his nonstop critique of America, something like a zealous former smoker.
About the last straw was when my friend sold out his Southern homeland with a novel imagined in our home state about a racist Southern sheriff and his shenanigans. Here is the things: My buddy and I lived in a yuppie enclave of the New South and knew absolutely nothing about bigoted Southern sheriffs except what we learned on the Dukes of Hazard.
But now he is hip, internationalist, smug, and Canadian
.but I repeat myself. (I know there are many fine Canadians some on this board and it just pains me so much to see the current state of affairs after innocently imaging for so long that Canada was our spiritual as well as geographic neighbor. Unhappily, there is a kind of smug profit in selling out your neighbor just as there is in a fabricated exposé on your homeland.)
Arrogance, coupled with impotence, is pretty funny. Canada may actually be worse than France.
For whatever it's worth, I found the article unduly pessimistic and negative. Aside from Canada having far more legitimate conservatives and generally people with their heads screwed on right than the author is willing to credit, it seems plain that, as with our left-wing expatriates, he too has lost considerable perspective both from time away and his now stateside vantage point.
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