Canadian General Election LIVE THREAD

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[GreenLanternCorps]

Live Thread for the Canadian General Election, May 2nd,2011

[dangus]

Canada actually has a party officially named the "Rhino" party.

[coydog]

Ashfield won in our riding again. He’s been an OK guy.

And Count Iggula got tossed out of his own riding! Get thy @$$ back to Harvard and don’t let the door hit it on the way out!

[NorthOf45]

What’s this, another Maritimer??? It’s a good night for us, huh?

[buccaneer81]

And Count Iggula got tossed out of his own riding!

Awesome! He is about as Canadian as Obama is American.

[BCEagles]

Michael Ignatieff is a gigantic loser, both in this election and evidently in life as well.

You can keep him, the US doesn’t want him back! :P

[coydog]

Iggy’s on Sun News Channel right now, looking like he’s reading the eulogy for his own funeral.

[buccaneer81]

I still remember drinking at the Hilltop Pub when I was 17, then going to Harvey’s trying to eat enough grease to sober up ;-)

[NoLibZone]

Is it difficult to immigrate to Canada for Americans?

Does any one on this thread know?

[GreenLanternCorps]

“It’s not my fault!”

[coydog]

Hilltop’s still around, though they completely redid their entrance a few years back. Those old concrete steps were famous, or infamous, around town, especially if you got chucked down them by the bouncer.

[BCEagles]

This is one long, depressing speech. Someone grab the hook to yank him off stage.

[buccaneer81]

Not sure about today. I lived there from age 13-22 and we were sponsored by my Mom's family. I remember Mom jumping through a lot of hoops, especially proving financial stability. This was 1975-1976. I'd say the process from first application to actually getting our passports stamped was almost two years.

Unless you have a killer job lined up, I would advise against it. Remember, health care is a huge issue, and the laws are very different in some areas. Forget about owning a handgun and be ready to register your long guns in a federal registry. Then there are regional differences. You sure don't want to live in Quebec, for obvious reasons; the Maritimes are like Appalachia; urban Ontario is like NYC/NJ, BC is like California. The only place most Americans would feel comfortable in, IMHO is Alberta.

[Trailerpark Badass]

Is it difficult to immigrate to Canada for Americans?

If their [legal] immigration policy is anything like ours, if you're white, literate, and come from a 1st world nation, you go to the back of the line.

But I am curious, also, to hear the answer to your question.

[buccaneer81]

That only happened once. I was wearing my Mount A jacket while visiting my girlfriend who was at UNB. Shenanigans ensued over the hockey teams from both schools.

I miss those days.

[BCEagles]

In retrospect, the Liberals and Bloc (especially the Bloc) probably regret voting for that no-confidence motion...

[coydog]

Yeah, I bet there’ll be a lot of shouting in the Liberal backrooms tomorrow.

[buccaneer81]

Remember 1993, though, when the PCs won exactly TWO seats and lost 167. Obviously the Reform Party was responsible for a lot of that, but even without that factor, the PCs would still have come in a distant third.

Let's face it; the Alliance is the only reason there's a CPC today.

[coydog]

The CPC isn’t really the Tory party of old. That party died a long time ago. Now it seems it’s the Liberals’ turn. Political parties, however great, have a life cycle. They may be at the end of their and join the Whigs in oblivion.

[buccaneer81]

The CPC isn’t really the Tory party of old. That party died a long time ago.

True. Kim Campbell and Jean Charest presided over its death along with the ever-losing Joe Clark to bury it. Thank God Harper and the Alliance were around to start fresh.