Canada

Canada is on the whole a gentler, softer and more liberal nation — but there is also less freedom, opportunity, prosperity, competition and dynamism. Canada is well-loved by other nations — but the country has little diplomatic or military clout.

From the WaPo Oops… Wash Times. [via]

Personally, I would rather have Obama than Jack! but only if he comes in third place like Jack! I like Obama because he brings out the Hope and Change in the left rather than the regular despair and complaining. Sorta.

Found this gem in the comments of this classic article on CTV.

Wendy
OMG.

The only way Dion can show backbone is to step down as head of the Liberal Party and let Ignatieff step up. How the Liberal Party could even have decided that Mr. Dion is the man is beyond me.

Yes, I voted Liberal but only because any other vote could have given the Conservatives a majority. Pretty sad isn’t it.

Umm… didn’t the delegates choose Dion because any other vote would have given Ignatieff the win? The left is so busy voting against the boogeyman that they elect the default.

CTV must have lost the governing party’s numbers.

British and French ministries aren’t commenting on a British newspaper’s report that France will send an additional 1,000 troops to Afghanistan.

Liberal defence critic Denis Coderre told CTV’s Newsnet that he believes the French troops will go to eastern Afghanistan to help the Americans.

I went through the whole Liberal Press Release and they didn’t mention even trying to contact MacKay. I guess in their view, putting “Critic:” in front of headlines means they don’t need to provide any balance.

Can someone tell me why anyone would vote to put the Liberal party in charge of our country again?

I tried to put away my conservative bias, turn off logic and common sense and I still can’t figure it out. Even if I did feel that drug dealers, murderers and terrorists deserved the same rights as their victims, I wouldn’t be voting for Dion, Rae or Justin. I’d be voting for Jack! and the NDP.

Why? It’s quite simple. Even though their policies would flush the country down the toilet, at least they have policies. The Liberals change their votes (if they even show up) based on the latest polls.

If it wasn’t for the constant free pro-Liberal party advertising in the newspaper and on the television, I can’t see how anyone on the left would vote Liberal over the NDP.

The Liberals are the party of the brainwashed voter.

“We can navel gaze about what this bill will cost today,” Mr. McTeague said in an interview. “The lost revenue would be gained down the road when kids get higher paying jobs.”

I agree. Which is why I also propose dropping the GST to five percent. Oh wait, already done. What did Dion say about that again?

“We are the party of compassion, the party of Kelowna for aboriginals, the party that wants to put the fight against poverty at the core of agenda. We want to invest in Canadians and families, seniors, in regions, and there is no good balance in this declaration of the minister of finance about investing in Canadians and tax cuts.”

Wait a second, won’t more money being saved by families to invest in RESPs for their children… Never mind.

Chop the gun registry or the HRC funding and keep this tax break.

Those of us who know that the Charter of Rights and Freedoms has been used to take the country down the wrong, destructive, direction also have been concerned as to how the Human Rights Tribunals/Commissions have been punishing people when no laws were broken.

Ezra Levant is now taking on the Alberta “Human Rights” Commission and I want to come out and say I support what he is doing.

If you want to live in a country where you are free to think without a lawsuit, you need to pay attention to what is going on in Canada’s Kangaroo Courts.

Our rights are being defended.

Is that Chicken Little or Garth? [via]

I’m not quite sure what the judge was thinking on this one.

First, one judge rules this guy could pose a threat to children under the age of 14.

He was held by authorities under a protective order after a provincial court judge ruled he could pose a threat to children under the age of 14.

Then, judge #2 grants him bail at only $5000?

A provincial court in Abbotsford, B.C., has granted bail of $5,000 to Orville Frank Mader, who’s accused of sex crimes in Thailand, but he will remain in jail until he comes up with the money.

Mader, 54, also has to stay away from children unless he’s under supervision of an adult appointed by the court — a condition of his bail.

I’m sure there are enough pedophiles willing to cough up some money to help him out.

What a joke.

It is time for the government to stop giving my tax money to the CBC.

So I’m trying to watch the end of the Saskatchewan Roughrider game against the Edmonton Eskimos but for some reason, even though the game was back on after its rain delay, CBC kept on with its movie night.

A little ticked off, I wandered downstairs just in case one of the other CBC stations was showing the game. Luckily for me, I was able to pick up the CBC Regina station and watch the end of the game.

I know everyone else was not that lucky.

Note to the CBC: I can rent the movie. (Not that I’d want to.)

Prime Minister Harper, please stop funding that organization. There is no reason billions should be spent on that group of people without common sense.

Related.

Thanks to Kate at SDA for the linkage.

Update: The CBC will air the rest of the game on all its stations… just after midnight local time.

The CBC gets a 7 year deal with the NHL.

“This is financed completely out of private money … There is no public money involved in this deal,” said Stursberg, adding that revenue generated from the deal will help finance other, less-profitable CBC programs.

You mean, like the rest of them?

The deal will keep Hockey Night in Canada on the CBC until 2014, which, coincidentally, is the number of times Bob Cole states the obvious during a single broadcast.

Bettman said the new deal will feature fewer Toronto Maple Leafs games during the regular season, with more dates being allocated for other Canadian teams.

Looks like someone at CBC is going to have to buy a map to find the other Canadian cities.