carepov

Bonjour Speedy,

As long as you dress warm, you would certainly enjoy: http://festivalvoyageur.mb.ca/

French is alive and well in Manitoba: http://joiedevivremanitoba.com/fr

I am not so sure about the rest of Western Canada, but check out:

http://www.ouestcanadien.ca/

http://www.tourismealberta.ca/

http://www.sasktouri...lang/french.htm

http://fr.britishcol...px?CC=CAFR&SI=1

Lets look at the pricing of the arctic patrol vessels and why they are so much more then the ones being built in the scanadian countries, the answer is unions. It has become so expensive to do anything big in this country.Because of salaries and the laziness of them.

Are you being facetious?  If yes, then good one, haha.  If you are serious, well, yes let's indeed look at the ship building contracts:

Canada: Design only = $250,000,000 + tax (Total cost = ??)

30 % union membership

Similar ships in Scandinavia: Total cost (design AND build) = $100,000,000

57-82 % union membership (http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/lab_tra_uni_mem-labor-trade-union-membership)

What do you think of that?

Spoken like a true believing follower of the cult of GDP.  Pursuing rampantly wasteful lifestyles might be one way of developing (assuming of course that there are always sufficient resources to allow this and sufficient other places to put the garbage) but it's hardly the only one.

 

The cleanest cities are those that developed first and are now able to export their garbage somewhere poorer.  Technological garbage is sent to poor places where the residents extract rare metals out of toxic materials as their health deteriorates.

 

And as for environmental laws, ours are weaker with each year that the Harper knuckle-dragging team stays in control. 

You are completely misunderstanding what I am saying.

-I am not a follower of the cult of GDP.

-I abhor waste

-I am advocating for for sustainable human development that reduces global poverty

Again, where are lakes, rivers, oceans and forests cleanest most protected?  Where are the strictest environmental laws and regulations (including those that deal with e-waste and prevent their export)?  Why do these places protect the environment?

What are your ideas on how to "save the environment"?

This is basically true of everyone since the left/right axis is a spectrum - not a binary state. That does not change the fact that you likely have a general tendency that will put you on one side or the other (the fact that you claim the CBC and Amnesty International as "unbiased" sources put you on the left side).

You are wrong.  I am not on the left side.

I think most Liberals would prefer the NDP to the Tories and almost all New Democrats would prefer Liberals to the Tories. Some right-leaning Liberals may bleed over to the Tories but a coalition would do better than each party battling it out their own. I don't know why you hate NDP policies so much. They are a centre-left party concerned with social justice. You'd prefer Harper to that?

Well I think that you were wrong - Harper cleaned-up Liberal votes in Ontario.

NDP policies: where do I start... It may be a minor issue but I think it is a sign that a lot of poor policy would follow.  One of Layton's first campaign promises was to cap credit card interest rates.  Very counterproductive IMO.

Harper is the "devil we know" and honestly he is not too bad - in many ways even better than Chretien, IMO.

By the way, Trudeau has categorically ruled out this possibility, so I think you are wasting your breath on this issue.