When I hear Iggy talk about “sulphur” when speaking about Harper, it absolutely reminds me of a certain South American dictator who used the analogy with regard to George Bush. It has the effect (at least to me)of equating the Liberal Party of Canada with this kind of regime. The LPC has truly lost their way, and are truly only a rump party of Toronto and certain ridings in Vancouver. They are finished - these latest stupid ramblings of Iggy really speak to his desperation. They have no good candidates, no platform, no vision for Canada (other than tax and spend). Never thought I would see it, but there you go.

I have nominally supported Mr. Harper and I probably will again (there is simply no alternative). However, Harper has lost something with me and he should listen because I represent his base. The G20 stupidities are unforgiveable, and the lack of any real tax reduction on his watch (the GST reduction was poking around at the edges), all serve to give me pause about him. I believe that the country is not well served by having no credible opposition (the case right now), so while I never want to see the Liberals in power again, we should not hope for their complete demise.

When will smaller government become more than just talk? The same things keep getting said. I don’t know about you, but I’m starting to tune out.

I have a problem with Ignatieff and Harper. However, I guess by default, I would go with Harper. Having said that I find that the lack of openness and the level of control he exerts on his ministers is above what I would like. I feel he has a ‘dictatorship’ attitude rather than a team attitude.

I will only support the Harper gov’t becuz I love what they are doing for our miltary and bringing ship building back to Canada, in Halifax, where it belongs and our long lost expertice in that industry revived. Good on Peter McKay for getting that going - now there is a leader!!!

I give Harper failing grade for Health Canada and the raids and gun toting RCMP that accompany them to go after Natural Supplements - like they are grow opps or mafia - there’s a real problem there along with Bill C6.

I’m sorry to say that politics in this country is totally corrupt as in the USA. The “ELITE” are pushing the One World Government on us whether we like it or not. That crowd is the eugenicist crowd. This is an irrefutable fact. Harper is in League with the UN, (Rothschild, Rockefeller owned) WHO Bilderberg, trilateral etc. Unless we elect someone other than establishment parties we are doomed to be controlled in every aspect of our lives. The spying, prison society they have set up is not working. It’s time for a CHANGE. Mark.

Across Country tour or not, the Liberal Party of Canada seems incapable of renewing itself. Obviously it won’t happen with the current leadership people such as M. Igantief or Bob Rae or Ralph Goodale etc. New blood will be required that isn’t tainted like the old liberal crowd. A new lower tax, smaller Government approach will be required that insists people be more responsible for themselves and the choices they make. Whether it is retirement, day care, or many other Government sudsidized programs, people have to come to understand there is no free ride. Each must be responsible for whatever desires they have, not pass it to other taxpayers to cover.
Come to think of it this should be the approach of the Conservative Party of Canada, if there actually was one. Spending has dissappointingly grown by leaps and bounds during all of the time of Mr. Harper’s term even before the recent recession. No wonder people like Mike Lehman are tuning and voter participation is in decline. There is nothing on the ballot menu but way left and liberal. How discouraging!

Please elect independents. Mark.

The problem with most politicians today is that they haven’t woken up to the fact that they are primarily money managers. Government takes about 50% of our incomes and then spends it. If they don’t spend it wisely they are failing us. The McGuinty Government in Ontario is a good example of how not to do it. Under their watch the Ontario Provincial Government has become more and more inefficient, spending money like drunken sailors to no discernible effect. As a result, the government is perennially short of money, as indeed would any household or business that doesn’t know how to manage its money.

Ontario’s eco-tax is the latest example of this. It has all the hallmarks of a hastily devised, ad hoc means of raising extra funds. It has nothing to do with environmental concerns, despite its name, but is just one more attempt, like the HST, to wring more money out of the taxpayer to fill the black hole of the provincial government coffers.

When the next election arrives, I suggest we all ask every candidate how they intend to reduce spending. Any candidate who proposes more spending should be tarred and feathered and run out of town.

I am pleased at the remarks that I have read that echo my sentiments. Governments, whether they be federal or provincial are out of touch with the Canadian people and are in my opinion more self serving than they are people serving.

I too am one who is not pleased with Harper and feel like some do that he is more of a dictator than a democratic leader but, as of this time of writing, I would choose Harper over Ignatief. But, having stated this, if an Independent were to run in my riding I would be hard pressed not to vote for him or her.

I believe that government needs to get away from MPs and MPPs having to vote the way the Conservative, Liberal, or NDP dictator says they are to vote or ELSE! As an example: Jack Layton kicked a female NDP MP out of the party because she voted against same sex marriage after he told all NDP MPs that they were to vote for same sex marriage. I have stated in the past that I truly believe that we do not have a representative government, what we have is a form of dictatorship where the party leaders call all of the shots and could not care less what the people feel. The failed NB power deal to Hydro Quebec is another good example of dictatorship where the premier of NB stated that he was going to go through with the deal regardless of the fact that the majority of New Brunswickers were adamently against the deal. The deal only failed because Quebec wanted to change the deal.

I would not be surprised that in the next election that the percentage of those who vote are less than in the last election. One MP, with whom I talked with over the telephone a couple of years ago stated to me that the reason why so many people are not voting in elections is that they would rather stay home and play with their computers. Perhaps a pole should be taken as to why fewer and fewer people are voting in federal and provincial elections and published so that all MPs and MPPs can see why people are not voting. I wonder if this MP would change his mind?

I cannot understand why Michael Ignatief goes cross country telling how much he dislikes the Conservatives and Mr. Harper,the same with our opposion in BC they always tell us how bad Mr. Campbell is. Why don’t they smarten up and tell us how much better they are than the party that is already running. As I see it we have the smartest man running Canada now so maybe that is why Ignatief has nothing better to say.

Iggy has no new ideas so the only recourse left is to attack the Conservatives. But he so badly misreads the population (he hasn’t lived here very much), that he keeps on whining about issues that do not concern most Canadians, such as the Afghan detainee issue (I could care less), or Khadr (I could care even less about that one), or some minister who has a slip of the tongue (we demand Harper fire that minister!). When will these clowns get it that a country is a business - we are supposed to elect “representatives” who ensure that the business survives and thrives. Harper - despite my misgivings about him - clearly understands that reality. Witness his success at stopping the bank tax that the G8 was pushing for, and Canada’s overall economic health compared to the rest of the G8. He knows that the economy is everything - did you ever think that you would see the Canadian unemployment rate two percentage points BELOW the US figure? All my life it has generally been the other way around…

We do not have any statesmen in either our federal or ontario governments. They and their supporters really are dictators whose only concern is to bribe minority groups, especially the French, with all sorts of non essential benefits, political, social and economic, so that such groups continue to maintain them in power. Take for example Bill 232 and the fact that this amazing legislation made it thro the Commons. If it becomes law, it will deny 80% of Canadians who are not bilingual any hope of ever being able to share in the most critical and important section of the administration of the country. We are currently paying out some $8.6 billion to Quebec in equalization payments because Quebecers are unable to maintain themselves, yet we are willing to allow these same people to become the most likely candidates for the position of Supreme Court of Canada justices. The startling aspect of this bizarre situation is that all three of the major political parties are supporting this legislation. This is the level of insight of our political leaders.