Videodrome
Senior Member
I saw one story where people were saying that Canada now had the best looking first family, replacing the Barack and Michelle Obama.
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commenting on the "looks" of leaders and their families is the only thing dumber than linking pop and politics (IMO)I saw one story where people were saying that Canada now had the best looking first family, replacing the Barack and Michelle Obama.
Countries around the world rely on coalition governments!
commenting on the "looks" of leaders and their families is the only thing dumber than linking pop and politics (IMO)
Yes, and often with much larger numbers of parties. That might seem like a drawback to PR, but what often ends up happening is that smaller parties consolidate into larger ones to draw more votes. Germany has a green/centre left party formed in 1990, consisting of the Greens plus three non-communist democratic activist groups that had been active in East Germany. It usually supports the Social Democrats in coalitions, occasionally the Christian Democrats. The Netherlands has a similar party derived from green, minor left and progressive Christian parties.
Yes, I care much more about policy and results than looks. Just seeing the reactions from around the world is interesting.
Yes, we aren't a two party system like the US, but being a three party system isn't much better.
I remember the good old days when you had the PC's, Reform party, BQ, NDP and Liberals. There there was the Canadian Alliance party with Stockwell Doris Day....
Laura Stone @l_stone 1h1 hour ago
Just ran into Bernard Lord. Says he has ZERO Conservative leadership aspirations. "I don't even know where this is coming from." #cdnpoli
Now that the Liberals have won I would like to share my favourite quote or paraphrase should I say from Justin Trudeau:
"Putin is a bully. If I'm elected PM, I, I'm going stand up to him."
LOL we may actually get to see how this plays out because Trudeau "standing up" to Putin is like Jon Snow trying to outbid Tywin Lannister.
What would you have him do with regards to arctic sovereignty that he did not already do?It will be interesting to see how Trudeau handle that file - Russia fancies itself as the predominant Arctic power, quite possibly to the detriment to Canadian interests. The previous government talked the tough talk and demonstrated little - it is one area I hope to see improvement on.
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What would you have him do with regards to arctic sovereignty that he did not already do?
One of the things that I really did not like about the Libs/NDP was when some of them (thankfully not a significant number of them) mocked the whole Franklin expedition. More than once I heard "and what did he do...looked for an old ship and made a movie about it"....the subtlety of that mission was that a large part of our arctic claim is based on us having been in the arctic longer than anyone....finding that ship ended any doubt of that and gave physical evidence of it....and any international court will take that into account.