The Ontario Election.
#61
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Are we allowed to allocate our tax to the board of our choice, as I did in Alberta? Have I missed some paperwork here, no-one's asked me where my cash should go?
#62
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You can choose (within some quite strict parameters) and do so when you register to pay property taxes.
#63
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It would appear the Conservatives have well and truly shot themselves in the foot over the school issue.
McGuinty headed to a majority: poll
McGuinty headed to a majority: poll
If they're writing off Tory, you can expect a bloodletting in the OPC very soon.
Where is Kim Campbell when you need her?
#64
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I found it a little disturbing to see the Greens campaigning on religion (I mean even more than it bothers me that religion dominates politics in Ontario in 2007 generally). I dunno that being ecologically sound means holding a particular religious view. I wonder if they don't go too far in pandering to the Mennonites.
#65
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I found it a little disturbing to see the Greens campaigning on religion (I mean even more than it bothers me that religion dominates politics in Ontario in 2007 generally). I dunno that being ecologically sound means holding a particular religious view. I wonder if they don't go too far in pandering to the Mennonites.
#66
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Their slogan was/is "for an equal school system vote Green" which I took to mean that central to their platform was the elimination of funding for religious schools, a commendable aim, but if they're primarily concerned with environmental issues, it's a red herring.
#67
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Herrings aside, if the paradigm is to be trawled to a position where environmental concerns might conceivably be tackled, we need to bait the hook with a full net of policies.
#68
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I think this election is sparking a new interest in politics. I don't know why but the OH has recently been asked by several people at her workplace to explain the position of the various parties on the political spectrum (cute, given her background). Yesterday I heard someone over the office partition ask a colleague "so what's this referendum question?" to which the colleague replied "I'll fetch Ian, he knows politics". By the time Ian, who knows politics, arrived to explain the issue he had an audience of 25 and was peppered with questions such as "are the Family Coalition to the left of the Liberals?".
I gotta be thinking that, if this is a representive democracy, we deserve someone with the brains of Mike Harris.
I gotta be thinking that, if this is a representive democracy, we deserve someone with the brains of Mike Harris.
#70
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Granted, a single issue party isn't viable over the long term, nonetheless switching the "push" issue from environment to religion/education seemed to me a poor move, the more so now that Tory concedes religion doesn't sell.
#71
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I think this election is sparking a new interest in politics. I don't know why but the OH has recently been asked by several people at her workplace to explain the position of the various parties on the political spectrum (cute, given her background). Yesterday I heard someone over the office partition ask a colleague "so what's this referendum question?" to which the colleague replied "I'll fetch Ian, he knows politics". By the time Ian, who knows politics, arrived to explain the issue he had an audience of 25 and was peppered with questions such as "are the Family Coalition to the left of the Liberals?".
I gotta be thinking that, if this is a representive democracy, we deserve someone with the brains of Mike Harris.
I gotta be thinking that, if this is a representive democracy, we deserve someone with the brains of Mike Harris.
Last edited by Novocastrian; Oct 5th 2007 at 2:27 pm.
#72
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I would actually agree with that. But the general point stands, I think.
#73
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Of course! The tax here is so steep I'm probably paying for the new library myself. They can call it "Biiiiiink's books".
But since I didn't get a thingy to sign like Alberta, I assumed there wasn't a choice. I hope it's defaulted to the right one. We don't want "Biiiiiink's bibles"
But since I didn't get a thingy to sign like Alberta, I assumed there wasn't a choice. I hope it's defaulted to the right one. We don't want "Biiiiiink's bibles"
#75
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Of course! The tax here is so steep I'm probably paying for the new library myself. They can call it "Biiiiiink's books".
But since I didn't get a thingy to sign like Alberta, I assumed there wasn't a choice. I hope it's defaulted to the right one. We don't want "Biiiiiink's bibles"
But since I didn't get a thingy to sign like Alberta, I assumed there wasn't a choice. I hope it's defaulted to the right one. We don't want "Biiiiiink's bibles"