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« Reply #585 on: April 14, 2018, 12:59:38 pm »
all of them would be good.

I was serious about the first three, but mostly kidding about the wind-powered scooters endowment.

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« Reply #586 on: April 14, 2018, 01:05:38 pm »
You call compromise, dictating your entire agenda.
ROTFL. I held up Trudeau's "carbon tax for pipelines" as an example of a political compromise. I think I have made my opinion on GHG regulation quite clear so my using that as an example demonstrates that I understand what compromise requires. The fact that you can't see that means you don't have a clue what compromise is and you seem to think that "compromise" means "you get what you want and only what you want". Your are poster boy for why PR would be a disaster.

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« Reply #587 on: April 14, 2018, 01:08:30 pm »
ROTFL.

Exactly, your idea of compromise is throwing a minor bone in order to get your entire agenda and then some for eternity.

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« Reply #588 on: April 14, 2018, 01:13:16 pm »
Exactly, your idea of compromise is throwing a minor bone in order to get your entire agenda and then some for eternity.
Of course you see it that way because you are an ideologue who don't understand what compromise means.

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« Reply #589 on: April 14, 2018, 01:24:01 pm »
you are an ideologue

Your mother wears army boots

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« Reply #590 on: April 14, 2018, 02:25:03 pm »
Even deeper pile of crap. Governing is about making compromises, only a fascist dictator thinks otherwise.

And yet, the Greens are about no compromise. None.

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Hogan is free to deal with anyone else than the Greens, if the "moderate center" cannot come together then they are anything but moderate.

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« Reply #591 on: April 14, 2018, 04:48:14 pm »
Wind Powered Scooter

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« Reply #592 on: April 15, 2018, 03:28:01 am »
And yet, the Greens are about no compromise. None.

Get back to me when the Conservatives support right to choose, or gun control, or even impelement a tax to balance the budget (preferably one that actually taxes those with wealth)

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« Reply #593 on: April 15, 2018, 09:57:48 am »
Get back to me when the Conservatives support right to choose, or gun control, or even impelement a tax to balance the budget (preferably one that actually taxes those with wealth)

They support all those things now. They always have.
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« Reply #594 on: April 15, 2018, 11:59:03 am »
Get back to me when the Conservatives support right to choose, or gun control,

And yet, during 8 years in power the Harper government took no action to limit reproductive freedom or make guns easier to buy or make gun classifications less restrictive or anything, other than eliminate the (failed) Long Gun Registry.

That's because while some of them would no doubt have preferred more dramatic action on this issues, they understood that the bulk of Canadians disagree, and decided to leave well enough alone.  That's what we call... compromise.

or even impelement a tax to balance the budget (preferably one that actually taxes those with wealth)

Making "the rich" pay more would be a fine thing for Trudeau to do, considering it was one of his key campaign promises. When are we going to see some action on that file? Panama Papers? Paradise Papers?  Despite promises of action on increasing inequality, we seem to see the same cozy relationship between the government and the big accounting firms and the wealthy donors that we've seen from every Canadian government, and that's the one thing that genuinely disappoints me about Trudeau.

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« Reply #595 on: April 15, 2018, 12:13:35 pm »
Victoria's Mr. Floatie says hi!



Howdy-Ho, Mr Hankey!

When I lived in Victoria, like over 20 years ago, I remember that dumping raw sewage straight into the ocean was an issue that was talked about quite a bit... I honestly thought something would have been done about it by this time.

Apparently there is FINALLY a plan to build a sewage treatment plant for the capital region.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/victoria-sewage-plant-1.3914690


It is amusing to hear the hot air emanating from Victoria about how much they love their coastline when the capital region has been killing its ocean with 25 billion liters of untreated sewage per year and will keep doing so for several more years until the new system comes online.

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« Reply #596 on: April 15, 2018, 12:18:57 pm »
The summit is apparently happening right now:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-horgan-notley-ottawa-1.4620367

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Alberta Premier Rachel Notley says her government and the federal government have developed a financial plan that will ensure Kinder Morgan's financial risk associated with the construction of the Trans Mountain pipeline is mitigated, paving the way for the pipeline to be built.

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« Reply #597 on: April 15, 2018, 12:40:29 pm »
Trudeau also said, during his comments, that the federal government will be drafting legislation that will restate and emphasize its authority on this issue.

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« Reply #598 on: April 15, 2018, 09:05:16 pm »
And yet, during 8 years in power the Harper government took no action to limit reproductive freedom or make guns easier to buy or make gun classifications less restrictive or anything, other than eliminate the (failed) Long Gun Registry.

That's because while some of them would no doubt have preferred more dramatic action on this issues, they understood that the bulk of Canadians disagree, and decided to leave well enough alone.  That's what we call... compromise.

Never mind the bulk of Canadians, the bulk of Conservatives disagree. If the harper Tories had held a free vote in the House on banning abortion but only they could vote there would still be abortion. And I think most of the party, like I do, considers those yankee lunatics who want to walk around town with an AR-15 strapped across their backs wearing camo as basically retarded, and members of the tiny **** squad.
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« Reply #599 on: April 15, 2018, 09:07:16 pm »
It is amusing to hear the hot air emanating from Victoria about how much they love their coastline when the capital region has been killing its ocean with 25 billion liters of untreated sewage per year and will keep doing so for several more years until the new system comes online.

Kinda like Montreal not wanting a pipeline despite both Montreal and Quebec city dumping raw sewage into the St. Lawrence.
"When liberals insist that only fascists will defend borders then voters will hire fascists to do the job liberals won't do." David Frum