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This is none of my business since I'm not a Canadian resident or citizen BUT it's really nice to see "THE END" of yet another low-life "TREE HUGGING" political party in another country.
Now, Canada can be FREE from abortion and gay marriage
A REMINDER..... MAN + WOMAN = MARRIAGE!
Conservatives Win in Canadian Election
Jan 24, 8:24 AM (ET)
By BETH DUFF-BROWN
OTTAWA (AP) - Conservative Stephen Harper pledged to quickly carry out his campaign promises to cut taxes, get tough on crime and repair strained ties with Washington after his party won national elections and ended 13 years of Liberal Party rule in Canada.
That may be easier said than done.
The Conservatives' winning margin was too narrow to rule with a majority, a situation that will make it hard for them to get legislation through the divided House of Commons.
Monday's vote showed that Canadians are weary of the Liberal Party's broken promises and corruption scandals. They were willing to give Harper a chance to govern despite concerns that some of his social views are extreme.
"Tonight friends, our great country has voted for change, and Canadians have asked our party to take the lead in delivering that change," Harper told 2,000 cheering supporters at his campaign headquarters in Calgary.
He said his new government - not likely to be sworn in for several weeks - would immediately move to cut the unpopular national sales tax from 7 percent to 6 percent, "reform the justice system to fight against crime and gangs," and begin to allocate $1,042 to Canadian families for each child they have needing daycare.
He also wants to introduce a federal accountability act that will monitor government spending in an effort to avoid the corruption scandals that have plagued the Liberals.
"We will do this because shuffling the deck in Ottawa is not good enough," he said. "We need to do this to make the system more accountable to you, the Canadian taxpayers."
Relations with the Bush administration will likely improve under Harper as his ideology runs along the same lines of many U.S. Republicans.
Harper has said he would reconsider a U.S. missile defense scheme rejected by the Liberal government of Prime Minister Paul Martin. He also said he wanted to move beyond the Kyoto debate by establishing different environmental controls, spend more on the Canadian military, expand its peacekeeping missions and tighten security along the U.S. border to prevent terrorists and guns from crossing.
Final results for the 308-seat House showed Conservatives with 124 seats; Liberals with 103; the Bloc Quebecois with 51, New Democratic Party with 29; and one seat to an Independent.
The Conservatives also earned 10 seats in Quebec, where they were virtually shut out in the last elections of June 2004. Harper said it was symbolic of the Quebecois desire for national unity as opposed to sovereignty for the French-speaking province.
"Our government will build a new and dynamic voice for federalism in Quebec," Harper said.
Martin conceded defeat and said he would step down as head of the party, although remain in Parliament to represent the Montreal seat he won again. It was an unusual move to do both on the same night, but Martin appeared upbeat and eager to continue to fight the Conservatives from House opposition benches.
"I have just called Stephen Harper and I've offered him my congratulations," Martin told a subdued crowd at his headquarters in Montreal. "We differ on many things, but we all share a believe in the potential and the progress of Canada."
The Conservative victory ended more than a decade of Liberal Party rule and could shift the traditionally liberal country to the right on socio-economic issues such as health care, taxation, abortion and gay marriage. Some Canadians have expressed reservations about Harper's views opposing abortion and marriages between gays and lesbians.
During the campaign, Harper pledged to cut the red tape in social welfare programs, lower the national sales tax from 7 percent to 5 percent over five years and grant more autonomy and federal funding to Canada's 13 provinces and territories.
The Liberals have angered Washington in recent years, condemning the war in Iraq, refusing to join the continental anti-ballistic missile plan and criticizing President Bush for rejecting the Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse gas emissions and enacting punitive Canadian lumber tariffs.
Martin, 67, had trumpeted eight consecutive budget surpluses and sought to paint Harper as a right-winger posing as a moderate to woo mainstream voters. He claimed Harper supports the war in Iraq, which most Canadians oppose, and would try to outlaw abortion and overturn gay marriage. Harper denied the accusations.
(AP) Canada's Bloc Quebecois Leader Gilles Duceppe and his wife Yolande Brunelle watch election results... Full Image
Voters cast ballots at 60,000 polling stations amid unseasonably mild winter weather. Turnout from the 22.7 million registered voters was 65 percent, somewhat better than the 60 percent of the June 2004 election, the lowest number since 1898.
Martin's government and the House were dissolved in November after New Democrats defected from the governing coalition to support the Conservatives in a no-confidence vote amid a corruption scandal involving the misuse of funds for a national unity program in Quebec.
An investigation absolved the prime minister of wrongdoing but accused senior Liberals of taking kickbacks and misspending tens of millions of dollars in public funds.
Just as campaigning hit full swing over the Christmas holidays, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police announced they were investigating a possible leak by Liberal government officials that appeared to have influenced the stock market.
AP writers Phil Couvrette in Montreal, Rob Gillies in Toronto, Shelley Knapp in Calgary and Jeremy Hainsworth in Vancouver contributed to this report.
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's amazing the foolsih things people say huh? Harper didn't campaign on your "hopes" DWE...
Martin, 67, had trumpeted eight consecutive budget surpluses and sought to paint Harper as a right-winger posing as a moderate to woo mainstream voters. He claimed Harper supports the war in Iraq, which most Canadians oppose, and would try to outlaw abortion and overturn gay marriage. Harper denied the accusations
didja even read your own article? LOL
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Of course he's going to deny the accusations! DUH!!! "Harper denied the accusations" but give it about 6 months, and watch..... Abortion: OUTLAWED... Gay marriage... OUTLAWED!
Martin's accusations are CORRECT!
Again, this is none of my business since Canada isn't "MY" country. Just throught I'd rub this in all of your faces to show all of you that liberals around the world are slowly but surely "falling down".
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Naw..... Not really going to be around here much. Just liked the latest news about giving the liberals the big boot in Canada so I posted it here so all you people can cry for the lefty Canadians. NOW GO GET YOUR PICKET SIGNS AND PLANE TICKETS READY! LOL.....
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quote:Originally posted by DWE: Of course he's going to deny the accusations! DUH!!! "Harper denied the accusations" but give it about 6 months, and watch..... Abortion: OUTLAWED... Gay marriage... OUTLAWED!
Martin's accusations are CORRECT!
Again, this is none of my business since Canada isn't "MY" country. Just throught I'd rub this in all of your faces to show all of you that liberals around the world are slowly but surely "falling down".
LOL so he's LIAR? then... oh that's right, he's a politician and his lips are moving silly me....
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Out here on the left [ whoops I mean West coast ] Canadians claim they have no responsibility to the Nitt Witts in Torontos Government.. And these people are Liberal.
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Zell Miller is one Democrat I would vote for if he ran for President. He shows his conservative roots, he's proud of it and tells "modern day, liberal Democrats", "SHAME ON YOU, GET OUTTA MY FACE"!!!
I'm outta here. Won't be back for awhile. I don't miss this post at all! HAHAHA..... So long!
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Well, I'm a Libertarian anyway. But you can't tell me conservatives/Republicans are to blame for the issues we face in the South.
Classic example: New Orleans. Ruled by Dems for a century and they have enslaved the citizens of New Orleans. For generations it's been instilled in their minds that "the government takes care of me and my life and my family". Or should I say, the Democrats do...
And don't confuse Libertarian with "liberal". Do some DD on the Libertarian party. If you're a balanced thinker, you may like what this party has to offer.
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But you can't tell me conservatives/Republicans are to blame for the issues we face in the South.
i said ULTRA-conservatives.... so you think the democrats of the last forty-fifity years have "messed up" the south? maybe we should go back to the 40's south instead? hmmmmm.....
you do realise that the ULTRA-conservatives are against birth control too, right? that'll really help the economies down here....
i am a conservative: as in FISCAL conservative... there are some very strange business practices in this part of the country... like stores close on Sat. at 1PM and open again on Mon.... (and then we wonder why the economy is so slow?)
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Yep, there are some strange business practices. That's to match the practices of government....like collecting liquor taxes on what the liquor stores sell when the law says there can't be liquor sales in the state.
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