en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/1391238 Comments by briguyhfx http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/05/06/the-detained-documents/#IDComment150295344 What are you talking about? The Liberals were complicit in insuring that no documents ever saw (or will see) the light of day. Mon, 9 May 2011 13:01:37 +0000 http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/05/06/the-detained-documents/#IDComment150295344 http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/05/07/it-was-just-symbolic/#IDComment150292000 Are you sure he spoke French? Or was that an assistant pretending to be him? Mon, 9 May 2011 12:46:34 +0000 http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/05/07/it-was-just-symbolic/#IDComment150292000 http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/05/07/it-was-just-symbolic/#IDComment150291447 this Mon, 9 May 2011 12:44:02 +0000 http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/05/07/it-was-just-symbolic/#IDComment150291447 http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/05/05/conservative-mp-says-government-could-make-short-form-census-optional/#IDComment149285510 I'm wondering if I should bother with the long form (I've been selected as well). What's the point of filling it in if the results are going to be imprecise anyway? I'm all for doing my part, but much of the rest of the country (let's guess 24%, just as a random number) is just going to refuse to fill it out, possibly while declaring "Next". Thu, 5 May 2011 22:52:38 +0000 http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/05/05/conservative-mp-says-government-could-make-short-form-census-optional/#IDComment149285510 http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/05/05/mulcair-backtracks-on-bin-laden-comments/#IDComment149283247 Sigh. You are trying to respond to conbots with facts. It'll never take, I tell you. Thu, 5 May 2011 22:42:08 +0000 http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/05/05/mulcair-backtracks-on-bin-laden-comments/#IDComment149283247 http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/05/05/tom-mulcair-clarifies#IDComment149225846 You forget that Solomon is a future Senator. Watch his interviews with Liberal and NDP members and compare them to interviews with Conservative members. He likes to play gotcha with the first two groups, not so much with the third. Thu, 5 May 2011 19:12:07 +0000 http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/05/05/tom-mulcair-clarifies#IDComment149225846 http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/05/05/conservative-mp-says-government-could-make-short-form-census-optional/#IDComment149203360 Didn't he advocate voting for this idiocy? Thu, 5 May 2011 17:36:39 +0000 http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/05/05/conservative-mp-says-government-could-make-short-form-census-optional/#IDComment149203360 http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/05/04/the-commons-the-day-after#IDComment149145461 I hope you are right about this. Canada could become both a financial and a social basket case if you are wrong. Thu, 5 May 2011 13:29:53 +0000 http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/05/04/the-commons-the-day-after#IDComment149145461 http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/05/04/mayor-who-blocked-jewish-orphans-honoured/#IDComment149141273 What makes you think she was progressive? She was a feminist, but that was only a small piece of her character. Despite her support for equal pay for equal work, she thought that divorce should be hard to obtain, and she was a blatant racist. She thought that all non-English immigration should be halted (including Ukrainian, which was big in her day). She belonged to the PC party. Hardly sounds like a progressive, unless you believe the canard that the old PC party was progressive. Thu, 5 May 2011 13:11:20 +0000 http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/05/04/mayor-who-blocked-jewish-orphans-honoured/#IDComment149141273 http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/05/03/plusminus/#IDComment148818180 I certainly hope this gig doesn't pay so well that the same characters apply for the job in four years. They've got plenty of time for skill upgrading and such in the interim. Wed, 4 May 2011 14:30:44 +0000 http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/05/03/plusminus/#IDComment148818180 http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/05/03/the-commons-the-last-night#IDComment148779779 The papers all say that they are stable, despite a ~250 point drop yesterday. I want some of what the financial editors are smoking. That said, one day does not make a trend. It will take a lot of financial deregulation and capital flight to cause disaster. That'll take a few years, if it happens. I'm going to be optimistic, for now, and hope that the ideologues will be held in check by pragmatism. Wed, 4 May 2011 11:44:55 +0000 http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/05/03/the-commons-the-last-night#IDComment148779779 http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/05/03/the-commons-the-last-night#IDComment148779217 My tongue is in my cheek. The internet sucks at conveying that, though. Wed, 4 May 2011 11:42:06 +0000 http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/05/03/the-commons-the-last-night#IDComment148779217 http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/05/03/the-commons-the-last-night#IDComment148507408 And thus ends the Craigslist employment. Tue, 3 May 2011 17:35:15 +0000 http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/05/03/the-commons-the-last-night#IDComment148507408 http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/05/03/the-commons-the-last-night#IDComment148506982 No difference, but it would make a good visual. 40% of Canadians don't care who sits in those seats. Tue, 3 May 2011 17:34:13 +0000 http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/05/03/the-commons-the-last-night#IDComment148506982 http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/05/03/plusminus/#IDComment148505858 So, the Quebecois are the origin of the Borg mind. Interesting. Tue, 3 May 2011 17:30:01 +0000 http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/05/03/plusminus/#IDComment148505858 http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/05/03/ignatieff-resigns#IDComment148492267 I don't see how Jack can stop Steve, aside from begging. Tue, 3 May 2011 16:35:20 +0000 http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/05/03/ignatieff-resigns#IDComment148492267 http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/05/03/one-unquestionably-good-thing#IDComment148457553 WTF? It's a fact: 24% of eligible Canadians voted for Harper. 18% for the NDP. 12% for the Liberals. 3.6% Bloc. 2.4% Green. 40% didn't vote for any of the above. Tue, 3 May 2011 14:16:03 +0000 http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/05/03/one-unquestionably-good-thing#IDComment148457553 http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/05/03/one-unquestionably-good-thing#IDComment148455040 Make that 24% of Canadians. We still had only 60% turnout. Tue, 3 May 2011 14:05:15 +0000 http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/05/03/one-unquestionably-good-thing#IDComment148455040 http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/05/03/laytons-against-the-old-games-its-a-new-one-now/#IDComment148453105 Me too. Iggy's poor performance has makes for interesting times in Canada. Tue, 3 May 2011 13:55:45 +0000 http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/05/03/laytons-against-the-old-games-its-a-new-one-now/#IDComment148453105 http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/05/03/the-commons-the-last-night#IDComment148448937 There's a slight problem here, Aaron, either of math or of definition. 40% of eligible voters didn't vote for the Cons, and 30% didn't vote for the NDP, as we once again experienced horrible turnout at the polls. Only ~24% of those eligible voted for this majority government, and only ~18% voted for the official opposition. If we had true PR, 40% of the seats in the House of Commons would (should?) sit empty. Tue, 3 May 2011 13:36:19 +0000 http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/05/03/the-commons-the-last-night#IDComment148448937