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No, it's because an incompetent Federal government doesn't understand finance and is doing all the exact right things to make the disaster even worse than it is, for instance keeping the external exchange rate on the Canadian dollar far too high.
What do you suggest they do to stop the demand for Canadian dollars? Lower interest rates more? What's the point in negotiating higher wages if the government devalues the dollar to nullify the higher wages? Do you want our dollar to be like the Venezulan Bolivar?
This could be a text book example of a simple non sequiter. That last sentence just shows you don't comprehend how parliamentary democracy works. Hardly surprising in a person with such an apparent unquestioning faith in big business, I suppose.
Sure I understand it. The opposition bet the Conservatives couldn't get us through this economic mess. They guessed wrong. Likely because they didn't have an alternative. The liberals had a chance to form a coalition government but decided against it. The first rule of politics is to gain power as quickly as possible so you can implement your own policies.
As an example, the Conservatives once got the most seats in Ontario. They had enough for a minority. Bob Rae threw his support to the Liberals and the conservative turned the government over to them.
Are you sure you understand how parliamentary democracy works?
What do you suggest they do to stop the demand for Canadian dollars?
Stop the measures they are currently using to keep it artificially high.
Lower interest rates more?
Hardly possible currently.
What's the point in negotiating higher wages if the government devalues the dollar to nullify the higher wages?
Lowering the external exchange rate makes Canadian goods more attractive to those outside our borders and increases the amount of stuff they buy from us. This makes more jobs and keeps current pay rates pretty well level if not carried to extremes.
Do you want our dollar to be like the Venezulan Bolivar?
Why should that happen? Is not what we make valuable to others? I am not suggesting that we artificially lower exchange rates, but rather allow exchange rates to fall to their proper levels instead of artificially pumping them up as we are doing now.
The rest of your rant only shows that you don't actually have any real understanding of of what happens in parliament, or what happens in the rest of the country.
Lowering the external exchange rate makes Canadian goods more attractive to those outside our borders and increases the amount of stuff they buy from us. This makes more jobs and keeps current pay rates pretty well level if not carried to extremes.
Our goods are already attractive to those outside our border. Oil, Natural gas, gold, metals. Many have already left or outsourced in the manufacturing sector. We import. Are you suggesting the government subsidize our exports to make them more attractive? The American dollar dropped against our dollar because they screwed up.
Why should that happen? Is not what we make valuable to others? I am not suggesting that we artificially lower exchange rates, but rather allow exchange rates to fall to their proper levels instead of artificially pumping them up as we are doing now.
Nonsense. You couldn't even tell me how they should lower the dollar much less how they are artificially pumping it up.
The rest of your rant only shows that you don't actually have any real understanding of of what happens in parliament, or what happens in the rest of the country.
You're giving us uninformed drivel. What's happening in Parliament is a minority government is pretty much working like a majority. The opposition is afraid to defeat them for fear of losing their seats in an election. The liberals and ndp's greatest handicap is their leader.
Perhaps you could tell that to a few friends of mine...
finning - moved to Alberta due to high taxes/ anti business environment under the NDP reign... Friends dad worked there, and he was told exactly why they were moving...
Waverider - used to be one of salmon arms largest employers, left BC due to high taxes / anti business environment... One of my best friends lost his job and the owner told him exactly why they were moving.
Acc Pac - Friend of mine is a Sr. Project leader and has been there since the early 80's... said that they are outsourcing so much work to India that he was lucky to keep his own job... reason? they could pay the Indian workers 1/10 the wages and they didn't have to deal with BC labour laws.
I could keep going, but I'm sure you get the point.
Like what? You seem to be deliberately side stepping the question.
You seem to me to be deliberately missing the obvious.
I am not going to reply to the rest of your message since we appear to have left the thread topic. I will leave you with a link and will try to only reply to on topic posts from you.
You seem to me to be deliberately missing the obvious.
I am not going to reply to the rest of your message since we appear to have left the thread topic. I will leave you with a link and will try to only reply to on topic posts from you.
Nice list of nations in that laughable report.
Actually, the main topic on this site is chess. Do you play any chess or do you like that pretty much anyone can fit into the chess community?
Clark misjudged the resolve of Trudeau to govern. I see no such resolve in the current opposition. Do you?
Another example might go back even further. Diefenbaker was once handed a minority government. He claimed the opposition wouldn't allow him to govern, went back to the voters asking for a majority, and he got it.
Diefenbaker won a minority in 1957, called a snap election the next year, and won the big majority.
I expect a 'green backlash' here in BC as well with the Carbon tax. Many people I know who are 'natural' liberal voters are very upset. The problem is that we have no one else to vote for. After the 90's anyone with a memory won't vote NPD and The Greens are even more on the fringe... we have no choice here.
I expect a 'green backlash' here in BC as well with the Carbon tax. Many people I know who are 'natural' liberal voters are very upset. The problem is that we have no one else to vote for. After the 90's anyone with a memory won't vote NPD and The Greens are even more on the fringe... we have no choice here.
I subscribe to the Toronto Star so they deliver it every day.
The liberals here will probably lose the next election. Lots of spending scandals, tax increases and so forth. This is only one in a long string of obscene spending excesses. I guess a lot of elected liberals will lose their riding. That might be a reason some are quitting now to try for municipal politics.
The conservatives in this province are no prize either which is why they lost the last election. They proposed an unpopular funding measure for the school system.
About the only thing a voter can do is keep changing government until one comes along which gets it right.
Actually, I'm glad you posted that. People can see the kind of policies the left thinks is appropriate for Canada.
Still sill shooting at that darned messenger, I see. Trouble is you are firing blanks.
Reasonable people know that "the left" is no more monolithic than "the right". So picking on one allegedly "left wing" web site and generalizing to everyone else who disagrees with you is rather laughable to them, I imagine.
But you've now shown yourself as someone who thinks that it's OK for him to do what he disparages in others. Have you figured out what the word for that is yet Gary?
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