so, weird, dumb question, but is it possible to have a membership for more then one political party, and have a say in voting for leadership, or are you only allowed to be involved with one?
I think all of them say you can't, but I guess there's also no way for them to check.so, weird, dumb question, but is it possible to have a membership for more then one political party, and have a say in voting for leadership, or are you only allowed to be involved with one?
Not that I'm generally inclined to give a lot of Khadr's opponents the benefit of the doubt on race issues, but it is fair to note that Khadr was a combatant and was alleged to have killed someone. Spy Kid is just a kid whose parents were spies.Huh, so I just heard about this case involving the Russian kid trying to come back to Canada even though his parents are convicted spies.
Where's all the Omar Khadr style outrage about how foreign enemies shouldn't be allowed back into the country and all that? I wonder what the big glaring difference is between one kid who is caught up with his parents' bullshit and another kid who is caught up in his parents' bullshit? :p
Not that I'm generally inclined to give a lot of Khadr's opponents the benefit of the doubt on race issues, but it is fair to note that Khadr was a combatant and was alleged to have killed someone. Spy Kid is just a kid whose parents were spies.
IMO the Government should have fought in court no matter the costOn the other hand, those tribunals fucked up so hard on Khadr's case that I don't believe a single thing that's said on either side of that 'debate'. I just stick with "we don't know" and might as well pay him back for something that the government would have lost anyway.
OTTAWA — Should Jagmeet Singh run for the Montreal seat held by his predecessor Thomas Mulcair? That's a question the current NDP leader says he's still seriously pondering.
"I'm considering all my options," Singh told reporters Wednesday about possibly running in Outremont. He's listening to counsel and is "always open to hearing folks' input on any byelection that opens up."
Winning a byelection there — Mulcair has announced he's stepping down as MP in June — would boost the NDP's fortunes in the province leading up to the general election in 2019, said the party's Quebec lieutenant Alexandre Boulerice.
"We're juggling with the idea right now. It would be audacious. It would be bold, but still, Outremont, we've won it four times. Last time, we won it with 5,000 votes," he said.
"There are pros and there are cons...The gains would be if we win the gamble, that sends a pretty strong message about the strength of the NDP and the importance of Quebec for Jagmeet Singh," Boulerice added.
"At the same time, it could be seen as bravado and it could be more risky, maybe Mr. Singh would have greater affinity with a an Ontario byelection."
"There is a balance that needs to be found there. Being elected as an MP would force him, obviously, to spend a lot more time in Ottawa."
Former NDP national director Karl Bélanger cautioned a decision about where Singh should run shouldn't be made lightly.
"You cannot run in a byelection you are going to lose," Bélanger, the president of The Douglas-Coldwell Foundation, told HuffPost Canada.
Outremont is a seat that belonged to the Liberals for decades before Mulcair, a former provincial Liberal cabinet minister, won it for the federal NDP, Bélanger noted. "They can't assume it is an NDP seat... One of the reason it went to the NDP was because of Thomas Mulcair's candidacy."
Some Liberals are already organizing in Outremont where a nomination battle has yet to be called. Concordia University political science professor Kimberley Manning is interested in the seat, as is the Grits' 2015 candidate and former staffer Rachel Bendayan.
Bendayan has been pounding the pavement for months and recently boasted of having more than 100 volunteers. The Jewish woman lives with her family in the largely well-to-do riding with a large Jewish community.
Asked about Singh's prospects, the Liberal riding president, David Marshall, suggested the NDP leader has no chance. "I think we're going to win it!", he told HuffPost.
Running in Outremont "would be a very dangerous move," Bélanger said.
"The worst thing that could happen 18 months out of an election is for the leader to run in a byelection and lose," he explained. "If the new leader doesn't win the seat of the old leader, [the argument will be] where else could he win seats?"
Supply management frustrates the hell out of me and while I can understand the establishment Tories and Liberals supporting it because that's the way it is and the dairy and poultry cartels are powerful political groups but I don't understand why the NDP love such a regressive policy.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it looks like I can't "technically" be a member of the federal Liberals and provincial NDP because the NDP provincial parties are technically part of the same organization as the federal NDP? From what I gather, no ones going to check whether or not I give money to two parties but it's actually against party rules? If so...that's a knock against the way the NDP is organized in my eyes and another reason why provincial parties sharing names with federal parties seems stupid to me.
Also; to add to this. Recurring payments give me the option of a party donation and a riding association donation. Any thoughts on that? My riding is not competitive at all, so money spent in my riding seems like money wasted, though I can understand that tides change slowly so it's important to make baby steps I suppose.
June will be a craaaazy month for elections if Singh pulls the trigger. I feel like he's caught between a rock and a hard place. He needs to be in Parliament, and yet there are few seats up for grabs that he's viable in in bye elections.
YuuuuupIsn't Hungary's President the dictator that got called out for being a dictator?
Nah, I don't want my Netflix taxed,TBH Netflix subs should probably have sales tax charged on them. Like, why wouldn't they? Unfortunately it's become a weird wedge issue.
Thanks for your insight, this is very helpful. My riding historically votes 60-65% CPC. There are some very close ridings here where money is likely well spent. One went liberal by 1200 votes, and Sohi's riding where he won by less than 100.1) Like others said, technically, you aren't supposed to join multiple parties, and the NDP sharing membership lists adds a federal-provincial wrinkle, but there's no way for them to find out.
2) Baby steps are important, so it can't hurt to help grow the party in your riding. That said, if you think your money would be more valuable elsewhere, you can always call LPC HQ and have a monthly donation going to a riding where you think it would make more of a difference. The donation limits for the party and the riding are actually separate -- there's one limit on how much you can give to a registered party, and another on how much you can give to an Electoral District Association (plus another for nomination contests in ridings, and another for leadership contestants). Both are $1,550, but you'd be able to hit the maximum on one and still give to the other.
Untrue: but he could just text these tweets to Rachel Curran and then everyone would be happy.
Untrue: but he could just text these tweets to Rachel Curran and then everyone would be happy.
The date to keep an eye on is April 16th and onward. April 16th is the deadline that Vancouver's ruling (vaguely NDP affiliated) Vision Vancouver party has set for mayoral candidates. This would be the party that a high profile federal NDP MP would run for.
Weirdly there's a good chance that Vision won't end up with any takers for the job.
Vancouver has been in the midst of a full on speculative housing crisis for years, and although municipal governments have the smallest ability out of all levels of government to fix this issue, they have somehow taken a huge amount of the blame. Accordingly Vancouver's Mayor Gregor Robertson has declined to run again[1] as have several other councillors and mayors in Metro Vancouver cities.
Due to the fact that Vision has (fairly or not) wound up with a soiled brand, there has been some attempts by the various left of centre parties and independents to find a consensus Independent candidate so that they don't split the vote and resultantly open the door for a right of centre Mayor[2]. Shauna Sylvester appears to be that person, though many left wing observers[3] feel that she's hardly an independent and is in fact a stealth Vision mayoral candidate given that she has on occasion been involved with that party.
I have no idea what is going to happen but it is currently quite odd in that few seem interested in being councillor or mayor in Vancouver. The election is in October, so I expect things will be sorted by at least June.
[1] There has been some speculation for a while now that Vancouver Centre MP Hedy Fry will be retiring and the Liberal party could be interested in him to run in 2019.
[2] This exact thing happened during a recent rare councillor byelection where the sole right of centre candidate won against a field of four left wing councillors.
[3] Left wing of the NDP affiliated party? Oh of course Vision is considered to be centrist, developer owned shills by many left wing and further left wing politicos and activists. There's a reason they call it the Left Coast...
This is really interesting, thanks. I'm surprised to hear about Hedy, but it makes sense -- running for re-election at 78 would be crazy. I imagine the battle for her seat/the LPC nomination is going to be pretty intense.
Disagree. Not only do Conservatives still love him, if he can keep popping up to remind Canadians how odious he is -- and, by extension, how terrible the CPC is -- I'm totally okay with that.
Appealing to female voters about jobs is easy, hell I could do it. Doing so in a manner that doesn't seem to diminish the other issues they face everyday, making you seem like a jerk is not. Kenney with the swing and the miss hereJason Kenney decided to post this to his facebook page today. He pretty much says that the most important women issue is the economy in the video. I wonder who approved this video.
https://www.facebook.com/kenneyjasont/videos/10156222263992641/
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/fixed-link-study-results-1.4614188
$1.65B underwater rail link between Newfoundland and Labrador could work, study finds
Pre-feasibility study results announced in St. John's
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A fixed link tunnel between the two parts of the province has the potential to be a "nation-building project," said Ball, comparing it to the Confederation Bridge that connects Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick.
"Making a fixed link could truly change the landscape and unify our country," Ball said.
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"Please Federal government, our province is almost bankrupt, please give us a pile of cash for a make work project bridge to nowhere. "
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Such a tunnel would not only replace the Strait of Belle Isle ferry service that currently runs between northern Newfoundland and southern Labrador, but also 60 per cent of the traffic from the Cabot Strait ferry service between southwestern Newfoundland and Nova Scotia, the study found.
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Because he's the chair of the IDU.He's not even an MP any more so why does he think he'll be working with a dictator?
Pipeline meeting 'not something' PM would have tried with Quebec: Mulcair
Former federal NDP leader Tom Mulcair says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau would never treat Quebec the way he is treating British Columbia in the ongoing battle over pipeline. Mulcair says Trudeau is breaking the rules of confederation by trying to force the pipeline twinning down B.C.'s throat.
"There is no question this is not something Mr. Trudeau would have ever tried with Quebec," said Mulcair. "This is indeed a federation, environment is a classic shared jurisdiction between the federal and the provincial government. What Mr. Trudeau is trying to do now is unilaterally impose financial and other sanctions on British Columbia which I am convinced he never would have tried to do with Quebec."
Mulcair's comments come just days before B.C. premier John Horgan, Alberta premier Rachel Notley and Trudeau are set to meet in Ottawa on Sunday. Notley and Trudeau are in favour of the pipeline, while Horgan campaigned in the 2017 B.C. provincial election on the point that the project could be detrimental to British Columbia's coast and was not in the best interest of the province.
The federal government has jurisdiction over infrastructure that crosses provincial borders, including highways and pipelines. The current Trans Mountain pipeline runs from just north of Edmonton to Burnaby, B.C., and the pipeline expansion would triple its capacity to move raw bitumen.
Trudeau said he would never approve a project like the $7.4 billion Trans Mountain pipeline twinning unless it was done by fully independent environmental review body. Mulcair, who served as a cabinet minister in Quebec before jumping to federal politics as an NDP MP from Montreal, says the process used for this project was not fully independent and, because of that, the federal government does not have the social license to go forward with the project.
"He did not keep his word to British Columbians," said Mulcair. "The Liberal government right now in Ottawa is not respecting the promise to renew the assessment system."
"Everyone in British Columbia are allowed to ask themselves why is he trying to shove Kinder Morgan down their throats without respecting their jurisdiction."
Major pipeline projects have been a problematic issue for Trudeau's government. The Liberals backed down from the Energy East project, to which the Quebec government was firmly opposed. The one major difference is that, unlike the Trans Mountain project, Energy East was brand new infrastructure.
Mulcair says another concern is that the Liberal government promised to work more closely with the provinces, unlike Harper's government that took an adversarial approach.
"Mr. Trudeau promised a cooperative approach to federalism," said Mulcair. "What we are seeing here is anything but a cooperative approach. It is threatening and frankly it does not respect provincial jurisdiction."
I don't know where to stand on the pipelines in general since I haven't looked into it much. To me, if it's safer than whatever else is done to transport the oil in the absence of said pipeline, and doesn't put a precious territory at risk which would otherwise not be exposed to such risk, I could be fine with it.
I don't get why this isn't a federal jurisdiction though. They get the bridges, and railways I think, but not pipelines?
Because of what the pipeline carries, oil (or crude or whatever form it would take at the time), which as a natural resource falls under provincial jurisdiction not federalI don't get why this isn't a federal jurisdiction though. They get the bridges, and railways I think, but not pipelines?
I don't know where to stand on the pipelines in general since I haven't looked into it much. To me, if it's safer than whatever else is done to transport the oil in the absence of said pipeline, and doesn't put a precious territory at risk which would otherwise not be exposed to such risk, I could be fine with it.
I don't get why this isn't a federal jurisdiction though. They get the bridges, and railways I think, but not pipelines?
Because of what the pipeline carries, oil (or crude or whatever form it would take at the time), which as a natural resource falls under provincial jurisdiction not federal
Because of what the pipeline carries, oil (or crude or whatever form it would take at the time), which as a natural resource falls under provincial jurisdiction not federal