$3.6T "wall" IMF

[TOM4CWB]

Jensend,

So Harper stands up to the three stooges... stops the crazy spending... and attempts to balance the budget to live within our means:

And Conservatives get called every bad name in the book.

Talk about politics...

We will get the government we deserve...

I just hope for the sake of our next generation... that the Three Stooges are not PM,s of Canada.

It won't take long to tear apart... the best country in the world!

Looks like you are ready!

[TOM4CWB]

Canadians want their next Prime Minister to have CEO-like qualities: Monster Poll
Vision & leadership more important than having a beer-buddy

April 15, 2011 @ 07:00AM

Toronto - For Hire: A Prime Minister for Canada who has vision and leadership, is an excellent communicator and a strong role model, is results-driven, and has a track record of success. Political experience is important. Being a good person to share a beer with, nice to have, but not a requirement.

Online career resource Monster.ca conducted a national poll by Harris/Decima asking Canadians to think of the Prime Minister as the CEO of Canada, and to identify the qualifications they felt were most important to them. The poll revealed:

1. nine out of 10 Canadians (89%) felt vision and leadership is the most important qualification
2. the least important qualifications: being a consensus builder (67%) and customer-service focused (66%)
3. nearly three quarters (73%) of those polled said having a long political career is an important consideration

“At Monster, we’re good listeners. And what we’re hearing from Canadians is that they want a leader who has vision and leadership, who is strategic and who has a clear goal for the country and our future -- qualities you’d expect a CEO to have in such an important role,” says Mike Jackson at Monster.ca.

Canadians split over beer
Canadians were basically split down the middle on whether it is important to be able to sit down and have a beer or coffee with the Prime Minister. “Canadians clearly prefer leadership and experience over the softer skills like being a good person to talk to over a coffee or beer,” says Jackson. Even so, while most Canadians will never have a beer with the PM, half (51%) still consider it an important quality when evaluating who to vote for.
Less important than being a good person to have a beer with was tweeting: 43% of Canadians feel it’s important for their Prime Minister to be an active tweeter.

Clear vision, strategy, goals tops
“Monster fills thousands of senior level positions every year, in both the private and public sector,” says Jackson. “Canadians recognize this is a serious job that requires important skills, skills not unlike those that would be required of a CEO.”
Nearly a third (31%) of Canadians polled said the leader should be strategic; that they could see there as a plan and where it is leading. The number one question Canadians would ask if they could conduct the job interview: “what is your vision for the country and for the future?”

Experience definitely an asset
“Relevant experience is always crucial in the business world, and Canadians are telling us that being a lifelong politician is a valuable or desirable attribute for the country’s top public servant,” says Jackson. “Career politician doesn’t appear to be a bad label to Canadians.”
Interestingly, 83% of Conservatives think having a long political career is important, while 65% of Liberals and 77% of NDPers said the same.

Vote for PM; but vote for CEO?
Prime Ministers get voted in, but CEOs? When asked if employees should be able to vote for their CEO every four years, Canadians were split: 47 per cent said yes, 47 per cent said no.
“The job for Prime Minister ultimately rests in the hands of the Canadian electorate. By showing Canadians that the election is like one giant job interview, Monster wants to encourage everyone who is eligible to get out and VOTE on May 2.”

Rick Mercer for PM?
For fun, Monster asked what Canadians -- outside of those currently campaigning -- would be best for the job. Nearly a quarter (22%) said Rick Mercer, followed by Canada’s most recent CEO of the Year Ed Clark of TD Bank at 16%. Hockey legend Don Cherry received 11% of the vote and hockey great Sydney Crosby came in at 10%. Teen singing sensation Justin Bieber got a mere 1% of the vote (likely because his constituency isn’t yet eligible to vote, nor is he).
This Monster poll was conducted by Harris/Decima via teleVox, the company’s national telephone omnibus. A total of 1,002 Canadians were surveyed from March 31st to April 3rd, 2011. Results are accurate to within /- 3.1% 19 times out of 20.

[HFL]

Jensend - You talk about Harper being a crook. You talk about Mulrony being a crook. The last time the Libs were in power they stole what, 100 million taxpayer dollars? why don't you talk about that?

[agstar77]

T4 what weird world are you living in? Harper stop crazy spending! Do the words G8 and over a Billion , ring a bell? Hello , earth to T4! No party has a monopoly on crazy spending. The Cons are the biggest spenders EVER. They refuse to raise taxes, which would hurt their polls, but they continue to burden the country with debt.

[Burbert]

They're all lying like carpets.
Politicos, scum of the earth. None
deserve one single vote. Smoke and
mirrors! In it fer feathering their own
nests, don't give a damn about the peons.
But its really a POPULARITY CONTEST after,
all, if'n there was a test like the boat
registry, gun registry, they'd be high and
dry and not a threat to anyone.......

[TOM4CWB]

Agstar77,

DO YOU ReMEBER the Global MONEY TAX...

The EU and US wanted to Canada pay $$$billons upon billions into... for a problem we did not cause?

We nipped that in the bud... The G20 summit will return many many times over... because we did our homework and stopped the global money tax.

How short our memories are... and the Liberals could care less...

Like support for Isreal lost us our Security Seat... Obamanation could have cared less...

Liberals want Isreal gone... ?

WOW... no thanks!!!

[riders2010]

Gregpet I respect your position lesser of two evils, I am not saying the NDP or Liberals are the cure all end all, I like many conservative things they say, but not under the way it looks to be handled right now. Way Way too far influence from the right nutballs. There has to be some social conscience. Not one of the parties is really talking about rural shortages of doctors, care for the increasing elderly population, agriculture, etc. programs that are crap.

We all are saying not much to pick from well why is that? Because we are giving our votes away without demanding integrity, moral value, doing what you say. etc. etc. You and I should be able to question things that are wrong about any party, but that is not the view of leadership coming from the conservative leader, it's a brainwash and fear mongering either you are with MY majority or you must be a left communist, well f that coming from an ultra right wing dictator. I can gladly understand someone having a different view on policy but a dictatorship is not the way to implement policy of any kind. No use sending troops over to overthrow dictators when we are gonna vote one in right at home.

I hope the people of Ontario eastward to nfld, have the ability to at minimum keep this to a minority, that way Harper is gone and maybe a true conservative can emerge, I may likely be the first to vote for that majority.

But sounds to me like huge majority coming, gonna be scary at best to grant one with such low moral standards of governance!!!!

[Fransisco]

If Harper is a dictator then how is it that we're having an election?

[riders2010]

That is one of the main if not the main reason in itself that we are, instead of fighting it acknowledge it and make the party better, we are not saying this just for something to do!

[silverback]

It would be better to have a 4 year majority right now instead of an election campaign every year and a half! (How are the "broke" liberals paying for this anyway?)

If the conservatives are so diabolical and evil that they will "destroy" this country in 4 years then they will get voted out and never will return. If they can't make the cwb voluntary in a majority they will be voted out in the west without a doubt!

Face it rider, your boys and girls are not prepared to run this country yet, and the best thing for everyone is for them to take away the temptation of an easy power grab for a while so they can concentrate on figuring out who they want to be.

[Fransisco]

We're having an election because Harper is a Dictator? That makes no sense at all.

[jensend]

hfl if you look back you'll see i said chretien was way more corrupt than mulroney, that mulroney gave us good govt and that michael wilson made paul martin's job as finance minister much easier. i've said in the past that i thought harper was just as cynical as chretien but not as crooked. i suppose now i'd say harper is every bit as cynical and just as dishonest as chretien. when a pm and a minister (oda) lie to the house of commons and the country they weaken our system of govt. just as much as when chretien and his ministers did. i've never voted liberal (or ndp) in any election so don't make assumptions that aren't valid. in fact i've overwhelmingly voted con in elections for forty years now. i think if you want everybody to recognize the liberals' sins you had better be ready to call the cons on their sins as well. i see harper as being very bad for canada.