How can the Idiot have support of 54% of The Canadian Population?

[Guest]

there the same kind of polls that said trump wasn't going to get elected, it's all bullshit . media trying to shape public opinion . polls have lost their usefulness

[Oliver88]

Most people are worried about other shit in their lives. Thats how he's getting away the his carbon tax. If u asked most people they wouldn't care. More worried about phone signal or internet hookup than if the arctic has no ice. People are stupid til its too late.

It will be a few years before it really sinks in and people start having their poor elderly relatives who can't pay their "green" power bill because it's too high or when senior citizens have their home values quit increasing and actual decrease.

SF3 represents the view of a person who works for a living on the prairies. As far as the poll who knows of the accuracy or if was done in Toronto and Montreal? We all know Hillary had a 98.4% chance of being president and also how Brexit turned out.

[Klause]

Here's an example.

Last week Darcy and I both got letters from revenue Canada. We are missing out on as much as 567.89 per month per child by not having any children.


I'm not kidding. These are going out to a target demographic obviously but wtf... "have kids we will pay for them"?????

[farmaholic]

Too bad this election was won based on a popularity contest versus qualifications. Cut the Puppet's strings and it will lay limp....

[foragefarmer]

All the Brad Wall supports are real quiet about the issue of the bloated public service work force he has built up through his years as Premier of Sask. But that's ok he's our boy and it doesn't matter if my tax dollars are wasted by him, let's complain about the other parties screw up and and turn the cheek on Brad.

You guys are priceless bitch moan and complain about everything never satisfied, how about all of you returning those Federal and Province cheques you received over the years from Ag support programs, oh ya that's right we worked for them and that makes it ok.

[Oliver88]

Too bad this election was won based on a popularity contest versus qualifications. Cut the Puppet's strings and it will lay limp....

The PM advisor, Gerald Butts made Ontario have the largest non-sovereign debt......he now wants a second chance with Canada and his "budgets will balance themself" philosophy.

At least we don't have a double whammy like Alberta and Ontario.

[grassfarmer]

Most people are worried about other shit in their lives. Thats how he's getting away the his carbon tax. If u asked most people they wouldn't care.

The facts would indicate otherwise. A survey done across 40 countries around the world produced these answers:

[grassfarmer]

Too bad this election was won based on a popularity contest versus qualifications.

That's the case with most elections nowadays it seems - a problem of the media age we live in. The progression to reality TV stars standing for political office is just a further dumbing down of our political system. If we elect them we get the Government we deserve though.

[Hopalong]

Think if Trump and a Republican congress are successful on avoiding carbon tax and similar measures, our govt will have little choice other than to back off on plans.
Political and public pressure will force us to become more of a follower.
Only if Trump and congress run into serious trouble are we likely to support something different.

[WiltonRanch]

That's the case with most elections nowadays it seems - a problem of the media age we live in. The progression to reality TV stars standing for political office is just a further dumbing down of our political system. If we elect them we get the Government we deserve though.

Yep. People deserve the govt they vote for. I'm young enough but old enough not to be classed as a millennial. Thank ****ing God. I know of hard working independent ones but God there are some entitled useless brats out there who now hold the balance of power. They've never had it hard nor had to be accountable to anyone nor themselves. Not until we are plunged into despair will their minds or sense of entitlement change. It's not only urban people but also rural people. With the oil patch in the crapper and little work to be had it is near impossible to get some of these young guys to take a lower pay job. They'd sooner sit in their misery than work. I have a few kids and what we get for a monthly cheque is crazy. I'm at the lower end of income and my wife is stay at home so it definitely helps but in the grande scheme it isn't sustainable. How many other carrots out there to buy votes? I know this extra money we'll probably pay back in higher taxes anyway. It's all a shell game. They'll give you this fat cheque, price carbon which increases living expenses, and in the end you're worse off cause you pay more income tax and what's left after is less. One way or another you pay more. Only way I see I can trim expenses is to not participate in the economy ie don't buy shit but that's impossible with my family. If I was single like before I'd heat with a grain stove and eat my own grown food and become a hermit of sorts. Yeah right.

[blackpowder]

Be careful quoting pew research (or any poll) as fact.
Here is one fact. My countys' revenue from oil and gas is down substantially. Land taxes will have to go up.

[grassfarmer]

Be careful quoting pew research (or any poll) as fact.
Here is one fact. My countys' revenue from oil and gas is down substantially. Land taxes will have to go up.

I quote it merely to refute comments like "If u asked most people they wouldn't care". We may not believe the facts presented by research but they are surely more credible than facts produced with no research?

[Klause]

Oh grassy.


Here read this:
http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/politics/vote-compass-canada-election-2015-issues-canadians-1.3222945




It's even from CBC!


54% OF CANADIANS SAY THE ECONOMY IS THE BIGGEST ISSUE


Environment and health are tied at 2nd with 11%



Maybe the government should worry about the same stuff as the people!!

[checking]

foragefarmer.

Brad Wall committed himself, and his government, for whatever reason, into trading jobs for a small resource revenue take. I believe that
history will, and has indicated that that was not a wise strategy considering the downturn in the economy that always arrives, but he owns the decision, and Sk. owns the debt. Perhaps that hurt will force him out.

I believe, however, that he has taken the right decision to contest JT's federal government decision to tax Sk. citizen's on carbon. Pulling money out of a citizen's right pocket to put it into the left pocket, or someone else's left pocket is silly. You only aid the continuation of a bloated public service. That appears to be what you object to, is it not?

I'm, also, glad to hear that you believe that carbon taxing is a "screw up". History will show that JT federal policies of debt, and carbon will put Canada "justin trouble".

Don't become a patsy, and take his blame for either.

[stubblejumper]

What I have a hard time believing is that we elected idiots like Ritz and Anderson