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As usual, Geist says it way better than I ever could: http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6316/125/

Very well-done FAQ on this.

I had a long write up but I deleted it. I don't like it. I know some coworkers that love it but I don't like it at all.

One of the reasons is I know that telecoms will use this as an excuse to raise our internet rates even further (and try to put Canada right over the top of the world's most expensive internet) while grabbing at as many tax dollars as our government will give them (a lot).

Frankie Williamson said:

I don't like it and it's another step in a long line of shitty, authoritarian decisions by our "MANDATED" (by 39% of the population) government

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Not like that's new. From wiki:

2011, Harper: 166 seats, 39.62%
2000, Chretien: 172 seats, 40.85%
1997, Chretien: 155 seats, 38.46%
1993, Chretien: 177 seats, 41.24%
1988, Mulroney, 169 seats, 43.02%
1984, Mulroney, 211 seats, 50.03%

Yes you need to go back to 1984 before you get somebody who BARELY got a majority of the votes as well as a majority of the seats (and to 1958 before it happens again before that). So this is hardly a rare thing, but actually the most common thing to occur. So that's what "majority" government usually means in our country.


As for the issues, I actually like how Geist says the dichotomy of Gun Control records purged for privacy's sake versus this. I like. Now I think BOTH should be purged (the tone of his argument suggests he disagrees), but it's a good point to make to counter such an argument.

I know, and again, I don't like it. I don't think the Westminster Parliament style government works for a country as vast and varied as Canada.

Hey, you should try the congress system. It works so well for... wait, if you're america's hat, does that make the US Canada's pants?

Anywho, the pants suggest congress.

stienman said:

Hey, you should try the congress system. It works so well for... wait, if you're america's hat, does that make the US Canada's pants?

Anywho, the pants suggest congress.

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We're the torso.

And Mexico is the fun zone.

With crotch itch. Just ask calleja.

Man, Florida is and always will be North America's dangling penis.

Frankie Williamson said:

Man, Florida is and always will be North America's dangling penis.

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Woo! Florida represent!