DISQUS

Not To Be Trusted With Knives: The Canadian Federal Election 2008

  • Darren · 1 year ago
    Man, George Stroumboulopoulos is such a tosser. Sorry, I have nothing constructive to add, I just wanted to mention that.
  • Kalev · 1 year ago
    Okay, I think that's the first time I've ever been attracted to George S.

    Stephen Harper would eat the kitten if he received it. I so want pictures of him eating kittens to be leaked to the press. I mean he's so obviously a closet kitten-eater.

    Alongside that happy desire, I'm betting Cylon Number 6, with her inaugural baby-killing on the grounds of SFU--I mean, Caprica--in the Battlestar Galactica miniseries, is Harper's kinda woman. I mean, she's supermodel sexy, she kills babies for pleasure, and she's a robot.

    As for elections, got you beat: federal, then by-election because Lorne "sell-out neo-liberal gay Uncle Tom" Mayencourt gave up his MLA seat (thank all the gods) to run in Vancouver Centre as a MP candidate, then municipal elections, around or soon after the US elections, THEN the BC provincial general election come May.

    Dion saying he won't raise the GST or go into deficit is stupid. I mean, raising the GST is probably a bad idea, since consumption taxes invariably impact the poor more heavily, but not going into deficit when times are tough is actually fiscally irresponsible if you think of it. Obviously you don't want people spending willy-nilly but if you're trying to keep taxes low to avoid further economic slowdown (and I'm not so sure I buy that but say we go with it), then how can you avoid going into deficit without cutting, oh, social programs? Because you know, what Canada needs now is more Liberal cuts to social programs, because it's not like they were gutted or anything in the 1980s and 90s, starting with Mulroney but so admirably continued by Chretien and Canada's (somewhat strangely) most lauded Minister of Finance (yet sucky PM) ever, Paul Martin.

    I'm totally voting strategically... ideally I would like the NDP to get in but I'm comfortable voting for Hedy Fry since (a) she's actually a drag queen and (b) the thought of Lorne Mayencourt furthering his political career makes me want to vomit. I have to walk past his fucking blue-painted campaign headquarters every day on my way to the bus to get to UBC and it just makes me that much more determined to vote Liberal and have Hedy kick his Log Cabin Republican ass out of my riding.