| Look no further than Parliament Hill It baffles me why the Canadians have voted twice now for the Harper corporacratic government. While it's true that Canadian Conservatism makes Lincoln Chafee look like Ralph Reed, the CPC is still going to be the big-business government. There's a price to pay for basing your poll vote on long-since-passed irrelevant scandals instead of on actual governing principles, and this is just the latest example. |
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| said by romulusnr:It baffles me why the Canadians have voted twice now for the Harper corporacratic government. While it's true that Canadian Conservatism makes Lincoln Chafee look like Ralph Reed, the CPC is still going to be the big-business government. There's a price to pay for basing your poll vote on long-since-passed irrelevant scandals instead of on actual governing principles, and this is just the latest example. Precisely.
Who is to blame for all this - ourselves... |
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You could refer to it as "Same shit, different day" in the Great White North. I guess we've gotten too used to government repression.  |
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said by romulusnr:It baffles me why the Canadians have voted twice now for the Harper corporacratic government. Did you actually look at our other choices?
In any case, the CRTC is not an elected body. It is an independent regulatory body that reports to Parliament through the Minister of Canadian Heritage. Now there's a powerful portfolio if I ever saw one. 
Basically the CRTC is below the noise threshold in the government's daily business unless a large number of people care enough to let their displeasure be know to their members of Parliament. As it has been stated elsewhere, not many people either know what the throttling issue is all about or could care less.
Now if the CRTC banned Canadian Idol or Hockey Night in Canada, the government would topple. |
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Bancroft, ON | reply to romulusnr
Actually if you look at the latest election results a majority of Canadians didn't vote for Harper. 62% of Canadians that voted, voted for someone other than Harper, but thanks to our electoral system (first past the post) it is possible to be elected the governing party and only represent the views of 5,208,793 Canadians.
I also agree that part of the problem lies with the CRTC and the judgment being made by former execs and cronies of the big corporations. |
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