A majority!!!!!!

[Teluog]

I expect to see some forward steps in health care........not holding my breath on that one

Yes, dental coverage would be nice. I've had my dad paying for all my cavities (thanks to a lousy orthodontist....and poor self-discipline in my younger years), and I still gotta get 3 wisdom teeth pulled and a root canal.

It would also be nicer if they could make job-finding easier for people under 30 years old.

[mossrose]

It would also be nicer if they could make job-finding easier for people under 30 years old.

I have heard Harper talk about job creation, maybe that will help?

[mossrose]

Southern colloquialisms cause no end of trouble for those from up north. When we lived in Florida and I was in kindergarten the teacher told my mom that I was a mess. My mother was quite offended.

You ARE a mess.

[mossrose]

I wonder if there are Canuckisms that we would have a hard time comprehending. In ENGLISH, that is.

Moss?

A) I don't speak French.

2) There are no Canadian colloquialisms. Everything I say is the norm. You all talk strange.

c. It does take 3 times longer to say something in French than in English.

[rogue06]

You ARE a mess.

Been recognized since I was little young.



Apparently I was never little. The truant officers came to my house wondering why I wasn't in school when I was three.

[Cow Poke]

A) I don't speak French.

2) There are no Canadian colloquialisms. Everything I say is the norm. You all talk strange.

c. It does take 3 times longer to say something in French than in English.

I love your numbering system. It feels very NATIVE to me.

[Raphael]

Speaking of colloquialisms, one that gets us South African expats into trouble here in NZ is the "just now".

When a South African says "I'll do X just now" it means "whenever I get to doing it" (but sometime soon). In NZ apparently it means you're gonna get right onto it (which in SA you would say "I'll do it now now").
Oh, and what we call robots in SA are what the rest of the world calls traffic lights, and what we call traffic circles, they call round-a-bouts here.

[Darth Executor]

[Manwë Súlimo]

Liar. You said you were going to be off the net for a few days.


























But now that you're back, you may resume pwning lao tzu.

[Alucard]

They have about 100 seats, the Liberals have about 30, and the Bloc, which shouldn't be in there in the first place, since the only place they run candidates is in Quebec, is down to 3 seats, from probably 50 previously.

What absolute nonsense. Regardless of whatever you might think of the Bloc, there is no reason why, in a parliamentary representative democracy, they "shouldn't be there in the first place" if they only run candidates in a certain province or region. You run for Parliament to represent your local electoral district, and you would expect a Quebec separatist party to be wanting to represent the interests of voters in, surprise surprise, Quebec.

Are you saying that in the United Kingdom, the Scottish National Party should run candidates in Wales if they want their election campaign to be "legitimate"? Or that Plaid Cymru should run candidates in Northern Ireland? Or that Sinn Fein should run candidates in England? What complete tripe.

[mossrose]

What absolute nonsense. Regardless of whatever you might think of the Bloc, there is no reason why, in a parliamentary representative democracy, they "shouldn't be there in the first place" if they only run candidates in a certain province or region. You run for Parliament to represent your local electoral district, and you would expect a Quebec separatist party to be wanting to represent the interests of voters in, surprise surprise, Quebec.

The Bloc cannot be considered a "Federal" party if they only run candidates in one province. The only reason there was a large representation of them in Parliament in the first place is because of the inequity of the system that allows the provinces with the most populations to have the most seats. Ontario and Quebec hold the lion's share of the seats in this country, and when one party is run in one of those provinces and no others, then guess how many seats that party will get? Especially when they run on a platform of secession to a population with a huge sense of misplaced entitlement.

Are you saying that in the United Kingdom, the Scottish National Party should run candidates in Wales if they want their election campaign to be "legitimate"? Or that Plaid Cymru should run candidates in Northern Ireland? Or that Sinn Fein should run candidates in England? What complete tripe.

Is Scotland a "province" of England? Are Wales and Ireland "provinces"? Are these "provinces" running platforms of separation from England? Really, I don't much care. That is Britain's system. Our system may be based on the British model, but it is not the same. So, no, I am not saying the same thing should be the case in other countries. I live HERE.

And why do you care. You live in Oz.