Jack was always a leech on the taxpayers of this country..Geezus,truth be known we probably paid for his massage parlour visits too,and he always had a happy ending.......A typical socialist pig.....
About 5000BC Ethics sat & TODAY over 6 Billions people respecting them. Ethics said do NOT select Judges among THIVIES but Judges in Toronto like Ian McNish, Vilbert Lampkin & Robert G. Biglow committed thefts during my trials. Ethics said do NOT have SEX with your children but Ontario Court has ample FILES in contrary; Ethics said do NOT have Anal Sex BUT Corrupt NDP LAYTON & Corrupt JUDGES of Ontario Court of Appeal APPROVED IT... that Canadian in MAJORITY found OUTRAGEOUS
@LloydChristmas777 Honest politician?? Layton was caught red-handed living in subsidized housing in Toronto when he and his wife were City Councillors raking in a combined salary of $120,000 year. Taliban Jack never missed a chance to pick the tax payers pocket.
"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world. All my very best" - Jack Layton
@whatthafahk His family has asked for donations to be made to the Broadbent Institute in memoriam as an alternative for flowers. More information is at the NDP website.
Jack Layton showed what it means to fight for what you believe in, to stand up even if your opposition is overwhelming. No matter what political stripe you are, we all owe this man a great deal. RIP Jack, you will be missed.
@JaysGOP Oh you mean that one ideology thats created competitive economies and high rates of equality in northern Europe? Maybe that one guy Lula Da Silva's record in Brazil of reducing poverty and growing his country's economy? Don't even get me started on this debate, find something else to do on the interwebz other than troll.
@billy51020 The one that almost killed Sweden's economy after it thrived in the 1970's? The one that crippled Britain until Thatcher saved their asses? Don't get me started buddy because there is no feasible economic argument in favor of socialism.
Google this: "Socialist International" + "The New American" + "world government". NDP and their predecessor the CCF have always been MEMBERS of the SOCIALIST INTERNATIONAL, the apparent successor to the Communist International. The mandate of the Socialist International is WORLD GOVERNMENT.
JACK attends the MODEL PARLIAMENT FOR NORTH AMERICA run by the North American Forum on Integration (NAFI) as a friendly guest speaker. He is PROMOTING North American Union, the ANNEXATION of Canada to the USA and Mexico, which HARPER is working on right now with OBAMA. JACK faintly pretends to oppose "deep integration" while [a] supporting Clarity Act designed to DISMANTLE Canada for annexation; [b] aiding & abetting the continental PARLIAMENT to replace CANADA.
He looks like Burt Reynolds! My knock on him is that he's arrogant, but in many ways he's like Trudeau. Arrogant, but believed in something. He wasn't just playing politics. He came in with a vision. Jack seems to have a vision. At least you can deal with people like that and reason with them.
Go to hell Layton, and take your Jap wife with you!!! And don't any of you college boy know-it-alls DARE question the geographical accuracy of my racial epithets! CAPICHE BITCHES?!!!
Hes aged better with politics, before he was Mr. Ned Flanders and now hes an epic aura that screams "Regardless the vote outcome of the election, I still look like the Prime Minster of Canada far better then all of you." -- Today.
lol, this gave me a good laugh, thanks for the upload.
@raddman20031960 Are you aware that subsidized housing is based on your income? You pay 30% of your monthly income or full market value if you make more in any given month. They were not in subsidized housing, though. They lived in a mixed income co-op where they paid full rent.
@raddman20031960 That's because the truth is boring lol. I have read a lot of threads where people were complaining that he shouldn't have lived in the co-op because there are peopls who need subsidized housing and he was taking their place. But the idea behind these mixed income co-ops was to prevent ghettoization.
It's simple. A wallet is where the money is. You "Tax and Spend" Libbie/Socialists want mine.
Try working HARD in your own business. Then write out a huge cheque for to Ottawa, for NOTHING!!!!
It's really scary that if someone disagrees with you, they aren't educated enough, or they are from the wrong province. How shallow.
Respect? Actual adults can vehemently disagree with someone's policy, and still respect them. The two aren't mutually exclusive. Jackie's lost me on both counts.
You do realize that the deficit has ballooned under the Cons?!? In fact, as most independent studies show, it's usually NDP prov govt's that have the least deficit spending, followed by Libs with Cons last. This is unsurprising as you folks don't think government can be a force for good, so you believe in drowning it in debt! Tax and spend is better than tax cut and spend. At least I believe in paying for my agenda. You want everyones kids to!
Typical political BS job... Good one. The world economy is in a meltdown. It's all over the news. I thought you'd have seen it. :)
The honest truth is that all that stimulus package money was just a spit in the ocean. It is important to spend so gov't (whatever stripe) shows that they have 'confidence' in the economy. But it's a PR game. If they didn't spend it, they would be accused of not believing in their own country. Rebates on upgrades to peoples own homes, were a brilliant idea.
It's not just this time that conservatives (small c) tax-cut and spend policies have created huge deficit spending. Using the world economy as an excuse is lame because this has also happened during economic times that were better than these. It's a conservative tradition for the last 30 years... examples include Thatcher, Reagan, Mulroney, Bush I & II, Gordon Campbell and now Harper.
And yeah, we probably are the only two ppl racking up the views. But, meh, w/e this was fun/funny.
Every respected economists say this economic slide that is second only to the great depression. It's a big thing
Thatcher raised taxes like a bast*rd to pay for the overspending of the previous decadeSSSS. They were broke! It was only a few years ago that they got on stable ground.
On the home front, if the economy gets too heated up, we are hooped! At 600billion+ debt if we have interest rates jump up, we will be will be in the soup!
@vkeightyfive The only hope is massive inflation. Many economists are saying because of US spending, that this will definitely come. I hate to say that inflation is a good thing, but if the economy grows quickly and inflation jumps up, incomes jump a while after that, and therefore everyones taxes jump because it is based on a percentage of income. But the amount of money Canada owes stays the same. Sucky scenerio, but likely.
Plan all financing CAREFULLY. Conservatively I'd say!! LOL!!
Yet again, this no defence for Conservative fiscal irresponsibility. It's one thing to have to go into deficit NOW (albeit, not a desired thing), it was another to piss away the surplus in a short two years before 2008. Harper may be an economist, but he's an incompetent manager of our tax dollars (yes, we socialists pay them too!)
Ohhh, so you really are a fiscal conservative!!! Horray!!!! LOL!! One more convert!
Money spent now keeps the financial neophytes from panicking. Those beginners could cause a cascade of collapse that we could only have in our deepest nightmares. It is about calming the market to panic.
All the Libs ever did was to download expenses to the provinces to make a surplus. A pseudo surplus. If your neighbour had to pay your mortgage, you'd look good too.
@vkeightyfive I meant to say that the amount of money that Canada owes stays 'about' the same. Lingering debt servicing costs notwithstanding. Sorry.
Winston Churchill once said "If you are under 30 and you aren't a liberal, you have no heart. If you are over 30 and aren't a conservative, you have no brain." He actually said it.
I don't believe that Harper is a messiah by any means, but in a rough economy, he is by FAR the best choice.
"I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally conservative. I believe that is so obviously and universally admitted a principle that I hardly think any gentleman will deny it."
John Stuart Mill
P.S. your attitude just proves my point about conservative fiscal irresponsibility. Obviously we have to run a deficit now, but heros of yours like Bush (and their pals), do it in good times too.
@vkeightyfive There you go again. taking a stereotype and assigning it to anyone that disagrees with you. Anyone that is conservative in policy subscribes to whatever dogma that ANYONE with a "C"onservative policy believes in. C'mon. Stick to the topic. There are stupid people on every side of everything.
Here are the basics.
Bush is an idiot.
The economy is in the crapper
If you spend more than you have, it's bad.
Jacks policy would see the last point ignored completely.
Why are you complaining about stereotyping when you used that Winston Churchill quote first? Grow up dude.
The point remains that Harper's Cons pissed away the surplus. Layton wouldn't have done that w/ huge corporate/upper class tax cuts. While the Libs were bad for downloading services and gutting the welfare state, at least they balanced the budget. Harper kept blindly cutting taxes till the surplus was gone so when the economic crisis hit, it wasn't surprising we were pushed into deficit.
@vkeightyfive If you over tax any business, there is no incentive to do any business. They go elsewhere.
You have never owned a business before, have you?
Here is the new revised NDP tax form
How much did you earn?
What were the costs?
How much did you profit?
Send it in.
Want proof that an NDP fiscal policy can't work? It's 7 letters long. Ontario. They started their NDP plan and ended up tighter than any Conservative gov't ever. Now the culprit is #2 guy in the Libs. Not looking good.
what about B.C, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, N.B and N.S all of those places have had massive Ndp majoritys and manitoba and N.s still do and they all have done really well
@Gardenstatehomecomin Hmmm, not exactly an all star cast though, is it. Other than Saskatchewan, they have all been in a bit (or a lot) of a decline for quite some time. Frankly most of them have made their turnaround possible by being fiscally 'conservative'.
Look at the makeup of workers in Ft McMurray. Most of them know more about fish oil, than crude oil. If things were great at home, they wouldn't leave.
@Gardenstatehomecomin How easy it is too forget Bob Rae and his Rae days of the social contract. Unionized government employees who made him, felt betrayed and business and private enterprise were words that did not exist in Ontario with him as Premiere. He bankrupted the province by overspending on public services and then had to go back to those public employees to try and show restraint, while extending the closing of schools and hospitals....Nice work.
@vkeightyfive Hey idiot, Harper is forced to spend more than he wants because he has a minority government. Any defecits that he has encumbered is because he has to pander to NDP and liberal spend interests. If he had a majority government then you could complain, until then shut up and keep stealing from future generations by saddling them with your debts. Cutting taxes and gutting
excess social services that are special interest driven is the only way to a healthy economy.
@vkeightyfive I meant to say that the debt wouldn't rise more than debt + the cost of the servicing that debt.
Just heard Ross Riblliotti (dope smokin skier dude?) is a fan of Iggy and want's to run for the Lib's. OMG! I'd say they might want to sway him to the NDP. He'll find a home there easier. LOL!!!!!
(I'm not convinced that the THC in his system was there 'involuntarily',) that's beside the point.
Speaking of that, I never understood why cons are so obsessed with other people's personal lives. I don't smoke pot, I don't like it and my lifestyle is... dare I say conservative. But I don't care if other people do.
I'm a fan of Iggy too but for diff. reasons. Though I think people are writing the Libs off too quickly considering their domination of Canadian politics from 1896 to 2006, maybe he'll run them into the ground.
Back on topic. Layton = OK, but a politician. Harper = angry/evil.
Iggy was bought, whoops! BROUGHT back to Canada to "save us". That is impossible with the complete lack of a discernible policy on ANYTHING he has put forward! He is adrift in his own press releases.
The problem with the pot thing is that it does affect other people. If you grow it at home and you smoke it, I don't care. But when a guy grows in and sells it and he kills 4 mounties like it did in Alberta (Mayerthorpe?) it becomes a bigger problem.
The bigger problem there was that he was A) a psychopath and B) had stolen all those guns! That's the thing that bothers me... people, especially criminals, with assault weapons (way to get rid of the long-run registry Harper!). Besides, if pot were legal then it wouldn't be associated with people like Rozcko or to a lesser extent unsavoury tenants who ruin rental properties w/ grow ops.
@vkeightyfive Long gun registry. Does anyone really think that Rosco (?) would have registered ANYTHING with the government? Just a tip to all those dropping into our conversation. They are called CRIMINALS because they do things outside the law! Therefore, CRIMINALS will NEVER register!!
Frankly is was blatant pandering to Quebec, and the urban voters. It was sold as a crime prevention bill, but it could never be one. Only law abiding citizen would ever register anyway. For $2Billion+? No
BTW, when I say I'm a "fan" of Iggy I mean that in the sense that I want him to stay leader of the Liberals for a little while longer to damage their prospects.
@vkeightyfive I'd have to agree with you on Iggy. He is more Over-Hyped than "New Coke" was!
He is nowhere, with no discernible policy on anything. Except to oppose what ever the government does, that is.
the closest thing to a good leader I've seen in the Lib arsenal is a guy that more recently has backed the Con's on Afganistan. He is John Manley. Somehow I thought he was a pretty sharp guy. At one point he was deputy PM, so he can't be an idiot.
@Miradart ndp are better than the liberals and the cons coz they care about the people unlike stephen harper. no one likes stephen harper thats why he has a minority and low voter turnout. and in my riding a level headed ndp who was a woman. happened to win against a fraudulent crackhead mpwho was pc in the most pc province you could think of.
it makes me wonder how many other pc's are raging crakhead loonies
@Gardenstatehomecomin If I could have one wish come true, I'd wish that all politicians would behave honorably everywhere they go and in whatever they do. In my second wish, I'd wish that this would also happen to the rest of us. Unfortunately, we both know that won't happen. People are people. Flawed. I actually have little sympathy for Jaffer. Frankly, he is blew it. But honestly, I doubt that any one party is more likely to have users, than another. (Except maybe the Greens. LOL!! :) )
Give me a break. The sole purpose of a political party is to buy votes during election time. They see particular issues/beliefs and they are used as a commodity. Voters bargain with political parties to get certain issues/beliefs addressed. The difference between a conservative and a liberal or any other political party is the difference between having a mustache or beard. In the end, they still appease the middle ground.
@MGX Partially correct, but it's a matter of choosing the lesser of evils in a worse case scnenario. The middle ground could also shift because of the government you choose and the propaganda it spews. I'm tired of the liberal propaganda that the federal government is the be all and end all and that they must have their hands in everything. The more free-enterprise and libertarianism the better, and that is definitely not the Liberals or the NDP.
@vkeightyfive You think people would vote NDP...hahaha. I can't see people in Western Canada, the maritimes or Quebec who'd vote for a toronto-centric socialist like Layton. The lefties would be at each other's throats to get all those socialist votes from the liberals. A lot of everyday people who used to be loyal to the liberals for historical or family reasons are mostly switching to the Conservatives because they see how corrupt the Fibs are. Only their far left-wing fringe go to the NDP.
@vkeightyfive Iggy is worse than Stephane Dion and that takes some doing. But what do you expect when a guy introduces himself as leader of the opposition by sounding like a high school student. "We must stop Harper and his Republican right-wing agenda."..... Wow, is that all you can come up with after spending all that time at Harvard. What a joke...he's got nothing, no solutions. He is a fear-monger who's goal is too stir up social controversy, an old liberal tactic that won't work anymore.
@vkeightyfive I wish You tube would post our replies relative to the comments we were responding to. If someone just came upon this vid, they would likely think either you, or I were crazy. Probably you though.
hehehe LOL!!;)
Also. I think we are the only 2 people racking up the 'views' counter up there. After all WHO CARES??? It's just politics. There is a reason that Politics and Ethics can't be used interchangeably.
I respected him up until the attempted coup. I didn't agree with him, but I respected his view. I can't say that now. I will "trash the stash". Loser.
Because something is legal doesn't make it MORAL and everyone knows it!
He was attempting to take down the NEWLY ELECTED government, (that's elected by the people, remember them) before they had even put their FIRST budget forward. He was nothing more than a sore loser! He's been in politics so long, he's forgotten that us regular people see other stuff than just his press conference.
Layton Morals Oh, sorry. Late on morals. I used to respect him. I really did. Not now.
Here's some Polisci 101 for your, since you obviously need it. A) The people elect the MP's. B) The MP's choose a government. C) The government must maintain the confidence of those MP's to remain in power.
The people didn't give the Conservatives a majority of seats, therefore they are not morally, politically or legally entitled to form a government if they don't have support from the house. If you can't understand that simple concept you shouldn't be allowed to vote.
@vkeightyfive Does your arrogance really extend to thinking that I don't know what happens when I vote? Really? Grow up.
You have obviously not seen enough sunrises..... or time zones.
Did you learn "Polisci" in school? Proof that education doesn't guarantee knowledge.
You started this attack because I said I don't respect Jackie Late-on. An opinion makes you attack a person with questions of his or her education. Oh how elitist! Too bad you have no idea. On me, or politics.
You've obviously been stuck in Alberta too long to recognize reality.
Look, I know that people can have whatever reason they want for their votes. If they think Harper is hot they can use that reason to vote Conservative. But it doesn't change the fact that in reality they're voting for their MP. And if that's elitist to mention this simple fact that people should probably learn in a high school civics class, let alone Polisci 101, then yup I'm an elitist AND proud of it!
@vkeightyfive LOL!!!! Oh you socialists!!! Delusional socialist. Delusional thin skinned socialist. You continue to make me laugh.
The NDP has never had a policy that has ever helped any business grow and hire anyone. To them, businesses are WALLET, and are only there to take more money from to give to their pet projects.
Your arrogance is only surpassed by your ignorance.
I love this post other than the fact that it's hilarious and good fun to argue with you it really sheds light on how you really "respected" Layton before 2008. I haven't even brought out my A game and you're already going nuts. It's obvious you're some sort of crazy Albertan Conservative who is about as pro-Canadian as George Washington, Stephen Harper or Jacques Parizeau.
PS What does "businesses are WALLET" even mean? Interesting way of writing the ol' English language. ;-)
@vkeightyfive Hmmmm, deciding who should be allowed to vote. OK howabout just property owners who pay property tax.......Believe me I'm sure if we used your criteria of not understanding the parliamentary system as grounds to take away the vote. You could bet that Harper would have a majority. Most liberal supporters have a follow the herd mentality and don't know the parliamentary system. That's why the Liberals took advantage for so long.
Because something is legal doesn't make it MORAL and everyone knows it!
He was attempting to take down the NEWLY ELECTED government, (that's elected by the people, remember them) before they had even put their FIRST budget forward. He was nothing more than a sore loser! He's been in politics so long, he's forgotten that us regular people see other stuff than just his press conference.
Layton Morals Oh, sorry. Late on morals. I used to respect him. I really did. Not now.
A. It's Fluid Truth. It's his favorite. He'll tell you it's orange pop, but it's actually lake sludge. Even after you show him, he'll say it again. Orange Pop. LOL!!
He saw an opportunity to try to steal power and he lunged at it! Thank god that the writers of our Parliamentary rules were smart enough to include a provision to prorogue parliament.
Think! "Hello Prime Minister Dione"? then you'd say, "Take my wallet...Please"
Q: What grade would you have gotten in a polisci class?
A: .... a big fat FAIL.
Yet again, we're not Americans. We don't vote for parties or leaders. We vote for MP's who either are or are not members of a Party, which may or may not have a formal leader.
P.S. there were no "writers of our Parliamentary rules."
Right. Our rules of parliament came from GOD. I forgot.
The vast majority of voters don't give a crap about their individual candidate. They are a means to an end. It's about the policy or the leader. Do you really think that the so called "Trudeau-mania" was simply a great assortment of Liberal candidates? Get real.
At the local debates (which almost nobody goes to) candidates spend most of their time defending or promoting the national policy.
Yeah, see, you were the one who started rambling about "morality" and how the coalition was "immoral" therefore Jack Layton was immoral. See the thing about that is that it means absolutely nothing since both sides of the issue are never going to agree on what "morality" is. I happen to think it means following parliamentary rules and not being a fucktard like Stephen Harper and his robotic supporters, but whatever, that's just as subjective as your position....
@vkeightyfive Hey you! Don't swear! It is giving us REAL elitists a bad name. When you do that you are acting more like an "illiterate". Besides, you haven't seen enough to qualify to be an "elitist" in anything.
LOL!!
Both sides will never agree on what "Morality" is. But everyone knows what "Profanity" is. It's the language of the "uneducated". BUSTED!
You need to travel this country. Your rainy view of Canada is clouding your judgement.
Hilarious. Swearing is bad? The only people who care about that are stuffy social conservatives from Alberta!
I find it odd that you're so obsessed with where I've been in this country. Especially seeing as I've either lived, worked or travelled in every province of this country (including Alberta).
Hahaha.
Hey, when ppl vote for the natural governing Liberals again & you think THEY'RE "socialists" do us reality based folks a favour and move back to Alabama where you belong.
FYI here's some more professor stuff for you... Parliamentary rules came from precedents that were set throughout history, since the first English parliament as a result of the Magna Carta. Now we can look forward to a new precedent - anytime a minority PM is about to loose a vote of confidence they can just ask the GG to prorogue parliament! Vive le democracy Canadien.
The Magna Carta WAS written by people. Not by god on a stone tablet, brought down the mountain by a guy with a poor facial hair trimming regiment. Real people from a long time ago. It was so long ago, there weren't even microwaves!! That's a loooong time ago. LOL!!
Usually parliament is prorogued is when the government has completed their planned agenda. In our circumstance, the oppostion didn't even wait for the government to bring forward their agenda. They jumped right to "We have no confidence."
Can you really imagine what would happen to your tax rate if Dionne got in? A Carbon Tax, added to the well predicted downturn in the world economy. We'd ALL be out of a job.
Harper's not perfect (duh) but at least his background is in economics.
mp's usually align themselves with a party beacause they have the same or simmilar positions or issues and yes trudeau mania was a combanation of feilding of great mp's and the liberal party and trudeau himself
So? By Churchill's standard that just means he hasn't grown up yet.
As it sits right now, nothing is going to happen. The Con's are still going to run the country. They will bumble along and actually probably get more things right than wrong.
The Libs, NDP's and the BQ will oppose everything unless it is in their interest so they will arrange themselves to be 'unavailable' for the vote.
@Gardenstatehomecomin Unfortunately this is true, Layton's dad was a PC cabinet minister, but that was the former Progressive Conservatives, not the Conservative Party of Canada. They are an actual different party with a different perspective than the flawed Progressive Conservatives which descended into nothingness when they started selling out to special interest groups a'la the Liberals. Sadly, Layton senior must have spoiled the shit out of Jack, why else would he become socialist.
@vidlivs maybe coz he wanted to help the poor ....... normally spoiled people become Liberals or Conservatives :/ look at pierre trudeau.....tommy douglas however grew up kinda poor he became a socialist.
@vkeightyfive Wrong, any intelligent person would not vote for an MP as an individual, they vote for them because they represent the party that they want to vote for. The leaders of those parties then pass down to their approved riding associations, the MP candidates that they want representing them in each riding....that's why you rarely see an independant win a seat..... Nice try attempting to mislead the public like a fine socialist, but not with me buddy.....I give you the "F".
@vidlivs not true my great grandfather voted for his local social credit candidate in the sxties even though he was a member of the UFA and the CCF. you don't need an affiliation to serve the people....and you are calling vkeightyfive a socialist just beacause he doesn't agree with you...... maybe in your narrow minded terms that could be viewed as communist perhaps? well no of course not all politicians LIE its in their nature it doesn't matter whether they are Ralph Klein or Pierre Trudeau.
A. It's Fluid Truth. It's his favorite. He'll tell you it's orange pop, but it's actually lake sludge. Even after you show him, he'll say it again. Orange Pop. LOL!!
He saw an opportunity to try to steal power and he lunged at it! Thank god that the writers of our Parliamentary rules were smart enough to include a provision to prorogue parliament.
Think! "Hello Prime Minister Dione"? then you'd say, "Take my wallet...Please"
all these political fuckfaces spend their whole life sucking off the tax payers as they go from one political job to another. fuck em all! politics SUCK!
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Holy shit....a much younger jack layton. Vote NDP for a brighter future for Canada. Do it for yourself, do it for your Children. Vote NDP for a better way of life!
Big government, high taxes, over spending, welfare state, abortion, gay rights, affirmative action, powerful labour unions, multicutluralism and over regulating the economy does not = good times, you socialist pig!!!! What the hell is wrong with people like you???? You just want to have your hands in absolutly everything.
what the hell is wrong with people like you fascist scumbag? you think women don't deserve the right to choose, gays can't live their own lives, workers don't deserve the right to try and improve their conditions through collective bargaining, there shouldn't be a welfare state to help people stay on their feet, and people of other cultures should just be assimilated into our society? fuck you
@EnergizerBunny804 You should live in a commie country and I sure hope Canada does not move any more to the left.
Jack just takes everything he can get his hands on, he is a greedy little bastard. He has shown himself as a bug union supporter and does not care about the people of Canada..
@justanoldman1 what offended me most about miller's comment is how he framed abortion gay rights and multiculturalism as bad things. how are those examples of governments getting it's hands in everything, that's the government backing out of people's business, those are my politics, I am a civil libertarian through and through, my leftist economic views are not nearly as important to me as the government staying out of our personal lives.
@EnergizerBunny804 Well I would agree with you there, I also think the government is far too much in our faces. I lwould like to see a much smaller government and have them out of any business that could be run by private companies, i.e. the post office and some health care.
The federal government employees should not belong to a union, it does not make any sense and it costs way too much money for workers that don't know what work is.
the problem is people are scared about having ndp in power because taxes would go up. What they don't realize is that so will public services, like eyecare, and prescription care, day care etc.
In the 1970's our GDP was somewhere around $600-$800 billion, and Canada pulled in $200 billion in taxes. This decade, our GDP has doubled to around $1.4-$1.6 trillion, but Canada pulled in only $220 billion or so. Corporations are not being equally taxed, and the NDP would help fix that.
He seemed like a nice man. I met him briefly when he made a campaign stop in Thunder Bay during the 2011 election. RIP Jack.
bluebear1985 1 month ago
Jack was always a leech on the taxpayers of this country..Geezus,truth be known we probably paid for his massage parlour visits too,and he always had a happy ending.......A typical socialist pig.....
russfromdodge 2 months ago
@42mada Why do we owe Jack anything? He and his both wives, his children and all his friends suck on the public teat and have been doing so for ever.
rxc128 3 months ago
canada has always had work to do and always will, cliche
garycalgary 3 months ago
Layton was a good politician but never a good leader to run anything.
teeray12 3 months ago
Rest in peace.
lukejw1995 4 months ago
About 5000BC Ethics sat & TODAY over 6 Billions people respecting them. Ethics said do NOT select Judges among THIVIES but Judges in Toronto like Ian McNish, Vilbert Lampkin & Robert G. Biglow committed thefts during my trials. Ethics said do NOT have SEX with your children but Ontario Court has ample FILES in contrary; Ethics said do NOT have Anal Sex BUT Corrupt NDP LAYTON & Corrupt JUDGES of Ontario Court of Appeal APPROVED IT... that Canadian in MAJORITY found OUTRAGEOUS
k1k2k11 4 months ago
Gotta lotta work 2 do.
manhattan85 5 months ago
@manhattan85 I'll second that. Canada has a lotta work to do!
Kona138 5 months ago
$3
knarfzxc 5 months ago
Jack, one of the very few honest politicians. Love ya man.
LloydChristmas777 5 months ago
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@LloydChristmas777 Honest politician?? Layton was caught red-handed living in subsidized housing in Toronto when he and his wife were City Councillors raking in a combined salary of $120,000 year. Taliban Jack never missed a chance to pick the tax payers pocket.
breakerexpress 5 months ago
C'est tellement lui! :)
lestef23 5 months ago
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"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world. All my very best" - Jack Layton
TheSecretStore 5 months ago
rip, at least you made your dream come true
izuma123 5 months ago
Even then he was pulling off upsets, RIP
Calflym 5 months ago
i'd hit it
stop00hammertime 5 months ago
RIP.
DaftBryan 5 months ago
A true hero. May he rest in peace. It's a shame he never became prime minister in the last years of his life.
undisputed4life 5 months ago 2
does anyone know his address in Toronto? I'd like to send flowers
whatthafahk 5 months ago
@whatthafahk you can try City Hall or his office on 221 Broadview Avenue, Suite 100.
justrixx 5 months ago
@whatthafahk His family has asked for donations to be made to the Broadbent Institute in memoriam as an alternative for flowers. More information is at the NDP website.
theoriginalfilmboy85 5 months ago
R.I.P jack!
theeuprise 5 months ago
Jack Layton showed what it means to fight for what you believe in, to stand up even if your opposition is overwhelming. No matter what political stripe you are, we all owe this man a great deal. RIP Jack, you will be missed.
42mada 5 months ago 23
@42mada Jack Layton showed what it meant to be a really nice guy with a completely idiotic political ideology. RIP Jack Layton and RIP NDP.
JaysGOP 4 months ago
@JaysGOP Oh you mean that one ideology thats created competitive economies and high rates of equality in northern Europe? Maybe that one guy Lula Da Silva's record in Brazil of reducing poverty and growing his country's economy? Don't even get me started on this debate, find something else to do on the interwebz other than troll.
billy51020 3 months ago
@billy51020 The one that almost killed Sweden's economy after it thrived in the 1970's? The one that crippled Britain until Thatcher saved their asses? Don't get me started buddy because there is no feasible economic argument in favor of socialism.
JaysGOP 3 months ago
Shalom.
Coline
coline3bettson 5 months ago
r.i.p. jack, you were a hero for canadians
kaloo123 5 months ago
Well done, Jack. Thank you.
devout 5 months ago
r.i.p
brennanthebrown 5 months ago
Damn people looked nerdy back then
RebirthWoWGuild 5 months ago
way to go jack thanks for finaly killing the bloc party and stealing half there rideings.
3L24 5 months ago
Get better Jack!
ROBLOXIANgordonrox24 6 months ago
good luck Jack Layton with your new cancer, you are a great Jack and the NPD is there because of you
makkakman 6 months ago
Holy moly, has Jack ever changed !!
He was smart enough to lose that loser-geek-nerd boy image.
cheeriosinabowl 6 months ago
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Google this: "Socialist International" + "The New American" + "world government". NDP and their predecessor the CCF have always been MEMBERS of the SOCIALIST INTERNATIONAL, the apparent successor to the Communist International. The mandate of the Socialist International is WORLD GOVERNMENT.
crazyforcanada 8 months ago
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JACK attends the MODEL PARLIAMENT FOR NORTH AMERICA run by the North American Forum on Integration (NAFI) as a friendly guest speaker. He is PROMOTING North American Union, the ANNEXATION of Canada to the USA and Mexico, which HARPER is working on right now with OBAMA. JACK faintly pretends to oppose "deep integration" while [a] supporting Clarity Act designed to DISMANTLE Canada for annexation; [b] aiding & abetting the continental PARLIAMENT to replace CANADA.
crazyforcanada 8 months ago
He looks like Burt Reynolds! My knock on him is that he's arrogant, but in many ways he's like Trudeau. Arrogant, but believed in something. He wasn't just playing politics. He came in with a vision. Jack seems to have a vision. At least you can deal with people like that and reason with them.
surfer53 8 months ago
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NBLP7096 9 months ago
@NBLP7096
Learn your history. Stalin was the one who screwed up Russia's communism.
Ardnived 9 months ago
Is this our new PM?
chick256 9 months ago
@chick256
We can only wish he will be. Unfortunately it seems unlikely.
Ardnived 9 months ago
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Go to hell Layton, and take your Jap wife with you!!! And don't any of you college boy know-it-alls DARE question the geographical accuracy of my racial epithets! CAPICHE BITCHES?!!!
Rogerrumjet 9 months ago
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justrixx 9 months ago
@justrixx - Communist ancestry.
RicPhlare 9 months ago
@RicPhlare
His father was a conservative politician.
Ardnived 9 months ago 15
HAIR
bxxx9 9 months ago 2
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Hes aged better with politics, before he was Mr. Ned Flanders and now hes an epic aura that screams "Regardless the vote outcome of the election, I still look like the Prime Minster of Canada far better then all of you." -- Today.
lol, this gave me a good laugh, thanks for the upload.
MittWaffen 9 months ago
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MittWaffen 9 months ago
Come on facebook check out this elections Page : " Canadian Federal Election News Feed "
tyristorium 9 months ago
...1982- he looks like a rapist
...2011 - he looks like a rapist
...he has a good track record
MrMegaWolfeman 9 months ago
@MrMegaWolfeman
No way man he looks like Ned Flanders and that's hella cool in my books!
icarus313 9 months ago
@icarus313 i guess he would be supported amongst the Plebs....
MrMegaWolfeman 9 months ago
sexy then, sexy now.
Pransterrr 9 months ago
Jack and his wife used to live in subsidized housing when they had a combined income of over $120,000. An honest politician!! I doubt it.
raddman20031960 10 months ago
@raddman20031960 Are you aware that subsidized housing is based on your income? You pay 30% of your monthly income or full market value if you make more in any given month. They were not in subsidized housing, though. They lived in a mixed income co-op where they paid full rent.
koldbludded 9 months ago
@koldbludded
Thanks for the info but, thats not what I read when I did a search on Jack.
raddman20031960 9 months ago
@raddman20031960 That's because the truth is boring lol. I have read a lot of threads where people were complaining that he shouldn't have lived in the co-op because there are peopls who need subsidized housing and he was taking their place. But the idea behind these mixed income co-ops was to prevent ghettoization.
koldbludded 9 months ago
hahahahaha
cbmaika 10 months ago
I think he looks better without hair.
Shukria123 11 months ago
Holy crap it's Jack!
YukonExpatriate 11 months ago
coke bottle glasses
ryanThornhill1 1 year ago
Yeah, I wouldn't have racognised him.
Anghellik9 1 year ago
If Rick Moranis was a socialist porn star...
TheWilsonFilmCompany 1 year ago
lmao mustache rides are 10 cents when jack come into town
tourzaman 1 year ago
oh my gosh....
HE HAD HAIR
wowplayer6541011 1 year ago
This guy had hair?????????????????
popactor 1 year ago
He looks like an 80s porn star.
leafyutube 1 year ago
Layton looks like Daniel Farraday fro LOST
edarion01 1 year ago
LAYTON YOU THE MAN!
DonKael 1 year ago
Almost 30 years later and he's still rockin' the moustache
KaratekaKid 1 year ago
What a man
badmongo0 1 year ago
OMG he had hair!... Sorta.
TashaRules 1 year ago
Taliban Jack is unrecognizable.
tvlondon 1 year ago
lol nerd guy
Vicastel93 1 year ago
LOL The mustache! :P
aspyproduction 1 year ago
mustache win
kidax123 1 year ago 56
bwahaha soo funny looking.
butterfliesxox 2 years ago
It's simple. A wallet is where the money is. You "Tax and Spend" Libbie/Socialists want mine.
Try working HARD in your own business. Then write out a huge cheque for to Ottawa, for NOTHING!!!!
It's really scary that if someone disagrees with you, they aren't educated enough, or they are from the wrong province. How shallow.
Respect? Actual adults can vehemently disagree with someone's policy, and still respect them. The two aren't mutually exclusive. Jackie's lost me on both counts.
Miradart 2 years ago
You do realize that the deficit has ballooned under the Cons?!? In fact, as most independent studies show, it's usually NDP prov govt's that have the least deficit spending, followed by Libs with Cons last. This is unsurprising as you folks don't think government can be a force for good, so you believe in drowning it in debt! Tax and spend is better than tax cut and spend. At least I believe in paying for my agenda. You want everyones kids to!
vkeightyfive 2 years ago
Typical political BS job... Good one. The world economy is in a meltdown. It's all over the news. I thought you'd have seen it. :)
The honest truth is that all that stimulus package money was just a spit in the ocean. It is important to spend so gov't (whatever stripe) shows that they have 'confidence' in the economy. But it's a PR game. If they didn't spend it, they would be accused of not believing in their own country. Rebates on upgrades to peoples own homes, were a brilliant idea.
Miradart 2 years ago
It's not just this time that conservatives (small c) tax-cut and spend policies have created huge deficit spending. Using the world economy as an excuse is lame because this has also happened during economic times that were better than these. It's a conservative tradition for the last 30 years... examples include Thatcher, Reagan, Mulroney, Bush I & II, Gordon Campbell and now Harper.
And yeah, we probably are the only two ppl racking up the views. But, meh, w/e this was fun/funny.
vkeightyfive 2 years ago
@vkeightyfive Ooooohhhhh hard to take that one.
Every respected economists say this economic slide that is second only to the great depression. It's a big thing
Thatcher raised taxes like a bast*rd to pay for the overspending of the previous decadeSSSS. They were broke! It was only a few years ago that they got on stable ground.
On the home front, if the economy gets too heated up, we are hooped! At 600billion+ debt if we have interest rates jump up, we will be will be in the soup!
Miradart 2 years ago
@vkeightyfive The only hope is massive inflation. Many economists are saying because of US spending, that this will definitely come. I hate to say that inflation is a good thing, but if the economy grows quickly and inflation jumps up, incomes jump a while after that, and therefore everyones taxes jump because it is based on a percentage of income. But the amount of money Canada owes stays the same. Sucky scenerio, but likely.
Plan all financing CAREFULLY. Conservatively I'd say!! LOL!!
Miradart 2 years ago
Yet again, this no defence for Conservative fiscal irresponsibility. It's one thing to have to go into deficit NOW (albeit, not a desired thing), it was another to piss away the surplus in a short two years before 2008. Harper may be an economist, but he's an incompetent manager of our tax dollars (yes, we socialists pay them too!)
vkeightyfive 2 years ago
Ohhh, so you really are a fiscal conservative!!! Horray!!!! LOL!! One more convert!
Money spent now keeps the financial neophytes from panicking. Those beginners could cause a cascade of collapse that we could only have in our deepest nightmares. It is about calming the market to panic.
All the Libs ever did was to download expenses to the provinces to make a surplus. A pseudo surplus. If your neighbour had to pay your mortgage, you'd look good too.
Miradart 2 years ago
@vkeightyfive Talk about the pot calling the kettle black. You're a card, do you actually believe you're own bullshit that you write.
vidlivs 1 year ago
@vidlivs
LOL, you just responded to an argument I had over a year ago. Major Fail for you.
vkeightyfive 1 year ago
@vkeightyfive I meant to say that the amount of money that Canada owes stays 'about' the same. Lingering debt servicing costs notwithstanding. Sorry.
Winston Churchill once said "If you are under 30 and you aren't a liberal, you have no heart. If you are over 30 and aren't a conservative, you have no brain." He actually said it.
I don't believe that Harper is a messiah by any means, but in a rough economy, he is by FAR the best choice.
Dionne? There isn't enough money in the world.
Miradart 2 years ago
Here's a better quote ;-):
"I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally conservative. I believe that is so obviously and universally admitted a principle that I hardly think any gentleman will deny it."
John Stuart Mill
P.S. your attitude just proves my point about conservative fiscal irresponsibility. Obviously we have to run a deficit now, but heros of yours like Bush (and their pals), do it in good times too.
vkeightyfive 2 years ago
@vkeightyfive There you go again. taking a stereotype and assigning it to anyone that disagrees with you. Anyone that is conservative in policy subscribes to whatever dogma that ANYONE with a "C"onservative policy believes in. C'mon. Stick to the topic. There are stupid people on every side of everything.
Here are the basics.
Bush is an idiot.
The economy is in the crapper
If you spend more than you have, it's bad.
Jacks policy would see the last point ignored completely.
Miradart 2 years ago
Why are you complaining about stereotyping when you used that Winston Churchill quote first? Grow up dude.
The point remains that Harper's Cons pissed away the surplus. Layton wouldn't have done that w/ huge corporate/upper class tax cuts. While the Libs were bad for downloading services and gutting the welfare state, at least they balanced the budget. Harper kept blindly cutting taxes till the surplus was gone so when the economic crisis hit, it wasn't surprising we were pushed into deficit.
vkeightyfive 2 years ago
@vkeightyfive If you over tax any business, there is no incentive to do any business. They go elsewhere.
You have never owned a business before, have you?
Here is the new revised NDP tax form
How much did you earn?
What were the costs?
How much did you profit?
Send it in.
Want proof that an NDP fiscal policy can't work? It's 7 letters long. Ontario. They started their NDP plan and ended up tighter than any Conservative gov't ever. Now the culprit is #2 guy in the Libs. Not looking good.
Miradart 2 years ago
what about B.C, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, N.B and N.S all of those places have had massive Ndp majoritys and manitoba and N.s still do and they all have done really well
Gardenstatehomecomin 1 year ago
@Gardenstatehomecomin Hmmm, not exactly an all star cast though, is it. Other than Saskatchewan, they have all been in a bit (or a lot) of a decline for quite some time. Frankly most of them have made their turnaround possible by being fiscally 'conservative'.
Look at the makeup of workers in Ft McMurray. Most of them know more about fish oil, than crude oil. If things were great at home, they wouldn't leave.
I
Miradart 1 year ago
@Gardenstatehomecomin How easy it is too forget Bob Rae and his Rae days of the social contract. Unionized government employees who made him, felt betrayed and business and private enterprise were words that did not exist in Ontario with him as Premiere. He bankrupted the province by overspending on public services and then had to go back to those public employees to try and show restraint, while extending the closing of schools and hospitals....Nice work.
vidlivs 1 year ago
@vkeightyfive Hey idiot, Harper is forced to spend more than he wants because he has a minority government. Any defecits that he has encumbered is because he has to pander to NDP and liberal spend interests. If he had a majority government then you could complain, until then shut up and keep stealing from future generations by saddling them with your debts. Cutting taxes and gutting
excess social services that are special interest driven is the only way to a healthy economy.
vidlivs 1 year ago
@vkeightyfive I meant to say that the debt wouldn't rise more than debt + the cost of the servicing that debt.
Just heard Ross Riblliotti (dope smokin skier dude?) is a fan of Iggy and want's to run for the Lib's. OMG! I'd say they might want to sway him to the NDP. He'll find a home there easier. LOL!!!!!
(I'm not convinced that the THC in his system was there 'involuntarily',) that's beside the point.
I hate comments that get off topic, so.........
Layton is not good! ;)
Miradart 2 years ago
Speaking of that, I never understood why cons are so obsessed with other people's personal lives. I don't smoke pot, I don't like it and my lifestyle is... dare I say conservative. But I don't care if other people do.
I'm a fan of Iggy too but for diff. reasons. Though I think people are writing the Libs off too quickly considering their domination of Canadian politics from 1896 to 2006, maybe he'll run them into the ground.
Back on topic. Layton = OK, but a politician. Harper = angry/evil.
vkeightyfive 2 years ago
@vkeightyfive this is fun!
Iggy was bought, whoops! BROUGHT back to Canada to "save us". That is impossible with the complete lack of a discernible policy on ANYTHING he has put forward! He is adrift in his own press releases.
The problem with the pot thing is that it does affect other people. If you grow it at home and you smoke it, I don't care. But when a guy grows in and sells it and he kills 4 mounties like it did in Alberta (Mayerthorpe?) it becomes a bigger problem.
Miradart 2 years ago
The bigger problem there was that he was A) a psychopath and B) had stolen all those guns! That's the thing that bothers me... people, especially criminals, with assault weapons (way to get rid of the long-run registry Harper!). Besides, if pot were legal then it wouldn't be associated with people like Rozcko or to a lesser extent unsavoury tenants who ruin rental properties w/ grow ops.
vkeightyfive 2 years ago
@vkeightyfive Long gun registry. Does anyone really think that Rosco (?) would have registered ANYTHING with the government? Just a tip to all those dropping into our conversation. They are called CRIMINALS because they do things outside the law! Therefore, CRIMINALS will NEVER register!!
Frankly is was blatant pandering to Quebec, and the urban voters. It was sold as a crime prevention bill, but it could never be one. Only law abiding citizen would ever register anyway. For $2Billion+? No
Miradart 2 years ago
BTW, when I say I'm a "fan" of Iggy I mean that in the sense that I want him to stay leader of the Liberals for a little while longer to damage their prospects.
vkeightyfive 2 years ago
@vkeightyfive I'd have to agree with you on Iggy. He is more Over-Hyped than "New Coke" was!
He is nowhere, with no discernible policy on anything. Except to oppose what ever the government does, that is.
the closest thing to a good leader I've seen in the Lib arsenal is a guy that more recently has backed the Con's on Afganistan. He is John Manley. Somehow I thought he was a pretty sharp guy. At one point he was deputy PM, so he can't be an idiot.
Just my opinion, though.
Miradart 2 years ago
@Miradart ndp are better than the liberals and the cons coz they care about the people unlike stephen harper. no one likes stephen harper thats why he has a minority and low voter turnout. and in my riding a level headed ndp who was a woman. happened to win against a fraudulent crackhead mpwho was pc in the most pc province you could think of.
it makes me wonder how many other pc's are raging crakhead loonies
Gardenstatehomecomin 1 year ago
@Gardenstatehomecomin If I could have one wish come true, I'd wish that all politicians would behave honorably everywhere they go and in whatever they do. In my second wish, I'd wish that this would also happen to the rest of us. Unfortunately, we both know that won't happen. People are people. Flawed. I actually have little sympathy for Jaffer. Frankly, he is blew it. But honestly, I doubt that any one party is more likely to have users, than another. (Except maybe the Greens. LOL!! :) )
Miradart 1 year ago
Give me a break. The sole purpose of a political party is to buy votes during election time. They see particular issues/beliefs and they are used as a commodity. Voters bargain with political parties to get certain issues/beliefs addressed. The difference between a conservative and a liberal or any other political party is the difference between having a mustache or beard. In the end, they still appease the middle ground.
MGX 1 year ago
@MGX Partially correct, but it's a matter of choosing the lesser of evils in a worse case scnenario. The middle ground could also shift because of the government you choose and the propaganda it spews. I'm tired of the liberal propaganda that the federal government is the be all and end all and that they must have their hands in everything. The more free-enterprise and libertarianism the better, and that is definitely not the Liberals or the NDP.
vidlivs 1 year ago
@vkeightyfive You think people would vote NDP...hahaha. I can't see people in Western Canada, the maritimes or Quebec who'd vote for a toronto-centric socialist like Layton. The lefties would be at each other's throats to get all those socialist votes from the liberals. A lot of everyday people who used to be loyal to the liberals for historical or family reasons are mostly switching to the Conservatives because they see how corrupt the Fibs are. Only their far left-wing fringe go to the NDP.
vidlivs 1 year ago
@vkeightyfive Iggy is worse than Stephane Dion and that takes some doing. But what do you expect when a guy introduces himself as leader of the opposition by sounding like a high school student. "We must stop Harper and his Republican right-wing agenda."..... Wow, is that all you can come up with after spending all that time at Harvard. What a joke...he's got nothing, no solutions. He is a fear-monger who's goal is too stir up social controversy, an old liberal tactic that won't work anymore.
vidlivs 1 year ago
@vkeightyfive I wish You tube would post our replies relative to the comments we were responding to. If someone just came upon this vid, they would likely think either you, or I were crazy. Probably you though.
hehehe LOL!!;)
Also. I think we are the only 2 people racking up the 'views' counter up there. After all WHO CARES??? It's just politics. There is a reason that Politics and Ethics can't be used interchangeably.
Just thinking......
Miradart 2 years ago
i think you are crazy
Gardenstatehomecomin 1 year ago
@vkeightyfive You realize it's a minority government which means it also has to appease the libs and NDP.
vidlivs 1 year ago
nope your taxes go to ottawa so that you can have free health care and school that your kids can go to
Gardenstatehomecomin 1 year ago
I respected him up until the attempted coup. I didn't agree with him, but I respected his view. I can't say that now. I will "trash the stash". Loser.
Miradart 2 years ago
Miradart, learn how the parliamentary system works. Maybe after you do you would be able to comment without looking like an idiot.
vkeightyfive 2 years ago
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@vkeightyfive
Because something is legal doesn't make it MORAL and everyone knows it!
He was attempting to take down the NEWLY ELECTED government, (that's elected by the people, remember them) before they had even put their FIRST budget forward. He was nothing more than a sore loser! He's been in politics so long, he's forgotten that us regular people see other stuff than just his press conference.
Layton Morals Oh, sorry. Late on morals. I used to respect him. I really did. Not now.
Miradart 2 years ago
Here's some Polisci 101 for your, since you obviously need it. A) The people elect the MP's. B) The MP's choose a government. C) The government must maintain the confidence of those MP's to remain in power.
The people didn't give the Conservatives a majority of seats, therefore they are not morally, politically or legally entitled to form a government if they don't have support from the house. If you can't understand that simple concept you shouldn't be allowed to vote.
vkeightyfive 2 years ago
@vkeightyfive Does your arrogance really extend to thinking that I don't know what happens when I vote? Really? Grow up.
You have obviously not seen enough sunrises..... or time zones.
Did you learn "Polisci" in school? Proof that education doesn't guarantee knowledge.
You started this attack because I said I don't respect Jackie Late-on. An opinion makes you attack a person with questions of his or her education. Oh how elitist! Too bad you have no idea. On me, or politics.
Miradart 2 years ago
You've obviously been stuck in Alberta too long to recognize reality.
Look, I know that people can have whatever reason they want for their votes. If they think Harper is hot they can use that reason to vote Conservative. But it doesn't change the fact that in reality they're voting for their MP. And if that's elitist to mention this simple fact that people should probably learn in a high school civics class, let alone Polisci 101, then yup I'm an elitist AND proud of it!
vkeightyfive 2 years ago
@vkeightyfive LOL!!!! Oh you socialists!!! Delusional socialist. Delusional thin skinned socialist. You continue to make me laugh.
The NDP has never had a policy that has ever helped any business grow and hire anyone. To them, businesses are WALLET, and are only there to take more money from to give to their pet projects.
Your arrogance is only surpassed by your ignorance.
BTW. Jack's now irrelevant. Get over it. LOL!!
Miradart 2 years ago
I love this post other than the fact that it's hilarious and good fun to argue with you it really sheds light on how you really "respected" Layton before 2008. I haven't even brought out my A game and you're already going nuts. It's obvious you're some sort of crazy Albertan Conservative who is about as pro-Canadian as George Washington, Stephen Harper or Jacques Parizeau.
PS What does "businesses are WALLET" even mean? Interesting way of writing the ol' English language. ;-)
Cheers Buddy!
vkeightyfive 2 years ago 5
Jack has raised his nubers in the polls while harpers have gone down.. face it no one likes him anymore
Gardenstatehomecomin 1 year ago
@vkeightyfive Hmmmm, deciding who should be allowed to vote. OK howabout just property owners who pay property tax.......Believe me I'm sure if we used your criteria of not understanding the parliamentary system as grounds to take away the vote. You could bet that Harper would have a majority. Most liberal supporters have a follow the herd mentality and don't know the parliamentary system. That's why the Liberals took advantage for so long.
vidlivs 1 year ago
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Because something is legal doesn't make it MORAL and everyone knows it!
He was attempting to take down the NEWLY ELECTED government, (that's elected by the people, remember them) before they had even put their FIRST budget forward. He was nothing more than a sore loser! He's been in politics so long, he's forgotten that us regular people see other stuff than just his press conference.
Layton Morals Oh, sorry. Late on morals. I used to respect him. I really did. Not now.
Miradart 1 year ago
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@vkeightyfive
Q What is Jack Layton's favorite drink?
A. It's Fluid Truth. It's his favorite. He'll tell you it's orange pop, but it's actually lake sludge. Even after you show him, he'll say it again. Orange Pop. LOL!!
He saw an opportunity to try to steal power and he lunged at it! Thank god that the writers of our Parliamentary rules were smart enough to include a provision to prorogue parliament.
Think! "Hello Prime Minister Dione"? then you'd say, "Take my wallet...Please"
Idiot.
Miradart 2 years ago
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vkeightyfive 2 years ago
Q: What grade would you have gotten in a polisci class?
A: .... a big fat FAIL.
Yet again, we're not Americans. We don't vote for parties or leaders. We vote for MP's who either are or are not members of a Party, which may or may not have a formal leader.
P.S. there were no "writers of our Parliamentary rules."
vkeightyfive 2 years ago
Right. Our rules of parliament came from GOD. I forgot.
The vast majority of voters don't give a crap about their individual candidate. They are a means to an end. It's about the policy or the leader. Do you really think that the so called "Trudeau-mania" was simply a great assortment of Liberal candidates? Get real.
At the local debates (which almost nobody goes to) candidates spend most of their time defending or promoting the national policy.
Thank you Professor. You can sit down.
Miradart 2 years ago
Yeah, see, you were the one who started rambling about "morality" and how the coalition was "immoral" therefore Jack Layton was immoral. See the thing about that is that it means absolutely nothing since both sides of the issue are never going to agree on what "morality" is. I happen to think it means following parliamentary rules and not being a fucktard like Stephen Harper and his robotic supporters, but whatever, that's just as subjective as your position....
vkeightyfive 2 years ago
@vkeightyfive Hey you! Don't swear! It is giving us REAL elitists a bad name. When you do that you are acting more like an "illiterate". Besides, you haven't seen enough to qualify to be an "elitist" in anything.
LOL!!
Both sides will never agree on what "Morality" is. But everyone knows what "Profanity" is. It's the language of the "uneducated". BUSTED!
You need to travel this country. Your rainy view of Canada is clouding your judgement.
Miradart 2 years ago
Hilarious. Swearing is bad? The only people who care about that are stuffy social conservatives from Alberta!
I find it odd that you're so obsessed with where I've been in this country. Especially seeing as I've either lived, worked or travelled in every province of this country (including Alberta).
Hahaha.
Hey, when ppl vote for the natural governing Liberals again & you think THEY'RE "socialists" do us reality based folks a favour and move back to Alabama where you belong.
Cheers :-D
vkeightyfive 2 years ago
FYI here's some more professor stuff for you... Parliamentary rules came from precedents that were set throughout history, since the first English parliament as a result of the Magna Carta. Now we can look forward to a new precedent - anytime a minority PM is about to loose a vote of confidence they can just ask the GG to prorogue parliament! Vive le democracy Canadien.
vkeightyfive 2 years ago
zzzzzzzzzz.....zzzzzzzzzzzsnort....yawnnnn......
Oh, you were done. there you go. siiiigh.
The Magna Carta WAS written by people. Not by god on a stone tablet, brought down the mountain by a guy with a poor facial hair trimming regiment. Real people from a long time ago. It was so long ago, there weren't even microwaves!! That's a loooong time ago. LOL!!
;)
Miradart 2 years ago
Usually parliament is prorogued is when the government has completed their planned agenda. In our circumstance, the oppostion didn't even wait for the government to bring forward their agenda. They jumped right to "We have no confidence."
Can you really imagine what would happen to your tax rate if Dionne got in? A Carbon Tax, added to the well predicted downturn in the world economy. We'd ALL be out of a job.
Harper's not perfect (duh) but at least his background is in economics.
Miradart 2 years ago
mp's usually align themselves with a party beacause they have the same or simmilar positions or issues and yes trudeau mania was a combanation of feilding of great mp's and the liberal party and trudeau himself
Gardenstatehomecomin 1 year ago
oh and hate to remind you but jack layton's dad was a pc cabinet minister
Gardenstatehomecomin 1 year ago
So? By Churchill's standard that just means he hasn't grown up yet.
As it sits right now, nothing is going to happen. The Con's are still going to run the country. They will bumble along and actually probably get more things right than wrong.
The Libs, NDP's and the BQ will oppose everything unless it is in their interest so they will arrange themselves to be 'unavailable' for the vote.
That's my prediction.
Miradart 1 year ago
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vidlivs 1 year ago
@Gardenstatehomecomin Unfortunately this is true, Layton's dad was a PC cabinet minister, but that was the former Progressive Conservatives, not the Conservative Party of Canada. They are an actual different party with a different perspective than the flawed Progressive Conservatives which descended into nothingness when they started selling out to special interest groups a'la the Liberals. Sadly, Layton senior must have spoiled the shit out of Jack, why else would he become socialist.
vidlivs 1 year ago
@vidlivs maybe coz he wanted to help the poor ....... normally spoiled people become Liberals or Conservatives :/ look at pierre trudeau.....tommy douglas however grew up kinda poor he became a socialist.
Gardenstatehomecomin 1 year ago
@vidlivs Don't you mean communist? lol
darkoanton5 1 year ago
@vkeightyfive Wrong, any intelligent person would not vote for an MP as an individual, they vote for them because they represent the party that they want to vote for. The leaders of those parties then pass down to their approved riding associations, the MP candidates that they want representing them in each riding....that's why you rarely see an independant win a seat..... Nice try attempting to mislead the public like a fine socialist, but not with me buddy.....I give you the "F".
vidlivs 1 year ago
@vidlivs not true my great grandfather voted for his local social credit candidate in the sxties even though he was a member of the UFA and the CCF. you don't need an affiliation to serve the people....and you are calling vkeightyfive a socialist just beacause he doesn't agree with you...... maybe in your narrow minded terms that could be viewed as communist perhaps? well no of course not all politicians LIE its in their nature it doesn't matter whether they are Ralph Klein or Pierre Trudeau.
Gardenstatehomecomin 1 year ago
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Q What is Jack Layton's favorite drink?
A. It's Fluid Truth. It's his favorite. He'll tell you it's orange pop, but it's actually lake sludge. Even after you show him, he'll say it again. Orange Pop. LOL!!
He saw an opportunity to try to steal power and he lunged at it! Thank god that the writers of our Parliamentary rules were smart enough to include a provision to prorogue parliament.
Think! "Hello Prime Minister Dione"? then you'd say, "Take my wallet...Please"
Idiot.
Miradart 1 year ago
OMG OMG OMG OMG!!!!!
AL52Dragon 2 years ago
Wow, and here I was thinking that Jack Layton looks creepy NOW, I just had to check this video out.
Yuck!
Tenspeeder 2 years ago
HOLLY SHIT HE HAS HAIR!
Bus7777 2 years ago 15
all these political fuckfaces spend their whole life sucking off the tax payers as they go from one political job to another. fuck em all! politics SUCK!
blueslady77 2 years ago
lol the young communist trotsky
FreeHeathen 2 years ago
A young Dumb Jack... :)
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koldkasefiles 2 years ago
so THATS what happened to the guy from Seeing Things...he became the leader of the NDP...hahaha
crassyfrake 2 years ago 12
@crassyfrake That sounds familiar. What type of show was that ?
raddman20031960 10 months ago
@raddman20031960 this old show about an investigative reporter who had psychic visions, the guy off of it looked like Layton did here kind of
crassyfrake 10 months ago
VIVE LE QUEBEC LIBRE
gytarok 2 years ago
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Wow!
A young Taliban Jack.
nuktubian 2 years ago
Jack Layton misses that head of hair!
sprtn007 2 years ago 2
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Holy shit....a much younger jack layton. Vote NDP for a brighter future for Canada. Do it for yourself, do it for your Children. Vote NDP for a better way of life!
realistic28 2 years ago
Big government, high taxes, over spending, welfare state, abortion, gay rights, affirmative action, powerful labour unions, multicutluralism and over regulating the economy does not = good times, you socialist pig!!!! What the hell is wrong with people like you???? You just want to have your hands in absolutly everything.
millerpiccinini8 2 years ago 2
Mafia all the way!
realistic28 2 years ago
what the hell is wrong with people like you fascist scumbag? you think women don't deserve the right to choose, gays can't live their own lives, workers don't deserve the right to try and improve their conditions through collective bargaining, there shouldn't be a welfare state to help people stay on their feet, and people of other cultures should just be assimilated into our society? fuck you
EnergizerBunny804 8 months ago
@EnergizerBunny804 You should live in a commie country and I sure hope Canada does not move any more to the left.
Jack just takes everything he can get his hands on, he is a greedy little bastard. He has shown himself as a bug union supporter and does not care about the people of Canada..
justanoldman1 6 months ago
@justanoldman1 what offended me most about miller's comment is how he framed abortion gay rights and multiculturalism as bad things. how are those examples of governments getting it's hands in everything, that's the government backing out of people's business, those are my politics, I am a civil libertarian through and through, my leftist economic views are not nearly as important to me as the government staying out of our personal lives.
EnergizerBunny804 6 months ago
@EnergizerBunny804 Well I would agree with you there, I also think the government is far too much in our faces. I lwould like to see a much smaller government and have them out of any business that could be run by private companies, i.e. the post office and some health care.
The federal government employees should not belong to a union, it does not make any sense and it costs way too much money for workers that don't know what work is.
justanoldman1 6 months ago
the problem is people are scared about having ndp in power because taxes would go up. What they don't realize is that so will public services, like eyecare, and prescription care, day care etc.
In the 1970's our GDP was somewhere around $600-$800 billion, and Canada pulled in $200 billion in taxes. This decade, our GDP has doubled to around $1.4-$1.6 trillion, but Canada pulled in only $220 billion or so. Corporations are not being equally taxed, and the NDP would help fix that.
Th3ch0s3n0n3s 2 years ago 2
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Take your commie crap elsewhere.
The NDP and their commie ways will never be welcome in Canada. Though the USA is trying their best with the election of comrade Charmain MaObama.
nuktubian 2 years ago
I love how he looks like such a huge nerd
i just wanna give him a wedgie!!!
babinator99 2 years ago 6
totally
brickman73 2 years ago
Still rocking the pornstache, I see.
Nice!
crazyrabbits 2 years ago 15
Layton was useless back in the dayon Toronto city council. Now we sent him out of Toronto and where he's wasting space in Ottawa.
sgk1967 2 years ago