From the point of view of a Tory, Alan, you're improving.

At the start of this thing, you thought Dion would win a plurality...

By the end, who knows where you'll be? :p

I'm still having trouble seeing how what the guy said could be construed as "racist".. He wasn't making any sort of comment to the effect of saying that what he suggested shoudl have been done BECAUSE the people were native, but instead because they were armed thugs. Over the top, maybe, uncaring, maybe, inappropriate, to some, racist, nope.

Still very boring even with all the conservative feet getting rammed into their owner's mouths. A beer coupon for every voter stamped by the polling station. That would shake things up and get the apathetic crowd out.

Ooh here's some good stuff from the south. Democrats regain the lead and the Bush adminsitration is hinting at a financial bailout plan worth hundreds of billions. But what is being bailed out? The economy? The republicans, Both?

The CFL has, this year, lost 3 leading figures: Bob Ackles, Lief Pettersen and now Ron Lancaster. Lancaster was a Canadian icon and saint-like in Saskatchewan.

Also, good for Chretien: You know what his record was and its success. He points that out as a narrative Canadian voters should remember this election. Plus, he says he is Liberal and will naturally be voting Liberal. Notice, no sniping about the current campaign.

Hey Hans.. Cretien is still party leader in my eyes and calls the shots. I'm still voting Liberal, I still made the call for signs for my lawn. In the end we all know to do the right thing with the pencil.. The alternative (protest vote, splitting the vote etc) is nasty and in the end, sniping aside, unwanted.

Who's getting bailed out? The wealthy banks/lenders who chose to lend out vast amounts of money for huge oversized homes to people with shaky finaces. So, mostly Republicans.

Yes Sean, suggesting that the government should have killed 150 of its own citizens simply to teach them a lesson is only "a little over the top."

And I'm sure the fact that the people under discussion for being culled by the state were all First Nations had no bearing on the comments whatsoever. Because, really, the government of Canada has a great history when it comes to dealing with First Nations people.

Yes, there is no direct evidence the comments were racially motivated. But your dismissive attitude is part of the problem with the relationship between First Nations and non-First Nations in Canada.

Sigh - "Slitting the vote" or, as it's known in other countries, "representative democracy."

Sigh - "Splitting the vote" or, as it's known in other countries, "representative democracy."

Not to mention the historic fact of the wiping out of these same people in the past as state policy...once again I link to but one example...

Well, so far the only proof that has been put forward is that Canada has as a nation a bad track history when it comes to treatmet of native Canadians. Thats a given. But you have yet to show that the person who made the statements made them for another reason than as a person frustrated with the weak handed way of dealing with a group of armed protesters.

I do not know the man, neither do you. I cannot speak for him. For all we know he is as you say he is, but we don't so you shouldn't.

I think you are done on this point, Sean. It's getting a little boring.

Compare and contrast: Harper in theory and in practice.