tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19402125.post5673174740159479106..comments2024-02-07T16:22:39.625-05:00Comments on Jeff Jedras: Barely news today, forgotten tomorrow: live-blogging the policy plenaryUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19402125.post-23625353957379530462011-06-13T20:44:40.487-04:002011-06-13T20:44:40.487-04:00Policy plenaries are a farce, but it really seemed...Policy plenaries are a farce, but it really seemed as though they didn't even try and pretend that it mattered. Can't hear. Tough luck. Don't know how to use the machines. Too bad.sharonapple88https://www.blogger.com/profile/11149226422042041129noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19402125.post-60251993907498570472011-06-12T19:12:57.361-04:002011-06-12T19:12:57.361-04:00Actually Zorph, they weren't as bad policy-wis...Actually Zorph, they weren't as bad policy-wise as I'd feared. Some of them were plain dumb, but they actually defeated a few of the dumber ones and passes some pretty decent stuff around student loans.<br /><br />Mark, the thing that struck me was the gap that often existed between the policies and government policy. They're for free trade, but the government randomly blocks foreign takeovers. They're for tax code simplification, but Flaherty has done more than most FinMins to complicate it. And I'm not sure they see the contradictions...Jeffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14971310821484459106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19402125.post-13247317355953371542011-06-11T22:57:55.978-04:002011-06-11T22:57:55.978-04:00Jeff, I am amazed that you haven't killed your...Jeff, I am amazed that you haven't killed yourself after being subjected to these terminal amounts of Teh Stoopid.<br /><br />Well at least the knuckle draggers had enough working brain cells to know that defeating that incredibly stupid motion on Canadian Citizenship should be defeated,... I know a few blogging torries who will morn it's death.Zorpheoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09618889126077232837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19402125.post-56299135114265847682011-06-11T16:06:12.204-04:002011-06-11T16:06:12.204-04:00"A motion to require immigrants adhere to ..."A motion to require immigrants adhere to 'Canadian values.'"<br /><br />Given how much Conservatives wail against Canadian liberalism, does this mean that immigrants voting for the Cons aren't adhering to Canadian values? What a ridiculous motion to pass. Canada is a free and democratic society. Full stop. We're all free to argue against those things, and believe in something different.<br /><br /><br />"the Khadr motion" -- good that it didn't pass, but can't survive a Charter challenge anyway. Potentially populist if it did pass, mind you. It's a real thing that people became stateless even if they had citizenship here. Typically, women would fall prey to a scenario where they married a non-Canadian and were stripped of citizenship, and, due to the lack of a treaty with their husband's country or origin, would fail to gain his citizenship. Old history now, mostly, but sometimes an elderly women wanders in to get a passport and it's discovered that she has no citizenship.<br /><br />So the Conservatives have adopted a policy of not using market forces to control GHG emissions. They now stand alone as a aprty in power in wanting Soviet-style centralized control of GHG emissions. Stupid, and contradictory to their stated economic philosophy. Of course, their control is wanted to be minimal. They'd hate to sue market forces and have the market take this climate change reality seriously.<br /><br />BTW, great job among the heathens, Jeff.Mark Richard Francishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16331995640397477486noreply@blogger.com