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Politics : Canadian Political Free-for-All -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ichy Smith who wrote (4952)	5/3/2005 7:41:34 PM
From: Ichy Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 38151

Sarge I love Canada, I hate what the politicians are doing to it..... I just reread your message, the potholes here in Niagara are huge as well, but the politicians are spending money like water for other things. The official explanation a few years ago was, and read carefully please this is complex.... The province gives the city and the region money for road repair. Roads are divided into 3 classes Good roads, fair roads and bad roads, and the money is allotted in accordance with the number of each that a community has. So that in order to keep the grants at their maximum, the city has to be very careful to keep the right number of good roads, fair roads and bad roads, because if the roads were all brought up to good condition the grant to repair roads would be decreased and the number of persons in the road repair department would be decreased and there would be no people and no money to repair the roads when they got to need repair. So in Niagara region they have a policy of repairing the worst roads while allowing the good roads to become fair roads and the fair roads to become bad roads so that there is constant funding and work for the road repair crew...... Two years ago they re-did the road in front of my house. they moved the lights did some sidewalks, new roadbed and new continuous curbing, you know the drill. Last year they cut the road up to put in sensors so that the new lights with a flashing advance green, could tell when cars were waiting and flash or not flash. This year they put in all new stop lights (they don't flash they have arrows, and they don't have wooden poles they have the new wooden poles they have fancy aluminum ones, and cut the new road up for a second time to redo the wiring for the new stoplights. the continuous curbing has now been cut in a dozen places near my house and the road looks like cubist art..... now the new road will break down much faster, and be ready in no time to be a bad road...... Yup it is a fine system......I betcha you are stunned with amazement of the beauty of that scam, so simple so elegant, a machine that is continuously in motion and is continuously make new work for itself, a perpetual motion machine.....

To: Ichy Smith who wrote (4952)	5/3/2005 7:44:10 PM
From: Stephen O	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 38151

I've just read on the news screen in my office elevator that four Conservatives have been approached by the Liberals to bribe them with cushy jobs or Senate seats to resign now from the House of Commons. One of them was Inky Mark and he has gone public. From the Globe and Mail Conservative MP Inky Mark says the Liberal party is trying to woo him to their party by offering him an ambassadorship or Senate position. He's one of four MPs that deputy Tory leader Peter MacKay says have been approached by the Liberals in the past few days. Mr. Mark told globeandmail.com in an interview Tuesday that he was approached by an unnamed cabinet minister who offered him a position in a phone call last Friday. He said the caller asked him what he was looking for in politics. "I wasn't sure what he was talking about," Mr. Mark said in an interview from Ottawa. Then the caller, who he wouldn't name because he said it was a private discussion, "suggested maybe I should consider being an ambassador." The caller told Mr. Mark he should think seriously about it and call back, despite the fact that Mr. Mark repeatedly declined the offer, saying he was not interested. The 57-year-old Manitoban, who said he never imagined he'd be in politics this long--he has been an MP since 1997--said he told the caller his next move was likely to "go home and retire." The Liberals also implied that a Senate position could come his way, Mr. Mark said. If the Liberals were to bring a few Conservatives to their side, or taking a few of their MPs by appointing them to ambassadorships, it would help their cause. They will need at least the support of the NDP, all their party members and the three independent MPs to tie a vote on a no-confidence motion in the House of Commons. That would give them 153 votes. They would need at least 154 to overturn the motion, which could be cast by the Speaker of the House. The Bloc Québécois and the Conservatives together have 153 votes. theglobeandmail.com

To: Ichy Smith who wrote (4952)	5/3/2005 7:52:18 PM
From: Sawdusty	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 38151

Seems cheap considering, as I recall, the woman I mentioned had to pay $500 US for what amounted to a couple of pain pills, but I confess he did not refer to cleanliness. I'm not defending our health care btw, actually the deterioration pisses me off, but I would rather have it, warts and all, than what 40 million plus 'mericans have. "As for the 89 day Canadian, I don't mind coming back to Canada every 2 or 3 moths and making sure that Canada pays my medical expenses." That is your right, established by our corrupt politicians, so I'm pleased to contribute for you, but your every two or three month trip could involve a longer stay than you prefer. I just renewed my health card, one of the rules as stated here: health.gov.on.ca "and you are in Ontario for at least 153 days in any 12-month period" So, enjoy the trip, but keep an eye on the calendar.