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To: KLP who wrote (155575)	1/24/2006 10:48:39 AM
From: Alastair McIntosh	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 793776

I am always interested in reading the views of non-Canadians on Canada. Could you provide a few examples of the "language of hate" of the Canadian Liberal party.

To: KLP who wrote (155575)	1/24/2006 12:47:20 PM
From: aladin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793776

Karen, Canadian politics are more complicated than the two party system :-) Yes the Conservatives won - but its a minority win. The combined Liberal (with a Capital 'L') and NDP (quasi-socialist) vote was larger. The linchpin will be the BLOC a separatist Quebec party which took only 10% of the Vote - but was concentrated in Quebec and won 51 seats. theglobeandmail.com A lot of Ontario and Eastern Canada are deathly afraid of the Conservatives (viewed as Western Alberta based fascisits by Canada's National media). Look at a spectrum with -10 being Stalin and +10 being Mussolini. The big L Liberals are maybe a -1 and the NDP are maybe a -4. Our Democrats vary from -3 to +1. Our Republicans vary from 0 to +5. Canada's Conservatives fit from -1 to +2 maybe. But the MSM in Canada paints them as a +9 :-) Canada tends to define itself based on its social safety net and views it as an essential component of being Canadian. Huge, sometimes heated discussions occur over what is really very mild tweaking of these benefits. The Conservatives won't touch much of this, what they may do is increase Defense spending - from maybe 1% of GDP to maybe 1.2% of GDP or other such mild changes. This would still be true if they had a majority. John