I know very little about Canada's politicians. We need more scandals, BJ's, and teenage preg...

They have scandles. PM Harper suing the Liberals for libel is an example. 

Our scandals tend to be more money based Galaki, Although during the Cold War we did have a Conservative Defence Minister dating a KGB spy.

rofl

you know what jack laytons plans are for the election?? copy obama lol

TORONTO - The federal New Democratic Party signalled Thursday that it will borrow from Barack Obama's playbook in its efforts to oust Prime Minister Stephen Harper from power.

The party has never been in a better position to fight a federal election and is boasting the best slate of candidates it's had in a long time, said leader Jack Layton as he rallied supporters in Toronto just days before an election call anticipated for Sunday morning.

For the first time in history, the party has a full budget to wage battle against the Conservatives - about $18.3 million, the maximum amount allowed by Elections Canada - Layton said.

NDP strategists said the focus of their campaign will be solely on replacing Harper, as opposed to other elections when multiple opponents were targeted. During his 24-minute speech on Thursday, Layton completely avoided mentioning Liberal Leader Stephane Dion.

Echoing some of Obama's speeches, Layton said his party's campaign will centre on "hope" and "change."

"It's really a vision of hope, it's a vision about change," said Layton. "It's a vision that says we can actually make a different choice than we've been making in the past."

Layton said he listened closely to Obama's speeches and there are many parallels between the situations of the two countries. He claimed the Democrats' environmental policy is "identical" to the NDP's.

"I think we're picking up on some of the energy we're seeing in the United States as well, and I think that could be kind of exciting," said Layton.

Layton met with the chief architect of Obama's successful bid for the Democratic nomination in the United States and the NDP's strategy runs parallel to - rather than imitating - Obama's, said campaign spokesman Brad Lavigne.

"Because of the American election, a lot of people are tuning in, they're getting excited about the potential winds of change, and what we want to do is we kind of want to piggyback on that, those winds of change," Lavigne said.

I rank the leaders as follows: My opinion of course

Deceppe(sp) even though I hate the bloc. I have respect for his leader ship style. He is good at what he does and his personality is best for leadership. Just too bad he is the enemy. lol

Harper. A nerd on a power trip. But still he is effective at what he says and does.

Dion. Smart guy but just has no backbone and comes off as a geek.

Layton. He seems to power trip the most and it gives me the chills to think what he would do in a situation of power.

Great power comes great responsibility.
I am sure we all look down on them but when we get the same power, we'll be more or less just as bad...

I was reading some interesting information on TheStar and it seems as if a sizeable majority of Canadians agree with the Conservative's approach to global warming. This is especially damaging to the Liberal's as Dion has made this a central issue for his campaign. If I was Harper, I would feel fairly confident as of now.

I'd say it's far more damaging to the majority of Canadians.

I wonder if you agree with the Conservatives??? 

I personally believe that (when it comes to Global Warming) more and more Canadians are waking up to the realization that if Canada stopped producing any CO2 tomorow, by this time next year growth in CO2 emissions in other countries would exceed what we eliminated. Now, in an ecconomic climate where jobs are alreading being outsourced, most Canadians do not want to add unnecessary costs to producing goods (or delivering services) in Canada for a meaningless, symbolic, gesture ...

Now, this doesn't mean that Canadians aren't interested in making a difference, but it does mean that they want the objectives to be reasonable and the time line to be long enough that it can be done with minimal ecconomic fallout; which is (essentially) the Conservative's approach.