Imagine...Jack Layton Holds The Cards

[ralph]

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/08/25/layton-non-confidence-motion.html

Here's a tip Jack, the MAJORITY of Canadians don't want an election. Also Jack, LOOK AT THE POLLS...you will lose seats if an election is called.

While I am NOT in favor/favour of minority Governments I sure as heck don't see the need for ANOTHER Federal election!

I'm NOT enamoured with the Federal Conservatives either, they had the world by the tail when Mr. Dion led the Federal Liberals and COULDN'T win a majority Government.

Shame Shame.

[maan]

Layton 'sad' to hear production will be starting (http://www.northernlife.ca/news/localNews/2009/aug/layton_visit270809.aspx)


It was the signature from the Canadian government, through the Investment Canada Act, that allowed Vale Inco to become the owner of “this operation here,” Layton said.


“One of the most valuable ore bodies in the world was given to Vale Inco. It should be regarded as a privilege.”


Layton said the next step will be to push the government to pass a law in the House of Commons to make the documents concerning the Vale Inco purchase public.
Wonder what the big secret is ..with these papers.


Liberals prepare 'tough decisions' over potential election

SUDBURY, Ont. — Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff dismissed as "nonsense" (http://www.calgaryherald.com/life/relationships/Ignatieff+warns+tough+decisions+over+potential+ele ction/1947653/story.html) Monday a government minister's assertion that it would be irresponsible to have a fall election.
"With the greatest respect, :rofl2[1]:that's a piece of nonsense," Ignatieff told reporters. "For a guy who hasn't flowed the infrastructure to now claim the infrastructure won't flow if we have an election is just tying himself in knots."http://www.hubbers.ca/blog/2009/08/23/sudbury-vale-inco-strike/


Every industry is now dominated by these multinational corporations. Their mandate, which is the driven by the market economy that our culture has embraced, is to increase shareholder value with all other considerations being secondary.

[Gummiente]

Somebody should have shot him years ago.
Hey, hey, HEY.... that's not how we do it here in Canada. :HMM:

[maan]

Sudbury rejects Clement's 'Valley of Death (http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=1813340)' (http://http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=1813340) comment



Mr. Clement ignited a firestorm after he told a Sudbury newspaper that Inco Ltd. would have utterly collapsed if Brazilian firm Vale SA had not agreed to purchase it for a whopping $19-billion in 2006.

"There was going to be no buyer, there were going to be no jobs, there weren't going to be any capital investments, there was going to be no employer. That was the Valley of Death that Sudbury faced," he said.
:duh2[1]:
http://www.uswa.ca/program/content/5929.php


"Mr. Clement, with all due respect, must be suffering some kind of amnesia. Inco was then and is now a very, very viable company." When Inco was for sale, the former Falconbridge, Xstrata, Phelps Dodge and CVRD were all interested in purchasing it.

"Inco sold for the highest cost for a known reserve in the history of mining," said Gerard of the $19 billion CVRD paid for it. "Inco's future was healthy and viable."

<snip>

That repudiation applies equally to Clement's characterization of the former Inco as unattractive to buyers when Vale purchased it. "I'm dismayed and shocked that a minister of the Canadian government would be so cavalier about Canada's -- the world's -- richest mineral resource," said Gerard. "He ought to be ashamed of himself." And if Agnelli believes Vale Inco's Sudbury operations are a liability, "give them to us," said the Steelworkers chief. "We'll run them."

[maan]

Majority Government in Reach: Harper (http://news.aol.ca/article/majority-government-in-reach-harper/704246/)


Election chances 'more than great': Duceppe (http://news.aol.ca/article/election-chances-more-than-great-duceppe/703457/)

[maan]

Ignatieff's 'no' on coalition is really a 'yes,' Tories say (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ignatieffs-no-on-coalition-is-really-a-yes-tories-say/article1285395/)