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Canada Conservatives in reach of majority: poll

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Canada Conservatives in reach of majority: poll


Political | 206692 hits | Sep 17 1:44 am | Posted by: tritium
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Canada's ruling Conservatives have enough public support that they could convert their minority in Parliament to a majority, the Ekos polling company projected on Tuesday.

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  1. by avatar tritium
    Wed Sep 17, 2008 4:56 pm
    Wow, looks like it will be a Conservative win with the NDP as the official opposition if you listen to all the polls.

    Wouldn't it be a buzz if the NDP won, and conservatives were the opposition?

  2. by roger-roger
    Wed Sep 17, 2008 5:01 pm
    I could see my job getting worse and worse if the NDP got in.

  3. by avatar QBall
    Wed Sep 17, 2008 5:11 pm
    "tritium" said
    Wouldn't it be a buzz if the NDP won, and conservatives were the opposition?


    <shivers> That should be the subject of a new Stephen King novel.

  4. by Anonymous
    Wed Sep 17, 2008 5:16 pm
    NDP win ROTFL ROTFL ROTFL

    socialist fantasyland

  5. by avatar DrCaleb
    Wed Sep 17, 2008 5:22 pm
    I wonder if they survey the same 1,502 people enough times, the remaining 36 million of us might actually start to believe it.

  6. by avatar Pseudonym
    Wed Sep 17, 2008 5:56 pm
    What exactly is implied by a majority in Canada's governmental system? Nothing particularly special happens down here, but then again, someone always does have a majority down here. Maybe I should just wiki it.

  7. by avatar robmik43
    Thu Sep 18, 2008 3:30 pm
    A majority here means the government doesn't have to
    kiss an opposition party's ass to get their legislation through.
    They don't have to water down what they want to do so it will pass
    a vote.
    It's a little bit like your presidential-congress-senate system...
    if your president doesn't have a party majority in the house and senate,
    there are many types of initiatives he cannot get approved.

  8. by avatar martin14
    Thu Sep 18, 2008 3:38 pm
    "Pseudonym" said
    What exactly is implied by a majority in Canada's governmental system? Nothing particularly special happens down here, but then again, someone always does have a majority down here. Maybe I should just wiki it.



    simplistically, we elect a dictator for 4 years who can do
    whatever the heck they want.
    Til the next election, anyway :)

  9. by avatar bootlegga
    Thu Sep 18, 2008 4:56 pm
    "WDHIII" said

    Wouldn't it be a buzz if the NDP won, and conservatives were the opposition?


    Would be worth it just to have the pleasure of watchin a few heads explode :lol:



    LMAO...I love that exploding head gif!

  10. by avatar xerxes
    Thu Sep 18, 2008 5:02 pm
    "Pseudonym" said
    What exactly is implied by a majority in Canada's governmental system? Nothing particularly special happens down here, but then again, someone always does have a majority down here. Maybe I should just wiki it.


    A majority mean that the majority party will form the government, select the cabinet ministers and table legislation.

    Though with the number of parties we have, the majority isn't a true majority, mainly it's a party with the most number of overall seats.

  11. by avatar faile
    Thu Sep 18, 2008 9:14 pm
    "xerxes" said
    What exactly is implied by a majority in Canada's governmental system? Nothing particularly special happens down here, but then again, someone always does have a majority down here. Maybe I should just wiki it.


    A majority mean that the majority party will form the government, select the cabinet ministers and table legislation.

    Though with the number of parties we have, the majority isn't a true majority, mainly it's a party with the most number of overall seats.


    You're thinking of a plurality.

    The word majority refers to a 'true' majority even in Canada.

  12. by avatar Reverend Blair
    Thu Sep 18, 2008 10:50 pm
    A majority in Canada is simple...a government has more than half of the seats. There's 308 seats, so 155 seats is a majority. That allows the government side to put through whatever legislation they want. It also gives them a majority of seats on committees, where most of the real work is done.

    A Harper majority would be an unmitigated disaster for Canada.

  13. by avatar Public_Domain
    Thu Sep 18, 2008 11:25 pm
    :|

  14. by avatar Toro
    Fri Sep 19, 2008 12:13 am
    Ekos pollster Paul Adams said the data also showed "a dramatic tightening in the race for second spot, with the New Democrats now within striking distance of overtaking the Liberals."

    The New Democrats, the left-of-center party that until now has been the smallest party in Parliament, is at 19 percent in the Ekos survey, followed by the Green Party at 11 percent and the separatist Bloc Quebecois at 9.


    C'mon, you knee-dippers! :lol:



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  • tritium Wed Sep 17, 2008 12:49 am
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