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Originally Posted by BIMBAM
@netwit: Christ do I feel you on Vic Toews! I'm not some leftist wingnut and I can concede when the Conservatives do something right and that Harper isn't a terrible prime minister even if I wouldn't vote for him and disagree with his politics. But Vic Toews? I despise him intensely he's a complete fascist and needs to be jettisoned from this government yesterday.
As far as corruption goes, no, I don't feel there all corrupt but Harper eliminated the public funding for political parties the day after he won a majority so we could be heading down that path.
@netwit: Christ do I feel you on Vic Toews! I'm not some leftist wingnut and I can concede when the Conservatives do something right and that Harper isn't a terrible prime minister even if I wouldn't vote for him and disagree with his politics. But Vic Toews? I despise him intensely he's a complete fascist and needs to be jettisoned from this government yesterday.
As far as corruption goes, no, I don't feel there all corrupt but Harper eliminated the public funding for political parties the day after he won a majority so we could be heading down that path. Certainly I think the Conservatives are too beholden to corporations and are absolutely in bed with big business and will be rewarded with cushy private sector jobs for their services rendered. The NDP and the Liberals and the Bloc are ideological sometimes, but not corrupt, at least the Liberals aren't anymore, and when they were it wasn't sneaky systemic but technically legal corruption like in the US, it was just some small time classical corruption by some individual MPs.
Great conversation on this topic regarding the US and I think they came up with a great solution at 18:18
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