Debate Performance

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I hate to say it, but that's it. Harper did OK, Martin looked desperate (get rid of the notwithstanding clause because you're nine points back?!?), Layton and Duceppe were powerless (unfortunately).

Unless the Liberals pull a trick out of their hat (and I think they're all out), we're looking at a Conservative minority or maybe even a majority in two weeks.

Goodbye tax cut for the poor, goodbye child care, goodbye my marriage (he says I can keep mine, but no new ones - ha!). It has to happen for the Liberals to renew themselves, but it's still shitty.

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He claimed during the debate that Québec "joined as one," meaning that the current borders of Québec existed in 1867, when they did not.


(http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/library/idb/forsey/images/page4map.jpg)

The debate over Québec's borders primarily focuses on First Nations land, which was owned, so to speak, by the federal government, not the provincial government, at the time of Confederation.

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Perhaps a PQ government can convince the 98.75% of First Nations people who voted to stay a part of Canada in 1995 to change their minds. Perhaps not. :) Should be interesting to watch, should it come to that.

The borders issue gets tricky no matter how it's played, really. Québec and Newfoundland & Labrador still don't agree on their border, and according to that map it's changed in Labrador's favour since 1931. I wonder what would happen there.