[xerxes]

Stupid. She has more right to be there than the Bloc does.

[Thanos]

Ehhhhh, the limit should be kept at only one Hezbollah supporter per debate and I'm sure that either Taliban Jack or Duceppe (or both) more than adequately fit that particular role.

[Gunnair]

kenmore kenmore:

CDN_PATRIOT CDN_PATRIOT:

kenmore kenmore:

So once again harper is blocking democracy and don't try and say he isn't behind it.
If we are to make choices we should hear all leaders no matter the size of the party.

Just. Shut. Up.


-J.

Well come now! She is the environment party. An Albertan sure as hell woudn't want her debating the oil sands would he???

ta-geule toi même!

"There's nothing an agnostic can't do if he doesn't know whether he believes in anything or not”

MPFC

[Gunnair]

xerxes xerxes:

Stupid. She has more right to be there than the Bloc does.

Agreed. If some seperatist shitwit can sashay in, then May can belly up to the podium and bray over him and more power to her.

[Thanos]

JESUS CHRIST!!!!!!!!

- King Arthur, MPATHG

[ShepherdsDog]

Based on May's whining, the leaders of the Communist Party of Canada, the Christian Heritage Party, the Animal Alliance party, the Canadian Action Party, the Communist Party of Canada(Marxist-Leninist), the First Peoples National Party, the Libertarian Party, the Marijuana Party and the Progressive Canadian Party should all be given a chance to debate. Like the Green Party, they are federally registered parties, who haven't won a seat in parliament.

$1:

Stupid. She has more right to be there than the Bloc does.

Although the Bloc (and those who admire and support it)is a septic infection in the Canadian parliament, it has according to Canadian law official party status, and is representing Canadians, whether or not they like to refer to themselves as such.

[Yogi]

kenmore kenmore:

So once again harper is blocking democracy and don't try and say he isn't behind it.
If we are to make choices we should hear all leaders no matter the size of the party.

Time to 'put up, or shut up' kenny. Until you start PROVING your assinine conspiracy theories, just shut the fuck up!

[ShepherdsDog]

he's afflicted with keyboard diarrhea and constipation of the brain.

[Thanos]

Really? I thought he was merely an asshole.

[ShepherdsDog]

layman's term

[martin14]

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

Based on May's whining, the leaders of the Communist Party of Canada, the Christian Heritage Party, the Animal Alliance party, the Canadian Action Party, the Communist Party of Canada(Marxist-Leninist), the First Peoples National Party, the Libertarian Party, the Marijuana Party and the Progressive Canadian Party should all be given a chance to debate. Like the Green Party, they are federally registered parties, who haven't won a seat in parliament.

$1:

Stupid. She has more right to be there than the Bloc does.

Although the Bloc (and those who admire and support it)is a septic infection in the Canadian parliament, it has according to Canadian law official party status, and is representing Canadians, whether or not they like to refer to themselves as such.

Maybe they can set up a second debate with those groups, kind of like
the kiddies table at a dinner party.

[hurley_108]

xerxes xerxes:

Stupid. She has more right to be there than the Bloc does.

Based on what? What makes her deserving, Duceppe not, and, say, Ron Gray of the Christian Heritage party not? They ran 59 candidates in 9 provinces.

Sure, they only got 0.19% of the popular vote to the Greens' 6.78%, but any criteria based on popular vote will be arbitrary and given that these figures are almost common knowledge in politically knowledgeable circles, and any figure will be arbitrary and difficult to come to without bias.

The fact is that the NDP, Bloc, Liberals and Conservatives all elect MPs. The Green party has yet to elect an MP or re-elect a floor-crosser. It's an arbitrary standard, but it's one they managed to meet at least once, and were granted inclusion based on it. I don't see any problem holding them to the same standard twice.

If they want in again, they have up to 308 MPs to work on. If the environment was such an enormous deal as they think it is, they should be able to flip at least one. If they can't, then that speaks to their fringe nature and unworthiness to be in the debate.

[OnTheIce]

Harper eats babies and May is onto him.

[QBall]

I say let her in. It's not like the debate really does anything. It's just a chance to regurgitate the same rhetoric that you see in the campaign and reiterate the same promises they've already made. Anyone who hasn't made up their mind by now on who they're going to vote for is either a moron or hasn't been paying attention to anything that's been going on for the last, oh I don't know, ten years. The debate is not a game changer for the Conservatives or the Liberals. The one party that should be worried about May in the debate is the NDP. This is the only party May can swing votes away from.

[dino_bobba_renno]

xerxes xerxes:

Stupid. She has more right to be there than the Bloc does.

I'm no fan of the Bloc but they do have a fairly substantial % of the votes in Quebec and too many elected MPs to be excluded. The same can’t be said of the Green Party.

Not to mention I was really impressed Duceppe in the last debate. In fact out of all the leaders I felt he was one of the better ones on there. It's really kind of a shame the guy is a separatist.

May on the other hand was extremely annoying and came across more like a yapping Chihuahua. She kept interrupting when it wasn’t her turn and she really only parroted everything Dion and Layton were saying all ready. The only thing she really did was side track the debate and use up time that could have been allotted to the other leaders.