[doubleshot]

What would happen? Would you be part of the Liberals, Conservatives, Bloc, NDP, Green, some other party?

What would happen with healthcare, education, immigration, multiculturalism etc

What would you do?

[westmanguy]

If I were Prime Minister of Canada...

Party: Conservative Party of Canada

Health Care: I'd totally revamp the system to have "free" health care only provided to lower income Canadians. Somehow build it into Welfare, or what not. Then I would heavily regulate the insurance companies and allow a flourishing free market run for the rest of society. And all people under the age of 18 would be required to have health care (if not a free market one, then the gov. health care program by default). Basically like the American system but with necessary tweaks to make sure the most vulnerable are protected.

Education: That is a provincial jurisdiction, and as a Conservative I respect provincial jurisdiction and believe in a decentralized small federal government.

Immigration: I'd end this idiotic "refugee" immigration. Immigration would *soley* be for getting skilled workers and labour in sectors of the economy that needed. I believe immigration should mainly be tied to economic needs of the nation. I would drop multiculturalism, and move to a melting pot system, where immigrants are required to immerse themselves in the language, history, and culture before they can get citizenship.

Taxes: I would cut, cut, cut wasteful programs and institute a federal law that states no person can pay more than 33% of their earnings on all taxes combined. Canadians work till June to pay taxes, this is wrong, no more than 1/3rd of someones money should go to taxes.

[BartSimpson]

doubleshot doubleshot:

What would happen? Would you be part of the Liberals, Conservatives, Bloc, NDP, Green, some other party?

What would happen with healthcare, education, immigration, multiculturalism etc

What would you do?

I doubt I'd ever be PM, but if I were I'd be a conservative.

My platform would have the following priorities (not necessarily in order of importance).

1. Canada would re-examine and re-negotiate all trade treaties as needed - or withdraw from them completely if that was advantageous to Canada.

2. Canadian sovereignty in the north, the Arctic seabed, and in the 'Northwest Passage' would be protected by a capable military presence for the benefit of Canada.

3. Immigration policies would be reviewed and revised to place a preference on those immigrants who state a willingness to adopt Canadian culture - immigrants would also be given preference for those with educations, professional skills, trade skills, and etc. - layabouts need not apply - just the way things used to be.

4. National education policies would be eradicated and the national education bureacracy de-established and defunded with the savings being sent proportionately to the Provinces to be used according to the will of the various Parliaments.

5. Private healthcare would be allowed and those who wished to opt out of public healthcare would no longer be required to pay for it. Public healthcare would have to compete with the private sector to attract customers.

6. Equalization payments would end. Period.

7. Estate taxes and capital gains taxes would be eliminated.

And that would be a good start.

[doubleshot]

Interesting.

Hey Bart, did you receive my last private message? Mozilla timed out but it was after I clicked send, so I wasnt sure if you got it or not....

[Wally_Sconce]

Senate reform: hire several firms to randomly duplicate the tasks of a single senator, whenever the senator has failed to complete his work in the same amount of time as the firms, he should be reviewed and fired if necessary.

Healthcare: Make all the rich people stand in the same crappy line ups as I do, so we will protest and complain as 1 group. i want the politically connected on my side.

Right to bare arms: read this into the constitution for law abiding citizens. Then create a firearms registry.

Fiscal management: 10% savings rule, If I can save 10% and be wealthy for my retirement, then it's high time Canada saves 10% and stops being a burden on its citizens in 50 years.

[Red_Eye]

As Prime Minister.

-As soon as all the GP enters the house of Commons all parties are dissolved.

-All members in power are responsible of their acts , no slap on the wrist. Criminal laws appliable to everone

-More power to the Provences turning the Fedreral into more of an administration bureau. Reason, all laws and bills created from the top seem to all be lame.

-Work hard on regaining this countries soveriegnty not being slave to external and internal corporations.

-regulate oil prices an the bassis that companies are making a killing on price change and are not absorbing any cost of lost as their profit still rises.

-A limit on corporation profits. How much profit is really needed to sustain a corporation? The citizens are the losers here.

- no stikes or lockouts from sensitive organization that can have an economical strangle hold.

-no self appointed positions like Senetors and judges. All must be voted in by the people.

-refuse any future prime ministers of applying if they make more money then the position of prime minister.

[sandorski]

Conservative or Liberal, doesn't matter which.

- no drastic changes, if it ain't broke don't fix it
- maintain Surplus, except for Recession, then a Deficit is allowable.
- continue using Surplus to pay off the Debt, but give incremental Tax Cuts, increased funding where needed, maintain a reasonably sized Cash Fund for Emergencies
- Health care: a) continue increasing Funding b)allow limited Privatization of Health Care services, such as Testing(MRI, Cat Scans, etc) c) ultimate goal would be to adopt the French or German Health Care systems
- continued increasing of Military budget. Increased Manpower being a priority, but with necessary equipment. Focus on Defense of Land and Sea more so than International deployment. Although I would not rule out International Deployment
- diversify Trade
- favour Democratic nations who value Human Rights over those which don't or are un-democratic. Specifically: continue the policy of pressuring China, within reason, but if another Tianamen(sp) were to occur more drastic action would need to take place compared to last time.
- more incentives for the Private Sector to increase R&D, especially in the Environment, Alternative Fuels, High Tech sectors
- increase Public Funding for Research in key areas such as Environment, Agriculture, and Medicine
- work with major cities to help develop good Mass Transit Systems

Optional legacy project: Build a Highway to link Yellowknife and Whitehorse to BC and Alberta Highway systems. To encourage Development and access.

[kenmore]

If I were PM I would stop all immigration from the middle east.. and tighten the requirements for immigrants from other countries.. I dont think immigrants should be allowed to immigrate and go immediately on welfare... too much of that shit going on....

[Wally_Sconce]

If I was prime minister, I'd:
- gouge 20 billion from the defence budget
- waste a billion dollars on a gun registry
- allow helicopters to fall out of the sky
- send soldiers off to afghanistan with 17 year old vehicles, no army boots, and jungle fatigues instead of desert camo.
- sign a kyoto agreement, do absolutely nothing about it, so I can blame the other party when they cancel it.
- lead a party that steals 100 million dollars in the name of national unity.
- dismantle the UI, create an EI that is directed by a minister of parliment, so that it is easier and legal to steal 50 billion dollars and declare a non balanced budget as 'balanced'
- promise to make life safer for legal handgun owners by making them more helpless.
- blame the toronto shootings on Alberta duck hunters
- call the president a moron, then not understand why the softwood lumber issue dragged on for so long.
- everytime I don't have the soldiers to go into a country like Iraq, I'll claim moral superiority....and get away with it.

[Wally_Sconce]

kenmore kenmore:

If I were PM I would stop all immigration from the middle east.. and tighten the requirements for immigrants from other countries.. I dont think immigrants should be allowed to immigrate and go immediately on welfare... too much of that shit going on....

Would you allow citizens from Saskatchewan to imigrate to Canada?

[AlderTK]

Education: Nation wide mandatory Sexual education No iff ands or Butts covering issues such as birth control and Safe sex with starting at age 10.

Also i'd insitute Firarms training as Part of the curriculum now i am going to take flak for this but they're is a very good reason for this. look and the issue i posted above now look at nations and they're teen pregnancy rates and compair them to nations with lax programs where the information revolves around astenance only then look at nations with more in depth serious programs where safe sex birth control and desission making in every case the absenince only programs tend to have higher teen pregnancy rates

so what does this have to do with teaching fire arms safty in schools a number of things if you look at kids who where exposed to lawfull and responcible use of firearms at a young age they are dramaticaly less likly to be involed in criminal activity. now some might "say i don't want my kid learning to use weapons of death teaching kids about guns turns them into mindless killers" this is a false statement the program is designed to teach safty and responcibility and is designed sepcificaly to keep youth out of the justice system

the alst change to education is a nation wide crack down on harassment in schools with strict guidelines on what can and can not be done as well as making it maditory for for the school to inform the parents of a bullied child of what is being done to protect they're child with harsh punishments for teachers and school administrators who ignore bullieing

The Fire Arms act or Bill C68 a bill desinged to abuse lawabiding citizens while ignoreing real threats to socitety while the concept in therory may be valid it's exicution is filled with errors and generaly opperatates in a state of SNAFU. of the key issues where fraudulent climes on the people who ran it touted by the Colaition for gun contorol as experts on fire arms most even in the course of they're dutys never handled a fire arm little own have any real knolage

the fact that they're are 1000s of ghoast guns that exist on paper the fact that 1000s of registration cirtificates have erronious information it is as high as 1/4. the fact that the registry has been a compleate waste of public money not only never stopping a single crime or assisting in the invesigation of one but being incabable of doing any thing that it claimed it would do

also do bolster the numbers of hits it was intergraded with police information and the DMV so that when ever an officer runs a drivers licance or logs on to the police information net work a hit is generated on the registry the actual times a officer uses the the registry to identify if a house has legal firearms is minute and even if you get rid of the non related hits the hits left over over 95% of them are generated during the every days sale of firearms in ontario they're are over 6000 licanced firearms dealers the amount of transactions can be as high as three per day each transaction creats a hit to the seller be it dealer or indvitual a hit to the registry to conferm the ownership and then a 3rd hit when the fire arm is transfured to the buyer and in many cases that information is never updated or removed the gun is then re registered to the new owner

the power of unwarented serach and seazer has one purpose to abuse and harrass for police to serch a persons residence under any other circomestance it requires a warent to serch a premises for drugs or child pornography police need a warrent and evidence to do so but if someone has a PAL the right to freedom from unwarented search and seazure is null and void this is a deliberate violation of the charter weather lawful or not is unconstitional

under the act police have violated numo\urous citizens right with one individual being sexualy acausted by police in his front yard in full veiw of the public to further the violation when the accused refused to let the police serch the house they refused to allow his wife access to get they're childs diabetus medication untill they allowed them to do an unwarned search thats right candian police officers took a child hostage

what did the man do wrong nothing a judge ruled that the man was inocent of all charges they're is now a very expesnive civil suit agaisnt the police force who carried out these acts

lastly the ban on high caps which if any one under stands about firearms makes shootings more deadly as it makes gives the shooter two options get illigal mags most shooters plan to kill them selfs so this is not an issue or take they're time with they're shots to ensure they're is a more likly hood of killing and in many cases a mag change with practise can be compleated beofre a target can hit the ground with less rounds it only means a shooter has to work harder this is compleatly useless and a compleat fuck up

the only thing i would leave ass is is the PAL system why cause it is more secure then the former FAC which only was required to aquire firearms

the majority of restricted and prhib firearms that came out of the post poly tech shooting era where not even made so by a vote they where done by order in council and many of them where banned or restricted simply cause they looked scary and even then some of the wording is in acurate under the wording you can own an M16 which is a full auto under a resticted permit if if it wasn't for the bann on full autos and the AR15 and AR10 which the M16 is the variant are technicaly exmpted from the restriction as a model of fire arm that predates a variant banned by name is exempted not to mention that serveral new fire arms the XCR M96 Tavore swiss arms PE90 FN2000 FN PS90 HK SL8 and semi auto models of the G36 the the UMp carbine Mini 14 mini 30 M14 and variants such as the M1A and norinco M305 and the SKS as well as numourous early semi auto rifles are all non restricted the only prohibs i think that should stay on the list are the MP5 and G3 Cause HK sucks the only time any of these fire arms falls into restricted status is barrel lenth

Military spending
Black hawks or a similar air craft band new off the line models no refurbished air craft and in enough numbers for deticated medical air lift troup transport resupply and rapid deployment unit assets
all armed with a Mini gun or similar
super cobras appache's tigers sharks some sort of attack hliopter 3 sqadrens of 20 active air craft with 5 reserve aircraft for each and another 3 reserve squadrens

tatical accesories at squad level issued as perfured to the soldire for improved preformance of the invidual soudlire

Dragons skin or similar type of flexable plate armour

oh yeah and i'd goughe corperations and have the cololition for gun control charged with feloney fraud as well as violation of the charter and make them pay back eveyr sent that law abiding gun owners lost do to they're stupid inaine kentucky fried crack bullshit policys including legal fees defending indivduals who's right they' violated all intotal easyly 50 billion dollars also creat a new law called indirect libel and retroactivly charge them with it

[uwish]

Aging_Redneck Aging_Redneck:

If I was prime minister, I'd:
- gouge 20 billion from the defence budget
- waste a billion dollars on a gun registry
- allow helicopters to fall out of the sky
- send soldiers off to afghanistan with 17 year old vehicles, no army boots, and jungle fatigues instead of desert camo.
- sign a kyoto agreement, do absolutely nothing about it, so I can blame the other party when they cancel it.
- lead a party that steals 100 million dollars in the name of national unity.
- dismantle the UI, create an EI that is directed by a minister of parliment, so that it is easier and legal to steal 50 billion dollars and declare a non balanced budget as 'balanced'
- promise to make life safer for legal handgun owners by making them more helpless.
- blame the toronto shootings on Alberta duck hunters
- call the president a moron, then not understand why the softwood lumber issue dragged on for so long.
- everytime I don't have the soldiers to go into a country like Iraq, I'll claim moral superiority....and get away with it.

bloody hilarious! oo wait, shit were screwed!

[uwish]

kenmore kenmore:

If I were PM I would stop all immigration from the middle east.. and tighten the requirements for immigrants from other countries.. I dont think immigrants should be allowed to immigrate and go immediately on welfare... too much of that shit going on....

If anyone else made those comments you would be calling them a redneck.

That being said, this is the first thing you have said that I agree with.

Well done.

[Benoit]

If I were the prime minister, it would be of a new party organized around deliberative assemblies or at least deliberative polls. These new political settings would certainly de-dramatized our problems concerning healthcare, education, immigration, multiculturalism, etc.

http://cdd.stanford.edu/polls/docs/summary/

[MindsEye]

Oh, man, I could never be involved in politics in the first place.......

I have morals, ethics and intelligence.

..and as for spending my day locked in a room arguing?
Well, my ex gave me plenty of that for a lifetime.

Kisses all.