30 Replies to “Jack Layton interview”

  1. Strange indeed. When Layton had Paul Martin and the Liberals by the essentials the words Kyoto and environment never came up as bargaining points. Just how serious are the NDP about anything other than talking and acting like the dumbest kid in the class; totally out of touch with the real world.

  2. Interesting that it’s a Conservative who provides one of the more thoughtfull interviews I’ve ever seen with Taliban Jack.

  4. I wish there was a reader’s tips thread today. So please forgive me all for posting this here.
    New Decima Poll shows Tories lead over Liberals widening.
    This is good news. Now I wonder if the Libs will bring down the government over the budget with the income trust tax in it?
    http://www.thestar.com/News/article/187204

  5. Oh, oh, here come the wingnuts!
    And I’m not talking about Layton. I’m talking about the people who freak out when Layton or Mark Holland — or any other eastern Canadian — says the exact same thing that Peter Lougheed, Ralph Klein and Preston Manning are saying.
    Here’s just one examples. Check page 25, for starters, and the footnotes:
    http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:Ic1tF6XBjXMJ:www.pembina.org/pdf/publications/Owner_FullRpt_Web.pdf+%22peter+lougheed%22+%2B+%22cost+allowance%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=ca

  6. Cesar Chavez “says the exact same thing that Peter Lougheed, Ralph Klein and Preston Manning are saying.” Si.
    It’s telepathic communication. Si.
    But, Cesar, added a socialist killer-kicker-clause:
    “on an extreme level”.
    Those words are code for: socialist central planning, gulags, and muerte, aka Death. Taliban Jack knows what the code means. …-
    Chavez Should Be Named The “Environmental President” **BARF ALERT**
    “We are an oil producing country and that obligates us to take even more care of the environment—on an extreme level—and to avoid contamination, and to reduce contamination in all areas: earth, water and air.” – President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela, February 24, 2007. Did anyone from Greenpeace or Earth First! ever imagine that the world’s first environmental president would come from Venezuela? …
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1793456/posts

  7. Reid,
    I’m impressed a poll like that was in the Toronto Red Star. They didn’t even try to sugar-coat it.

  8. I,ll bet those eco-freaks would love this dweeb they would rather see people freeze in their homes then see the polar bears hurt FEED THE GREENS TO THE POLAR BEARS AND KILLER WHALES

  9. Good interview by Stephen Taylor with the silver tongued socialist, Jack Layton.
    Reincarnation is not one of my beliefs.
    But when Jack Layton ( the Vladimir Lenin lookalike) weaves the ‘collective’ aspect of his Canadian Utopia, I begin to question if Layton could be the reincarnation of the Russian communist Lenin.
    Woe betide Canadians if Layton’s ND’s ever get to be the Canadian governing party.

  12. It’s down to comedy central in the House of Commons.
    We have the usual leading ,use the term loosely, Liberals up spewing venom. They start off with the stupid stuff like the “the Republican Ideology”,”the right wing Ideology” ad nauseum.
    Harper informed them he was a Monarchist, not a Republican, an obvious correction!
    The quip of the day came from our Defense Minister when attacked by Blowfish Coderre, who insulted Rick Hillier recently, he called him a “bottom feeder” and reminded him he was named in Adscam. BEAUTIFUL!

  13. The new poll numbers are taken before the vote on terror. Wait for the next on. Still, conservatives way ahead and green and ndp tied.
    So, will they vote for the budget or an election.

  14. shutdown the oilsands the only bright spot on a dismal economy .
    Jack Layton needs a “Great Big Cup of shut the Fck UP”

  15. Arms and the NDP.
    What do you like best, Jack?
    Jack: I like abghbkws.
    …-
    NDP up in arms over asbestos in toys
    OTTAWA (CP) — A New Democrat MP says a government regulation allowing the use of asbestos in toys is “crazy.”..-
    canoenews

  16. With any luck Harper and Co. will put together such a dreamy and wonderful budget, so beautiful and full of tax cuts that the Lib/NDP/Bloc unholy triumvirate will be forced to vote against it by their wingnut base.
    Election, right F…ing Now please. Before the market tanks for real and the CPC takes the blame. (Anybody following the Dow the last couple of days? I’m SO glad I have nothing in the market.)

  17. Joe, I think you’re right; how would you like to meet him, with a goatee, at a Halloween party? Scary!!

  18. Mark Holland is coming to Alberta and wants to talk to real Albertans, not the sp interest groups from the oil industry. I will await his visit and tell him what a real Albertan thinks. The committee on environment today said meeting kyoto will cost each taxpayer over 3300./yr.
    The conservative member asked, do you think cdns will accept that a family of two would pay over 6500/yr, when your study has shown cdns are prepared to pay no more than 100.00/yr. That is per family not per person. Do the math, 100 billion in carbon taxes in four yrs. Sorry, but this will be born by you the taxpayer, not industry as they will write it off.

  20. Just a thought…
    Is the Liberal left in parliament trying to push Kyoto and Carbon Tax so as to cause either a third vote that the Conservatives would lose thus and thus the need to call an election or equally to defeat the gov’t if there is no Kyoto provisions in the March 19 budget?
    One wonders just how empowered (self–diluted) the liberal-left feels at this time that they should be so brazen especially with the conservatives edging out further in front in the polls.
    Even the eastern liberal media is starting, in small measure, to see the devestation carbon tax would cause to the economy.

  21. The Conservatives don’t have to put any money in the budget for Kyoto. Since the Speaker ruled that the Kyoto vote was not a confidence vote, and that the opposition cannot initiate bills requiring the Government to spend money they are under no obligation to do so.
    I would love an election right now. But with these latest poll results I think that both the Bloc & Libs are afraid of an election now. The Libs are sinking nationally, and more importantly, in Ontario. While the Bloc are tumbling in Quebec.

  22. Careful people. Just how many damn elections in 4 years do we want? Or need? We just may start looking like Fwannccee,what with an election everytime somebody sneezes or has sex with their mistress/gigalo!

  23. When it comes to Layton, he’s consistent and so is his appeal.
    Iggy and Dion are the new Gold Dust Twins.
    They very much look like the perfect example of
    artificial intelligence fighting natural stupidity.

  26. poor jack u layton he just dos’nt understand where wealth comes from and in turn where his paycheck comes from. IT COMES FROM PEOPLE THAT MAKE MONEY AND PAY TAXES JACK YOU MORON. Who works for a poor man JACK, YOU IDIOT. Sorry kate I just had to call Jack a name.

  27. Forget National Dipstick Leader Jack when it comes to oil policy.
    He*s correct about %5 GST though. That leads to getting rid of the penny.
    The penny is a real nuisance for older guys like Peter Lougheed, Ralph Klien, and me.
    We all have metal detectors and pennies are just not worth our time. Loonies and twonies are great though.
    Looking forward to the new USA dollar and five spot coins and maybe a Canadian 5 dollar coin too. = TG

  28. Sorry TG, but the GST rate has no effect on getting rid of the penny. 5% GST doesn’t mean the minimum tax increment is a nickel.
    eg. 5% of $0.50 = $0.025
    The only way your concept works is if the cost of items changes in $1 increments. I’d hate for gas to go from $1/L to $2/L over night.

  30. TG:
    It’s still got nothing to do with the GST rate. You could do that at the current 6%, could have done it at the old 7%.

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