Author: Rick Barnes

Its fun to watch the Liberals scream FIRE over the NDP and Jack Layton’s comments on the constitution.  It seems the Liberals’ have no plan or any intention of working with Quebec, the only province not to sign onto the constitution.  Layton and comp…

Here we are almost a month after the election and if you read the MSM and the Liberal blogosphere you would think we have nothing but doom and gloom ahead of us for the next four years.  That the NDP is naive to think they can make a difference and s…

Awesome

The Vancouver Canucks have removed the offending language on their Facebook page.  Check it out for yourself!  I am proud to be a Canucks fan!!!!!!

Go Canucks Go!!!

I am a big fan of hockey as many of my friends will tell you.  Don’t get between me and the game on my 40" HD surround sound screen.  I am from BC and now live in Toronto.  I cheer for the Vancouver Canucks because well, my new hometown does not have a hockey team.  Just Kidding Toronto.

I went to a local bar last night to watch the game and play pool.  Its the best. …

Wow, I didn’t think that Stephen Harper could sink any lower on his attitude toward the Senate.  He has.  You might recall that in 2004, Harper, then leader of the opposition stated he would not appoint anyone to the Senate that was not first elected…

The election is over and all the media can do is laugh at Jack Layton and the NDP because they think they can change things in Ottawa.  Today, NDP MP Charlie Angus spoke to reporters.  When asked how effective the NDP opposition would be in changing …

There has been so much focus on the NDP’s young MP’s from Quebec, I thought I would show you a few of the others elected …  I gathered these from the Vancouver Sun article here. May 8, 2011

Helene Laverdiere

A freelance translator, researcher, a…

I am still getting over the huge success of our party in this election.  My first thought was that the NDP did great but if you take Quebec out we just got by.  That’s wrong however.  We increased our seat count and if we are to look at the big citi…

“An opposition party can do a lot of things, because a government works in the context of public opinion. And our party can express the attitude of the public, because they voted in large numbers for the NDP. So we have a context that is very differe…

In the days ahead there will be a lot of mudslinging at the NDP. It will largely come from the Liberal party and the media.  Be ready!  Stay strong.  It will only be a week but it will be an unrelenting assault. 
You can fight back.  The NDP’s pl…

Defining moment in the campaign…

 "You know, most Canadians, if they don’t show up for work, they don’t get a promotion. You missed 70 per cent of the votes"  – Jack Layton to Michael Ignatieff in English Debate, April 12, 2011

Ignatieff didn’t know what to say.  He was like a deer caught in the headlights. This was the wake up call for  people that have heeded Libe…

Polling has shown the NDP trending up since the election was called.  Pundits are now asking why the numbers in Ontario don’t match the NDP results in Quebec or the rest of Canada.  They are wrong however as the NDP numbers in Canada’s biggest provin…

After my last post, I am sure to be accused of ensuring Harper will win because I am splitting the vote.  It seems as a supporter of the NDP I can only love them most of the time and then when I can actually help them at election time, I’m to vote Lib…

It happens almost every election.  The Liberals choose an indecisive leader, run a bad campaign, and then lash out at the NDP for deliberately splitting the left vote.  You could set your clock on their timing. Usually the Liberal appeal to NDP suppo…

Here are a few things about Harper from NUPGE you have forgot about!  

November 2010 – unelected senate defeats climate bill BEFORE debate"Stephen Harper has done what he always promised never to do – use unelected officials to counter the will of Parliament and the Canadian public," says Graham Saul, ED for Climate Action Network-Canada.Read more

November 2009 – Senior diplomat Richard

It may be a desperate times yet the Liberal Party of Canada (LPC) does have the luxury of bringing out a previous Prime Minister.  Two of them.  I think it can only help.  

Jean Chretien, lets call him JC, is still popular, he can remind people …

This is a snip capture of a Tweet from Conservative heavy weight, Jason Kenny from this afternoon.  It’s clear the Conservatives and Harper’s team just don’t get it.  Its not funny.

So you think individual MP’s can’t make a difference?  Lynn McDonald would tell you otherwise.  McDonald was the MP in the federal riding that comprised part of what is now Toronto Danforth, Jack Layton’s riding.

McDonald was elected to Parliament i…

Lawrence O’Donnell of msnbc rails against political pundits who hold up the so-called "Catholic vote" to make points about gay rights, using a new study which shows that American Catholics are at least five points more supportive than the general public across a range of gay and lesbian issues..

I knew many Catholics growing up and worked with a few Knights of Columbus.  They were great people,