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Ask a Canuck

gsdx said:
Harper's campaign was meant to kill the liberals (he succeeded with Ignatieff a few years ago)
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There was a Michael Ignatieff who used to interview fashionable novelists and arty film directors on television in the 1980s, and he aired his opinions in The Observer on Sundays. I haven't seen him in years. Is it the same man?

By the way, if it wasn't for this thread I would not have known about any elections in Canada. The UK news media have been silent on the matter.
 
Essex Boy said:
There was a Michael Ignatieff who used to interview fashionable novelists and arty film directors on television in the 1980s, and he aired his opinions in The Observer on Sundays. I haven't seen him in years. Is it the same man?
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That's him. He lived in England from 1978 to 2000. From 2008 to 2001, Ignatieff was a professor at Harvard. Harper virtually killed the liberals in the campaign against Ignatieff in the 2011 federal election claiming that he was "just visiting". It worked and resulted in the Liberal's worst showing in history. Ignatieff, of course, resigned as the leader of the Liberal Party. Justin was nominated, was voted party leader, and the rest is history.
 
Yooper said:
(hopefully the link will work, they've already hidden it a bit)
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It worked for me. Thanks for that.

Justin is a people person. At one of his rallies recently, he heard about an 8-year-old boy who, along with his father, went to the rally but couldn't get in. They had to wait on the bus. The boy was crying. Justin heard about it and went out to greet the boy and his father, chatted with them, and even did a photo op with them.

Harper used the Iran and marijuana things in his attack ads against Justin, but I don't recall Justin even mentioning them. The big joke about Harper's ads was the final quote: "Nice hair, though."

It became something of a catchphrase.
 
Yooper said:
I also see BQ won 10 seats? Is yet another separatist movement afoot? (I think it would be a big mistake).
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There's a bit of one, but it's mostly limited to older generations. I think a big part of the Bloc's gains were because of the NDP's losses.
 
Yooper said:
I also see BQ won 10 seats? Is yet another separatist movement afoot? (I think it would be a big mistake).
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I read this article this morning and thought of your question. The separatist movement appears to be in decline:

Twenty years after Canadians awaited the results of the Quebec referendum, the sovereigntist movement is facing a crisis of faith.

An abysmal result for the Bloc Québécois in the federal election has spurred a new round of soul-searching.

Four out of five Quebecers who voted checked the ballot box beside the name of a federalist candidate. The Bloc garnered just 19.3 per cent of the popular vote in the province and elected only 10 MPs — two short of official party status.

Of course, it could have been worse. In 2011, the Bloc was reduced to two MPs from 47 in the wave that launched the New Democrats into official Opposition.

“Support for the independence movement has been steadily declining over the last several years,” Philippe Couillard, Quebec’s Liberal premier, declared following the federal vote.

In hindsight, maybe the writing was on the wall when the Bloc dusted off retired leader Gilles Duceppe to lead the party into the election.

A CROP survey of Quebecers aged 18 to 24 conducted last year for La Presse found that just 16 per cent supported the Parti Québécois, the provincial face of Quebec separatism. Sixty-nine per cent said they would vote “no” if a referendum on Quebec sovereignty were held today.
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https://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/can...-movement-a-big-election-loser-203722455.html
 
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Thanks Neil for posting that, it cleared up some of my questions. Back in the UP the CBC is on Cable (before the digital transition I would usually pick up Thunder Bay over the air better than the local station!) but here in Colorado we get more Mexican news than Canadian. :roll:

And @ Pianist--your link to that blog was something :eek:. Sure shows that there are still some division over the election results.
 
Bumpity bumpity bumpity bump bump bump.

Tell me more about Tragically Hip.

It's perhaps hard for those outside Canada to understand just how big the band are there. They are known as the most Canadian band in the world. They are simply a part of the national identity.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-37148999
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Their reputation doesn't seem to have travelled. Has anyone ever mentioned them on here? I can't see anything in this thread.
 
^ You'll have to ask a different Canuck. I was never a fan. I know they played in a local pub quite regularly. I didn't even watch their final concert last night.
 
^ There's no denying their popularity or longevity. They've been around since 1984, and they'd probably be around for many years more if Gord Downie's brain cancer diagnosis didn't bring about such an abrupt farewell tour.
 
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