I might point out that the phrase "stealing votes" has become fairly common usage in election coverage. It does not usually carry the same meaning as its use more recently in U.S. political coverage.

In Canada, it usually means that a party has made gains in an area where another party expected to do well. I can't say definitively, but I suspect its a metaphor imported from sports. In curling, for instance, points gained as a result of a mistake by an opponent are routinely called 'stolen'. That is clearly the sense in which political analysts in Canada use the phrase.

At $5,600 per tonne this policy has the dubious distinction of being even more expensive per tonne of GHG reduction than the previous record holder - the Conservatives' transit pass tax credit ($2,000 per tonne, because about 97% of the subsidy recipients were already daily transit riders). [in fact it’s] The most expensive environment program anywhere in the world by a wide margin.

“There is no change in the research and development tax credit. There is no financing program. There is no auto strategy, period. The Conservatives’ only strategy is distraction and avoidance of the real issues.”

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Politicians that lack vision, humanity or logic. There are some awful people, but politicians are the only ones that want to speak for me.

So when you have some dim-wit going to war for democracy, gutting Kyoto for clean air, or stopping the threat of gay marriage to save the family... I want to send them back to grade 9 to read some Orwell.

We have been taught to think that teachers should be paid less than bankers, that store clerks are worth less than psychiatrists, that farm work is less valuable than office work.

But we all need each other to make the Halifax economy function. Everyone’s honest hour of labour has the same dignity. Nonetheless, it is up to the individuals trading their time and effort to put a value on it. In an ideal world, most hours of labour would be worth one Salty, but the fact is that some people might want two or three or more Salty for their hour of work.

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Some 900 MPs, senators, past candidates, riding presidents and assorted other party brass are automatically entitled to vote at the Liberals' December leadership convention.