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Originally Posted by raisethehammer
CUT the gas tax??? Wow. shows how out of touch with reality these clowns really are.
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All the more reason to vote for a party that's not out of touch.
If you're sick of the Conservatives, hate the Liberals and don't trust the NDP, then vote Green. If nothing else, your vote guarantees the Green party $1.75 a year in party funding so they can continue to develop their platform and mount a challenge to the status quo.
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Originally Posted by DC83
What has Harper and his conservatives done for the Environment over the last 2.5 years?
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They couldn't get anything done because they were too busy blaming the Liberals for not getting anything done when
they were in power.
In fairness, they did pass a climate change plan ... that actually allows the energy industry to
increase its greenhouse gas emissions.
No wonder they're attacking the Green Shift so hard - their own environmental track record is one of their biggest weaknesses and they know it.
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Originally Posted by markbarbera
Fastcarsfreedom, you and I both know that membership to Opus Dei is not significant simply because it is a Christian religion.
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I'm not sure why it's that significant. Opus Dei is a conservative Catholic ministry that encourages its lay members to do "the work of God" (
Opus Dei in English) in their communities - to "find God in daily life" - as opposed to inside a monastery or the Church bureaucracy.
It's decidedly
not the nefarious, shadowy cabal depicted in Dan Brown's lumpen "Da Vinci Code".
The organization emphasizes daily service and "mortification", which can range from steadfast dedication to important but unpleasant tasks to small sacrifices of pleasure, abstaining from luxuries, fasting, celibacy, and for some, suffering physical discomfort or even pain.
That may sound bizarre to some, but it's straightforward Catholic doctrine, as reflected in Lenten fasting, abstaining from meat on Fridays, and so on. Christianity in general emphasizes sacrifice and suffering (e.g. the Beatitudes).
Since we already knew Sweet is a conservative Christian, it's hardly a revelation to discover that he's a member of a conservative Christian organization.
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