[jasonturbo]

I love the way increasing health care, increasing CPP, decreasing tuition, and increasing general stimulus sounds (especially in transportation and green energy)... but does everyone realize that money has to come from somewhere?

IMO voting in the NDP or Libs will 100% result in far more debt and taxes than we can expect under the cons - that's what scares me.

While the cons have certainly sucked financially, they were sort of shafted by the melt down in 2007... I don't think they are any better at managing money, but they are certainly pushing less social spending programs than the other parties.

With the F-35 running way over budget, no different than what the US constantly deals with when it comes to advanced military equipment, shit always ends up over budget. I'm pretty sure everyone under estimates all of those projects on purpose knowing that at the true cost it would never be approved.

Edit: BTW, why do people feel like Canada is lacking environmental regulation? I deal with this at work constantly and I could swear it would be nearly impossible to regulate it any further than it already is.

Years ago companies got away with doing shitty things (IE: Royal Oak Mine in YK with tonnes of Arsenic sitting in the ground leeching into the ground water), but that was ever so long ago.

Imagine the Federal Gov. and Provincial Gov. gives us permission to reverse a pump station, during that work, we have to dig holes in the ground to install new valves etc - WE ARE LIMITED IN HOW MUCH WATER WE CAN REMOVE. That is to say that if we have excavations which gradually fill up with ground/rain water, we can only pump so many litres out of the hole per day. Imagine that, you have a construction site that has to cease work just because there is too much ground/rain water and you are not allowed to pump it out.

Where does the water go that we pump out? To a third party water treatment company who tests it, treats it, filters it, and then releases it.. we don't even bat an eyelash at the cost of any of this, it's the cost of doing business.

How is any environmental regulation lacking in that example :s

I just get a little confused I guess... the NDP and Green party especially push the issue but I'm not sure I understand what the policies will actually look like for increased regulation.