wishblade, on Aug 20 2006, 02:21 AM, said:
Wow are you ever adement on convincing people to believe you Jim. First you say "with no money from the federal government" and then you make the statement of 35% contribution, which btw is subject to increase. You lose all credibility with statements like that.
no creditability lost at all because there has not been any funding announcements what so ever on the commonwealth games . Micheal Chong has stated that the Feds will not go beyond 35 percent funding if they actually decide to fund the CWGs for Halifax. Both the province and the HRM are trying to get 50 K in federal funding for a feasability study. Have you seen it announced in the last month that the feds are going to fund a study and whom will do this study??
Micheal Chong actually has no cheque writing authority his bosses Bev Oda , Jim Flatterey and Steve Harper do.
So with no funding announcement like we had with Sheila Copps of the Jean Chretian Liberals for the Hamilton Bid one year prior to the bid selection date for the 2010 games how do you explain that there is actually a commitment in dollars and cents a opposed to platitudes a junior cabinet minister like Micheal Chong or Peter Mackay who is occupied with the foriegn affairs portfolio? Harper sandbagged Mackay to keep him out of the country and out of his hair LOL thus perventing a former leader of the PC's from networking inside the party.
Jim Flatterey said recently that the provinces should think about raising taxes if they want to have different programs they want. Considering that halifax is a military town and the tories are committing considerable money to equipment purchases for the military that is the place they are trying to buy votes. That tactic may be effective in the HRM.
There will be no increase in funding from 35 percent even if the tories with power actually approve funding as that would cut right to the heart of a bone of contention with western canada . The martimes gets far too many hand outs at alberta's expense. If they were to go north of 35 percent or what was the case with the Calgary 1988 olympics Harper and all the other Alberta conservative could kiss their political careers good bye in the next election.
The conservatives are not going to risk alberta for a commonwealth games in a tory Halifax, Nova Scotia that probably will stay with the liberals and the NDp in the next federal election.
jim jones
wishblade, on Aug 20 2006, 02:21 AM, said:
Wow are you ever adement on convincing people to believe you Jim. First you say "with no money from the federal government" and then you make the statement of 35% contribution, which btw is subject to increase. You lose all credibility with statements like that.
no creditability lost at all because there has not been any funding announcements what so ever on the commonwealth games . Micheal Chong has stated that the Feds will not go beyond 35 percent funding if they actually decide to fund the CWGs for Halifax. Both the province and the HRM are trying to get 50 K in federal funding for a feasability study. Have you seen it announced in the last month that the feds are going to fund a study and whom will do this study??
Micheal Chong actually has no cheque writing authority his bosses Bev Oda , Jim Flatterey and Steve Harper do.
So with no funding announcement like we had with Sheila Copps of the Jean Chretian Liberals for the Hamilton Bid one year prior to the bid selection date for the 2010 games how do you explain that there is actually a commitment in dollars and cents a opposed to platitudes a junior cabinet minister like Micheal Chong or Peter Mackay who is occupied with the foriegn affairs portfolio? Harper sandbagged Mackay to keep him out of the country and out of his hair LOL thus perventing a former leader of the PC's from networking inside the party.
Jim Flatterey said recently that the provinces should think about raising taxes if they want to have different programs they want. Considering that halifax is a military town and the tories are committing considerable money to equipment purchases for the military that is the place they are trying to buy votes. That tactic may be effective in the HRM.
There will be no increase in funding from 35 percent even if the tories with power actually approve funding as that would cut right to the heart of a bone of contention with western canada . The martimes gets far too many hand outs at alberta's expense. If they were to go north of 35 percent or what was the case with the Calgary 1988 olympics Harper and all the other Alberta conservative could kiss their political careers good bye in the next election.
The conservatives are not going to risk alberta for a commonwealth games in a toryless Halifax, Nova Scotia that probably will stay with the liberals and the NDp in the next federal election.
jim jones
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