The stated purpose of the upcoming thinker's conference is to harvest big ideas from academian Elites (rank and file Libs need not attend), and I would like to try and predict some of these big ideas before they happen. What ideas will Iggy produce to usher Canada into the future? We want to save lives in the 3rd world by offering a full gamut of health services, so how do we start exporting prostate exams? We need ideas! Hover cars, are they the future? We need ideas!
I jotted down some of the big ideas you might expect to see emerge from Montreal this week. Somehow I expect to turn this into a webpoll, and I would encourage your suggestions. What "big ideas" do you expect? Sarcasm strongly recommended.
1) Reduce wait time by cryogenically freezing patients.
2) Guarantee all 6 billion people on the Earth access to the "full gamut" of Canadian Health Services. Why stop at abortion? How many Africans die from botched appendectomies each year? How many die from botched tonsil removal? How many die from botched prostate exams? Let's save lives, let's guarantee all Canadian health services to all the world's people!
3) Hover cars
4) Minimum guaranteed incomes
5) Build a giant ecobubbledome over the country in order to control our own environment to a constant temperature with no natural variance.
6) Have former Soviet states absorbed back into Greater Russia (this I expect to come from the Czar himself).
7) One world government, preferably led by a Great Russian (see #6)
8) Build a second giant bubbledome over Alberta, but inside the Great Canadian Bubbledome. We want Alberta's money, not your air.
9) Invent cold fusion
10) Trying to avoid your own demise at the hands of Bolshevicks, a family journey (hosted of course by Iggy)
11) Turning food into gasoline, what could possibly go wrong?
make everybody in the world a Canadian citizen and offer them every service offered by our government, including but exclusive to EI, welfare, and paramedic services
ReplyDeleteLiberals could table a motion to reduce the powers of Premiers.
ReplyDeleteThen they could run healthcare and education for the entire country from downtown Toronto.
how about building a giant high speed roller coaster from Halifax to Vancouver?
ReplyDeleteAll you need to know is encompassed in the 1993 "Red Book".
ReplyDeleteAfter all, they have been using it every election since then (after all, Universal Child care is Mr Ignatieff's latest promise...)
A coast-to-coast monorail!
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Universal free daycare. (yet again)
They could come up with a realistic plan for paying off the national debt within the next generation.
ReplyDeleteIggy could say hey I am gonna clean up the mess that my hero Trudeau made.
And after it's done we can use money we used to pay for interest on paving the streets with gold.
No doubt there wil be a rehash of the old Liberal Redbook of broken pledges.
ReplyDeleteI predict most big ideas will intrude on the provincial jurisdictions of health care, education, babysitting, homelessness, natural resources, transit and senior's centres.
Oh, and Ignatieff wants to build something where HE gets to pound in the last spke like his great great grandpappy did so probably some kind of high speed rail link. Considering the one costed for between Edmonton and Calgary was $5 billion for about 200 miles hang on to your wallets.
Ruby Dhalla?
ReplyDeleteI read that over at Hinchey's store.
Are you out of your Vulcan mind?
If she crossed the floor it would be like Mecha-Stronach.
(South Park reference.)
No, no, no, no.
I hate floor crossers.
Even if Churchill did it himself, twice, according to the wiki.
Paul Martin did not ever look so pathetic when the media were laughing at him as he said I can count.
That was the end of him, in slo-mo.
If we need more education and more state child care, perhaps we should build schools that students can live in, then we will take them away from their parents so the state can raise them. Seems like a Liberal kind of idea to me. What could possibly go wrong?
ReplyDeleteLorraine, that works out to about $18 million per km. Multiply that by the 6500 km from Halifax to Vancouver, and you are looking at a price tag of roughly $117 billion dollars.
ReplyDeleteDon't forget free enhanced pensions plans for people who chose not to work during their lives, thus earned no CPP. EI for people who get bored after 10 weeks work. Free pharma benefits added to medicare. Funds for the homeless/failed immigrants to live in free housing in Toronto and Vancouver's prime re-development neighbourhoods. Between the lines, increased income tax and increased taxes on energy.
ReplyDeleteAnd don't worry Dance, dance, dance, dance, dance to the radio, none of the above will be an option in that webpoll.
ReplyDeleteI think Iggy will invest billions into deploying Eco-Friendly Laser Tanks. He'll pin down the environmentalists and other nature-loving hippies, create "green" jobs, and strengthen the Canadian Forces all in one move.
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