Mark H.

When you start hearing right wing die hards like Charles Adler saying the CPC needs to move to the centre AND be more accommodating to minorities, the writing is on the wall. To have Liberals come with a dozen seats of a majority after everything that's happened, speaks volumes.

Yes, but they both backed off that statement.

Libs within a dozen seats (give or take) of a majority. Popular vote is almost even. The B.C. vote will be HUGE tonight.

To be determined. And everything will change depending on what happens tonight.

Money stashed into a rainy day fund should not be a reason to still have a deficit. Unless, of course, it’s politically convenient to still have one.

I have provided additional info - directly from the article.

They are still reporting a deficit - I have a problem with that. "Commenting on the results Thursday, Fielding said the government is now in "striking distance" of balancing its books."

You didn't read the article. "The increase was driven by strong growth in personal and corporation income tax and sales tax revenues (the PST had yet to be lowered), and major federal transfers. Some government businesses, most notably Manitoba Hydro and Manitoba Public Insurance, made more money than anticipated."

They are busy trying to pretend there is still a deficit - when there isn't. They have been corrected twice by the auditor general: https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/manitoba-numbers-game-561473592.html And what is the primary reason that they have a 9 million surplus? Increased transfer payments from Ottawa.

Their platforms don't matter - they'll deliver about 1/8 of what their promising I'm looking at their past track records and I'll tell you why When Stephen Harper lost in 2015, he said the Conservatives would form government again, and when they did, it would be based on their Conservative values. I find this to be true of any government and party.

In Canada at the federal level, all parties have a history of deficits. All of them.

Well hey, maybe you could persuade someone to cancel their season tickets...

I think we’ll see another Liberal majority. Scandals aside, when you look at the things you can fault Trudeau for (eg. Foreign Policy) Scheer has done nothing to distinguish himself in those areas. The Conservatives will probably win the popular vote, but that won’t translate into many more seats. Winning the prairies in a landslide doesn’t amount to much more than a hill of canola. The Liberal vote is more efficient and I think the NDP will lose seats, especially in BC.

I agree. And promising to scrap it won’t have the same effect that Chretien’s GST pledge did. Canadians have seen that movie before.

I had forgotten about that - would have been huge.

#runninggame

You were responding to the question: why do our receivers not catch the ball in stride? My point is, the same thing happens with Nichols at QB - it appears to be the scheme Lapo runs.

There are drops in every game. Bombers dropped some too.

22/33 337 yards.

There were plenty of the same routes when Nichols was the QB. It has been a Winnipeg trend for a few years now.

A healthy BLM is going to throw for 300 + yards against any team in the CFL. But I will grant you the bad weather conditions - they would work in our favour.

1. There were 3 instances where costly penalties kept the the Calgary offense on the field, which resulted in points. One which was what should have been a game changing sack. Another was an illegal contact call after a critical knock down up front. These things can be corrected. 2. BLM passing for 300+ yards - that is to be expected when they are playing the best QB in the league. That is not and should not be a criticism of the Defense. 3. Our passing game is what it is. Combined with the running game, the offensive totals were similar - the Stamps had 50 yards more 4. In spite of this team's limitations, they lost by only 4 points. The final 'drive' was not a back breaker. The back breaker was allowing the Stamps to stay on the field in critical situations

Fair enough.

Except for the small matter, that a win wasn’t far away.

It has and it will again.