Fentie enters federal campaign

Fentie is like george bush, a very bad move for darryl P.  I was scared when i first read this headline, i though fentie was going to run, just think of how much damage he would do to the canadian government, however on a bright side, YTG would lose him…

i was plannin on voting conservative this year but.. now im unsure, i for sure will NOT be voting liberal

Premier Fentie’s statements are right on the mark. If Mr. Bagnall were interested in doing something about climate change, why hasn’t he taken the initiative long before now? Have the Liberals looked into the ramifications of instituting a carbon sales tax? Obviously not. To have a representative of the sitting government in Ottawa insures a strong voice for the Yukon. Darrell Pasloski is the man we want and NEED in Ottawa.

I will bet the house that the CBC will not be calling or asking for an inteview. They wouldn’t want any facts to interfere with there reporting.

No wonder, our neighbor the Alaskan want to drill for oil, we want a piece of it by allowing a pipeline to run in the territory. Make sense for the environment!
The proposal from the Liberal introduce a VISION which no Yukon Politics has introduced in the last 3 decades.
Here for a Vision; I see the blood of Yukon Communities run thru a railroad that connects them all together. I see a school of trades that would specialize in the service industry, customer service in general in order to rate the Yukon Tourism industry to the highiest level onto the world stage.

It is refreshing to hear a politician speak the truth rather than push the panic button to get attention. If only Ontario had a Premier of that calibre.

Hourrah! A premier who has the balls to say it the way it is.  Liberals are at their old game,scaring people in the last week.  Yet, they are the Scam scandal people who have not repented sufficiently. The squirrels are waiting in the wings to get at our bank.  With liberals we will have East against West; large useless national costly programmes which provinces will have to fund; carbon tax which will damage the economy and impose hardship on families.  Dion is a phoney and is irresponsible.  Your premier is right:  the provinces bore the brunt of Martin’s
deficit fight.  Liberals should not be elected.

This is a positive aspect for the territory. Coming from a college prespictive if anyone has anything good to say about Harper, its lynch time, a sad state of democracy.

More premiers should stand and help in the federal election as federal legeslation is paramount to provincial and territorial legeslation. Combat Danny Williams of Newfoundland whom focus’ his entire attention on anti conservative movements.

None of Larrys, Kens or Johns views hold any yukon value, just taxes and hopeless rhetoric.

Why should people vote liberal in the first place? Remember chretien and the GST, failed promises. 13 years of Kyoto liberal inaction says enough about thier record on the enviroment. The big defiect that was brought down by Chretien and his liberals is phony. That defiect sprialed out control since Trudeau, only Mulroney was able to bring it down while still keeping public services and Chretien LOVED the GST and NAFTA for those big HONEY POT surpluses and so called no defiect spending. Fentie is right about the provinces carrying the payload. Liberals complain about afganistan, well i remember the liberals were the first to send our troops there in the first place with NO TIMELINES on getting them out.

The Bush comparison is getting old. Alex Jones types running around screaming FEAR, when truly they are the ones promoting fear.

Ontario is getting hit hard due to ONTARIO LIBERAL PARTY ECONOMIC POLICY. Regardless of what Flahetry says, its the liberals failed policy on the manufacturing sector.

If the liberals want to change, then they better stop acting they are entitled to power.

Remember CO2 is what plants need, WE NEED PLANTS. A carbon tax is basically taxing life as we know it.

Fentie’s endorsement was reckless.  Premiers have to deal with whichever party is in power in Ottawa (agree with them or not), and needs to be above the fray.  It would have been one thing had Premier Fentie simply endorsed Mr. Pasloski, but when he goes beyond that and attacked Mr. Bagnell and the Liberals he is not acting in the best interests of the Territory.  There is a reason why you rarely see provincial Premiers gettin involved in the rough and tumble of federal politics.  Mr. Fentie’s vitrolic attack on the Liberals and the green shift shows that he doesnt have the judgement that should be expected of a Premier.

I normally dont have strong opinions one way or another about Mr. Fentie and the Yukon Party but this time he is doing serious potential damage to the Territory.

... Pasloski aint gonna win anyway.

It takes a lot of courage for a premier to stand up in the middle of an election and call a spade a spade. Even though it may hurt your area economically in the future you have to let the country know how you feel. It’s sad the Eastern provinces other than big mouth Williams aren’t looking at the big picture as well.

Mr Pasloski seems like he’d fit right in with Fentie’s gang. I bet we’ll see him running for the Yukon party in the next territorial election. Quite honestly, I think it would be better for him (and for us) if he got some experience in local politics, rather than starting out in Ottawa.

We’ve seen how the right wing has failed in the US and the cracks are now showing on this side of the border.  Fentie should be more concerned with his own back yard before meddling in the national game.  We’re still out that $37 million although Yukon Party - bots still say the money is coming.  Ha!

We’ve got a long cold (read: expensive) winter ahead, couple that with a residential building market about to shut down (no more lots until 2010, and YTG dropping the ball with First Nations and their right to bid on large projects) and it is clear that Yukon is on the brink of a recession.  Boom and bust is the norm in Yukon with politicians are chasing the brass ring instead of building a sustainable economy.

Im not sticking up for darryl, but bagnell has no experience in local office as well. He went from being board member of yukon learn to MP of the yukon.

Im not sure who im voting for this year, darryl, larry and ken do not interest me at all, nor my family. We need a Clean slate, honest yukon people to run for office. There is only 4 days till election and im stumped this year.

Last year i voted liberal but not this year, mr bagnall in my view has done nothing posistive for the territory. If stephen harper is elected, the yukon needs someone of the same party to get what we want. I strongly believe harpe will have a majority government, dion and layton are not even close to being PM of canada. This is going to be a intersting election.

Pasloski is microscopic hybrid of Sarah Palin and Dick Cheney.  We need thinkers and people who will represent the majority of the Yukon who are moderate or slightly left or right.  Bagnell is the best choice.  People who vote Green or for far right wingers like Pasloski really are out of the mainstream.  If they ever got in control things would be a mess.  We’d either be communist or become a George Bush utopia with a rich and poor side of town and no middle class.  Vote Bagnell, and Stephane Dion is starting to look less like a nerd/geek and more like a smart guy who comes across way too timid.

Fentie’s comments reflect poorly on the Yukon - it makes Yukoners look like hicks in the Globe and Mail article/blog.  C’mon Fentie - have some respect for your office.  You have the responsibility to act in the best interests of all Yukoners - don’t pick fights and poke your nose into the federal election.  Your bullying act is becoming tiresome.  It is interesting that I have not heard Bagnell critize Fentie and his goofy Cabinet ministers.  But whatever, i was considing voting for the Conservatives but not now - Fentie’s comments sent a chill up my spine.  Nice endorsement.

Ahh, Arn, you are so full of bull…but here we go to straighten some things that you seem to be confused about….

GST was put in place by the Conservatives.  Liberals left it to try to remove the debt.
Liberals had ~9 months after they officially signed Kyoto, then they were voted out.  Not much time to make things happen.
It was Trudeau and the Liberals that started the deficit spree and Mulroney added billions onto it…Chretien just rode out all the bad (good?) things Mulroney did in the end of his run to get on the right track.
Government in Ontario is killing the province?  How about a market that has gone to the crapper and no one buying what they are making…that might be the problem.

I am not impressed with either the Liberals or the Conservatives this time around…the Liberals have a plan that will hurt us right away…but the Tories have an environmental plan that will hurt us just as much in the slightly longer run, they just don’t want to talk about it.

There will be pain either way, we just have to decide whose pain we want to bear….I just want people to make that decision based on some fact, not rhetoric as you say.

Oh, and congrats Larry on the win and Darryl for a good fight now that it is all over