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	<title>Political News and blogs on Stephen Harper, Canadian Politics and Voting on Informed Vote &#124; InformedVote.ca &#187; Michalina Piatkowski</title>
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		<title>Odd Bedfellows; Chinese-Canadian Relations</title>
		<link>http://informedvote.ca/2009/12/04/odd-bedfellows-chinese-canadian-relations/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=odd-bedfellows-chinese-canadian-relations</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 03:26:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has never courted China, despite its economic powerhouse status, and suggestions that he is now doing so in order to secure the Chinese-Canadian vote are ludicrous. It is perfectly evident that people do not emigrate from China to Canada on account of the weather. As such, it is naive to [...]


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		<title>Supreme Court of Canada Renders Quebec&#8217;s Bill 104 Unconstitutional</title>
		<link>http://informedvote.ca/2009/10/23/french-until-proven-english-no-more/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=french-until-proven-english-no-more</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michalina Piatkowski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On October 22 2009, the Supreme Court of Canada judged Quebec’s Bill 104 to be unconstitutional.  The controversial bill was enacted in 2002 by the Quebec ruling party of the day, the Parti Quebecois, and has since been subject of a slew of courts cases, the issue eventually reaching Quebec’s Court of Appeal in 2007, [...]


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		<title>Lessons in Populism</title>
		<link>http://informedvote.ca/2009/10/13/lessons-in-populism/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=lessons-in-populism</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:44:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michalina Piatkowski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some erroneously regard Populism and Democracy as virtually indistinguishable. Why shouldn’t they? Populism is the political philosophy of catering to the interests of the people, (although not necessarily in the interest of the people). Populism is not good in itself &#8211; it is, however, an excellent way of keeping the people pacified and a government [...]


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