Two: lucky you, if I remember correctly the average size of the ridings in PEI is about 35,000. My riding has 125,000. Just think, your vote has almost 5 times the clout of mine.

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- The Liberals are not running an official Liberal candidate in Central Nova, choosing to endorse Elizabeth May who purports to be the leader of a different party.

- The Greens are returning a favour and declining to run a candidate in M. Dion's riding.

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The Greens are returning a favour and declining to run a candidate in M. Dion's riding.

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As far as I know, Bill Casey generally agrees with Harper Conservative values, he is just angry about Harper breaking one specific promise. Perhaps Casey will someday rejoin Harper's caucus if a compromise is reached on the Atlantic Accord.

So MPs and candidates who have spent their lives fighting the neo-con agenda are not worthy of being sprinkled with May's special exemption, but this Casey fellow is. Bizarre.

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Of course, her "we're-on-your-side" approach won't work. Her party has a deliberately vague policy on the matter:

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Remove the false choice for Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador to allow access to funds for health, education and other services provided through equalization, and remove any requirement to abandon rights under the Atlantic Accord.

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I heard a commentator on CBC recently suggest that the Gerry Ritz Wayne Easter joke did not go over too well with Islanders and Gail Shea may have hit a ceiling in the polls.

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This should probably go in the Canadian Politics section, but what the heck...

I heard a commentator on CBC recently suggest that the Gerry Ritz Wayne Easter joke did not go over too well with Islanders and Gail Shea may have hit a ceiling in the polls.

Any Maritimers or Islanders have any idea whether or not the province is going to mix things up a whole bunch in Egmont?

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