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Following up the sanctimonious hand-wringing over degraded democracy when Stephen Harper prorogued Parliament in later December, the Liberals decided to take an extended vacation on exercising that democracy by abstaining on the budget vote. Citing the need to both oppose the budget, but not defeat the government because, as we all know, “Canadians don’t want [...]
Unambiguously Ambidextrous | more | posted 4 minutes ago
I've been reading a lot about Andrew Coyne's positions lately. He certainly doesn't seem like a fan of Stephen Harper. But it also doesn't look like he's much of a fan of anyone else in Parliament, as evidenced by his latest in Maclean's...
It’s a funny thing. Minority parliaments are supposed to be unstable. Yet such is the pusillanimity on both sides that this one looks set to run and r
Hinchey\'s Store | more | posted 3 hours ago
John Ibbitson writes an interesting column about the Conservative Party base. He points out that most Canadians are more ‘right wing’ than we would traditionally consider ourselves. This country has a long proud history of supporting personal responsibility and individual liberty. That tradition has not been wiped out and forms the back bone of the conservative movement.But this is not really
Freedom is My Nationality | more | posted 1 day ago
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Who cares? Right now the Conservatives being in power are keeping our country together. The west is finally being treated like all the other provinces. This is keeping us in the game. Two posts today got me thinking about what has been going on lately. We are letting the Liberal media dictate to us what we should think, and this must stop. 'A recent poll, to be released in full today by the Manni
Climbing out of the dark | more | posted 1 day ago
Former Supreme Court Justice Iacobucci is one of the most respected jurists in our country across partisan lines. Stephen Harper selected a man of the highest unbiased integrity to review all the Government's documents regarding the transfer of Afghan prisoners. He will decide what can be made public and what poses a potential threat to national security. To those leftards who say that all doc
The Iceman | more | posted 1 day ago
Alternate Title - Has The CBC Gone Ultra Right Wing???
Let's just look at CBC's At Issue panel, including the host:
We've got Andrew Coyne, who also works for Maclean's, as arguably the most fiscally conservative member of the panel, or for that matter, the entire CBC.
Then we've got Allan Gregg, pollster for Harris/Decima who as John Ibbitson of the Globe & Mail puts it, '...has ti
Hinchey\'s Store | more | posted 1 day ago
Stephen Harper's critics are both loud and insulting. Some say he's too conservative while others say that he isn't conservative enough. My analogies are for the 'not conservative enough' crowd.
Socialism is like a burning building. We are in the building and we want to get out. Now I imagine Andrew Coyne running around with a Fire Warden cap telling everyone to "J
Spin Assassin | more | posted 1 day ago
I am growing sick and tired of those Conservatives bitching and moaning about Stephen Harper's lack of "fiscal conservatism". Maybe you are upset that there has not been a significant reduction of spending in the past four years and I am fully on board with reducing expenditures, but in a minority government with an opportunistic opposition what is the alternative? Each time you try to reduce
The Iceman | more | posted 1 day ago
At what point do the Stephen Harper apologists face up to the fact that their man has only one thing in mind ... power. How he gets it doesn't matter because he is like the former LPC ... completely bereft of any core political values except one ... beat the other tribe.For me, the last straw is that Harper, while greatly increasing spending, actually CUT military spending from a military budget
Celestial Junk | more | posted 2 days ago
Even Michel Den Tandt sees accomplishments of HM Government. I again had a chance to meet HM PM at the reception for the Manning Center Pyramid awards. The reception was at the amazing Canadian war Museum. HM PM looked relaxed and spoke to many of the guests, including me. He and Mrs Harper looked great. HM PM has really grown into the job. It is more than 4 years that he has been HM PM. The grits
Dr Roy | more | posted 2 days ago
I think we can all agree: this is terrific, if unsurprising, news.Now, in the whole ebb and flow of life, a period of rampant leftyism would naturally be tempered by a period of sanity (er, right of centerism). However, lots of people deserve credit for this shift in popular opinion.Obviously, credit must go to Stephen Harper and the disciplined Tories. Terrific government. Unsexy and sober. N
ChuckerCanuck 2.0 | more | posted 3 days ago
I try to avoid CBC as much as possible, but the other night I caught the political panel — Alan Gregg, Chantal Hébert, Andrew Coyne (who is not Conservative or small "c" on some issues) hosted by Peter Mansbridge — try to find something wrong with Stephen Harper and the Conservative Party; so they also included former Conservative Rahim Jaffer and the DUI charges which included cocaine.Now,
Onward James | more | posted 3 days ago
Michael Ignatieff is Stephen Harper’s best friend right now.
Not only does Mr. Iffy seem to agree with many of the Harper Government’s policies (seal hunt, the oilsands, the harmonized sales tax, to name a few), but he has also failed as a leader to inspire many in his own party and among Liberal supporters in [...]
Blue Like You | more | posted 3 days ago
Canadians Against Liberals Not Doing Their Job is progressing nicely. The Facebook group is slowly starting to gain a following.
Your help would go a long way to boosting the numbers and getting the message out there that the Liberal Party of Canada is not doing the job they were elected to do - unless of course, voters in the last election were aware that the Liberals would abstain from work
Hinchey\'s Store | more | posted 3 days ago
Today, and next week, to be more precise, we will finally see the potential of social media in helping the electorate engage in dialogue with public office holders in Canada.
This morning Prime Minister Stephen Harper responded to the speech from the throne by livestreaming it on YouTube. Not only is this a Canadian first, but [...]
Joseph Lavoie | more | posted 4 days ago
Not that anyone wants to hear about Canada putting together a poor detainee transfer agreement with Afghan authorities, but it is fast becoming clear that this was the case in the earlier years of our country's mission to rid Afghanistan of rebel forces.
Could things have been done differently? Yes.
Has anyone in the course of their lifetimes, ever made an error or omission in their workplac
Hinchey\'s Store | more | posted 4 days ago
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Mr. Michael Ignatieff refuses to address the Prime Minister of Canada as the Right Honourable Stephen Harper with the courtesy and traditions afforded by our Parliament. Peter Donolo has come out recently and requested we use "Mr." in addressing the appointed leader of the Liberal Party. Until Liberal members of parliament return to their responsibilities, duties, public civil discourse, t
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Don’t miss Prime Minister Stephen Harper live on YouTube at 10:45 Eastern this morning! He will be discussing the recent Throne Speech and budget (that just passed with a little help from his Liberal friends.)
You are also invited to submit questions for a YouTube interview on Tuesday evening (7 pm EST). This format has been [...]
Blue Like You | more | posted 4 days ago
Prime Minister Stephen Harper cannot get fair treatment by most of the Canadian media so he is going directly to the Canadian people on Tuesday, March 16th at 7pm Eastern time.
Check out http://www.youtube.com/TalkCanada.
The invitation at the Talk Canada link is for ordinary Canadians to submit their budget-related questions by Sunday, March 14th at 1pm ET. Then, [...]
Just Politics | more | posted 4 days ago
Prime Minister Harper will be Live Streaming his Reply to the Speech from the Throne tomorrow at 10:45 am on YouTube. (the channel is not live as yet) Following the speech, Canadians will have until Sunday at 2pm to submit video reply questions to the PM. The PM will then livestream his answers to the submitted questions.
The announcement is below:
March 11, 2010 at
Blue Blogging Soapbox | more | posted 4 days ago
Personal Note before you start Beverley Smith's article.I am sorry I have not been blogging much, I have had a personal loss and it is taken me time to get over it.During this time I have noticed that Harper gave income splitting to families with children under 6 and only on the $100 a month.To me that is an utter joke!Families are paying the brunt of the tax debt right now, families are paying a
Choice for childcare | more | posted 5 days ago
Call me suspicious, but it’s got to be more than a little coincidental that on the same day we learn that Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff wants Prime Minister Stephen Harper to call a full public inquiry into the Afghan detainee issue — rather than just a report by Judge Frank Iacobucci – we also read that the only way for the Liberal [...]
Just Politics | more | posted 6 days ago
Barring a complete meltdown of the LPC, the Stephen Harper conservatives will never get their coveted majority. Why? Because the CPC leader, Stephen Harper, CAN'T communicate plainly, clearly, and with passion. Mr. Harper is, to be blunt, a limp dish-rag when it comes to public communication. The only thing sustaining him, in fact, is a string of Liberal Party of Canada leaders who are hapless fa
Celestial Junk | more | posted March 7th
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I was born and raised in the province of Ontario, and many of my family members still live there today. I am concerned about Dalton McGuinty proroguing the provincial legislature, and how this erosion of democracy could harm my family. For guidance I went to visit the Canadians Against Proroguing Parliament website so often advertised as the epicenter of grassroots Democracy. Surely there I would
The Iceman | more | posted March 6th
Last month Blazing Catfur posted about his efforts to chase down the skinny on Palestine House's anti-Israeli hate-mongering. Palestine House Education (PHE), Mississauga, Ont is the recipient of federal funding and BCF requested that people write to our government asking them to wise up. Here's mine today (better late than never?):To: Jason Kenney, Minister of CIC, minister@cic.gc.ca James Moor
Just Right | more | posted March 6th
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Tasha Kheiriddin probably sums up the budget and the Conservative party the best, with her article in the National Post entitled, “Stephen Harper, big-government conservative.” Whatever the strategy behind the big-spending Conservatives, one thing is clear: this government has no intention of the slightest token efforts to be conservative, in either policy, atti
Unambiguously Ambidextrous | more | posted March 4th
Changing the lyrics to the national anthem? Surely this is a mind-fuck! But whose minds? I notice the Tory blogosphere is responding with the same tentative feeling I have: have they gone mad? Is the spirit of Sheila Copps guiding our Fearless Leader? It is rather as if Stephen Harper has expressed a taste for rubber [...]
Barrel Strength | more | posted March 4th
Budget Day used to be a long day for me. We’d listen to the budget speech while a staff member wrote it down in short-hand. While this was going on, another staff member would type up a rough draft, which I’d go through and assign particular points affecting our business to an analyst who would crunch the numbers. By the time I left the office late that night, I’d have a preliminary asses
Russ Campbell | more | posted March 4th
I don’t actually believe that the Conservative Party are going to make the sort of cuts that are needed to get rid of the deficit. This is partly due to my lack of faith that the government will behave as the fiscal conservatives that they claim to be. Jim Flaherty and Stephen Harper have brought forth Canada’s largest budgets and largest deficits. At this moment Paul “Dithers” Martin has
Freedom is My Nationality | more | posted March 4th
Not a point I'd advocate, but it is something Jacques Beau Vert raised in the last thread in reaction to the proposal to look at the wording of the english text to our national anthem. (What I heard on CBC was that the line "in all thy sons' command" will be changed to "in all persons command")So, let's pretend we were about to have some "single-tranferable-vote" type referendum on a new
ChuckerCanuck 2.0 | more | posted March 3rd
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With the Olympics now a memory Canada returns to our other national sport, politics. With the battle now rejoined it appears that the Liberal Party of Canada is pulling out the big guns to fire the opening salvos. It began with Iffy's op-ed piece in the Grope and Flail....the one he wrote during the gold medal game and is now followed by this stellar bit from the crown prince of the LPC. Justin
Syncrodox Sez | more | posted March 2nd
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Last week an EKOS poll had prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservatives at 33.4 per cent, a three percentage point lead over the Michael Ignatieff’s Liberals, which stood at 30.3 per cent. Yesterday, the National Post reported that an Ipsos Reid poll confirms the Tory lead and shows it has grown to 37 per cent of voters (Liberals 29 per cent), putting the Tories firmly in minority-government
Russ Campbell | more | posted March 2nd
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I am not a big sports fan. I don't even watch much hockey. I am proudly Canadian. I did watch the Olympic hockey final. It was an exhilarating feeling to share with millions of Canadians in expressing their pride and love of Canada. HM PM Stephen Harper is a true sports fan and Joe Warmington was impressed by HM PM's genuine interest. He was of course not very impressed by jack, pay attention to
Dr Roy | more | posted March 2nd
Absolutely, the Winter Olympics contributed to the Harper brand. In fact, the Olympics themselves sort of went through a Harperization: it begins with the media shrieking about disaster, calamity and incompetence. It ends with the breath-taking realization of what has been achieved through quiet, concerted effort. And if Vancouver is Stephen Harper, then Russia is Michael Ignatieff and London i
ChuckerCanuck 2.0 | more | posted March 2nd
I don’t think that anyone would be shocked to learn that the Conservative government is appointing Conservative supporters to become judges. Every political party since the time of John A. MacDonald has put like minded people on the bench. It is practically a Canadian tradition. And truth be known, it is not a particularly bad tradition either.There is a distinction that has to be made between a
Freedom is My Nationality | more | posted March 2nd
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There's a collection of videos on CTV's website that have my spidey senses all a tingle. There's a report from Robert Fife on Thursday's budget, a press conference with Stephen Harper, Iffy's usual incongruous response, an interview with a somewhat shocked Drummond over economic growth numbers, and some polling feedback from Nanos.I'm sensing "convergence".a) Economic recovery exceeding al
Sort of Political | more | posted March 1st
Like Iggy himself, I don't like to comment on polls but this one is pretty interesting:Liberals get 29% support.Iggy is seen as the best Prime Minister by 21% of voters.Right now, fully one quarter of Liberal voters would opt for Jack Layton or Stephen Harper before having to vote for Michael Ignatieff. For the good ship Liberal, Michael Ignatieff is not a drag, he's an unseen iceberg struck at
ChuckerCanuck 2.0 | more | posted March 1st
Today we see a pretty fine example of the old axiom, “those who can’t do… teach”.
A leading pollster says the Liberal Party would be “crazy” not to force an election this spring as Prime Minister Stephen Harper attempts to recover from his decision to suspend Parliament and other unpopular moves.
Thanks for that little bit of [...]
Duke Of Earl Blog | more | posted March 1st
Someone has a bright idea on how to make up for the lost time and it's worth looking at by our MPs. The question is: Will they? If they really and truly have the good of the country at heart and want to do a good job, they will. If they want to run around like kiddies in a playground, they won't.
..... Our MPs could sit during the summer, a common practice at Westminster through the 1800s. Fo
Dodo Can Spell | more | posted March 1st
I wonder how many people are truly concerned about the Prorogue. Maybe it was the exact thing to do for Prime Minister Stephen Harper, go to Vancouver, wear a Canada sweater and/or jacket and show support. Through thick and thin he was there...and it started off a bit thin; with the weather; the opening ceremony mechanical failure; the unfortunate accident; and the sad situation for a deserving Ca
Onward James | more | posted March 1st
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