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Showing posts with label Harper. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Harper. Show all posts
Monday, 23 May 2011
Ipsos is predicting that Harper's "values-based national coalition" of Tories might have a brighter future than the cobbled-together Mulroney coalition had:
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| Darrel Bricker of Ipsos |
The interesting thing about what happened in this (May 2) election . . . is that they actually put together a values-based national coalition of Tories — the first time we’ve had it in this country,” Bricker said ...
Bricker says Mulroney's coalition of out-groups was based on two poles of disaffection: the West (miffed by the NEP) and those Quebeckers annoyed by Trudeau's repatriation of the Constitution. Harper's party has these values:
He rattled off the typical values of a Harper Conservative voter: “smaller government, law and order, pro-military, pro-trade, pro-U.S., economically focused and fiscally prudent.”
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Thursday, 19 May 2011
Lot's of faux indignation amongst media and bloggers and politicians over Harper's decistion to appoint three senators, including two who ran for election to the House of Commons, and lost. To judge from the response by some, you would think that Harper had broken at least a handful of laws, and done something totally immoral and unprecedented.
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The Cat advises people to take a deep breath and think a bit before they do the Layton-kneejerk.
Tories make sense:
The Tory explanation makes sense:
LIKE IT? CLICK HERE TO READ MOREMarjory LeBreton, the government's leader in the Senate,
Wednesday, 11 May 2011
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| Deep Throat II |
A sneak preview of how Canada will look after four (or five) years of unfettered majority rule by the Conservative Party, courtesy of Deep Throat II, who was given a copy of Harper's Five Year Plan in a brown envelope in the Delta Hotel:
- Devolution - For those fearing the development of an asymmetrical Canada, with major powers devolved to Quebec but not to the other provinces, fear not: all major powers devolved to Quebec (and there will be many such, in order to stop the Orange Surge in its tracks) will be equally devolved to all provinces.Nobody will be left out. Much will be given to the provinces.
- Provinces paramount - Canadians will find that they will have to look to their provinces for many more services, as the federal government will have opted
Monday, 9 May 2011
... for a year or two.
Let's not forget the momentous nature of the election on May 2 – from out of nowhere, it seems, millions of Quebeckers suddenly decided, over a week or two, to move from a party that was formed for the sole purpose of achieving the separation of Quebec from Canada.
And move they did!
So many that the separatist party was smashed to smithereens and might never arise a
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Sunday, 1 May 2011
It's the stickiness factor. Jack could shake the Tory tree tomorrow and have up to one in four Tories fall out of the clutches of Harper's new Tories, into his lap.
And that could put him over the top for a minority government.
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Saturday, 30 April 2011
Where is Quebec leading Canada to on May 2? And why will most Canadians want to undertake that journey with them?
First the coalition, then the Royal Wedding – is the Brit example influencing Canadian voters?
The excitement of the high drama in the UK after their recent election, with negotiations between the three parties ending in a five-year coalition deal between the Conservative Party and the Liberal Democrats, spilled over into Canada for a brief time, with bloggers and commentators wading in with comparisons to our
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Friday, 29 April 2011
The latest Nanos poll (April 28) shows the fortunes of the Tories in two major battleground provinces sinking rapidly.
Look at this chart of the two provinces – note the trends of the Tory support –
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A Salute to Professor Peter H. Russell for defending our democracy
0 comments Posted by 2011 at 09:52A big hat tip to Accidental Deliberations for adding a very important video from constitutional expert Peter H. Russell to their site – it's at the bottom of their post. CHECK THEIR POST FOR THE VIDEO OF THE REASONS WHY THIS CONSTITUTIONAL LAW PROFESSOR IS RECOMMENDING AGAINST A CONSERVATIVE MAJORITY.
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| Professor Peter H. Russell |
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| Harper April 28 2011 - toast |
Just in time for the decision on May 2 whether we need Stephen Harper as our prime minister, robopol Harper has advised Canadians to be careful with their choice on election day because the consequences could be dire:
LIKE IT? CLICK HERE TO READ MORE“Get the big decisions wrong and it will take a
Thursday, 28 April 2011
Harper's Smitten Two-Trick Pony:
When this election started, Harper desperately tried to frame the ballot question as a stable majority Conservative government lead by him versus an unstable, illegitimate
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The peekaboo campaign of the robotic Harper and his neocon Conservatives has fallen apart, with just 4 days to go to the May 2 election.
The Cat's forecast:
The Cat is now prepared to go out on a limb (its favourite position) and
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Wednesday, 27 April 2011
The Cat advises you to forgeddabout the pollsters who are still showing Harper's Trojan Horse 'new' Tories with a big whack of votes.
That just ain't so!
Canadians are disgusted with the contempt Harper and his Tories have shown for our democracy and our Parliament.
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Harper has united the right and desperately needs the centre-left to remain divided so that he can regain power as our prime minister.
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| Harper says Vote Dumb |
His hope is that you will Vote Dumb – by splitting the centre-left vote – and so allow his redneck party to slip up the middle and gain its coveted majority.
Redneck? Here's the Canadian definition of redneck:
LIKE IT? CLICK HERE TO READ MOREnoun 'red nek'An ignorant Canadian voter who believes that if he or she gives Harper the keys to Canada through a majority government,
Monday, 25 April 2011
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| Harper stands quietly ... |
Before we are unfortunate enough to end up with a Harper majority on May 2, we should ask ourselves what is wrong with this report:
Conservative partisans deliberately drowned out a journalist’s question to Mr. Harper during a Greater Toronto Area campaign stop Saturday as he was being asked about a Vancouver candidate’s endorsement by a man acquitted in the Air India bombing.LIKE IT? CLICK HERE TO READ MORE
Sunday, 24 April 2011
Campaigning in the bubble as usual, Harper is still fleeing contact with ordinary Canadians, and opting for conservatively-cleansed crowds.
With the polls showing an extraordinary degree of interest in the election by millions of Canadians (FOUR MILLION WATCHED THE DEBATES!!! IN CANADA!!! IN 2011!!!!!
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Saturday, 23 April 2011
Harper commits to letting Jack Layton form government and not the Tories
0 comments Posted by 2011 at 11:32The developments in the election are so fast and furious in the past week or so that that our Fourth Estate has been struggling to understand them, and analyze them. Most have failed, but a few have grasped that we have a prime minister with the most unusual views of how our country works legally that we have ever experienced.
We have to compliment Peter Mansbridge of the CBC for being amongst the handful of journalists who have done their homework on the wanderings of one Stephen Harper down the highways and byways of constitutional law. Mansbridge has had
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Harper unilaterally decides to strip Tory voters of their constitutional rights
0 comments Posted by 2011 at 05:51In an election with many surprising turns, we now have perhaps the most bizarre statement ever made by a Canadian prime minister.
Without putting it in black and white in his election program, Stephen Joseph Harper has given himself the right to deny to any Canadians voting for his Conservative Party, their constitutional rights.
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| One cowboy, One vote |
Political science students for decades to come will stumble across the presumption of this prime minister in footnotes in every history
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Friday, 22 April 2011
Harper is dangerous: He does not support the Canadian Constitution
0 comments Posted by 2011 at 06:23The man who lead the first government in the history of the Commonwealth to be found by a majority of Members of Parliament to be in contempt of Parliament, has now gone on record as being opposed to the Constitution of Canada.
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| Our Parliament, Our democracy |
We now have a serious constitutional crisis on our hands. Right now, right here, not some time in the future after the election.
For any leader of any party running in this election to give voice to such completely wrong interpretations of the law of the land, is a significant problem.
We now have a leader of a party with a reasonable chance of becoming a government, saying on television that he will not obey the laws of the land that govern how our parliamentary democracy works.
This is the first time in Canada's history that a sitting prime minister has misinterpreted the law so badly on such a serious issue.
We need every constitutional expert in the country to consult with his or her
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The last thing any politician needs in an election is for a mysterious tape to surface with mysterious voices saying mysterious things about mysterious matters, and then to have some journalist speculate that the tapes might refer to that politician or that politician's party.
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| I am not a crook |
Take Richard Milhous Nixon, for example. Made famous for many things, one of the enduring legacies of this troubled, paranoid, enemies-behind-every-bush, hit list of enemies, hard-swearing, hard-charging, take-no-prisoners, right wing, bleeding-
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Thursday, 21 April 2011
Does Stephen Harper meet the test to be prime minister of our democracy?
0 comments Posted by 2011 at 05:25If you wish to immigrate to Canada you are presented with a Study Guide – Discover Canada The Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship. This teaches you how our constitution works. Included in the Study Guide are these statements:
LIKE IT? CLICK HERE TO READ MOREIn Canada’s parliamentary democracy, the people elect members to the House of Commons in Ottawa and to the provincial and territorial legislatures. These representatives are responsible for passing laws, approving and monitoring expenditures, and keeping the government accountable. Cabinet ministers are responsible to the elected representatives, which means they must retain the “confidence of the House” and have to
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