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Harper's downfall: Venom and corruption

18 May 2013 - 08:36 AM

I think we've had enough! Sweaters and kittens won't help anymore.
As a political strategist, Harper's manipulative and contemptuous of most Canadians.
As an economist, he's continued the Tory tradition of running up debt and deficits and lying about it.
Harper refuses to tell us where Ministers spent our $3.1b. (Pork barrels perhaps?)
Under his watch, corruption is rampant.
It's just nasty.
andrew-coyne-the-economy-is-in-good-shape-so-why-is-support-for-the-conservatives-slumping

Secretive,controlling,manipulative,crude, autocratic,vicious,unprincipled,untrustworthy, paranoid Even by the standards of Canadian politics,its quite the performance.

Weve had some thuggish or dishonest governments in the past,even some corrupt ones,but never one quite so determined to arouse the publics hostility,to so little apparent purpose. Their policy legacy may prove short-lived,but it will be hard to erase the stamp of the Nasty Party.


http://www.nationalp...-with-canadians
Yet its as though the PMO has gone perfectly deaf not only to the opposition,to media critics,or to the majority of Canadians who are not partisans,but to the Conservatives own internal,reasonable voices. To some in the Tory caucus call them the emerging,silent minority it is beginning to dawn that the strategy of trash Trudeau,everywhere and always holds risk. It isnt brain surgery. When your opponents most effective knock against you is that youre too negative,and you respond with over-the-top venom,you strengthen his hand. Trudeau has only to not cooperate in other words play a cautious game,saying less,not more and he cannot help but come out ahead.

http://www.nationalp...canadian-senate
#IfIHad90000 I could by 22 plots of land for $4,000 and gift them to future property-less Senators in provinces they may or may not live in
Kevin O'Donnell (@ODonnell_K) May 15,2013

#IfIHad90000 Id have one of Canadas search & rescue helicopters pick me & my pals up to go fishing
Liam Lahey (@LiamLahey) May 15, 2013

#IfIHad90000 I'd buy a you a green strategy (but not a real green strategy, that's cruel to Canada's status as energy superpower)
Jason Markusoff (@markusoff) May 15, 2013

.@ODonnell_K @mbpowell "I'd buy you an exotic pet project,like an F35,or gazebo" #IfIHad90000
John Francis (@johnefrancis) May 15, 2013

mike-duffy-returns-to-political-broadcasting-with-scandalous-story-about-senator-duffy

When it gets this outrageous, ya just gotta laugh. :lol:

Agriculture Canada layoffs

10 May 2013 - 12:30 PM

Seems to me Harper's hitting his rural conservative base with this one. Maybe he'll be surprised that farmers actually care about agricultural scientists.
Hundreds of Agriculture Canada employees get job notices
Close to 700 employees at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada labs and farms across the country received notices Thursday their jobs could be eliminated, in what union officials and former scientists say is another attack on research in Canada.
...

The government announced Tuesday the NRC would be revamped, and would concentrate on industrial research, new growth and business development.

"Innovation doesn't arise in response to a call for somebody's need," said Topp. "Sometimes you just have to be exploring with an open mind."
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"We continue to find the most effective and least-costly ways to deliver service to Canadians so that as much of AAFC's overall budget as possible goes directly to producers and the agricultural industry."


Ya right ... This from a government that LOST $3.1b taxpayer dollars somewhere! :rolleyes:

Tory MP's won't mail attack flyers

30 April 2013 - 03:48 PM

Trudeau ads: More Tory MP's say they won't mail out attack pamphlets
OTTAWA - A growing number of Conservative MPs say they won't mail their constituents the party's latest attack on Justin Trudeau,saying the negative,taxpayer-funded pamphlet is just not their style. Tories received a sample of the flyer about the Liberal leader last week,designed by the party's parliamentary research group. It matches recent television spots about Trudeau that say he lacks the experience and judgment to govern. Unlike the TV ads,the mailout (called a "ten-percenter") is funded by the taxpayer through House of Commons budgets.

Several Conservatives from across the country said Tuesday they won't use it. "I haven't sent out an attack ten-percenter for over four years," said Edmonton Tory MP Laurie Hawn. "It's just not my style." "I don't feel it's appropriate for me to do it," said Joe Daniel,a Toronto Conservative MP. Some MPs told The Canadian Press they've been hearing complaints from constituents on the issue.
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Said Alberta MP Kevin Sorenson: "I don't use that type of householder. I haven't heard from anyone who's going to either." Fellow Albertan Mike Lake said he rarely sends out the flyers, and when he does it's for a practical purpose. "I generally use them for things like advertising our pancake breakfast ...

It warms my heart to see honour among Conservatives.
:)

Atlantic premiers want EI changes suspended

29 April 2013 - 07:15 PM

Atlantic premiers want EI changes suspended: Premiers asking for further study into changes made to Employment Insurance
The premiers, who finished the second day of meetings today in Hunts Point, N.S., say the changes were made despite a lack of consultation and without regard for the effects on Atlantic Canada's seasonal-based economy.

First, EI is self-sustaining. Employee/employer premiums pay for it. The money goes in to gov and the money goes out, no effect on federal finances.
Second, Harper made some pretty ignorant comments about east coasters "culture of defeat".

So, imo, there is no justification for Harper's attack on the east coast seasonal workers, except narrow-minded petty prejudices.

It's true their industries are largely seasonal, and without ei support, they lose their workforce permanently - they move away. Now maybe that seems the smart thing to do - seek permanent work elsewhere - but then what about the east coast? Just depopulate it? I hear Alberta has a lot of east coasters. I guess they want them all?

I wish the Premiers well in making a really big stink. :)

BC Conservatives drop 3 candidates

27 April 2013 - 08:16 AM

The BC election has hit a few bumps along the way with both the NDP and Cons dropping candidates due to unacceptable behaviours and views:
- impaired driving
- Godwin's law
- anti-women esp single parents
- anit-native, anti-quebecers

It's interesting to see what the political system, at least the major parties, can't tolerate.

http://www.vancouver...html?id=8304906
B.C. Conservative leader John Cummins said his party has done the best it can with the resources available to vet candidates, after being forced to drop three candidates in the first weeks of the campaign.

The provincial party dismissed Mischa Popoff in the Boundary-Similkameen riding over comments he made in newspaper columns that Cummins said were insensitive and disrespectful, to women and single mothers in particular.

Earlier this week, the provincial Conservatives dropped Ian Tootill from the ballot in Vancouver-False Creek over statements he made on Twitter last fall about Adolf Hitler.

Tootill asked "Who's really to blame? Hitler or the people who acted on his words?" That was just two days after North Vancouver-Lonsdale candidate Jeff Sprague stepped down in the midst of a drunk driving investigation.

http://boundarysenti...30#.UXvogjdZ420

"The Party called his comments 'insensitive and disrespectful.' What they couldnt say was that they were untrue; single parent families, particularly single mothers, are responsible for a disproportionate amount of juvenile criminal behaviour.
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The BC Conservatives issued a press release Thursday with the following statement:

"Mr. Popoff's various comments were insensitive and disrespectful, particularly to women and single mothers who are, in fact, heroes to their children and their communities in many cases. We are a party that believes in a respectful airing of views. Mr. Popoff's statements were unacceptable and he has been removed as a candidate."

Popoff's statements included criticism of single mothers for having children "without a man by their side," and for calling the Missing Women Inquiry a "waste of money," reported the Vancouver Sun.

http://www.vancouver...html?id=8297084
In March 2012, he wrote: No one can blame a woman who experiences divorce or abandonment after having kids. The issue is with women who enter parenthood with their eyes wide open without a man by their side, either by using a man to get pregnant or through a sperm bank.

In either case, unless theyre very well off, the kids they bestow upon this world are headed for disaster. Why applaud, let alone condone this?

On the Missing Women Inquiry, he wrote: No one wants prostitutes to go missing. But guess what? They do, and no inquiry is going to change that.

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