86 Replies to “What A Difference A Day Makes”

  2. I love it!
    I wonder when all the lefties are going to wake up and realise that power in Ottawa is vested in the PMO and not Parliament?
    oops, me bad:)

  3. OT – What about Mr. Bernard Shapiro – the Guru of Ethics in Canada and his latest decision. Is there another position for him?

  4. Preston aint getting the job. Think Michael Wilson or another high profile tory from Toronto.

  5. I wonder why the two upstanding gentlemen from California were headed to B.C. (Thank God they were stopped by the U.S. Sheriffs, or some of our border guards might be dead.) Maybe they heard about us protecting Charles Eng for eight years, and figured they’d be better off up here.
    Washington State knows how to handle scum like these. Maybe they’ll be treated to the hospitality of Walla Walla rather than a B.C. country club.

  6. from CTV.ca:
    “Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty, a Liberal, said Harper must take care in filling the position, noting that 90 per cent of his province’s exports go to the United States”
    The lefties are offering free advice on conducting Canada/US relations? What’s next? The Paul Martin Election Campaign Primer?

  7. CBCpravda — all Liberal stories.
    I guess in Pravdas view this is just a temporary setback for the party workers.

  8. While I support the principle of border guards having guns, I know several of them that I would never ever trust with a pea shooter.
    I hope some get weeded out in training before they start handing out the guns.

  10. Until the Conservatives control a few papers, or other purveyors of the news, you will not read, or see, or hear anything positive regarding the Conservatives. It was that way down here until Reagan.
    We still are mostly confined to the leftist MSM, but at least we have the Internet to escape the Orwellian Newspeak of the NYT!
    Hang tough, Canada! You’ve taken the first step on the road to sanity! 😀

  11. Hell will freeze over before Preston Manning gets sent to Washington, or New York, or anywhere else.
    Expect John Hamm, John Reynolds, or Michael Wilson, or a sitting MP to get the nod.

  13. John Reynolds – he would be an absolutely fantastic choice…except for the fact that I want him around again for the next election!

  14. Um, I’ve got the Prince of Darkness on the line, temperature has been dropping steadily but significantly since 10 p.m. Monday EST.
    He also says to say hi to Alfonso, hasn’t heard from him in a while.

  15. I expect it will be someone with more experience on the Canada US file…Wilson would be a good choice. He’s a lot like PMSH low key, even keeled and smart…..John reynolds is very good man just dont know his experience.
    Preston is busy building the “democratic infrastructure” to keep the CPC going policy wise for a generation.
    UN ambassador….offer it to Ignatieff…how could he turn that one down…..

  16. Re: The OT about the ethics commish.
    Note he pointedly DID NOT listen to the tapes or read the transcript!

  17. I love the fact that Premier McGuinty, who has said exactly NOTHING as his comrades in arms, the federal Liberals, constantly trashed Canada/US relations, now discovers that ‘you know what, its a pretty important relationship to the people of Ontario’, thank you Dalton, yes we know, and help is on the way.

  18. what’s a “Dalton McGuinty” ??
    Some kind of weird cocktail served in meterosexual bars in Torrana

  19. Having just ejected a party for whom patronage and cronyism were as essential as air, Harper will have to go well beyond Ottawa and partisan politics to find somebody for both positions. I’d love it if he’d give the UN the finger, but I know it won’t happen. A woman would be a nice change, which makes me wonder whether Pam Wallin will stay on in NY. Peter Lougheed would be an inspired choice, fresh from the oil patches of Alberta.

  20. The liberal left is in turmoil.
    Atlantic talk shock jock Andrew Krystal keeps digging a hole. Read the story.
    The liberals in the CBC seem to now feel they are experts in advising the Prime Minister.
    Today on CBC one talking head commented on how Prime Minister designate Harper shook his son’s hand when he dropped him off at school.
    Young Ben Harper probably is thanking his stars his father didn’t mush all over him in front of TV cameras. His school chums would have teased him for months.
    TIZ

  22. Those two guys weren’t really criminals, they were bilingual teachers sent by Mr. Bush to make sure that from now on Canadians sound completely like they reside in Cleveland. It was a good plan, but the reason for the shooting was that we accidentally sent up two Spanish-speaking bilngual teachers. If they had made it across the border then every Chinese-Canadian kid in Victoria would sound like a casting call for Zoot
    Suit or West Side Story. Luckily the US Border Patrol stopped them before it became an international incident.

  24. Iron Lady, as an American conservative who usually votes Republican, who loved Jeane Kirkpatrick and is nuts about John Bolton, let me assure you it is entirely possible to give the U.N. the finger while still sending a competent ambassador there! :^)

  27. Dallaire’s in the Chamber of Whores anyway, so he’ll stay put. And as Kate noted, he’s a tad fragile. Lewis would be good, but I really don’t think he’d have the patience for the diplomacy involved. Pull Kim Campbell out of LA perhaps?

  28. My money is on Wilson.
    As for Preston, I say send him to the Senate. He deserves it. Of course, first the very modest senate reform package needs to be thoroughly ripped apart by the media as another “crazy reform idea”, and then once the idea is dead they can revert back to the old “Canadian model” and just send who ever the hell they want to the Senate without any public input, because according to some boneheads, clearly that’s the better way.

  29. Now THAT is a great post… Hahah
    Remember folks, the LOONleftICS haven’t even STARTED the hysterical depraved ranting.
    In my opinion, Canada’s left has become very similar to American Democrats, as in they have been reduced as a party, to the “abortion wedge” as a last and only resort…

  30. it would be delicious to bring preston out of the cold. his stumping for the fraser institute (along with mike harris) is fine for the mortgage payments but he really should really speak for the government in an official capacity. sending him to the states is not a good idea. never hear from him again. he must speak to canadians. perhaps a commission on ethics.

  31. The left is as humour challenged as they ever were…
    Posted by Kate at January 25, 2006 07:42 PM”
    I was thinking exactly the same thing!
    Geez.

  32. “Preston? That’s a complete invention. Lucky SDA isn’t held to the same standards as the “MSM.”
    Now, take a valium.
    Posted by Dr.Dawg at January 25, 2006 07:29 PM ”
    Some folks just can’t take a joke. No sense of humour whatsoever.
    I thought the whole thing was hilarious.
    Just the Idea of Prime Minister Stephen Harper gets me silly! How sweet it is!

  33. Knight:
    I’m not sure what you are reading (or drinking but I think I’d like some). Surf over to any of the liberal blogs and there is a surprising degree of… relief and optimism.
    Relief because I think many realized that the leadership and the wellspring of ideas had been running out of gas (apologies for the bad mixed metaphor there). Martin, whom many of us thought and hoped would indeed create better relations with the west and with the US while remaining strong for Canada, highlighted this to an extreme: having run out of his own ideas, he had to campaign on the worst kind of fear and smear, pointing the finger at the others. It sort of brought it home for a lot of us. So as hard as we fought in the election, we recognize we’ve a tired team and it is time to rejuvenate, give someone else a chance at the helm.
    More importantly, I’m impressed by the near universal consensus among Liberal bloggers that this is indeed a good thing for the party and even Canada. So far far from hysterical depraved ranting, I see some heartfelt congratulations and even some appreciation for Harper making inroads against the Bloc. Hargrove (not a Liberal remember) aside, we’d all much prefer a Conservative take-over of La Belle Provence to the Bloc. I also see a remarkable excitement despite getting rightfully spanked. We are looking forward to a leadership race, getting past the destructive (for the party and Canada) infighting between the Chretien and Martin camps, looking forward to a new generation of Liberals who can inherit part of Trudeau/Pearson and reject a whole lot of it without the personal connections of those who lived through those years.
    I’m sure you could find a few younguns finishing off their first or second campaign venting a bit, but by and large you can’t say that the Liberals are filling the internet and the news with nasty, negative, gonna-leave-Canada, stupid westerners, precipice of disaster doomsaying you heard from some other more, um, blue-ish party after the 2004 election. In fact, in an anecdotal observance of conservative blogs, I’m seeing as much negative focus on Liberals as I do positive ones on Harper and the Conservatives. Even in victory! What will happen to the thriving conservative blogging community now that the Conservatives have won?
    I’m not going to say that pessimism is an inherent characteristic of Conservatives the way some do, but I will say that an inherent characteristic of Liberals is optimism. In the country. In other Canadians (including conservatives). In the party.
    TB
    Cerberus

  35. What Canada needs is someone who can show toughness to the USA, but who doesn’t allow it to go to his head.
    McKenna was an egotist, someone who’s head needed to be popped like a zit.
    Get someone with a sharp tongue, but one who can control it, and who can get the logjam opened up a bit.

  36. “and we’re already handing out guns!”
    To who?.. 40 guards were scared and stayed/went home! Better find some non-union, military-trained personel or RCMP adjuncts to use.. some guts would help, or are we to rely on the US to man our borders?

  37. “Former prime minister Jean Chretien famously observed that Canadians like their leaders close – but not cozy – with the White House.”
    Correction, oh grande wizard JC….I am Canadian and I do not think like yew dere!!
    I like my Canadian leader to have a spare room at the White House, bed made and waiting for him when he visits. I also expect a write-up in the National Enquirer….I mean, National Post the next day.

  38. By the way, I know a former guard. Several yearas ago they were required to take a handgun safety course in preparation for getting guns. They never got guns. Imagine being the lone border guard on a cow trail in the middle of SK with no gun. Great!
    Now, why did they take training but never get guns? I don’t know. Maybe it had to do with the Liberals plan to eventually take away all guns and replace them with sex toys…..

  39. It is traditional that the Clerk of the Privy Council submit his letter of resignation immediately to the newly elected Prime Minister. Has Himmelfarb done so? When? >>>
    … TOP CIVIL SERVANT SAYS CHR�TIEN NOT ACCOUNTABLE FOR SPONSORSHIP SCANDAL Alex
    Himmelfarb, the clerk of the Privy Council and Canada’s top civil servant, …
    interact.cbc.ca/pipermail/overnight-digest/2004-September/001265.html – 29k – 23 Jan 2006 – >>
    more :
    This may place a heavy burden on busy employees. In September, I filed a request for all PIN-to-PIN messages sent or received during the past six months by Alex Himmelfarb, clerk of the Privy Council and Canada’s top public servant. The answer: the department had no record of any of Himmelfarb’s PIN-to-PIN messages in that period. I got a similar reply when I asked for the PIN-to-PIN messages of Alan Nymark, deputy minister of HRSDC, over the same six months. >>
    http://faculty.maxwell.syr.edu/asroberts/documents/oped/Citizen_11_26_05.html
    more:
    CBC News: Quebec ad firm received millions from Ottawa
    Another prominent witness who testified Monday was Alex Himelfarb, the clerk of
    the federal Privy Council and Canada’s top civil servant, called back to …
    http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/02/28/gomery-sponsorship05028.html – 33k – Cached – Similar pages
    more:
    DIVERSITY WATCH | Media | 2003 Archive
    Alex Himmelfarb, Clerk of the Privy Council, then contacted the RCMP. Sources said
    Mr. Malhi then made counterclaims of his own about Ms. Beaumier to Mr. …
    http://www.diversitywatch.ryerson.ca/media/cache/kabbadi_globe_mar10.htm – 26k –

  40. TB – we’ve had a conservative (of sorts) in the White House for 5 years now in the U.S., not to mention our Congress. Yet conservative blogs are widely conceded to be more lively than liberal ones. Don’t worry about your conservative friends, they’ll find plenty to talk about, what with the cabinet yet to form, a justice to name, empty senate seats, and aaaaaaall that legislation, and the amazing voting combos Harper will come up with to get things passed. But it’s nice of you to be concerned.

  41. Canadian Press, aka CP, aka Communist Press, has heard the message; silence. CP is grovelling; out of the loop. Why? >>>
    Bush calls Harper to congratulate him, officials won’t say what they discussed
    OTTAWA (CP) – A friendly phone call followed by the sound of silence marked Stephen Harper’s first prime ministerial foray into Canada-U.S. relations. >> via cnews

  42. Being from Ontario I am also pleased with the country’s choice but please let’s not start with the COTU/416/latte rhetoric. Good inroads this time around need to be improved on. As one who voted against the Ontario Fiberals I know it’s a struggle sometimes but we need to keep the big picture in mind. McGuinty’s choice of words and timing were somewhat wanting, Harper did give Ontario a modest segment in his acceptance speech and knows he needs to extend a hand to expand.
    back to the previous comments I think Deb Gray would be an excellent choice.

  43. congrats on your election. I am one of the few yanks who fellowed your election.
    No beavers were harmed in writing this post, HONEST

  44. TB,
    Optimism about just about anything has a start point and an finish point. Liberal optimism is to finish off where they were before the election started … turn the clock backward. Conservative optimism starts now and goes to the future … we really don’t want to go back.

  45. Thanks yochanan,
    Despite what you may see about Canadians in the gov’t run news here, we actually really do like the USA.

  46. “Some folks just can’t take a joke. No sense of humour whatsoever.”
    Aw, come on. I laughed when Kate published those spoofs of tinfoil-helmet paranoia about the 700,000 student ballots.
    What I can’t figure out is the propensity of conservative bloggers and their fans to remain bitter, even in victory. Over at Angry’s, one stated that the Maritimes were good only for testing nerve gas. (I guess maybe I don’t have a sense of humour after all, because I didn’t laugh at that one). Another mused about Western separation. I don’t mind a bit of good old-fashioned triumphalism–Lord knows, I indulged in some of that when the NDP won in Ottawa-Centre–but the hate is still bubbling forth from the right half of the blogosphere in a seemingly endless green and smelly flood.
    E.g.:
    “The next [Alberta] provincial election is slated for 2007. We’ll get the Alliance government at the provincial level and the ‘firewall’ shielding us from the parasites to the east.”
    “I really hope that the Conservatives can get some things done in Ottawa. First thing should be to ruin the Liberal party by digging into the books so thoroughly that all scandals will be flushed out into the open.”
    “We now have watchdogs on bias in the media. We now have watchdogs on extremists and activists that will mislead the public to advance their own agendas.” [Admittedly, the commentator may be referring here to the watchdogs, rather than the various Enemies of the People. –D.D.]
    “Toronto is now on the outside looking in! (what could be sweeter?)”
    “Pink Panther Svend Robinson sent packing back to the gay bathouses and Jewelry auctions.”
    If I were Harper, I’d be somewhat worried. When he fails to deliver on hanging, outlawing abortion and homosexuality, trying ten-year-olds in adult court, sending troops to Iran and setting up internment camps for people like me, his erstwhile followers will turn on him like a pack of hungry wolves. I’ll try not to enjoy it. 🙂

  47. It is going to be really idiotic regarding the
    press and Prime Minister Harper.
    As the person mentioned above, and I know this is
    true having raised three sons.
    They hate being hugged and given a peck by their
    father or mother in a position it could be seen.
    The fact he was there to take them to school is
    great, I think he knows what is important.
    The guards not having guns? So stupid to be
    believed!
    We should call on the U.S. everytime there is a
    situation? We have capable people in Canada.

  48. NO!!! Don’t send Preston to the Senate (and he’d be a real hypocrite to accept it). I think the best thing would be for ALL of the conservative Senators to step down unanimously so that Harper can appoint them through elections (I’m sure that most Canadians would reward them with their positions back anyway). It would make the Liberal/NDP senators look even worse from a patronage perspective if they didn’t also tender their resignations.
    It would send a strong signal to Canadians that the conservatives are serious about elected change. Granted, it would likely result in even LESS conservative senators but that’s a lost cause anyway. Then you’d have two classes of senators (elected Liberals and not elected Liberals). Subsequent PM’s would have a really tough time reversing that decision.
    My understanding is that since it is the PM’s perogative on who to appoint to the Senate, he can use an election to determine who he should appoint without touching the constitution. He should do this at the same time as he introduces the Accountability Act.

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