Did Stephen Harper make any public appearances today. Did they get reported? Dijon’s and that lefty twat’s did.
nicola – I see your point about the NDP as opposition. I don’t see much difference between the NDP and the Liberals, except that the Big Corporations of the NDP are the Unions, and the Big Corporations of the Liberals are the Banks, Media and PowerCorp/Desmarais. Both are Big Government and Big Corporations and both reject the ‘people’ having any power. Both are top-down nanny welfare statist models of governance. Both are tax-heavy, both are against entrepreneurial business, both are against Canada being in the international scene.
I do agree with you about not making fun of Dion’s accent. But the problem isn’t his accent. The problem is his expectation that he ought to be the Prime Minister of a country when he cannot speak the language of that country. It’s that elistist stance – that he expects that his total inability to speak English – ought to be considered irrelevant.
I don’t know why his English is so bad. I work with a lot of people from Europe: Netherlands, Denmark, Germany – and their English is far, far superior to that of Dion. I don’t know whether it’s a problem with him – that he started to learn English too late (you have to learn other languages when young)..or..he just doesn’t have the ability..or..what. But, for someone to assume governance of a country and be unable to speak the language of the majority…that’s arrogance in my view.
Nothing to do with his accent.
I see your point – that making fun of his inability to speak English will be viewed as offensive by SOME Quebecers, but this inability is viewed as offensive by MOST non-Quebecers.
IMF @ 5.48 It is to be a web calculator, so cost will only be small, say several hundred millions. Certainly a lot less than the 2 million dollar gun registry.
Hit send too soon.
BTW I know the size of my carbon footprint, it is 9 and a half. A modest footprint; if I were rich, it would be a lot larger and I would be tickled pink.
“Dion’s newest campaign proimise is, get this: To give every household in Canada a CALCULATOR”
I guess it hasn’t dawned on Steffi that “73 per cent of Canadians aged 16 and older, or 19.2 million people, used the Internet mostly for e-mail and browsing” according to Statistics Canada.
In today’s world if a Canadian wanted to do some Green Shift calculating they would use an online source. 20 million of Steffi’s calculators will end up in the bottom of a junk drawers. Liberal’s, never without an idea to waste tax money.
Interesting debate on what the result of Layton’s focus on Harper will be. I am inclined to think that the left is in decline after a long rule in the West overall. There is a very good chance that republicans will win in the US, France and Germany are shifting to the right, Cameron is rising in Britain. And here we are in Canada with 4 parties on the left splitting the vote against a single conservative party. I doubt it will matter what Layton attacks, the left are against a major trend (in the early stages) of voters shifting towards faith in private institutions and away from public solutions. It will take time of course, but there is little doubt that Government and their main boosters the MSM consistently poll under 25% when voters are asked if they are doing a good job.
I believe that Tom Flanagan recently revealed the so called “hidden agenda” of Harper: he has a plan to destroy the Liberal party. I think as more disgruntled conservatives see that this is a long term plan, they will support Harper notwithstanding that he has not performed as well as they may have hoped.
Let M.A.D. launch the first personal attack of the 08 election
Nice analysis glenn.
I think it will be 160 plus, but of course I’m biased and proud of it.
The two biggest factors as I see it are:
1. The Liberals and the other oppo parties have no money. This will be the first election since Mulroney where the LP has less cash than the CP. As they have always relied on wholsale carpet-bombing of TV ads in the last few days of a campaign to put the scare in the electorate, they will be left without that key weapon this time around. And if the screw-up in not even having a campaign plane ready on day one is any indication they will run an organizationally inept campaign – one for the record books perhaps.
2. Dion is so unappealing to anglo voters that the NDP will be the primary beneficiary of anti-conservative sentiment in Ontario particularly the 905 and even in the 416 esp. If it looks like the local Liberal Mp will be on the outside looking in on the Majority. While I’m hoping findlay and co. run a good campaign for the CP, I’m really hoping that the NDs run a great one – it is the best chance we have for a CP majority. Complete collapse in Ontario outside of the very core of the 416 is not impossible.
How bad is Harper going to destroy Dion in the debates? If Jacko can just sound intelligible it will give the CP 20 plus seats in On and BC.
Did Stephen Harper make any public appearances today. Did they get reported? Dijon’s and that lefty twat’s did.
nicola – I see your point about the NDP as opposition. I don’t see much difference between the NDP and the Liberals, except that the Big Corporations of the NDP are the Unions, and the Big Corporations of the Liberals are the Banks, Media and PowerCorp/Desmarais. Both are Big Government and Big Corporations and both reject the ‘people’ having any power. Both are top-down nanny welfare statist models of governance. Both are tax-heavy, both are against entrepreneurial business, both are against Canada being in the international scene.
I do agree with you about not making fun of Dion’s accent. But the problem isn’t his accent. The problem is his expectation that he ought to be the Prime Minister of a country when he cannot speak the language of that country. It’s that elistist stance – that he expects that his total inability to speak English – ought to be considered irrelevant.
I don’t know why his English is so bad. I work with a lot of people from Europe: Netherlands, Denmark, Germany – and their English is far, far superior to that of Dion. I don’t know whether it’s a problem with him – that he started to learn English too late (you have to learn other languages when young)..or..he just doesn’t have the ability..or..what. But, for someone to assume governance of a country and be unable to speak the language of the majority…that’s arrogance in my view.
Nothing to do with his accent.
I see your point – that making fun of his inability to speak English will be viewed as offensive by SOME Quebecers, but this inability is viewed as offensive by MOST non-Quebecers.
IMF @ 5.48 It is to be a web calculator, so cost will only be small, say several hundred millions. Certainly a lot less than the 2 million dollar gun registry.
Hit send too soon.
BTW I know the size of my carbon footprint, it is 9 and a half. A modest footprint; if I were rich, it would be a lot larger and I would be tickled pink.
“Dion’s newest campaign proimise is, get this: To give every household in Canada a CALCULATOR”
I guess it hasn’t dawned on Steffi that “73 per cent of Canadians aged 16 and older, or 19.2 million people, used the Internet mostly for e-mail and browsing” according to Statistics Canada.
In today’s world if a Canadian wanted to do some Green Shift calculating they would use an online source. 20 million of Steffi’s calculators will end up in the bottom of a junk drawers. Liberal’s, never without an idea to waste tax money.
Interesting debate on what the result of Layton’s focus on Harper will be. I am inclined to think that the left is in decline after a long rule in the West overall. There is a very good chance that republicans will win in the US, France and Germany are shifting to the right, Cameron is rising in Britain. And here we are in Canada with 4 parties on the left splitting the vote against a single conservative party. I doubt it will matter what Layton attacks, the left are against a major trend (in the early stages) of voters shifting towards faith in private institutions and away from public solutions. It will take time of course, but there is little doubt that Government and their main boosters the MSM consistently poll under 25% when voters are asked if they are doing a good job.
I believe that Tom Flanagan recently revealed the so called “hidden agenda” of Harper: he has a plan to destroy the Liberal party. I think as more disgruntled conservatives see that this is a long term plan, they will support Harper notwithstanding that he has not performed as well as they may have hoped.
Let M.A.D. launch the first personal attack of the 08 election
Nice analysis glenn.
I think it will be 160 plus, but of course I’m biased and proud of it.
The two biggest factors as I see it are:
1. The Liberals and the other oppo parties have no money. This will be the first election since Mulroney where the LP has less cash than the CP. As they have always relied on wholsale carpet-bombing of TV ads in the last few days of a campaign to put the scare in the electorate, they will be left without that key weapon this time around. And if the screw-up in not even having a campaign plane ready on day one is any indication they will run an organizationally inept campaign – one for the record books perhaps.
2. Dion is so unappealing to anglo voters that the NDP will be the primary beneficiary of anti-conservative sentiment in Ontario particularly the 905 and even in the 416 esp. If it looks like the local Liberal Mp will be on the outside looking in on the Majority. While I’m hoping findlay and co. run a good campaign for the CP, I’m really hoping that the NDs run a great one – it is the best chance we have for a CP majority. Complete collapse in Ontario outside of the very core of the 416 is not impossible.
How bad is Harper going to destroy Dion in the debates? If Jacko can just sound intelligible it will give the CP 20 plus seats in On and BC.