NDP health critic Judy Wasylycia-Leis described the Conservative minister's gesture as a new experience -- "quite a shock, actually."
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"For a rookie minister, she's on top of this file and she's responded very effectively," said Wasylycia-Leis. "She's probably one of the better rookie MPs in the House."
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"My only concern is that the government may not want her to get on top of the file, just keep her very narrowly focused and avoid opening up any kind of possibilities about their responsibilities on national pharmacare, national home care as well as preserving the Canada Health Act." - CTV
This would be what we call damning with faint praise. In a news item that highlights how our servants are supposed to work during a crisis, we get partisan BS from a hack.
Sarc:
Look at how well the Ukrainians have integrated in Canada!
They're now just as racist against Inuit and other Aboriginals as WASPs are!
/Sarc
Doesn't the NDP realize that we all have a right to food? It's even more important than pharma!!! Why should we have to pay for food? Why, Dippers, why?
lol. Even Gloria Galloway in the G&M wrote a piece praising the minister.
CTV can't do that when even the Globe has?
As for dippers, if they had any shred of intelligence they wouldn't be dippers.
As for dippers, if they had any shred of intelligence they wouldn't be dippers.~Warwick
I don't see it as a problem with intelligence, since they seem to accurately remember what they learned in Kindergarten. It’s more a matter of integrity and honour.
Prairie dippers aren't typically quite as wacky as their counterparts from the Centre of the Universe or from the Rain Forest. Gary Doer isn't my favourite premier, but it's often difficult to imagine that he and Taliban Jack are in the same party. Judy Washyourgreasyknees, however, seems to be firmly planted in the moonbat camp.
As if an ethnic woman from the NDP would criticize a fellow female ethnic, I've seen this movie and it is called Obama.
There are no politics in Canada. Gender, race, and homosexuality are so tightly coupled with political orientation that it is scarcely necessary for women, ethnics, and homosexuals to open their mouths, we know *exactly* what they are going to say in each and every situation.
You could save money on salaries and pensions and just program a Commodore Vic-20 to do the job of a "victim cohort" politician (men bad, women good, down with whitey, etc.), they are less than useless.
An overstatement? Well, when was the last time you saw an NDP MP praise a Conservative MP? We've got all the evidence we need, "politics" in Canada is nothing more than collusion against straight white males, enough with the sham of "ideology".
Well i was shocked to hear the Liberals prasing the government on Power Play last night.....then I read about a silly resolution in the house so everyone can be part of it.
It sounded like the Minister was doing a fine job of being appropriately collaberative, drawing on some expertise....just can't leave well enough alone I guess.
Beats her getting beat up by a hyper partisan opposition and having her department civil servants leak phone calls. My advice to her, keep doing what you are doing...if the opposition gets too far out on a limb then stop including them as punishment.
As Kate said, they just can't help themselves. So who is the hyper partisan again?
A 'Rookie' minister? Really?
Aglukkaq was the provincial Health Minister in Nunavut before she hit the federal scene.
When were you ever in charge of a portfolio, Ms. Wasylycia-Leis?
She's a nutbar. A nutbar from my riding even. I cannot believe how she gets re-elected all the time.
Dippers:
Judy Wasylycia-Leis and her leader, Taliban Jack Layton, are socialists.
Socialism is described using metaphors: a cannibal, a parasite, a leech, etc.
Its variants are: fascism, nazism, corporate-fascism, communism, NDP, Obamaism, etc.
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"Socialism, Failure & Harsh Reality
Socialism, like a tick or leech, grows fat on the blood of its host until the host dies. The greatest socialist experiments of modern times had an outward and initial appearance of success.
That initial success seduced many people into ignoring the later realities that proved socialism is the brutal playground for amoral leaders and intellectuals. Europe’s current love affair with socialism is beginning to reveal the sinister intentions of the ruling elite and the ugly consequences of making poor decisions. The host is dying and the elite know it.
The initial success of Nationalist Socialism in Germany, Fascism in Italy and of Communism in the Soviet Union and China were totally dependent on the seizure of resources and assets accumulated under capitalism. The creation of new capital and capital assets then became a political decision, not an economic one decided by a free market. Germany got “guns and butter”. Italy’s trains ran on time. Russia and China got steel mills and collectives. These apparent successes hid the costs that were paid in human lives and misery.
Germany, Italy, the Soviet Union and China could not sustain their socialist economies without war and slavery. First, they declared war on their internal opponents, looting their property and putting them to work in forced labor camps. The more that were worked to death the better, since that would mean fewer mouths to feed, clothe and shelter. When the internal resources had been plundered, each nation stole what they did not have by acts of aggression against their neighbors. Eastern and Western Europe, Libya and Ethiopia, Tibet and India have all suffered because of their neighbors’ failed socialist systems.
Every socialist state makes war on its own people first, whether it’s the outright arrest and enslavement of political opponents or the class warfare promoted in so-called socialist democracies. Every socialist state plunders the wealth built by capitalism until it is exhausted. Every so-called democratic socialist state panders to a slim majority for approval to steal from a minority. Every so-called democratic socialist state maintains a slave labor class to be exploited economically and used politically to keep the elite in power."
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Under the 'Dippers can't help it' category:
The very successful Porter airline in Toronto is expanding. In the middle of a recession it promises 300 new jobs and is funding the expansion WITHOUT our taxes.
Olivia Chow is still unhappy.
Her friend Miller was never in favour of Porter Airlines.
http://www.torontosun.com/news/torontoandgta/2009/04/28/9272461-sun.html
"during a crisis, we get partisan BS from a hack. "
Just shut up add pay your tax increases, lowly drone! Your political class superiors will do all the thinking from here on in!
No Judy isn't a socialist ..... she's just too stupid to know what she's doing.
In a just society she'd be given a nice place to sleep and some equally incompetent friends to play with.... Oh wait a minute!
blah blah blah @ 1:36: I agree completely. We wouldn't be hearing this type of praise from the Libs and the Dips for a Conservative health minister if he were a white male.
What can you expect from a dipper? Not a heck of a lot. What does a dipper expect from you? Everything you've got and more.
Judy is the one that proposed a national breast implant registry to track the health of women with implants. Adrian Batra of the CTF at the time suggested it would be Canada's biggest boobdoggle!!