SDA regular ‘bluetech’ has provided a link to this interview between PM Stephen Harper and the CBC’s Peter Mansbridge (the comments are priceless). You can also watch the interview here. After a few commercials The National will start playing. Just move the slider to 18:00.
Here’s the crux of what Harper said:
It’s one thing in terms of whether Canadians, you know, want jobs, to what degree Canadians want environmental protection. These are all valid questions.
But just because certain people in the United States would like to see Canada be one giant national park for the northern half of North America, I don’t think that’s part of what our review process is all about.
Here’s a related discussion with Ezra Levant, Jacqui Delaney, & Lorrie Goldstein:
Part 2 from Ezra’s show
I caught the interview on CBC – PM Harper makes me very proud. Mansbridge tried hard to trip him up, but the PM turned him aside with great ease.
PM Stephen Harper handled himself very well.
I said to my wife while we were watching, “Gee, can you imagine such clear, straightforward answers from previous PMs?” Not a chance. Agent Smith said it well, “PM Harper makes me very proud.” I agree.
Clive
Alicia must be great
in bed,she’s just got to be. Alec likely is adored by George Stromboalphabet.Ezra rocks,Lorrie is great,and Ms.Delaney is hotter than all of them put together.
Harper a voice of reason. He sure looked relaxed.
Old Peter looked like he wanted to cry.
You know how we hate certain hockey teams? Hate, hate, hate them. Would never cheer for them… ever. It’s like we were born that way. Then they blossom into a team to be reckoned with for years to come with good tough classy players that seem to play around with their opponents. And our hatred goes through the roof. That’s the way it is for the left and Prime Minister Harper.
I think that Mr. Baldwin needs to google Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage. The current open pits at Fort Mac and the related tailings ponds will be the last ones.
Harper is the greatest Prime Minister I’ve ever seen.
Why couldn’t Mulroney have “gotten it”, like Harper does?
Saw the interview with Mr. Harper and Peter Mansbridge. Both gave an outstanding performance.
Hats off!!
Agreed jeff, greatest Prime Minister I’ve ever seen.
Give Mansbridge a watch.
Does he loose track of time?
Some myopic Canadians can’t seem to grasp that oil, gas and potash provide most of the revenue that pays for all those government benefits they believe they’re entitled to. We’re fortunate to have a government run by a Conservative Party and a Prime Minister who puts Canadians first. If they don’t like that then they can move to America, a socialist paradise with a failing economy.
Yeah, it’s time for him to enjoy his retirement pension plan.
Pipeline making decision deadline, American influence, etc, etc.
I thought I heard this all before sometime.
Oh yes, back in 1956.
The Pipeline Debate
The cast of players were somewhat different then.
Tis great to watch the twisting writhing gnashing screaming and outright rubber room antics of the Dionskeyites and Iggulites along with the Suzukamaniacs and Gorebyeskys as Mr Harper effortlessly handles the wannabe smoothie Peter. Oh the humanity, this is far more than a CBC Tass man can deal with, a leader with COMMON SENSE, now there is something non-existent in Toronto isn’t it Peter the charter believer in Suzukanomics, you know the practice of shaking down others for cash, so you can have a lavish jet set limo lifestyle of extreme carbon spewation while hectoring others about their carbon spewation. Well played Mr Harper, well played to quote Sheldon.
Kenny Loggins is a goofball.
AND, unlike me, he grows a $hitty beard……
North of 60 – you make an excellent point. And, sadly, many (most?) Canadians think that money just appears out of the ground, and have little idea where Canada would be without fossil fuels and potash. Personally, I would like to pull up to those people’s houses, and disconnect the gas lines, and tell them to grow their own food. We are becoming a fundamentally unserious nation. People just don’t “get it”, and it worries me, a lot.
My question to the geenwashed hypocrites is: Would they like to live like their great-grandparents did, and if so then move to an Amish community.
Yeah, they don’t “get it” at all. Trying to reason with them is like shouting up the assh0le of a dead horse.
You Canadians are not seeing things in the correct light. Obama just wants to delay the pipeline until he gets re-elected (keeps his base) but Obama has told you that you can’t sell to China. Wakeup folks and get back in line
He will sue if you build a pipeline to the West Coast because all those jobs will go to Canadian Yahoos…
Be good little Croutons..
My message to Obama and his socialist cronies is:
Golf Foxtrot Yankee
We will sell our oil to whoever we want to.
“We will sell our oil to whoever we want to.”…..Well at least up until they day they just decide to take it anyway.
I watched these clips on Ezra’s show last night and, like him, was astounded at the thoughtful polite answers h got. But you have to remember these are actors. Baldwin may be an AlGore groupie a-hole but at least he wears his arrogant entitlment attitide openly.
Doesn’t Mansbridge remember the accusation that the NRA contributed money to fight gun control in Canada? The lefties went ape $hit even though the story proved to be untrue. American money is apparently okay to enslave Canadians but not free them.
@Knight 99
They couldn’t even do that in Iraq.
What Erik Larsen said.
This is what happens when people become too disconnected from the primary sources of human sustenance. They will fall for anything.
Mulroney was a lawyer, skilled at weasel words.
Nuff said
The question should be, who speaks for Canadians, CBC or SUNTV?
If you would change the topic to something like let’s say American politics, CBC would send in Mary Walsh and embarrass us all. Ezra was courteous and fair.
Why does the CBC have to be so loathsome?
I cant wait for the CBC to start pushing for the legalization of pot, just to stay with the liberano message. LOL
In his answer PMSH seemed to repeat the job benefits of oil development but only made one passing reference to the revenue to government. This is my biggest criticism of the federal government. They are not doing a good enough job of explaining how big a part this industry is in financing the social benefits citizens enjoy. Take that revenue from the budget and ask Canadians which benefits they want to sacrifice.
The left has done an excellent job of isolating cause and effect in the country’s finances. How will they ever be held accountable?
Thanks for this, Robert, especially the interview with PMSH. I believe that every time he speaks he changes a few more minds.
Alex Baldwin is an ass. The Saudis are killing people quickly while we’re going to kill them over a longer period? Really?
Why did you make me listen to Alicia Silverstoned? I felt my brain cells dying in droves…
@bethsedaguy–yeah…but I’d still do her…
Anyone got a link to the Harper CBC interview ya’ll are referencing?
It’s the first link of this piece.
“Doesn’t Mansbridge remember the accusation that the NRA contributed money to fight gun control in Canada? The lefties went ape $hit even though the story proved to be untrue. American money is apparently okay to enslave Canadians but not free them”.
That comment bears repeating.
That’s two Derp Points for me. Just add it to my running tally.
Jeff >
True enough, but how many Canadians today would bother or care to stand in thier way if such a senario should ever happen?
We’re not our grandparent generation too be sure. How many Canadians can even shoot a gun these days? At the rate their banning certain weapons, the few that actually would get off the couch to defend their country will be dusting off ol granddads Lee Enfeild if they don’t ban those by then either.
Just say’n. I’m pretty sure it’d not be much of a fight. More of an open border declaration, people shrug and go back to !thier Sony Playstations.
Erik Larson
“And, sadly, many (most?) Canadians think that money just appears out of the ground”
But money does appear out of the ground… as oil, gas and potash.
To be honest. I think we’re risking our future by being so overwhelmingly dependant on natural resources. They need to be developed, to be certain, but at some point they run out or are replaced by something else or just aren’t needed.
We ought to focus (and ideal use our natural resources to promote and enable) on production. You can always manufacture things importing raw materials, but if you run out of raw materials (or someone else can produce them cheaper), you run out of economy. For all that it continues to be a basket case today, Japan had an enviable economy at one point driven largely by its manufacturing; it has very little in the way of natural resources itself. The same is true of most of Asia.
In the midst of watching the Ezra clips, I just finished the Alec Baldwin segment.
He gives the idea that extracting our oil sands oil will leave contamination and potentially kill our citizens in the future, yet I wonder if he recognizes that the oil sands OUR contaminated and extracting the oil from it is actually cleaning the environment? I don’t believe he has really thought through the differences between OPEC oil and ethical oil.
Excuse me, “ARE” not “OUR”.
Knight 99
“ol granddads Lee Enfeild if they don’t ban those by then either.”
They are really dangerous. Ihey have a bayonet lug. As they ban guns by appearance, not function, someone might attach a bayonet and have a spear. Look out.
This link took me right to the interview with Pete Mansbridge:
http://www.cbc.ca/video/#/News/Canada/1239665812/ID=2187645807
I watched the Peter Mansbridge interview with Harper on CBC, and there’s something I can’t help but notice every time he interviews the P.M.: Mansbridge’s demeanour completely changes — he acts so deadly gravely serious that you would think the very future of the universe were resting on Peter’s incredibly superficial questions.
It’s like watching a delusional UFO conspiracy theorist/Sasquatch investigator interview a genuine scientist/biologist and the latter is trying to be polite and not burst out laughing at the UFOers ridiculous fears. Harper usually sits there with a polite smirk on his face, but you get the feeling that he would really like to bust a gut over the stonefaced Mansbridge who takes himself way too seriously when he is questioning the P.M. on behalf of “The People’s Republic of Canuckistan”.
Lighten up Peter Mansbridge! Crack a joke with the P.M. once in a while! Rumour has it that Harper actually has a tremendous sense of humour, but all the moribund CBC media can see is the apocalyptic vision of their Commie entitlements possibly withering away under a mushroom cloud resembling a nuclear explosion.
Peter, you actually look quite stupid when you interview the P.M. — you have “Sasquatch/UFO conspiracy” written all over your face, and the content of your questions are amateurish — “Ufologist” — at best.
I’m-Peter-Mansbridge-and-you’re-not is such a tool. No graciousness. No respect shown our very fine Prime Minister. Just a grim, I-have-my-leftist-script-to-deliver-to-give-you-the-roughest-time-I-can-and-get-brownie-points-from-my-libtard-cronies presentation. So transparent and so unprofessional.
PM Harper was straightforward and informative, almost patting Pete on the head: ‘sorry you don’t quite get it, Pete; we, the CPC, want decisions for Canadians made by the duly elected government of Canada and in the best interests of the majority of Canadians.
Of course, why would anyone expect Mansbridge to be concerned about what works for the majority of Canadians? He’s been the mouthpiece for the elite, special interest groups from his National, CBC, throne.
Getting a message that the video is currently unavailable. What mystifies me is why these “celebrities” have so much influence? In general they are pneumocephalic morons with the ability to repeat dialogue and I’ll be happy when they’re replaced with androids who aren’t susceptible to the delusions of self importance that the current crop of “celebrities” are.
I’ve been boycotting hollywood movies and TV for a sufficiently long time that I haven’t a clue who most of the currently “famous” actors are. My patients have learned not to mention news stories of their latest “scandals” to me as I have no idea what they’re talking about. It’s one of the few times I get judgmental and tell people that maybe they should be doing something useful like watching hockey games or, better yet, exercising.
Curious why the people who are concerned about “Canadian sovereignty” aren’t demonstrating in the streets about this blatant foreign assault on the Canadian political process. Could it be they just get outraged when non-moonbat organizations such as the NRA take an interest in publicizing to their members what dangers lie in wait if hoplophobic governments “register” firearms? Personally, I’d like to see all of the watermelon “celebrities” denied entrance to Canada as we don’t need seditious scum like them in the country.
Fortunately, I haven’t watched CBC for years and so have avoided Peter Pansbridge. Yes, what a tool. Who the hell does He think He is—the NDP?
I was very proud of our intelligent, indulgent—like dealing with a toddler—PM. But, if the Conservatives are willing to continue to pay subversive, partisan idiots like (never a Senator: yeah!) Peter ridiculous amounts of taxpayer $$ . . . well I don’t know.
I do know that PMSH is an incremental kind of guy, and VERY smart, so I’ll have to trust that he and the Conservatives have something unpleasant up their sleeves for the CBC. They’d better have!!
lookout
“so I’ll have to trust that he and the Conservatives have something unpleasant up their sleeves for the CBC.”
I was hoping that they were going to kill it last year. If they don’t kill it this year, they better wait for a new majority which might be next election or 20-30 years from now. If they kill it no-one is going to bring it back and it permanently saves $1 billion plus annually.
Ricardo >
Take it easy on Pete, his world is coming apart a by the seams and a genuine Canadian man is overshadowing his theatrical presence.
The mas is dying in his skin, forced to be highlighted against someone he could only dream of being, have a little compassion, please.
Bwahahahahahahahahaha……..
iPod errors, damn these things!
Scar >
Yup mine couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn the last I checked.
Can’t wait to dig er out in a few months from now and make her better 🙂
Yea PmSH……