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Weirdly enough, Mulcair has now backed the Muskrat Falls development in Labrador.
Which any sensible person would, but which has received an unbelievable amount of attacks from Liberals,
and is attacked regularly by the local media, in almost Bush-like terms.

Maybe he hates Liberals. Don't we all?

If the NDP & this dick head are that upset with Harper & his crowd just think how upset they would be if there were real Conservatives in power.

Add the fact that the real reason the dollar has appreciated, making Canadian exports more expensive eleswhere, is that the Americans are printing money as fast as they can which makes their dollar worth less. Its really sad that this argument has legs in parts of this country.

When Romney is in power the Canadian dollar is going to plummet.

2013 we'll probably be down to a 90 cent dollar again.
Depending on how things go, we could be looking at an 80 cent dollar by 2015.

with this fool, mulcair, at the helm, the NDPee, ain't even comical anymore."Stupid" would describe them accurately.

Mulcair must have missed the memo. Quit trying to impress the eco-lunatics, the "something for nothing" crowd and the chronically stupid. You already have their votes locked up.

I hope that Premier Wall resists the temptation to get into a p*ssing contest with Mulcair over this foolishness. Wall would have to lower himself immensely to be on the same level as Mulcair and Mulcair is too dense to realize that he has lost the debate.

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/05/14/mulcair-says-ndps-quebec_n_1515635.html

"I was the only federal politician in the province of Quebec to come out in favour of loan guarantees for Muskrat Falls [and] the Lower Churchill during the last election campaign," Mulcair told CBC News.

"In fact, I took a lot of heat for that position. But as I said during the campaign, look, you can't preach in favour of green renewable energy and then come out against it just because it's in a neighbour's backyard."

Mulcair said he not only was still fully behind a federal loan guarantee for Muskrat — which the federal Conservatives announced before the 2011 election — but that the measure had the full support of the NDP's 58-member Quebec caucus.

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http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/politics/archives/2012/05/20120516-164559.html

After having spent the last week alienating Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia, Mulcair drove the wedge deeper Wednesday when he called premiers' Brad Wall, Alison Redford and Christy Clark "messengers" for Prime Minister Stephen Harper after they publicly rebuked his attack on resource development.

All three panned his assertion energy production - mostly the oilsands - is hollowing the manufacturing sector while artificially inflating the value of the loonie - an economic theory called Dutch disease.

Even Statistic Canada figures weighed against the Opposition leader, with a timely release Wednesday that showed growth in the manufacturing sector largely because of natural resources.

Harper jumped into the debate during question period.

"The leader of the NDP and ourselves are really on different wavelengths here," he said. "We're not interested in identifying which industries were going to call diseases and shut down. Our government is interested in the growth of the Canadian economy."

Saskatchewan's Wall took to Twitter on Wednesday to suggest the manufacturing figures should be "required reading" for Mulcair. "But then again, maybe StatsCanada is just a messenger for @pmharper," Wall tweeted.

Alberta's Redford also poked holes in Mulcair's theories.
"Is this national leadership? @ThomasMulcair continues to make divisive, ill-informed and false comments," she tweeted.

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty told the Commons finance committee this week that Mulcair's comments are "not good for the country" and used Ontario as an example of a province that stands to gain $63 billion in economic spinoffs from the oilsands over 25 years.

So it is okay to develop resources in Newfoundland and Labrador but not okay to develop resources in the West. A rather incisive divison of the nation.

It would appear Mr. Mulcair might benefit from the following aphorism:

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." Napoleon Bonaparte

French general & politician (1769 - 1821)

Cheers

Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief

1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”

"I’m not responding to any of them"

Mulcair contemptuously dismisses the three most western Premiers as political hand puppets, refusing even to talk to them.

Yeah, he's ready for the Prime Minister's office.

I don't think Kate would be so quick to reject Mulclair's accusation if she'd have just taken the time to read The Protocols of the Elders of Harper.

I fully agree we have dirty dirty filthy oil here in Alberta. So much so that the so called value of it should be removed from the ledger prior to determining equality amongst Provinces as to not taint the pristine environment of their treasuries. Also a word of advice for a fine man, Brad Wall. "Never argue with an idiot, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience."

Tommy the Commie is right out do Central Casting in Progressiveville.

Hard to believe he thinks he is smart, but the Obama is clueless about being a Narcissist.

Keep talking, Tommy.

Tommy the Commie is right out do Central Casting in Progressiveville.

Hard to believe he thinks he is smart, but the Obama is clueless about being a Narcissist.

Keep talking, Tommy.

Mulcair is paranoid left wing conspiracy nutter - paranoid conspiracy pervades his thinking, thus the "harper's lakeys" spew. Bring out that paranoid truther nuttiness in hom and just sit back and watch the train wreck.

ferga didgit,what the Hell is that? Is it a relation of a dingbat or another conspiracy theoryest? Maybe it should go pick roots or pick stones on a farm for a week.It sure changes what ones idea of hard work and who to believe and its NOT the author of said book.

Errand boy Citoyen Deux Nations must be
giving his Quebec elite puppet masters fits.
They dumped the bloc heads for this clown?
.

He is yammering to appeal to his home base in Frogtown. Mulcair is a pea souper through and through (he even holds Real Frog citizenship). I, for one hope he keeps the rhetoric up, so that ROC can see what a fool he is.

Wow, he is almost as stupid as Pelosi, Reed, Waxman, etc...

He would be a PERFECT democrat from California.

I think it's his beard.

Pseudo-intellects always hide their inadequacies with a creepy looking beard.

Just as hilarious that the Premier of Alberta tweets her objections. What is she, an angry bird?

I wonder if the failure of manufacturing has anything to do with our biggest customer's economy being in the toilet. The numnutz commie doesn't have a clue.

I was looking at the word "separatist" and thought, I just wonder. By re-arranging the letters I came up with the word "parasite" with a letter "T" left over.
Does that mean a "separatist" is a "parasite" to a T.

Just wondering.

mike

Kate: From my southwestern Ontario perspective, a few other points need to be made on this subject, as follows:

1. Did Dutch manufacturing decline because of resource-demand related impacts on The Netherlands's exchange rate, or did it suffer from competition from Germany after the latter's industrial base was rebuilt between 1945 and 1965? Remember the German Economic Miracle, the Beetle, the VW bus, etc. In the same way, there was a reason why Canada had the fourth largest navy at the end of WWII -- because Germany's and Japan's navies were destroyed! So, I'm skeptical that Mr. Mulcair's depiction of the so-called "Dutch disease" is accurate.

2. Also, there are several other factors which Mr. Mulcair conveniently ignores, namely

a)The anti-competitive policies of the McGuinty government (the Liberals promised that they wouldn't raise taxes or run deficits in three election campaigns now, and they've broken those promises three times in a row -- how stupid are we in Ontario?) In this regard, I point out that the State of California, which has about four times the population of Ontario and which has just been selected again as the worst place in the US to do business, is all in a tizzy because its deficit will be $16 billion this year. Guess what Ontario's deficit is forecast to be this year? Take no notice of the exchange rate -- LOL! But, everybody knows that the problem with Ontario's finances and competitiveness is Stephen Harper and Western Canada!

b) Also, what about US economic strategy and performance? We know that Obama and the Democrats (whom Mr. Mulcair doubtlessly favours) are promoting "Buy American", which is a bit of a lame-o manifestation of a long term strategy to change the terms of trade in favour of the United States and thereby repatriate economic activity and jobs. To this end, we have already seen huge expansions of the U.S. monetary base through QEI and QEII, with QEIII now being discussed. What impact does Mr. Mulcair believe this is having on exchange rates now and what does he believe this strategy portends for future exchange rates moves. In fact, one could argue that the US dollar would be far weaker now if it wasn't for the crisis in Europe and the short-term flight of capital to the "safety", if you can call it that, of the US dollar? Also, US aggregate demand, as we well know, remains depressed (likely to continue), which is taking its toll on exports of Canadian manufactured goods: check out the note from Bank of America economics reported today at BNN.

In connection with the above, I have to disagree with the punditocracy on Evan Solomon -- I don't believe that Thomas Mulcair has had an effective initiation as leader of HM Loyal (?) Opposition. In fact, it strikes me that he is a plain-vanilla boring and angry leftist and that the "honeymoon" is ending, if it hasn't already.

The stupid is strong with him

fiddle,I thought the same thing.

Tweets are for kids,a silly habit.

I was thinking that there is no need to spend good money messing with Tommy snake eyes with attack ads, he's peeing in his own cornflakes every morning without any help. This is more fun than watching Libby Davis & Lizzy May fighting over the last shrimp at a buffet.

Dave Southam

and don't forget McGympie's energy policies, hydro is damn expensive here in morontario, and that has caused some business' to leave, and raised manufacturing cost, thus lowered our competiteveness

David, you raise some good points. Here's some more to add to your list.

1. As productivity rises, wages become a smaller factor in production and machinery and automation, and hence electricity, gets larger. The McGuinty Liberals have been following a policy of driving up power rates through the Green Energy Act, precisely when industry is trying to use the higher dollar to purchase more machinery and equipment.

2. Ontario's manufacturing sector, to a much higher degree than most, is dependent upon export. If the US economy is in the tank, Ontario's manufacturing sector is in the tank. It's happened every single time there's been a recession irrespective of what the price of oil has been.

3. I question whether such a phenomenon as Dutch disease even exists. The Netherland never had any heavy industry. What industry it had and still has is primarily in high tech. And it has always been heavily tied into that of Germany. Things like aerospace. The Netherlands has always been primarily about commerce and finance for the past 500 years.

4. About Evan Solomon. Again I agree with you. Whatever conclusions that panel comes to, the opposite is likely to be the case.

The funny thing is there are 46 BILLION barrels of oil in the Gulf of St Lawrence..
http://godscopybook.blogs.com/gpb/2012/05/la-well-province-.html
So does Mr Mulcair think that oil should be left in the earth where it won't enrich Quebecers?

I am of two minds about Mr Mulcair's competence. One part of me wants to laugh, but the other is concerned that for democracy to work correctly there has to be a credible alternative to the party that is in power in order to keep it focused on governing well. With a windbag like Mulcair leading the opposition the Conservatives are going to get sloppy.

Publius has a far less sanguine view here: http://godscopybook.blogs.com/gpb/2012/05/getting-to-know-you.html

and I think he's right. Mulcair knows what he's doing and he will probably improve with time. You really shouldn't be complacent. The Tories, in addition to being lame and rudderless, are doing a terrible job of communicating and responding in question period. It would not surprise me one iota if Harper's biggest accomplishment was to set the table for the NDP to form government.

Any one with a brain can recognize that the oil sands are Gods oil spill not mans oil spill.Every barrel of oil removed from the oil sands assists nature and is an effort to help the environment.Even Mulcair and his fellow enviro-nazis should be able to see that the oil sands projects are cleaning and improving the landscape.
Their real problem is that private enterprise is involved, instead of a Canadian version of the Politbureau,we all remember how that arrangement worked.

Ahh, Mulcair, the gift that keeps on giving.

Alison Redford's response is so weak. A twitter,c;mon now,did that take more than a minute. It is the ALBERTA oilsands.

Our neighbours stood up for us this time,and good for them. they realize that the attack on Alberta will have an effect on their own provinces.

I don't think that she will last four years. It's like you are face down in the mud with hillbilly Tommy about to deliver some "Deliverance' to your private enterprise,and she's channeling Rodney King and Sister Sledge,'can't we all get along,we are family'.

I hope that there are a heck of a lot of Albertans kicking themselves for the way they voted.

Blistering blue barnacles!

He forgot to mention the Illuminati and the Stone Cutters.

What a dink.

Without getting too far off track, the comments about McGuinty's electricity policies (not to mention those of Ernie Eves) are spot on -- I used to work in that industry in Ontario and I know first hand the terrible damage they are doing to our economy. Mr. Hudak's white paper is a start, but is no where near far-reaching enough or appropriately contextualized.

The important thing to remember about Ontario's finances and competitive position is that we have had an NDP-by-stealth government in Ontario since 2003. For readers who are not acquainted with the Liberals' financial mismanagement in this province, please note the following:

1. Despite Mr. McGuinty's misrepresentations to the contrary, there was no provincial deficit in Ontario when Mr. Eves's government left office.

2. Since 2003, the following highlights, among other things, have occurred:

a) An individual health tax has been imposed on Ontarians (revenue increase, increased cost to employees).

b) Numerous health services have been delisted (cost decrease, with the cost transferred to employees/employers).

c) The provincial sales tax has been doubled (8% HST component on the whole economy, rather than 8% on half of it; revenue increase, with cost transferred to consumption).

d) The Harper Government has increased annual transfers to Ontario by 77%, or $9 billion per year since 2006, with guaranteed funding for health through 2028 (transfers have been growing at 6% p.a., and will increase at no less than 3% p.a. in coming years -- guess where the federal government is getting the money for that!; revenue increase)

e) The usual flotsum and jettsom of Government fees have been duly increased (revenue increases; too numerous to list).

f) By agreement with the Ontario NDP just last month, McGuinty has also imposed a new surtax on high income earners (the NDP then didn't even have to vote the budget!)

Yet, despite all of these measures, the Province of Ontario has managed to nearly double its debt since 2003, has experienced credit rating downgrades and now has an annual deficit which has fallen in the past two years from $25 billion/year to $16 billion/year. How can any of this not have had an impact on Ontario's economic performance?

Chantel Hebert took issue last week with Brad Wall's remarks about how equalization was benefitting Ontario, saying that equalization was not an industrial strategy, implying that Stephen Harper was the problem. Well, Chantel, for me, industrial strategy for Ontario begins at home!

Osumashi...nice...

Danielle Smith has released a statement on Mulcair's ramblings.An actual statement,not a strongly worded tweet.

" “His comments should also serve as a stern reminder to Premier Alison Redford of the uninformed and dangerous attitudes that some in eastern Canada have about our province. She should consider their true implications as she insists on forging ahead with a so-called Canadian Energy Strategy.”

http://www.wildrose.ca/press-releases/statement-from-wildrose-leader-danielle-smith-on-thomas-mulcair/

Apparently the west's only useful purpose is to be Eastern Canada's whipping boy when their economy sucks...

Why are we staying?

Canadian Energy Strategy??

Is Lalonde still alive? Maybe Redford could get him to manage it. She is so effing clueless.

Thomas Mulcair is the best possible thing that could happen for the Liberal Party of Canada. No leader could pull the Libs out of their current slump. But an inept and ignorant dipper like Mulcair sure will remind those that left the LPC in an effort to "stop Harper" of the tragic mistake electing an NDP government would be for all of Canada. When we find Stephane Dion making headline news countering Mulcair's nonsensical "economic" claims, we know he's in trouble. What's even more amazing is he appears to be digging his position even deeper.

I suspect 6 months from now the polls will have the dippers in third again.

"I was looking at the word "separatist" and thought, I just wonder. By re-arranging the letters I came up with the word "parasite" with a letter "T" left over.
Does that mean a "separatist" is a "parasite" to a T.

Just wondering.

mike"

Hey, very interesting!
I was mulling over: 'Thomas Mulcair, Federal leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada'.

Now this is absolutely eerie!! If you rearrange the letters, and add a few more, and delete some, you get:

I may be an insufferable shithead, but with labour, student anarchists, leftist media onside, we're in like Flint!"

How weird is that!!??

...not much...unfortunatly...

The West wants out.

Being left wing means never having to acknowledge reality. NDP and Mulcair, the gifts that keep on giving.

In the end though, he and his party are meaningless. I am sure that the next election will relegate them back to the back benches and restore the Gliberals to the position below the one they think they deserve. It's not that the Fiberals are better, or more deserving, just that they have a bigger machine, and are deeper entrenched.

I just love and respect this guy Mulcair soooo much, he personifies stoopid so well, for all the Canadians who think being a leftie is a wise choice, starve on dullards!

CBC poll to go horribly wrong: Wall vs Mulcair

http://www.cbc.ca/sask/

Scroll down to vote.

Being jealous of someone rich/better off will most assuredly drive you NUTZ!

Too simple for most sheeple I guess.

Thanks, syncrodox.

Mulcair is just foolish but the Tories have to keep in mind the kind of voters attracted to his fantastical nonsense.

Mulcair is just an idiot.

Fact: Total oil (including East Coast and conventional oil) exports from Canada, 2010: approx. $40 billion. Total exports from Canada, 2010: approx. $393 billion. Total CDN GDP, 2010: $1.7 trillion.

So, something that represents less than 10% of exports, and less than 2% of GDP is so mighty that it - and only it - is responsible for a dollar swing of 50% vs the US$?

One might note that New Zealand - which has zero oil exports - has seen its dollar appreciate vs the US$ by roughly the same percentage over the last ten years. Would Mulcair close down the sheep farms in Kiwiland to 'save' Maori handcrafts?

Australia has also seen its dollar appreciate against the US$ by nearly the same amount as the Canadian dollar. Oz has no oil exports (though lots of coal and minerals). Would Mulcair close down their mining industry to 'save' their wine industry?

The simple answer to the 'rising' Canadian dollar, as noted above by others and by me previously, is that it is not the strength of the C$, but the weakness of the US$. If one had to choose between this and Mulcair's convoluted theory, using Occam's Razor, the weak US$ theory wins every time.

However, judging by his photo, Mulcair is unacquainted with razors - neither Occam's, nor any other kind.

Kevin, your comment about the weakness of the US dollar is entirely right. What people forget is that oil is priced in US dollars internationally. So, to a large extent the price of oil has been devalued as well by the weakness of the US economy. Meaning for slow learners like Mulcair that it can't be the driver in pushng Canadian dollar appreciation.

By Mulcair's logic, the real things that have driven up Canada's dollar are things like the strength of the Canadian financial sector over the past four years. Does Mulcair want Canadian banks as weak and undercapitalized as those in Europe? As exposed to mortgage defaults as those in the US?

Of course not.

I disagree with you in one respect only. Mulcair is not that stupid. He knows what he's doing. He's deliberately playing off central Canada against western Canada, knowing that no one in Saskatchewan and Alberta is ever going to vote Dipper anyway. This is a truly cynical, deliberate policy to try to drive Liberal voters in Quebec and Ontario to vote Dipper instead of Liberal.

And to the morons who rant on about western separatism. You stay because you're landlocked, you idiots. If you are a separate country, how do you expect to ship your oil anywhere?