But she's got no axe to grind......really.....

Yes, and the previous Liberal government's various spokespeople (including The Bloviator That Walked Like A Man hisself, Paul Martin Jr.) never sounded "like an opposition politician on the campaign trail [rather] than a prime minister who, technically, is supposed to represent and serve all Canadians, regardless of their politics."  No, he never sounded partisan or unrepresentative of all Canadians at all.

Never.  Honest.  We're not allowed to make this stuff up.

This is a fine example of the liberals not coming to terms with being out of power.

It certainly wasn't journalism; it didn't contain an iota of news.

Just think of all those kinds of establishment liberals, er people, that are just being ignored by Harper.

let's encourage her to write more stuff like this. Its so blatantly stupid and biased that more and more ordinary people will support PMSH.

The MSM hasn't figured out yet they are the enemy. They keep peeing in their own pool as they shout & spout, focus on themsleves like spoiled children, rant & rave against the CPC. . . I just say let them commit suicide more quickly.

I read her 'report' earlier this morning. You missed this GWB-type gem, "you either like his government or you're part of the problem. And if you don't like the way things are, you can either "get used to it," or just try to challenge him."

She is, no doubt, a cunning linguist.....

Journalism as farce, never mind talking about government policy proposals.

Yep, just keep focusing on that "SCARY Stephen Harper" who, oh I forgot, is "not fit for office."

The only thing missing in Delacourt's alleged "polarized world" is the fact that she hasn't been relocated to Hans Island.

Sorry to see you, for the first time to my knowledge, doing something unseemly. In her editorial rant, she did NOT emphasize, "but not least," contrary to your assertion.

Shame, Kate. You are better than that.

I was making a point, Richard - think of it as a parting editorial kick in the ass.

The problem is that when the MSM repeats this rhetoric day in day out Canadians start to believe this. Why have the Liberals been in power so long? Why is it Toronto still voting Liberal even after adscam? awnswer Toronto star, globe and mail, ctv, cbc, global, toronto sun....

Actually, the parenthetical comment "but not least" (whether or not it actually appears in parentheses) is itself the construct of emphasis.  Kate's "bolding" of those three words were, in my understanding, her way of drawing attention to it.  We've become so used to HTML BOLD or ITALIC tags for emphasis that we've forgotten that writers originally used such verbal constructs instead.

I saw this lady commenting with Don Newman after Mulroney's speech last night accepting his environmental award. She couldn't be much more negative on Mulroney if she tried. Fortunately Don Newman balanced her out by emphasizing Mulroney's positive environmental achievements eg. acid rain

Off topic but a great line by Mulroney last night. When he asked one of the environmentalists why he was getting the award, he replied "because you were the best of a bad lot."

It also shows something relevant about the Liberal mindset, which is that it ignores policies, does not examine policies, and focuses only on propaganda, i.e., personality.

The Liberals have no policies; they haven't had any for decades and decades. They govern both by divine right, and by manipulation of the people. The tactics of manipulation are the use of the MSM as the major propaganda arm of the Liberal Party. Its task is to denigrate the personal attributes of non-Liberals. They do NOT discuss the policies of non-Liberals; they use only ad hominem attacks against the individuals.

The other key tactic of Liberals, besides propaganda, is bribery. They bribe the electorate by flinging money at them. First, they define the population as made up of 'sets', or 'isolate groups'. These groups have 'special identities and interests'. Then, the Liberals fling money at them, to purchase their votes. Make-Job projects such as the Gun-Registry; Appeal to ignorance projects, such as the Gun-Registry. Appeal to Special Interests, such as SSM. And so on.

No policies. No agenda for Canada. What we see in Harper, for the first time in well over a generation, is an individual devoted to policies, to examining the reality of Canada and its economic and social infrastructure, and trying to deal with its problems. The Liberals had/have no policies and only one agenda. Stay in Power. They were indifferent to Canada and Canadians except as 'peasants to be manipulated' (beer and popcorn).

Susan is a clear example of a Liberal. Indifferent to policies. Operates only by emotion. Uses no reason, no analysis, just pure emotion.

Actually, what isn't to believe? Harper has been deliberately asshole like on the environment, on childcare, on a host of other issues. It even goes beyond the positions he has taken. As I've said a couple of times, his best bet would have been to say nice things about Kyoto and do nothing, which would have put him on par with the Libs. But no, its as though he has to throw raw meat out to his Western base. Similarly with the threats on childcare and the crime package; similarly with the comments on Afghanistan--disagree with us and you're against the troops. It isn't like he's gaining support with this kind of silliness. his poll numbers are exactly where they've been for two months. If anything, he's likely to lose support in Ontario and Quebec.

I assume he is reverting to form.

Sass-mouth Suzie has gotten a career repreive by being taken back into the editorial office from the hill rat pack...where she was pitifully inept with her partisan bias having her trip over her own tongue many times....I look forward to he short career as an anti-Harper harpy at the sing party state's red star.

BCL,
Sit back and watch and learn. Check back on those poll numbers in a few months. You are seeing the beginning of the building of a majority government. If you're going to have your own blog site it's time you learned a little about politics.

* PM expected to speak at 1:05 p.m.

Open to media. +

From the Prime Minister's Web Site (http://www.pm.gc.ca/

ahh . . . the bigcity lib is, as usual, boring and predictable in his childish comments.

If you are going to troll, at least try and do it well. Pointless allegations and personal studidity, while entertaining for us "normal folks', just doesn't cut it for trolling.

But is nice to see the desperation of liberals everywhere as they are run out of office so we can have a real government, that hammers the criminals, protects its citizens, lowers taxes and provides real leadership, as opposed to Liberal regimes that worship self, fawn over criminals, waste taxes and steal from the public purse.

"do nothing,which would have put him on par with the Libs."

As opposed to actually having a policy to clean up our enviroment which makes him "asshole like" in your eyes.

Get help.

Soon.

Kate, I'm really glad you picked on on Ms. Delacourt's article...my blood pressure rose considerably this morning after reading this whiney, condescending tripe...

Douglas, Harper has no environmental policy at all at the moment. He has simply announced that he will cut current programs to pay for his GST cut. If a policy actually emerges, I will be sure and let you know.

The Liberals are in the cemetery by night; owls who-whoing; digging up bones; stuck on stupid: fighting the last war/election.

All ass, rich Paul Who?, we knew you too well. RIP. +

Exhibit:

"April 21, 2006 - To those accusing this website of pandering to David Emerson, maybe they should go take a look at how we exposed the meeting Emerson's staff has last summer with a Conservative candidate (January 12 & 13) or the chiding the minister received (February 9) by being "flabbergasted" over the reaction he was getting from constituents." +
http://www.tdhstrategies.com/home.html

Wow! I like Harper even more than before after reading that!

Can't say that I have paid a lot of attention to Harper since the election - it's like, since we have elected a grown up who has told us what he's going to do, and he's doing it to the best of his ability, why bother hanging off his every word? But it's nice to see a whining rant that sums up why I like the guy - Go Susan!

Hey, if liberal media types can't criticize someone's substance, they may as well go after style.
It's all we've seen from them. I think it'll have the effect of immunizing Harper from real criticism if they ever get anything of substance to chew on.

Attacks on his weight.
Attacks on his clothing.
Attacks on shaking hands with his kids.
Attacks on his handling of the press.
Attacks on having the buck stop with him.
Attacks on his disciplinary style.
Attacks on running a tight ship.

Let me paraphrase Susan - "you either do what the press wants or you are against them." Boo Hoo, so reporters might have to work for their pay instead of going after sound bytes. Get real Susan, the Canadian not only doesn't agree with your assessment, they don't care what you think. We have, for first time in many years, a government prepared to take action, rather than pontificate and have scrums with reporters.

BCL,

You are displaying exactly the same behaviour as Delacourt: throwing childish tantrums at not getting your way, in contradiction to the liberal eternal divine right to rule.

Lesson over; run on home now to mummy and daddy Trudeau.

I hope Stephen will remember,
That Ontario doesn't need him around anyhow.

Oops, sorry that was yesterday's topic.

I for one will never get used to arrrogance no matter how well meaning it is.

Rather than extending an olive branch he has alienated himself and the CPC. How can one person be so smart yet so dumb at the same time.

Unbelievable, just before a major budget vote. Good-bye Stephen we hardly knew you. Confusion will be your epitaph.

BCL:

It's a little difficult for any PM to address every single issue of importance in the FIRST FIVE WEEKS OF TAKING OFFICE!!!

Especially considering the utter mess left by Chretien and Dithers..

Blogwell Fray:

"Rather than extending an olive branch he has alienated himself and the CPC"

Alienated from who? the liberals? certainly not the Canaidan people who seem to be drawing closer.

It is the liberals that are alienated - from power. They have been kicked out of the asylum and they are now calling the nursing staff crazy and do not want to take their medicine.

How far can I take this analogy:-)

BigCityLib,
So little to say, so much bloviating.
enough

I'd like to hear PMSH say loud and often that the Cons represent "Canadian values."

The best part of Delacourt's article was at the end: "With files from Tonda MacCharles." It kind of explains everything.

Ten full points to you, Blogwell, for having the IQ to understand my first post on yesterdays thread.

Or did you...?

A stinging indictment by Delacourt of Harper's persecution of Toronto sensibilities.

With stirring stuff like that Manning would have grown the Reform Party rank and file to at least two dozen card carrying members.

Wimpy,

The honeymoon is over, the drawing in of people is yesterday's news.

When you speak of Liberals you have to understand that it was our political representatives that messed things up. Ordrinary liberals like myself did not and are not impressed at all by the stonewalling of the MSM, scrapping of the gun registry (Canadian police forces use this registry 5,000 times a day), that no new daycare spaces will be provided. Getting used to high gas prices is something a person says in caucus, not to us everyday folks.

It's only conservatives that are infatuated by PMSH. The rest of us, the majority of Canadians, are not!

Right on, infidel. Exactly my sentiment. I only liked him more. His statement about how Canadian people are too busy working and don't have time for protests and don't have special interest groups is right on the money. The fact that the media are pouting just goes to show Prime Minister Harper is on the right track. As far as this whole fallacy about how Harper will be in trouble if the media gets upset with him is ridiculous. The media, in general, has never ever supported Harper or the conservatives. They were educated to be liberals. The media is upset that the Conservatives won the election despite their BS and manipulation and continue to moan. Go get 'em, PM!

Douglas,

If yesterday's post was cryptic (a very poor method of communication) then maybe you should let us 'outsiders' know exactly what you're getting at.

Susan Delacourt's brother was Joe Volpe's press sec when he was Min of Immigration.

BCL Said:As I've said a couple of times, his best bet would have been to say nice things about Kyoto and do nothing, which would have put him on par with the Libs. But no, its as though he has to throw raw meat out to his Western base.

BCL I would venture to guess that most people here who voted Conservative were looking to eliminate this kind of stuff. They want the truth from the government not some shmuck who going to blow sunshine up their ...

I can't understand why people would want to be deliberately decieved to actually think it is a good thing.

I for one never want to see Prime Minister Harper on par with the Liberals.

Op-ed is definitely the place for her, if not an anger management classroom.

Lanny,

There's a trickle down regarding the MSM. They may be lefties but ignoring them is childish. A really smart person would have used their bias to advantage. Arrogance only sits well with the infatuated.

having just watched harper's speech in toronto, delacourt's accusations seem supportable. he is in perpetual campaigning mode. you can only blame the liberal bogeyman for awhile.eventually he has to stand on his own record. obviously he deserves time to establish it. harper really wants a majority and he'll turn off the soft support he got last time around if he keeps sounding so paranoid.

Kate, Just out of curiosity, did BCL ever do his homework assignment you gave him back in Comments on CIC? He seems to like hanging around here whining more than studying for exams or whatever highschool children are doing these days. (appologies to real mature HS students)

On topic, I've often wondered when things changed in the MSM. Used to be that guys like Walter Chronkite would deliver the news and just the facts. You knew something was up when emotions actually broke through that stern facade as during the Kennedy assanation or Neil Armstrong stepping on the moon. Now it seems like not only do you get some of the story but the network's and or "journalist's opinion on it. The line between report and editorial is so blurred that a great deal of the public never know what is what. Shades of Taas & Provda.

Actually blogwell, he is using their bias to his advantage....since its out in the open now instead of a "cold war" the media loses credibility when they try to criticize harper since everyone now knows that the media hates him.

davidson,

A little bit of paranoia is good in that it will keep you alive. A lot is fatal, it will eat you up and unravel your psyche.

What you're seeing is the unravelling process.

PMSH is showing signs that his own bogeymen are haunting him, this is far worse than the liberal ones.

It's too bad, he's a well meaning decent person. Just that he's in way over his head, that's all.

I agree with Jeff Cosford - we don't want to hear our elected politicians talk down to us with empty vapid nonsense any more.

There is nothing good that can be said about Kyoto, and we don't want the pompous arrogant fictions spouted by such as Paul Martin. We want to hear facts, evidence, valid analysis. Not lies.

Blogwell- why is ignoring the MSM, if they behave as part of the Liberal propaganda machine, rather than as valid journalists - why is ignoring them 'childish'? I would consider that it is a mature decision to ignore invalid, biased fiction-writers.

How can you use someone's bias-towards-Liberals, to your own advantage, if you are not Liberal? No matter what colour shirt you wear today, no matter whether you say 'hello' or don't - the pro-Liberal crowd have already made up their minds. Exactly as you say, 'arrogance only sits well with the infatuated'. And, those MSM who are infatuated with the Liberals, are indeed arrogant. You can't discuss anything with them!

"It's too bad, he's a well meaning decent person. Just that he's in way over his head, that's all."

This statement is coming from the type of twerp that looked at chretien, a corrupt muttering, old grifter, and thought...."what a great leader!"

sez Blogwell,

"It's only you Conservatives that are infatuated with PMSH. The rest of us, the majority of Canadians are not!" (hissy fit screamer for emphasis)

Lets look at this 'majority' of Canadians - the left, divided into Marxist/Leninists, (not one, but count 'em) two Communist Parties, The Bloc, The Green Party, NDP and Liberals. However, the Liberals are further divided into Chretien Liberals and Martin Liberals. And they're all at each others throats.

Now lets look at Conservatives - undivided in their intolerance of leftwing idiots. And growing.

BCL you should try to read a bit more. Kyoto is nothing more than global wealth transfer with the money passing through "special interests", a slice here, a piece there. Is pollution a problem? My response yes. Is Kyoto the solution? Not likely.

"There is no dispute at all about the fact that even if punctiliously observed, (the Kyoto Protocol) would have an imperceptible effect on future temperatures -- one-twentieth of a degree by 2050. "

Dr. S. Fred Singer, atmospheric physicist
Professor Emeritus of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia,
and former director of the US Weather Satellite Service;
in a Sept. 10, 2001 Letter to Editor, Wall Street Journal http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/greenhouse_data.html

Tim Ball On the polotics of global warming
http://www.fcpp.org/media_file_wm.php?StreamID=160
Role of Atmospheric Greenhouse Gases
(man-made and natural) as a % of Relative
Contribution to the "Greenhouse Effect"

CO2 as a percentage of total greenhouse gases:
Based on concentrations (ppb) adjusted for heat retention characteristics Percent of Total Percent of Total --adjusted for water vapor
Water vapor ----- 95.000%
Carbon Dioxide (CO2) 72.369% 3.618%
Methane (CH4) 7.100% 0.360%
Nitrous oxide (N2O) 19.000% 0.950%
CFC's (and other misc. gases) 1.432% 0.072%
Total 100.000% 100.000%

The UN-IPCC Kyoto Protocol is proposing a puny but costly effort to reduce CO2. In any developing colder climate, Mother Nature would go on a rampage with greater temperature diversity (winters) and greater human suffering than can be imagined as a result from a minor reduction in atmospheric CO2 which may now be resulting in a minor increase in global warmth. The attempt to change this by reducing a miniscule amount of CO2 again would be similar to the attempt to build the Tower of Babel.
http://www.john-daly.com/cooling.htm

Delacourt's mad cause she won the draw for Canadian Liberal Ass Kissing Journalist of the Year going to the Senate.Stevie cancelled that one.

Blogwell:

"scrapping of the gun registry (Canadian police forces use this registry 5,000 times a day)"

That is an oft-repeated "fact" by registry proponents and it is BS. I was a senior RCMP officer in Ottawa at the time the registry was being proposed. We told Alan Rock's people repeatedly that the registry was an idiotic idea and would be of NO substantial benefit to police. It was clearly regarded in DOJ and PMO that it was a purely political gesture that would make the gov't APPEAR to be doing something about crime (they were reluctant to take on the courts), and given that the cost at the time was $2 million net, it was given a green light.

The "police usage" rates are overstated and fudged, particularly given that the registry is linked to the CPIC system...everytime a firearm is queried on CPIC it results in a hit at the registry as well.

Had the money expended on this ridiculous long gun registry been directed towards police staffing, the results would have been noticible. As it is now, the RCMP is at least 1500 understrength in the organized crime functions and have been starved of resources for years.

My favorite quote (at the time) from Alan Rock: ""I came to Ottawa with the firm belief that the only people in this country who should have guns are police officers and soldiers."

Apparently, he's never visted a ranch or a farm...

Texas,

The MSM changed with the rise of Nixon republicanism.

Bruce,

Thanks for the info. I won't use that stat anymore.

Yes it did - they stopped being reporters and started being wanna-be media celebrities.

BCL; If I had control of the reins of power I would make it mandatory that everyone raise a portion of their own food.Then people like you who have no idea how its done would either starve or learn.It may come sooner than I think with all the feel good legislation being passed.The latest that I heard was from some elite that food production was to important to leave in private hands therefore should be govt.run.Look around the world and see how that turns out and dont accuse the Soviets or North Koreans of being to stupid to run food production as they both were smart enough to come up with atomic weapons.

Prime Minister Harper in Montreal. +

Excerpt:

Canada’s new government has a new philosophy and a new attitude.

We are ready to begin a new era for those who want to move on, in a Canada that is strong, united, independent and free with a Quebec that is confident, autonomous and proud, and has a strong sense of solidarity.

The political debate in Quebec has been polarized for nearly two generations.

It has poisoned the federation and pitted centralisers and separatists in a fight where neither will win and neither will give up.

But, mark my words, Quebecers want to move on, and so does your new, national government.

We are turning the page and looking to the future with confidence.

I have trust in Canadians to take care of their kids and spend their money.

I have trust in our leadership in the world, which we’re seeing in Afghanistan.

I have trust in my team of ministers and MPs, to provide clean, focused, efficient government.

And I have trust in open federalism, because it can marry Quebec’s development with that of Canada. +
[(http://www.pm.gc.ca/eng/subscribe.asp?login)]

Thanks Bruce.

Thats telling it like it is.

took me six attempts to register my collection of glue guns at the registry, kept crashing the server.

Cost a bundle too

Stop talking about fixing government, just do it, public says
Blunt report also finds that Canadians see PS workers as lazy; they say they're overworked
Jack Aubry, The Ottawa Citizen
Friday, April 21, 2006
...Based on focus groups and interviews with members of the general public and public servants across the country, the report says Canadians have reached a defining moment. "In other words, Canadians are saying to the government: 'Don't tell me what you're going to do or how you're going to do it. Just do it. Then tell me what you've done and how it makes a difference to me,' " says the frank report conducted for Treasury Board...
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=8a4141ff-f173-433c-b5c4-71d57909d497&p=1

'Blunt' Report
http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/200/301/pwgsc-tpsgc/por-ef/treasury_board/2005/index.html

this immediately resonated with me as being the newspaper equivalent of the story (editorial) presented by Keith Boag on the introduction of the FAA. The same whine permeates both "news reports".

fred...

would those have been the little pink glue guns...LOL. best line of the day.

Did anyone see the Column in the Toronto Star in which the columnist called Laureen Harper a "ballsy biker chick"?
I read about it on Kinsellas blog, But cant seem to find it.

Seems to me that the country is being run fairly well right now!The op ed piece was bitter and twisted, but who is seriously going to swallow that bilge.Canadians are looking for results you can't swallow an elephant in one bite and the new government is working its way through 13 years of mis management.Why did Canada not achieve its Kyoto objectives?The government had a healthy majority so what stopped them.

The fallacious 'fact' that the Gun Registry is accessed by police 5,000 times a day cannot be valid.
IF we consider only five days a week, rather than seven, that would give 25,000 hits a week. And, let's say, for 50 weeks, that would give us 1,250,000 hits per year. Well over a million.

Are there that many gun-related crimes in Canada? Five thousand a day, 25,000 a week, one and a quarter million a year????

Well, if we look at crimes in violence in statistics Canada, we see that there are, per 100,000 citizens, about 946 such crimes, per year, in Canada. That would give us about 32,000 per year with our population of 32 million.

But - the we are TOLD that the precious, esteemed, valuable gun registry gets 5,000 requests a day...25,000 a week! But, one week would essentially function to deal with most of the violent crime stats! And remember, I'm not differentiating the 'violent crime' by the use of a gun, a knife, a baseball bat, ....
So- what's going on? What are those over one and a quarter million requests about???

ET:

If you read my post above, you'll see that the gun registry database is linked to CPIC, the RCMP criminal record database, as well as other databases maintained by the RCMP. Everytime a query is made on CPIC etc., it files a hit on the gun registry as well.

So it's quite simple.

Constable Smith recovers a found weapon, checks CPIC to see if it's reported stolen...ka-ching, a parallel hit registers on gun registry (GR).

Cst. Jones enters a report of a stolen bike, enters the complainant's name on the RCMP system, and the complainant happens to be a registered gun owner...ka-ching, another GR hit.

Cst. queries the RCMP system for information on an address, perhaps looking for other events involving that address, and the address happens to be one that at one time was listed in GR...ka-ching, another GR hit.

I could go on, but you get the drift...it's called how to lie with statistics...

Oh and ET...

To get an idea of how frequently such hits happen, you have to focus one other than violent crimes. Overall crime rate in Canada is about 8200 per 100K pop. But that's just reported crimes. Computer queries are made by police in many many instances that ddon't wind up as reported crimes at all.

And...Bonus...if the officer enters a report of say, a single break-in at a residence where 3 guns are stolen from a single owner and there are two listed suspects, the GR generates SIX hits...

Ahh. So, as that neat little book 'How to Lie With Statistics" says:
"Many a statistic is false on its face. It gets by only because the magic of numbers brings about a suspension of common sense" (138).

So, when our politicians (Liberals, of course) bring out these stats, trying to show us how 'useful' the Gun Registry is, by inferring that police everywhere actually use it - rather than the FACTS that they don't use it; and the stats are merely due to irrelevant computer links...we can then inform our politicians that we know the REAL reason for the Gun Registry.

It was a cynical and manipulative tactic to Buy Votes from a targeted group (urbanites, women) and, to set up a Jobs For Maritimers who will also Vote Liberal.

Get rid of it. Just like we got rid of the Liberals.

The MSM changed with the rise of Nixon republicanism

There's real truth in that, Blogwell, the MSM changes dramatically when we have a Republican in the WH. We've had four since Nixon. None have fared too well with the MSM. Glad you noticed that.

By the way, in response to your(I'm paraphrasing)question on another thread today as to what have conservatives (ever?) done for society, I answered it thus....

"Protected the First Amendment and free market principles so that the playing field is democratic and fair."

"The Census Bureau says the number of black-owned businesses in the country increased 45 percent from 1997 to 2002, more than four times the national rate for all businesses."

http://www.daytondailynews.com/business/content/business/daily/0419blackbiz.html

....and realizing you were distracted with this thread but surely want to get back to it and thus not be accused of flittering superficially from post to post, I thought I'd put it here for you.

Any advice on how much we can reach parity with the Lib's grand achievements?

"that neat little book 'How to Lie With Statistics"

Heh...got that for my first Stats couse at U of C, lo these many years ago...trashed most of my textbooks years ago, but still have that one.

Crime has been mentioned? This is "delicate"; do not show to Liberals; maybe left liberal moonbats, er harfiest moonbats, should avoid this, also: +

See, not very Liberal of me is it?:

Smart of Harper (and a tad viscious but no more so than the Grits are) to break up bits of his crime fighting legislation. Having a bill to raise age of consent from 14 to 16 will be very problematic for Bill Graham, Liberal leader of the opposition. + http://www.voy.com/178771/1305.html

Bruce - Thank you for the stats from the "inside". I have been trying to get through to people like BCL, Blogwell and ET that believe the tripe put out by the special interest groups.

Now if they would just put aside their Liberal rose colored glasses and actually READ the CPC policy book they might find out that what they are being told by the MSM is NOT factual, is NOT what was promised by the CPC and is NOT what is going to happen.

Re Blogwell's daycare statement that no new spaces will be created - that is a total falsehood and to continue to believe that lie shows how far up ying yang their heads are. READ the CPC policies and you will see how WRONG you are. The special interest groups are yelling and screaming these lies because they see the government money bags being pulled away from their back pockets.

Kate, am I missing the sarcasm?

The article is listed as a news story and not as an editorial!

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&call_pageid=971358637177&c=Article&cid=1145569813146

PM shows defiant streak:
Apr. 21, 2006. 06:32 AM by SUSAN DELACOURT OTTAWA BUREAU CHIEF
...
With files from Tonda MacCharles

They are playing this opinion like a news story!

Actually Maz2, separating the components of the crime fighting legislation is, in my view at least, brilliant politics.

The Liberals were able to smear Harper et al by saying that they voted against higher penalties for gun crimes. What they neglected to say was that included in the same bill were the provisions that brought in conditional sentences, diversion instead of jail, easier bail etc..

It was these latter provisions that the Conservatives voted against.

Separating the components on an item by item basis will make it clear who is voting for what.

Re: Susan Delacourt & other journalists' "objectivity":
1. Delacourt wrote: "While Harper accommodated Montreal and Vancouver in his cabinet — with an unelected senator and a Liberal defector — there were no such extraordinary measures for Toronto."
Toronto-centric Delacourt's nose is out of joint because the "centre of the universe" was not recognized as such by the PM and was not given similar representation in the cabinet.

2. She also wrote: "Though Harper once seemed a bit of a fan of the media — appearing as regular TV pundit and frequent opinion-piece contributor to newspapers — his current determination to get the better of the national media, to deliver a come-uppance, seems almost obsessive."
What she fails to mention is that Mr. Harper appeared as a regular TV pundit when he was out of Parliament (1997-2001). The fact that he appeared as a pundit does not necessarily qualify him as "a bit of a fan of the media" but it might suggest a desire to set the record straight from the conservative perspective.

3. As I write this, I'm listening to the "press gallery" on Don Newman's Politics & Ms. Delacourt said the press "can't literally be fair to all of them [Liberal leadership hopefuls]" in their coverage. Earlier, Jim Travers referred to Mr. Harper's message as his "five MINOR priorities," to the PM as a "puffing doughboy in a fishing vest" and his tightly controlled cabinet as "vaguely Stalinesque." But of course, they are NOT biased!

"Kate, am I missing the sarcasm?

The article is listed as a news story and not as an editorial!"

Yup, you did. The "screenshot" is a fake, to underline the point.

It is hard for Americans of the conservative stripe(me) to wrap our minds around the gun registery, but will someone refresh me on its exact purpose in Canada.

I lived a decade in New Mexico where snakes abound and neighbors aren't close. Having a gun made sense to me. A federal/state government's interest in my gun ownership seems to me a huge invasion of privacy and civil rights violation. Call who(?) and risk dying if a rattler is in the yard or a pervert is at my door??

The statisics are on my side. The gansta punks, that the Dems/Libs love so much and fret over, are the abusers.

BCL, and lib moonbats of Canada, got a rational defense of the gun registry?

Sure Penny, I've got a rational defence of the gun registry but the Liberals won't like it. Say that you're a party in power and most of your support comes from the cities. Your supporters are concerned about increasing crime so you need to do something but you don't have the will to do anything and, even if you did, you have no ideas that will actually address the problem. Eureka! You have an idea. Let's register all of the guns. That way people will think we're doing something about crime. Now another election comes along and you need an encore. I know, let's ban all hand guns! That will make the people in the cities think we're doing even more. It's all smoke and mirrors.

BCL -- I look forward to you informing us of, and your criticism of, the CPC environment policy. That way I won't have to actually read it myself. At least you are useful for something.

Good analysis Paul.

Personally I think Dithers missed the boat when he merely announced a ban on all handguns. If only he'd announced that he was going to ban ALL crime, I'm sure that would have put his party over the top.

A little OT but PMSH is just raking the Liberals on CPAC over their threats to block the Accountability Act in the Senate.
He is speaking at the Empire Club in Toronto.

Poor old Susan has the 'mad Cow' syndrome. There is nothing that can be done for her, she is washed up and bitter. Send her no flowers, she would stamp on them or eat them. People like Susan should be quarintined because they can spead the fungus to people who lack education. However, it is fun to laugh at her.

Thanks, Paul, it all makes sense now if can follow the twisted convoluted logic of your basic liberal. Disarm the public and keep handguns concentrated with criminals.

Please, dear God, never let the Dems/Libs have majority power in this hemispere again.

BCL

Re: Kyoto

All the PM did was announce that he wasn't going to throw money away in a superficial attempt to make it look like something was being done. Dithers and company were prepared to pay $1 billion to China or Russia to by credits to meet our committments. This would have done nothing to reduce greenhouse gases; all it was going to do was take money from the Canadian taxpayer & give it so 2 of the world's worst polluters ....typical Liberal solution.
BTW I was reading recently that the Government of New Zealand was gearing up to buy their own credits when they discovered, surprise surprise, that the cost of credits had almost doubled.
Kyoto is a cheesy, transparent scam but the Liberals fell for it.

Scott, name a scam in the junk science realm or innane litigation that lefty moonbats haven't embraced?

Sue McDonalds because your kids are out of control fatties? Gotta be them at fault at the corporate level rather than the family dining room.

Slavery reparations? Try sorting out that garbage. Indicted by DNA, some 6th generation innocent American is asked to pay up?

Lying, falsifying, victimizing and extortion are how the left operates. Their power base now consists of The Victims, the losers on the public/union doles(see France the model) and the squeamish little clueless entities that feel so passionately that it must be true, in spite of reasoned facts to the contrary, that troll here.

Bottomline, when you are a conquered people like Native Americans(sorry swooning lefties, that's the facts) you can only play victim for so long. The US and Canada have given them all kinds of incentives to prosper. They need to run with it and shut up.

The media (and their photgraphers) would never go after Harper would they...?

http://tinyurl.com/qb2k7

Basically, it's the worst attempt at a "hit-piece" ever written.

I'm still trying to figure out where Prime Minister Stephen Hareper is quoted badly...

Tax deadline: ? Be a cheerful giver.

This is not a Delacourtian Slip; this is not a slip/blip: Librano$™.

Another not $lip:
$cumbag$:

Ad$cam Chretien/Martin & their fellow pirate$ and mouthpiece$.

Gag heads the list; he's da cappo da cappi.

via newsbeat1.com
Gomery's fact finding report was released in November and laid blame for the sponsorship scandal on Chretien, Pelletier and Gagliano among others. Gomery went out of his way to exonerate Martin and members of his government at the time.

The Adscam legal line up Number of legal bills submitted Total billed to the taxpayer
Alphonso Gagliano 17 $727,917.23
Jean Pelletier 14 $636,366.42
Jean Chretien 11 $587,430.26
Ran Quail 6 $233,845.30
Jean Carle 6 $225,233.87
Chuck Guite 15 $170,789.86
Jean-Marc Bard 5 $75,336.09
Denis Coderre 5 $66,205.32
David Dingwall 10 $45,491.40
Paul Martin 2 $34,792.52
Warren Kinsella 1 $11,329.27
Sheila Copps 1 $3,702.20
Pierre Tremblay 1 $1,847.60
Francoise Ducros 1 $1,648.87
Note: this list was compiled based on information released by the federal Department of Justice to PoliticsWatch News on March 27, 2006. + more
http://www.politicswatch.com/gomery-april21-2006.htm

Bruce: Chill for this wee c/paste> (if you have not seen it ere). Shhh, "they" are whispering...
"sadly reminiscent of the GUM/GUM™ registry", er "infamous" Gun Reg. Well, GUM Reg. is not dead, yet. +

Computer revamp costs soar
Program goes up 25% and lags far behind schedule

Immigration and border officials scrambling
Apr. 22, 2006. 01:00 AM
JAMES TRAVERS
NATIONAL AFFAIRS COLUMNIST

Ottawa—A $48 million increase in the cost of a federal computer project is raising the spectre of another financial fiasco sadly reminiscent of the infamous gun registry.

Bureaucrats in three departments are whispering about the political, cash and career implications of a massive program that has risen 25 per cent to almost $243 million, won't deliver all that was originally promised and lags far behind schedule. Not surprisingly, immigration and border officials are losing confidence in the Global Case Management System (GCMS) while their superiors are struggling to contain what is, even by Ottawa standards, a mess. + more
http://www.paulding.net/bin/url.cgi/13261.3
via newsbeat1.com

Iggy & Vijay order you up: "Be there to support Jean and the cause."

Jean? JC? Jeancula?

Vijay is doling out $.02 cents to help those "single mothers back on their feet". Back on their feet? +

Jean Augustine Scholarship Dinner
April 22nd, 2006

“Michael would like to offer his support to the Jean Augustine Scholarship fund which assists single mothers who have returned to school (specifically George Brown College) to further their studies and thereby improve their quality of life, as well as that of their children’s.

This year the scholarship fundraiser is taking place at 7:00pm on Thursday April 27, 2006 at the Grand Baccus Banquet & Conference Centre at 2155 McNicoll Ave. Tickets are $50.00.

If you would like to support this very worthy cause, I would appreciate it if you would respond to this email at your earliest convenience to marymkan@aol.com”

Thank you,

Mary Kancer
Assistant to Michael Ignatieff, MP

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My two cents.. Helping single mothers back on their feet will help rebuild families and hopefully help kids stay in school and not stray into illegal activities. $50 is not a lot of money in the big picture. Be there to support Jean and the cause. +
http://www.vijaysappani.com/myblog/

road hammer (1:39 p.m.):

"Susan Delacourt's brother was Joe Volpe's press sec when he was Min of Immigration."

Does this explain how a lacklustre and--sad to say--unattractive (do something with your hair, dear) individual becomes a member of the PPG and one of Don Is-He-Human's political commentary panel on "Politics"?

It always amazes me how Delacourt's commentary so closely aligns with the Liberal view of things and how someone who is supposed to be bright--well, she is a member of the PPG, isn't she?--can be so unreflective and unquestioning about the status quo.

I thought reporters were supposed to question the status quo rather than play into it.I thought reporters were supposed the investigate their stories rather than have them handed to them on a platter.

Now, I know why she does neither. Through her memebership in the PPG and her brother's former position with Michael Volpe, she's very much an "insider" and part of the status quo and the Ottawa Zeitgeist. So it makes you wonder why, if Politics is interested in a broad spectrum of opinions (whoops, maybe they aren't), they bother to have her on their panel. She is so predictable...yawn.

Correction to my post above: Joe Volpe, not Michael.