Susan Delacourt Moves To Op-Ed Pages

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Freed from the shackles of political objectivity and direct quoting, we find out this girl can really tell it like it is!;

“So it is fitting Harper has chosen to land last here in a tour that seemed deliberately designed to show his defiant � some would say contemptuous � streak.”
“Highly controlling in style, Harper aspires to be an establishment unto himself, and the means to that end seem to require he knock down all others in the political establishment.”
“It sometimes seems like the election has not ended for Harper.”
“By this, Harper doesn’t mean the “Calgary school,” the clutch of University of Calgary academics who helped forge his early thinking. He means the ones who disagree with him.”
“He presented all these kinds of people as the impediments to a proper child-care program in Canada. But in so doing, he sounded more like an opposition politician on the campaign trail than a prime minister who, technically, is supposed to represent and serve all Canadians, regardless of their politics.”
“The main thing they will probably learn is whether they’ve been cast already in Harper’s polarized world as for him or against him.”

And there’s lots more where that came from. I like this little Delacourtian Slip best of all;

“Last, but not least, the media.”

Emphasis hers.

89 Replies to “Susan Delacourt Moves To Op-Ed Pages”

  3. 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.

  4. 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)]

  6. took me six attempts to register my collection of glue guns at the registry, kept crashing the server.
    Cost a bundle too

  7. 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

  8. 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”.

  10. 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.

  11. 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.

  12. 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???

  13. 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…

  14. 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…

  15. 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.

  16. 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?

  17. “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.

  18. 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

  19. 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.

  21. 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.

  22. 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!

  23. “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.

  24. 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?

  25. 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.

  26. 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.

  27. 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.

  28. 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.

  29. 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.

  30. 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.

  31. 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.

  32. 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.

  35. 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

  36. 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

  37. 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
    �����
    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/

  38. 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.

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