“When Omar Khadr purportedly tossed the grenade that killed an American infantryman, he was neither child nor soldier.”
Democratic Space: Conservatives have the edge in seat projections for Ontario’s upcoming fall election.
Data Bling.
Who failed Adam Keeper?
Stephane Dion – granting Liberal women what they can’t attain through merit.
Add yours in the comments.
I think we’ll see more and more of this autocratic behaviour of Dion’s. That’s his style. He long ago moved into the ‘professorial mode’ of having authority over ‘his regime’ – the issues, the people, the actions in his ‘classrooms’. He’s not behaving any differently when his ‘classroom’ is enlarged to Canada and Canadians. He defines himself as The Leader – and ‘He Knows Best’.
As well, I think that the Liberals/Dion are moving into their election strategy for the fall, which is to define Harper as having a Hidden Agenda.
I know that this has been part of their strategy since Harper appeared, but I think they’ll be focusing all their attention on it. And this time, it’s more specific.
It’s already started – with Dion/Liberals claiming that Harper has a ‘hidden agenda’ of selling all our water to the US.
That Harper has a ‘hidden agenda’ of merging Mexico, US and Canada’.
That Harper ..etc..
Hidden agenda strategies put the other person on the defensive – and that’s going to be the Liberal strategy – to make spurious, unfounded claims (easy, because they are hidden)…
I’d suggest that the CPC openly state that this is the Liberal strategy -ie, that they are deliberately manufacturing claims to ‘scaremonger’ and that this is reprehensible and beneath the dignity of parl’t…
Fling it back at them. And, comment that, as usual, the Liberals have NO policies. Just an agenda of winning – and they’ll do anything to achieve that. Even make false allegations.
ET, Dion had “inside information” about bulk water exports:
Maude Barlow
“Mr. Dion defended his use of the rarely used appointment power on the grounds that it will help him meet his commitment of running at least one-third female candidates in the next election.”
Is this an example of what President Bush calls “the soft bigotry of low expectations”?
The bastion of socialism,Windsor,Ont.,is considering banning the sale of cats and dogs.The reasoning is that a lot of dogs and cats are being purchased that were bred in “puppy mills”.Logically, instead of going after the puppy mills,they want to ban dog and cat sales. Sound familiar. This article is in the august 18th windsor star.
Fox News reporter tries to hack my favourite website; big, big mistake:
valleywag.com/tech/exclusive/fark-founder-accuses-fox-newsman-of-hacking-290286.php
Washington Post reports: “China Bans Reporting on Bridge Collapse”
“Communist authorities have banned most state media from reporting on the deadly collapse of a bridge in southern China, with local officials punching and chasing reporters from the scene, reporters said Friday.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/17/AR2007081700752.html
…which is odd, considering that I’ve read several articles over the past few days about it at the Chinese Communist Party’s website:
english.people.com.cn/90001/90776/90882/6241474.html
english.people.com.cn/90001/90776/90882/6240907.html
english.people.com.cn/90001/90776/90882/6240538.html
Whiny Native Screams Racism When Treated Like White Person:
http://www.torontosun.com/News/Canada/2007/08/17/4424799-sun.html
Progressive Blogger calls groundbreaking daytime TV underage gay boy kiss “hot”; Are we cool with adults getting off on children – as long as they are gay?
queer-liberal.blogspot.com/2007/08/first-teenage-same-sex-kiss-on-daytime.html
The WAGS – those big-spending, party-loving, shopaholic wives and girlfriends of English soccer players – have come in for a verbal blast from one of the game’s most outspoken personalities.
Roy Keane, the former Manchester United and Ireland captain who is now manager of Sunderland, slammed the “weak” and “soft” players who refuse to play for clubs outside of London to satisfy their female partners’ shopping habits.
“Greed will always be a part of the game. But this side of it, with the women running the show, concerns me and worries me,” Keane said in remarks splashed across Wednesday’s British newspapers. “What is your priority? Your wife and her shopping, money or your football?”
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“If someone doesn’t want to come to Sunderland then all well and good,” Keane said. “But if they don’t want to come to Sunderland because their wife wants to go shopping in London, then it is a sad state of affairs.
“Unfortunately that is what is influencing a lot of footballers’ decisions. Priorities have changed for footballers and they are being dictated to by their wives and girlfriends.”
Keane, who once ripped corporate Manchester United fans as the “prawn sandwich brigade,” said henpecked players had no future at his club.
“To me that player is weak because his wife runs his life,” Keane said. “I could name three or four big players now and clearly their wives and girlfriends are running their lives, doing photo shoots, that kind of stuff.
“They say they’re not comfortable doing it, well don’t. Obviously it is their partners doing and they are just being dragged along. These so-called stars are people we’re supposed to look up to. Well, they’re weak. They’re soft.”
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“If a player wants to come here to play for Sunderland because we think we are a top football club, then fantastic,” he said. “And we’d do our best for their families.
“But we have had a player this summer who didn’t even ring us back because his wife wanted to move to London. He didn’t even have the courtesy to pick up the phone to us. And shopping was mentioned. It might astonish many people but it’s true.
“I think it’s weak.”
news.findlaw.com/ap/o/51/08-15-2007/f2510013a9b69722.html
If Harper has a nidden agenda he hides it well….matter of fact he hasn’t said a word obout policy in more than 12 months….the SPP is a secret wisper campagin and if that gets Harper in trouble with the opposition so be it….he is far to secretive for his own good…..many at the middle party level have no idea what’s going on.
Omar Khadr should be transferred to an Afghan prison eventually, they should take care of him. His treasonous family has given the Canadian government enough reason to strip them all of citizenship, they should be deported.
Soccer blows.
Italian defender Marco Materazzi gives a press conference in Carnago, June 2007. Materazzi revealed that he had told French icon Zinedine Zidane during last year’s final that he preferred his “whore of a sister” to his shirt.
WLMR, maybe we should get Harper to confirm what isn’t happening. That way he wouldn’t seem so secretive. Like I said above, Dionsky has “inside information” that bulk water exports are on the SPP table. Maude Barlow and Mel Hurtig told him; except, that was twenty years ago. They were wrong then and they are wrong now. I hope the public and MSM don’t fall for this hidden agenda crap. Dion should be called out on this one and forced to reveal where he got this info. Otherwise, he can make up anything he wants. Here’s a thought, instead of accusing Harper of being secretive, bullying, aloof etc, maybe Dion should put his party’s platform front out there. Oh right, there isn’t one.
The Muslims discovered America!
From the Muslim Weekly:
But let us say that we are wrong. Perhaps it is all just a coincidence; after all, there are no living survivors of the Native American Muslims, are they?
Wrong. And this last part is what originally drew me into this quest for knowledge: an exposé written by a Native Muslim.
Brother Mahir Abdal-Razzaaq El wrote in his account, posted on the Internet, about the Native Americans that were Muslims. He is of the Cherokee tribe; known as Eagle Sun Walker, and a Pipe Carrier Warrior of the Cherokees in New York. He tells of Muslim travellers that came to his land over one thousand years ago, and what is more important, existing evidence of legislation, treaties and resolutions that prove, beyond the shadow of a doubt that Muslims were in the Americas and very active. Although these documents have not been written after 1492, it is still interesting to note that Islam was in fact there. The Treaty of Peace and Friendship of 1787 have the signatures of Abdel-Khak and Mohammed Bin Abdulla. According to a federal court case from the Continental Congress, Native Muslims helped put life into the constitution.
These are a matter of record; they cannot be disputed. Go to the National Archives or the Library of Congress and see for yourself; the Treat of 1987 show that the Natives abided by an Islamic system in commerce, maritime shipping and government. The records of the State of Carolina has the Moors Sundry Act of 1790. The Cherokee Chief of 1866 was a man called Ramadhan Bin Wati. Native clothing up until 1832 was full Islamic wear. The name Tallahassee actually means, “Allah will deliver you sometime in the future”. In North America, there are no less than 565 names of tribes, villages, cities, mountains and other lands sites of Islamic or Arabic roots.
The truth of Islam and the truth of the Native American culture is one and the same; many people hundreds of years ago realised that. The protection of the land and of the animals; the non-wastage of resources and the non-pollution of nature are all Islamic concepts.
I finish this article with a few Native sayings. And then, I want you to tell me that Islam is not nurtured in the hearts of these people.
“Our belief is that the Great Spirit has created all things. Not just mankind but animals, all plants, all rocks, all on earth and amongst the stars with true soul. For us, all life is holy. All of nature is within us and we are part of all nature.” Chief White Cloud,
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The article also states that archeologists have discovered arabic writing that says “Jesus son of Mary” in California. And this is obviously Muslim.
All of the Native American Indians are, of course, Muslim. In fact some are named Mohammad.
I’m not even sure why they went to this length to prove that America is Muslim land (so therefore, like Spain, must be given back to the Muslims), because, afterall, everybody is born a Muslim. In fact, Islam was the original and first Religion before Adam was put on the earth. So, therefore we’re all apostates and must be put to the death and the entire world is Muslim land.
“The protection of the land and of the animals; the non-wastage of resources and the non-pollution of nature are all Islamic concepts.”
Therefore, Al Gore and David Suzuki are…Muslims!
Muslims are insufferable and hilarious at the same time. If that’s possible. What a wretched ideology.
Read the whole thing for a laugh @ http://www.themuslimweekly.com/fullstoryview.aspxNewsID=037EA360E57F560F9441F393&MENUID=ARTCULTURE&DESCRIPTION=Art%20and%20Culture
ET writes:
“I think we’ll see more and more of this autocratic behaviour of Dion’s. That’s his style. He long ago moved into the ‘professorial mode’ of having authority over ‘his regime’ – the issues, the people, the actions in his ‘classrooms’. He’s not behaving any differently when his ‘classroom’ is enlarged to Canada and Canadians. He defines himself as The Leader – and ‘He Knows Best’.”
That may be so, but you could say the same about Harper. In power for 18 months and it’s still doubtful that Canada’s Not So New Government could get a majority in an election.
Harper is strengthening our position in the north, like he said he would. He is beefing up the military, like he said he would. He cut the GST, and still says he will do it again, like he said he would. He is trying to free up western farmers from the CWB, like he said he would. He is promoting a ‘law and order’ agenda, (against stiff opposition), like he said he would. He is providing sound, moderate, rational, corruption free government, like he said he would.
As far as I’m concerned, his actions say enough about policy, I don’t need to hear speeches.
Muslims = Indians?
I don’t know, but the dna geneology companies claim they can’t tell the difference between American Indian and Jewish ancestry.
Go figure.
Even their Euro-music blows.
England and Europe can only show us who we DON’T want to become.
Give me the NFL over soccer.
Give me America over Europe.
Give me a gun over a gun registry.
Give me liberty over socialism
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGd0h2CunzY&NR=1
Irwin Daisy,
What many people don’t realize is that there are all sorts of celtic symbolism in the middle east.
There was a theory that not only did St. Brendan discover North America but he and his monks sailed around Africa and landed in Saudi Arabia.
So Thor Heyerdahl build a giant curragh to prove that the Irish sailed around Africa and landed in Saudi Arabia – this was a secret mission. However he made the trip and proved the point.
That is why Osama Bin Laden’s real name is Osama O’Brien and he as a fondness for whiskey.
Dion Appoints female canidate-Scarborough
G&M- Comments are closed at 176, Too many comments against Dion, i guess.
ET makes very valid points the Liberal mcahine is again playing the scary Harper Hidden Adgenda theme again, problem is Canadians are not buying it. If the Liberals are so against PM Harper & his policies then why don’t they go for it, they have the power to call for an Election.
“I hope the public and MSM don’t fall for this hidden agenda crap.”
Unfortunately, Shamrock, that is exactly what they will do. Expect most of the MSM to jump back on the familiar bandwagon of anti-Americanism that they loved to ride on during Paul Martin’s tenure.
And Toronto, well, expect them to believe every word of it, and vote accordingly.
I’m speculating, but I think that the traditional Liberal strategies of anti-Americanism, vote-buying within multicultural balkanization and fear-mongering – won’t be as successful as they used to be.
Why not? The MSM is still firmly Liberal and follows the Dogma faithfully – you can read and listen to them all – Travers, Weston, Taber, both Newmans, Duffy, the Ottawa Press Gang, etc etc. So, the MSM is Evil Silent Hidden Agenda Harper and, of course, the usual anti-Americanism. The MSM hasn’t had a thought in 30 years. Neither has the Liberal Party. No policies. None.
The MSM finds it extremely difficult right now, because, all they can say about Dion is ‘just you wait; he’ll be Wonderful In The Future’…as they squirm over his current behaviour. But, they can firmly Bash Harper…for no reason at all, other than..they are Liberal.
But Harper has done a tremendous amount in this 18 month period – all that he said he would do – despite the constraints and reductions put on him by the Liberal Opposition and that corrupt Liberal Senate – which watered down the Accountability..etc. Despite malicious acts such as Dion’s promotion and insistence that Canada abide by the Kyoto Treaty. Despite the Liberal insistence on the Gun Registry..etc etc.
Notice how the Liberal agendas are all ‘up front’, in-your-face actions. Gun Registry; a huge waste of money – but, the Liberals can blather on and on about how much they ‘care’. Kyoto – ‘how much they care’.
Meanwhile, in the background, Harper is, as noted above – strengthening Canada’s Northern position, strengthening the military and putting Canada back into the international scene, focusing Canada as active in human rights (remember his insistence that the francophone gang acknowledge Israel and not just Lebanon’s sufferings in their war); and in China (remember how the Liberals were so angry that Harper brought up human rights to the Chinese.)
And working on behalf of farmers and not corrupt bureaucrats like the CWB..etc, etc.
So- Harper does things, quietly, solidly – while the Liberals do nothing other than angle for photo-ops.
Remember Chretien’s response to SARS – bringing the full cabinet at taxpayer expense for a meeting in Toronto, to show, in photos, that Toronto was safe. No money or help for the hospitals. Just the photos..and the taxpayer picking up the airfare and hotels.
So- the Liberals are empty – while Harper continues to focus on real agendas. He’s right not to talk about everything in advance – all that would happen is that the Liberals would screech about it, dredge up misinformation..and focus on propaganda.
The Liberals operate via propaganda. Harper operates by actual tasks undertaken and actual tasks completed. What an enormous difference.
Irwin why does every crackpot religion claim the native north americans as their own? The natives are Mormon. No they are not they are the ancient Hebrews. No NO they are in fact Muslim. What group of losers is going to pop up next and claim the natives as their own.
Big important social event of the summer is happening somewhere in Nova Scotia, Kings-Hants MP Scotty Brison and his “Boy friend” or whatever, are getting their union legalized, or whatever.
Pussy Dion and Paul Martin are among the guests.
Watch for the kissy-kissy front page photos in all the Lefty press, have your Gravol ready Maybe Dion will catch the bouquet, or maybe the garter, we aren’t sure which one of the pair is the Alpha, we may get a hint at some point.
Of course they have to be a modern couple, there’s no precedent for such fun, so they will probably share the housework, both wear an apron. One may be the Cooker the other the Cookie.
A list of Harper’s broken promises from trustbreaker.freehostia.com
1) Promise Made: Mr. Harper campaigned for an elected senate and pledged that “all appointments would be made on merit-based requirements”.
Promise Broken: In his first act as Prime Minister, Harper appointed his campaign co-chair Michael Fortier as a Senator and Minister of Public Works –the largest governmental procurement department and home of the sponsorship scandal. Because Mr. Fortier is not elected, he cannot be held accountable for his actions in the House of Commons.
2) Promise Made: In Opposition, the Conservatives fought hard against floor-crossing. Days before the election, 40 Conservative MPs supported a private members’ bill banning floor crossing without a by-election.
Promise Broken: Within hours of receiving the election results, Mr. Harper dismissed the valuable contributions of many of his fellow Conservative candidates and instead sought out the Liberal Minister, David Emerson, for a key position in his cabinet.
3) Promise Made: Prior to the election campaign, Mr. Harper unveiled his party’s Accountability Act, which aims to “crack down on the revolving door between ministers’ offices, the senior public service and the lobbying industry”.
Promise Broken: The Accountability Act apparently didn’t stop Gordon O’Connor from walking right through this revolving door into the crucial portfolio of Minister of Defence. Minister O’Connor, formerly a lobbyist for the defence industry, is now responsible for overseeing some of the largest defence contracts in Canadian history.
4) Promise Made: Mr. Harper’s election platform committed to strengthening the role of the Ethics Commissioner and preventing the Prime Minister from overruling the Commissioner’s decisions in the application of ethics rules.
Promise Broken: Despite “numerous attempts” to interview Mr. Harper over a four-month period, our new Prime Minister refused to make time for the Ethics Commissioner to discuss his role in the Gurmant Grewal taping affair.
5) The Conservative government announced today that, for the first time in Canadian history, the next judicial appointee to the Supreme Court of Canada will be questioned by a public parliamentary hearing. Although Conservatives promised a free vote in the House of Commons on the appointment of new Supreme Court justices during the election campaign, they will now appoint an ad-hoc parliamentary committee to question the new appointee.
6) During the election campaign, the Prime Minister promised the Canadian people that he would “lead by example”. In his Federal Accountability Act, Harper went so far as to promise that he “will prevent the Prime Minister from overruling the Ethics Commissioner on whether the Prime Minister or an official is in violation of the conflict of interest code”.
“Now, Mr. Harper has admitted he has even gone so far as to try and have Dr. Shapiro replaced, showing utter contempt for the Parliamentary process by trying to unilaterally remove a duly appointed officer of Parliament – an officer seeking to carry out his duties under the law “, Mr. Easter continued.
7) During the election campaign, the Conservatives promised to make all capital gains exempt from taxation, as long as the funds were reinvested within a six month period. The proposal was widely criticized by economists because of difficulties in implementation as well its prohibitive cost.
Two budgets later and still no exemption
8) Stephen Harper also promised to revamp the income support system, to make it more responsive to farmers’ needs, saying “A new Conservative government will scrap CAIS.” Minister Strahl is now saying he will “transform” it.
9) The Prime Minister has repeatedly reiterated his commitment to end “the revolving door between ministers’ offices, the senior public service, and the lobbying industry”. During the last election campaign, he pledged to Canadians that “under a new Conservative government, politics will no longer be a stepping stone to a lucrative career lobbying government.”
But now that Mr. Harper is in power, the actions of many of his party’s members seem to contradict the very wording and spirit of this promise.
According to The Globe and Mail and information posted on the Public Registry of Lobbyists, a host of Conservative strategists, former staffers and political operatives—including former employees from Mr. Harper’s Opposition office, assistants to newly minted Cabinet Ministers, and even old Reform and Mulroney-era aides—have queued up in recent weeks to sway government policy.
“Prime Minister Harper has appointed three former lobbyists to Cabinet: Gordon O’Connor, Lawrence Cannon, and Jean-Pierre Blackburn,” Mr. LeBlanc added, also noting that several PMO staffers including Sandra Buckler, the Prime Minister’s new communications director, along with the chiefs of staff to Minister of Natural Resources Gary Lunn and Minister of the Environment Rona Ambrose, Government House Leader Rob Nicholson, Minister of National Revenue Carol Skelton were also recently registered as federal lobbyists.
Not only do these actions appear to contravene the Lobbyist Registration Act as well as the 2006 Conflict of Interest and Post-Employment Code for Public Office Holders, but they also violated the proposed Federal Accountability Act –the very cornerstone of the Conservatives’ election platform.
10) Mr. Graham also noted that the “Selective” Accountability Act breaks a key Conservative campaign promise to implement all of the recommendations made by the information commissioner.
“Where was the Prime Minister’s pledge on access to information, which was the core of his promise to clean up government?” he said.
Also missing from the legislation was any mention of preventing lobbyists from joining the government, where conflict of interest is an even greater concern.
“This is not surprising given that Minister of Defence Gordon O’Connor is a former lobbyist for major defence contractors,” he said.
11) Mr. Harper campaigned on an elected Senate and then appointed his election campaign co-chair as a Senator;
he vowed to stop the revolving door between lobbyists and government, and then appointed a senior lobbyist as Minister of National Defence; and he promised Canadians his government would only make “merit-based” appointments, and is now handpicking House of Commons committee chairs.
12) As Leader of the Opposition in May 2004, Mr. Harper pledged to Canadians that a Conservative government would eliminate the GST on gas entirely if prices escalated above 85 cents per litre. Mr. Harper called the GST a tax on tax, referring to the federal excise tax which is also charged on fuel.
I think that the truth of the matter is that higher gas prices are…going to be something that we’re going to have to get used to,” the Prime Minister told reporters yesterday. (April 06)
13) During the election campaign, Mr. Harper promised that Quebec’s role at the international organization would be one of a “participating government,” knowing full well UNESCO’s rules state that only sovereign states may participate. As a result, today’s agreement only gives Quebec an official representative within the Canadian delegation.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government today reneged on their campaign promise to Quebec which would have guaranteed the province a place at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
14) “Last fall, during a rush of promises to garner votes for an impending election, Stephen Harper unequivocally promised to ‘stand up for veterans’ by immediately extending VIP services to the widows of all Second World War and Korean War veterans.
“Today in the House of Commons, Veterans Affairs Minister Greg Thompson confirmed that this government has no intention of honouring this commitment. In fact, yesterday before the Standing Committee on Veterans Affairs, Mr. Thompson had the gall to tell Canadians that it was never promised in the first place, when it is very clearly laid out in the party’s Blue Book for all to see.
15) appointing campaign organizer Michael Fortier to the Senate so he could sit in Cabinet, after years of calling for an elected Senate;
16) implementing an Accountability Act that will actually increase government secrecy and make it less accountable, after running an election campaign on openness and accountability in government;
17) trying to push through a highly politicized deal on softwood lumber that industry representatives oppose because it puts more than $1 billion into the hands of American lumber competitors, after campaigning for years against any deal that does not return 100 per cent of duties paid to the U.S.;
“The Conservatives said they would demand that the U.S. government play by the rules on softwood lumber, and return the more than $5 billion in illegal softwood lumber tariffs to Canadian producers. But the agreement they signed with the U.S. only allowed for $4 billion to be returned to Canadian producers, and even went as far as to leave the U.S. a $1 billion dollar tip.”
18) presenting a budget (2006) that increases income taxes, cuts billions of dollars from social programs and contains no vision for the economic progress of our nation, despite having inherited the strongest financial position of any incoming government in Canadian history.
19) July 14, 2006
Breaking an election promise to implement the Patient Wait Times Guarantee and instead recycling the Liberals’ $5.5-billion Wait Times Reduction fund, but downloading its responsibility to the provinces and territories without investing any new money;
20) The Harper Conservatives misled the public on their plans to arm Canada’s border guards and are now hiding the costs of this expensive campaign promise, says Liberal MP Mark Holland, Opposition Critic for the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA).
“They now admit that this is a ten-year process and not the short-term solution they pretended it was when they made up this promise on the fly during the campaign,” says Holland. “Now they are refusing to disclose the costs over ten years, and are trying to bypass the scrutiny of the House of Commons Public Safety Committee
21) During the last federal election campaign, Prime Minister Stephen Harper promised that all government public opinion research would be published within six months of a project’s completion. Mr. Harper clearly stated that using public money for partisan polling was an abuse of power that his government would have no part of.
But now that the Conservatives have taken office, Mr. Harper appears to be singing a different tune. With only a month left until their promised deadline the Conservatives have yet to publish the March 3rd poll or the results of the environmental focus group testing.
Recent media reports indicate that on March 3, 2006, the Harper government commissioned an exhaustive poll to gauge public support for their five campaign platform priorities. Even though the poll’s questions were obviously partisan in nature, the $85,446 bill was sent to the Privy Council Office, not the Conservative Party of Canada.
Moreover, the Conservative Party’s most recent year end fiscal report indicates that no money had been spent on polling, yet we know that polling is happening. Canadians are right to wonder just how much of their hard-earned tax dollars are going towards partisan public opinion research.
22) The mean spirited cuts by the Conservative government announced this week may appeal to his socially conservative friends but they hurt so many others including women and aboriginals,” added Liberal Critic Anita Neville. “The Prime Minister has cut 39 percent of the operating budget from Status of Women, and he has cut the Court Challenges Program. During the election Stephen Harper said he would uphold the government’s commitments to women. Why has he broken that promise?
23) The Conservative federal election platform specifically states: “A Conservative government will…stop the Liberal attack on retirement savings and preserve income trusts by not imposing any new taxes on them.”
On Tuesday, Prime Minister Harper’s Finance Minister Jim Flaherty announced that income trusts will be taxed like corporations starting in 2011, blatantly contradicting a major Conservative election promise to Canadians.
“Since the last election, many Canadians put their money into income trusts precisely because Prime Minister Stephen Harper told them to do it, and told them he’d protect them,” said Liberal Leader Bill Graham. “This isn’t about corporations. It’s about Canadians from all walks of life that’ve lost their savings. It’s about Canadians sitting around the dinner table with their heads in their hands saying ‘what do we do now?’
“The Prime Minister is the author of their fortune. Yet he refused to admit it’s him that lured Canadians into investing in his promise. Will the Prime Minister at least admit that he misled Canadians and offer them an apology?
24) “In January the Prime Minister signed a declaration that he would support women’s rights and that his government would take ‘concrete and immediate measures’ to uphold its commitments to women. But last month this government did just the opposite when it eliminated equality from the mandate at the Status of Women.”
25)“Minister of Environment Rona Ambrose has repeatedly broken her promises to the people of Quebec,” said Quebec Liberal MP Raymonde Folco. “First Ms. Ambrose said she was open to allocate $328 million to Quebec. Now she is not.
26) “During the election Canadians were duped into believing a Conservative government would honour the terms and objectives of the Kelowna Accord. But that promise was broken with the Conservative budget, which cancelled the $5.1 billion agreement.
27) “The Conservative platform promised to cut income taxes for all Canadians, yet on July 1, taxpayers noticed an extra hit on their paychecks. The promised tax CUT had turned into a tax HIKE at the lowest bracket, hurting virtually all taxpayers.”
28) Passing a Federal Accountability Act that Information Commissioner John Reid describes as “retrograde and dangerous,” and that breaks 21 election promises relating to conflict of interest and failing to change the Access to Information Act;
29) Breaking an election promise of openness and accountability by refusing a call from Canada’s Chief Electoral Officer to open the party’s books for a full independent audit after Prime Minister Stephen Harper refused to admit that his party had violated election financing laws;
30) Breaking an election promise that no province would lose out in any new equalization program by back-peddling on a firm commitment to remove non-renewable resource revenue from the equalization formula, which would result in hundreds of millions of dollars being lost to some provinces;
31) Breaking an election promise to create 125,000 new spaces, while canceling the Liberal early learning and child care agreements to pay for a $100-a-month taxable allowance that does nothing to help families in need of child care;
32) Breaking an election promise to honour the $6.9-billion Canada-Ontario agreement;
33) Breaking an election promise to immediately compensate victims of Hepatitis C;
34) Breaking an election promise to outdo the Liberal government on investments in integrating foreign-trained workers into Canada by actually investing nine times LESS.
35) Breaking an election promise to reverse the Canada Post decision to close down the Quebec City mail sorting plant and save 300 jobs from moving to Montreal.
36) The Conservative government’s failings on immigration include a broken promise to establish a Foreign Credentials Agency, the abandonment of the Liberal government’s work on family reunification, and a failure to do anything to decrease backlogs in immigration applications. It has also slashed $20 million set aside to update Canada’s citizenship laws.
37) ACOA “This is a minister who campaigned on a promise not to cut funding to the Agency and then cut millions of dollars from it just a few weeks ago,” said Mr. D’Amours. “Now service is going downhill fast while Minister MacKay travels the globe, leaving the needs of his own constituents in limbo.
“Of course, we should hardly be surprised. This is the same government that referred to ACOA in the past as ‘corporate welfare.’ It appears Mr. MacKay agrees with this. He owes Atlantic Canadians an explanation as to why he continues to ignore them,” he said.
38) Equalization:- Prime Minister Stephen Harper wrote a letter to Williams in January 2006 vowing to keep non-renewable energy resources out of the equalization formula.
“The Conservative government will ensure that no province is adversely affected from changes to the equalization formula,” Harper wrote at the time.
Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams said the federal budget released Monday is a betrayal of his province, and he wants voters to punish the Conservatives in the next federal election.
“What they’ve done today is basically and completely shafted us,” Williams told reporters after the budget was released. “It’s scandalous what they’ve done, when you think of it.”
39) Child Tax Benefit Stephen Harper had been campaigning to have the child tax benefit increased to $5100 per child. Instead he increased the Child Tax Credit which will do absolutely nothing for the poorest children whose families have no taxable income.
40) Prime Minister Harper had pledged to boost aid spending beyond Liberal government’s planned 8% annual increases to achieve the average aid donor country performance by 2010. While the 2007 Budget reported that $315 million would be added to Official Development Assistance for this current year, 2006/07, it promised no new funding initiatives for 2007/08.
41) Whatever you think of the Atlantic Accord the can be no doubt that Steven Harper promised to honour it, Bill Casey the former Conservative MP claims Mr Harper has made subtle but critical changes to the wording which Harper of Course denies, the Premiers agree the Accord has been broken.
If you introduce a budget with an either/or clause on the Accord it would appear the intent would be to circumvent the intent of the accord, it fact you could ague as the Premiers do, that the very existence of the clause breaks the Accord.
It’s not my list and it’s a bit dated, but the point is so much for the brilliance and integrity of the Conservative government. Harper can easily arrange for an election to be called, but he won’t because knows he won’t win a majority and could possibly lose. This despite a year of attack ads against an opposition leader that is incomprhensible and a Liberal party tainted with scandal. If I was a COnservative I’d be crying myself to sleep at night.
ET posts :
“The MSM is still firmly Liberal and follows the Dogma faithfully – you can read and listen to them all – Travers, Weston, Taber, both Newmans, Duffy, the Ottawa Press Gang” – and she of course is 100% on the money.
To ET’s list I would add –
Carol Goar, Lawrence Martin, Tom Walkom,Linda MacQuaig, all CBC TV from (especially) Mansbridge on down the food chain, Adam Radwanski, Jeffery Simpson, Margaret Wente, Craig Oliver, Susan Delacourt, Ken Rockburn CPAC, Petr Van Deusen CPAC, Susan Riley, Allan Gregg ( Pollster), Robert Fife ( regretably now that he is at CTV as gatekeeper), and Don Martin.
These are the real biggies, many lesser lights are also in the swamp but do not rank but in my view are imbued with the Liberal Dogma.
Liberal “lickspittle.” all!~
What a hog, (l)iberia(l).
Instead of crying yourself to sleep, stand and walk TALL. Under PMSH, I’m again proud to be a Canadian.
Socialism = fascism, nazism, communism, lberiaism. …-
The Left’s Lust for Revolutionary Transformation
“Everything must be different!” or “Alles muss anders sein!” was a slogan of the Nazi Party. It is also the heart’s desire of every Leftist since Karl Marx. Nazism was a deeply revolutionary creed, a fact that is always denied by the Left; but it’s true. Hitler and his criminal gang hated the rich, the capitalists, the Jews, the Christian Churches, and “the System”. They went through their Leftist phase early in life, and then went on to discover Aryan racial purity as their beau ideal. (As a swarthy Italian, Mussolini preferred to appeal to ancient Roman imperial glory).
Nazism was hatched in the same little intellectual cafes as a myriad of Leftwing ideologies, like social-democracy, anarchism, the Socialist Workers’ Party, Trotskyism, Proudhonism, the lot. In the back streets of European cities you can still find the local anarchist or Leninist storefront, with old guys wearing 1900 laborer’s caps and big mustaches, and fierce revolutionary posters of Lenin tacked on the walls. You can also find them in Berkeley, California.
“Everything must be different!” is the core psychology of Leftism, and has little to do with reasoned political beliefs. …-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1880364/posts
iberia – you need to move past kindergarten. When someone makes a promise, that doesn’t mean in five minutes, my child. It means that they’ll do it, when they can. So, my boy, there are some things for you to learn, now, before we’ll let you into grade one. I’m not going to go through your full list, because most of them are spurious and ignorant and repetitious. How many times is the accountability act mentioned?
Iberia – one thing you must first understand is that gov’t can’t do things overnight. It takes time. And, when you have a majority of socialists in the House and in the civil service and in the Senate and in the judiciary – never mind the MSM – , all eager for Big Gov’t and Welfare Statism to maintain themselves in power – well, a Conservative agenda of returning power to the electorate – takes time.
Your problem, iberia, my child, is that you, like all children, don’t have a sense of time, and expect satisfaction immediately – or you have a tantrum. You have to learn to wait, iberia. Grow up a little – and also, understand reality.
These things include:
1)Elected Senate. The current Liberal held Senate refuses to even consider being elected.
2) No promise was made about this; none broken. Admirable, to choose someone from another party, rejecting balkanization/multiculturalism.
3)Accountability Act decimated by the Senate, who refuse to be held accountable. Oh – O’Connor IS accountable.
4)Rubbish. Oh – what about the Liberal actions in this situation? Hmmm? They attempted to bribe an MP. Hmm?
5)So? An ad hoc committee is OK – and, he went before the full House.
6) Shapiro is ethical?
7) Capital gains – not criticized but welcomed. Canada has, under the Liberals, not developed an investor class. Harper is trying to do this.
Quebec does have a place at UNESCO; Harper is trying to give more power to the farmers – and, as he said, stop the CWB’s monopoloy.
What in heaven’s name is #39 – what about Harper’s child benefits, of 100 per child per month? hmmm? New spaces? He didn’t say tomorrow.
Softwood lumber? Heh – the Liberals kept that item alive, refusing to settle it, because they used it constantly, as part of their campaign strategy of constant anti-Americanism. The Americans were in the right on this; Canada was subsidizing Canadian logging and the Americans were right to protect their own forestry industry against subsidized cheap Canadian lumber.
Again, iberia, it’s useless to go into the whole list because it is a childish list. How about what he’s done.
1. lowered gst from 7 to 6
2. passed an accountability act, despite its being decimated by the Liberal Senate
3. ended the Income Trust corporate tax loophole, which was being abused by banks and trusts to evade taxation – meaning that more and more of the tax burden would fall on individuals and families
4 raised the age of consent from 14 to 16
5 invested in a national healthcare strategy to deal with wait times – even though health is the prerogative of the provinces
6 tougher laws on drunk driving, drugs and violence; ended house arrest for dangerous criminals – despite the Liberal insistence that no-one is responsible- the criminal just had a bad social life. Tougher laws on gun crimes – despite our Liberal justices insisting that gun criminals be released immediately to go out and kill someone else.
Cleaning up the RCMP; hiring many more RCMP; strengthening our borders.
7 Clean Air Act; Acts to clean up the Great Lakes; gave Ontario 586 million as part of an ecotrust project to deal with emissions and pollutants. Almost similar amount to Quebec. And all this despite the Liberal insistence on the disastrous Kyoto Treaty- which the Liberals did nothing about, and which they know would be an economic disaster for Canada.
8 Ended softwood lumber dispute. And remember, Canada was subsidizing the lumber; the Liberals weren’t telling Canadians that fact.
9.Child care benefits; child care tax credit, doubled pension income credit; couples can split income pension
10. ended several wasteful social programs – ie, literacy program, some status of women programs, which were primarily funding for middle class civil service jobs – nothing to to with actual benefits to women in need.
11. moved to strengthen our international duties and responsibilities – in Afghanistan, and assistance to other countries (haiti, Middle East, etc); strengthened our relation with our chief economic partner, the USA.
Focus on the North and moving to strengthen Canadian sovereignty over the north.
12. settlement for residential schools; settlement for chinese-canadian head tax; preventing Liberals from using Quebec as an election strategy- (quebec is a nation) by changing it to ‘the quebecois are a nation within a united canada’
That’s just a few of the accomplishments – by a minority gov’t, with a majority who are socialists, – with a civil service, a judiciary and senate – all Liberals. I think it’s something to acknowledge with admiration.
You, iberia – disagree. That’s your choice.
“If I was a Conservative I’d be crying myself to sleep at night.”
You may be a socialist, lberia, but you don’t strike me as stupid, so I’ll assume that your just havin’ a little fun and don’t actually believe the above.
I’m a connoisseur of propaganda. Love the stuff. I spend hours on the net reading old Russian, Chinese, American, and German propaganda.
The list you posted offends me aesthetically. The list, it is a crime against the beautiful art of propaganda.
The problem appears to be that it was written by the income trust investors victim group rather than by experienced Liberal hacks, and it shows.
Iberia is giving hint of LPC talking points for next election – trying to create illusion that Tories are just as dishonest (remember the red book?) and corrupt (our soldiers are war criminals, or Harper “might” have to give evidence at some trial) as the Liberals. It won’t work, people know better and they have an incomprehensible (yes, his English is bad too)leader.
Keep whining Iberia, your beloved Liberals are out of the power loop. Dionsky has shifted them to left, so Canadians will have two alternatives – CPC government that has shown vision, has actually passed legislation and hasn’t stolen taxpayers dollars. Or, LPC, which hasn’t paid back the money they stole, want us to believe Adscam was work of Chuck Guite, and has moved so far left that they are indistinguishable from NDP or Green parties.
Canadian will never elect Dion as their PM, and the MSM will surely turn on him in the next election. Once Canadians actually care about politics (election time) and hear Dionsky in form and substance, he will be a dead duck. Meanwhile, your list is insipid and reeks of childish desperation. Keep up the good work.
“If I was a Conservative I’d be crying myself to sleep at night.”
So would I…
ET:
Not everything the Conservatives have done is bad, but it should be quite clear to you by now that not all Canadian citizens are enamoured with the Conservative party. They must all be socialists, eh?
Andrew:
The list is written by an income trust investor victim. However, the truth is that if I was a Conservative, I would not be happy right now.
Shamrock:
In case you have forgotten, I detest the Liberals. Your confidence in the Conservatives doesn’t mean they will get a majority, or even win, in the next election.
Iberia I don’t believe you. You put out a smokescreen to keep your dear leader from being humilitated re: his ridiculous claims that Harper secretly negotiating bulk water. I joked Maude Barlow was source; turned out it was true. No, people unenamoured with Conservatives are not socialists; not yet that is. BTW, you’re right, it’s my opinion, well considered though, that CPC will get majority in next election. I can’t predict the future, but at least I’m ahead of Libs, who can’t even predict past (see their revinisionism about Afghan mission, the one they sent our troops on). Your list was Council of Canadians drivel. You detest Liberals? IOW you detest everybody, I guess. No wait I left out NDP, Bloc and RedGreen party. On other hand, they and Libs are basically the same party anyway. Good luck with the coalition of moonbats!
a crack in the cbcpravda global warming facade.
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/08/17/tech-nasatemp070817.html
well, iberia, if you aren’t a liberal, then you are ndp – or communist..whatever it is, you are a socialist. They are all similar.
As for not ‘all Canadians are enamoured with the CPC’ – I don’t expect that. After all, there’s been a generation of pure socialist brainwashing. Socialism is embedded in the MSM, in the civil service, the universities, the judiciary, the Senate – any ‘unionized’ or ‘kept people’ are socialists and against individual rights and responsibilities.
And of course, there will always be socialists, whether brainwashed or not – because socialism is the ‘default’ political infrastructure. That’s because it’s the simplest, easiest and most emotionally ‘soft’ ideology.
Just imagine what it would be like if we all had money, no-one was poor, no-one needed anything, no-one had to work hard – free education, free everything. Utopia. That’s the socialist ideology. Heck – that describes a native reserve, doesn’t it? And the interesting thing is – such a lifestyle means despair.
Socialism is naive; it thinks that ‘evil’ or ‘criminality’ is caused by ‘not enough money’ or ‘not enough housing’ or.. Untrue. Because the socialists totally, completely, ignore psychology.
Psychology means that one child will hoard his toys; will be jealous; will hit someone if he wants their toy. Psychology means that emotions such as hatred and greed – won’t go away.
Socialists ignore this; they think that everything will be OK – if only there is ‘no poverty’.
It’s interesting to see how the socialist agendas of various revolutions rapidly turn to criminality. These include the maoist rebels in central and south america, who moved out of revolutionary ideology ‘for the people’ and into drugs and kidnapping for money.
Same thing is happening with Al Qaeda; they are moving out of ideology..and into pure criminality, kidnapping people for ransom – watch out – they’ll be running drugs soon, if not now.
el beria. everyone please note its l (small L)
after a notorius stalinist.
Im not a conservative either, je suis une separatist.
I want Alberta to separate and take its green house gas emmissions with it.(and its tax base)
too many cracks in the global warming facade
http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2007/08/18/vo.naked.glacier.protest.ap
the real news,—scooter brison dresses like Stephen Harper not Borat Dion
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070818/brison_wedding_070818/20070818?hub=TopStories
What did Paul Martin negotiate in the deal when he signed it in 2005. What was he planning on putting in the deal. Did he promise to give away canada’s water, in return for ???. Maybe he misled dion and told him it was harper who was PM in 2005. What did Martin and Fox discuss in secret talks. What plans of Martins were ambushed in Jan 2006.
The natural end result of socialism: Moonbats, nude, on ice.
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Kos Kid: We’re Not Vicious Enough
Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 1:55:16 pm PST
Utterly beyond parody: Daily Kos: What the Left Lacks.
Viciousness.
We are too nice. Maybe it comes from the generally pacifist leanings that progressives tend to hold, perhaps we are just more civilized than our fellow conservatives, but whatever it is we need to learn to become more ruthless. …
Take the word “moonbat” as an example of their determination and lack of desire for compromise. A quick look at Powerline blog, RedState, Townhall, or Powerline shows the word pop up with stupefying regularity. Progressives (the adoption of the word alone a symbol of our desire to run from conflict and derision rather than embrace it and turn it into motivating hate, as the Right does) have no such word that conjures together the sense of loathing, disdain, and contempt that “Moonbat” does. And the word doesn’t even mean anything!!! What the f*ck is a moonbat?
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http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=26714_Kos_Kid-_Were_Not_Vicious_Enough&only
Hundreds pose nude on glacier to protest global warming
BETTMERALP, Switzerland (AP) – Hundreds of naked people formed a “living sculpture” on Switzerland’s Aletsch glacier Saturday aimed at raising awareness about climate change. …-
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2007/08/18/4428041-ap.html
Incredible as it may seem, I am going to find myself voting Liberal this election because of Tory’s retarded religious school funding proposal.
1) It will bankrupt the province
2) It will destroy what’s left of the public school system
3) The principal beneficiary will be Canada’s fastest growing religion. Islam.
$@#$%)*! idiot politicians. Where won’t they stoop to buy a vote?
Take Note! The average rainfall in Ocean Falls, BC is 300 inches per year. You could fill a tanker a day and have lots left over for the very few residents that are left. Dion and Barlow better get brain transplants at the earliest opportunity. There will be a promblem with the transplants, they will have to find brains small enough to fit, so 2 day old herring are the only living things they can use, and the natives are using them for ceremonial festivities, so they’ll have to stand in line, or go to the US to get to the head of the line.
cal2: Thanks for the link. As usual, the MSM did a poor job of reporting the facts. Contrary to what CBC reported, GISS never said that 1998 was the warmest year in the US. They have always said that 1934 was the warmest year followed by 1998. So while the numbers change the actual rankings don’t.
Regards,
John
Mr. Cross:
http://www.climateaudit.org/?p=1880#more-1880
Hi Kate: If I can quote from Hansen in 2001:
I do thank you for that link since it also had a link to the next article in climate audit which makes it appear that it was not a DOS attack on Steve’s site but overloaded use. I was wondering about that.
Regards,
John
maz2:
Funny bit there on kos kids not getting the word ‘moonbat.’ Followed by the story naked on an iceberg.
Very funny.
Shamrock:
It was my understanding that Maude Barlow could only export bulk water for a few days a month…