Harper’s Address To Canada

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Followed by the networks continued waiting… waiting… waiting… for Dion’s taped response…. air time filled with CTV’s Lloyd Robertson, Craig Oliver and “analyst” Peter Donolo spinning on behalf of the missing Liberal leader.
It doesn’t get any better than this.
Update… and still waiting… though there are unconfirmed reports leaking out that a man of the general size and description of Michael Ignatieff was seen running down a street in Ottawa with something clutched in his hand….
7:29 Central… Lloyd Robertson: “Apparently the tape has not shown up yet, may not show up yet…. Goodbye for now”
Update … more unconfirmed reports that Dion is still working at the tape do-overs…
And he’s here! Incoherent (out of focus… wtf?) and …. live?
Webcam?
And it’s over. Marcia McMillan looks stunned…
From the comments – “Check out the book over Dion’s right shoulder. The title is “Hot Air”. No kidding !!”
This will be Youtube gold.
Note – I’m watching on CTV Newsnet, but apparently, the main network didn’t get it on air at all and finally cut back to regular programming. Yowza.
Jack must love that he had to take a back seat and wait as Gille “not mentioned in the coalition” Duceppe was able to respond first.
That whole “Three Stooges” thing is looking less like a metaphor all the time!
Update: The Leader of the Not-Quite-Ready-For-CTV-Primetime-Coalition addresses the nation from his bunker.

247 Replies to “Harper’s Address To Canada”

  2. So I go to the CTV website to see the PM’s address and watch Mr Harper explain in a calm clear manner what the government has done, is doing and plans to do about the economy. I finished watching this feeling a bit more reassured, not that I thought Canada was any worse off than the rest of the G20, and then I look at the list of other video clips at CTV. Just reading the titles told me that fair and balanced wasn’t in this media’s vocabulary. Words like lacking, crisis, concessions, teetering and chaos, tell me all I need to know about their “expert” anal ysis. Pravda would be proud.

  3. “SDA readers, I know at some point during the last election campaign that I saw Dion stating that he would never hook up with the separatists.”

    I sure as hell remember him saying he’d never form a coalition with NDP socialists who would hurt Canada’s economy. He was lying, of course. He’s a socialist.

  4. I watched Global than shut it off in distaste after some Academic MOON almost had a stroke trying to tell us all how stupid we are not knowing this is perfectly legal, with it’s the best thing for Canada blah blah. This is really just hunky dory, all lit up in Democracy was his message. No mention of course of the morality , Ethics, Separatists, with all the rest. Not even the tape that seems to show they planned this before the election.
    Its all going to come apart. The glue that held this Nation has just passed it best due date .
    Remember humpty dumpy? Its was not a kids rhyme to begin with. No inclusion for the West. Taxation to the max with absolutly no representation. While the Rape of the West will start. Danny boy , your next dog.
    Boom Baby Boom.
    JMO

  5. Sounds like I missed a good ole leftist-media-spinning-for-the-neo-liberals time.
    Glad to hear Dion exposed himself AGAIN as the buffoon he is.
    And Duceppe going first… yeah, you can’t hide that shyte from Canadians.
    Tell this coalition of morons to take a seat, Madam Jean!

  7. Just watched Copps and the NDP chick shut down Goldy whenever he tried to tell Canadians what the Tories have done. And Mike Duffy let them go on….

  9. “SDA readers, I know at some point during the last election campaign that I saw Dion stating that he would never hook up with the separatists.”

    I sure as hell remember him saying he’d never form a coalition with NDP socialists who would hurt Canada’s economy. He was lying, of course. He’s a socialist.

  11. Guess Rick McInnis thinks “people who talk funny” should be ridiculed.
    I’m guessing he speaks several language – and is as fluent in each of them as he is in his mother tongue.
    Couldn’t be a xenophobic philistine, could he?

  12. By the way, I received a response from ‘Assistant 1’ in Liberal John McKay’s office (Scarborough). I was shocked at the superficiality and also, the ignorance.
    This young twit actually wrote me that Harper’s ‘fiscal update’ was denying civil servants their “Charter guaranteed Right to Strike”. Unbelievable. This person, employed in a federal MPs office, paid by us, the taxpayer, writes me that the Charter guarantees the Right-To-Strike.
    That is an absolute lie. There is no Right-to-Strike in the Charter. Or indeed, in the constitution. Or anywhere. Yet this idiot, working in a federal MPs office, wrote me that one of the reasons they were angry with Harper was that he was denying them their CHARTER guaranteed Right to strike.
    Then, he also told me that he attacked the fundamental principles of our society (which included this ‘Charter Guaranteed Right to strike) and also, included “funding for political parties’
    I didn’t know that ‘funding for political parties’ is a fundamental principle of our society. But this twit said so; he also said it was an act of ‘attacking democracy’.
    I didn’t know that the taxpayer’s funding of political parties was a fundamental principle of Canada (hmm – Chretien set it up a few years ago) or that it had anything to do with democracy. After all, we taxpayer Canadians were never asked about this.
    This is the kind of response we Canadians are getting from coalition members. That, and Dion’s Hot Air babbles. And meanwhile, Duceppe and Parizeau laugh their heads off at their coup.

  13. Michael Coren puts it best when he asked a New Democrat on his panel (paraphrasing)… “The NDP finished 4th in the election, has 37 seats in a 308 seat parliament and will have 25% of the cabinet seats while the party that won with 143 seats, by far the most, will have no cabinet seats at all. Is that fair?”

  14. Jean Lapierre stating on CTV Mike Duffy that this was the worse time he ever saw the Liberal party ight, regarding its leader the tape and the whole situation, now stated that he didn’t know what to do because they aren’t use to being in opposition.

  18. Sorry about the jumbled post
    Jean Lapierre stating on CTV Mike Duffy that this was the worse time he ever saw the Liberal party tonight, regarding its leader the tape and the whole situation.Dion now stated that he didn’t know what to do because they aren’t use to being in opposition. faster, harder, please!!!

  21. Nice of CTV to have the Quebecois lady on, to complain about how Calgary talk shows are hurting Quebecers’ feelings. Where was the West’s representative?
    I ask again, where is the Western representation in the national media???

  22. “Harpers message….we are working on this, have been working on this and we have a budget to come. No Paul Martin pleading…thanks god….
    Also the Quebec commentators dont get it….they are saying he burned bridges…..ulm, look thats what happens when you dont vote for them. there is more fish to be had hanging the NDP and Liberals with a trucking with seperatist lodestone than there is trying woo soft nationalists…..just the way it is.”
    Posted by: Stephen at December 3, 2008 7:35 PM”
    Stephen, I couldn’t believe the Quebec commenter while she was implying that we are offending Quebecers by criticizing separatists.
    “Which just goes to prove that Dion could’t find his a**hole with two hands and a flashlight
    Posted by: Squiggy at December 3, 2008 7:42 PM ”
    hardeeharhar!!!
    “Last evening I mentioned I was phoned by Nanos group for survey, my bad.
    Strategic Council called…I realise now it was Donolo’s group, and I can see why the questions were very skewed.
    Posted by: bluetech at December 3, 2008 7:59 PM ”
    Donolo’s a pinko.
    “BTW, Jack Layton, for the first time tonight I have seen you for the schister you really are…crocodile tears for the ordinary Canadian. I didn’t believe a word you said, you were disingenious.
    Posted by: Netty at December 3, 2008 8:07 PM”
    He’s the man who lived in subsidized housing in Toronto while he and his pinko wife O. Chow were pulling down six figures as politicians. He only moved out after he was caught.

  24. Obscene media narrative of the night: criticizing Separatists makes you Quebecophobic.
    Posted by: flaggman at December 3, 2008 8:31 PM
    glaggman, you’re wrong. Criticizing them doesn’t make you Quebecophobic. Simply calling them ‘seperatists’ is apparently sufficient. I guess it would be like calling water ‘wet’ would make you hydrophobic?
    The spin out there in leftard-land is truly amazing. That anybody can consider a coalition with the Bloc (and despite what idiot Dion and company say, the Bloc is inextricably linked to the Libs and dippers in this unholy alliance) as reasonable truly amazes me. Handing the balance of power, de facto veto power, to a party that is unaccountable to 4 out of every 5 Canadians, is soft totalitarianism (to put it mildly).
    Anybody who supports this coalition is, at best, ignorant. More likely, they’re hateful, intolerant, closet, left-wing fascists.

  25. I listened on radio -so all drivel about the quality of the video is lost on me. Nice to read that so many of you are focused on the banal and inane rather than the substance. Dion’s speech had more meat and made more sense, albeit awkwardly.
    All PMSH did was confirm he is unapologetic for getting us into this mess int he first place! Petty-minded bully-bazturd, he’ll take the cowards way and seek prorogation. Again, he’s a coward.

  26. This should make front page news!
    A budget takes consultations with all of the stakeholders and months of careful analysis – right. It also has to take into account the entire country wouldn’t you think???
    Duceppe bragged tonight that he has secured for Quebec EVERYTHING he asked for – programs, funding, reversals of some cuts, MORE MORE MORE.
    He said that is why he went into the deal because he was promised Quebec will get it all!!!!! And, the demands have just begun.
    From who???? Which provinces have to give up funds to cover his ransom? Or, now will all provinces demand the same?
    How big of a defecit are the three comrades planning on? As Bob Ray said yesterday “$30 billion – I don’t know where that number comes from but that’s the one they plucked out of the air”.!!!!
    OMG anyone else absolutely incenced by this.

  27. Is it true the GG got off the plane, took the limo to Rideau Hall, watched the Dion tape on CTV, then decided to fly back to Europe?
    Bet that lady is really pi$$ed.

  28. The College Professor had his tape made by a Grade 3 class (or Kyoto perhaps)I think. Reported on Mike Duffy Live, Dion was overheard getting into an elevator with Duceppe. Duceppe “What happened to you guys?” Dion: “We’re not used to being in opposition”. Smells of “entitlement” for sure. This is a power grab. Nothing more. Nothing less.

  29. Lloyd Robertson said he was lead to believe that Harpers speech would be 7 minutes long, not 5. Oh my gosh, the conservatives lied.

  30. Just saw the Honorable Leader Of Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition…..
    OMG, that was a brutal tape.
    Ladies and gentleman, live from the International Space Station……..ridiculous, I am surprised you didnt hear someone cooking bacon in the background….Stephane! Come on Upstairs Time for Dinner!
    And Lapierre’s comments were priceless,
    Duceppe to Dion: What was that
    Dion: >shrug

  33. ET, FYI, the child in the Liberal MP’s office is referring to “freedom of association” a charter guarantee that the Supreme Court has upheld as the basis for worker’s right to strike. The government can’t remove it, but they can limit it.

  36. Yeah, Dion said over and over again during the election that he would NOT support a coalition, same for that pompous twit Layton, lying peices of s##t. Liz J has it nailed on the Separatist/Liberal/NDP whores in the MSM, what a disgrace they are, and extremely dangerous. The perfect example of MSM bias in favour of the Separatist/Liberal/NDP alliance,is the fact they refuse to play the answers given to the media during the election by the gang of 3 in regards to coalition, where they all said no to coalition. The media refuses to play the 3 douche bags answers because of the damage it would do to their coup attempt.

  37. Excuse me, but f*ck this Quebecer’s feelings.
    I don’t remember any Quebecer standing up for us westerners when a succesion of LPC-Quebec-based PM’s repeatedly called us unCanadian, racist, redneck or simply stupid, purposely raped much of our economy, hatefully flipped us the middle finger and generaly treated us with contempt(When they paid us ANY attention at all).
    So you’ll excuse me if I don’t give a shit how some whiny, greedy, self-righteous, arrogant ,self-entitled, free-loaders are feeling.

  38. Mardigras, where did you get those numbers? Are you totally inept, or do you not know his popular vote went up in every single election he has been the leader. Moron… ask the nearest small child to show you how to use google or wikipedia to find the results of the elections.

  39. “the % of Canadians who actually voted for the Harper government declined from 2006 (23.47%) to 2008 (22.25%). Go figure.”
    The Conservative Party increased their share of the vote for the 5th straight election. There was lower turnout. Dumbass.

  40. whores in the MSM, what a disgrace they are, and extremely dangerous.
    Posted by: Sean M at December 3, 2008 9:30 PM
    I can only hope that this whole fiasco will lead to a CPC majority in 2009, and the subsequent gutting of the CBC. Mansbridge and company can go to hell as far as I’m concerned.

  41. I believe there’s a picture of Mardigras Dave in the dictionary, under the definition of ‘useful idiot’.

  42. Dear Mardigras Dave,
    Welcome over here from the Pravda forums (oh sorry, the CBC “News” forums)!
    Good work on their math there from my blog! What you failed to mentioned to everyone were these two factoids:
    From 2006 to 2008:
    – The Liberals declined from 19.56% to 15.52%
    – The NDP declined from 11.31% to 10.74%
    And while we’re at, in the entire history of Canada before that, here are the figures for every previous winner:
    2004 Liberals 22.37%
    2000 Liberals 26.18%
    1997 Liberals 25.77%
    1993 Liberals 29.24%
    1988 Conservatives 32.57%
    1984 Conservatives 35.52%
    1980 Liberals 34.01%
    1979 Conservatives 27.17%
    1974 Liberals 30.64%
    1972 Liberals 29.47%
    1968 Liberals 34.35%
    1965 Liberals 30.05%
    1963 Liberals 32.88%
    1962 Conservatives 29.40%
    1958 Conservatives 42.61%
    1957 Conservatives 28.76%
    1953 Liberals 32.69%
    1949 Liberals 36.27%
    1945 Liberals 29.95%
    1940 Liberals 35.87%
    1935 Liberals 33.15%
    1930 Conservatives 35.13%
    1926 Liberals 29.04%
    1925 Conservatives 30.63%
    1921 Liberals 27.86%
    1917 Unionists 42.70%
    1911 Conservatives 34.09%
    1908 Liberals 34.36%
    1904 Liberals 36.43%
    1900 Liberals 38.89%
    1896 Liberals 26.02%
    1891 Conservatives 31.29%
    1887 Conservatives 33.24%
    1882 Conservatives 28.40%
    1878 Conservatives 29.06%
    1874 Liberals 27.49%
    1872 Conservatives 27.04%
    1867 Conservatives 25.47%
    While we are at historically low voting levels, I’d say that your thesis has been … well, “punked”!

  43. The book? They all missed the one over his right shoulder = “365 English Nouns”. I kid you not.

  44. Honestly I almost felt sorry for Dion. Seems he is not capable of any sort of professionalism, let alone running the country. I expect that he was making CTV wait because of the last incident with them. As for the video itself? I swear he propped a video camera up on shelf and made this by himself. In fact it’s probably the reason the books in the shelf are in focus because he set it up that way, forgetting he’d be in front of them. Maybe he’s lost all trust in reporters and camera men. Totally amateur…I was so dumbfounded I have to say I didn’t even pay much attention to what he said. Sad, sad, sad is right.

  45. I have not watched either address, but I did watch CBC’s report on the reaction to Harper’s address on the National. They spent 1-1.5 minutes talking to Quebecers about how bad Harper’s attacks on the Bloc are making them feel. They went for “man in the street” interviews in Vancouver, Toronto, and one guy in Calgary. They managed to find the one Liberal in Calgary, who naturally said he “wanted stability”. Most of their other, very carefully chosen, interviewees either trashed Harper or mouthed “stability” platitudes (nobody said whether “stability” meant coalition or Harper, but given CBC’s context you know what they want you to think). CBC apparently couldn’t find one single Canadian who would outright denounce this abomination on camera.
    Fire. Them. All!

  46. Um, forgive me if I appear clueless, but where were the detailed economic plans that M. Dion talks about in the video SEVEN FREAKIN’ WEEKS AGO when we had an election going? All I heard about then was the “Green Shift”; nasty Conservatives; irresponsible NDP; mean and nasty Conservatives; secret agendas; mean, nasty, and racist Conservatives; and the Liberals are the natural governing party of Canada, born of their landslide support outside of Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, and Ottawa.
    However, I do fault the Harper team on one point – when Maggie Thatcher first took power, she installed a cabinet and brought down a budget in her first seven weeks. She hit the ground running, and it took Labour almost 20 years to recover. Why did we take so long? If Flaherty had brought down a budget three weeks ago – which, considering that he was already in the post, and should have been working on one anyway, is not a ridiculous request – we wouldn’t be in this mess today.

  48. skip – I’m aware of the Charter’s 2d ‘freedom of association’ right, but that is not also a right to strike. And indeed, the Supreme Court has made it clear that the one does not mean the other.
    I refer to three cases in 1987, commonly known as the Labour Trilogy, with reference to public service employee relations, the conclusion was that section 2d of the Charter protected only to right to join a union, but not to engage in union activities.
    The SCC judgment of 1987, again with the Public Service, says, and I quote: “the guarantee of freedom of association in s 2(d) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms does not include a guarantee of the right to bargain collectively and the right to strike”
    And the third SCC judgment in 2007, did the same. The right to bargain collectively and the right to strike, as incidental to collective bargaining, were, the SCC majority held, modern rights created by legislatures, not fundamental freedoms and were not included in the freedom of as sociation. Accordingly, prohibiting the right to strike did not violate the Charter, as the Charter did not guarantee the right to strike.
    Therefore, this young twit was either ignorant of the Charter, and the SCC decisions about this very issue, or was deliberately lying to me. Again, the SCC decisions were very clear. The fundamental right of freedom of association does not include the right to strike. I can give you the exact details of the cases if you want.
    By the way, the way I see this putsch, is that it’s primarily Layton as the major force behind it; he’s enlisted Duceppe who is in it for everything he can get out of it financially and etc (senate seats etc)..and both of them are using that monstrous idiot, Dion, as their sockpuppet.
    Dion doesn’t have a clue what is going on. He doesn’t realize that he’s being used and that he’s destroying the Liberal Party as a viable party. How will it ever be viewed as a selfsufficient party with its own policies. From now on, it will be seen as an arm of the NDP, and linked forever to the separatist agenda in Quebec.
    But the real MadMan is Layton, who is calling ‘his’ coalition’ the Coalition for Change (shades of Obama-mania)..and declaring that it represents 62% of Canadians.
    No, it doesn’t. It represents zero Canadians. you see, Obama’s Campaign for Change was voted on by the American electorate.
    Jack’s Coalition for Change hasn’t been voted on by any Canadians.
    Indeed, we Canadians voted only for separate political parties. We didn’t vote for a coalition.

  49. This speech was what I hoped for, and expected. Rumours to the effect of Harper weakening were Liberal lies, as usual.
    He laid it out. This is the game, he says. Do it or fight.
    Now, in Ottawa, tomorrow, Thursday, there is, apparently, at noon, a, can you believe this? PRO-coalition rally on parliament hill.
    I will take my lunchtime to “join” it. Any other takers. I expect we will easily outnumber them.
    Spent the past two evenings preparing signs for ttaurday. I will field test them tomorrow at the GGs after work.
    BLOCK THE BLOC
    ELECTION NOW

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