Reader Brian Mallard is looking for input;
I am going to be in Ottawa this coming week. I will attend a meeting where the prime minister will take questions in an open forum. There are no media in the room. What question would you ask if you had the chance?
I would ask Mr. Mallard why he is wasting his time? Any answer he gets from ol liberal lite Steve will be totally meaningless.
batb – a list of accomplishments on a blog is not the same as a monthly one page information flyer that is distributed to ALL voters in an electoral district and is put in a half-page ad in a local newspaper.
The difference is that the blog will primarily be visited by Conservatives, and the point of a monthly information flyer is to ‘drip’ this data almost without thought, into the minds of the voters.
Just as their minds are filled with rubbish that slithers in from the MSM, by the endless blathering of ‘pundits’ who hate Harper, who focus only around the elite mandarin class in Ottawa and view the rest of us as ‘beer and popcorn’…this tactic of sending out Information Flyers – not posting them only on a blog – is equally ‘slithering.
But there’s an enormous difference. A vital difference. Our Information Flyers are providing facts. Not opinions. Just the actual facts. You make up your own mind, your own opinions, on whether you think these actions were any good. All that these Flyers provide is actual facts. Nothing else.
The Title of the Flyers is:
The Conservative Agenda: We Get it Done. Actions. Not Words.
And they are ONE page only at a time. 8 by 11. You can read it over your coffee just before you throw it out. But, these facts, bit by bit, will get through. Even if you only read the TITLE, before you trash it..that ‘thought’ gets into your mind.
So, one flyer on Transportation will tell you:
-697 million for the TTC to extend the Spadian subway line through York University to Vaughan; money already deposited into a trust account.
-83 million for Mississauga rapid bus transit
– 29.5 million for Hwy 401 improvements between Windsor and Tillbury
NOTE: that’s all it will say. No analysis, no self-congratulations, no ‘we did more than the Liberals’. Nothing. Just the facts. Set out in a two-toned Flyer (white background, with blue headers).
Another flyer will tell you
-30 million over 5 years to clean up Lake Simcoe
– 7 million over 2 years to clean up Lake Winnipeg
-3.3 million for St. Clair River Clean up
-Brantford: upgrade water plant
-Brockwille- wastewater system
-Sarnia – water pollution control
And so on. People have NO idea that these projects are being carried out. Sometimes, you’ll hear about the results – but the local cities and provinces take ALL the credit.
I don’t know who to send these to, so that you can see what I mean. Joanne – can I send them to you and you can put them on your blog so that others can get the idea?
Why don’t you radically lower our taxes and make Canada a haven for all the John Galt’s looking to flee the once great USA.
It’s the media, stupid.
I know many people who are, in all respects, quite conservative in their views, actions, ect.
Personal responsibility, moral accountability, favor rewards for success not failure, income redistribution is a socialistic scheme.
And yet they vote Liberal ! Why ? Because they get their “news” from the media and the media only.
This is what PMSH is up against. He always has to be conscious of how his actions will be reported. All important, but quickly becoming less so.
Less so ? As hard as the media tried to put Dion in a favorable light, the effort failed because of the Internet. Worked at the Lib convention but not in the general election. Not enough wool to cover it.
Don’t forget that there may be someone with a tape recorder there, spying for the enemy Liberals, hoping to get a soundbite to take out of context and perhaps doctor-up…
When Obama the Unready came to Ottawa, you can actually see the jealousy he felt when you gave your speech at the podium in the House of Commons. Likewise, the interviews you had with the American media were excellent.
Please, Mr. Harper, show this side of yourself to the Canadian public in an incremental fashion so that we can see your capabalities. Who knows, maybe the media will catch on to the fact that we have an intelligent, confident adult in charge.
ET “People have NO idea that these projects are being carried out. Sometimes, you’ll hear about the results – but the local cities and provinces take ALL the credit.”
And that is the problem with our system of 3 levels of government controlling 40% of the economy with little accountability .. for either the credit or the blame.
The voter has no idea who does what. In Toronto they think an MP is responsible for speed bumps on their street. When you tell them a Councillor is responsible for that they ask “Who is my Councillor anyway?” And that isn’t just new Canadians( of which nearly 50% residents of Toronto are) saying that, it is even 3rd generation , tuned-out Canadians.
When trillions of dollars are sloshed around by politicians who get elected mostly on name recognition versus policy and ideas; then we have this confusion of who does what and the incumbents have no incentive to clear the matter up.
That is why dripping the information (just the facts Ma’am) into the minds of the voter is the only way to get accountability understood and to unravel the dis/mis-information peddled by the propaganda machines of the left in the MSM.
What kind of car do you drive?
When will you show your true self and not the all smiles at every insult hurled your way by people who couldn’t carry your jock strap.Stand up and fight back,I think you might find that the average Canadian identifies more with Don Cherry than the champagne sipping we are the world corrupt to the core Liberals.
ron in kelowna:
I would agree the media are largely secular lieberal/socialist cheerleaders, their analysis and probing of lieberal misdeeds is woefully lacking.
If one publicly rejects the tenets of lieberalism expect a firestorm.
cf Carrie Prejean on the Miss America contest and the predictable Olberman sneering at a perfectly valid position. Short of bowing to the Humanist Manifesto one is considered a pariah.
What the lieberal mindset seems to count on is that somehow public disapprobation is a valid model of debate, rather than taking a considered position.
If you talk about lieberals financial misdeeds, it is one step short of a declaration of war.
Remember Garth Turner, on his since defunct blog, suggested the electorate wanted to stay with “the devil they know” Mr. Harper.
In short, if you don’t belong to the LIEberal tribe one is next to the Devil himself. This is shallow group identity politics of the worst sort. Why do LIEberals continue to do it? Because it is the only game in town they know how to play.
Talking actual policy and political philosophy is far too dreary because it may call attention to the naked theft of the LIEberal years.
Cheers
Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”
I don’t know if this brian mallard is the brian mallard I know of but if it is I suspect he will know the background if the two questions I would like him to ask (and I’m also sure prime minister harper understands the context as well). Both are also significant stimulus for the economy and ridicously Esau to implement. :
1. Will you be moving any time soon to allow income splitting for couples with children (and for single parents to split income with the oldest mldependent child)? This would be a significant tax break for millions of cdn families as well as open up thousands of daycare spaces (gold polictucally IOW).
2. Would you consider allowing pension plans to take any earnings over eight percent and keep them in a tax defered overflow account instead of having to reduce employee/employer contributions? A very big reason why defined benefit plans are failing and are in disfavour with companies is because of the current rules. Yet employees consider DBPs to be the retirement planning gold standard. Changing the current rule would make them far more sustainable and popular with companies and remove muchof the liabilities that government has to support underfunded plans. A similar rule change would be done for life insurance policies.
Such a change would be a political home run with companies unions and employees alike.
If brian or the prime minister want to know more they can contact me as I am part of two committees working on putting forwards proposal.
PM Harper, why do you not stress what is important to Canadians ? Forget about courting the media. They will always hate you.
Even though some in the media are wakening up to the style over substance scam;
“Despite a warm, fuzzy glow that followed Barack Obama’s February visit to Ottawa, Canadians are witnessing serious signs of greater U.S. protectionism and a thickening border.” Barbara Yaffe
Fuzzy glow from the Canadian media that is never, ever given to PMSH.
Even Don Martin; “Don Martin: Obama is proving a dangerous man for Canada”
PMSH – that would play well in Ontario. Especially when WK is pushing the IGGY/Obama love in thing.
Further to his motion declaring the Quebecois as a nation, the PM added “within a united Canada”. That would raise a few hackles no doubt.
Anyone suppose he lost support in Quebec for that or is it all down to the other excuse, Arts funding?
Quebec needs a time out from Federal politicians of all stripes kissing butt, let them grow up and stop the whining.
Questions I, the Invincible Phantom, would ask Stevie given the chance.
1) When are you going to kill the gun registry?
2) When are Canadians getting our property rights back?
3) When are we getting back our right to free speech?
4) WTF are you doing that’s so much more important than 1, 2 and 3 that you couldn’t even formulate a bill and make the Liberals vote against it?
4A) (If he gives a -good- answer) Do you want any help with that?
5) You should bring back the Arrow.
lizj- there is only one thing Quebecers are interested in – what they can get from ‘Canada’. They have no sense of any requirement that they should offer, participate, give, anything to the Canadian federation. They do not feel part of Canada.
The division is hard; it is linguistic; it is ‘francophone’ vs the ROC – which is anglophone. And there’s no mixing of the two. No alliance.
They feel that ALL their federal income taxes should be returned to them; the fact that they RECEIVE more from the federation than they give in taxes is something that they refuse to acknowledge.
I haven’t been following Canadian politics; I can’t stand Ignatieff but remember – he proposed that Motion ‘Quebec is a Nation’ (not les Quebecois are a nation in a united Canada..which was Harper’s rebuttal). Ignatieff, as an elitist, will appeal to the Montreal elitists. He won’t appeal to the rural, or to outside of Montreal, which will remain ‘old Quebec’ ..in this case, Bloc. But there’s enough votes in Montreal to carry Ignatieff.
The Liberal party is elitist; this means urban, latte-crowd, CBC, ‘arts and culture’ (meaningless but they are an incestuous group totally reliant on federal money); leftist, anti-American, European socialist. That’s the Liberal party..which is really, intellectually, Quebecois in Montreal.
They get Ontario votes by playing to the multicultural isolationism – that is, maintaining and keeping immigrants as isolate groups, non-integrated, funded to remain ‘as they were 100 years ago in the old country’. Since Ontario is heavily immigrant – then the Liberal agenda of isolationist multiculturalism is after one thing only – their vote.
Canada? Heh. The Liberal Party isn’t interested in Canada. Isn’t interested in Canadians. Isn’t interested in developing a Canadian society. It has only one agenda – power. Power as an elite, self-defined Guardian Class dominant over the beer and popcorn peasantry. And it will do anything to obtain this power.
What kind of a strategy is being afraid of own (conservative) shadow?
Maz2 you ignoramus. I’m no troll and if I was you’d never know anyways because I comment here about 5 times a year. And I’m not looking for a fight with this post either. I’m just setting the record straight: if anything I border on being a libertarian. Not that I owe you an explanation.
I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you have me mistaken for someone else.
ET comes up with the best idea I’ve heard yet. We can’t expect PMSH to fight the media drones alone. My commnunity newspaper is always asking for submissions. A factual list of the CPC and Mr. Harpers accomplishments should be published in it.
Back in the day I helped the Reform Party candidate in my riding and got a positive response at every door I knocked on – in a typical NDP area.
In the end our candidate won. Then there were recounts until the opposition ended up with more votes than there were ballots. They stole the win from the Reform candidate. Complaints to Elections Canada brought the response of “sour grapes” and the blatant cheaters won.
My question to PMSH is: What can your government do about that corrupt organization Elections Canada to make and keep them honest?
I love the flyer idea.Not!
Was anyone watching the American election? Was Obama sending out flyers? No, he was TXTing his supporters, taking advantage of technology and current trends. This is one of the major failings of conservatives. I repeat over and over that conservatives alienate youth and I only get ridiculed.I admire GWB but c’mon, he didn’t use email! John McCain didn’t use email! Okay, okay I know Churchhill didn’t use email and Reagan didn’t use email; but, do you know how bad that looks?
Where I work there is a bit of a revolution happening. People in their 20’s and 30’s are cruising past people with more expirience because of their aptitudes wrt current tech. Senior people are highly valued still, but those in the middle are being left behind. IMO it’s time to go young sturcturally,look at Brad Wall’s success. Young talent needs to be thrown into important positions at all levels of politics and allowed to make mistakes. This is constantly demonstrated in sports, lots of youth supplemented with great vetrans is the winning formula; and turf the high payed old guy as soon as you can. No mediocore old people!
Going young, that’s what’s happening in buisness, and that’s what conservatives should be doing. Conservatives need to walk the walk!
JMO^:!
Brad “I really want to support PMSH but I’m finding it harder and harder to feel like he’s a conservative in any meaningful sense of the term.”
How about the policy of Canada having the lowest corporate taxes?
Compare where ours are headed to where Obama’s are headed.
Do you think Iggy and the Liberals would have promoted the idea of low corporate taxes to make Canada globally competitive by attracting investors? Iggy says he has never ever invested in the market and is proud of it.
phantom – formulating a bill against the gun registry wouldn’t just result in the Liberals/NDP voting against it. The result would be a huge public relations bonanza for the Liberals. Why?
Because the MSM would define the question and its content. It would have NOTHING to do with the real long guns registered, nothing to do with their real use on farms etc. It would be based solely around two images:
Guns
Crime against hapless Canadians by criminals with guns.
Facts? Do you seriously think that the MSM and Liberals would focus on facts?
GUNS:
– the guns used in our cities by criminals aren’t long guns but handguns.
– all handguns are required to be registered since 1934
– this requirement is irrelevant. No sane criminal registers his gun; and, most of them are illegal guns
CRIME
– crimes aren’t committed by criminals with long guns but with handguns
COSTS
– the costs of the registration have nothing to do with lowering crime; indeed, gun-related crimes have gone up, up, up in our major cities. In Toronto, no-one even thinks about it; every few days, we read about some teenager or other, killing someone with a handgun.
– the costs, however, DO provide lots of jobs in the Maritimes for Liberal-voting bureaucrats
So- given that the MSM and Liberals won’t provide Canadians with FACTS; and that most Canadians are quite satisfied with getting all their ‘information’ from the biased MSM – it is difficult for Harper to govern, AND NOT constantly be handing over PR bonanzas to the Liberals.
Same thing with the HRCs. It’s taken several years – and not via the govt – but via grassroots organization, by people like Ezra Levant, Kathy Shaidle and others – to get the word out. BUT, in the big cities – among the latte crowd – they are still in their elitist fog.
Did we ever have property rights?
My suggestion, for what it’s worth, is a grassroots movement. These are very foreign to the Canadian mentality, which has, since its colonial inception, been quite content to let The Guardians (Britain or Ottawa) do all the governing.
The only grassroots incident I can think of, was the anti-Coalition movement of last year –
So, I think that it’s time for Canadians to ‘grassroot’ themselves out of their normal infrastructure of a Guardian Ruler ‘doing it all’…and doing things on their own.
Have our own Tea Parties – with themes such as the HRCs. Or the Gun Registry.
And – those Information Flyers ..send them out on a monthly basis. Let people know what’s going on.
Can you imagine – Canadians, actually taking things into their own hands? Not expecting govt, and The Guardian, to do it all?
Indiana Homez, you make good points about txt and youth. And that needs to be reconciled with the idea of flyers with information about action and accomplishments. Therein is the difference between a liberal and a conservative.
A conservative is about action and getting things done , not about musing things like “hope and change” .. that is emotion. You can maybe txt emotions. You can’t txt what has been done by PMSH vis a vis the Toronto subway … at least I don’t think you can ..it’s too long. That’s the conundrum.
Indiana Hormez and Nomdeblog:
“Mediocre old people”????
What an absolutely stupid and mediocre thing to say!!
Our Prime Minister just turned 50. Would you say that is “old”?
How do you define “young” and “old”?
I would define young as under 30, and i know many of that demographic who, if described as mediocre would be high praise indeed.
nomdeblog, you’re preaching to the choir my friend. I’m no Iggy fan. On the contrary, my problem with Harper is his policies are becoming indistinguishable from Iggy’s (or vice versa). In other words, I’m of the opinion that Harper’s do-what-it-takes-to-stay-in-government “pragmatism” has been used as rationale for lurching altogether too far left. I’m with the Ralph Kleins and Mike Harrises of the world. I’m opposed to anyone that thinks our bloated bureaucracies deserve further expansion. And as long as PMSH is tabling budgets suggesting he identifies with this leftist line of thinking, well…. sorry.
Don’t get me wrong. I’ll still vote for him as the least-bad option. But I’d rather be voting for Preston.
“Carbon Tax Revisited”
Liberal delegates just approved a resolution that endorse’s a National Carbon Tax
Ottawa Citizen/NNW
Mr. Prime Minister: Is there ANYTHING you won’t do or say to stay in power?
Indiana Homez – “Young talent needs to be thrown into important positions at all levels of politics and allowed to make mistakes.”
Like Obama?
We need no cult of tech-savvy youth. That image is entirely MSM-driven. ET’s flyer idea is great, but needs to pervade all communication formats.
The Conservative have been, are, and likely will continue to be, completely inept at communications.
THAT is their central problem.
indian homez – obviously I disagree with you. And strongly disagree.
I do NOT advocate sending out SPAM email. I get lots of spam; my filter absorbs it and I ignore it. I don’t even glance at it. So would anyone else receiving SPAM email from any political party.
You are erroneously thinking in an ‘either-or’ framework. EITHER use only electronic communication systems OR hard copy..and the latter is so..ooooooo ‘out of it’. Well, you’re wrong, in my view.
To spread basic factual information about policies and program accomplishments,
You use
1)INTERNET, i.e., blogs. You can list accomplishemtns.
You can also analyze.
You can also have commentary.
2)AND Information Flyers. These are one page 8 by 11 flyers, which list FACTS. These facts are set up in ‘visual bits’ (as differentiated from sound bites). The visual bit is set up in a coloured block and inside the ‘bit’ the information consists of Location, Cost, action:
Mississauga
83 million
rapid transit system
Not rhetoric, not analysis. They are NOT to be read with care but ‘absorbed’ as a whole visual bit.
These flyers are distributed to the entire electoral district over months; a new one each month. And, a half-page ad in a local newspaper with the same thing.
They are similar to the much larger flyers of food markets, drugstores..which also announce their information in ‘visual bits’ with the same short, non-analytic information of ‘object and cost’.
WHY do this? Because Canadians have NO information, none, about what the government is doing. NONE.
Again, an Information Flyer is NOT the same as a newspaper, an article, a magazine. It does not consist of long sentences outlining themes and policies and etc. All it provides, in visual bits, are the facts, the actual actions that the federal govt has taken in your local area. This gives spatial and temporal reality to the govt. Rather than thinking of the govt as ‘some far off abstract Power thousands of miles away’..you locate it in your local space and time.
3)Your reference to Obama was to his supporters! These Information Flyers aren’t to supporters!
They are to ALL the people in the electoral district. They are meant to be ‘glanced at’, with the data ‘picked up’ very rapidly. If you want to throw it out then, fine. But your brain will already have absorbed the Header of The Conservative Government: Getting Things Done..and a few bits..such as that new transit line, that cut in small business taxes.
If you want to read it over a coffee – you’ll see more..and there’s a link for you to explore if you want.
Naturally, any party’s organizers will txt and email and etc their supporters. That’s not the role of these Flyers.
We are talking about INFORMATION – and you get that information in multiple ways. People still read academic articles on political and economic theory, and don’t tell me that these are txt mode or email.
Again, these Information Flyers have a specific function – to inform, via a ‘drip’ method, that the govt is doing specific acts in their local area…and..to inform them as well, of the provincial and national acts. There is to be no general rhetoric (billions were spent on infrastructure..a totally and utterly meaningless sentence)..just specific acts in specific locations for specific amounts of money.
People need to be ‘rooted’ in local space and time…and that is the function of these Flyers.
donna b- that’s quite a story – more votes than ballots. Unreal and yet, knowing Elections Canada, quite real.
If I can get an email for you, I’ll send you some sample flyers.
ET said: “Can you imagine – Canadians, actually taking things into their own hands? Not expecting govt, and The Guardian, to do it all?”
Yeah I know, radical concept eh? ~:D I agree with you about not waiting for Big Brother to do it, but as we both know Canadians like to cooperate and they like things to be official. Most Canadians still think of the government as a source of solutions instead of being the root of the problem.
As it happens though ET, Canadians have already spoken on the gun registry. They are ignoring it, and are disobeying the law in their millions. Not even a quarter of gun owners have registered, and of those I’d expect almost nobody registered everything they had. Common sense, right?
So the question still stands. Rephrasing slightly from what I said, the question becomes “When are y’all going to grow a pair, admit nobody registered and scrap this thing?”
I might be more polite in person. Maybe.
What happened to you?
My question to the Prime Minister:
“Sir, can you give us your best estimates as to how long it would take an Ignatieff government to bring in a carbon tax that would see immense wealth transferred from Western to Eastern Canada?
PM Harper did you vote for Kate, for best Conservative Blog?
Id said “I’d like to know why our ‘government bodies’ such as the ‘labour board’ are not for regular working canuks but only for ‘immigrants, visible minorities, gays, etc.”
We need to get rid of affirmative action so that hard working honest people who have been paying the freight for everything won’t be denied work just because they are white males.
I once went into the Human Resources Center for the City of Hamilton and the woman refused to even speak. She would only shrug her shoulders and point. When a woman came up beside me she got all chatty and gave her pamphlets etc. When I asked her a question again she just shrugged again. What a vile piece of work she was. Unfortunately the government is full of them now.
They had no problem taxing the shit out of me when I was at the steel company but the second I’m unemployed I’m persona non gratis.
It used to be if you had experience at a trade it meant something. Now 15 years experience is trumped by any of the 3 T’s with no experience.
3 T’s = Tits, tomahawk or turban.
Did he or anyone in his cabinet or in the revenue department lose money on the stock market when they broke their promise to leave the income trusts alone?
I would bet that they all disposed of any investments they had well before the dirty deed was sprung on the trusting public.
What brad in waterloo said. Very first comment.
The things I thought the conservative gov’t stood for seem to have been swept aside in favour of warmed over Liberal ideas.
I want…LESS government (a lot less), less gov`t bureaucracy, less gov`t programs, less gov`t spending, less taxes, and LESS taxes.
My monetary support for the conservatives quit about a year ago when it became obvious that they were pandering to liberal voters.
We are back at square one and are in need of true conservative party like Preston Manning started how many years ago
Heh, gord, good one.
3 T’s and now add a big V.
Veil.
Once small piece of cloth strategically placed on face and the MSM is all giddy about the newest made up victim.
Other (non affirmative action ones) victims are left out in the cold as usual.
Again during the last warm spell, I noticed the many head-scarf(ed) young woman wearing tight form fitting clothing of bright colours. Example, hair/head covered, but showing cleavage, tight jeans, full and heavy makeup. Hubby and I just looked at each other and said yeah…and they’ll sue to wear that head scarf in the work place, even if dangerous to do so, based on modesty. Proves what a farce this so called claim of religious modesty is.
“Mr. Prime Minister: Given that the present United States government is becoming less accomodative, is this the right time for Canadian government policy to buttress Canada’s competitive advantages rather than ape American trendiness in the hope that the American government will be gracious enough to not lean on us?”
I regret the long wind, but there’s a point therein.
ET – thanks for the offer. donnabeeh@hotmail.com
Had to extract myself from SDA for a while – that accounts for the delayed response.
Why is it illegal for any male young or old to belong to any club that segregates sexes when females do it all the time. No men’s clubs but there are women’s clubs. No men’s gyms but there are women’s gyms. No Boy Scouts but there are Girl Guides. Why does the Government of Canada discriminate against children and have it sanctioned by the Supreme Court.
Excellent questions already so I won’t duplicate. But I would like to share with you all an e-mail I just sent to talkshow host, Roy Green. It concerns a question he posed his audience today: Who would you vote for, Harper’s Conservatives or Ignatieff’s Liberals? I did speak with him on-air but didn’t answer his question.
Here’s my follow-up e-mail:
Roy,
When we spoke this afternoon, I never actually answered your direct question about who I would vote for. To be quite honest, it’s not so simple. The reasons are the same both provincially and federally. Given the choices available to me the least worst options are the B.C. Liberals and the federal Conservatives. But in both cases they each disappoint on regular basis.
My top 3 issues have long been these:
1. Law and Order
2. Free Speech
3. Fiscal Responsibility
I don’t see either of the aforementioned parties doing much of anything substantial on ANY of these issues. And yet the alternatives would be worse. So what to do?
Do you ever visit http://SmallDeadAnimals.com ? It’s the most popular conservative political blog in Canada. It would be most interesting if you had on two very smart women from there:
* Kate McMillan – she’s the lady who runs it
* “ET” – the nickname of a female professor and pragmatic libertarian in Ontario
Just say the word and I’ll make the introductions. They would be absolutely fascinating guests! A good topic title would be, “What’s a conservative minded voter to do in Canada these days?”
Robert
P.S. Go Canucks!!!
Can we really get tough on crime, instead of just saying it?
P.S. Go Bruins.
Why is it better to loan farmers a billion dollars of taxpayers money over the next five years than it is to get rid of the Canadian Wheat Board monopoly, which would in turn generate over a billion dollars every year in extra revenue from the marketplace?
“It’s the most popular conservative political blog in Canada. ”
This blog isn’t conservative by a long shot. It is a good blog, it is a fun blog, but it is not a conservative blog, uh-uh, no way, no how.
It would appear based on the many questions posed for the PM that we tend to forget that the PM has only led minority goverments. Every time he has attempted to do what 40% of Canadians want we end up going to the polls to re-elect another minority. Each time getting stronger I might add. In the PM’s last attempt the PM only hints at a massive shift in the right direction and this shuts down parlimant for 2 months – on the plus side Dion gets the boot and I haven’t had to listen to Jack’s drivel every other day.
The question on how he can do a better job at getting his message out to more Canadians is a good one. I don’t think we can blame it all on Media. I do not see the Conservatives clearly defending their positions when given the opportunity.
Don’t give up crew – all good things take time and the PM has a monumental task ahead of him with our support. It aint easy!
Lank,
I was just referring to that bright red award in the upper-left corner of the home page!
“How come you’re so good lookin’?”
I would ask, “Is the Government doing anything to distance and thereby protect Canadian financial institutions, industries, and agriculture from the U.S.?
Who does your hair?
I would ask him how the recent trend in Ontario legislation to confiscate personal property on the spot by police, (e.g. speed racing and now, (alleged) blood alcohol level over .05 but less than the federal criminal code of .08 squares with the charter of rights and freedoms. Does he believe that the police being judge jury and executioner is in keeping with the spirit of the Canadian constitution. Good Luck!!
Why did you give the French in Quebec “nation” status?