The First American Prime Minister In Retreat

Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Michael Ignatieff, September“Mr Harper, your time is up. The Liberal Party cannot support this government any further. We will hold it to account. We will oppose it in Parliament.”
Michael Ignatieff, October“What I’ve said consistently for a month is in those cases where the government brings forth legislation we can support or approve or amend, we’ll do so. My strategy is not to make parliamentary government impossible.”
From the Toronto Sun

h/t bluetech

31 Replies to “The First American Prime Minister In Retreat”

  1. There was nothing principled about opposing the recent EI reforms, or formally passing the Home Renovation Tax Credit, both measures that will provide immeasurable help to both the employed and unemployed. What a doofus.

  2. Bring Dion back – i couldn’t understand a thing he said, but he made more sense. Cherniak? are you reading this? – get on the horn and redraft Stephan.

  3. The LPC is the party of “NO”, the party of nasty bitter partisanship, the party of ‘not making parliament work’.

  4. Mr. Walking Eagle II, I do believe your time is just about up. I hope the Liberals enjoy their turkey this weekend.

  5. “Walking Eagle II”
    If ‘Walking Eagle’ has already ben taken Iggy could default to ‘Walking Puffin’
    Or Hopping Puffin, Shufflin’ Puffin?

  6. To paraphrase, Ignatieff will always do the right thing, after he has exhausted all other actions.
    This is the right position to take…it is where the Cons have been from the days they were in opposition. But the Liberal braintrust is always fighting the last war.
    Maybe they have finally caught up, by making a virtue of necessity.

  7. To me, Iggy is the walking embodiment of George Orwell’s disdain for intellectuals. Personally, I’ll believe he’s a smart guy when I see his IQ test scores. He hasn’t done anything yet to make the case, and a lot to convince me otherwise.

  8. bob c,
    John Kerry was spun as brilliant too but weren’t his grades worse than Bush’s? the lefturd media decides that Ignatief, Obama, Whoopi Goldberg, etc as intellectual giants despite evidence to the contrary while Bush, Palin, Reagan, Ford etc are labled morons based on a$$hole comedians SNL sketches.

  9. There is just no way that Iggy can recover from this almost total loss of credibility. Which means, among other things, the “coalition” albatross will remain firmly around his neck, and there is nothing he can say or do that will remove it.

  10. The Liberal party of Canada has proven that it is a misogynic and racist party of quacks (Ask an unguarded Warren Kensilla what he thinks about the Chinese in Canada).
    They were kicked out of government in January 2006 by outraged Canadians for fraud and theft.
    Who on earth would take anything they say seriously in a mere 3 years, if ever?

  11. If Iggy keeps it up the libs will be able to finally shake the puffin as the liberal emblem. It will be replaced by the Dodo.

  12. Agent Smith:
    Can you imagine the “redraft” conversation?
    SD: You wan’ me to be da Prime Ministre? When? Now? Last year? Can we start again?
    JC: No, we want you to come back.
    SD:
    Is it to be Prime Ministre last year? Or next year? Is this wat you are asking me? Can we start again?
    etc.

  13. Election system in Canada is weird need one time for 5 years and from year 4 to 5 every body ready to do election
    We always scared of who are next PM and more time spending of power pull that work done
    Every body need fair time to hear all group candidate like to elected some can not belong or force under parry too any party to get elected
    next do not allow parlement get employee of harper of igntiff but also let each primer has separate research and yes or no and not have right to get money to like USA say No or yes from big company conspiracy
    ==
    I am not criminal judge but I think fix criminal need step by step and know cause of action who is behind as big fish to punish by level to
    Made sense
    Not every body takes jail time I think
    Just waste time not working
    Regard to tough in crime
    I think it must first be tough on
    Politician and law maker and economic
    And link and foreign affair before toughs on small kids in jail and let big fish pass so much million drug let thing to go with priority first to punish people second
    In link with drug
    if some one has small drug like 1 to 7 gram not need for first time keep him 45 days in jail and give him fine of $1000 to get criminal recorded instead keep them in prohibition center and counseling by force mandatory if the person is teenager or young before 24 years old must easy with them since they have life ahead of them and not need criminal record soon for them if they can fix them
    If the person repeats it again for second time keep him for two to 3 to 6 month in suicide cell I n jail along with more supervision and doctors alone to force him come out of addiction- and put him in conditional probation of 18 month with counseling
    if the person repeat again keep him 6 month in jail and suspended probation for another extra two years in jail and mental innstitute mix of half half and good food to take body of the person change and give him criminal record as well and give him he can ask for pardon later after two years of finish probation if he stay clean with stay in counseling as well in probation
    If repeat for 4 times then keep him to 18 month in jail and so on and give him criminal charge record with suspended probation he can apply for pardon if he is clean after two years and keep him 6 month first in mental hospital with expectation of mental ill people.
    People who repeat may be are mentally ill and has more trouble attached to it

  14. ONLY if mental institute find the person is mentally ill still cannot give him criminal recorded charge until he get fix mentally and know cause of action the person get crazy to use drug for reduce pressure and he only must proof for 6 month or one year with notice from psychologist that he is normal and not use drug any more and drop charge of him if was ill and not he is ok the next time he will not go away easy and he will faced criminal charge
    Again this must review with people who are high end criminal lawyer more than 35 years and know how to stop drug dealer behavior in this expert
    Plus you must take big fish from public by arrest them not blame small kids or youth
    ==
    But
    It depend how much amount he has he can get more charges if has more than 10 gram drug must charge them more if heroin must punished them more
    If sell the drugs to clients punish them more time in jail
    And separated them from all old friend and not able to contact any friend for one year
    Except person who supervises him like parents or any attendance care and release them with paying Attendance care to watch him 24/7 for a year or two.

  15. Spring election? Man I hope we have a Majority. You can fault Harper for a lot of things but his handling of the economic crisis has been magnificent.
    The fact he’s doing it alone with out Obama including avoiding his hate for Capitalism has been inspiring. Let alone all the knives he has to dodge daily from a hostile press coupled with M P’s that would like to shank him at first light.
    JMO

  16. Ken in Calgary @3:00PM – Iggy reminds me more of a lizard – watch him lick his lips as if he has just eaten a very delicious insect – or rodent.
    Someone a few days ago commented on Iggy’s teeth. I think it may be the result of being under the care of UK dentists for so many years. Sort of like Prince Charles.
    On the other hand, I understand that crystal meth addicts have a similar dental issue……

  17. Americans want our prime minister as their president and canadians want Obama as their prime minister.
    Oppposition parties cry out daily ” follow Obama”
    The americans say “Follow prime minister Stephen Harper”

  18. Hey, let’s have a surprise luncheon for WK. We can invite him to the Ruby Chinese restaurant in Scarborough; Joanne Kates from the Globe gave it a good review in today’s paper…

  19. Just a thought.
    If the libs decide to have a cheap and dirty leadership race …..how does Bareass Bob and the Power Corp advisors “manage” to win when they are obliged to do the OMOV process this time and that inconvenient unwritten rule of alternation?

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