A banal observation made by a “political observer” who appeared on CTV earlier this afternoon has become one of CTV News’s Top News Stories:
A majority government may be a dream come true for Stephen Harper but there are some obvious pitfalls awaiting the Prime Minister when Parliament opens in Ottawa on Monday, according to one political observer…
The political observer, a political scientist from the University of Montreal, also dropped this earth-shattering gem:
I don’t think (Harper) will get everything he wants but he will get a lot of it.
Whoa, stop the presses. And unplug the cord. And turn out the lights. And….
Does this mean that water is still wet and that winter will be generally colder than summer?
DrD
Water will be less wet, winter and summer are negotiating a wife swap and spring is unsprung.
Winter will continue on.
If Harper walked on water, they’d say it proved he couldn’t swim, and that could be a big problem for him.
Now that Harper has a strong and clear majority, the MSM have their comfortable narative going, that he really wouldn’t do anything conservative. After all he serves at the pleasure of the CBC and the NDP/Liberal/Separatist Coalition. They need to quietly change their Depends as their pantload is stinking up the place. Harper has to gut out all of the Trudeau era scams as fast as he can in this first 2 years or the CPC will lose support in the West. The New West now controls the agenda for the first time since 1867 a dramatic powershift has quietly happened and the stinking pantloads at the CBC/CTV and the voters of Hogtown have not noticed..
Perhaps Mr Harper should hit Section 13, the HRC and the CBC in the same week. Imagine the “backlash”. It’ll be hard for all those “talking heads” to keep those fancy digs in Toronto when they don’t have a job to pay the mortgage.
Where’s the “scary conservative agenda” I voted for?
Seriously, I would love to have the PM or the Finance Minister stand up and say “Keynes was wrong, government borrowing destroys prosperity.”
Ah, nothing like the astute analysis of politics to stir the blood…
I think it was Watson that said, “There’s a distinct shortage of manure, Mr Holmes!”
Who is the permanent leader of the opposition?
Who is the permanent leader of the 3rd/liberal party?
Who is the leader of the 4th/successionist party?
Who is a party leader without any other MP’s?
Yeah, if I were the PM I’d be sooooo sweating right now.
Yep. IF Harper is going to do the conservative things he has about 90 to 180 days to implement the steps.
He’s had years to prepare, he understands the mechanisms, he has a majority.
If fails to act it’s because he either he’s being lying or he’s been assimilated.
Personally I’ve LOVE to see a “Monday morning massacre” where in ONE speech he flattens dozens of bureaucratic empires in one zero-funding swoop followed by a big fat omnibus wodge of laws to make the basis for the bureaucracies simply vanish. & a massive reform package for the rest. That’ll keep the bureaucracy so busy and scared that they’ll mind their own survival first.
I can dream.
IF he does this he has to act quickly so by the time the NEXT election rolls around everyone will see that the media-storm of self-interested crap that will rain down on him for doing that, was just that. Oh course, by starting with the CBS he could reduce the noise level. đŸ™‚
@ Fred2: I don’t expect to see much. Their comfy attitude to the CBC when it should be knifed says it all.
In term on their big changes, for example, I expect they will end the gun registry but go nowhere near ending the other useless and insulting rules around firearms. ie: ATC, classifying guns as restricted based on looks etc. In fact I half expect thenm to introduce new silly rules to balance the anger from the antis over the gun registry.
This is the tone what I expect in regards to everything. Gone are the days of the freedom loving reform party.
Heh, heh. MSM is confused. Anytime a Liberal gov’t comes to power, they don’t do what they said so it’s quite an unknown. Now they know and there is little to speculate on.
This probably should have gone under the heading of “The World Still Has Too Many Political Observers.”
I would be happy with property rights, castle law and elimination of the registry. A bonus would be a neutering of the HRC, let the CBC sweat it for a little bit like a goose before Christmas, sharpen the axe within view once in a while and watch it try to morph into a swan.
This is the season for Sun News and I’m really looking forward to watching the news after so many years in the wilderness.
If you don’t have it yet, get it pronto.
Interestingly (or not)CBC’s “The Current” had a guest who offered practically the same caution. The media are all over this one.
Roseberry, I was up early and out driving around listening to, yes I admit, the CBC. I heard the opening remarks to The Current (you know the guy with the deep voice who thinks he’s oh so witty) and of course my eyes rolled. The CBC is running scared. None of their favoured parties are in a position to do a damn thing about it. It was such crass and in-your-face horror at the thought of a Conservative majority it was beautiful to hear. God, I hope they can that thing.
The PM better get all he wants and it better be soon.
RFB!
I agree that the PC’s have many changes to make, but Canada’s political structure ensures “The West” will never control the agenda.
Economic power without political power is worthless.
Alberta? isnt that where the gun totin’ conservative wild west pioneer types shoot Mounties?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayerthorpe_tragedy
yup !!!
Sun News and a Harper majority!
Run you limp wristed, two faced, lying, nanny-state, bleeding heart, divisive, American hating leftovers.
Hey! Don’t get Picky! We’re CTV (AKA Aspervision)and little partisan white lies are as good as hard news. Get with the MSM program! You bloggers are such prudes!
Instead of ramming through an agenda quickly, which would engender a 5h!tstorm, Harper should proceed at a slower, more methodical pace, implementing one reform after another. The Conservatives should be starting with their campaign promises, actually following through on them one after the other. Each step will be met with resistance in Parliament and in the broadcast media, however if promises are fulfilled one at a time and benefits are observed in turn, then that resistance becomes a self-caricature, just like Chris Matthews’ leg tingles.
CTV still has’nt gotten over the election results. They have Boob Rae on every day, along with scads of Dippers.
Levant has a good op-ed today on the Saudi’s hiring a big law firm to intimidate our television media. EthicalOil.org made an advertisment on Saudi’s treatment of women. CTV and an un-named station have capitulated and will not run the advert. Islamic enablers both of them.
Craig Oliver, that Liberal schill had the gall to say to the NDP that they are at a disadvantage with and “interim” leader. Does he know something we don’t? Is he that close to the Liberals?