29 Replies to ““It may sound hokey to non-partisan ears, but it works.””

  1. There is nothing like a rollback of leftist policy to get the rats to come out from under the granary.

  3. “That Tory success prompted Liberal party president Alf Apps to report in November that political contenders must fundamentally rethink their messaging.”, OMG – does he mean that the Liberal party should say it will do things the people want to have done and it will refrain from doing what they don’t want done? What a novel concept for the “ruling elite” or “natural governing party” to have to take on board!
    The part I liked best what when the author moans about the programs that the Conservatives have not implemented: National Daycare, the Kelowna Accord, Kyoto Protocol, enforcing Canada Health Act (brining all down to the lowest common denominator and refusing to allow experimentation on how to improve), and the end of the long gun registry. Think of all of the savings resulting from each. And think of all of the pressure to “do something” coming from the bureaucrats, interest groups and government funded NGOs (my new favourite oxymoron). It is unbelievable. No wonder our fiscal house is in order.
    Thank you PMH.

  4. A. What did he expect?
    B. He works for the Canadian Press. Need I say more?
    C. He’d be right at home with the CBC.

  5. “Allan Gregg, the chairman of polling firm Harris-Decima and a former strategist for the federal Progressive Conservatives, describes Harper as “a revolutionary realist.”
    “His radicalism is not so much in what he does, but what he refuses to do,” Gregg said in an interview.”
    Apparently, it’s radical to not want to control all those aspects of our lives not already controlled such as raising our own children as we see fit, not controlling “our emissions” … perhaps not wearing a helmet as soon as we rise in the morning or allowing the water to run while we brush our teeth…
    Last week, B. Hussien stated he thought he was the fourth best President ever, based it seems on his agenda of entering into all aspects of American’s lives not already controlled by some regulatory commission or czar.
    While the legacy news media continues to applaud the expansion of the nanny state out one side of their mouths, out the other they continue to spout off how we live in the best country in the world, while ignoring how all the other countries governance and spending has caused the world wide debt crisis to lumber on toward its conclusion. It’s almost as though they (the MSM) would like us to join those already in the death spiral, then simply report that Stephan Harper didn’t follow their advice. That he didn’t care enough about others to not create any new national programs. As though a new national program would actually help anything nationally.
    note: I laughed at how the supreme court ruled last week that a national securities overseer was outside of the national government’s mandate. Somehow health care, always a provincial concern, escapes their attention. Now that the finance minister has said the provinces will need to cough up the increased funding for this program, it’s set to become a national issue again? Quick, someone create a “national health standards program”.
    “uff”

  6. It will take more than Harper to cut out forty-three years, since Pearson, of elite liberal (& homosexual?) public sector growth [I include Mulroney’s anomalous aberration as part and parcel of the liberal tyranny]. There are whole subsidized industries of these parasites, which even taxing the tarsands to death can never support. Eventually a depression greater than the great depression will finish then off and us too.

  7. Liberal party president Alf Apps … “CPC strategists, current masters of that art in Canada, understand that ‘connecting’ with voters is about reaching them emotionally,”
    Liberals have excelled at reaching me emotionally. Trudeau’s one finger salute, Rock’s registry and Dryden’s daycare are just a few examples.

  8. Yeah, the LPOC – and I include Cheadle as a member – are all about civility and conciliation when they’re out of power.
    BTW, I think cheadle is a Toronto Star staffer.

  10. “With the notable exception of a proposed national securities regulator, there’s not a new national program in the mix.”
    Wow!
    I LOVE Prime Minister Harper.
    love love love love love
    I wonder if this Liberal hack, Cheadle, has heard there has been a global economic recession since 2008 and that western civilization is facing economic collapse?

  11. From the comments:
    “Thank God Obama is on the verge of re-election, a counter balance if we ever needed one.”
    And this is the most popular comment there!
    Anyone who thinks a $15 trillion debt and 9% unemployment rate is a positive ‘counter balance’ is in deep need of treatment.

  12. ” They did it with 39.6 per cent of the popular vote ”
    Ah yes,the most popular whine of 2011,fruity with a bitter aftertaste.

  13. Do Liberals understand that in the west there is an entire generation of people who will never, ever, ever, ever vote for them again? You can thank Chretien for that.

  16. More Liberal fear- mongering. The LPC had to bring Chretien back to warn us of how we’re about to lose the Canada we allegedly cherished,the Liberal/social engineering/big government Canada.
    Chretien and the rest of the LPC still haven’t figured out that they are the only Canadians who “cherish” that Canada,the rest of us voted to FIX the Country,not continue to watch it’s ruination.
    If anyone wants to make analogies to “trains”,they should seriously consider the MSM’s runaway locomotive that is shrieking “scary Conservatives” all the time,roaring drunkenly down the tracks while expecting us to pay the freight.

  18. There’s an “Opinions” section with an “Editorials” subsection but this piece is in the “Breaking News” section. That’s all anyone needs to know about the Winnipeg Free Press. BREAKING NEWS: Journalists don’t appoint governments.

  19. Actually, the disgusted people posting here should be very pleased at the depth of confused angst revealed by Cheadle’s lament masquerading as news. Reality has dawned that their side is now WAY outside of government, and powerless.
    They will have to confront how foreign their thinking has become in a restored Canada. They are being marginalized in a society rapidly uniting behind small-c conservatism. Immigrants, too! Which really burns their buns.

  20. “Parliament will grow by 30 MPs in the next federal election after the Conservatives rammed through a bill adding more electoral representation to fast-growing Alberta, B.C., and Ontario.”
    Well excuse me for thinking that proportional representation was not a democratic right. It was until Trudeau took it away. He really did hate les anglais. Most provinces other than Alberta, B.C., and Ontario are still over-represented.

  21. No Wheat board will mean more wheat grown, Harper and Ritz are the best things to happen to western farmers, 1.6 billion tonnes of canola marketed last year as opposed to 798 millions of wheat, thank you for freedom to grow and profit from wheat finally, and to Allan Oberg, go back to Forrestburg and stew and sue with your OWN money, that will slow you down. If this bothers little Bruce Cheadle as much as his parents naming him Bruce, well boo hoo.

  22. More proof that people go into journalism because logic is too difficult for them and fact-checking too exhausting.
    “The Canadian Wheat Board’s seven-decade monopoly was indeed steamrolled” – as if a monopoly is a good thing? As if forcing free people to sell the fruits, er grain, of their labour to the government at a price set by the government is not morally unjust and offensive?
    Regarding the “unprecedented contempt of parliament ruling” wikipedia states there were cases in 1913, 1976, 2003, 2008 and 2011. In the end the electorate, ie the ignorant masses that Mr. Cheadle clearly thinks he is above, passed judgement on the Conservative government after seeing the charge for the political gimmick that it was.
    “The end of the per-vote subsidy” means that my tax money won’t go to separatists and socialists. Forcing someone to fund the political campaigns of people they despise is beyond the pale.
    One voter, one vote is undermined if it a Liberal represents a riding of 100,000 and a Conservative represent a riding of 120,000 yet both MPs have an equal vote in Parliament.
    Mr. Cheadle and his ilk are the reason I no longer read newspapers.
    Roll on, Big Blue.

  23. Cry baby Cheadle gives us an insightful look into the desperate minds of hysterical, impotent “Liberals”… The more PM Harper and the Conservatives can undo the warped, hateful destruction of Canada under the Trudeauvian boot heal the better… Cheadles “article” reads like it comes right out of the “Liberal” party’s war room talking points. Utter drivel.

  24. “Not only did the Conservatives take their majority win as a mandate to implement their platform promises …”
    The horror. What else would elected governments be supposed to do?
    “The bills include several boutique tax credits, plus the phase-out of the public per-vote subsidy for federal political parties …”
    The tax system is ludicrously complex already, so “boutique tax credits” are the wrong idea.
    In principle the elimination of tax subsidies for political parties is a sound moral idea, although the limits on donations should be raised to make it easier to compensate.
    “With the notable exception of a proposed national securities regulator, there’s not a new national program in the mix.”
    We have enough f***ing national (not to mention provincial) programs already, that’s the problem. And no one ever checks to see if they’re worth the effort. The proper function of government is to protect individual rights – police, military and courts – and everything else can and should be done by individuals for themselves.

  25. The media has forgotten the $100 million stolen under Sponsorship. The Librannos still owe this money.
    But the media keeps forgotten to bring up the subject of this THEFT!

  26. ‘Mr. Cheadle and his ilk are the reason I no longer read newspapers.
    Roll on, Big Blue.’
    Posted by: Al_in_Ottawa at December 27, 2011 4:45 PM
    Your words have a resounding ring Al in Ottawa. I like the way ” Roll on Big Blue” paints a picture in my mind of good, honest, power used to power the engine of prosperity and hope for this big, beautiful nation. Our Engineer, PMSH, is the best, the crew are competent; we are a fortunate nation to have chosen a ‘strong, stable majority Conservative government’ when the rest of the world is being run by left wing fanatics and irresponsible mental(aged) teen-agers.
    “Roll on Big Blue” I am happy to be on board.

  27. Like Jema 54, I no longer read newspapers or watch any broadcast TV. It’s curious what things moonbats find offensive such as actually having representation by population, fixing the citizen arrest laws and eliminating per-vote subsidies. Maybe if other political parties had popular support, they might get donations from people also.
    What does concern me (and of course no mention of it in the article) is that we are moving towards US-style prohibitionist drug laws and legislation is in the works to create a Canadian version of the DMCA — an act which has stifled technologic innovation in the US.
    Coming down hard on cannabis is not going to go over well at all in BC. Initially when I moved to the interior I assumed that the ubiquity of cannabis ingestion was primarily confined to Vancouver. Couldn’t have been more wrong; it took about 3 years before my patients started trusting me enough to mention that they like a toke or two before bed. The largest group of new users seem to be people in the 60+ age range who are finding out that cannabis is quite an effective analgesic. Given the aging of the population and prevalence of osteoarthritis in the elderly, cannabis use is going to increase.
    The Conservatives really missed the boat on this issue as they would have even more support if they decriminalized most illegal drugs and pushed a platform of personal responsibility.

  28. Loki – WRT marijuana production: the crime bill decriminalizes production for up to 5 plants. Currently police can choose to charge people for having one plant. They don’t, but the point is that having laws on the books that are only enforced when the police or crown choose to enforce them is not a healthy situation in a free country.
    Personal production of marijuana is being decriminalized in C-10.

  29. max, thanks for the update. Unfortunately everything will still depend on the police. A patient of mine who was busted for growing cannabis was charged with having several hundred plants — almost all of which were newly sprouted seeds at the two leaf stage. Anyone who’s done any gardening knows that you plant a lot more seeds than you need to and weed out the plants that aren’t doing well.
    Will have to review the legislation in more detail.

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