27 Replies to “Yeah, we complain a lot”

  1. Checkout the comments,liberals save Canada,no mentions of coalition forcing gov’t to stimulate,Harpers huge deficit(thanks Jack),all the credit to liberals from six years ago. Guess thats how Obummer gets away with blaming Bush. I guess the liberals should be thanking Mulroney. Yeah that will happen!

  2. Checkout the comments,liberals save Canada,no mentions of coalition forcing gov’t to stimulate,Harpers huge deficit(thanks Jack),all the credit to liberals from six years ago. Guess thats how Obummer gets away with blaming Bush. I guess the liberals should be thanking Mulroney. Yeah that will happen!

  3. The Liebrals used accounting tricks for their “surplus”.
    Not to mention that the Liebrals cashed out our entire gold reserve…
    Thought we forgot?
    To be expected, the usual force-fed talking points.

  5. Its kind of sad really, but, 60% of Canadians would vote to change the government right now and the direction we as a Country are headed. Dalton McGuinty has racked up a debt that will probably never be paid yet, the good people in the GTA dont care, at least he’s not a right winger.
    Strange, bizarre and, sad.

  6. This from twitter:
    @ScotClimate: Scottish Government found to have lied on key figure. Is the Scottish Climate Bill dead?. Will the minister resign? http://bit.ly/OwkVl1
    The Scottish government lied to politicians about key financial data which was central to the argument for the bill when they passed the Scottish Climate Change Bill. The government citing Stern said that the economic cost of a 2-3°C rise would be “between 5-20% of GDP”. In fact Stern suggests there may not be any net economic harm quoting figures of 0-3%
    The figures are so key to justifying the bill, that it really is difficult to see how this bill could withstand a legal challenge.
    … but the scandal gets worse. The Scottish paper (The Courier) which broke this story seems to have been lent on to remove the story. Presumably by someone in government.
    This is about as bad as we can get. It appears the world’s most enthusiastic government for climate change is now embroiled in lies & cover-up.

  7. “60% of Canadians would vote to change the government right now”
    This is not only sad, but also frightening.
    Canadians, by and large, are a spoiled, pampered lot having never experienced hardship. While the world’s economies are swirling around the bowl, that of Canada remains reasonably strong under the capable leadership of PMSH. I would venture a guess that the vast majority of the 60% have no idea of what is taking place in Greece or Spain or even the US for that matter. Canada is weathering an economic cataclysm without the imposition of drastic austerity measures, increased taxation or major cuts to our beloved social programs. Those that continue to grouse about our current government simply don’t realize just how good we have it, no small thanks to the msm which persistently refuses to acknowledge our favourable position but rather focuses on criticising the Prime Minister and his government for every misstep, whether actual or perceived.
    Just pray to God that we stay the course and keep the socialist hordes at bay or we’re all up sh*t creek sans a paddle.

  8. Mike, that’s hilarious! I mean, how can Scotland NOT benefit from global warming? Most of it is rocks and borderline tundra! They should be holding Bonfire Night to get the CO2 up.

  9. Obama can’t learn anything because his head is so far up his his patootey he can’t hear or see anything.
    The $numbers for June are in.
    The good news . . . Tax receits in the USA were up.
    The bad news . . . Obama’s regime racked up a deficit over $200 billion because spending was waaaaaaaay up.
    He just can’t figure it out.

  10. People have lost all sense of proportion or understanding. Ideology is now their Idol with emotionalism as a guide.

  11. Good article, but it is sad that the Liberal War Room took over the comments section to air their propaganda in a foreign venue.

  12. The column compares Canadas recent fiscal and management record to that of the USA in recent years. The us is hardly a tough benchmark to beat. and we are benefitting greatly from high commodity prices (save ng) and a real estate market bubble in some cities that has yet to be pricked.
    That said we are moving in the right direction under the steady and unwavering hand of the CPC. Provincially with the possible exception of SK it seems we are going in the opposite direction. Too bad Forbes didn’t point that out…

  13. I hate to state the obvious, but why doesn’t Tony Clement quit Tweeting and just do more interviews like this one.
    I’m not in the least concerned about the sixty percent who didn’t vote with us last time. The problem is going to be the sixty percent who are going to vote with us in the future. How are we going to deal with that?
    The reality of the situation is that there is only one game in town — “Was he born great, did he achieve greatness, or was greatness thrust upon him?”, etc.
    My mother, who still hates MacKenzie King, believes Stephen Harper was born to be PM. So there you go, “A Great Nation Rising”.

  14. It’s a shame that the economic point man and therefore the guy interviewed is Gazebo Clement. That leaves a dirty taste in the mouths of serious Conservatives.

  15. Reality is lurking around the corner in Ontario, wielding a big bat. By the end of the next fiscal year Ontario will owe over $280Billion dollars and the Dolt-on will still be adding another $20Billion in new debt. Couple that with the projected rise in health care costs and this province will be bankrupt or close to it in 10 years.
    What happens when the most populous province (by which I mean the most House of Commons seats) needs to be bailed out and the amount is greater than an entire years federal budget?

  16. First of all, f— Tony Clement and his apologies for communist sympathiser, Norman Bethune.
    Secondly, we are doing much better than before and the US because the country is run by an economist. Not a perfect man but an economist nevertheless.
    Thirdly, this will not last if we sell off our resources to China or keep Dalton McGuinty in Canadian airspace.
    Just my quick thoughts.

  17. First ditto to Osumashi’s comments, but I can’t get by the last paragraph on page 1.
    68% of the Federal budget is wealth transfers and health care? and that’s the part the Tories view as untouchable?
    The West can’t collapse fast enough.

  18. SDH – to reform entitlements, Harper must first show he’s legit. People will accept his judgement on entitlements, if he keeps his promises with respect to the other 32% of the budget. Patience with Harper will be rewarded.

  19. Harper is just getting started.
    The 2015 election will most likely be another majority.
    With 6 new seats in Alberta all the Tories have to do is keep what they got. With Romney in the White House and a couple years of austerity the global economy will be ready to roar.
    Harper will probably catch the wave. He’s been blessed with timing so far….

  20. With McSquinty putting Ontario into bankrupcy, I think the Conservative seats there are safe in the next election. BC might turn out to produce more Conservative MP’s than expected should the NDP win the next provincial election; for some reason the people in BC have this bizarre idea that the NDP can learn from their mistakes. Usually an NDP government is followed by a total wipeout of the NDP until the corruption in the anti-communist coalition gets to be too extreme and then the NDP gets back in again. The next federal election would be held at a time that people in BC would be wondering WTF did we vote for these commie idiots?
    Of course Alberta will vote Conservative but there’s the very worrisome NDP seat in Redmonton. Quebec is now irrelevant and they might throw some tantrums as a result and one can only hope that they decide to separate.
    Barring any stupid moves by the Conservatives, they’ll get back in again during the next federal election. Of course, the big unknown is what the world economy is going to do over the next couple of years and a world-wide depression could potentially change things completely. Still, we’re self-sufficient in oil and natural gas and not dependent on solar power to provide heat during arctic winters like the Euroweenies are.

  22. Not a very good article. For one thing, if you want to ‘remain objective’ you should probably interview more than just a political lackey like Clement. The statement isThe Conservative Party of Canada, led by Prime Minister Stephen Harper, also passed a budget loaded with real cuts last March.
    is not true. Spending is set to increase. The Cons will never cut spending. Never ever.
    This would have been a good article if previous mention was given the large federal spending cuts of the 1990s. It would have been even better still if mention was given to our less regulated financial sector, particularly our government’s unwillingness to goad Canadians to ‘own’ their home. It would have been double plus good if the article were tempered by pointing out that we have a large housing bubble based on a credit binge of our own that may well be popping right now.

  23. The Liebrals used accounting tricks for their “surplus”.
    Stop lying.
    Harper is just getting started.
    Very funny, but enough jokes.
    I wonder how Clement would use Gazebos against the bursting credit bubble?

  24. @ LAS
    Let’s keep it simple shall we. One side can do no wrong. The other side can’t get it right.

  25. Just think how well Canada would be doing if Ontario were in good shape. It was the powerhouse of the Canadian economy for – a century?

  26. My guess is LAS is one of those ex-Ocean and Fisheries Employees that were over at Forbes lying through there teeth to the Americans. What scumbags.

  27. That article lost all credibility within the first 6 paragraphs.
    “During the financial crisis, no Canadian banking institutions had to be bailed out.” Really? Was not this a form of bailing out the banks – http://actionplan.gc.ca/eng/feature.asp?pageId=101
    In the next paragraph it talks about the health of the real estate market. What they don’t talk about is the fact that for the last 6-7 years Canadian banks did what their U.S. counterparts did …with the advantage of having all those mortgages backed by CMHC. CMHC is backed by the Gov’t of Canada…which is backed by Canadian taxpayers. When things go bad for borrowers, the banks will turn to CMHC, which will then turn to the Government to bail them out again.
    Canada is doing well when compared to other countries in the world…only because things are going so badly, economically in the rest of the world.

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