Federal NDP leader Thomas Mulcair said reviving his party in Saskatchewan is one of his highest priorities.
“We’re going to continue to be here. We’ll be here every step of the way,” Mulcair said in a speech to Saskatchewan NDP members Saturday.
“Together, we will succeed.”
In a whirlwind visit to Washington this week, Opposition Leader Tom Mulcair is bearing an entirely different message from that brought by the parade of Conservative leaders who recently invaded the U.S. to sell the Keystone XL pipeline.
In related news, Saskatchewan NDP leader Cam Broten could be heard swearing in his office.
Would Cam Broten be any relation to Ontario’s infamous Minister of Education Laurel Broten?
Why is the Opposition visiting other countries?
Mr. Mulcair should articulate exactly which pipelines and refineries he is in favour of; to generate ‘energy independence’.
Talking about the moribund Kyoto accord, which has died on the vine; isn’t in any way helping his case.
Returning to sod huts on the prairie won’t be a big vote getter, in a difficult economic environment.
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Mulcair is discovering just how difficult it is to be a federal politician with only a provincial background. The usual mistake of these types is to tell folks in one place one thing, and something else elsewhere. Anyone in western Canada voting for this Quebec hustler really does need their head examined.
Of course he’s already put his foot in it with the Sherbrooke Declaration, pretending to Canadians outside Quebec that he’s not soft on separatism. The BQ may have hurt him and the rest of his gang of soft pequistes qhite badly last week with their bill to revoke the Clarity Act. Watch for hard separatists deserting the NDP in droves over the next few months.
A return to sod huts, not enough, all Mulcair followers need to go to fully underground homes, that way we can ‘cover’ their treason so much more efficiently.
Seems to me if Mulcair or Shiny Phoney were to become PM, Canada would split on the Manitoba border.
Mulcair’s lunacy wouldl kill the economy, not only in the West but throughout Canada.
Whatever happened to national unity vis a vis foreign countries? This rotten s.o.b is taking a domestic political quarrel into the USA and offering his side to people who would cheerfully cut our throats. When normal families fight among themselves, they quickly bury the hatchet and form a united front against outsiders.
These NDP dickheads just can’t help themselves. They’d sing the same enviro-commie tune even if it attracted all the pestilence and poverty this old world could muster up.
They’re like those talking dolls that every little girl wanted 30 years ago – you pulled the string and you always got the same chorus.
What were they called…Crying Baby Wee-wees?
Mulcair’s province Quebec, the only one he identifies with, depends heavily for both federal spending and provincial equalization tax revenue both generated from the Western oil and gas industries.
Yet he goes to the U.S. decrying the “evil” oil/natural gas industry generated CO2., which is a market needed for the industry to generate more revenue to stave off more government cut backs.
Mulcair’s theme song is “Send in the clowns”. It’s bound to be an off Broadway hit.
Perhaps, Mulcair can condemn CO2 on a visit and tour around with new provincial leader Cam Broten, after which the Saskatchewan NDP will be declared a “species at risk”.
Problem is, the same asshats as Muclair are running the USSA. It could get nasty. I say beat them to the punch,and cut off ALL oil/gas and transfers to Queerbec now.
“Why is the Opposition visiting other countries?”
More importantly….WHO paid for it?
Since nobody has said it, let me be the first.
“Tom Mulcair: Not Dead Enough” should be considered as the next headline meme.
john, manitoba is a dipper province, saskabush just dumped their dippers, newfberta voted in a pinko tory gov’t, and BC looks like they will dump the Lieberals and vote in the dippers again, soooooooo, what will the flag be, the hammer and sicle??????
Just check your wallet, J.
On a related note, I had a conversation with a coworker today. His idea to help with high gas prices was for the gov’t to nationalize the oil companies in Canada, and then sell gas to Canadians at cost via gov’t run stations.
Oh, and in his opinion, Chavez was a swell guy.
If you stuffed a cigar in Mulcair’s mouth, he would look like Rin Tin Tin taking a shit. No offense intended to Rin Tin Tin.
“Problem is, the same asshats as Muclair are running the USSA.”
You get a bingo on that.
The socialists have been practicing Tacquia, or however you spell lying to hide your agenda, for a hundred years.
That article describes the most profoundly disturbing and stunning betrayal of the Canadian national interest I have ever read. All of the comments above (to 7:25p.m., at least) are on point, but when you synthesize, in particular, cgh’s, Larry’s, Hans’s, john robertson’s and Zog’s comments, a very ugly picture emerges.
I would add just one other dimension: IMO, the most grotesque paragraph of the article is the last one, namely:
“Mulcair said his visit to the U.S. has been planned for months and his main intention was to introduce himself to Americans as the man who in 2015 could become Canada’s prime minister.”
Whatever one thinks of Mr. Mulroney, he established (in 1988, and over Mr. Trudeau, Sr.’s vigorous objections), after years and decades of Liberal mucking about in the wake of the decline and fall of the British Empire, that North America is a co-management exercise. Leaving aside the necessity of all three pipelines (which are, frankly, minimally expensive) to gain, as cgh well knows, the “best price”, whatever it happens to be on any given day, Mr. Mulcair just cut Canada off at the knees: surely Mr. Mulroney’s contribution — gift, actually — to this country was the moral authority to argue that we have the right to promote free trade in North America. Who’s going to listen to Canada now? This puts us back into MacKenzie King territory: it will take years, maybe decades, to get back to where we had been.
It gives me cold comfort to know that Mr. Mulcair has just handed Stephen Harper another majority government.
I just wish the girl who gave him his broken nose would come back and do it again.
Yup…from the back, this time.
And let the congregation say “Amen”.
But in fact I’ve heard far worse. You would have, and I did hear, much, much worse from the extended Canadian delegation at any COP conference prior to 2007.
Let me explain.
It was Canada’s practice to bring to any COP conference, not just the official delegation of officials from Foreign Affairs and Environment, but also an extended delegation of ENGOs. This extended delegation didn’t have negotiating status or rights to sit in private negotiating sessions, but it could and did attend all plenaries and working groups. And the things they said about their own country would make your hair stand on end.
And yes, they applied for and got federal funding for their travel and accommodation costs. Being part of the business delegation, we had to pay our own way.
And yes, this extended delegation nonsense came to a final and abrupt end with the advent of Stephen Harper. So I don’t wanna hear any yapping from the cheap seats about how big government Tories are no different than big government Liberals.
Now with respect to Mr. Mulcair, this is far from the first time that Dipper Members of Parliament have gone sniveling down to their Washington friends lamenting how dreadful things are here. This is simply the first time that a Leader of the Opposition has done it, a man purporting to be the next Prime Minister.
I give the Liberals some credit here. Whatever Trudeau’s or Chretien’s failings they never whinged to a foreign audience about how dreadful the Canadian government was. This is a Dipper pychosis.
And I give you one more thought to ponder. If North America is a “co-management exercise”, then we need to step up our game considerably. Because, as shown by another thread earlier, there are some geniune loons in the US military.
And as to your comment about building pipelines? Again, let the congregation say “Amen”.
Anyone stupid enough to follow Mulcair can join him off the cliff. It just begs the imagination why he ascended to the position he is currently at.
Tommy the Commie is in a fight with the Shiny Pony and Lizard May for the environazi voter. So eager is he for this nutty demographic, he will say anything at any given time, to gain a quarter share of that bloc.
The problem being, he now cannot hide from his outrageous comments, to the rest of Canada. Nobody tell him that Quebec will not win him the country, in fact, the NDP will regress, nothing wrong with that.
It’s actually fun to watch the libtard universe squabble over the same bunch of rentseekers and parasites. But tell me, where is the blue collar working man represented in this new/old NDP?
If you want to get even sicker over Mulcair’s message in the US read the comments to the Edmonton Journal article.
Mulcair should swallow his own prescription, starting with Quebec.
” The federal government has estimated, using a methodology proposed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), that such emissions amount to 0.5 megatonnes of carbon dioxide each year in Canada.
“The study concludes that the real quantity of hydro electric greenhouse gas emissions is between seven and 13 megatonnes of carbon dioxide. Most of these greenhouse gases are emitted in Quebec.”
http://montreal.ctvnews.ca/hydro-electricity-generates-more-greenhouse-gases-than-previously-believed-study-1.755545
Can he be tried for treason? If not, then perhaps PMSH can end the Albertan transfer payments to queerbeck so as not to make them direct participants in the rape of the environment of Alberta. I’m sure the province would appreciate not getting such tainted money.
Somehow I very much doubt whether he’d get much support from the BC communist party (aka NDP party) as there seems to be an instinctive revulsion in this province against eastern Canadian stupidity that crosses party lines. Besides, if the commies get into power in May in BC, they’ll need all the money they can get from the northern BC natural gas fields and oil fields. Also, a large fraction of the interior of BC works in N. Alberta and these people live in BC and spend a lot of their money here. This is money that will be more important as the US cannabis industry, following various state referendum results, starts to take off making BC bud a niche player in the US market. When BC’s largest cash crop is threatened, the province will have to depend on oil, gas and mining as sources of revenue. There are sections of BC that try to base their economy on selling handmade pottery and beadwork to one another but if it wasn’t for the welfare payments and tourists coming by to see tribes of hippies still in existence, they’d vanish in a heartbeat.
I’m thinking we in the west should borrow “Are we still a member of this thing”. I wish Red Ford could come up with some way to spend all the Quebec transfer payments on envirnmnetal research and initiatives in Alberta/Saskatchewan. That should make Mad Tom a happy guy.
“If North America is a “co-management exercise”, then we need to step up our game considerably. Because, as shown by another thread earlier, there are some geniune loons in the US military.”
Funny you would mention that. And since you have, I’ll take the liberty of a tangentially off-topic development of that theme. As I see it, Mr. Mulcair has, in one fell swoop,
– disavowed Canada’s right to argue for an expansion of North American free trade in a situation where the interests of Canada and the United States are clearly aligned (Keystone XL),
– by implication, insulted the United States by claiming that the east coast pipeline is more important than Keystone XL (the two pipelines are complements, not substitutes), and
– provided an inward-looking American administration with a convenient cover story for ignoring Canada (“opinion up there is divided, so we better not choose sides”).
So, if he can’t even do the right thing in the most straightforwardly obvious and favourable of situations, what exactly can we expect from him when it comes to, say, confronting foreign powers in the Arctic? In this regard, I’d point out that American and Canadian interests are not at all aligned on this issue, with one or two significant territorial disputes still simmering under the radar, if memory serves.
I’m guessing that we can pretty much count on Mr. Mulcair to accept Mr. Putin’s invitation for a “get to know you” tour of Russia, where they’d more than gladly agree to slice off another strip of Canadian sovereignty, wealth and influence. I’d wager that Mr. Mulcair might find Mr. Putin to be a “no holds barred” counter-party: say what you will about the pathologies of the United States, but I’m pretty sure that they are not in the same league as those of a country that gives Joseph “I’m not even Russian and at least 32 million Soviet inhabitants died on my watch” Stalin a 50% favourable rating (according to recent polling linked by EBD).
Loki: Treason? Nope. We live in a post-modern world where such things don’t exist and we’re all good post-nationalist Kosmopolitans.
Yes, BC may have an instinctive revulsion for eastern Canada lunacy, but it has a whole good crop of its own: antinuclear policies, Site C opposition, Gateway opposition, a Vancouver mayor owned by a foreign lobby group Tides Foundation.
You’re closer to it than I am, Loki, but the advent of the Dippers in BC government is inevitable, no? Which means a lot more of the same. Remember the chorus to that old camp song Henry VIII. “Second verse, little bit louder, little bit worse.”
David: Mulcair has two impossible things to bridge: 1) most of his political support is soft sovereigntists in Quebec; 2) the need to appeal to a majority of Canadians on th left outside Quebec. It’s impossible because the sops he needs to throw to group 1 are generally unacceptable to group 2. Mostly these folks want a much stronger and more centralized federal government, which is where they and the pequistes part company.
My prediction is that there’s going to be lots more of these explosions out of the Dippers over the next couple of years. And all the while, Harper and Co. govern on serenely as the Left: Libs, BQ and Dippers, squabble over a diminishing pile of turds.
Perhaps we can ask the French to pull his passport. It would keep him home!
Yes B.C. has it’s own brand of Dipper nutbars. They run the education and health care industries here and do very well by it. What is truly scary is how many people are lining up for their free government handouts both from the Liebels and soon to be government Dippers. Turdeau will probably do well here.