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Tory failure to protect Canadian sovereignty

   

Since you're apparently too lazy or something to use Google, here's your link: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/nationalpost/story.html?id=464320">Tory candidate claims he was turfed for not following ad scheme</a>

Childcare for all women is hardly just a small, personal issue of mine, considering it only affects every single woman, and therefore every single family, in the country. However my point is that like every other woman in Canada, it directly affects some of the major parts of my life, including when and where I can work, and therefore, how much money my family has to spend on things like our home, food, etc. The daycare money Harper gives out is a joke, or maybe an insult. It doesn't even cover a fraction of the cost of care, and even if it did, it doesn't create enough new spaces. If there's no space for your kids in daycare, what good is having a little money in help pay for it?

Personal issues do become political ones when you look at the larger picture. Ultimately, that's what makes politics relevant to everyday life.

As for the SPP, it is an incredibly far-reaching agreement. There's a reason it's been called NAFTA-plus or NAFTA on steroids. It involves harmonizing our regulations, and yes, our policies, on everything from the border to the environment to health. That's why the US right opposes the thing as much as the Canadian left (the US right also opposes it for reasons of xenophobia, but then that's par for the course for pundits like Lou Dobbs).

And Harper meets every year to assess the progress of the agreement, as many others busily work away at implementing it, so while it might be comforting to stick our heads in the sand and pretend it isn't there, the reality is that every year more changes are made to put its concepts into place, taking us further down the road of integration.

My biggest problem with the agreement is that as yet it has no parliamentary or congressional oversight. Instead, business leaders decide what to do and how, and tell our MPs and Harper, who say yes sir. Surely you can agree that it would be a good thing to at least give MPs a chance to debate it, and citizens like you and me a chance to discuss and vote on it as well? Harper could win major political points for being the one to bring it forward in the House and let everyone vote.

   

Chuck Strahl's hijinks against the Canadian Wheat Board

   

Tory vendetta against the Canadian Wheat Board continues, now with invasions of privacy!

   

Tories give language minorities a kick in the head.

   

Tories give women a kick in the head.

   

Tories attempt to block investigation into Afghan detainees/torture issue.

   

Don't forget these:

Former Canadian Alliance MP Jim Hart took the party to court and settled after claiming he'd been offered $62,000 to quit his B.C. seat in July 2000 to make way for new party leader Stockwell Day. "My resignation was contingent upon this negotiation," Hart wrote Day in a letter obtained by the Liberal party.

In 2002, Ezra Levant settled privately for nomination expenses with the Canadian Alliance after dropping his candidacy in Calgary Southwest to permit leader Stephen Harper a clear run in a byelection.

In 2005, a prospective Conservative candidate in Ottawa claimed he'd been offered $50,000 for expenses to make way for a star Tory candidate. Harper publicly denied there was a deal, but a subsequent court case vindicated Allan Riddell's claim.

In May 2005, Conservative MP Gurmant Grewal claimed he was offered a Liberal sinecure abroad or a Senate seat for his wife in return for scratching his budget vote. Grewal secretly taped the negotiations with then prime minister Paul Martin's chief of staff and Liberal cabinet minister Ujjal Dosanjh. An ethics inquiry ended up rebuking Grewal.

Freshly elected Liberal MP David Emerson abandoned the Liberals two weeks after the Jan. 23, 2006, election in return for a seat in Harper's Conservative cabinet.

-Ottawa Mayor Larry O'Brien is currently facing two counts of influence peddling involving allegations he dangled cash and a federal appointment to induce a fellow candidate to quit the municipal race in the fall of 2006. Terry Kilrea did quit, but did not accept the alleged offer. Conservative officials, including cabinet minister John Baird, insist no federal appointment was ever discussed or offered.

Added to the list.

   

I see Mr Dion is getting a lot of traction by trying to make false allegations and mud slinging


Familiarity not breeding contentment with Harper, Dion: poll

The Canadian Press

April 24, 2008 at 1:21 PM EDT

OTTAWA — Stephen Harper and Stéphane Dion: to know them is not necessarily to love them.

A new poll suggests only a minority of voters are growing fonder of the prime minister and the Liberal leader with time.

The Canadian Press Harris-Decima survey suggests only 43 per cent of respondents say their opinion of Mr. Harper has improved with time, while the numbers for Mr. Dion are even lower.

Only 27 per cent of respondents said their impression of the Liberal leader has improved.

Harris-Decima president Bruce Anderson says the numbers may explain why the Conservatives and Liberals have both struggled to gain much political ground since the last election.

However, he says there is a silver lining for both leaders. The numbers do suggest some growth potential.

Among Liberal and Bloc Québécois supporters, almost one-third say their opinion of Mr. Harper has improved. Meanwhile, about one-quarter of NDP and Green Party supporters say their opinion of Mr. Dion has improved.

Mr. Anderson says those numbers suggest both leaders are demonstrating some ability to pick up support.

The poll of 1,000 Canadians was conducted from April 17 to April 21, and is considered accurate to within 3.1 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.

   

Its good that you used Harris-Decima for your research.

I did too.

Sorry for your luck.

   

Thank you Derbs.

-"In and Out" electoral fraud
-The Chuck Cadman Affair
-Mulroney-Schreiber-MacKay
-The Tom Lukiwski-Brad Wall Racism/Homophobia Debacle
-Obamagate
-Maxime Bernier's bungling in Afghanistan
-Tory lies about the mission in Afghanistan
-Submarine maintenance shenanigans
-Reneging on Atlantic Accord and shafting of Bill Casey
-Printing and distributing partisan flyers on the taxpayer's nickel
-Broken promises on Arctic icebreakers
-Michael Fortier: An unelected Senator appointed to cabinet
-The Isotope/NRC Scandal
-Tory nomination irregularities including wholesale bribery
-Billions wasted in Afghanistan
-Reneging on promise of no more political porking
-Reneging on promise of openess and accountability
-Flip-flopping on floor crossers
-Flip-flopping on political patronage
-Eliminating the surplus through mismanagement
-Back-tracking on tax cuts
-Shelving SAR replacement plans
-Strangling of the Air Force
-Navy running out of gas
-Ottawa municipal election bribing
-Massive abuse of Parliamentary committee process
-"Friends of Science" electoral fraud
-Lies about "Canada First" defence policy
-Broken promises on income trusts
-Rob Anders defrauds taxpayers
-Jim Flaherty breaks government contracting rules
-Gordon O'Connor lies about Afghan detainess and their torture
-Jean-Pierre Blackburn: Lavish travel expenses
-Lawrence Cannon: Lavish travel expenses
-Bev Oda: Lavish travel expenses
-Josée Verner: Lavish travel expenses
-Wajid Khan: Lavish travel expenses and the "Phantom Report"
-Harper's taxpayer-funded image consultant
-Bev Oda's "cosy relationship" with CanWest
-Diane Finlay's "cosy relationship" with Simcoe Leaf Tobacco Co.
-Michael Fortier's "cosy relationship" with CGI Group Inc.
-Jim Flaherty's "cosy relationship" with developer Mario Cortelluci
-Stephen Harper exceeds donation limit to party
-So-Con censorship of the arts
-The CPC's "cosy relationship" with the Frontier Centre for Public Policy - because we wouldn't want any electoral reform, now would we?
-July 2000 Jim Hart takes party to court over bribe offer to vacate position for Stockwell Day
-2002 Ezra Levant settles privately to vacat ein favour of Stephen Harper himself.
-2005 Alan Ridells claim of $50000 bribe to vacate in favour of star Tory candidate is vindicated
-2005 Gurmant Grewal is rebuked for his conduct involving Liberal Ujjal Dosanjh
-2006 CPC up to its neck involved with Ottawa mayors Larry O'Briens influence peddling scandal
-Tories block investigation into Afghan detainees/torture issue
-Tories turn back on women's rights
-Tories turn back on language minority rights
-Chuck Strahl's strong-arm tactics against Canadian Wheat Board
-Tories invade privacy in ongoing vendetta against Canadian Wheat Board
-Cons surrender Canadian sovereignty with deal to let US military into Canada
-Conservative hostility to aboriginal Canadians: Broken promises on Kelowna Accord

   

Stephen Harper in So-Con fundie nutter Chuck McVety's pocket.

   

http://www.canadaka.net/link.php?id=32224

Harris Decima always gives the Liberals higher numbers than they probably are.
I was surveyed by Harris Decima about 6 weeks ago, the guy on the phone could barely speak English he had trouble pronouncing the word Conservatives...I'm not making it up!



on yer bike

   

Let's not forget his use of the government jet to fly off to hockey games. If it was bad when the Liberals did it, it's bad when Harper does it. Didn't the Harperites have the price pegged at $11,000 n hour or something like that?

   

got a link for that one

besides this is not the LAUGH at the NDP thread

   

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