Yes, I’m scared of Stephen Harper!

"Poor Liberals. Can the Conservatives get any luckier than this...." Poor Liberals? I suppose you think the bank robbers are the victims.--- "If you must kill a man, it costs you nothing to be polite about it." Winston Churchill

This is just partisan rhetoric not based on any facts..

I was being sarcastic..Peace bro

The Conservative Party is led my a individual who has a negative concept of government. He trusts corporations and certain individual but not the people we elect to govern us. In explaining why his child care policy was focused on parents and corporations to a Conservative rally in Ottawa on January 2, 2006 that he did not trust provincial or municipal governments.

His philosophy is the same as the Bush conservative Americans in the US. He believes that government should operate on the basis of a certain economic and social theory. It stresses the entitlement of wealth. It believes that private individuals should be free to exploit the country because the marketplace should decides who should rule not the voters. It will do everything possible to make sure that other alternatives are destroyed (as it did with the Progressive Conservatives). It is the most adamant of the publicly funded parties that those who vote for minor parties must remain second class citizens whose vote does not provide financial resources to their party.

That is why I will vote for the Green Party to help that party stay in the political game.

The party is anti-democratic.

Maybe he just doesn't believe in a child care program that completely subsidizes couples with children whose totally family income is $100000+ while stay at home parents get screwed. On this point I am in complete agreement with Harper.
All Canadians use public health care, education etc. but not all Canadians would opt to use public daycare. It is completely unfair. People who don't use the system should get their taxes refunded.

I don't know why some people seem concerned about the Conservatives. Canada is a democracy and not a dictatorship. If Harper screws up throw him out of office after the next election and elect a governement that would undo the damage. I so wish the World was still like that. Unfortunately, it is not anymore. In a sense, Canada is still pristine when it comes to the hard politics of confrontation and power, at least in the general public. Perhaps it suits us to believe that all is well with the World because then we do not have to bother ourselves with those pesky little disturbances that pop here and there into our consciousness. Perhaps it is a genuine belief in the good of Mankind and that ultimately Justice will prevail, or that the pendulum will eventually swing back just as Nature intends. Having followed the downward spin of Democracy under Bush for a while now, I can see that there are times in our History when the pendulum cannot swing back. Even if it could, we are now in another paradigm and it would not mean a thing. We would have to find new bearings. I fear that, sooner or later, Canada will end up in the hellish vortex created and maintained by the US Neocons (and, please, I do not mean "Americans" ). Indeed one American among many stands out in exposing how the Neocons emerged on the political scene and how in quite a short time, in fact, managed to circumvent all the socio-political mechanisms slowly built over the years and that was indeed supposed to protect Democracy. Many know about David Brock already. His most important book is The Republican Noise Machine. In it, <blockquote>Brock documents how right-wing groups pressure the media and spread misinformation to the public. It's easy to see how this is done. Fringe conspiracies and stories will be kept alive by outlets like Rush Limbaugh, the Washington Times, and the Drudge Report, until they finally break into the mainstream media. Well-funded think tanks like the Heritage Foundation overwhelm news reporters with distorted statistics and conservative spin. Mainstream cable news channels employ staunchly rightwing pundits -- like Pat Buchanan and Sean Hannity -- to twist facts and echo Republican talking points, all under the rubric of "balance." Meanwhile, media groups like Brent Bozell's Media Research Center have spent 30 years convincing the public that the media is, in fact, liberal. As Brock says, it's all a sham: "I have seen, and I know firsthand, indeed from my own pen, how the organized Right has sabotaged not only journalism but also democracy and truth." <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/news/qa/2004/09/09_400.html">Source</a> </blockquote> He is interviewed <a href="http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/18977/">here</a> For generous excerpts, you can go <a href="http://www.mydd.com/story/2005/1/5/18222/18175">here</a> or <a href="http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2004/05/11/noise/index_np.html">here</a>. Now, it is easy to extrapolate that the same strategies will be applied here in Canada since, as I have indicated above in my post, the same groups that have bankrolled and carried the Neocon movement and their Noise Machine in the US are behind the Neocons that have hijacked the Progressive Conservative Party. I am scared! Not for me, but for Canada's future.

"The Conservative Party is led my[sic] a individual who has a negative concept of government. He trusts corporations and certain individual but not the people we elect to govern us."

In several of his past speeches, Harper takes significant issue with Corporatism as a system of governance (let's just hope in that respect he doesn't turn out to be a liar).

And we don't elect people to "govern us", we elect people to legislate the manner in which we govern ourselves.

You can debate back and forth until you're blue in the face about Harper and what The Conservatives stand for. 
 
However for me, a person's own words summarize it all, and can not be denied. 
 
To settle this argument, read for yourself: 
 
<a href="http://www.harperwatch.ca">www.harperwatch.ca</a>

............your ass will be sitting in the PM's chair. Some prospect to look forward to.

Ed Deak.

So what. He supports the traditional definition of marriage. big deal .. so does half the Canadian population...He doesn't believe in entrenching medicare or pay equity i.e.feminist rights (pay equity is not equal pay for the same job) in the constitution..so what..How can we deal with another fiscal crisis if the government of Canada can't cut funds to programs because they would always get challenged in court..The only thing I found disturbing was his gung ho attitude on Iraq and his bad mouthing of our country to an American audience.

I don't think the Conservatives here control much of anything let alone the media. What I never could understand was how social conservatism ended up getting intertwined with fiscal conservatism.

Even so, this group seems more progressive than the Mulroney Tories...at least they won't try to introduce abortion legislation and there were alot of delegates who supported SSM at their policy convention in Montreal.

The fact is if they do well in Toronto & Quebec they would elect more progressive minded MPs and become less of a rural based party which is more social conservative.

P.S. If the Conservatives lose this election again, you can kiss this country goodbye as Western Canadian Seperatists will join forces with the Bloc to tear the country apart...

Perturbed, 
 
Do you know where Harper will spend our dollars for the military? 
 
<a href="http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/December2005/13/c0072.html?tr=y&auid=1318846">http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/December2005/13/c0072.html?tr=y&auid=1318846</a>--- "And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music." Friedrich Nietzsche

What western separatists? I live in B.C. I don't see any. Your blowing wind out of your ass. If you don't like canada, immigrate to another country and take that asshole harper with you. Yeah and martin too. And no I am not left wing, as most of the propagandists that come to this site would like to paint everyone, who is nationalist or something else politically. If you people think you have a large following you are sadly mistaken.