Lock ’em up and throw away the key. Hand over billions to Lockheed Martin. Slash social programs. Deny climate change and kick Canuck democracy in the ass. That’s what the Conservative-Reform-Alliance party stands for and here are five solid reasons to vote against them on May 2.
1. Slashing social programs: Buried in the Conservative budget is a pledge to cut federal spending over the next few years from 16 percent of gross domestic product to 12.9. That would mean huge cuts to social programs, but the Conservatives aren’t saying what’s on the chopping block. Unfortunately, Canadians have been through this before. Economist Armine Yalnizyan of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives points out that in 1995, Paul Martin slashed transfers to the provinces for health care, higher education and welfare. Federal spending fell from 16 percent of GDP to 12.7. Re-elect the Conservatives and we’re in for a re-run of that horror movie, slashing social programs while the Conservatives hand over billions in tax cuts to oil companies and banks.
2. Buying fighter jets: The Conservatives claim that buying 65 Lockheed Martin fighter jets will cost $17.6 billion over 20 years. The parliamentary budget officer, Kevin Page says it’s more realistic to price the F-35 jets over 30 years. He calculates a total cost of $30 billion. Meanwhile, an American expert at the Center for Defense Information predicts the final figure will likely be even higher—at least double what the Harperites claim. In a brief to a parliamentary committee in December, Winslow Wheeler urged Canada not to rush into the deal, especially since full testing of the F-35s won’t begin for five years. His message: Don’t buy before you fly. Unfortunately, if re-elected, the Harperites surely will.
3. Flouting democracy: The Conservatives made history by being voted in contempt of Parliament—twice. They contemptuously refused to release detailed cost estimates for their plans to build jails, buy jets and fork over billions in corporate tax cuts. Cabinet minister Bev Oda tried to mislead MPs into believing that bureaucrats, not Conservative politicians, had denied funding to Kairos, a highly respected church aid organization. The Harperites had already been formally censured for withholding documents on Canadian complicity in the torture of Afghan detainees. As though this weren’t enough, Harper himself shut down Parliament in 2008 because he faced defeat after stupidly trying to deny election funding to his opponents and refusing to acknowledge the worst economic crisis since the Dirty Thirties. If re-elected, you can count on the Conservatives to continue their contemptuous, bumbling ways.
4. Denying climate change: The Conservatives have made Canada an international laughing stock for their refusal to abide by the provisions of the Kyoto treaty on reducing greenhouse gas emissions and for their repeated attempts to derail any further binding emissions targets for industrial countries. In 2008, environmental groups awarded Canada the “Fossil of the Year” award for disrupting climate-change talks in Poland. As the 2009 climate change conference in Copenhagen was set to begin, Britain’s Guardian newspaper called Canada “the dirty old man of the climate world.” No wonder. Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions had soared to more than 26 percent above 1990 levels, yet the Conservatives stoutly defended pushing full speed ahead with developing the Alberta tar sands. Columnist George Monbiot wrote that Canada was steadily turning itself into “a corrupt petro state.” With an environmental record like theirs, the Conservatives hardly deserve another term in office.
5. Losing the moral right to govern: Four senior Conservatives (two of them senators) are facing charges of knowingly violating spending limits in the 2006 election. We’ll see how the case goes in court, but it’s worth noting that the Harperites came into office promising a new era of accountability. Instead, we’ve had secrecy, denial, obfuscation, plans for reckless spending on jails and jets and a barrage of lying. Time to throw the rascals out.
This article appears in Mar 31 – Apr 6, 2011.
Aside from the flatulent and fatuous moral outrage this is the single best pro-Conservative ad I’ve ever read. In the off chance they get a majority this time, give yourself a pat on the back Cousin Brucie.
Harper has traveled far from his Reformer roots or maybe not. He has adapted quite well to the role of hypocrite and panderer. His complaints about the previous Liberal government’s lack of transparency, democratic deficit in Parliament and corruption are, of course, long forgotten.
In his defense, I would say he was forced to become the “iron-fisted” ruler of the Conservative Party. He had to perfect the art of “controlling the message” to a degree not previously seen in Canadian politics because that whole “grass roots” thing didn’t work so well when every other week some Reform cum Alliance cum Conservative MP was found standing in front of a camera saying the most outrageous things about evolution or women or gays.
Such control of the party’s “grass roots” and their flaky ideas is what has enabled the Conservatives to cling to Minority government status. This reality is not lost on the majority of voters who haven’t been able to bring themselves to embrace Harper as a leader nor give the Conservative Party a majority in Parliament.
The Harper government has gone past it’s “best before” date. Time to throw them out.
I was wondering when the Coast would start on the election and not surprised with Wonk’s editorial. Contempt of parliament? How about contempt of the opposition? And heaven forbid we actually arm the military. Not to mention the F-35 started out in 1995 as a Liberal project. So we stop peeing in the pool and that will stop pee from going into the pool from anyone else how? Not to mention the high cost/low benefits of wind, etc.
Just more left wing garbage from Bruce. Enjoy the Tory majority.
Bruce Wark must Go! not Harper
Thanks Bruce! just because everything you have ever written for the coast is so bias and to far to the communist party.
As for most of your reasons you might want to reminded readers under 13 years of Liberal Rule in Canada they have done nothing either and lied on amlost everything unlike the Liberals Steven Harper is a man of his word unlike the Liberals and I think most Nova Scotians know what a NDP government will be like too and will never want to see one in Ottawa.
Yes our Military needs thier aging equiment replace and not doing so is an insult too our troops, and many times you have opposed it and yes I think many of the coast readers think your editional on this issue was a insult for the people who have to fight and even die so you can write this trash.
Climate Change the Liberals never did anything about it
Slashing social programs, Liberals cut many Social Programs in their 13 years of rule no difference and in Nova Scotia the NDP has done the same
Harper has so far has not even lied on any of his promises he has made to the people of this country and when they get a Majority Government then what?
Also Harper is not even close to Hitler I think you should see what life is like under a Authoritarian Ruler, for one we do not call him the “dear leader” as many on the far left just dream about.
Steven Harper has my vote
Bruce Wank should run for the socialists and stop spewing his mindless bullshit.
The last time a military contract was signed by the Conservatives for badly needed aircraft the Liberals promptly cancelled it after getting in power at a cost of millions to taxpayers.
The military never fully recovered from the slash & burn policies of the liberals.
The Liberals wasted a BILLION dollars on a useless gun registry that both the Libs & NDP support to this day. Over a billion charged by liberals for EI premiums used for general revenue by the libers. Senator Levigne a Creten appointed Senator CONVICTED of fraud after 4 years of stealing from taxpayers , Scholarship scandal. I could go on, ad nauseum!
Wanker no doubt is polishing his resume to get on with the local socialist hoard as spin doctor with others of his ilk before him or he would report with balance and fact.
I hate Harper too, but the Nazi reference is too far.
Why Harper must stay.
1) He’s not Michael Ignatieff
2) He’s not Jack Layton
3) He’s not Duceppe
4) He’s certainly not Lizzie the Bag Lady
5) He’s backing the largest renewable energy project undertaken in Canada in the past 30 years and providing thousands of jobs for Atlantic Canadians.
Why is it that when the Conservatives get called out on their crap their supporters can never accept that the governing power is responsible for that happening, not a Lib gov from the 1990’s. Accountability in the here and now please!
Sorry, I’m voting Conservative this time. It wouldn’t hurt for us to have more MPs on the Government side in Nova Scotia.
I agree with Joe Blow, did anybody tell Elizabeth May that the national symbol of Canada is the beaver and that we do not want a prime minister or anybody in parliament that looks like one and chatters gibberish like one. The Liberals stand for everything and nothing so if you do not have the brains to figure out your own political beliefs or where you fit on the left-right spectrum then vote for them and the NDP are a bunch of schrill socialists who would put their hands in the pockets of hardworking taxpayers to re-distribute income based on their own wacky bleeding heart views of the world.
Harper is the only viable choice for Canada. Smilin’ Jack is a joke who doesn’t even deserve national coverage and Lizzy May is even more of a joke. As for Iggy, the only good quality I can see is that he is not Stephane Dion. Halifax needs someone on the government side for a change. I’m voting for the Conservatives in the hope that HRM will finally stop electing useless NDP members to Parliament.
So Joe Blow refers to Green Party leader Elizabeth May as “Lizzie the Bag Lady” and Tom Hamilton compares Elizabeth May to Canada’s national symbol the beaver and implies that she “looks like one and chatters gibberish like one”.
Why is it that some men can’t resist bashing women in politics with references to their appearance? That’s a rhetorical question. I already know the answer. Deep down, some men just don’t like women all that much.
Stephen Harper doesn’t have unlimited tenure as leader of the Conservatives. If he doesn’t soon deliver a majority government the knives will be out and various factions of the new and improved Conservative Party (Reform – Progressive Conservative mashup) will be looking for a change at the top.
The “flakes” are growing impatient with being micromanaged and muzzled and they won’t put up with it much longer if they don’t get majority government status in return. They have an agenda, after all, and it won’t get implemented until they are part of a majority government. The moderates are getting tired of being associated with the “flakes” and having that albatross hanging around their necks and may soon decide another reorganization of the Canadian Right is in order. Harper is the guy who holds them all together and if he can’t ever “put them over the top” he will eventually get mugged by the disparate factions in his own party.
Harper’s “iron fist” can keep them all in line, but this tactic won’t work indefinitely and he knows it.
Not quite what Preston Manning had in mind for a “grassroots” party I don’t think.
Personally, I think Harper has been getting some bad advice from those U.S. Republican Party strategists who keep visiting the Conservative Party backrooms. Alberta may resemble some U.S. red state in some superficial ways but 24 Sussex Drive in Ottawa is an awful long way from Crawford, Texas.
Slashing governmental spending, sweet, where do I sign up? Oh, yes the voting booth, lol
vote harper if you want megaprisons and fighter jets and canada to continue on as America Jr.
I’m really surprised that readers of the Coast are Harper supporters, to be honest.
Fuck you all for ruining the country I love(ed?).
esposito – I call her the bag lady because during the last election she dressed like one and I clearly remember her telling one lady she stopped on the street ‘Oh, you have to vote’ when the lady had told her that she did not vote.
Rule # 1 when canvassing : never tell a person they ‘have’ to do something.
Lizzie just grates, she is such a American Democrat. She and her mother are good friends of Bill Clinton but somehow Lizzie never learned the proper election behaviour and the word ‘humble’ is not in her vocabulary.
Seems odd that all those years she spent in Cape Breton from the 1970’s on never induced her to place herself on the ballot on the Island. She knew she’d get her ass kicked so she convinced that nerd Dion not to run a Liberal in central Nova in the expectation that she would beat Peter MacKay.
Now she is spending 55 of the total Green campaign budget to try and get a decent 2nd place in Saanich.
With Elizabeth May, it is all about her.
Just ask the Green Party members in Halifax who left because she ruled the roost, knew everything and took no advice.
Or read Parker Donham at contrarian.ca
I usually refer to her as “Betty the Bag Lady”
helifax – Ignatieff wants fighter jets, he wants cheaper ones from somewhere else, don’t know where because he isn’t saying.
I kinda like the idea of new jails; too many of them are Victorian relics and unsuited to the needs of the people they house.
Call the John Howard Society and ask them if we need new prisons and new prison services or read the latest column by Ms Blatchford in the Globe.
Or ask the guards at the Burnside jail where the Fire Marshal is investigating over crowding.
The crime rate may be going down but the number of persons being jailed is going up.
Why are you surprised that conservative people read The Coast ?
Tim does a better job covering HRM than any other reporter in metro. He’s not afraid to challenge the orthodoxy so common in NS, although he rarely challenges the orthodoxy of the left. Just because The Coast is predominantly left wing in its outlook that does not mean that more conservative people shun it. Your narrow mind may have difficulty understanding that conservatives value diversity of opinion and free exchange of ideas but some day you will see the light.
I love the Fighter aircraft crap coming from the opposition. They state that there are other aircraft to tke the place of the F-35. Well boys and girls, here are the avaialable latest generation fighters:
Boeing F-15 (in development)
Boeing X-32 (lost to the F-15 in JSF contest and abandoned)
HAL Tegas (made in India and inferior to the CF-18)
MIG-35 (made in Russia)
MIG_MFI (made in Russia)
So which one shall we get? Oh you want to see what’s in the used lot, well let’s see what we have there (China, Russia, and Iran not included):
F-14 Tomcat
F-18 Hornet
Harrier (Britain)
Hawk (Britain)
Mirage various series (France)
Eurofighter Typhoon
Saab Gripen (made in Sweden)
F-22 Raptor
F-15 Eagle
F-16 Falcon
Mitisbushi F-2
So boys and girls what is it going to be?
Oh and I forgot most of them are 20+ years old.
Hey guys, buying fighter jets is clearly a priority in this economic climate (not to mention energy crisis that is continuously ignored and inevitably contributing to this shit economic climate).
Bro Tim, 2011
There is a cheap fighter jet?
Why do we need fighter jets anyway — especially ones from Lockheed Martin? Have any of your taken the trouble (as I have) to read Wm. Hartung’s latest tome: “Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin and the Making of the Military-Industrial Complex.” If you care about this subject, there is more info. here: http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175339/tom…
Bruce, if you have to ask that question, then you should not be writing about the military at all. You probably think we should disband the military and replace with Iggy’s Canadian Corps (his version of the Peace Corps) or snow shovellers. If you want peace you have to be prepared to fight for it. It is not given. To fight for it you have to be properly armed and trained. Our military is finally getting the basics it needs.
Bro Tim – Bruce wants our boys and girls to ‘Just be nice’.
I realize that there are narrow-minded bigots out there who are opposed to any purchasing of military equipment, but tell me, How stupid is it to spend money to NOT buy military equipment? Iggy has been quite silent on the subject of exactly how much in penalties the cancellation of the CF-35 contract will cost us. Still, in the event that he gets elected, he needs to be able to keep at least one promise. Just like Jean Poutine and the EH-101 – one of the stupidest and costliest mistakes ever made by a national leader.
Had to laugh watching Taliban Jack pretend to give a damn about veterans on the weekend. Watching a Dipper try to express respect for the military is like watching a snail eat it’s own vomit. How does the NDP justify it’s so-called “concern” for former servicemen when it’s own party dogma is built around contempt for them when they are actually wearing the uniform?
Ivan wrote:
“How does the NDP justify it’s so-called “concern” for former servicemen when it’s own party dogma is built around contempt for them when they are actually wearing the uniform?”
Your attack on Jack Layton on the issue of supporting veterans displays your ignorance on the subject. Harper’s Conservative government has a shameful record when it comes to supporting veterans. But you don’t have to take my word on it.
Harper’s Conservatives chose not to extend Col. Pat Stogran’s tenure as the Veterans’ Ombudsman after his strong criticisms of how the Department of Veterans Affairs was failing Canada’s veterans.
Typical of Harper’s way of dealing with criticism, he decided to “shoot the messenger” rather than make any changes that would improve the lives of injured veterans. It is also typical for folks on the Right to trumpet their support of all things military (read “F 35 fighters”) but somehow drop the ball when it comes to REALLY supporting the troops by refusing to fund programs for wounded and injured veterans, for example, because these things cost money.
Maybe the views of the former commander of the 3rd Battalion Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, who led the Battalion in Afghanistan and who was decorated for “Bravery Under Fire” for action in the Balkans, don’t carry much weight with you but they should. He has a distinguished record of military service.
Col. Stogran stood shoulder-to-shoulder with Jack Layton on that stage this past weekend, voicing strong criticism of the Harper government’s many failures with respect to veterans.
Col. Stogran’s appearance at the NDP campaign event this last weekend was a strong vote of support for Jack Layton and what he can bring to the table for veterans, and also a strong vote of support for the local NDP candidate in Dartmouth-Cole Harbour Robert Chisholm.
I have the phone number handy if you decide you want a Robert Chisholm sign for your home.
Maybe Col. Strogan stood next to Layton on the weekend but do you honestly believe that he is going to vote for him. I know the mentality of the left when it comes to the military. I got to see it in the 70’s, the 80’s and the 90’s when their Defence Policy could basically be summed up by “Take The Toys Away From The Boys”.
So, a few have graduated from the tired old 60’s baby-killer mind-set. The self-congratulatory “enlightened” ones take the attitude that “The only good soldier is a broken soldier”. That’s the only way I can see hard-core ideologues like Stephen Lewis and Gerry Kaplan even being in the same room with a retired general like Romeo Dallaire, let alone saying nice things about him. I will repeat, wouldn’t it be nice if they showed the same amount of concern for our soldiers while they were actually serving. And I can’t help but feel that increasing post-service benefits has more to do with pumping money into social programs dominated by public sector trade unions than any real gratitude for their service. Most servicemen and women realize that the words of Kipling’s “Tommy” are as relevant now as when he wrote it. The Conservatives will fuck them over out of expediency, the Liberals out of principal and the NDP out of sheer stupidity.
Tommy ain’t a bloomin fool; you bet that Tommy sees.”
Now go ask Tommy where you can stick your Chisholm sign
Ivan,
Once again you aren’t making any sense.
Do you honestly believe that Col. Stogran would go to the trouble of appearing at an NDP event and voice support for Jack Layton’s NDP if he had no intention of voting for them?
I don’t know the man personally, but from what I’ve read he strikes me as a man of high integrity. You paint him as some kind of hypocrite.
You just can’t accept that your caricature of the Left is as inaccurate as those caricatures of soldiers as baby killers that you frequently trot out.
Jack Layton happens to have a platform that addresses issues that face Canada’s veterans and Col. Stogran supports him.
Why can’t you?
Or don’t you support the troops?
And what the Commandante in his infinite wisdom calls ignorance; I call scepticism. I watched the lips move; heard the words and believed none of it. Neither the promise, nor the sincerity of the motivation. It doesn’t mean that I believe the promises of the Conservatives, or don’t think that they can do a whole lot better in their treatment of our veterans. But it’s one hell of quantum leap from that to accepting that the left have abandoned the anti-military bigotry that is part and parcel of their so-called ideals. The federal NDP were noticeably silent in the dark days of the 90’s when op-tempo, rust-out and Liberal indifference came perilously close to destroying our military. Now exactly why do you suppose that was?
I am under no illusions – Jack Layton will not be Canada’s next Prime Minister.
But if the NDP has as much influence in the next Parliament as they have recently had in the last one, you will see the governing party reluctantly incorporate parts of the NDP platform into government policy in return for support in the Commons.
If Harper were to win a majority, supported by unthinking knee-jerk reactionaries across the country, I believe the situation for Canada’s veterans would get worse and not better. Harper, like his conservative mentors south of the border, has no wish to put money into better services and benefits for veterans, or as you put it, pump “money into social programs dominated by public sector trade unions”.
I don’t think Col. Stogran is an anomaly. There are lots of current and former members of Canada’s military who wouldn’t vote Conservative if their lives depended on it. My father was one of them.
I don’t know where you manufactured the notion that I consider Col. Stogran to be a hypocrite. He WAS fucked over by Harper’s PMO. Even General Rick Hillier, another soldier whom I admire had more respect for the Liberals of Paul Martin than he did for the people around Harper. They were ,after all, the people who initiated the most recent equipment purchases that came on line during Harper’s reign. Perhaps Stogran is going to vote NDP. His choice and I spoke precipitously in questioning it. But nobody is ever going to convince me that the left in this nation give a fuck about our soldiers or even understand the job that they do. My view of the left may be caricature in your eyes, but it’s been informed by over 3 decades of exposure to the left’s own stupidity, hypocrisy and bigotry and it will take more than the effusions of a left-wing gasbag to dispel that. You question my support for our soldiers; Fuck You – my mother and I spent 3 decades doing exactly that and continue to do so even though my father retired 2 decades ago. You want to believe Layton’s kabuki theatre, knock yourself out.
I take back the “Fuck You” – it means I’m taking this thread and myself too seriously. All for a PM I don’t particularly like and a Party I don’t particularly trust. Bad Joss.
I’m crossing my fingers for a Tory majority. The rants from Bruce and the other bearded lefties about the inbred-redneck-Nazi “reactionaries” ushering in the Canadian apocalypse would make this worth it in and of itself.
Not having our economy f***ed over, the government balance sheet bleeding torrents of red ink, wasteful dependency-breeding programs shoved down our throats with our own tax money, and our military eviscerated are just lovely bonuses on top of it all.
Here’s hoping to a new and better Canada.
Andrew S: Your comments about economic stability in relation to the Cons is laughable. The national debt and deficit has risen consistently with every Conservative gov’t since the 1940s. The Harper gov’t inherited a surplus of over $13 billion, and managed to turn it ito a $39 billion deficit, all the while cutting things like healthcare and environmental programs (because you know, we totally don’t need that stuff). For an economist, Harper’s pretty lousy at balancing the books.
meow, the surplus was due to Martin ripping off money from CPP, EI, downloading to provinces, etc. The reason there is a deficit today is due to stimulous spending that the government was forced to do by the opposition. Had we gone with the stimulous proposals of the opposition, the deficit would have been 2-3 times higher.
How can I ever forget the Trudeau years when mortgages were 22% and he was Prime Minister when the greatest number of mortgage foreclosures in Canadian history put millions of Canadians out on the street.
The Herald made a fortune from all the mortgage foreclosure ads.
I guess the revenue made up for all the revenue lost when real estate ads hit an all time low.
Liberal attack ads.
Read the September 30 1980 lead editorial in the Globe & Mail entitled ‘Strategy of cynicism’.
Liberal pollster and his buddies spoke to a crowd in New York and said ‘ The issue in that campaign was fear’ and the editorial describes how in the 1980 election they ‘decided to make Trudeau a non-issue in the campaign, with only limited and controlled public exposure ‘
Bruce every time I catch your byline looking for Tim articles I hope it’s finally going to be something anti-NDP, but once again you’ve let me down.
That said,
I don’t like Stephen Harper.
I’m not a big fan of the Conservatives either, especially lately.
I’m voting Conservative in the election as a lesser of 3 evils situation.
Problem with voting, especially with folks as young as me, is that people like to pick one issue out of a bunch that they like (be it military spending or post secondary education or which one looks nicest), and not consider the whole spectrum. Looking beyond what you necessarily would benefit most from, and what everyone would benefit most from is difficult for a lot of people.
You can’t vote Green party: Because they’re a bunch of useless eco-nuts. They don’t even have an economic platforms, it’s basically, “screw the oil sands we need to save the trees… for the children!” I’m always glad that they don’t win seats because it’s just such a waste of a vote, and really, not nearly enough people vote right now to afford waste.
You can’t vote NDP: Because they’re a bunch of union pandering shrills who’ll do anything to get into power, playing the “we have the moral highground from the other parties” card. I won’t lie, I’m still a little bitter about the NDP majority in Nova Scotia. Here I am telling my peers, “They’re promising expanding social programs and not raising taxes. They’re claiming they’ll balance the budget without seeing the budget. They’re claiming they’ll pull more doctors out of their butts, they can’t do any of those things please don’t vote for them because none of those things will happen and we’re going to get screwed,” who then go on to win and renege on every major campaign promise.
You can’t vote Liberal: Because the liberals entire campaign strategy is, “we’re not Stephen Harper!” That’s not a real campaign strategy. Hell they even want the airplanes they’re complaining so much about, just less expensive ones they’re oddly unspecific about because ANY reasonably new plane is going to cost millions.
Again, Harpers not a wonderful cuddly fella like you see in his sweater-vest commercials, but you have to admit, he got shit done. Canada came out on top of the recession better off then just about every other first world country. Canada NEEDS to upgrade it’s military, especially the air force, we still use goddamn sea kings ffs. Hell buy new helicopters before airplanes, buy both, our military is terribly underfunded. Canada NEEDS the oil sands in production, we’re a primary resource country, that’s how we make our money, we sell oil and gas and ore and everything to other countries for silly prices so they can make nice things for us.
Canada NEEDS someone like Stephen Harper, because the bottom line is that morally ambiguous shit happens every frigging day in politics, and of the three choices (f the green party, f my generation for thinking it’s cool to vote for them), he’s the person I trust most to keep Canadas interests at the forefront, and not go out of his way to screw us.
(although personally, his treatment of the media is absolutely wrong and slightly terrifying, but not wrong enough by itself to justify a vote for the other parties)
– D
Maguido said:
“You can’t vote Green party: Because they’re a bunch of useless eco-nuts.”
and then
“You can’t vote NDP: Because they’re a bunch of union pandering shrills who’ll do anything to get into power”
followed by
“You can’t vote Liberal: Because the liberals entire campaign strategy is, “we’re not Stephen Harper!””
finally ending with
“Canada NEEDS someone like Stephen Harper, because the bottom line is that morally ambiguous shit happens every frigging day in politics”
which I assume is an allusion to the admittedly morally ambiguous track record of the Conservative government.
I understand WHO you’re going to vote for. I just can’t tell if there was an identifiable THOUGHT process that led to your decision.
I’m Jack Layton, and I endorse the preceding message:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-4ISw_ZdoUs/STCg…
“which I assume is an allusion to the admittedly morally ambiguous track record of the Conservative government.”
*of every government. The problem is that every party claims to have the moral highground over the other one, which isn’t true at all. If anything the NDP victory in Nova Scotia proved they’re all the same, just varying degrees of bad.
“I understand WHO you’re going to vote for. I just can’t tell if there was an identifiable THOUGHT process that led to your decision.”
It’s not too difficult to understand. I’ve outlined my views for each party, stating perfectly reasoned explanations for each, even admitting that I don’t even like the Conservatives.
But there’s a difference between not liking someone, and realizing they’re not unqualified for the job. Of the options available, Harper is the one for the job.
Why don’t we both agree that nobody should vote Green party.
I’m hoping for a Conservative majority for no other reason than to see the online left freak out over the next few years. To read some of their comments you would think we are electing Gaddafi and Mubarek combined. I have never seen any national figure attacked so viciously and for such a long period of time.
after reading the comments it becomes very clear that the conservatives have one thing going for them: the intellectual lightweights on the right who bask in willful ignorance. Middle ground is for mature people so I don’t expect any of them to go there.
B00 TO : Harper & Kites they must be Flying High on something in order to think that People dont see thier Colours , I,ve never seen such stupid A hole in polictics playing With Peoples minds , I wonder where he went to school & exactly what he wasted his time on Studying? It would be interesting to see Oh Boy give us someone that can keep half the Truth . Mulroney couldn,t have said it Better I,m Telling the Honest to Goodness Truth fr Coast to Coast …. on Planes Tanks & Auto,s from my Chinny Chin Chin ,what a Looser you can,t play God with Bullshit come out of your mouth ,out of Tune out of Style & especially out of Sight,for this Canadain. Fare Thee well I,m thinking Harper& his Ites have sank thier ship ,I,m telling you bring a Dingy on your Debate If you can see the Sea Shore or threw the Forest you can always call Mayday…….
You know, people won’t take you seriously if you can’t spell, use grammar or structure sentences and paragraphs for people to understand you.
All parties lie and cover up, it’s inherent. Heck I’m waiting for any opposition to tell us what theyy’re looking at to replace the CF-18s. They must have a few models in mind.
Brucie, now what do you got to say? You’ve been vewy vewy quiet since Monday night. Are you still drowning your sorrows?