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Oh my goodness oh my goodness oh my goodness

by Paul Wells on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 6:29pm - 0 Comments

He’s grounded her.

STATEMENT BY THE PRIME MINISTER OF CANADA
August 26, 2008
Ottawa, Ontario

Lieutenant Governor of Ontario to Represent Canada at the Paralympic Games Opening Ceremony

Prime Minister Stephen Harper today announced that His Honour the Honourable David C. Onley, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, will represent Canada at the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games, to be held on September 6, 2008.

The Lieutenant Governor will travel to China instead of Her Excellency the Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean, Governor General of Canada.

Tags: David C. Onley, election shenanigans, Election Watch, I suppose we could do a lot of puns on "Onley the Lonel, Michaëlle Jean, Stephen Harper

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Steve W

What the hell kind of carbon tax doesn’t impose any tax on transportation?

Why don’t they come right out and say it’s the Return of the NEP?

Thwim, the lying LPC are the lying liars here. Give me a break. “green shift” – they can’t even come up with an original name. They should just call it Holy F*ck the West.
T. Thwim

So you’re admitting you don’t know anything about it, Steve?

To answer your question, the kind of carbon tax that realizes that gas is already taxed at a very high level.

If it was the return of the NEP, then there wouldn’t be additional returns built into it for Alberta to help compensate for the extra burden everybody knows we’d be undertaking for it. (And I’m not even going to get into the truth about the NEP, I’ve already dealt with my fair share of Albertans who simply prefer to blame somebody else than face up to the uncomfortable fact that an economy based on the production of a single resource is inherently unstable)

Seriously, try reading up on what you’re talking about.. before talking about it.
Geiseric the Lame

If it was the NEP the Liberals would have to tank world oil prices again. Works for me.
boudica

Seriously now, does anyone outside of that “firewall” zone buy this Green Shift = NEP nonsense?
Caper

Based on the fixed date election law, does the PM have to have a “crisis” to ask the GG to dissolve parlimant. If so, can his presumed crisis be challanged in a court of law?
Geiseric the Lame

I’m not sure many folks in the DMZ bought much of the NEP nonsense in the first place.

Nothing’s changed besides the length of terms. Any need to be in crisis is strictly political.
Geiseric the Lame

DMZ = demilitarized zone, btw. outside the firewall. its sort of the tech crowd’s idea of an inside joke.

sorry about that. lingering lingo.
http://www.johnwaugh.blogspot.com John W

Cancelling her trip is a personal, degrading insult. The crass, low life politics we expect. They’re just getting better at it.
Welcome to Giornoland, bye bye the friendly clubby confines of Parliament Hill.
Roger

I can’t believe Mr.Onley will actually go there since China has a forced-Abortion policy where Mobile slaughter Houses tour the Country sides for pregnant Farms People that already have a child and must enter the vehicle to kill the baby.

Today we are seeing more and more Abortions to stop the Disabled from every being born as a “Favour” to the child that will suffer a life of Shame by all the Able-Bodied bigots that are intolerant of the Disabled.

If Mr. Onley goes to this event I will lose all my respect for him as a Crusader for the Rights of the Disabled.
I say this because I’m very close to marketing a series of Universal-Design inventions for Accessibility by the End-Users from several disadvantaged groups , I oringinally thought he could endorse my Inventions and be given a free Unit to test in his Home to prove it really works and improves his Quality of living with a Disablilty .
KRB

You guys are harping on Kody’s 11 Ontario Liberal seat losses, but not paying any attention to his 12 Quebec Liberal seat losses?! The first is in the realm of possibility … might not be likely, but it’s possible. But the Grits going down to 1 seat (I’m assuming Kody means 12 down from the last election, seeing as they only hold 11 at present) in Quebec would likely signal the end of the world! These are seats where the Libs could run insects as candidates and they’d still win by 10,000 votes.

I would think the Grits could lose more than 3 out East, and more than 2 in B.C., given recent polling numbers coming out of that province.

11 seats in Ontario? Let’s see, Huron-Bruce, Oakville, Garth’s riding, Welland, Guelph, Oak Ridges, Brant … that’s 8 off the top of my head. Everyone always says that only the Libs and NDP can win in Toronto, and it’s a fairly solid bet, but let’s remember it’s the CPC and not the NDP that runs 2nd in Toronto (2nd most votes city wide).