Hey, this is kind of fun.
I don’t have time to go through all the other regions, but commenters are encouraged to type in their postal code to find out exactly what Doug Finley wants outraged Conservatives to say when calling up talk radio shows in their respective regions. Feel free to paste the results in the comments, too — let’s see whether they’ve had time to give a lovingly targeted Muttartian massage to the message in different parts of the country, or are relying on quick and dirty boilerplate shock and horror.
UPDATE: Aw, poor Tory MPs. They’re stuck with the same talking points, according to the super-urgent-top-priority-all-hands-on-deck Giornogram dispatched to caucus on Friday, which was – gosh, this isn’t a good sign, guys – promptly leaked to the Globe and Mail. Oh, unless this is one of those Doug Finley double-reverse mind tricks, where he actually wants his party’s footsoldiers to look like they’re incapable of coming up with their own words to express their fury.
As noted in an earlier post, Montreal Gazette reporter Elizabeth Thompson has the Montreal hotlist, and here’s what I got when I plugged in my downtown Ottawa coordinates:
Opposition lacks mandate to take power
- Is anyone else outraged by what the Opposition Parties are doing in Ottawa?
- We’re not even two months removed from the last election, and a group of backroom politicians are going to pick who the Prime Minister is. Canadians didn’t vote for this person. We don’t even know who this person will be.
- Not a single voter voted for a Liberal-NDP coalition. Certainly not a single voter voted for the Liberals to form a coalition with the separatists in the Bloc.
- Add – what’s worse the Liberals even promised that there wouldn’t be a coalition with the NDP – this is all about power, all about money and they don’t even want to face the voters
- This is what bothers me the most. The Conservatives won the election. The Opposition keeps saying that the Conservatives have to respect the will of the voters that this is a minority and so on.
- …how about Liberals, NDP and Bloc respecting the will of the voters when they said “YOU LOSE”.
- And what’s this going to do to the economy. I’m sorry, I don’t care how desperate the Liberals are – giving socialists (Jack Layton) and separatists (Gilles Duceppe) a veto over every decision in government – that is a recipe for total economic disaster.
- Here is what is bothering me about all of this backroom opposition coalition talk.
- Sure it bothers me that parties Canadian rejected are trying to seize power through the back door.
- But how more phony could these guys be?
- I mean, I follow the news, virtually every single day you have Harper or Flaherty out there telegraphing exactly what they plan to do with the economy. And not once did you hear the Liberals, NDP or separatists talking about toppling the government in response.
- No – do you know what set this off. When Flaherty said he was going to take taxpayer-funded subsidies away from the opposition. Now there is a reason to try and overturn an election– because the Conservatives the audacity to say “Hey, it’s a recession, maybe you should take your nose out of the trough.”
- And I wish the media would be more clear on this point – the opposition aren’t being singled out by this fact the Conservatives stand to lose the most money of all. The only difference is that Canadians are voluntarily giving money the Conservatives, so they don’t need taxpayer handouts. The only reason the opposition would be hurt more is because nobody wants to donate to them. They should be putting their efforts towards fixing that problem.
- I don’t want another election. But what I want even less is a surprise backroom Prime Minister whom I never even had the opportunity to vote for or against. What an insult to democracy.
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Karol: “what gives you or Mr. Stevens the right to question Prime Minister Harper’s judgement regarding his decisions on Canadian Military Mission in Afghanistan???”
Prime Minister Harper works for all of us. That’s the brilliance of democracy: I’m free to question the judgment of those who ask to represent me.
If I wanted to be barred from questioning my leaders, I’d move to a monarchy or dictatorship.
Do you see, Karol, how easy it is to burst your bubble of self-righteousness and self-importance? Do you see? Honestly, why do all conversations with the right-wing boil down to basic civics lessons?
Karol 22.09
Who am I? I sir/madam am a Canadian living in a democracy that includes freedom of expression in voicing concerns about the people that represent me and my fellow Canadians in the Government of Canada.
Ah yes, PM Stephen Harper’s wise decisions re: Afghanistan. Run those ones by me again, as of this week are we pulling out or staying?
Dear TJ Cook,
You seem to be blind like bat, but that is OK with me.
Dear W. Laporte,
I am glad that you did not hurt yourself on your descent back to Earth.
Cheers
W. Laporte,
“…where did this government get the mandate to send our troops into the most dangerous part of Afghanistan without helicopters and other necessary equipment required to adequately protect themselves?”
Well, actually, that was the Martin government. Lieberals have short memories.
Karol: “You seem to be blind like bat, but that is OK with me. ”
After your opinion, Karol, is it worth, Google Translate of? Which of languages is best for the jingo to play?
A tip going ahead.
If someone says: “I don’t need talking points. I’ve never seen talking points”…
…it means “Boy howdy did I need those talking points I’m using right now.”
(Watching the Conservatives slip as badly as the Republicans is astonishingly funny.)
Zog Nov 30, 00:28
Here go the right wingers again fuddling the facts. Nobody denies that the Liberals originally sent the troops to Afghanistan. However, after the 2006 election the troops were in a combat role in the deadliest part of Afghanistan, in the south. Prior to 2006, actually in 2005 deployed elements of JTF2, Canada’s elite special- forces unit, were sent into southern Afghanistan to work with our allies in counter-insurgency operations, again to help provide security and stability so re-building can take place. That is all that was in the south in 2005. The previous 4 years prior to 2006 consisted of 8 deaths, compared to 89 deaths in the last 2.5 years. And that’s the point I am trying to make. After the election the troops were committed to a combat role in the deadly southern part of Afghanistan without the proper equipment and here is what hurts – with the knowledge that they were ill equipped. Now you can fuddle this all you want, but these are the facts.
Hold on for a minute. The conservatives got 38% of the vote, the others 62%.
So who did we vote for, this is a democracy. We vote for members of parliament not governments.
Members of parliament make the governments.
As for “no coalition with the NDP” who was the last politician who did not lie to the voter eh?
Remember “No tax on Income Tusts”? It is time the PCs and PM learned some humility after twice in a row getting less than 50% of the vote.
It is as if the Conservatives understand that their members don’t know what to say so they are providing the script. This is sheer manipulation and artifice. This reminds me of the fake handmade signs that showed up at the Harper rallies to look more genuine. The Tories are without scruples. If they lie and deceive about this small stuff (cheating by feeding lines to their supporters) about what else do they lie? Can you not see the link? Be honest Harper government – if your supporters are to be outraged let them formulate their own arguments. You would be suspended from high school for assisting someone with plagiarism!!!! Deception should not be tolerated (Talking points in this comment supplied by my own brain!!!!!!!)
All you leftist lemmings believe that the government has the magical ability to make recessions disappear by taking more of your money away from you. If you really want to stimulate your bank account, why don’t you just spend it yourself?. How brilliant would that be?
And now you find it perfectly clever to cheer on the separatists and put them in power. What great federalists you are.
If the Nazis were in opposition you’d be forming a coalition with them I’m sure.
Congrats on your brilliant visions for the country!
SF Nov 30 12:33
Careful….some say the natzis (notice no cap for that word) are not among the opposition.
Hmmm…nice list of talking points. I’ve seen them pasted all over the internet over the last couple of days too. It seems to me that if the Conservatives have the depth of support they claim, they’d let their supporters speak for themselves.