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Connecting the dots

by Aaron Wherry on Tuesday, January 19, 2010 3:23pm - 45 Comments

To recap, Stockwell Day is a winner, moving from International Trade to President of the Treasury Board to handle the difficult task of enforcing fiscal discipline on government operations. Peter Van Loan is a loser, demoted from Public Safety to International Trade because the Prime Minister was dissatisfied with his performance, even though Day’s move from Public Safety to International Trade a little over a year ago was seen as an important promotion to a pivotal file. Meanwhile, Vic Toews, who seemingly couldn’t be trusted to oversee the difficult task of enforcing fiscal discipline on government operations, moves from Treasury Board to Public Safety, where he will be charged with a massive review of national security.

Tags: national security, Peter Van Loan, public safety, Stockwell Day, Treasury Board, Vic Toews

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AT1

Nope!
Lord Kitchener's Own

Actually, it's economists who like harmonization and populists that don't, so I think you have that last line reversed. That said, I think I'd label that under "things the Tories convinced some provinces to do" more so than "things the Tories did", but fair enough. So, the HST in Ontario/BC was a laudable accomplishment of the Tories in 2009. I'm not sure you can still find any Tories who will admit publicly that they had anything to do with that, but they did, so credit's due on that one.

Any thoughts on anything the Tories did in the other nine months of 2009?
Lord Kitchener's Own

Yeah, I think I have to go with Lynn on this one. Canada's in very good shape compared to much of the G7 coming out of the latest big recession, I'm just not sure anything the Tories did had very much at all to do with that. Props I suppose for not completely messing up a good thing (depending upon one's definition of "messing up") but even I think there have to be better accomplishments for the Tories from 2009.
Lord Kitchener's Own

So, that's a "yes" then?
http://intensedebate.com/people/Thwim Thwim

Which they did.. how? By enacting policies that were apparantly "forced" upon them by the Liberals?

Interesting.
Sigh

I can't speak for Ontario, but not everyone in BC would view this as a laudable accomplishment, no matter who takes the credit.
http://intensedebate.com/people/Thwim Thwim

You mean the HST legislation that died on the floor when Harper prorogued?

That's an accomplishment? A dead bill?
tobyornottoby

You do realize the rest of us didn't have any thing to do with who y'all voted for in Ontario, right?
http://intensedebate.com/people/Thwim Thwim

I defy you to point out the professor.
Lord Kitchener's Own

Which is why it's harder today than it used to be to find a Tory member who'll admit publicly to having anything to do with it. I should have said that I would count it as a laudable accomplishment. It's still more something they convinced someone else to do than something they really deserve credit for doing themselves though, imho.
burlivespipe

Guffaw! He's the guy with the radio…
burlivespipe

Too bad Harper CONs continue to backpedal as fast as possible from that 'accomplishment' with the hope that it just sticks to the 'Liberal' label. Another example of their non-accountability/non-accomplishment platform.
burlivespipe

But let's not count the chickens just yet. There are still some thousands upon thousands of 0-for-40 mortgages out there ticking away… Along with their 5%-for-35, it could still be an implosion that would knock a leg off Harper's three-legged stool…
http://intensedebate.com/people/Jenn_ Jenn_

Yeah, but to immediately make the same mistake . . .
Lord Kitchener's Own

Actually, it's economists who like harmonization and populists that don't, so I think you have that last line reversed. That said, I think I'd label that under "things the Tories convinced some provinces to do" more so than "things the Tories did", but fair enough. So, the HST in Ontario/BC was a laudable accomplishment of the Tories in 2009. I'm not sure you can still find any Tories who will admit publicly that they had anything to do with that, but they did, so credit's due on that one.

Any thoughts on anything the Tories did in the other nine months of 2009?