Suggesting new constraints on a Prime Minister’s power to request prorogation? Pitching specific measures to deal with unemployment? Promising to restore funding to Status of Women Canada? Talking of a national strategy on brain disease? Proposing Senate reform? Committing himself to child care? Speaking sharply about the Karzai administration? And now preemptively opening discussion on potentially contentious questions of foreign policy?
What, precisely, has gotten into the leader of the Her Majesty’s loyal opposition?
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You`re right, the coalition was in the works secretlly for some time prior to the Iggy`s first Policy Announcement. But by the time he made that proclamation of his willingness to be leader, the Global economy was collapsing and he was willing to toss us into constitutional turmoil just so he could be Jack and Gilles puppet. We shouldn`t forget that.
Oh, do you mean during the time Harper prorogued the first time? So, that's when you guys noticed the economy was collapsing, was it? Evidence that Conservatives really can't walk and chew gum at the same time. Thanks, I hadn't known that before.
Also thanks for explaining how it is that Harper thought there were no Canadian flags at the press release announcing the coalition, since it was so secret. I know you guys don't like the media, but sometimes it can turn secret things into wide-open public things, just by turning on a TV or picking up a newspaper.
Actually I was referring to the secret negotiations that Iggy`s future coalition partners ( Jack and Gilles ) were having weeks before the vote-funding crisis that caused the formation of the coalition.
They're probably up to the exact same thing right now. Notice how Jack and Iggy are playing nice now? Does anybody think that this is a coincidence? Harper will be campaigning against a coalition during the next election, even though the Libs/Dips will deny it to high heaven. The moment Harper wins another minority though, they'll be teaming up again.
Surely it hasn't been more than 9 times so far. That and "Harper Holiday".
If it takes, it takes. If it doesn't, well I'm on to try to manufacture some other new phrase for posterity.
When Harper said he wanted to focus on women's health, I immediately wondered if Harper would adopt the same agenda regarding birth control and foreign aid as George W Bush did. Will agencies be required to be against contraception and/or abortion to receive funding? Who knows? Perhaps Ignatieff's stand will get Harper to clarify his own position on this.
Too often, Canadians just don't know what our current government's agenda is. Harper seems to operate under the assumption the less we know the better.
In that assumption, he's correct.. at least to his own personal situation.
I think you may be on to something there, catherine. Now that Iggy's articulated his position – albeit in that slightly restricted regard to foreign aid – on abortion, Harper may be asked to do the same. In which case, his choice is to alienate a social conservative base…or garner stink-eye from a whole bunch of social moderates whose votes are up for grabs.
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Joe was mine, til the time that I found him
Raising tax, getting attacked
Then Bri came along, led us strong for a while
The land he screwed, and that died too
Don't know if I will, but until I can find me
A tory man who can lead less insanely
I'll stay what I am
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Had to here, sticking up for the crazies
Bulding jails, Senate fails
Stockwell free, I could post with my real name
A winning plan, hot as Rand
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A big blue tent, with agendas aired plainly
I'll stay what I am
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