Comments on: Partisan games above and beyond the checks

By: Stan

Stan — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:37:56 +0000

The liberals are unsure what a cheque is, they generally hand money out in brown paper bags in sleazy restaurants.

By: Stan

Stan — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 08:18:44 +0000

Chretien bragged that he always made sure the voters knew which party was handing out the loot.
I didn’t see the liberals whining about it then, why the sudden change?

Let me call the whaaaaaaaaaaaambualance for you.

By: kwittet

kwittet — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:02:35 +0000

The polls must be showing that the liberals are way behind..so we have to dig up non stories~~

By: Roll Tide

Roll Tide — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:26:18 +0000

Liberal MP David McGuinty said Friday there’s only one possible reason for linking the website to the Harper video: To soften the prime minister’s chilly image.

“There’s only one reason you do that: To drive up the perception of Stephen Harper as a centrist, as a man of the people for political benefit,” McGuinty said in an interview.

“He will use anything, anything at his disposal, including public monies, to achieve . . . his ultimate objective, which is a majority government.”

http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5hwKDw-gvDAHppTGQLhFcTI5R92sA

The Liberals should take credit for this, they moved him to the center.

By: Roll Tide

Roll Tide — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 22:22:30 +0000

@Christina Monroe,

The White House is the executive branch of the federal government.

The Harper government is taking credit for the economic recovery.
This is an annoyance to the Liberals. I actually sympathize with them. If Harper had a majority the stimulus would have been much less.
The Liberals hounded Harper to spend, spend, spend, spend.
Harper responded, with Liberal support, by spending,albeit less then the Liberals insisted, and took credit.
This is politics. It irritates the Liberals to no end.

“Former Liberal prime minister Jean Chrétien told visitors recently that Prime Minister Stephen Harper calls him for consultation – they talk about foreign affairs – more often than does Mr. Ignatieff, the leader of his own party!”
This quote from the Globe’s Lawrence Martin.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/how-iffy-and-the-liberals-dropped-the-ball/article1307580/

Some how I think Harper got some domestic advice as well.

By: Christina Monroe

Christina Monroe — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 02:54:40 +0000

Reply to the two people who do not understand there are basic fundamental differences between the USA and Canada.

The president of the USA is not breaking any laws by having things up he does on the Whitehouse Website. The structure of their government is different from ours.

WAKE UP THIS IS CANADA NOT THE USA.

The Conservatives have their own website to state how great they think they are. We also provide a website for the Prime Minster for whom ever holds the office to show how “great and wonderful” they think they are.

http://www.pm.gc.ca/eng/default.asp

Therefore they are breaking rules by having up partisan things on an separate government action plan website.

By: Scott Tribe

Scott Tribe — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 02:24:00 +0000

@Nick, That’s a nice try at being clever, Nick.. except the Whitehouse site is an organ of the President… it’s not an organ per se of the federal government. What the Conservatives are doing is quite different.. which is attempting to use the non-partisan sites of the Canadian government for their own partisan purposes. Nice try though Nick.. keep trying to justify Conservative unethical behaviour.

By: Scott Tribe

Scott Tribe — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 02:23:11 +0000

@Roll Tide, see reply to "Nick". You Conservative guys need to re-read some books on civics and government.

By: Roll Tide

Roll Tide — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:07:38 +0000

@Nick,

Well done sleuth.
Ignatieff was the one who insisted on the web site in the first place, allaa Obama, I remember the parliamentary debate. It was part of the “on probation”.

Harper has just thrown it right back, using Obama’s idea with the social network links. Brilliant!
Its fair game, Fox news does not make it an issue, but the Toronto Star does. Hilariousness!
Thanks Scott!

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:25:21 +0000

The link is there because this is the twenty first century and there's things thing called the Interweb and Web 2.0 and social networking tools are built into EVERYTHING now. So much, that sites look odd NOT having small links to various social networking devices. There's even this really popular politician who does it on a much larger government website than Canada's Economic Action Plan: Yes. A Much Larger Government Site With Social Networking Links. Wow. What A Shocking Scandal.