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That’s apparently Stephen Harper’s view from his Google Youtube “interview”. Normally, I’d be outraged, and post a long-winded rant about what a misleading and idiotic a statement that is, except Harper and his government (see Peter MacKay) have been saying that schtick for awhile (and a large portion of the Canadian electorate/public aren’t buying [...] Tags: Afghan detainees, Conservative Party, coverup, documents, human rights, Stephen Harper | Category: Canadian Politics |
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 | Trackback for this entryI posted this yesterday as one of the contributors at the No Prorogue website in its blog section as an opinion piece; I reproduce it for everyone who reads my blog here . —————— The best rebuttal I’ve seen to that attempted argument comes from Michael Den Tandt, in his op-ed in the Owen Sound Sun Times [...] Tags: noprorogue.ca, prorogue, Stephen Harper | Category: Canadian Politics |
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| Trackback for this entryI almost hate to use this comparison, but Harper seems to be borrowing in so many words Stephane Dion’s line of “You think it’s easy to make priorities?” in using this excuse/justification for proroguing Parliament. As Aaron Wherry states, combine the Christmas/New Years break and the prorogue, and Parliament will be off for 83 days, [...] Tags: prorogue, Stephen Harper | Category: Canadian Politics |
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| Trackback for this entryHarper came out on his CBC interview with Peter Mansbridge tonight claiming that the Canadian public “don’t care” about the issue. Well, Mr Harper, if people don’t care, then there should be no reason for you to not hand over the documents to Parliament and by proxy the Afghanistan Committee – as voted on and [...] Tags: Afghan detainees, Conservative Party, coverup, Stephen Harper, torture | Category: Canadian Politics, International Politics |
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| Trackback for this entryVery nicely done: I’ve added that to my sidebar. The original article of hers on the badge’s creation is here. If you need instructions on how to add this to your blog/website, I’m sure she’d be willing to help you out. If she can’t, I can tell you the necessary code. Tags: prorogue, Stephen Harper | Category: Blog Culture, Canadian Politics |
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| Trackback for this entryI have just a minor quibble with an otherwise excellent Andrew Coyne column at Macleans where he condemns Harper’s contempt of Parliament. I noted this part of his column, which seems a tad resigned or cynical at the reaction of “some folks”: Each time Parliament allows one of these abuses to pass, its power is reduced [...] Tags: prorogue, Stephen Harper | Category: Blog Culture, Canadian Politics |
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| Trackback for this entryStephen Harper’s decision to do a 2nd prorogue in just over a year even got Connie Fournier of the ultra-rightwing site Free Dominion upset enough to say this: I don’t care what anyone says, repeated prorogation of Parliament, as a political strategy, is an affront to democracy. This guy is mad with power! That’s more objective and critical [...] Tags: Free Dominion, prorogue, Stephen Harper | Category: Blogroll |
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| Trackback for this entryThis is a very curious story over at Macleans on the sequence of events so far. Twenty eight countries have appointed officials to work with Richard Holbrooke on Afghanstan - the U.S. Special Represetative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, who was personally picked by President Obama, and who reports directly to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Six [...] Tags: Afghanistan, Conservative Party, Stephen Harper | Category: Canadian Politics, International Politics |
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| Trackback for this entryThe impact is all very negative, as you would expect. “Canada’s back?”. More like Canada’s disappearing under Harper. Programs to 6 different countries will be specifically affected by this bit of petty vindictiveness by Harper, Jason Kenney, Bev Oda, and the rest of this disgraceful lot. Specifically, key partners of KAIROS in Columbia, Sudan, The Congo, [...] Tags: Gerard Kaplan, Jason Kenney, KAIROS, Stephen Harper | Category: Canadian Politics, International Politics |
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| Trackback for this entryHarper decided not to bother speaking at the Copenhagen Environmental Summit; he decided to send Environment Minister Jim Prentice instead to make Canada’s speech: Gordon Brown, Nicolas Sarkozy, Angela Merkel, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad – and Jim Prentice? While other world leaders have taken to the podium this week to address delegates at the Copenhagen climate talks, Prime [...] Tags: climate change, Copenhagen, environment, global warming, Stephen Harper | Category: Canadian Politics, International Politics |
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