-- "In hindsight, the Conservative's 2015 Anti-Terrorism Act seems almost tailor-made to combat Canada’s sudden new reality of having explicitly pro-terror rallies regularly hitting the streets of its major cities. The Liberal amendment changed 'promoting terrorist offences' to 'counseling terrorism offenses' – which effectively put the law right back where it had been prior to C-51." --
Harper successfully led Canada through the worst recession since the Great Depression, emerging in better shape than almost any other developed country.
Since then, he has successfully balanced the federal budget and positioned Canada for modest surpluses for the next four years.
There are two serious issues facing Canada right now: Ongoing economic uncertainty, and an increasingly unstable situation in the Middle East. In the face of the worst economic downturn in a generation, Harper has made sure that Canada remains on secure economic footing, something both his opponents’ plans put at risk.**********
When it comes to confronting ISIL and the threat of global terror more generally, only the Conservatives are prepared to treat the matter with the strength of conviction it deserves.
Today’s busy voter deserves to know just how much their potential future prime minister is lacking in credentials.
In terms of career experience, all the 43-year-old’s chalked up is a couple years as a teacher in British Columbia. After that, he entered an engineering program but soon dropped out, then started another MA program but dropped that too. He became an MP shortly after, in 2008.
In other words, Justin Trudeau spent the years before entering politics dabbling in this and that, drifting about without any commitment to work or school.
CBC twitter feed reveals that Prime Minister Stephen Harper is behind online threats that have locked down Wilfred Laurier University.Wilfred Laurier president Dr. Max Blouw said that the university was alerted overnight when it received a call from the Federal Bureau of Investigation.Sissiboo... keep up the good work.
And, please, please, please... tell me you've run out of Justin "selfies."You think the prime minister has been slow to act on climate change? You object to his preference for tax restraint over big new spending programs? He’s too pro-Israel, too anti-Putin? You don’t like his voice, face, or haircut?Bravo, Mr Frum.
Vote against him!
But remember at the same time that Canada has posted the best economic record of any G7 country through the worst global economic crisis since the 1930s: more jobs, faster growth, and lower public-sector debt.
To dismiss this record as creeping authoritarianism, and to cite as proof that press conferences are less rowdy than they used to be, is to reveal an appetite for grievance so ravenous that it will swallow anything and pronounce it a meal.
Sometimes, the real gold is in the reader comments.
"The Harper government introduced a bill, which passed first reading before Parliament recessed for the summer, to abolish the possibility of parole for certain heinous crimes, including killings of police or prison guards or murders committed during kidnappings, sex assaults or terrorism."There's only one federal political party that believes in keeping P.O.S. Paul Bernardo and his equally horrific criminal confreres off our streets forever.
Conservative MP John Williamson's Bill C-518, which would strip MPs and senators of their pensions if they were convicted of certain crimes, was sent back to the House with amendments — after the Commons had already adjourned for the summer.You get the government you deserve.
Bill C-518 faces little hope of being reinstated and is effectively dead.
Remember when treason wasn't a stepping stone to a six figure book deal? Finally, someone is willing to act.The government has begun invalidating the passports of Canadians who have left to join extremist groups in Syria and Iraq, Citizenship and Immigration Minister Chris Alexander revealed in an interview on Friday.That's my Prime Minister.
Which Canadian politician said...“This convicted terrorist was able to use numerous and repetitive appeals and loopholes under Canada’s old, broken immigration system to remain in Canada for 25 years. Fortunately, since 2006, the government has acted to strengthen the integrity of Canada’s immigration system.”I'll give you a hint... it wasn't Justin "Root Causes" Trudeau.
"I watched the press conference on CBC. A reporter asked Kenney if he had assurances that "Triple M" would be treated well in Lebanon."The CBC sucks up 1.3 billion taxpayer dollars every year to peddle their compassionate, intellectual brand of socialism. That should be the Conservatives next issue.
"Man, I love progressive 'useful dhimmies'."
“Any liabilities from a Crown corporation are passed on to taxpayers. We are the representatives of Canada’s taxpayers and we have a responsibility to ensure that those Crown corporations live within their means and that the costs are kept affordable to Canadian taxpayers.”That's my Prime Minister.
New year-end numbers reveal the federal government quietly cut spending by $8-billion after Canadians handed the Conservatives a majority mandate.The real story here is in the comments. Get a close-up look at the rabid political left.
"Consistency is never a Progressive trait. They screamed for "stimulus" spending, they screamed because the "stimulus" spending they demanded created a $30 billion deficit and now they scream because the spending gap is closing."The so-called Progressives... they're certainly not shy about tossing around all that "free" money.
...we're Number 2..."While they do not wish to actually move to Canada, they want an escape hatch in the event their home countries become unstable, according to internal documents."
"Edith Bramwell, who works as legal counsel with PSAC and often deals with issues of political activity, said the union fully supports the principle of a politically neutral public service."
And eating it too..."Bramwell said for the average public servant who is just going about their job at their office – not a head of a department or other senior level manager – there should be no limitations on their political expression."Isn't it the compassionate, intellectual left who's always screaming about hate speech?
"I didn't own a computer back in the 90's and don't even know if this CBC site existed, but if it did, did the Liberals take this kind of grief when they laid off 3 times the people?"**********
"Just curious."
-- OTTAWA -- Canadian tax dollars are supporting a francophone rapper whose latest video glorifies the Taliban and applauds the slaughter of Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan.
The video presents a sympathetic view of Taliban fighters planting a roadside bomb in Afghanistan, detonating it, opening fire on the soldiers who emerge, and finally executing a wounded soldier hiding behind his vehicle.
The Harper government is throwing its weight behind a private members' bill that would give police the power to arrest anyone hiding their identity during a riot or unlawful assembly.**********
Justice Minister Rob Nicholson announced Sunday that the Conservative majority formally supports the legislation, meaning it is all but assured of becoming law.
"Destructive and reckless behaviour damages communities and should not be tolerated," Nicholson said in a release.
It's all about control, comrades. There will be a law for everyone to be under some type of control. Everyone. Some folks in this country are simply too stupid to see what is happening.Yeah, commie boy... like your beloved NDP?
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• TORONTO • Chain restaurant customers deserve to know how much junk they're packing into their trunks, NDP MPP France Gelinas says.**********
Her private member's bill — Healthy Decisions for Healthy Eating — would require restaurants to post calorie counts on menus.
Mr. LeBon was intercepted by an Illinois state trooper for a minor traffic violation in 2007. A search of his car trunk uncovered 119 kilos of cocaine. He is now serving a 10-year sentence at a minimum-security penitentiary in Pennsylvania.
The last jobs report showing a 82,300 employment gain was the biggest bump since the onset of the recession and the fourth-largest increase ever. Most economists are skeptical about both the outsized gain and the job market’s weakness in previous months.**********
Only 15% of Afghans wanted Canadian troops to leave immediately; the greater proportion of 80% wanted them to remain until the Taliban was crushed.
Ah, yes, the inevitable "seizing." You can almost picture the Prime Minister's rough dirty hands closing around some completely inoffensive treehugger's throat."Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver came out guns blazing... Mr. Harper really put the premiers on defence".Good grief... seems those evil, controlling Conservatives are always perpetuating (if only figuratively) violence on the hapless, well-meaning Opposition...
"a storyline that sticks helped the Conservatives sink two successive Liberal leaders... Critics and stakeholders were left struggling".Yes, my children... if only we still had the soothing touch of a wise, compassionate Laytonesque healer to soothe our fevered collective brow.
With a certain amount of sullen resentment, Canada's premiers agreed Tuesday to do pretty much exactly what Prime Minister Harper wants them to do: Continue working on innovation in health care to drive costs down, or at least, keep the rate of growth from rising.Of course they did.
But they made it clear they're still unhappy at the prospect of being forced on the cost-saving front.
They set up another working group to keep the argument going over the new funding arrangement, and how it was imposed.
BUT IT'S STILL NOT NEWS."I do not have a problem with legalizing all drugs: pot, cocaine, heroin PROVIDED we completely dismantle the welfare state; medicare, pharmacare, public education, social assistance including CPP and OAS."**********
"If one chooses to waste their life on drugs (including booze & tobacco) I should not be compelled to pay the bill."
Britain’s leading green activist research centre spent £15,000 on seminars for top BBC executives in an apparent bid to block climate change sceptics from the airwaves, a vast new cache of leaked ‘Climategate’ emails has revealed.**********
They show that University staff vetted BBC scripts, used their contacts at the Corporation to stop sceptics being interviewed and were consulted about how the broadcaster should alter its programme output.
"It’s going to be tough because we’ve got a government that’s proven to be somewhat unresponsive to prisoner-transfer requests in circumstances of offences that are arguably much more minor offences."On the other side of the fence we have that "unresponsive", hard-hearted ogre... Stephen Harper.
"Sarachandran earned a computer science degree from the University of Windsor in 2002 before returning to Toronto to work at the Tamil Youth Organization, a non-profit group he now acknowledges was “part of” the Tamil Tigers network."And, if it hadn't been for post-911 scrutiny... you could have been reading a totally different... bloodier story.
-- KINGSTON, Ont. -- Jury selection begins Tuesday in preparation for the trial of three Montrealers accused of murdering four family members who were found dead in a submerged car at Kingston Mills Lock in 2009.Note that the "four family members" were his first wife & three daughters... yet curiously, there's not a single word about "honour killing".
-- OTTAWA -- Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird is set to announce Monday that Canada is boycotting the United Nations Conference on Disarmament over North Korea’s involvement, a senior government source told Postmedia News.Quite a refreshing change from the "business as usual" crowd...
“The fact that it gets a turn chairing a United Nations committee focused on disarmament is unacceptable,” Baird said in a statement last week.
“We call on North Korea to pass the chair on to a credible country that will advance the disarmament agenda within the UN.”
Baird’s Monday announcement comes in contrast to the warm words Canada’s ambassador to the UN in Geneva had for his North Korean counterpart after his appointment last week.
"It’s one of a multitude of proposed changes to the Conservative Party’s official policies up for debate when Tories from across Canada converge in Ottawa for a June 9-11 convention."
