brain on 11.28.08 9:31 pm

A minority government can do nothing without the support of the opposition but lets not let fact get in the way of partisan finger pointing.

the peasants have no credit

By let them pay cash on 11.28.08 10:01 pm

Thanks for the correction. It was the Conservatives first budget that opened the door to CMHC mortgage deregulation that did pass the house of commons and I believe it was earlier than July but having said this, the oppostion parties had absolutely no way of knowing that the Conservatives would have goosed CMHC approved loans from 25 year 10% down to 40 year 1.5% down.

So its like this. We have the first Conservative government we’ve seen in 12 years and a minority one at that. The opposition had no choice but to avoid an election and give them a chance to govern, its as simple as that. But for you to say that the opposition is just as dirty on as the Cons on deciding CMHC mortgage approved loans should be bumped up to 40 year 1.5% down, I’d have to openly question your own morality and intelligence… just as I’m doing right now.

As Harpo ( Baba Rum Raisen) steers the ‘Good Ship Lollipop’ of the CPC party onto a reef in turbulent seas the call is heard ” Man the life boats ”
Pretend Prime Minister Stephen Harper (I’m not as dumb as I look” ) is the most dangerous man in Canada . A raging, raving megalomaniac with delusions of grandeur .
A dyed-in-the-wool ideolouge of far right, far reaching opinions and ideoloical positions and dogma all of them to the right of Ghenghis Khan . .
His hatred of all things Liberal is visceral .and all consuming .
On meeting Pierre Trudeau on a Montreal street he wrote.
“There I came face to face with a living legend, someone who had provoked in me both the loves and hatreds of my political passion, all in the form of a tired out, little, old man,”
“It was an experience at once unforgettable, nostalgic and haunting.” He went on to denounce that old man’s legacy in the bitterest terms. Not only did he rebuke Trudeau’s policy mix of “centralism, socialism and bilingualism,” he even indicted him for failing to serve in the Second World War or oppose the Soviet Union. “In those battles,” Harper wrote, “the ones that truly defined his century, Mr. Trudeau took a pass.”
in December 2000, just after the Stockwell Day-led Alliance was defeated by Jean Chrétien’s Liberals in that fall’s election. He admitted Day had run a poor campaign, but still attributed the Alliance loss to Liberal attacks on Day’s Alberta base. In Harper’s view, the fact this ploy had worked was evidence that anti-Western politics “has an enormous market in this country.” He bitterly concluded: “Alberta and much of the rest of Canada have embarked on divergent and potentially hostile paths to defining their country.” How did he define those two paths? Alberta was “open, dynamic and prosperous,” while “Canada appears content to become a second-tier socialistic country.”
Stephen Harper killed Income Trusts and looks prepared to begin work on a tax to the Alberta Oil Sands decimating their current competitive edge. Harper is also courting Quebec like a drunk en sailor, an odd change of heart since he once found Canada’s East to be such a demon seed. Harper obviously changes his loyalty dependant on compensation, whether that be money or power.

Bonehead number two : Flaherty

Death threats followed Flaherty’s Income Trust announcement like his muscle bound body guards .
Investors blamed Flaherty for losses of at least C$27 billion ($17 billion) in the stock market after his surprise announcement last October 31 “Trick or Treat” to tax the trust sector, which pays profits to unit holders in such a way that avoids most corporate taxes.

With the exception of the prime minister, most cabinet ministers in Ottawa walk around freely with no security detail. But reporters noticed Flaherty being shadowed by security officials or a squad of hitmen outside the House of Commons on Thursday.
Canadians are a peacable lot .Rather make love than war .Mess with their money and you’re dead meat .
Yea, this is just a swell government (?) .
Imagine this misfit with a majority and unfetterd power. No checks and balamces .
A disaster of Titanic proportions waiting to happen .
We must ensure the defeat of this Barnum & Bailey outfit,all Klowns all the time .
Write to your favourite opposition member and tell them you support them .
It is time, Canada ,to awake from your deep slumber and work to rid our great nation of these incompetent bums .
No matter what it takes by hook or by crook . These ‘orrible little creatures must be stomped into submission .

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You are too idiotic to waste time with.

By Bill-Muskoka (not anymore) on 11.29.08 9:40 pm

Finally .