Canada's First Has Been Prime Minister
On Monday, January 23rd Canadians probably will elect Stephen Harper as Canada's 22 Prime Minister. The Liberals attacking Harper for being the most right-wing Prime Minister this country has ever had. They are right. The last three conservative Prime Ministers; Kim Campbell, Brian Mulroney, and Joe Clark are much closer to the center than Harper. Campbell and Clark were Red Tories who believed in maintaing a progressive social policy. Mulroney was close to the Americans but said no to Star Wars unlike Harper who plans on saying yes to Missile Defense. Mulroney appointed Stephen Lewis to be his ambassador to the UN and didn't want to change Canada's role in the world as a peacekeeper and a respected nation internationally. Mulroney also worked hard to free Nelson Mandela and Rob Anders (runnning for the conservatives) still won't back down from his belief that Mandela is a terrorist. After Monday we will find out if Harper will be able to constrain his ideology and govern from the centre or will he govern from the extreme right.
Stephen Harper's problems are bigger than his political values because he lacks the experience to be Prime Minister. He has been a lifelong critic of the government. His work experience is consisted mostly of serving as an opposition MP or heading a right-wing think-tank. Both of these jobs main function was to criticize the government. Harper doesn't have executive experience like Martin, Mulroney, and Stronach. He doesn't have experience as a lawyer like Chretien and Kim Campbell. Joe Clark even had more experience outside of politics and worked as journalist. Let's see if Harper will be able to lead in his trial by fire as Canada's leader.
posted by canadianwild.ca @ 1/20/2006 11:11:00 AM
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xactly. Harper is a professional politico goon. He's never held a real job, and if this was a job interview his resume would be in the garbage.
Lets not forget, his first employer was created for the sole purpose of snuffing national healthcare. (National citizen's coalition)
From King Ed:
"Mr. Martin accuses the New Democratic Party of partisanship. Were it not for the NDP putting its interests aside and putting working people’s interests first, the Liberal Party would have been fed to voters last spring.
It now is. And it has run a campaign that at best is incoherent, and at worst is deeply offensive. To women. To members of our armed forces. And to people who long for intellectual honesty in politics once more.
It is clear the Liberal Party no longer has the moral authority to deserve people’s votes. It is, simply, not the party it used to be or the party it portrays.
Mr. Martin’s team is running a campaign based on intellectual dishonesty. Cynical manipulation. And recklessly using significant issues for the sole purpose of continuing Liberal entitlement – which we know is used to benefit Liberal insiders, not working people."
Oh no you didn't! LOL!
Paul Martin has no credibility left
Let’s look at the rhetoric and the reality:
They say we would “Allow a front door vote on same sex marriage.”
We won’t, they did. Paul Martin and the Liberals already allowed a free vote on same-sex marriage and 33 Liberal MPs voted against this Charter right.
They say we would “Allow a back door vote on a woman’s right to choose.”
We won’t, they did. Paul Martin and the Liberals have already allowed these votes – repeatedly – and 13 Liberal MPs (including current Cabinet Ministers Albina Guarineri and Joe Volpe) say they’ll vote against choice again.
They say we would “Cancel the national Early Learning and Childcare Plan.”
We won’t, and they didn’t do anything for over a decade in power and only began to put their national child care plan in place under NDP pressure in a minority government.
They say we would “pull Canada out of Kyoto and kill $2 billion of funding to combat climate change”.
We won’t, and their commitment to Kyoto has been entirely nominal. Since Paul Martin became Prime Minister Canada’s emissions have increased faster than the United States. When he was campaigning against Jean Chretien, Paul Martin did his best to undermine Kyoto.
They say we would “join with George Bush and put Canada into the American Missile Defence Shield.”
We won’t, they did. On February 24, 2004, 105 Liberals voted against an NDP-supported motion to “oppose the proposed American antimissile defence shield and cease all discussions with the Bush administration on possible Canadian participation.” The nays were led by a troika of Prime Minister Paul Martin, then-Defence Minister John McCallum and former Foreign Affairs Minister Bill Graham.
They say we would help Stephen Harper “turn his back on the Kelowna agreement with Canada’s aboriginal peoples.”
We won’t, and nothing would have happened at Kelowna if the NDP hadn’t forced the deplorable conditions at Kashechewan onto the front pages and shamed the Liberal government into long-overdue action.
Seems Dave is like some other political people, they only know how to scare people. How about your buddy Jean...the only real job he had was a lawyer...I rest my case. Right wing agendas will never work in fed politics, or even in just the Tory party...not enough people will support it
Jean managed his own law firm and was a cabinet minister. Harper did neither.
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