Do you want a Spring 2010 Federal Election? Canada wants to know. Cornwall Ontario – January 1, 2010
You don’t need to read tea leaves or hire an expensive political think tank to read how much Stephen Harper is salivating for his majority government, and Spring is his time.
The rosy red buzz of the Olympics; the fumes of spending from the stimulus; funds that have been delayed strategically; and hopefully an economy that isn’t sliding into the toilet as the US stimulus impact dissipates.
These are the conditions our Minority Prime Minister is hoping for. Mix in a struggling Michael Ignatieff, a stranglehold on much of the media, and Jack Layton and the NDP gunning to be official opposition thus splitting the center/left vote could be a recipe for a Conservative Stephen Harper majority government.
Proroguing also hides the Afghanistan torture mess as much as possible also. So two questions, probably more, are Canadians that forgetful? Do they care that much about the Olympics? While the press has been chipping away at Mr. Ignatieff he himself has been quiet. Methinks he hasn’t been catching up on romance novels and gazing at the deer hopping through the snow covered fields.
This Spring should be showtime. I can’t see this minority government dragging on much longer. In the Art of War it’s said that when you are the weaker foe choose the time and place of battle. That’s going to be the question come March.
What do you think Cornwall?
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Definetly not a general election but how about a bi-election just in SD&G? Can we do that? Please, please, can we do that?
Bring on an election! Time to send a message and take out the trash!
So Glassbowl, who do you want to win the next election?
Sorry guys, you’ll have to wait until March for the election thats going to be forced upon us by Ignatieff and the Fiberals. Then we can all celebrate with a MAJORITY Conservative Government! SD&G will continue to be held by our one-and-only ti-Guy Lauzon.
(Just a thought, since Ignatieff spent more time in the U.S. than in Canada, do we now have to pronounce his name as EYE-gnatieff?)
I wouldn’t mind seeing a Liberal minority. If nothing else to send a message to Harper that being a lazy ass isn’t the way to go!
Stan the only politician itching for an election right now is your own Stephen Harper. It’s all a hustle.
Admin: I agree with you that Stephen Harper would love an election right now, but he will never call an election. He’ll leave that up to the greedy Fiberals who are presently salivating about their next non-confidence vote to come in the March 2010. Don’t you just love it!
If we were like Europeans there would be a lynch mob after his hide. But as most Canadians we just stand by and watch. WE are afraid to protest. It’s shameful as is Harper.
Yes, I think we need an election as soon as possible, and all people who care about justice, peace, the environment and democracy, must realize that it is important to unite now and defeat our aspiring dictator. The Canada that we love is dying. Let’s wake up!
How long will we tolerate a Prime minister elected with a little bit more that 35% of voters who acts as if he owned Parliament? How long will we tolerate a Prime Sinister who tries to strongarm a public service into becoming accountable not to Canadians but to the Conservative party of Stephen Harper? How long will we tolerate a Prime Minister who has transformed a big budget surplus into a huge deficit by overspending on defence while changing the country we love, a country respected internationally for advancing peace and justice, into another war mongering nation? How long will we tolerate a Prime minister who runs away from democracy anytime he has a chance? And the list could go on and on.
Come on Canada, let’s kick Harper and his mafia out ASAP and come back to a sensible, honest government for all Canadians, before it is too late. Because the clock is ticking. Fast!
Couldn’t agree with you more Pierre!
Pierre: You talk about getting rid of Harper and his mafia, yes, lets go back to a “sensible and honest” government who will bleed us dry with their “entitlements” as they did before. It doesn’t matter how many people voted for him in the last election, Stephen Harper is the man in charge! He didn’t turn us into a war-mongering nation, Jean Chretien and the Liberals put us in Afghanistan long before the Conservatives came along. Wake-up and smell the coffee Pierre.
Joshua: I haven’t heard of any Europeans having lynch mobs to get after their Prime Mininsters, I don’t know which newspapers you read but I suggest the Cornwall Free News if you want reality. True, as Canadians we are apathetic and we are known to complain a lot! We are still and always will be a great country!
Stan it’s Stephen Harper that has blown the deficit right up here in Canada. It was the Chretien government that had us in surplus. If they were “bleeding” us as you just stated then we damn well need them back.
Any government that can put us in Surplus while “bleeding” us surely is far more talented than the current crew who according to you while being allegedly “lily white” have us in deficit. Could you explain that particular talent to our readers?
Yes it’s true that the Chretien government had us in surplus for a while. Thats an easy one, you cannot siphon-off money out of a deficit. I think we’d all be shocked if we knew the real numbers of the cash that was “stolen” by the Fiberals! We certaily don’t need them back with all their “talents”.
You say it’s Harper that has blown the deficit, but let me remind you that Harper is governing during a very hard recession that he DID NOT bring on himself. Give him a little credit……PLEASE!
No Stan, I think you have it wrong. Harper received a surplus from the Paul Martin government. As you well know I’m sure Mr. Martin was Mr. Chretien’s finance minister who oversaw the surplus.
Mr. Harper enjoyed the surplus right up to the point of denying the recession. Frankly, and I’m not agreeing with you in any fashion or suggesting even a hint of truth to your statement, but I’d rather see a politician steal with a surplus than waste in any situation.
Mr. Harper has spent BILLIONS of dollars trying to BUY a MAJORITY since the last election. Those dollars are far more than any of the examples you’ve used and a total and complete waste of money. My money, your money, and future generations of Canadians money.
That’s robbing our future to try and grub a speck of time to lead a country that Mr. Harper is doing his best to divide.
The Liberals may have flaws, but you don’t see voices squashed and iron grips. I don’t know about your family, but mine have fought in wars to protect our society from that kind of behavior. I bet some of your family did too at some point.
Our Canadian soul is essentially at stake right now. I don’t want a money grubbing, oil sand sucking, sweater wearing, nasty who’s salivating to shut down the CBC, butcher Medicare, and probably sell Canada to the US for PM.
And like a good Canadian I still will respect your right to now agree with me
Money-grubbing, oil sand sucking, sweater wearing, salivating to shut down the CBC, sell Canada to the U.S…….sounds like a businessman to me, but at least the moneys not going into his pockets like his predecessors.
The “butcher Medicare” you will have to explain to me and lke a good Canadian I still respect your right to your opinion, flawed as it may be.
Stan Mr. Harper is not a friend of the concept of Medicare as created in Canada. Privatization of medical services is not the direction that most of the world is travelling. Hope that answers your question.
This is getting to sound more and more like the crap served up by the Toronto Red Star or the Communist Broadcasting Corp.
You Lieberals just can’t accept the fact that you got caught stealing from taxpayers and lost the subsequent elections.
Questiopns of the day:
Where is Mr. Ignaseous? Oh yeah, somewhere in the South of France at his villa.
Where is Wackie Jackie? Oh yeah, snorkeling in Belize.
Where is Harper? Oh yeah, in his office on the Hill working.
What is the colour of the sky in Pierre Béchard’s world?
Formerlib – Why do I get the hunch that you sir or madam were never a Liberal? Perhaps better quality undergarments and some vitamin D tabs would take some of the anger and venom out of your posts? This isn’t the Lowell Green show.
Thanks,
Jamie Gilcig – Editor – The Cornwall Free News
Yes, I was a Liberal until I could no longer stand the lying and stealing from the Chretien and Martin crowd!
I don’t understand what the underwear and vitamin D tabs remarks are supposed to mean, but gee if you don’t like a little heat once in a while, I’d suggest you limit your publication to covering Bridge and Euchre Parties or maybe the Darts League at the Legion and stay away from political discussion.
Have a nice day, unless you have other plans.
Actually we’re looking for someone to cover Bridge, Euchre and darts in the area if you’re volunteering….
Thanks for the offer, but I really don’t think you would want anyone but a card carrying Liberal to be in your employ.
Besides, any articles I wrote would have to be accurate as I really cannot tolerate revisionism. That seems to be the norm in what I see from yourself and many of your contributors.
Oh, and by the way, the number of former Liberals is growing day by day by day!
Scary, eh?
A long time ago I used to be a Liberal too. I have letters from Iona Campagnolo to prove it. Don’t ask why I quit, you’ve heard it all before!
See alleged formerlib, that’s the difference between this site and many others. We do allow other voices. There are people who support and participate of all political persuasions. We do not preclude ideologies. I personally however have a distaste for the tone that you seem to be posting in, of attacking and being rude.
Can you not debate or share your beliefs without attacking people or is that simply the Stephen Harper Conservative in you? I feel bad because I in my past have voted Conservative (Yes, I voted for Brian Mulroney) and have many Conservative beliefs.
You may want to consider that when you post the way you do you reflect more against Conservatives than for them. We’re not here to combat Conservatives, simply some of the issues and actions of the Harper government. And we’re 100% willing to post content of a Conservative nature and have posted kind things about the Harper government even; when they warrant it.
Politics is a blood sport, but I think personally, one of the things that has always attracted me to the Liberal Party compared to what the Conservative Party has devolved into is that Liberals have more style and ability to communicate ideas as opposed to bullying and pounding their fists until they get their way. That’s just way to 30′s for me.
Feel free to post your ideas. They’re welcome here and we’re even happy to debate you, but please lose the Lowell Green act.
we need to get rid of that lame ass XXXXXXX that harper is…. taking long vacations not doing anything good for our great country i wish he would just chock to death on a big juicy peace of meat!!! I HATE YOURXXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX!!!! XXXX HARPER WE DONT NEED AN IMBECILE LIKE HIM AT THE HEAD OF OUR BEAUTIFULL COUNTRY
Stan are you a retard??? first of all harper wwas refusing to admit we even had a problem while in election… total bullshit lie…. second instead of spending millions on millitary bases and sending our proud troops to fight a fight that isnt even ours to start with… wow nice way to manage your budget,… harper is an asshole thats all he is. He will drive canada to bankruptcy and then blame it on passed administrations as he always does….. just look at the kyoto protocole and how he’s been doing absolutly nothing to protect our country from pollution and global warming… I HOPE HE DIES!!!!!
To Eric and others; please do not swear on our site. We believe in free speech, and as much as we love words we choose to not allow certain ones on our public forums. We appreciate that they are not unique and fully believe and support your right to use them, but simply wish to be courteous to other readers.
eric, you ask if I’m a retard and I’ll have to say no. After reading your post though, if you stand in front of a mirror and stare at the reflection, you will see the biggest retard of all!