Comments on: Rope a Dope? Harper Slipping in Polls as Canadians React to Proroguing – Ignatieff on the War Path – January 16, 2010

By: Eric

Eric — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 13:37:14 +0000

The man who forced metric, bilingualism and multiculturism on us used the legal procedure, Bob Rae used it while Ontario Premier ( once for 4 months), Mr. (GST is gone) Chretien used it as well. Something like 107 since we became Canada.

Gues Facbook was not invented then!

By: Stan

Stan — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 19:10:09 +0000

At least he’s said something about what he’s going to do……Ignatief hasn’t said a word yet on his aspirations for the country!

By: Kentstate

Kentstate — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 17:00:03 +0000

Harper likes to throw around the phrase, “serving the people.”
Maybe what he means to say is “serving the people incorrectly.”

By: admin

admin — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:50:59 +0000

Who is glassbowl?

By: glassbowl

glassbowl — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:27:51 +0000

They are all a bunch of lazy bums.

By: Btok

Btok — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 23:31:57 +0000

Ignatieff will prove to be nothing but a Czar Communist!

By: rufusrastasjohnsonbrown

rufusrastasjohnsonbrown — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:44:01 +0000

Glad to see Ignatieff is going to fight back and develop new stategys.Maybe this time around when supporting the government confidence motions,budgets etc. he can ask for some twinkies in addition to report cards.Brilliant stategy hiding him aways in the halls of acadamia instead of actually talking to the people who pay the bills and are unemployed.

By: PJR

PJR — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:11:00 +0000

A question for you, J: Is it gutsy to run away from serious issues and confidence votes, and attack civil servants in public? Consider Harper’s words in 2005: “When a government starts trying to cancel dissent or avoid dissent is when it’s rapidly losing its moral authority to govern.” Is it gutsy of Harper to act repeatedly in direct contradiction to his own words, now that he’s in government?

By: Stan

Stan — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 17:07:17 +0000

It’s true that Muhammd Ali was great. His real name was Cassius Clay.
It’s true that Michael Ignatieff wants to be great but his real name is not Pierre Trudeau.
J, you speak the truth.

By: kenneth r colombo

kenneth r colombo — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 11:07:36 +0000

It is rare these days that one sees a friendly, polite group of folks on a discussion board. I applaud your intelligent discussions. I’m from a riding near Oshawa, and I’m quite aware that Canada is going to continue to have a ‘tough’ time on the jobs front. Unemployment is running at 17.3% in the US. Yes, that’s terrible … and they are our major trading partners. The Harper government has not been able to establish ‘trade reciprocity’ with the US. Their bailout / stimulus packages were issued with the stated bias of ‘buyAmerican.’ On the other hand, a large US construction firm was permitted to bid on a construction project for the Olympics. We are also facing a very large debt load from the Harper years. According to Kevin Page, Parliamentary Budget Officer, the Harper government will have had rolling deficits to the tune of $167.4 Billion through 2013, which increases the national debt to $632 Billion. I did not vote for Mr. Harper. It seems all the reasons for NOT voting for Harper have rung true. Now, unfortunately, he has invoked a second prorogue of parliament on a whim. I attended a local Conservative meeting where one senior likened the Harper government performance to shifting chairs around on the Titanic. Don’t let Harper continue to plunder the Canadian Treasury … or give him any indication you support his quasi-dictatorship.