normanchateau
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A 200 million dollar "loan" from the Harper government to Ukraine:
http://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/canada-announces-220m-in-aid-to-ukraine-1.1728009
There are countries far more needy than Ukraine, for example, in parts of Africa. Yet Mr. Harper chose Ukraine for this handout. Why? In 2011, there were an estimated 1,209,085 persons of Ukrainian origin residing in Canada, This means Canada has the world's third-largest Ukrainian population behind Ukraine itself and Russia.
Another example of Mr. Harper using taxpayer dollars to pursue ethnic votes.
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I not sure were I stand on this issue but I did read a article a couple years ago that Harper is doing what his church supports through tax payers or government money. To understand this better, one would have to read up on his church the Alliance Missionary, I think the name is.
Mr. Harper is a born-again member of the Missionary and Alliance Church. His church advocates for the conversion of Jews to Christianity. His church, like all Evangelical Christian churches, is a strong advocate for Israel. While Jews account for only 1% of the Canadian population, Evangelical Christians account for 10% of the population. Hence Mr. Harper's over-the-top support. Not surprisingly, Mr. Harper brought a huge entourage of Evangelicals to Israel at taxpayer expense. See:
http://blogs.vancouversun.com/2014/01/28/why-did-10-evangelical-leaders-fly-with-harper-to-israel/
His church also strongly opposes the use of marijuana and not surprisingly, Mr. Harper's party remains the only major party in Canada to support criminalization of this plant. The NDP supports decriminalization while the Greens and Liberals support legalization.
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Nadon was a good choice, rejecting him was a mistake the SCC will regret. Are you ready for Chief Justice Vic Toews? If it happens, the left will only have themselves to blame.
So you think that the Supreme Court of Canada, the majority of whose members are Harper appointees, are "the left"?
It would not surprise me if Harper appointed Vic Toews to the Supreme Court.. Vic Toews, a religious nut like Stephen Harper, is the fanatic who fired all non-Christian chaplains and replaced them with Christian chaplains:
Toews and Harper: religious zealots who mix politics with religion.
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Latest Forum Research results of polling done April 28th and 29th:
Liberals 39%, Conservatives 30%, NDP 20%
To quote Keepitsimple: "...Canadians are starting to pay more attention to both Harper and Trudeau."
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It is also the toronto star, the same paper that said mulroney had little to do with ending aparthied except to make money off of it. But mandela himself had a lot of praise for how mulroney helped end aparthied.When it comes to harper or any other conservative, don't bel;ieve what the star has to say. Why are they not making a scene out of what just happened in caladonia.
The Toronto Star is wrong if it fails to acknowledge that Mulroney was anti-apartheid. Mulroney, like Diefenbaker, was vocal in his opposition to apartheid. But the Toronto Star, like other mainstream media, has failed to point out that in 1989, Stephen Harper co-founded the Northern Foundation, a far right organization that supported the pro-apartheid government of South Africa. Perhaps this is why Stephen Harper has never declined to sign the nomination papers for Rob Anders every time there's a federal election.
Even the Toronto Star lacks the balls to point this out.
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"Regardless, G8 nation in surplus post 2008 meltdown is a bid deal and Harper should be given credit for it, if it comes to pass."
Canada lead all G8 nations in economic growth during the years before Harper came to power. Source:
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/daily-quotidien/050621/dq050621c-eng.htm
It also helped that Harper inherited a surplus. Too bad he squandered it in 2007, long before the economic meltdown. See:
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/columnists/story.html?id=bff9fecd-ed7d-47e6-b001-2a638620df42
Marginal income tax rates from 2007-2013 are not lower than they were in 2005 and they went up in 2006. Check your tax returns if you don't believe me.
No wonder Harper has a terminal MA degree in Economics and did not advance to a PhD in Economics.
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Thank you for that clarification. Appreciated it. In my personal opinion, no.
In my personal opinion poverty or lack of work on the West Bank incites resentment against Israel and Israelis and that resentment can quickly turn to acts of terror. So in my opinion any aid that can create work and jobs that make people self sufficient is helpful in preventing conditions that might otherwise fuel terrorists and their extremist views.
If that aid on the other hand is stolen by corput officials or misdirected to terrorists than its problematic.
Yasir Arafat stole hundreds of millions of foreign aid money. The Palestinian Authority that now exists on the West Bank is riddled with coruption. Then again Israel has internal coruption issues too. I am not pointing the finger at anyone-I am just saying the Middle East in no matter what country you are in has coruption which is always an obstacle to peace and financial aid.
I am also saying this, Mr. Abbas is on record as stating he will never recognize Israel as a Jewish state. He stated he will only recognize it as a state, if it allows anyone identifying themselves as a Palestinian (whether they are or not descended from Palestinians) to be able to return to Israel and be given land. In fact he is stating for him to recognize Israel it must be disbanded as a Jewish state and displacing the existing Israelis if they are Jews. He has no suggestions where these Jews should go and he refuses to comment on these issues:
1-those persons who call themselves Palestinians who are not in fact Palestinian but the descendants of non Palestinian Muslims who displaced Palestinians and who fight over land titles not just in Israel but Jordan and the West Bank as well;
2-why he will not recognize the right of Christian churches to the land titles they have to land in Jerusalem and the West Bank, something Israel recognizes but Mr. Abbas has stated he never will;
3-what will happen with Fatah Hawks and the other 300 splintered cells of terrorists on the West Bank who do not suppport him, want him dead and believe Jordan, Israel and the West Bank as well as Gaza should be turned into a Sunni Muslim caliphate;
4-what happens to Israeli Muslims who refuse to give up their land to so called "Palestinians" who return to Israel;
5-what happens to the ultra-orthodox Jews who do not recognize the state of Israel and currently live on the West Bank and have lived there continously since Biblical days-Mr. Abbas is on record as saying no jew of any kind will be given citizenship in Palestine and would have to move back to Israel.
Mr. Abbas is no moderate. This is someone who wrote his doctoral thesis in an Egyptian university on why the holocaust never happened.
This is a man who has been caught numerous times saying one thing to the Western press and the exact opposite to the Eastern and Arab medias.
This is a man who is also suspected of having ties to the same drug caravan lords that once reported to Yasir Arafat and grow hash hish in Jordan, the West Bank and Lebanon and ship it along with Heroin from Afghanistan, Iran, and Iraq through to Marseilles, France and then to New York.
After Arafat died, and La Deuxieme Bureau's major ally of the Middle East Arafat was no more, Russian drug lords moved in.
Russia's interest in Syria is as much about protecting these drug caravans as it is France's interest to get into Syria and re-establish contact with Sunni Muslims to recreate an alliance.
Ironically it was the French who gave false importance and power to the Alawites to wrestle control away from Sunni Muslims in Syria and it got them nowhere. The Alawites and the Assad clan turned on France in favour of the Soviets and then the old KGB that reincarnated through Putin in today's Russia.
Many people say its all about the oil. I say hash hish oil not just petroleum.
Fascinating and informative, especially your comment about Dr. Abbas writing a doctoral thesis on why the Holocaust never occurred. By any chance, do you have a citation for that?
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This latest Conservative miscreant now thrown under the bus should best be remembered as yet another Tory cheat that Stephen Harper publicly extolled as virtuous - even speaking for the PM in the Commons. Pension or no pension, the takeaway in this affair is Harper's utter lack of judgement in appointments and ethics. The stench of this gov't is unbearable.
The mainstream media supported Stephen Harper in 2011. None supported Ignatieff. They'll support Harper again in 2015. Conservative miscreants will be long forgotten and successful attack ads on Trudeau will allow the reprehensible Harper to be re-elected.
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Israel has not ever classified this Canadian government as extreme, unfair or any other misrepresentation you care to make on its behalf. Stop speaking for it. Speak for yourself because that is all your opinions are. Stop trying to create a false dispute between Israel and Canada over Palestine using aid to the West Bank as a pretext to try define Canada as extremist.
Canada will not be extremist either way it decides. Canada is a sovereign nation. It makes its own decisions. Tell me are you so concerned about Palestinians or is this just an opportunity to use the aid issue to try wedge a false dispute between Canada and Israel because that is what you do and its weak at best.
I would welcome a statement from the Israeli government that stated Canada was extreme. Go on find one and get back to me. You won't.
I never claimed that Israel accused Canada of being extreme. Israel made no such claim. However, Israel did object to Canada's UN stance against the Palestinian Authority. This stance was not helpful to Israel. Do you think it was?
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I'm not saying you're wrong but I'm going to have to ask for a cite.
StatsCan published figures on this in 2011. The 41% figure I mentioned came from here:
http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/06/10/why-its-time-to-legalize-marijuana/
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He could spend a few years in jail.
Alternatively, when the dust settles and the Conservative supporter-controlled media move on to focus on yet another Justin Trudeau "gaffe", Stephen Harper could quietly appoint Del Mastro to the Senate.
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I think that for the most part,the media does indeed have it in for Harper.
I think it depends on how you define "...have it in for Harper." If you mean by "...have it in..." that they supported the election of Stephen Harper, I would agree with you. I've cut-and-pasted a list of newspapers and magazines which published editorials supporting the election of Stephen Harper in 2011:
- The Brampton Guardian
- The Recorder and Times (Brockville)
- Burlington Post
- Calgary Herald
- Calgary Sun
- The Economist
- Edmonton Journal
- Edmonton Sun
- Etobicoke Guardian
- The Globe and Mail
- The Mississauga News
- The Gazette (Montreal)
- The Hamilton Spectator
- Inside Toronto
- Maclean's
- National Post
- Oakville Beaver
- Ottawa Citizen
- Ottawa Sun
- The Province (Vancouver)
- The Suburban (Quebec)
- Sudbury Star
- Toronto Sun
- The Vancouver Sun
- Waterloo Region Record
- Windsor Star
- Winnipeg Free Press
- Winnipeg Sun
I haven't provided the lists for the 2006 and 2008 elections but I can say, and you can verify, that most of the publications above also supported Stephen Harper in 2006 and 2008.
The Toronto Star endorsed the NDP in 2011. If you have a list of major newspapers which supported the federal Liberals in 2011, please produce it.
Objective evidence of anti-Harper newspaper bias is difficult to obtain. Owners of major newspapers tend to be Conservatives and while their writers certainly criticize Harper at times, they also criticize Mulcair and Trudeau. I rarely see criticism of Elizabeth May but I doubt that's evidence of a pro-Green bias.
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If you really do like consuming MJ, do you really want the burdensome restrictions smokers have to deal with placed on you. Especially when the police have all but admitted they don't charge for simple possession. .
How did the myth arise that people are not charged for simple possession? While it's true that the Vancouver police rarely charge for simple possession, the RCMP and some police forces continue to arrest and charge. Since the election of Stephen Harper in 2006, simple possession arrests have increased by 41 percent Canada-wide. Even in British Columbia, with the exception of Vancouver, marijuana arrests have increased since Harper came to power.
And even if the police were to stop arresting for mere possession, the law still permits a judge to sentence a person to six months in jail for possession of even trace quantities. If the law is not enforced, this leads to disrespect for the law. Why have such a law on the books? The Liberals oppose it, the NDP opposes it, the BQ opposes it, the Greens oppose it. Yet Stephen Harper and his Prohibitionist Party are stuck in the 1920's.
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So is accusing someone of having "HDS". And you still haven't explained why you accused me of that just for referring to the whole context of the article you plagiarized.
Don't expect a rational response. Those who support this government's war on science know that the best way to show their support is to deflect criticism, change the topic and engage in drive by sniping.
And while you may view plagiarism as unethical, those who support Harper's war on science may see no problem in plagiarism and misattribution. A google search reveals that Stephen Harper himself plagiarized a speech on Iraq from former Australian PM John Howard.
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The Harper government doesn't like "facts" getting in the way of their agendas. I can't believe this crap is happening in Canada in the 21st century and they're getting away with it.
The Harper War on Science extends to his inexplicable and lunatic decision to eliminate the mandatory long form census and replace it with a voluntary census. No wonder the head of Statistics Canada resigned.
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Vic Toews will be remembered as the religious zealot who replaced Jewish, Sikh and Buddhist prison chaplains with Christian prison chaplains:
Apparently if Canadian taxpayers are to fund prison chaplains, they must be Christian chaplains. Yet another bonehead idea from the Conservative Party of Canada.
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I'm not sure what your point is since Canada doesn't give aid to Iran or Saudi Arabia.
My point is that the government of Israel objected to Canada's hostile stance at the UN against the Palestinian Authority. You raised the issue of aid. Are you saying that if Canada did not provide aid to the Palestinian Authority, their stance would have differed?
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How much aid does Canada give to Saudi Arabia?
We give no aid to Iran but that doesn't stop the Harper government from criticizing Iran. Saudi Arabia is just as sexist and homophobic if not more so.
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The emblem and its derivatives are still in use.
I just read the link you provided. In it, Abbas states: “I believe that the West Bank and Gaza are Palestine and the other part is Israel." Sounds reasonable to me.
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If the PLO/Authority recognizes Israel's right to exist, why isn't Israel included in that little map in their emblem? That's certainly a question.
The emblem is from the Arafat days. Here's the current position of the Palestinian authority on Israel's right to exist:
http://www.jpost.com/Diplomacy-and-Politics/We-recognize-Israel-they-should-recognize-Palestine
Feel free to raise tangential issues. I gather you will continue not to respond to my question, i.e., If Stephen Harper has respect for the government of Israel, why did he ignore Israel's wishes on the UN vote?
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Exactly who are these 'Israeli officials' and in what 'document' in particular is Canada getting its knuckles rapped? That would be my question...
So you think that the Israeli Embassy spokesman in Ottawa who said that “Israel supports a stable and reliable Palestinian Authority with a dependable security system and an effective judiciary,” made this up to make Stephen Harper look more incompetent than he is?
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What's your take on the PLO emblem? Mistake at the printers?
What does this have to do with my question?
This was my question: If Stephen Harper has respect for the government of Israel, why did he ignore Israel's wishes on the UN vote?
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Might be because Israel has political clout in Canada.
If Israel has political clout in Canada, why did the Harper government vote against the wishes of Israel? Maybe the pro-Israel rhetoric of the Harper government is a sham.
Pro Life? Then Don't Run Under Liberal Banner
in Federal Politics in Canada
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So you are complaining that Mr. Trudeau is using Mr. Harper's strategy of treating his party like a private fiefdom and ramming changes through?
With whom did Mr. Harper consult before he eliminated the mandatory long form census? His party? I doubt it. Certainly not the electorate since it was never part of his platform. Mr. Trudeau is making it clear before an election where he stands. Mr. Harper should have done that with the census.