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Soooooooooooo........... Paul Martin was right and Jason Kenny had a self-righteous fit, again. Tories lash out at Liberal attack ads Last Updated: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 | 9:58 PM ET CBC News The Conservatives reacted angrily to negative ads released on Tuesday by the Liberals targeting Stephen Harper, calling them "vicious" and "baseless." Focusing on one ad that suggested Harper would station armed soldiers on the streets of Canadian cities, Tory MP Jason Kenney told a news conference in Ottawa that the Liberals have sunk to a new low. -end quote Jason, Jason..... do you even know what truth is?

No more slagging Paul Martin's government for whatever, since this "new" government is the same old, maybe even worse in it's hunger for absolute power. Quote $30M seals NDP, Tories pact A strange and risky unofficial political alliance between the NDP and the Harper government on the environment has been bolstered by a $30-million federal contribution two weeks ago to a rainforest in the British Columbia riding of the NDP environment critic, the Toronto Star has learned. The government has been heavily criticized since presenting its environmental legislation last fall. Before consenting to anything, sources in B.C. and Ottawa said, Layton told Baird he wanted to see a sign of good faith showing the Conservatives were actually committed to the environment, and not just trying to save their minority government from defeat. "That absolutely happened," said one source. "It was one of many, many components that helped get them over the top on this." -end quote Naturally NDP environment critic Nathan Cullen denies there is a deal. But the study by the previous Liberal government languished for almost a year and would still be gathering dust if Steve didn't need Jack's votes.

Tax fairness for the rich. Income splitting only benefits the rich and those woman who can afford to stay home while hubby works. This is a despicable solution to poverty and families in Canada. Garth Turner should stop pimping for the rich.

Telecaster does not sensor copyright. Unless they receive a complaint as CBC did during the last election. These ads are infringing on copyright material from the networks. CPAC is looking to see who/which network they got the material from because the CPC did not ask permission to use this material. So.... was it Global, CTV, CBC or did an amateur take the pictures off a tv by DVD? If so they are still copyright.

Hmmm, so Kyoto was signed in 1997 but no action was taken by the Liberals for 8 years because it hadn't come into force yet? Credibility Stéphanie. Credibility. That is the key. That one doesn't even pass the laugh test. Try reading these: Project Green Reviews a Year of Environmental Progress The Climate Change conference in Montreal Why Dion's plan would have reached the Kyoto targets if Steve did not cancel all programs. Speaking of credibility.............. a 'socialist scheme'

And I am sure that "everyone" who cashes in their RRSP to buy a home pays the money back. Yup. Just everyone is that well off in your world. Jimmie is a politician and has left himself open to the idiot label by his words and actions.

What decade? Most of the world just signed the Kyoto accord in 2003. The Liberals came to power in 1993 and spent years cleaning up the deficit and debt that Mulroney left. Kyoto came into being in 1997 but did not come into force until February 16, 2005 with 169 counties signing on. At that time Dion had his ducks all set up to meet the targets that Canada set. Which Steve canceled all the programs but then renewed them after sticking his finger up, under a new name, but with select parts missing, like help for lower income Canadians to refit their homes. Now Steve has had 14 months to set targets for whatever substitute Kyoto he wants and... where are they??? In 2050? WOW!

Many will cash in RRSPs to buy a house, buy something else, pay for kids college, etc and that is taxed at a higher rate. And of course there is another discussion on how government senior programs are clawed back if there is other earnings..... like RRSPs, plus having RRSP income pushes some into a higher tax bracket. So the idiot Jimmie using RRSP as his excuse to cancel IT was brainless. Your personal attacks on me are meaningless.

Why doesn't Steve order O'Connor to hold hearings in Ottawa and get the message out to Canadians, as the Opposition keeps on asking? Canadians want to support our troops but this "new" government does not give them a reason to do so. Plus after the Cold War ended everybody was downsizing their military forces, not just Canada. It isn't just Steve who has put the push on for refitting the military. Paul Martin started increasing the budget and looking to buy more equipment.

What did Dion accomplish during his year as Environment Minister? Project Green Reviews a Year of Environmental Progress The Climate Change conference in Montreal Why Dion's plan would have reached the Kyoto targets if Steve did not cancel all programs. And the cost was $10 billion until 2012. So please, don't accept the propaganda dripping from Baird or Lunn or the other parrots who are forced to toe the party line. Do the research for yourselfs and "then" you can criticize Stephane Dion for not being a leader. After reading all his accomplishments in his sort time as Environment Minister, I and may more are very impressed. And then the man has to be honest also.

We still have the PPCLI and the Vandoos plus more. People aren't aware what is meant by peacekeeping. It takes a highly trained soldier to be a peace keeper. More highly trained, effective and deadly than a soldier out to make war. Canada's military are not boy scouts and never have been. People should be educated on our military history. http://www.peacekeeper.ca/

Different leader, different mud. But we'll probably see more of the same old, same old. Hope some of it is funny at least.

Too much revenue been lost with the IT??? HA!! Or do you mean the monies being paid to RRSPs and RIFs for people's old age savings? Monies that would be taxed at a higher rate down the road when the funds were taken out of the savings plan. This is the revenue that Jimmie is so hot about losing? What an idiot the Minister of Finance is.

Also why crawl into the mud pit with Steve.

So Jimmie is using the monies paid to RRSPs and RIFs as justification for taxes lost from Income Trusts. Just like he is using the Canada Pension Fund as part of his government assets to offset the net debt. What an amateur we have as Finance Minister. Flaherty may be a lawyer but he knows absolutely nothing about finances. He f***ed up Ontario and now he is doing the same to Canada.

"If we do respond, it would be with something positive, introducing Canadians to Dion," said one party official. Tony Clement, now Harper's health minister, had this to say about the boss in February 2004, when the two were rivals for the leadership of the newly merged Conservative party. "Stephen ... you've been on the record as a wall-builder. I want to be on the record as a bridge-builder," Clement said during a leadership debate broadcast on CBC Newsworld. Clement expressed this fear about a party led by Harper: "We cannot be an extreme party. We cannot be a party that is speaking to one part of the country." Calgary MP Diane Ablonczy remains excluded from Harper's cabinet, though most observers expected Harper to lean on her for experience and female representation. Could it be that Harper remembers snippets like this from the 2001-2002 leadership for the old Canadian Alliance? "I believe where he would take us is back to the NDP of the right," Ablonczy said in a February 2002 leadership debate. To Harper directly, Ablonczy chided him on his personality: "You are not going to be able to work constructively with people with that kind of attitude," she said at that same debate. Stockwell Day was also at that debate, fighting to keep his job as Alliance leader against the Harper challenge. He lost, but he's now public safety minister. Back in 2002, he had some worries about Harper's attitude, too – specifically, his reputation for walking away when things got tough in the old Reform party. He told Harper at that debate that many MPs "still wonder why you quit and left the caucus in the lurch and left (former Reform party leader) Preston Manning very vulnerable and left the separatists to be the Official Opposition." Then there's Marjory LeBreton, now the Harper government's Senate leader, once a fierce opponent of the merger that her current boss pushed on her old Progressive Conservative party back in 2003. LeBreton wasn't reticent then about voicing her objections to the man who now is in charge. "I think if Stephen Harper is the leader, it'll be perceived as a takeover and that could be detrimental to the party." -end quote Karma, you know. LOL

Many were responsible for the sponsorship program but only a few (and they have been charged) were aware/responsible for double billing, charging excess fees, kick-backs (just like with Mulroney and Airbus) payoffs and whatever. The same conditions that existed with the Adscam Boss, the Tory Chuck Guite still exist in government. Harper could have his own Guite in charge of a program and skimming off the top. Chretien changed the rules and the rules were just ignored. I know it's good politics to keep on saying it's the Liberal fault and that the Liberals are all crooks, but those who were guilty have been charged and sentenced. The public knows this and have accepted the fact that the guilty ones were caught and the rest are not guilty. And no, the media is not at fault either.

How about proving what you have posted. Didn't Khan's riding association go with him to the conservatives, with their loan? And wasn't the riding association deregistered by the Chief Elections Officer for not reporting their activity for 2004 and 2005? Nobody ever offered to pay Assadourian and Leung. That's why they weren't paid. And if they would have followed through on what they were suppose to do, I am sure that Martin would have put as much stock in their reports as Steve has done with Khan's. As for political fact finding junkets....The Lebanon trip was sponsored by the National Council on Canadian-Arab Relations. Which Senator trip to Afghanistan are you talking about... in September or December? Who is paying for the Casson junket to Afghanistan right now? Now tell us all what unaccounted millions of $$$$ you are talking about. It is not enough to keep on making vague statements.

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh. It's too funny reading Wikipedia as the conservative gospel.

You need evidence that will stand up in court, not just wishes and wanna punish someone cause they sent an email saying 'I think you will be happier very soon, this week probably' And I am sure that Gomery would have loved to charge a politician, if he could. After all the audits, all the hearings, all the scanning hundreds of pieces of paper and hearing hundreds of witnesses, no evidence against any politician or senior deputy minister. If there was any evidence do you not think that Gomery would have found it? If there was any evidence against Brison, don't you think Zacc would have loved to charge him to please Steve?

Then why haven't the RCMP charged Brison?

You misquoted Brison's email. What he really wrote. I think all Liberal MPs, even civil servants had a good feeling about what Goodale was going to announce regarding the income trust file. The decision to leave IT alone and lower taxes on dividends to make them more competitive was a logical conclusion based on what was happening behind the scenes, Nobody expected IT taxes to rise so close to an election and it didn't take a brain surgeon to figure that out. Especially with Steve thumping his chest as the saviour of all those seniors investments with his announcements that a conservative government would never tax their hard earned savings.

I hear that "Green" Steve is ready to become a women. LOLOL http://www.thestar.com/Life/article/174975

Oh boy........ why not also bring back the cane for prisoners as Art Hanger suggested or put 10 year olds in jail which was another suggestion by Canada’s justice minster Vic Toews... he says, August 2006, that it might be appropriate to lower the age of criminal responsibility from 12 to 11 or even 10-year-olds. Notwithstanding that despite the Conservative government’s claims of rampant criminality among children, statistics clearly show that the Youth Criminal Justice Act, which was introduced by the previous Liberal government, is working. Since the law came into effect, Canada’s disproportionately high youth incarceration rates are declining and youth custody facilities are being closed across the country.

Can Steve be anymore disgusting? The following was included with his apology: Although these events occurred under the last government, please rest assured that this government will do everything in its power to ensure… And that after what he said in 2002 chastising John Manley for defending Arar, whom Harper called "a suspected terrorist": While the minister participated in high level consultations to defend a suspected terrorist, it apparently took a trip by the U.S. Secretary of State for the minister to admit what he really knew. Good ole USA, ah Stevie? And the mouth Diane Ablonczy went even further: Mr. Speaker, it is time the Liberals told the truth: that their system of screening and security checks is pathetic. Arar was given dual Syrian and Canadian citizenship by the government. It did not pick up on his terrorist links and the U.S. had to clue it in. How is it that the U.S. could uncover this man's background so quickly when the government's screening system failed to find his al-Qaeda links? .. Mr. Speaker, the government needs to take responsibility for what it is doing to protect Canadian security. The fact is that these Liberals were asleep at the switch. Arar was not properly checked. Instead, the government ran around chastising the U.S. for sending Arar back to Syria, where he is also a citizen. Why is it that the Liberal security system is so weak here that they overlook vital information that the U.S. picked up on a routine check? "THIS" is what our government has come to........... This PM has absolutely no scruples and this use of Arar to gain political points is absolutely the most disgusting thing I've ever seen in the dirt of politics. And some wonder why people find this "new" government to be so despicable.