Canada regains title as most reputable nation in the world despite Har

[PIK]

Media in grip of pre-election Harper Derangement Frenzy, but Canada still tops global rankings in growth, reputation

Maybe you missed the news last week, which is that Canada under Stephen Harper’s Conservative government has just regained its title as the most reputable nation in the world. According to the Reputation Institute’s annual report, Canada remains at the top of a 55-nation list for perceived trust, admiration and respect, based on a survey of 48,000 people around the world.

Easy to miss, that story, since few media picked it up. Instead, the Canadian media complex is in the grip of Harper Derangement Frenzy (HDF), which is an upgrade to hurricane status from Harper Derangement Syndrome, identified several years ago by Lorne Gunter as “an ideological hatred of Prime Minister Stephen Harper that is so acute its sufferers’ ability to reason logically is impaired.” The upgraded HDF extends the definition to incorporate the media hell-bent on a pre-election campaign to bring down the Harper government regardless of any facts.

HDF has been in evidence for some time, but as the election approaches the media are emerging as the Harper government’s biggest political opponent, bigger than the New Democratic or Liberal parties. The Media Party’s distorted handling of recent dribbles of economic data related to recession and deficits sets new records for overblown news creationism.

http://business.financialpost.com/fp-comment/canada-regains-title-of-most-reputable-nation-despite-harper-derangement-frenzy

I hope some people here will realize how foolish you are making yourselves and the country with the way you all act. It is embarrassing.

[cybercoma]

According to the Reputation Institute.

[Keepitsimple]

According to the Reputation Institute.

What does your comment mean?

[cybercoma]

It means, "according to the Reputation Institute."

[cybercoma]

"According to" means as stated by, as maintained by, as claimed by, on the authority of, on the report of, in the opinion of, as specified by, as per.........

[Black Dog]

OP confirms what I said yesterday about people who use such terms as "HDF" are themselves batshit loco. Witness the whole "Grope & Flail" thing in a supposedly serious national publication.

[PIK]

People really need to take a deep breath and think what they are doing. Make decisions yourself not what the media is telling you. Harper has done a great job over the yrs . Not perfect but that will never happen, with any PM.

[segnosaur]

It means, "according to the Reputation Institute."

I think the other poster was wondering why did you make the comment?

Are you suggesting that the Reputation Institute is somehow biased, or incapable of performing such an analysis?

I had never heard of them before. However, I did a little googling; the founders do seem to have at least some academic background, and the organization SEEMS legit. (And if its biased, its a rather weird bias... its home country is the U.S., and they have european influence.)

[On Guard for Thee]

People really need to take a deep breath and think what they are doing. Make decisions yourself not what the media is telling you. Harper has done a great job over the yrs . Not perfect but that will never happen, with any PM.

Umm...didn't you just post a link to the media which seems to be obviously swaying your vote. I suspect Harper will lose his standing based on his past performance, and not on this or that media spin.

[Shady]

What does your comment mean?

It means it's not from a lunatic source so it should be discounted.

[WIP]

Nothing else matters as long as the businessmen who read the Financial Post are happy!

Looking at what's happening around us, I'd say most national "reputations"....assuming it's a concept that can be measured against other nations....only has to avoid falling as fast as most of the other nations like the US, England, Europe, Japan, who typically rank high on that list.

[Rue]

PIK I side with you. I love blaming Harper for oil world prices. It's his fault. Then while the NDP commits an out and out fraud spending tax payers money on partisan expenditures not a peep from the same geniuses pissing their pants over fat boy Duffy and the fact Wright paid back the pig's illegal spending which was the right thing to do excuse the pun.

Yes Harper should just have taken responsibility and apologized. Compared to the NDP who did more damage? Someone want to tell me this even is close to what Chretiens did for that matter or what the sob's did in Ontario? There is Wynne whining about Harper, heading the most lying corrupt government in the world.

Mulcair? This is someone who was ready to run for the Conservatives at one point, and was far from clean as Environment MNR in Quebec. Someone shoud look at his past Quebec record.

Trudeau? This is someone whose entire career consists of having taught drama one year.

Harper has been corrupted by power. He has made mistakes. He has some bad habits first and foremost his inner circle being deliberately detached from his mp's. He's running a regime that has made him lacking in popularity with his mp's. On the other hand to blame him for a bad economy-what a crock.

Yes we are too dependent on oil exports to China for sure. But who has caused the manufacturing to leave? Someone better look at the business tax policies in Liberal Ontario and their manhandling of energy to see what has caused manufacturing to run. Its not Harper.

He has been busy trying to forge trade agreements with the Pacific and Europe to try offset Chinese oil dependency.

What PIK is really going on is that leftist trendy types can't admit in Canada all politicians move to the centre and stay there. They live in this fantasy land that there is such a thing as a right and left wing and their left is better. The fact is Mulcair parrots everything Harper says on the economy right down to the deficit speeches. He's no dummy in the sense that he's moved the NDP centre-you'd never know this is a labour union party with all that talk of not having a deficit.

As for Trudeau its hilarious listening to him claim there is a recession. This is someone who hasn't a clue what a market is let alone market conditions.

Edited September 3, 2015 by Rue

[Freddy]

Nothing else matters as long as the businessmen who read the Financial Post are happy!

Looking at what's happening around us, I'd say most national "reputations"....assuming it's a concept that can be measured against other nations....only has to avoid falling as fast as most of the other nations like the US, England, Europe, Japan, who typically rank high on that list.

Harper shouldn't have forced the Saudi's to pump at a higher rate. We can all agree. That policy was a bad one.

What were we thinking!!!! Resource economy in a resource rich country? It just makes no sense!!!

Edited September 4, 2015 by Freddy

[Topaz]

That was July 23rd, things have changed since then.....a little boy drown and others and Canada could have done something to help, but it wasn't their problem.

[SpankyMcFarland]

Harper has changed Canada's image abroad. For good or ill will depend on your team but there is no question that it has happened. Now we should bear in mind that the attention we garner is microscopic so, overall, foreigners still have a benign view of that big country at the top, but anybody who looks at things a little more carefully will see a definite change on environmental and ME policy.

[PIK]

We cant do a thing about the environment so why try and kill the economy. And finally we are not sitting on the fence anymore.

[cybercoma]

We cant do a thing about the environment

Why can't we?

[PIK]

Because chiana has a get a free ride card in its back pocket. What dont you understand about the fact we produce 1.6% of the stuff. And to even cut it by 30% as harper has said is pretty well impossible unless everyone wants to give up their cars. So as long as china gets to keeping going for another 30 yrs before it starts to lower its emissions,then why should we. What we should be spending our money on is real pollution ,in the ground and water.

Edited September 14, 2015 by PIK

[On Guard for Thee]

Chin has submitted it's plan to reduce emissions ahead of the Paris talks. It includes plans to peak it's output by 2030, not in 30 years. They plan to replace at least some of the coal burning with wind and solar. Saying we can't do anything about the environment makes no sense at all. We created the mess, so we can clean up the mess.