Canada under attack

[hiti]

Michael Bliss, National Post

Published: Saturday, November 25, 2006

By 2006 most sensible Canadian politicians seemed to believe you no more raised the "deux nations" issue in the 21st century than you waved bloody flags of racial and religious divisiveness in the 19th century. Responsible politicians simply didn't go there.

Then along came Michael Ignatieff and Stephen Harper. Prime Minister Harper seems to have thrown principle and common sense and what we used to call the Canadian national interest (you can bet that phrase will now disappear) to the winds in a naive effort to court Quebec votes. Exactly how and why this has happened is unclear. Maybe too many of the old Mulroney gang have too much influence on Mr. Harper. Possibly he thinks that he is actually bringing closure to the issue by saying that Quebec is only a nation within Canada. Silly man: If Quebec is a nation within Canada, then it would be even more of a nation without Canada.

None of this would likely have happened if Mr. Ignatieff had not deliberately fanned the embers of Quebec nationalism in his campaign for the Liberal leadership. Without Mr. Ignatieff's publicizing of the issue, it probably would have simmered harmlessly. He is a classic example of the irresponsible intellectual who advocates what seem like good ideas, and only afterwards comes to understand and regret the unintended consequences of the positions he has taken. He did not learn the lessons of his ghastly Iraq folly. After making mistakes that would have humbled and silenced most thoughtful men, Mr. Ignatieff instead chose to bring his carpet bag of ideas back to Canada. Millions pay the price of the Ignatieff ego.

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I totally agree with Michael Bliss. Steve was so anxious to trump the Bloc and the Liberals that his brain shut down and common sense left him. It was all about Steve being the winner and the rest in the House being losers. And that was reported in the Globe and Mail today, how Steve was giggling and giving everyone the loser sign who didn't instantly agree with his lame brained motion declaring Quebecers a nation. And all just for a few votes and more power. Totally disgusting little man.

One can understand Iggy being brain dead but why did Steve join him?

[mcqueen625]

Michael Bliss, National Post

Published: Saturday, November 25, 2006

By 2006 most sensible Canadian politicians seemed to believe you no more raised the "deux nations" issue in the 21st century than you waved bloody flags of racial and religious divisiveness in the 19th century. Responsible politicians simply didn't go there.

Then along came Michael Ignatieff and Stephen Harper. Prime Minister Harper seems to have thrown principle and common sense and what we used to call the Canadian national interest (you can bet that phrase will now disappear) to the winds in a naive effort to court Quebec votes. Exactly how and why this has happened is unclear. Maybe too many of the old Mulroney gang have too much influence on Mr. Harper. Possibly he thinks that he is actually bringing closure to the issue by saying that Quebec is only a nation within Canada. Silly man: If Quebec is a nation within Canada, then it would be even more of a nation without Canada.

None of this would likely have happened if Mr. Ignatieff had not deliberately fanned the embers of Quebec nationalism in his campaign for the Liberal leadership. Without Mr. Ignatieff's publicizing of the issue, it probably would have simmered harmlessly. He is a classic example of the irresponsible intellectual who advocates what seem like good ideas, and only afterwards comes to understand and regret the unintended consequences of the positions he has taken. He did not learn the lessons of his ghastly Iraq folly. After making mistakes that would have humbled and silenced most thoughtful men, Mr. Ignatieff instead chose to bring his carpet bag of ideas back to Canada. Millions pay the price of the Ignatieff ego.

LINK

I totally agree with Michael Bliss. Steve was so anxious to trump the Bloc and the Liberals that his brain shut down and common sense left him. It was all about Steve being the winner and the rest in the House being losers. And that was reported in the Globe and Mail today, how Steve was giggling and giving everyone the loser sign who didn't instantly agree with his lame brained motion declaring Quebecers a nation. And all just for a few votes and more power. Totally disgusting little man.

One can understand Iggy being brain dead but why did Steve join him?

Agreed, and I have said all along that as long as the lyin Brian Mulroney is hiding in the back room giving the orders the Conservatives will still be just the same old tired Progressive Conservative Party led by Joe Who and then Lyin Brian. Sorry I forgot about that woman who inherited the PC party between Joe Who And Brian. What was her name again?

[hiti]

Agreed, and I have said all along that as long as the lyin Brian Mulroney is hiding in the back room giving the orders the Conservatives will still be just the same old tired Progressive Conservative Party led by Joe Who and then Lyin Brian. Sorry I forgot about that woman who inherited the PC party between Joe Who And Brian. What was her name again?

Kimmie... Kim Campbell

[Saturn]

History is repeating itself again. The CPC is going down the road of Brian's PC. Harper is trying to get votes in Quebec and doing it in the same manner Brian was. At the end of it all, there will be another deep scar left between Quebec and ROC, the west will realize they've been used in all of this - watch out for another Reform, the Conservatives will ravish the country's finances and Canada will be an honorary member of the third world again.

[ClearWest]

History is repeating itself again. The CPC is going down the road of Brian's PC. Harper is trying to get votes in Quebec and doing it in the same manner Brian was. At the end of it all, there will be another deep scar left between Quebec and ROC, the west will realize they've been used in all of this - watch out for another Reform, the Conservatives will ravish the country's finances and Canada will be an honorary member of the third world again.

Since when has Canada been considered a third-world country?

[geoffrey]

History is repeating itself again. The CPC is going down the road of Brian's PC. Harper is trying to get votes in Quebec and doing it in the same manner Brian was. At the end of it all, there will be another deep scar left between Quebec and ROC, the west will realize they've been used in all of this - watch out for another Reform, the Conservatives will ravish the country's finances and Canada will be an honorary member of the third world again.

Since when has Canada been considered a third-world country?

Never, but we may be in danger of losing our first world status if we don't quickly address our competitiveness issues.

[normanchateau]

History is repeating itself again. The CPC is going down the road of Brian's PC. Harper is trying to get votes in Quebec and doing it in the same manner Brian was.

I think Harper was mislead by the lead that Ignatieff holds in Quebec among the contenders for the Liberal leadership. He foolishly believed that if he mimicked the Quebec-is-a-nation stance of Ignatieff, Quebecers

would flock to him. Well Ignatieff's stance was reckless and now Harper has confirmed that he's no better.

[Saturn]

History is repeating itself again. The CPC is going down the road of Brian's PC. Harper is trying to get votes in Quebec and doing it in the same manner Brian was. At the end of it all, there will be another deep scar left between Quebec and ROC, the west will realize they've been used in all of this - watch out for another Reform, the Conservatives will ravish the country's finances and Canada will be an honorary member of the third world again.

Since when has Canada been considered a third-world country?

Not a third world country but "an honorary member of the third world". That was coined by the Economist magazine with regards to Canada's fiscal situation in 1993. Courtesy of Mr. Mulroney.