Tories barr media

[runningdog]

http://www.thechronicleherald.ca/Canada/850821.html

I used to think that the constant liberal chant of "what are the cons hiding? Be afraid, be very afraid.." used by them in past elections was just a low class ploy, but after reading this article and seeing how they have treated the media in Ottawa (and the rest of the country), plus their total lack of transparency, I guess you do have to wonder just what these reformacons are trying to hide....just like the repubs down south, unfortunately for the citizens of Canada...

[1967100]

Sure reminds me of the way things used to work in Nazi Germany, eh?

[Higgly]

This is more of control freak Stevie Harper's doing. Just swallow the sound bites please. Imagine what it will be like if this neurotic gets control of Parliament. Hey Stevie! Talked to W lately? Chortle.

[Topaz]

Harper government is run the same way that Bush's is and why not, he had US congressmen comeup and talk to him after he was elected. Have you ever heard of a US congressman coming up here to talk to the newly elected PM???? We, Canadians have to watch Harper's every step and question him on his decision and so should the press and Harper doesn't like it!

[Michael Bluth]

Harper government is run the same way that Bush's is and why not, he had US congressmen comeup and talk to him after he was elected. Have you ever heard of a US congressman coming up here to talk to the newly elected PM???? We, Canadians have to watch Harper's every step and question him on his decision and so should the press and Harper doesn't like it!

Not unlike a former Governor and candidate for the Presidential nomination giving a key speech at the Liberal leadership convention.

The Liberals like Americans just as much as the Conservatives, except when they are playing the scary, scary, scary card.

[geoffrey]

What I do know, as I see we are on the scary scary scary concept again... there have been more Liberals on the board of Michael Moore's favourite company, Carlyle, than Conservatives. Spooky!

Chretien shouldn't have been trading blood for oil, hey? He must be in Bush's pocket.

[Argus]

Sure reminds me of the way things used to work in Nazi Germany, eh?

Why, were you there? I understand the Nazis had a lot of low grade thinkers, brutish, ignorant and easily led.

[Argus]

http://www.thechronicleherald.ca/Canada/850821.html

I used to think that the constant liberal chant of "what are the cons hiding? Be afraid, be very afraid.." used by them in past elections was just a low class ploy,

Yes, it was: a really low class ploy for the dumb and gullible.

but after reading this article and seeing how they have treated the media in Ottawa (and the rest of the country),

You mean how they have treated certain of the media, like the guy who wrote the article, the high priced millionaires of the press gallery who sneer at everything the Tories stand for and lay in wait for the slightest chance to twist their words and make them look bad?

plus their total lack of transparency,

The Liberals tried to put their own Information Commisioner out of business by sueing him and starving him of funds. They stonewalled on every question, and Chretien never held press conferences. Apparently none of that bothered you.

[runningdog]

http://www.thechronicleherald.ca/Canada/850821.html

I used to think that the constant liberal chant of "what are the cons hiding? Be afraid, be very afraid.." used by them in past elections was just a low class ploy,

Yes, it was: a really low class ploy for the dumb and gullible.

but after reading this article and seeing how they have treated the media in Ottawa (and the rest of the country),

You mean how they have treated certain of the media, like the guy who wrote the article, the high priced millionaires of the press gallery who sneer at everything the Tories stand for and lay in wait for the slightest chance to twist their words and make them look bad?

plus their total lack of transparency,

The Liberals tried to put their own Information Commisioner out of business by sueing him and starving him of funds. They stonewalled on every question, and Chretien never held press conferences. Apparently none of that bothered you.

Argus, it DID bother me, but don't you think that Harper and the reformacons should strive to be better than past liberal governments? Their lack of transparency really bothers anyone concerned with our country and our countries' democratic processes.

[Argus]

Argus, it DID bother me, but don't you think that Harper and the reformacons should strive to be better than past liberal governments? Their lack of transparency really bothers anyone concerned with our country and our countries' democratic processes.

In a minority, with a hostile press, the government is going to keep everything close to its vest. That is inevitable, regardless of who is in power.

But the only alternative right now is the Liberals, who kept everyone in the dark even when they were in a comfortable majority with no threats to their power anywhere in sight.

Edited August 3, 2007 by Argus

[Leafless]

I guess you do have to wonder just what these reformacons are trying to hide

This is what happens when the previous totalitarian Liberals transformed a large part of the Canadian media into a Liberal friendly media, it sort of creates dysfunctional politics.

The Conservatives I doubt are not trying to hide anything but simply trying to keep at bay all those Liberal friendly media attack dogs from trying to destroy any type of Conservative initiative.

Edited August 3, 2007 by Leafless

[geoffrey]

Hey now, let's have some hope yet. I was one of those people that voted FOR the hidden agenda... apparently I, like the Liberals, were wrong. Harper is a fun loving, money spender... big government and interventionist economic policies are his game.

[Michael Bluth]

Argus, it DID bother me, but don't you think that Harper and the reformacons should strive to be better than past liberal governments? Their lack of transparency really bothers anyone concerned with our country and our countries' democratic processes.

Reformacons?

Clearly you have an agenda in using such a loaded, and inacurrate name to descrive the government.

Why use the correct party name for the Governments of Jean Chretien and Paul Martin?

[geoffrey]

Especially when it's quite easy to tell that the Liberals are far more in bed with US corporate and political interests. Not that it's neccessarily a bad thing. I perfered the Liberals economic policy over the CPC's... so far anyway.

A few pats on Bush's back are nice, but the backroom Liberal dealers in bed with the defense contractors and other big names in the States sure pushed alot of trade issues forward, the ones you don't hear about because of lobbyists in the newspapers.

Edited August 3, 2007 by geoffrey