Showing posts with label Canadian history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Canadian history. Show all posts
THE HARPER INDEX - Masters of Economics
Masters of Economics? Do the Conservative's cranky core supporters
share their leaders' aversion to facts? How else can one explain their
belief that the Harper group are Canada's best economic managers?
Budget surpluses under Liberal governments
of Jean Chretien and Paul Martin: 11 (consecutive)
Budget surplus inherited by the Harper government
in 2006: $13 billion
Budget surplus on hand prior to 2008 recession: $0
Budget surpluses realized by the Harper government to date: 0
Deficit budgets of the Harper government: 7 (consecutive)
Size of Canada's national debt inherited by the Conservatives
in 2006: $481 billion dollars
Current size of Canada's national debt: $680 billion dollars
Growth of the national debt under the Harper government: 30%
Current growth rate of Canada's national debt per day: $74.6 million
Current growth rate of Canada's national debt per second: $863
Prime Ministers talk about Canada
John Diefenbaker
"I am a Canadian, free to speak without fear, free to worship in my own way,
free to stand for what I think right, free to oppose what I believe wrong,
or free to choose those who shall govern my country.
This heritage of freedom I pledge to uphold for myself and all mankind."
Jean Chretien
"What we have built together in Canada is something very great and very noble.
A country whose values of tolerance, understanding, generosity have made us
what we are: a society where our number one priority is the respect
and dignity of all our citizens."
Paul Martin
"The people of Canada have worked hard to build a country that opens its doors
to include all, regardless of their differences; a country that respects all,
regardless of their differences; a country that demands equality for all,
regardless of their differences."
Steve Harper
"Canada appears content to become a second-tier socialistic country,
boasting ever more loudly about its economy and social services
to mask its second-rate status."
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Conservatives Suck at Economics
How can ANYONE believe Steve Harper and his posse of finger puppets
know ANYTHING about managing an economy?
Remember this lie?
"We will not run a deficit."
- Finance Minister Jim Flaherty
Oct. 9, 2008
Seven years later, we're still waiting for their first honestly balanced budget.
Here's a 2014 comic by MacKinnon at the Herald. Says it all, really...
Here's a graph comparing Harper to other Canadian Prime Ministers. Woo-ee.
Looking at Canada from Mother England
... another perspective on Canada and the Harper regime,
but in this one nobody gets called "a piece of sh*t"....
The Guardian view on Canada’s elections: is the Stephen Harper era over?
It is the second biggest country in the world, yet sometimes it seems
almost invisible. Often ignored by its powerful neighbour, regarded
with only distant affection by the two European countries from which
its settlers came, and taken for granted by many nations who should
be more grateful than they are for its help and mediation in the past,
Canada ploughs a lonely furrow. Now it is heading toward an election
that will determine whether it will continue along the predictable
rightward course set by Stephen Harper as prime minister over the
past decade or whether it can recover some of the verve and originality
that once marked its politics, not least under Pierre Trudeau, whose
son Justin is one of the contenders.
Under Mr Harper, Canada has not only moved to the right in almost
every area of policy but has entered an era of highly calibrated,
money-driven negative campaigning at odds with the courtesy that is
one of the most attractive of Canadian qualities. So the result matters,
obviously for Canada itself, but also for a world that has long been
missing the special role it used to play on the international scene.
You'll find the rest of this interesting perspective right here!
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but in this one nobody gets called "a piece of sh*t"....
The Guardian view on Canada’s elections: is the Stephen Harper era over?
It is the second biggest country in the world, yet sometimes it seems
almost invisible. Often ignored by its powerful neighbour, regarded
with only distant affection by the two European countries from which
its settlers came, and taken for granted by many nations who should
be more grateful than they are for its help and mediation in the past,
Canada ploughs a lonely furrow. Now it is heading toward an election
that will determine whether it will continue along the predictable
rightward course set by Stephen Harper as prime minister over the
past decade or whether it can recover some of the verve and originality
that once marked its politics, not least under Pierre Trudeau, whose
son Justin is one of the contenders.
Under Mr Harper, Canada has not only moved to the right in almost
every area of policy but has entered an era of highly calibrated,
money-driven negative campaigning at odds with the courtesy that is
one of the most attractive of Canadian qualities. So the result matters,
obviously for Canada itself, but also for a world that has long been
missing the special role it used to play on the international scene.
You'll find the rest of this interesting perspective right here!
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