Showing posts with label leadership. Show all posts
Showing posts with label leadership. Show all posts
Conservatives to forge a new Canadian identity!
Should the unspeakable happen and the Harper junta
gets another kick at our can, don't be surprised if they
decide to celebrate by "re-branding" the True North.
gets another kick at our can, don't be surprised if they
decide to celebrate by "re-branding" the True North.
... moving toward Steve's dream of being Canada's El Presidente Magnifico
... the Blue Maple Shalom
... This one? Because the Conservative Party IS Canada, stupid.
Although this might be better...
Although this might be better...
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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Law and Order on Planet Harper
Steve and his gang built their "brand" on the myth of their economic prowess.
If there is one other cause that's close to their cold, dark and wizened hearts,
it is the need for LAW AND ORDER!
If there is one other cause that's close to their cold, dark and wizened hearts,
it is the need for LAW AND ORDER!
Like their economic record, this desire for a police state is not supported by the facts
of life in Canada, but it does let them keep the fear buzz going...
When it comes to law and order, Steve and his apparatchiks in the PMO have let
their adoration for pricey, discredited American crime initiatives - like the War on Drugs
- truly run amok...
Steve knows his frightened, cranky core supporters like nothing better than simple, manly answers
to important, complicated issues...
These knee-jerk - and often illegal - responses to issues like those G20 protests and the niqab,
which will never get any closer to his cranky core than their big-screen TVs.
In a variation of the classic Conservative "if you're not doing anything wrong,
why do you care about enhanced police powers", those Steve supporters aren't going
to think much past "You must have been doing something wrong for the police to beat
on you like that."
...all the while, maintaining a distinctly un-Canadian immunity to irony every step of the way.
Steve Harper is a Pussycat who just wants to serve you!
If you elect a dog person, you elect someone
who wants to be loved. If you elect a cat person,
you elect someone who wants to serve."
(Stephen Harper, Interview with Kevin Newman,
Global National April 5th, 2006)
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Harper is scary, but Jason is worse...
For those pondering the tea leaves of federal politics,
the omens seemed clear.While Kenney kept his distance
from Harper’s scandal-tarnished brand, his riding
association books revealed a staggering $315,000 war chest,
far more than he needed to recapture his own safe seat,
yet ample enough to share with MPs whose
gratitude might come in handy during a race for the top job.
Certainly, no other candidate boasted comparable credentials
or such populist appeal.As the architect of a seven-year strategy
to woo ethnic voters away from the complacent Liberals, Kenney
was hailed as the rainmaker behind Harper’s long-coveted majority,
but he had also built up a database of immigrant loyalists
that his rivals could only envy.
After tagging along on one of his fifteen-hour days, watching him
shuttle among a dozen national and religious festivals, munching
his way to his nickname, Curry in a Hurry,the Toronto Star succumbed
to breathless hyperbole, comparing his wattage to Justin Bieber’s.
As recently as last January, Ottawa’s influential Hill Times profiled
him not as a minister but a “contender.”
read the whole scary saga of Mr. Kenney by Marci McDonald at THE WALRUS
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