Apolitical Staples

I think that’s an accurate assessment; Harper, hopefully, will get a majority and he will indeed, prove to be one of the most important leaders this country has ever had. First - he must undo the results of a disempowered electorate, created by Trudeau’s multicultural relativism of isolating people into ‘identity politics’ and by Trudeau’s bilingualism, which barrs 80% of the population from key roles in government. Second, he must change the centralist ideology of Old Canada, a mode functional when Canada’s population was equally split between Ontario and Quebec, but completely dysfunctional now that Quebec has stalled in economic and population viability and the West has emerged as the locus of economic growth in Canada.

This requires leadership. The Liberals are stuck in the centralism of the 1950s and the relativism of the 1980s. Harper has shown real leadership in understanding this, and gradually, restructuring Canada to permit it to mature and develop.

Although it is technically accurate, the article makes it weem as if it is an inherently positive thing, which is innaccurate.

‘weem’ should read ‘seem’

I thought that too Rob.

Trudeau was certainly transformational but not in a positive sense. It’s taken a quarter century for a PM like Harper with enough gonads to transform it back and unwind all the damage done as described by ET.

It’s as accurate a statement now as it was when Harper’s biographer first made it at the end of his political biography of the man in mid-2005.

Harper’s got that sort of stuff in him — but does he have it in him to defeat a high-quality Liberal opponent in Stephane Dion?

Hope so.

“high-quality Liberal opponent in Stephane Dion”

Sadly that’s probably how a good portion of the country sees him. Evidently people don’t mind having their intelligence insulted with hyperbole, obfuscation and sputtering falsehoods every time the man opens his mouth to fracture our beloved mother tongue.

I know, I know. I had an awful lot more respect for M. Dion before his first week on the job.

Still, if he keeps it up, other Canadians should notice as well…

But by “high quality” I merely meant not as terrible as Paul Martin’s truly dreadful performance last time out. (And yet Harper could only muster a minority…)

Dion as ‘high-quality’?? Heh. Notice his tactics of interaction with Harper. Juvenile name-calling - with Dion calling Harper a ‘control-freak’, a ‘far-right’, a ‘neocon’, ‘tied to Bush’. Disgusting, frankly, to call the leader of your country a ‘freak’, to define him in false images (all of them).

How about Dion’s claim that he will refuse to pass Harper’s budget? That’s without even reading or hearing it! How’s that for someone providing the country with responsible behaviour as the leader of the Official Opposition. He’ll oppose the budget without even reading it; and we taxpayers pay for that type of behaviour?

How about Dion as a ‘control-freak’ himself, insisting that he will see that women are nominated in all party ridings, because he wants an ‘even gender distribution’. How’s that for control? And doesn’t he know that the agenda is ‘equality of opportunity’, not ‘equality of outcome’. Besides, why should parliament have an equal gender basis? I’d prefer equal brains and experience. Or eye colour.

How about Dion’s ‘three areas’- the environment, social justice and the economy. My god - these are basic themes of all governments around the world. How can he claim private ownership? What counts are policies - and the Liberals have always rejected policies in favour, more openly, of power. Power attained and maintained, by bribes. Bribes to win elections (Adscam); bribes to the electorate to manipulate them to win elections.

How about Dion, Minister of the Environment, when emissions went up 24%. Heh.

Kyoto isn’t about CO2 or pollution. It is a scam, where developed countries will pay ‘fines’ for emissions. They won’t lower their emissions; they’ll choose to pay the fines which in the short time span allowed, are cheaper than changing the industrial structure. These monies/fines go to the ‘undeveloped’ countries which are free to pollute. Overall - the emissions and pollution in the planet will INCREASE under Kyoto. Not decrease. Instead - the money should not go outside the country; it should be invested in the country, over a longer term, to change the industrial structure. That will decrease emissions. Kyoto will increase emissions. That’s Dion. An increase in emissions -

So Harper has an opening…

But this is still a Liberal country. Never forget that.

If Harper can pull it off and stay around for a while, maybe it won’t be. But right now…

ET,

All the high-octane drivel spewed by Dion can be explained by his inept grasp of the English language. This is Dion-off-script. Get used to it. It’s a liability and Liberal puppet-masters had better craft a strategy to keep this man away from the English mic as much as possible.

Of course it’s inelegant to call the prime minister a control freak - particularly when you’re the leader of the opposition. Unfortunately it’s about the best he can do. His English-language skills are, in a word, terrible for a man in his position. Expect a lot more of this junk going forward.

You are, I hope, joking, Dr. Strangelove. Do you seriously claim that Dion’s comments and behaviour are due to and only to, his inability to speak English? Sorry, I don’t buy that.

His criticisms of Harper; eg ‘control-freak’, neocon, allied to Bush, far-right’ have nothing to do with a language but with his opinions. Are you saying that if he were speaking French, he wouldn’t be denigrating Harper, he wouldn’t call him a ‘neocon, a control freak’ etc? Nonsense.

What about his claim that he will oppose the budget without having read it? In English or French, it’s the same refusal.

What about his support for Kyoto? In English or French, it’s the same support.

What about his appropriation of ‘the environment, the economy, and social justice’ as peculiarly Liberal values - when they are the basic themes of almost all governments around the world? And when Dion has no policies within these abstract themes? In English or French, his arrogance of appropriation is the same, and his lack of policies is the same.

Sorry- Dion’s statements and opinions aren’t caused by his incompetence in English; but by his arrogance and intellectual incompetence.

No ET, I suppose I won’t attribute all of his drivel to his English incompetence. And in the context you present I’m not invalidating your arguement. What I’m suggesting is that his greatest achilles heel is his English. He knows it and it sets off a panic mechanism that forces him to revert to the trash talk at issue. It’s like a stutter or some other verbal tic.

I have said before that the man cannot communicate effectively in English. His incompetence distracts the listener from his message. But I’m also suggesting he distracts himself. Watch him. Every time he opens his mouth and speaks in English you just sense an approaching wreck. I think he’s so conscious of this that it causes him to lose his focus. And then it feeds on itself.

On another note, I’m still wondering what the CPC has done in its abbreviated term to suggest anything ultra-right wing or neo-con. The same media that fails to challenge this language is the same media that are ignoring the plain fact that Dion will not sell to a significant portion of the Anglo constituency who simply cannot understand him.

Joe Barbera R.I.P.

Yes, I see your point, Dr. Strangelove, but I remain sceptical. The reason is that, even if his inability to speak English transforms him into a nervous wreck, that nervous-hysteria shouldn’t make him say things that he doesn’t believe in - eg, his juvenile verbal attacks against Harper, his pompous appropriation of ‘the economy, the environment, and social justice’ to himself, and his claim that he will vote against the budget - even before he’s read it.

As for his ‘disability’ in English being a fault in ‘English Canada’ - I am sceptical also. We Canadians have been thoroughly brainwashed for a generation. If we rejected someone because he couldn’t speak ‘our language’ but instead spoke ‘the other language’ - we’d be made to feel so guilty, both by our own socializiation and the Liberal MSM, that we’d flng ourselves into the voting booth to vote for Dion. Just to show that we are not ‘prejudiced’. We’d overlook his ignorance of the economy, of the West, of demographic changes in Canada, his centrism, his authoritarianism, his propagandic use of women and minorities. We’d overlook it all, just to show that we are ‘not prejudiced’. Now - that’s a pretty sad state of affairs.

Yes, the MSM are ignoring that the CPC hasn’t done a single ‘far right’ action; in fact, it has settled itself in the centre, with the Liberals, NDP and Bloc vying for left and farleft. But the MSM is firmly partisan anyway; Taber, Newman, the Star, the Globe, the CBC - all firmly Liberal and/or NDP.