Apolitical Staples

Can’t say i’m surprised as Harper has deluded himself into thinking that the votes he rents in Quebec are worth selling his soul for. Apalling, but hey, he’s a ‘realist’

Can I swear on this joint? I am so fucking done with these jokers. Done.

Harper is Mulroney without the nice suits.

Why oh why did Martin have to turn out to be such a disappointment?

I remember when executive director of the Liberal party, Benoit Corbeil, alleged “that sponsorships were about making the Liberals coterminous with federalism in Quebec, to the exclusion of their partisan competitiors.”

It would seem the Tories have decided to adopt a similar sponsorship program for that same motivating factor. However, I should remind them about one small important detail, that they were the party that campaigned on policies of small government and accountabilty to taxpayers.

Alan, this one deserves the swearing so I’ll let it go.

KABOOOOOOM!!! Oh my God!! That’s TWO Conservative campaigns in one week! Oh the humanity!!!

Whoever approved this should be drug out into the street and beat over the head with a hockey stick, then left there as an example to anyone else with such a STUPID idea.

Harper is going to kiss Quebecker’s asses for as long as it takes to get his majority. Without an increase in Quebec seats, the man is finished.

The 30M funding is going to buy him a lot of ground organizers in Quebec. Unfortunately, I don’t think it will buy him any votes.

However, Harper is a “brilliant strategist”. Look how he has increased Tory support across the land!

I am all for bashing Quebec but where does it say that only Quebec can get this money?

Just because the Liberals used that fund to rip of the taxpayer off it doesnt mean the program wasnt useful. The Tories were being bothered by festival groups all summer everywhere not just in Quebec to get the program back up and running. It was never a question of if it would return, it was about how it could be fixed.

I agree with Derek. Nothing wrong with a federal sponsorship program. It’s stealing from it that got the Liberals in trouble.

Sponsorship is the next shoe to drop after recognition of the Quebecois as a people in an united Canada. It’s logical. Now, in Quebec, Conservatives are no longer the party of conscription. They are the friends of Quebecois. That an anglo PM from Alberta did this is simply amazing (particularly compared to our last Alta PM, one J.Clark)

Harper knows that the route to a permanent and sustainable majority is to displace the Bloc and establish the Conservatives as the federalist alterativein Quebec, not the Liberals.

The by-elections next week should tell the tale. I bet that Conservatives will win the 2 off-Island ridings easily from the Bloc.

The story of the next election, whatever happens elsewhere, will be the virtual extinction of the Liberal party federally in Quebec. And if Montrealers decide that the Liberals are finished, then who will they turn to? Not the NDP, even if Mulclair wins in Outremont.

This will be Dion’s legacy. They should have gone for Ignatieff or Rae if they wanted to recover in Quebec.

The Tories will be 0-for-3 on Monday in the Que by-elections. They may have a shot at Roberval, but it is a long shot.

Harper will postpone his prorogation plans for at least a day on Monday to grandstand on the veil issue.

Nothing wrong with a federal sponsorship program. It’s stealing from it that got the Liberals in trouble.

There’s nothing right about it. Since when is ripping money out of people’s paycheques then using it ostensibly to buy them “culture” but in actual fact using it to buy elections not stealing? When the artists who present the culture to citizens might make $20-30k per year from their art (if they’re lucky), then what is the word you would use to describe the $75-150k per year (plus numerous perks such as free tickets and travel junkets) that are snagged by the legions of non-artistic political hacks and ahhhts bureaucrats who lurk behind every sponsorship boondoggle? What do you call what they do for Canada? “Giving” to the community? Public “servants”?

I gather that you think Canadians will keep on buying the same steaming pile of bullcrap from the same gang of lying kleptomaniacs every year, as long as you assure them that you’re “not the Liberals”.

It’s logical.

It may be so, but that’s not the same thing as saying that it’s moral.

“I gather that you think Canadians will keep on buying the same steaming pile of bullcrap from the same gang of lying kleptomaniacs every year, as long as you assure them that you’re “not the Liberals”.”

They will.

That or they’ll go back to the Liberals.

Either way, people get what they seem to want…

I agree. This is stupid. Really stupid!

In our riding, the Conservative representative is a DUD. So, now who do I vote for. I can’t vote Liberal - I couldn’t trust them; I can’t (won’t) vote NDP - even more stupid; and now the Conservative are eliminating themselves from my horizon.

I’m completely discouraged by the whole f*king process. Sorry about that!

Mike in White Rock