Canadian Spirit: Proud Canadian

I am very proud of  my Prime Minister and the action by Premier Danny Williams to ensure a coordinated effort in helping out from Hurricane Igor.

I am proud of our PM pushing for accountability of programs within the U.N. I hope if Canada gets a spot we will help fix the problems with the UN Climate Change Panel and the bias against Israel.

The Canadian Forces were deployed to help with cleanup efforts after the provincial government requested help with emergency response efforts.

The military will deliver food, water, fuel and medical aid to some communities, and repair bridges and roads where needed. They will also remove downed power lines, deliver generators and provide medical evacuations if necessary.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Premier Danny Williams toured two communities to see the damage left by the storm.
“I've never seen any flooding like this. I've never seen damage like this in Canada,” Mr. Harper said in Trouty. “It's a pretty tough cleanup going on here.”
“It's important you're here, it's important that the prime minister sees it first-hand,” Mr. Williams added.

The two leaders later went to Britannia, a community also coping with the death of an 80-year-old man who was swept to sea by a torrent of water when the storm hit Tuesday.

Mr. Harper announced that Ottawa would increase its contribution to a global fund that fights AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. Canada will donate $540-million to the fund between 2011 and 2013, which represents a 20-per-cent jump on its commitment of $450-million over the past three years.
Standing at the podium of the main UN chamber, Mr. Harper said that the world’s wealthiest countries had to go beyond lofty promises. “We must get results. We must all be held accountable. And people in the developing world must see that we deliver on our word,” he said.
To make fresh progress toward a broad set of anti-poverty targets, known as the Millennium Development Goals, leaders must forge “practical, durable solutions,” he said, and maintain “a shared sense of responsibility.”

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PM Stephen Harper Brings Hope

House Leader John Baird PM Stephen Harper

The federal government moved Sunday to kick-start giving for Pakistan flood relief by offering to match private donations, dollar for dollar.

Donations for flood aid made between Aug. 2 and Sept. 12 will be matched by federal money with no upper limit, Government House leader John Baird said. 

Will our allies show the same level of compassion and aid to Pakistan?
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Prime Minister Stephen Harper will be making his fifth visit to the Arctic region, since he took office in 2006 beginning Monday in Churchill, Man.

On Tuesday, Harper will head to Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, then the following day to Resolute, where he will address troops there conducting Operation Nanook, an annual sovereignty exercise.

Wednesday afternoon, the prime minister will be in Inuvik, N.W.T.,  and from there, he will travel 120 km north to the hamlet of Tuktoyaktuk.

Harper is expected to make an announcement in Tuktoyaktuk, and there is some speculation it could be federal funding to complete an all-weather road linking the isolated community on the Beaufort Sea to Inuvik.

The North has never has never seen so much time, effort and attention brought to bear by any Prime Minister?

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Angry, screeching Liberal in PEI fears for own seat for good reason. A Liberal MP that used a doorknob as a prop to attack Federal funds for upgrades and repairs last year in Prince Edward Island will have his work cut out for him this time.

The federal government will provide $12 million for a wind power project on Prince Edward Island, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced in North Cape, P.E.I., Friday.

The money will go toward a wind energy research and development park and storage system on the province's north coast.

It will study the production, operation, storage and installation of wind technology.

Harper said the energy produced at the site will meet up to three per cent of the province's electricity needs, which translates roughly as enough energy to fuel 4,000 households.

The Wind Energy Institute of Canada will use the money to build a nine- to 10-megawatt wind turbine cluster consisting of five turbines. It will also build an electricity storage system that will be the first of its kind in P.E.I.

Will P.E.I voters make the decision to join with the other Conservative voters in removing ineffective Liberal MPs?

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Prime Minister Stephen Harper repeated Tuesday that the federal government wants the Hwy. 407 extension to connect with Hwy. 35/115.

"We look forward to further infrastructure investment in the GTA in co-operation with the great province of Ontario including, my friends, fulfilling that agreement we made in 2007 for them to build Hwy. 407 all the way east to Hwy. 35/115," he said in a speech in Ajax.- Peterborough Examiner

Provincial Liberals have delayed the project news here and here. McGuinty Government Creating Jobs: Highway Tolls To Help Maintain Roadway
 A Request for Proposals for the highway extension will be issued later this year. The proposed highway extension would generate 24,000 construction jobs. Construction of the roadway will begin once the environmental approvals are in place, with service beginning by 2013

Will Ontario voters demand the Liberals keep their promise and deliver those jobs and complete the work by 2013? 

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PM praises author physician Dr. Ray Wiss  at Sudbury Rotary Dinner

PM Stephen Harper's Bookclub?

Emergency room physician Dr. Ray Wiss has penned a followup to his initial diary about two tours of duty as an army medic and A Line in the Sand is available to purchase online from www.amazon.ca.

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Coalition Parties: Risk Public Safety

The coalition parties of Liberals, Democrats and Separatists used their majority to stop a hearing into Airport Security breaches. The Vice chair refused to take over his paid duties (Mark Holland) to protect the opposition voting majority. He should return the $ 5,000 to taxpayers.

While opposition MPs had said they were happy to discuss the issue ahead of time, they quickly formed behind a Liberal motion to dismiss the meeting saying that it was the wrong committee to study the issue. As the committee broke up, one Liberal even said the Conservatives would have to find another way to “take a run at the Muslim community.” This is a shameless attempt to play religion-baiting with what should be a non-partisan security issue. Even Muslim leaders have said that passengers wearing the niqab should allow confirmation of facial identity — a fact that the Ignatieff Liberals ignore in their shameless attempt to play politics with this issue.

This is a security issue, period. Not a religious issue.

Why are we shocked?  That the national media and political parties are all too willing to play the religion - race card?

In October 2009 the Liberal Party tried to suggest Conservatives were racists during the H1N1 crisis.

Grand Chief Ron Evans of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs told a parliamentary committee the flyer was “very disturbing...it’s really troubling to our people.”

The pamphlet arrived on doorsteps after an investigation into an incident in which an official ordered 100 body bags for a First Nations community in Manitoba struggling with an H1N1 outbreak. The investigation concluded there was no ill will and the number was a miscalculation. Evans said the fact the flyer was apparently sent after the incident was resolved suggested the affair is now being politicized. Liberal health critic Dr. Carolyn Bennett apologized.

The same allegations were made against the Conservatives when a Canadian citizen was stranded in Kenya. The media were complicit in suggesting race was a factor. This person was incorrectly reported as a single mother visiting her grandmother. She was visiting her husband and that she had a younger sister was not part of the narrative by the national media. The media and opposition made comments the Federal Government should pay out $ 2.5 million to settle her lawsuit.

We had the national media complicit in playing the religion card during a state funeral our PM mishandled the holy host. They spent weeks playing up this fake story.



Thankfully there are people who are now moving against the national media agenda and politicians who play the race-religion card.

Welcome to Operation: Turf Mark Holland

Mark Holland is the Member of Parliament and Liberal Public Safety critic for the Ajax-Pickering riding. Mr. Holland is also the self proclaimed "leader of the charge to save the long gun registry". Mr. Holland doesn't care the registry has cost tax payers north of $2 billion just to put pieces of paper next to your hunting rifles and farm tools. Mr. Holland doesn't care that this wasteful legislation has done nothing to enhance public safety.

Mr. Holland cares so little about your opinion that he removes all dissenting comments from his Youtube propaganda page and blocks users who disagree with him. That's right Mr. Holland will block you, HIS BOSS, from subscribing to his Youtube channel because of your opinions. Mr. Holland thinks political police organizations which receive money from corporations that built the registry should have an opinion on the long gun registry but not you, his employer.

UPDATE: Another Liberal MPs plays racist card seeking faster aid from Federal Government.

Mr. Karygiannis Liberal MP is accusing the Harper government of withholding aid to flood-ravaged Pakistan because the community in Canada won’t help them win a future election.

A spokeswoman for Minister of International Co-operation Bev Oda, who oversees the Canadian International Development Agency, fired back at Mr. Karygiannis for his comments. “Canada is not ignoring the humanitarian disaster in Pakistan, and you can be sure that we are looking right now at our options to help the people of Pakistan every way we can,” said Isabelle Bouchard, without going into specific plans.

“This is not cheap politics. There are people right now that are suffering in Pakistan and we are looking at every way we can to help them, and we are not going to start doing small politics,” she added. “If the Liberals want to do small politics on the Pakistan people’s back, it’s their choice, but we’re not.”

 Which party is playing small politics and dividing us on language, region, religion and race on a regular basis?

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Our PM Rocks

Prime Minister Stephen Harper Montage.
 

 

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Ignatieff Can't Buy Love

Here’s a reality of federal politics underscored by our exclusive poll released Thursday, conducted by Leger Marketing for QMI Agency. It’s that Stephen Harper won’t be running against God in the next election. He’ll be running against Michael Ignatieff.

Given public attitudes to our prime minister revealed by the poll, if he was running against God, he’d probably lose.

But running against Ignatieff, his chances look good. Not a slam dunk. But good.

Rick Mercer Photo Challenge  by Nick McG

The online poll of 1,526 adults conducted July 19-22, 2010 found Harper comfortably ahead of the federal Liberal leader on many of the character traits Canadians look for in a leader. -Ottawa Sun

h/t Wilson Blue Like You

Ignatieff and the Liberals don't get it, it's the economy stupid. Canadians care about the real issues and have not forgiven them for the political games. No platform and no policies make the alternative unacceptable. The culture of entitlement and view that the political class is royalty confirms the Liberal Party is in it's death throes.

Justin Trudeau next in line?

"We have someone in our midst who someday may be prime minister . . . We are in the presence of royalty," Pearson said. "Thank you for giving us this big boost," he said. (He was talking about Justin Trudeau)

Ontario's employment was up 60,000 in June, the sixth consecutive monthly gain. This brings employment increases in the province to 187,000 (+2.9%) since July 2009. With these gains, Ontario's employment is slightly below its pre-recession level. In June, the unemployment rate fell 0.6 percentage points to 8.3%, the lowest since January 2009.

In June, employment increased by 30,000 in Quebec and the unemployment rate dipped 0.2 percentage points to 7.8%. Since July 2009, employment growth in Quebec has been the fastest of all provinces at 3.0% (+117,000).  Statscan

Ignatieff returned to Toronto to further his narrative of his common touch with the Canadians. It has not worked out so well. He is trying to hard fit in and looks uncomfortable on this tour. He fired his team earlier this year for the failure to boost his personal ratings. 

Dan Maclean CH-CH anchor

June 5, 2009 - The search for candidates is heating up now that Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff is rattling election sabres over the Harper government's handling of the economy. Several star candidates have withdrawn their Liberal candidacy and senior Liberal figures have not put their hat in for the upcoming campaign. Do they don't believe Liberals don't stand any chance to win in 2011?

June 7, 2010 - The Conservatives have candidates in all 13 Hamilton-area ridings. The New Democrats have candidates in the majority of the ridings. The Liberals have candidates in Burlington, Oakville, Halton, Brant, Haldimand-Norfolk, St. Catharines, Welland and Niagara Falls. They once held every seat between Oakville and Niagara Falls, but were shut out completely in the 2008 election

September 28, 2009 ‘If you want to have your way in Quebec, you just have to bypass the Quebec officials in the party, going instead to the inner circle from Toronto," Coderre said Monday at a news conference in his Montreal riding. 


  
Ignatieff least liked federal leader: Poll

May 18, 2009 - “You really have to ask yourself if there isn’t an Ignatieff drag problem that is plaguing the Liberals,” Gregg said in an interview.

“When you have as much disapproval, unfavourable impressions, it isn’t indifference. It’s something deeper than that.”

Gregg said it may be that the Tory portrayal of Ignatieff — as an “out of touch, effete, Central Canadian snob” — has taken hold among voters.

Whatever the reason, he said it’s not normal for an opposition leader to be viewed more negatively than a sitting prime minister, particularly when that prime minister is not hugely popular himself.

“Opposition leaders usually do not evoke strong negative feelings, so it’s very unusual,” he said.

 

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AL Gore, Michael Ignatieff Oil Sands Who do you believe?

This man has a mission, and it is to be prime minister, even if he has to sacrifice a few pawns to do it

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Extracting oil from Alberta's tar sands jeopardizes the survival of our species, says Al Gore.

Will Michael tell his friends NOT to attend the $ 500 per plate dinner in Toronto? Will he tell Gore to shove it?




 

“National Geographic is not going to teach me any lessons about the oilsands,” he said.
“This is a huge industry. It employs Canadians from coast to coast. We have oil reserves that are going to last for the whole of the 21st century. We are where we are. We’ve got to clean it up, and we’ve got make it a sustainable place to work and live.”

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"You know, the technical challenge in the United States involves the challenges of clean coal and, similarly in Canada, it's the challenges of clean oil," Prentice said. "The answer to all of this, really, is technology. It's investments in technology and that's why we'll be working together with the United States to that end."