Some have continued with the narrative the Federal Liberals are in free fall, is that still possible with a recent poll at 23%? The omens do not give a great deal of confidence, but no one can predict with if Iggymania will take hold on his latest tour. What oracles do the Liberals consult? Harper saves Liberal bus
The NDP are not going to give the Liberal Express or Just Visiting Tour a Free ride to steal the left of centre votes. They will attack the Liberals for propping up the Conservative government.
Rally For Canada in Ottawa 2008
The Liberal-socialist friendly media are also in dire straits in being unable to Turn The Tide against Liberalism failures in Canada and Europe. The fractured left have been manufacturing pseudo-scandals for so long they have have lost touch with issues that resonate with Canadians.
They are busy revisiting Liberal held ridings, friendly districts in hopes to save the furniture from the Fall campaign. Here is a link to my MP, he has been busy at work on behalf of his constituents. Opens a PDF file.
Visigoths sacking Rome
The Liberal elites in Toronto view a Conservative Majority as equivalent to sacking of Rome and the beginning of the Dark Ages in Canada.
Employment has been on an upward trend since July 2009, increasing by 403,000 (+2.4%). These gains offset nearly all the employment losses observed during the labour market downturn which began in the fall of 2008. The June unemployment rate, however, remained well above the October 2008 rate of 6.2%, due to a large increase in the number of people in the labour force over this period.
Employment increases were evenly split between full and part time in June. Since July 2009, most of the employment gains have been in full-time work, up 355,000 or 2.6%, while part-time work rose by 1.5%. Statisics Canada
Jobs and the economy are not on the radar for the tax funded special interest groups who demand billions more their projects. The lesson of Haiti reconstruction and the lack of accountability to get the money flowing to get the projects done should be a wake up call for the Liberal media.
"What we see when we drive around Port-au-Prince is that the situation is pretty much as it was after the earthquake," Hans van Dillen, a head of mission with MSF said at a July 8 media briefing from Haiti.
Half a year after the quake, "the rebuilding effort in Haiti has stalled," according to the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. That analysis is hardly unique. - CBC
Why has the US only been able to report only $ 30 million from the Democrat controlled majority in congress? Why has Quebec's Provincial Liberals immigration system been unable to bring in a single Haitian since the disaster months ago? Where is the accountability from NGO's and the role of media as a watchdog?
G20 Activists in Toronto July 2010
The majority of errors and wounds to Liberalism-Socialism has been self-inflicted. The Liberal media has spent an enormous amount of ink on depicting our military as war criminals and unable to win a war against terrorists in Afghanistan. Whether it was politicizing H1N1, G20 photo, a state funeral, Olympic Torch Relay, Olympic logos the divided left have diminished their credibility. Who paid for the buses and accommodation for out of town people? Are these protests organized on the payroll of some government or large union? The CBC reported recently a large number of Chinese students were bussed in to counter the negative protest from a visit by Chinese officials in Canada.
The CBC producers direct our tax funded broadcaster to present many negative stories on the G20 an attack on Alberta tourism by an American environmental group. Does CBC have any time to investigate who is behind the funding this group?
Liberal media $ 57,000 reflective pool obsession July 2010
The Liberal media has spent years depicting the minority government led by our Prime Minister as a dictatorship. Instead of debating the real issues like the carbon tax, bank tax, deficits, the budget, the Liberal MPs skipped votes chased fake scandals in 2010 with the Liberal media in tow. Why is the Liberal media in a panic regarding SunTV? Are they coming to grips with the ratings, their product sucks, Canadians are not watching or reading the liberal media push tabloid news any longer. They blew it with Climate gate.
Leadership Flaherty Harper OECD role model
In desperation Toronto's Liberal media have recently raised a disputed incident from a high school football game from 2001 regarding Rob Ford in order to stop his momentum in the Toronto Mayoralty race. Is this what we can expect from the liberal media as issues of importance to Toronto voters? Game over, the left have no credible candidate of substance to debate the tax cuts and shrinking of municipal government proposed by Ford.
West Coast vs East Coast: Federal Liberals Dividing Canadians 101
Chretien showed some political smarts in avoiding Alberta during the campaigns, he would not pretend to care and insult them to their faces. The Liberal media in large cities mimic the out of touch Liberals at the Federal level. Liberal leader David Swan in Alberta does not agree with his Federal cousins from Toronto in banning tanker traffic in the West Coast. It is a no brainer and just plain STUPID. When foreign agents, activists that may have economic interest that compete with Alberta, does the Liberal media provide publicity for these foreign agents?
A CSL ship has recently spilled an estimated 50-200 gallons of oil in the St. Lawrence Seaway. The spill appears to be contained. Did the Liberal media purposely omit the interest (ownership) of CSL or ask Ignatieff why not a similar ban on the EAST coast for tankers? Are the P.E.I. mussels not worthy of the same environmental fear mongering as tanker traffic from the Middle East Oil shipments? Is the ecosystem, tourism in P.E.I. not as worthy of the same protection Michael?
We are "Owning The Podium" against the US, Germany and Norway, the SuperPowers in Winter Olympics. The naysayers were premature in their criticisms.
Politics in Canada has taken a backseat for a few weeks and many of us are thankful. Rex Murphy February, and no Question Period -- how did the nation survive? it is a funny piece and I am sure many of us would agree. Any chance of extending the prorogue until the summer 2011?
The media driven outrage organized by the partisan political parties in opposition failed to ignite or sustain their Hope & Change campaign. The Left has played games with our Games regarding the logo, the torch relay, and doubting the spirit of Canadians to rally behind each other. Many in the Left fear this pride and spirit of what makes this country so great will be used for political purposes beyond the control of their media personalities and provide the current government with a positive wind in their sails for a majority in 2010.
Olympics Vanoc 2010
82% of Canadians, 64% of Britons and 62% of Americans say the Vancouver Winter Olympics have been run “well” or “very well”-Angus Poll
Half of Canadians Say Current Economic Conditions Are Good - Angus Poll
The outlook for personal finances fares better, with 62 per cent of Canadians rating their situation as “good” or “very good”, and 36 per cent rating it negatively (only eight per cent of respondents call their position “very poor”).
Canadians mostly foresee economic conditions to remain unchanged over the course of the next six months (51%), but more than one third (35%) predict an improvement.
Political Leadership
Canadians place their trust to handle economic matters mostly in Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney (51%), followed by Prime Minister Stephen Harper (43%), and Official Opposition leader Michael Ignatieff (26%).
"This is a significant moment in the history of our country," Mr. Ignatieff said in an interview at the Four Seasons Hotel. "There is just no question about it. It doesn't belong to any party, but it's obviously going to affect our politics this year." By that, Mr. Ignatieff says he means that Canada will emerge from this Olympic experience more confident and ambitious. Canadians' dreams might be bigger now, and they will expect the country's political leaders to have aspirations as big as theirs."The political question," he said, "is who will benefit from that renewed sense of ambition, renewed sense of hope and renewed sense of faith? It's clear this is a huge political fact and we don't know how it's going to go." - CTV
It looks like the Bloc, Green, NDP and some Liberal voters don't vote CPC don't believe the Liberals are capable of doing a better job.
British Columbia will finish first this year, boosted in part by the Winter Olympic Games and a recovery in the decimated forestry sector.
Ontario is forecast to outpace the national average for the first time in nearly a decade in 2010. The provincial economy has been picking up speed over the last few months.
Quebec will experience only modest economic growth over the next two years, as the aerospace industry continues to suffer and public infrastructure stimulus winds down.
The Maritime provinces, along with Manitoba, will post real GDP growth of 2 per cent or less in 2010. These provinces did not falter as much during the recession.
New potash sales early this year will kick off the recovery in Saskatchewan.
Alberta’s energy sector is set to bounce back, while the resource sector will fuel a rebound in Newfoundland and Labrador, as both provinces emerge from the recession.
Only between 5-11% are buying into the hysteria or fearmongering by the media and opposition parties. Anyone shocked the highest rate of disinformation is in Quebec?
Liberal MPs apologized Wednesday for distributing a household flyer that attacks the government’s handling of H1N1 among aboriginals with the slogan “No vaccines, just body bags.”
The flyer, mailed as a message from Liberal health critic Dr. Carolyn Bennett, features a picture of body bags in a lab and a sick aboriginal child.
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.
Bennett apologized
"It seems to me their was alot of lag time and we knew this was coming down the pipe for a long time so I wonder why is this so disorganized"-Mark Sakamoto
Fall out:
The Lib-CBC Mutual Admiration Society
The first ethical lapse was Sakamoto's: He should have told the reporter who he was and declined to do the interview. When I worked in Ottawa -- for the Liberals -- we refused all the time. We weren't impartial players and it would have been dishonest to affect the public debate by pretending we were, so we were instructed to refuse participation even in opinion polls.
Then there is the lapse at the CBC. It seems hard to believe that no one in the production cycle recognized Sakamoto as a former network lawyer and insisted his brief appearance be snipped out. Maybe no one did, but if someone did and did not insist on editing him out, then this is an ethical lapse on par with Sakamoto's.
This incident adds to the impression that the Liberals and the CBC are too cozy with one another, even if it was entirely accidental.
Your Constitution and the flu - Ottawa is responsible for supply while the provinces control the delivery By L. IAN MACDONALD, The Gazette November 4, 2009
This is a grown-up moment we're living in, one in which the Liberals are in need of adult supervision.
In Ottawa, the political class doesn't seem to be checking much of anything, except checking its common sense at the door.
For example, the production line at GlaxoSmithKline was stopped and restarted to enable the production of unadjuvanted vaccine for pregnant women, understandably concerned about the effects of the higher doses of the adjuvanted version on their unborn children.
But the World Health Organization, which had advised pregnant women to get the unadjuvanted shot, especially in the first term, reversed itself on Monday and declared there was no risk from the higher dosage.
No time to play politics - or jump queues
The Gazette November 4, 2009
A crisis brings out the best in people, and the worst in people. So far the H1N1 swine flu seems to be bringing out mainly the less admirable side of some Canadians, starting with queue-jumpers and including those politicians who are stretching common sense badly out of shape in an effort to profit from public concern.
Votes don't spring from misery - John Ivison
But those Liberals who think votes may spring from misery would do well to watch NDP leader Jack Layton, whose tone has been much more measured. Yesterday in Question Period, he suggested Ottawa should commit to picking up the tab for 90% of costs incurred fighting H1N1, as it would in the event of natural disasters. Mr. Layton learned the hard way that trying to profit from the misfortune of others doesn't work -- during the 2004 election, he was roasted for blaming then-prime minister Paul Martin for the deaths of homeless people because of lack of funding for affordable housing.
The Liberals have tried to make the most of the squally conditions but having sown the wind, they may yet reap the whirlwind if voters judge they have been more concerned about their own welfare than with that of the people who elect them.
Yes, there are legitimate political questions to be asked. But the rehearsed question period variety, soaked in a combustible mix of faux fury and disingenuous indignation is irresponsible. Instead, questions rooted in fact and posed with a measured tonality are needed.
For example, what is the real story with the “alleged” shortage of vaccine? Last Friday I tweeted and asked: With almost 6 million doses of H1N1 vaccine — as per the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) website — distributed, have 6 million doses been administered?
A national tally today would likely indicate less than 2 million injections, at best, so what is the status of the other 4 million doses? This is where provincial and territorial health ministers must step up and demand answers and assurances from their respective medical officers of health.
They need to explain how they are estimating demand in concert with cities and towns and their logistics approach to regional distribution, security, refrigeration, etc. And if these public health officials are having problems, then reach out to the military or any national grocer for best practices in supply chain management, specifically, the flow of date limited product.
Liberal launches political storm by comparing H1N1 response to hurricane Katrina
By David Akin, Canwest News Service Liberal party president Alfred Apps suggested Monday that the H1N1 crisis is Prime Minister Stephen Harper's "hurricane Katrina," a metaphor that outraged many Conservatives — and also had some Liberals suggesting Apps may have hurt his side with an overheated analogy. In an e-mail circulated to dozens of Liberals — including the party's public health critic Carolyn Bennett, other MPs, and members of Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff's inner circle of advisers — Apps also lambasted Harper for gambling with the health of Canadians and for failing to act quickly enough to make sure any Canadian who wanted a vaccine for H1N1 had access to one.
You're an idiot. What's worse, you're a partisan idiot who doesn't appear to have an original idea in your head.
The problem isn't Conservative or Liberal government. The problem is what government has become thanks in part to partisans like you and your Conservative counterparts, who lie awake nights figuring out not how you can help Canadians, but how you can blame the other guys for everything.
Canadians are sick of it. Want to know why barely half of them bother to vote anymore? Look in the mirror.
One reason Canada is ill-prepared to deal with a pandemic, as my July column noted, is that hundreds of thousands of Canadians don't have a family doctor.
Maybe you should talk to Liberal MP Bob Rae, smugly blaming the Conservatives for HIN1 deaths now, about how, when he was the NDP premier of Ontario, he was instrumental in cutting back medical school enrolments -- as did politicians of all stripes across the country -- in a knee-jerk, disastrous attempt to save money.
Why? Because it led to today's doctor shortage and the fact that far too many Canadians don't have a family doctor -- one of the things you need to fight a pandemic effectively.
On Sept 3, 2009 Bob Rae had no problem, would not change how he conducts himself including if that includes having a campaign during H1N1 pandemic. What has led to the change of his perspective? His comments are around the thirty minute mark of this clip linked below.
Two of Canada's most senior bureaucrats said the Conservatives broke no federal rules or guidelines when MPs handed out prop cheques plastered with the party logo or political signatures at funding announcements.
Treasury Board Secretary Michele d'Auray told MPs on the Commons government operations committees Tuesday that MPs who used "ceremonial cheques" as props at such funding events weren't covered by the federal communications and wordmark policies, so they were free to use them the way they did.
Opposition MPs shook their heads in disbelief. Liberal MP Martha Hall-Findlay said she was "astounded" because the Conservatives advertising campaign had the "look and feel" of party advertising, which only confused the image of party and government in the eyes of Canadians "to benefit the party."
Hudson's Bay Co.'s 2010 Olympic uniforms prompt political, military comparisons -Thursday October 1st, 2009 James Keller, THE CANADIAN PRESS
A stretch for some, but close enough for inflammatory political fodder in the House of Commons.
"Here is another embarrassing example of crass politics," Liberal MP Hedy Fry said during question period shortly after the uniforms and their retail counterparts were released on Thursday.
"Can the prime minister at least stop trying to politicize the Canadian Winter Olympics?"
The suggestion was promptly dismissed by Conservatives - and was met with laughter from the woman who oversaw the designing of the uniforms.
"That was a first for me," said Suzanne Timmins, the Hudson Bay Co.'s fashion director, who chuckled when asked about the comparison with the Conservatives. "Certainly, that wasn't any intention on our part, not at all."
As for the air force logo, Timmins acknowledged the Olympic graphic is similar.
She insisted it was strictly a coincidence, but they were close enough that lawyers for the company and the air force sat down to talk about the resemblance. In the end, they decided the Olympic uniform logo was different enough that it could be used.
What is next on the Liberals list of priorities, is the letter "C" safe anymore in a Liberal world?
Nik Nanos Graph may demostrate the results of foot and mouth behaviour by some in the Liberal Party.
