Full text of Peter Mansbridge's interview with Stephen Harper

[Locutus]

The transcript of the 'end of year' CBC interview of PM Harper by Peter Mansbridge.


Prime Minister Stephen Harper sat down for a wide-ranging interview with CBC News chief correspondent Peter Mansbridge on Wednesday.

Here is the full transcript:

PETER MANSBRIDGE: SO PRIME MINISTER, IT’S UNUSUAL, THAT YOU START A YEAR END INTERVIEW AND BREAKING NEWS HAPPENS BUT HERE WE ARE WITH IT HAPPENING AND CANADA PLAYING A ROLE OF SOME DEGREE BETWEEN THE U.S. AND CUBA ON GETTING PRELIMINARY TALKS GOING FOR, FOR RESTORING RELATIONSHIP. WHAT WAS CANADA’S ROLE?

STEPHEN HARPER: Well look Peter, I tell people I don’t want to exaggerate Canada’s role. We facilitated places where the two countries could have a dialogue and explore ways of normalizing the relationship and that’s what we did and we think it’s a good development, probably an overdue development. I personally believe changes are coming in Cuba and this will facilitate those. But look, I’m pleased that the president acknowledged our role in this.

WELL YOU’RE SAYING WE JUST SORT OF SUPPLIED THE ROOMS WHERE THEY SAT AND TALKED, WE WEREN’T IN THE TALKS?

No, no, we were not, we were not trying in any way to direct or mediate the talks. We were just trying to make sure that they had the opportunity to have the kind of dialogue they needed to have.



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[Walter]

Can't listen to Mansbridge, he's too righteous.

 

[Locutus]

Can't listen to Mansbridge, he's too righteous.

understandable...his baldness and stubby fingers set me back...that's why I included the transcript. :lol:

 

[waldo]

Oh my... Mansbridge went there! :mrgreen: Stevie boy... NO COMMENT!

Mansbridge Q: Just the last point. Were you, as has been reported, put in a closet?

Harper A: Ah you know, I'm not going to comment on that. Um ah one of the ah – one of the things you try and do in a situation like that is conceal yourself if you can.

 

[Colpy]

Oh my... Mansbridge went there! :mrgreen: Stevie boy... NO COMMENT!

Mansbridge Q: Just the last point. Were you, as has been reported, put in a closet?

Harper A: Ah you know, I'm not going to comment on that. Um ah one of the ah – one of the things you try and do in a situation like that is conceal yourself if you can.

Third time I've counted you post this.

Seriously now, exactly what did you expect him to do?

 

[DaSleeper]

Better yet...What Would He Have Done?

 

[#juan]

Harper did pretty well. The questions I wanted hear the answer to, Harper didn't asnswer

 

[WLDB]

Seriously now, exactly what did you expect him to do?

 

[waldo]

Third time I've counted you post this.

Seriously now, exactly what did you expect him to do?

you're counting? Does it sting that bad? Says the guy, you, who has posted the same things about JT, over and over and over again! How bad is it when all Harper can squeeze out is a lame-azzed "No Comment"? Geez Colpy... did anyone else cower and hide in a closet? Bully-boy Steve left his minions to take a bullet for him! :mrgreen:

protect the closet! Protect the closet! Women, the elderly and quadriplegic MPs to the front!

 

[gerryh]

you're counting? Does it sting that bad? Says the guy, you, who has posted the same things about JT, over and over and over again! How bad is it when all Harper can squeeze out is a lame-azzed "No Comment"? Geez Colpy... did anyone else cower and hide in a closet? Bully-boy Steve left his minions to take a bullet for him! :mrgreen:

See, I told ya, Colpy. You said he had no strong suite. He does. Stupidity is his strong suite.

 

[waldo]

See, I told ya, Colpy. You said he had no strong suite. He does. Stupidity is his strong suite.

what's yours? Being a ConBot drive-by specialist willing to accept anything Dear Leader does? Clearly, Harper hiding out in that closet really burns you to, hey! Fer sure, Stevie showed his mettle in a crisis! :mrgreen:

 

[mentalfloss]

Lol @ him mentioning jihadis when asked about climate change.

 

[taxslave]

what's yours? Being a ConBot drive-by specialist willing to accept anything Dear Leader does? Clearly, Harper hiding out in that closet really burns you to, hey! Fer sure, Stevie showed his mettle in a crisis! :mrgreen:

Actually it does burn. If the security staff had been doing their job properly harper would have been hustled out of the building before the echo of the first shot died. As would be the case in any country in the world.

 

[DaSleeper]

Waldo still hasn't said what HE would have done as Prime Minister...
As they say in french "Grand parleur petit faiseur"

 

[waldo]

Waldo still hasn't said what HE would have done as Prime Minister...

no worries DuhSleeper! I am more than willing to be your attempted distraction from Harper's closet antics!

 

[Colpy]

you're counting? Does it sting that bad? Says the guy, you, who has posted the same things about JT, over and over and over again! How bad is it when all Harper can squeeze out is a lame-azzed "No Comment"? Geez Colpy... did anyone else cower and hide in a closet? Bully-boy Steve left his minions to take a bullet for him! :mrgreen:

Can't answer a simple question posed in a polite fashion, could you?

No.....you have to get all arrogant. So when I get on here and tell you exactly how huge an ar$ehole you really are, you can cry about it like a 4 year old girl.

Idiot.

My wager is you have never been in as much as a fist fight in your life, and like most arrogant d icks behind a keyboard, would wet your panties at the first indication of real violence.

Now, all that said, I have never challenged Justin's manhood....I just think he is a narcissistic, lying, manipulative, brain-dead pretty boy, not a pansy.

Who do you think, in the centre block, would be the primary target of an Islamist terrorist?

Stephen Harper.

Who do you think has had RCMP training and briefings on what to do in case of a terror attack?

Stephen Harper.

Who do you think was instructed to make themselves scarce and hide in such a situation?

Stephen Harper.

Do you suggest he ignore the expertise of those tasked to protect him?

Or are you just some pis sant running off at the mouth?

no worries DuhSleeper! I am more than willing to be your attempted distraction from Harper's closet antics!

No distraction necessary.

He did the right thing.

You would have too, except your panties would have been wet.

what's yours? Being a ConBot drive-by specialist willing to accept anything Dear Leader does? Clearly, Harper hiding out in that closet really burns you to, hey! Fer sure, Stevie showed his mettle in a crisis! :mrgreen:

You really have no clue.

Gerry happens to be a Liberal, driven away temporarily by your current Messiah, the Pretty Boy.

 

[DaSleeper]

You really have no clue.

Gerry happens to be a Liberal, driven away temporarily by your current Messiah, the Pretty Boy.

He even defended the shiny Pony at first!

 

[waldo]

Lol @ him mentioning jihadis when asked about climate change.

classic exchange. But hey now... is this the reason Harper avoids real questions from the press... notwithstanding most of Mansbridge's questions were softballs! In this particular case, Mansbridge came ready with a couple of prior Harper quotes... my gawd, Steve's a believer!!! (of course, not really) :mrgreen:

Mansbridge Q: Just before the G8 and it was about climate change. I want to remind you of a couple of your quotes because I want to see whether you still believe this fundamentally that you, Stephen Harper, believe this. “Climate change is perhaps the biggest threat to confront the future of humanity today.” Do you believe that?

Harper A: I think it’s a significant threat. Geez, where does it rank in terms of our economic challenges, in terms of the Jihadism that we now face globally. It’s still a big threat.

Mansbridge Q: But not necessarily the biggest threat.

Harper A: I don’t know about that. I mean since then we’ve had the global recession and we’ve had the rise, you know, the kind of second phase rise of the, of the global terrorist movement so I would put those up there as well.
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My wager is you have never been in as much as a fist fight in your life, and like most arrogant d icks behind a keyboard, would wet your panties at the first indication of real violence.

Colpy... how big is your gun?

 

[DaSleeper]

he did nothing wrong. There were no laws broken and no ethics problem. So why should he be "hung out to dry" for doing nothing wrong?

Yes, I, like the ethics commissioner see no problem with What he was doing. Please note, he decided to stop doing the engagements after he became leader of the LoP so that the petty twits would get off his back about it.

nb. obviously there are still those with limited mental capacities that buy into the cons propaganda every time it's trotted out.

Wrong, try again. This time without the con spin.

Didn't say you were a con. just a sucker that buys their bs.

not from where I am sitting. You are still spouting the con line that he will let the lib senator back in regardless...as long as money is paid back. Thats wrong. You're buying the con line.

I am dead on. Look for comments after this. Not just what the cons want you to see. That would be too much like work though, to actually do some digging on your own.

and then he amended that statement, but why mention that? It doesn't fit in with the haters, the ideologues, or the mentally impaired views.

He stated that if Harb did anything illegal he would not be rejoining the caucus. He has now stepped away from Harb. Also note the changes he has proposed when it comes to MP expenses.

Just a few of his posts defending Justin....but unlike you Gerryh isn't a blind ideologue!

But Justin pays lip service to the alarmist crowd and Harper doesn't....what a gullible moron that makes you Waldo.....

 

[waldo]

Just a few of his posts defending Justin....but unlike you Gerryh isn't a blind ideologue!

please, your continued distractions to avoid Harper's closet secondment will not prevail! :lol: