On an earlier post I predicted that Harper would only last between 6 and 18 months before Count Iggy punted him out of office, probably with a Liberal minority.
I also pointed out that Harper was starting to wear a bit thin with Conservative party members mainly because of all the political mistakes he was making.
I still think most of that is true and I think its still very likely that the Cons will be out next election.
However I have to say that Harper is doing better and better internationally.
In my opinion he is doing a bang up job of moving Canada back onto the international stage as a senior player.
The Americans and the Europeans freely recognize Canada as having the best banking system in the world. Their leaders make time to chat with Harper about fiscal issues these days.
Obama now states that Afghanistan can only be resolved by following the ideas set forth by Canada which include providing aid, assistance,financing and security as well as trying to defeat the enemy. Canada stated that position sometime ago and now Obama and the Americans are parroting it.
At the summit of the Americas in South America Obama stated to the press that he gets advice from the Canadian Government "all the time".
At the summit of the Americas Harper was treated quite well by the far left socalist leaders and pretty much accepted as a senior and reliable leader in spite of Harpers conservative views. In short Harper is coming across even to the foreign socalist leaders as an honest,knowledgeable and reasonable guy.
The Canadian Government banned that racist twit Galloway from Canada and set the precident for dealing with terrorist fundraisers. Now of course all of Galloways funds and assets have been frozen and an investigation launched in Europe. That was well after Canada set the tone for dealing with people like Georgeous George.
Canada announced that it would be boycotting the farsical UN convention on racism and stated that the reasons were that it would be hijacked by Muslim extremists and anti-Jewish racists.
Sure enough on the first day of the session the Iranians were ranting on about wiping out the Jews.
Canada has now been joined by the US of A, Isreal and eight of the Western European nations in boycotting the conference. More nations are expected to follow and the conference is basically expected to publicly implode through non support. Nice job for Canada to lead the way on that one.
Canada has been critized by several foreign countries as being far to slow and cumbersome in prosecuting or extraditing alleged foreign criminals sheltering in Canada.
There is no question that those critisisms are valid.
However there is ample evidence that Harper even in a minority government situation will try and improve and streamline the Canadian Judicial system.
The Harper government is also working on the immigration file to try and eliminate criminals and terrorists from finding a haven in Canada. Canada can be known internationally as a "good guy" country but it doesnt need the reputation of being a sucker or easy to fool.
Frankly I think Harper is doing a far better job outside Canada than within.
Canada is moving back into its rightful spot as a trusted senior player on the international scene.
The Chretien years were a disaster internationally and Canada was seen as a bit of a joke.
Martin probably would have done fairly well internationally but Liberal party infighting and dissention made it very difficult and then the scandels took him out.
However now things are changing for the better.
Perhaps we should just cancel Harpers passport and trap him outside the country.
Seems to me he does his best work when he is gone.
Trex
I also pointed out that Harper was starting to wear a bit thin with Conservative party members mainly because of all the political mistakes he was making.
I still think most of that is true and I think its still very likely that the Cons will be out next election.
However I have to say that Harper is doing better and better internationally.
In my opinion he is doing a bang up job of moving Canada back onto the international stage as a senior player.
The Americans and the Europeans freely recognize Canada as having the best banking system in the world. Their leaders make time to chat with Harper about fiscal issues these days.
Obama now states that Afghanistan can only be resolved by following the ideas set forth by Canada which include providing aid, assistance,financing and security as well as trying to defeat the enemy. Canada stated that position sometime ago and now Obama and the Americans are parroting it.
At the summit of the Americas in South America Obama stated to the press that he gets advice from the Canadian Government "all the time".
At the summit of the Americas Harper was treated quite well by the far left socalist leaders and pretty much accepted as a senior and reliable leader in spite of Harpers conservative views. In short Harper is coming across even to the foreign socalist leaders as an honest,knowledgeable and reasonable guy.
The Canadian Government banned that racist twit Galloway from Canada and set the precident for dealing with terrorist fundraisers. Now of course all of Galloways funds and assets have been frozen and an investigation launched in Europe. That was well after Canada set the tone for dealing with people like Georgeous George.
Canada announced that it would be boycotting the farsical UN convention on racism and stated that the reasons were that it would be hijacked by Muslim extremists and anti-Jewish racists.
Sure enough on the first day of the session the Iranians were ranting on about wiping out the Jews.
Canada has now been joined by the US of A, Isreal and eight of the Western European nations in boycotting the conference. More nations are expected to follow and the conference is basically expected to publicly implode through non support. Nice job for Canada to lead the way on that one.
Canada has been critized by several foreign countries as being far to slow and cumbersome in prosecuting or extraditing alleged foreign criminals sheltering in Canada.
There is no question that those critisisms are valid.
However there is ample evidence that Harper even in a minority government situation will try and improve and streamline the Canadian Judicial system.
The Harper government is also working on the immigration file to try and eliminate criminals and terrorists from finding a haven in Canada. Canada can be known internationally as a "good guy" country but it doesnt need the reputation of being a sucker or easy to fool.
Frankly I think Harper is doing a far better job outside Canada than within.
Canada is moving back into its rightful spot as a trusted senior player on the international scene.
The Chretien years were a disaster internationally and Canada was seen as a bit of a joke.
Martin probably would have done fairly well internationally but Liberal party infighting and dissention made it very difficult and then the scandels took him out.
However now things are changing for the better.
Perhaps we should just cancel Harpers passport and trap him outside the country.
Seems to me he does his best work when he is gone.
Trex
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