Harper's record is better than Obama's record, and we all know that Obama gets a pass on everything because it was really Bush's fault. Harper was not in power when Bush was.
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Well, if you take into account he wanted to run the pipeline straight down through US territory and combine that with Canada's record on pollution regarding the tar sands, yes, he probably was.
It certainly got the oil rich countries to loosen the flow of oil didn't it??
Harpers record is better than creten's and Martin's records. Both of them stole from EI and CPP and offloaded spending to the provinces to create an illusion of a balanced budget. Harper also removed the repressive and offencive long gun registry just like he promised.
WE don't have any tar sands in Canada. You don't have a clue.
WE don't have any tar sands in Canada. You don't have a clue.
Oh for goodness sake, Obama has tried and in my opinion has done quite well, considering what he took over. Harper got a very robust country, Obama got a country in deep depression. Do you not see the difference. Harper was a Bush wannabe and he sure managed to put Canada right down to where Bush brought the US.
WHAAATTT?? Now that is the most ridiculous statement ever. Martin & Cretien left Canada in great shape. Harper, aside from practically destroying Canada financially, has been hacking away at our democratic rights in so many areas as well. Give him another term and Canada will become a third world dictatorship.
READ THE HISTORY of HARPER'S reign I posted, before issuing such silly statements.
Hmmm and where exactly do you live? Can't be in Canada surely.
"The Athabasca oil sands (also called the Athabasca tar sands or Alberta tar sands) are large deposits of bitumen or extremely heavy crude oil, located in northeastern Alberta, Canada – roughly centred on the boomtown of Fort McMurray. These oil sands, hosted primarily in the McMurray Formation, consist of a mixture of crude bitumen (a semi-solid rock-like form of crude oil), silica sand, clay minerals, and water. The Athabasca deposit is the largest known reservoir of crude bitumen in the world and the largest of three major oil sands deposits in Alberta, along with the nearby Peace River and Cold Lake deposits (the latter stretching into Saskatchewan).[3]"
From Wiki.
Okay, this is getting ridiculous........It scares the hell out of me to know many of the people posting here are actually qualified to vote. Talk about depressing!!
Fast forward to when Harper and Obama are both in power. The auto industry tanked in both countries for the same reason. The difference? You blame Harper but not Obama.
Why fast foreward??? The damage was done by the banks under Bush.....all the rest was fallout from the same thing in the US. So quit trying to justify Harper's rotten record. History will judge him. I blame Harper for HIS record, which is abysmal and growing more so. He took over a great economy and decimated it.
He threw all the debts against the provinces by cutting back transfer payments for healthcare and education. All those issues the leftards like to blame on Harris were primarily caused by Martin. Harris just passed on the cuts to the cities.
But leftards view him as a hero for that shellgame. Yet they point out other shell games with Harper.
For Pete's sake put on your reading glasses. You will then see where I put Bush's abysmal track record right on his own doorstep in the US,
Harpers mismanaged Canada's economy all by himself. Too bad he repeated all Bush's mistakes and did the same to our country as Bush did to the US.
Also, please quit attributing things to me I did NOT say. It might help to read it ove a couple of times, with an eye to what I do say rather than what you wished I had!!
Perhaps I could sell you the Mercier Bridge....... going real cheap today, only to those Conservatives who still see a halo over Harper's grey helmet of hair.
Oh yes but did Harper give all that money back and did our towns and cities go bankrupt?? No in fact my land taxes went own, albeit not by much. Medicare is running fairly well here too, considering how many more elderly people there are since he came into power 9 years ago. There was enough left over when Harper took over to do that if he had wished, but no, he didn't do that. Try counting the promises he made last time he wanted to get elected and see how few he actually kept.
However untrue that may be, you'd think someone as economically brilliant as attributed to Harper would practice diversification. His focus on the oil industry made Canada little better off than a one-industry town
I just commented on the ineptitude of the prior administration. I made no comment to Harper.
Did he beat the record from Creitien's Red Book? I tell you I am shocked that a politician did not keep his promises.
You are getting ridiculous. SHould read what you post.Should also find a better source of information than wiki. Canada has oil sands, not tar sands. Maybe if you ask real nice Petros will explain the difference to you.
You mean like reducing taxes, eliminating the long gun registry? Those promises? Making Canada look good in the world instead of some spineless wimp? like trudeau, creten and martin did to us.
Everyone thinks Harper built all the oilsands projects by himself. The fact is all he did was make a regulatory climate where free enterprise could and does flourish. There is nothing Harper could do to help Ontario and QUebec since all their problems are caused by their provincial governments and an unwillingness of the workforce to face reality. Their manufacturing sector is over paid, over taxed and over regulated relative to the rest of the world.
You are arguing with a true Québec ideologue....
That picture from when she was much younger..:lol:
That picture from when she was much younger..:lol:
I see too many broad sweeping comments like 'Harper's rotten record' from you without you ever providing specifics. I could address them directly, but I would really like you to expand on them, so we can get your side of the story.
Does a seventy five cent dollar do it? Or perhaps the fact we went from an economy growing 3% a year to a recession? Unemployment way up maybe?? What does it take, exactly? How about giving up a one good thing (aside from doing away with the long gun registry) that is somewhat on the positive side!!
Those are the facts, and if they sound like sweeping statements, they are and unfortunately they are real.
No just one smart Canadian. LOL bet she didn't get 3 proposals of marriage before she was 20 like I did. Oh and I had another one when I was 65 from a man who a lot younger.
Taxslave.........
Changing the word TAR to OIL does not change what they are you know. Buy a book on Canada's Tar Sands, preferably with before and after pictures, if you do not feel Wikipedia is any good. Or choose another site from the list in google.
That's the same for any of the Parties. They all have pre-arranged visits, and every single detail (within reason, of course) is thought out and prepared for.
More babbling and meandering from you as I can see....you must have been talking to Mhz.....
That tells me that you have no knowledge of Canadian exports like coal. They are sold in american dollars, yet salaries are paid in Canada dollars. A 75cent dollar works just fine at keeping profit margins nice and high.
they created the TSFA program.
They rewrote the criminal code on citizens arrest and self defense. No longer do you have to pass through half a dozen legal gates to claim that right.
Bill C-21, to keep a cap on bureaucratic costs, every new regulation must be matched with the removal of an equally costly bad regulation.
Senate reform, they offered to appoint any senators that the provinces elected
childcare, they recognized that a one size fits all solution just doesn't work for canadians.
they lowered the GST, no bull**** lies like the Creten dynasty
their scandal is not 49 million dollars like the liberal, or 2.5million like the NDP, nope it is a boring 90k that has already been payed back.
they reversed the Trust exemptions, so that there wasn't one kind of corp that paid taxes, and another that didn't pay taxes, they even alienated some of their own supporters to do this.
They created income splitting for seniors, so a below average household income coming from 1 really good pension didn't get taxed more than a household that has average income.
They lowered my tax bill by about $7200 per year, this is huge, it means that we have an education fund for our children.
instead of massive raping of the EI program, made legal by the Liberals, they froze EI rates in 2010, 2011 and 2012
a nephew of mine was part of a red seal apprenticeship program, there was a new funding program that helped him out bigtime.
farmers were given the ability to opt out of the Canadian wheatboard
You must not remember the tax cuts, eh Bluebyrd? Incredible, considering that they were cut over 150 times
how about the Human Trafficking National Action Plan, was that one of the 'rotten' things that you didn't like?
and the "Safe Streets & Communities Act". yep, that must have really pissed you off?
Free Trade and investors who want as much fast profit as can be wrung from a product had nothing to do with it? Union rate is crazy enough. Executive salary and perks bleed the picture white. You can't blame it all on worker greed