Harper- will he stay or will he go -
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They already exist. Pretty much every province has one. Hell, northern Ontario has one that wants to separate from southern Ontario. They've all always been marginal and are likely going to remain so.
They have to show up and vote. Im in that generation and am skeptical. Most people I know in my age group do vote but statistically we have never shown up in large numbers. The boomers are likely going to remain the dominant voting block for awhile yet.
I'd say his Senate picks were more a self-inflicted shot in the foot more than a Senate reform. Either way, he's shaken some Canadian confidence from his Cons
Give Cobalt a run at it. Let's see him and his mouth perform.
As PM???? Oh goodness, he'll have the entire opposition labeled as psychopaths. But on the upside, he won't be able to put them on ignore.
Serves us right for going and having confidence in politicians doesn't it?
My money is still on Harper staying for one more election and arranging an leadership vote for midway through. That way his replacement will have over a year to get a feel for the job. I'm basing this on there currently being no viable alternative being presented by the other parties at the present time.
BC is good. Albertans are free to separate. They just can't take Alberta with them.
As I mentioned before- This scandal has legs. And it is just starting to run.
Kelly McParland: Nigel Wright, a good man caught in an ugly world | National Post
I’ve never met Nigel Wright, and all I know of him is what I’ve read. But after consuming the 80-page, minutely detailed RCMP document released Wednesday, I have to say I sympathize with the guy. He comes across in the document just as his defenders have described him: capable, dedicated, “a person of good faith, of competence, with high ethical standards,” as Jason Kenney put it. You get the impression of a man who found himself in a rat’s nest, and tried to keep one of the rats from destroying himself. Instead, he got destroyed too.
Andrew Coyne: Stephen Harper’s story — and reputation — still hanging on by a thread | National Post
To get straight to the point — though it is hardly the point: Stephen Harper’s story, and with it his reputation and his office, have been hanging these past six months by the slenderest of threads
That thread, which the Prime Minister has artfully arranged over his own head, is that whatever illegal acts his every senior aide, Senate leader or party grandee might have known, approved of, connived in, covered up and lied about, he, personally, did not know before a certain date that Nigel Wright, his chief of staff, had written a personal cheque to reimburse Senator Mike Duffy for $90,000 in improperly claimed expenses.
The Prime Minister has hung onto that single thread even as every other part of his story has fallen apart: as “acted alone” became “very few,” as “full confidence” turned to “acted honourably” turned to “deceived,” as “resigned” turned to “dismissed.” So long as it could not be proven that he knew what he denied knowing, he could not be caught in a lie; and so long as the whole issue was framed as “did the Prime Minister flat-out lie to Parliament,” the multiple lies told by everyone around him, before, during and after the whole sordid affair might be made to recede into the background.
Kelly McParland: Nigel Wright, a good man caught in an ugly world | National Post
I’ve never met Nigel Wright, and all I know of him is what I’ve read. But after consuming the 80-page, minutely detailed RCMP document released Wednesday, I have to say I sympathize with the guy. He comes across in the document just as his defenders have described him: capable, dedicated, “a person of good faith, of competence, with high ethical standards,” as Jason Kenney put it. You get the impression of a man who found himself in a rat’s nest, and tried to keep one of the rats from destroying himself. Instead, he got destroyed too.
Andrew Coyne: Stephen Harper’s story — and reputation — still hanging on by a thread | National Post
To get straight to the point — though it is hardly the point: Stephen Harper’s story, and with it his reputation and his office, have been hanging these past six months by the slenderest of threads
That thread, which the Prime Minister has artfully arranged over his own head, is that whatever illegal acts his every senior aide, Senate leader or party grandee might have known, approved of, connived in, covered up and lied about, he, personally, did not know before a certain date that Nigel Wright, his chief of staff, had written a personal cheque to reimburse Senator Mike Duffy for $90,000 in improperly claimed expenses.
The Prime Minister has hung onto that single thread even as every other part of his story has fallen apart: as “acted alone” became “very few,” as “full confidence” turned to “acted honourably” turned to “deceived,” as “resigned” turned to “dismissed.” So long as it could not be proven that he knew what he denied knowing, he could not be caught in a lie; and so long as the whole issue was framed as “did the Prime Minister flat-out lie to Parliament,” the multiple lies told by everyone around him, before, during and after the whole sordid affair might be made to recede into the background.
He's going to need a lot of luck. I hope he doesn't try and stand on his record. He might fall through it.
Someone with character and morals.Freaking rare.
‘Principled’ Tory staffer refused to help Nigel Wright, PMO secretly tinker with Senate report on Mike Duffy | National Post
‘Principled’ Tory staffer refused to help Nigel Wright, PMO secretly tinker with Senate report on Mike Duffy | National Post