The Official Quit Picking on Stephen Harper Thread
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Your faith in Helmet Head is unfounded.
He's a politician, Cliffy and he's done me no harm in 9 years! Need I say more?
I don't want to piss on your parade, Cliffy, but I can pick away at it. For starters education is a provincial matter and I'm included in the elderly & getting two pensions from him. What scientists has he harmed? Most of the harm done to indigenous people was already done decades before he arrived on the scene. There's some improvement still needed in that regard and I think he recognizes it. I think there is still improvement needed for some veterans, but I don't think the healthy ones have much of a claim as they knew what they were getting into when they embarked on the career. Many of them got subsidized housing and education. But aside from all that Harper and all other politicians are limited by financial restraints and then there's guys like me who bitch when their taxes go up. I understand where you are coming from - my grand daughter and my sister both think he's an arch a$$hole. But they are quite naïve.
Harper defends his budget 'surplus' by admitting that there might have been some government departments that didn't spend all of their budgets but adding that government agencies aren't expected to spend every last dime they're given. Sounds good except..........
This item from CBC News last February reveals just how Harper is twisting the truth (link is external). It concerns the RCMP's unspent and 'refunded' budget for child pornography investigations.
Canada's national police force Mounties withheld some $10 million in funds (link is external) earmarked for its National Child Exploitation Co-ordination Centre and related projects, linchpins of the government's anti-child-pornography agenda.
The cuts, made partly as an RCMP contribution to the government's so-called deficit reduction action plan, have occurred even as the number of child-exploitation tips from the public increase exponentially.
The systematic underfunding is highlighted in a draft report prepared for Public Safety Canada, and obtained through the Access to Information Act.
The document, dated November last year, says the RCMP failed to spend its full $8-million annual budget to catch online child abusers throughout the five-year period ending in 2013.
Maybe there's less kiddie porn. That might account for the savings. Except that's not the case, just the opposite. In 2012 the RCMP received 10,000 tips. By 2015 that had swelled to 40,000 tips a year.
And let's not even get into what they've done to deserving veterans.
This item from CBC News last February reveals just how Harper is twisting the truth (link is external). It concerns the RCMP's unspent and 'refunded' budget for child pornography investigations.
Canada's national police force Mounties withheld some $10 million in funds (link is external) earmarked for its National Child Exploitation Co-ordination Centre and related projects, linchpins of the government's anti-child-pornography agenda.
The cuts, made partly as an RCMP contribution to the government's so-called deficit reduction action plan, have occurred even as the number of child-exploitation tips from the public increase exponentially.
The systematic underfunding is highlighted in a draft report prepared for Public Safety Canada, and obtained through the Access to Information Act.
The document, dated November last year, says the RCMP failed to spend its full $8-million annual budget to catch online child abusers throughout the five-year period ending in 2013.
Maybe there's less kiddie porn. That might account for the savings. Except that's not the case, just the opposite. In 2012 the RCMP received 10,000 tips. By 2015 that had swelled to 40,000 tips a year.
And let's not even get into what they've done to deserving veterans.
I'm not sure about a Nobel Prize but he certainly deserves credit for enough savvy to save a couple of shekkels (a shekel = $1billion) for a rainy day such as now when he needs ammunition to get re elected. I live in the same country under most of the conditions as the multitude of whiners and the whining is sure getting f**king tiresome, especially from those willing to piss away $billions on refugees.
Imagine what could have been........
Market analysts and union leaders say the Harper government may have gotten a bad deal in selling off its remaining shares in General Motors, and one estimate projects a $3.5-billion loss for taxpayers.
The share sale was widely seen as an attempt to balance the federal government’s books ahead of this year’s election -- as the Tories had vowed -- despite a drop in oil revenues.
But according to calculations carried out by the Globe and Mail, this means taxpayers will take a $3.5-billion loss on Ottawa and Ontario’s investment in the automaker, which is a major employer in southern Ontario.
Including this week’s share sale, and the Ontario government’s $1.1-billion sale of GM shares in February, the two governments have recouped only $10.2 billion of the $13.7 billion they invested, the Globe calculated.
Many market analysts think the government would have been better off holding on to the shares a while longer. According to a report at the Financial Post, 14 of 24 analysts who follow GM say the time is right to buy, while only two are advising investors to sell.
“If you look at GM, it’s grossly undervalued relative to other global automakers,” John Stephenson, CEO of Stephenson & Co. Capital Management, told the Post.
Canadian Taxpayers Lost Billions On Tories' Badly-Timed GM Share Sale: Analysts
Market analysts and union leaders say the Harper government may have gotten a bad deal in selling off its remaining shares in General Motors, and one estimate projects a $3.5-billion loss for taxpayers.
The share sale was widely seen as an attempt to balance the federal government’s books ahead of this year’s election -- as the Tories had vowed -- despite a drop in oil revenues.
But according to calculations carried out by the Globe and Mail, this means taxpayers will take a $3.5-billion loss on Ottawa and Ontario’s investment in the automaker, which is a major employer in southern Ontario.
Including this week’s share sale, and the Ontario government’s $1.1-billion sale of GM shares in February, the two governments have recouped only $10.2 billion of the $13.7 billion they invested, the Globe calculated.
Many market analysts think the government would have been better off holding on to the shares a while longer. According to a report at the Financial Post, 14 of 24 analysts who follow GM say the time is right to buy, while only two are advising investors to sell.
“If you look at GM, it’s grossly undervalued relative to other global automakers,” John Stephenson, CEO of Stephenson & Co. Capital Management, told the Post.
Canadian Taxpayers Lost Billions On Tories' Badly-Timed GM Share Sale: Analysts
Got to disagree with that, The Gov't is the worst organization for delivering services. We could get most services for the half the price if they were farmed out to the private sector and the bureaucraps got laid off. They could retain one bureaucrap as a watch dog to check on deliveries.
The other two idiots weren't interested in issues as much as to hear themselves talk, shout, rant and rave. Jr. couldn't make up his mind about much, he vacillated between the economy being in ruins and the economy being sound (when it suited his agenda)
Any list of opinions on what people think he is best suited for? (like being back of the unemployment line)
Harper making a respectable contribution to Parliament
‘It’s great that he shows up’: Stephen Harper, average MP, popping up in Parliament — but keeping low profile
Stephen Harper is out as prime minister, but the Calgary MP hasn’t been completely out of sight in Parliament. In fact, he’s earning some additional respect from caucus colleagues for staying engaged.
Harper-the-average-MP is also proving popular among some Conservatives — even after the party’s election loss — because he’s more approachable, no longer protected by an RCMP detail or the youthful PMO handlers known as the “boys in short pants.”
The former prime minister hasn’t shown up regularly for daily question period, or for Conservative caucus meetings since the first post-electoral gathering at which he accepted responsibility for the election loss and took feedback. But Tories said those absences were to avoid being a distraction for new interim Conservative leader Rona Ambrose.
Harper has, however, been voting regularly early in the 42nd Parliament, including on the selection of a new House of Commons Speaker; against an NDP sub-amendment in reply to the throne speech; and against the Liberal government’s motion for a middle-class tax cut and pushing annual TFSA contributions back to $5,500.
Harper also voted late Thursday in support of the Official Opposition’s motion calling on the federal government to keep Canada’s six CF-18 fighter jets in Iraq and Syria for the coalition bombing mission against the Islamic State.
Whether he keeps up the regular voting schedule remains to be seen. The House of Commons adjourns Friday until Jan. 25.
‘It’s great that he shows up’: Stephen Harper, average MP, popping up in Parliament — but keeping low profile
‘It’s great that he shows up’: Stephen Harper, average MP, popping up in Parliament — but keeping low profile
Stephen Harper is out as prime minister, but the Calgary MP hasn’t been completely out of sight in Parliament. In fact, he’s earning some additional respect from caucus colleagues for staying engaged.
Harper-the-average-MP is also proving popular among some Conservatives — even after the party’s election loss — because he’s more approachable, no longer protected by an RCMP detail or the youthful PMO handlers known as the “boys in short pants.”
The former prime minister hasn’t shown up regularly for daily question period, or for Conservative caucus meetings since the first post-electoral gathering at which he accepted responsibility for the election loss and took feedback. But Tories said those absences were to avoid being a distraction for new interim Conservative leader Rona Ambrose.
Harper has, however, been voting regularly early in the 42nd Parliament, including on the selection of a new House of Commons Speaker; against an NDP sub-amendment in reply to the throne speech; and against the Liberal government’s motion for a middle-class tax cut and pushing annual TFSA contributions back to $5,500.
Harper also voted late Thursday in support of the Official Opposition’s motion calling on the federal government to keep Canada’s six CF-18 fighter jets in Iraq and Syria for the coalition bombing mission against the Islamic State.
Whether he keeps up the regular voting schedule remains to be seen. The House of Commons adjourns Friday until Jan. 25.
‘It’s great that he shows up’: Stephen Harper, average MP, popping up in Parliament — but keeping low profile
Re: Harper making a respectable contribution to Parliament
Only on CC do you have people spinning a positive story to keep up a division.
Only on CC do you have people spinning a positive story to keep up a division.
Re: Harper making a respectable contribution to Parliament
You have a secret Man Crush on Harper too, don't ya?
You have a secret Man Crush on Harper too, don't ya?
