The seven year switch: Harper misses chance to back up his apology

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In this particular room I feel embarrassed to have Harper as the figurehead of Canada. I don't expect the next leader to be an improvement either.
 

CDNBear

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In this particular room I feel embarrassed to have Harper as the figurehead of Canada. I don't expect the next leader to be an improvement either.
That's OK, we're embarrassed that you identify as Canadian.
 

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The seven year switch: Harper misses chance to back up his apology
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Seven years ago today, Stephen Harper had his finest moment in aboriginal relations.

The Prime Minister stood in the House of Commons and apologized for the residential school tragedy. He said it was sincere. He said it was profound. He vowed that all of Canada would share the burden of aboriginal reconciliation in the future.

Today, there are legitimate grounds to wonder if it was all just an act.

By what could’ve been a beautiful coincidence, the Prime Minister had an audience with Pope Francis Thursday morning.

The coincidence is that just last week, the reconciliation commission which Harper created, recommended the Pope be asked to apologize this year for the Catholic church’s shameful role in a school system which was fronting a cultural genocide.

Opportunity beckoned. A Pope of the people, clearly possessing the compassion and capacity to deliver a heartfelt apology, probably needed only to be asked.

PM Harper meets with Pope Francis at the Vatican

But in what church officials confide was a short and tense meeting, Harper merely referred to a letter from his minister which doesn’t mention the apology and suggested His Holiness come to Canada for our 150th birthday bash two years hence.


But still, it was a golden opportunity wasted.


The seven year switch: Harper misses chance to back up his apology









Good thing you didn't post this from the CBC or there would be outrage.


There is one line that requires explanation, "But in what church officials confide was a short and tense meeting".


I do wonder why it was tense?




Well maybe this is why.




10 minutes?


That's not an audience with the Pope. It's a drive by.


Yet Canada's world renowned prime minister was ushered in - and out - of the Pope's chambers in what must be a record for brevity, a scant ten minutes.


Maybe the Pope just knows the Devil when he sees him. Harper after all doesn't have a whole lot in common with Pope Francis.


The Pope is focused on climate change and the threat it poses to our civilization, especially the poor and vulnerable. In another week the Vatican will release the Pope's encyclical calling on Catholics to act. Steve, however, isn't Catholic and his climate change focus is on making life a living hell for those same poor and vulnerable. At least he didn't get the Pope's door slammed in his face.


Maybe he knows Harpers gang consider anyone who is an environmentalist to be agents of the Devil.

Even the obligatory photo op was a bust. Francis is the pope who always seems to be smiling. Not this time.



By giving Harper only ten minutes of his time, compared to the fifty minutes he gave Vladimir Putin.

And looking like he couldn't wait to get rid of him.

























It's crazy stuff, but when you think about it, what else can explain Stephen Harper's all-out war on environmentalists?
Or why he has fought the idea of climate change from the day he came to office, in such a fanatical manner.
Or why he once said in an interview, that he is more concerned with the judgement of god than he is with the judgement of history.
And really what more can any sane person say?
Except that a leader who would torch the planet in the name of short-term greed is bad enough, a shameless eco-criminal.
But a leader who would torch it, and not care for religious reasons, is a maniac unfit to remain in office....





 

petros

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The Pope is focused on climate change and the threat it poses to our civilization, especially the poor and vulnerable
Him and Steve were too busy plotting against pro choicers, residential school kids, Isis, Soviet invasion of Ukraine, Chinese smoking bans and peace between right and left Twix.
 

MHz

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Somebody should ask Harper who his God is as I doubt it is the same one Putin believes in. More likely the same ones Harper's masters serve.

De:4:28:
And there ye shall serve gods,
the work of men's hands,
wood and stone,
which neither see,
nor hear,
nor eat,
nor smell.

How long does it take to hear the same song and dance when the reply is , 'Table for two?' when asked, 'Now about those Reservations?'
 

taxslave

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There ain't enough tin-foil this side of hell to contain the diseased minds of the usual suspects.

I honestly wonder how some of these folks can manage to function in society

Welfare and lots of social workers.

You're forgetting that this isn't really about Steve-O.... The underlying issue here is really the personal problem that the tards have with the RCC and any excuse to thump their chests is more than welcome.

The fact that Harper is involved is just an added bonus

There is lots wrong with the RCC, but not really much more than any other myth sellers. Not as dangerous as some anymore either.