“What’s interesting about this is while Mr. Harper says he doesn’t want an election, he’s already spent $10-million of partisan money in his party on attack ads. ... But he’s also spent $412-million of our money on advertising”

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/poli...31/?from=sec561

geeze, didn't Captain Blah rise to the top of his scum heap with the promise to reduce government spending? And didn't they also promise transparency regarding their spending, and accountability for same?

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It suggests the $16 billion Ottawa spent on building roads, arenas and the like during the recession could have created or maintained almost 240,000 green jobs — instead of the 84,000 the government boasts of.

http://thechronicleherald.ca/Canada/1233032.html

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“He’s gone too far. He has seized upon a tragedy for cheap, partisan purposes. And it’s just not conduct becoming of the prime minister of Canada.”

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/Harper+attacked+tying+election+Japan+earthquake/4445462/story.html

now that the election rhetoric is ratcheting up, more harper faux pas to follow.

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It might work better for the Conservatives to have the government fall on the budget, which would then become the central election issue, rather than some other issue related to accountability.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/poli...article1943180/

Captain Blah porouged to save his ass and is today manipulating parliamentary calendar to avoid an opposition assault for the Pirates' contempt of parliament charges.

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Canada is much greater than any one man. And I'm sorry Stephen, your job, and it’s temporary, is to run the Government of Canada. If you don't like it, you can leave. But we’re not changing the name.

http://www.rickmercer.com/Rick-s-Rant/Bl...n--Stephen.aspx

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“The words ‘culture’ and ‘barbaric’ are hot-buttons,” Mr. Gardner writes. “And this document was written under the direction of Immigration Minister Jason Kenney, a man so thoroughly political he undoubtedly dreams of stump speeches, polls and calculations. Conclusion: It was bait.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/poli...99/?from=sec561

The Pirates are amnesiac too: they were forced to reprint these same immigration pamphlets to include same-sex issues. They were feeling out things then, same as now.

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“It’s just building a body of evidence that paints a pretty unseemly picture of the administration under Stephen Harper. It smacks of the bad old days under Brian Mulroney,” Martin said.

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/polit...op-adviser?bn=1

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“With an election coming up, giving money for a building that won’t get built for another six to 10 years has a bit of a political stink to it,”

http://www.metronews.ca/toronto/local/article/804939--feds-give-10m-to-vaughan-health-care

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Carson reportedly illegally lobbied Indian Affairs Minister John Duncan on behalf of a company trying to sell water filtration systems to First Nations reserves with poor water quality. APTN also said it had obtained an email in which Carson boasted of knowing days in advance of an Aug. 6, 2010 cabinet shuffle that Duncan would be appointed to the post.

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/polit...he-lands-in-gta

a scapegoat and just in time eh stevie? great diversionary tactic

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I believe they were trying to find something else to perhaps use against me, or to justify their behaviour in some way as to what they've done to me," Guergis said.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/03/16/pol-guergis-meeting.html

she knows very well how they operate.

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