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Title: Tories compiled Harper's most controversial quotes
Category: Political
Posted By: Curtman
Date: 2011-04-25 20:21:37
Canadian

[Curtman]

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The research was begun in 2003 by Harper's former chief of staff, Tom Flanagan, who appears to have believed the old adage that forewarned is forearmed.

Good old Tom Flanagan. Always ready with the proverbial kick-in-the-nuts for Harper.

[Benn]

So his own party did the opposition's homework for them, big deal, if they don't have the good quotes out of this book already it just cements in my mind they are lazy and ill prepared for the election and likely to run things as well.

My guess, this changes nothing come E-Day. Besides, its CBC preaching to the choir. Won't change my vote but since I voted already that would be hard to do.

[PublicAnimalNo9]

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"I'm not ashamed to say that, in caucus, I have more pro-life MPs supporting me than supporting Stockwell Day."

Yeah? And?

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There's also his 1995 assertion that "providing for the poor is a provincial, not a federal responsibility."

I agree, the provinces and municipalities should be shouldering the bulk of responsibility, although there's no reason the fed can't kick in and help out at least.

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Quebec's language law was designed by the Parti Québécois "to suppress the basic freedoms of English-speaking Quebecers and to ghettoize the French-speaking majority into an ethnic state."

Sooo, he's in shit for speaking fact? We're pretty squeamish in this country if facts are controversial to speak about.

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"the private provision of publicly insured services should be permitted. The monopoly of provision of services is not a value that, in and of itself, is worth preserving."
Or his lament, also in 2002, that the Canada Health Act "rules out private, public-delivery options, It rules out co-payment, pre-payment and all kinds of options that are frankly going to have to be looked at if we're going to deal with the challenges that the system faces."

He is correct to some degree because the status quo as per health care isn't cutting it anymore. I think there may be ways to mix the two systems without killing the public option and keeping it viable.

[CommanderSock]

Prime Minister Layton...say it ain't so....

The Grits and Cons tear at each other like rabid bulldogs while Layton is cruising to 100 seats...

A Harper minority held in check by Jack Layton as official opposition, sounds good to me.

[uwish]

I don't see those as being overly controversial..I agree with 99% of them. Most pps I spoke to do as well.

[commanderkai]

uwish uwish:

I don't see those as being overly controversial..I agree with 99% of them. Most pps I spoke to do as well.

It's controversial because people who don't bow to the Altar of Marx might agree or like said statements, or something. Yeah, I don't know, it seems like they're grasping at straws.