Conservative Party of Canada
Brent Jessop || April 20, 2007
2007 04 20 - Harper calls on a Harris man
A former Tory politician who led the Ontario government's move toward privatizing jails is expected to be named today to a panel that will conduct a sweeping federal review of the prison system.
The appointment of Rob Sampson, former solicitor general and minister responsible for privatization in the government of Mike Harris, could serve as fodder for speculation the Harper Conservatives are warm to the idea of privatizing federal prisons.
Related - 2006 11 24 - Tories get tough on drug-impaired driving, critics see Charter issue
Related - 2006 11 13 - Proposed bill would boost police power to nab drivers high on drugs: Harper
Related - 2006 10 20 - Three-time losers to face indefinite jail time under new bill
Related - 2006 10 18 - Tories bring in bill to reverse onus for dangerous offenders
Related - 2006 09 14 - Ottawa considers cash for provinces to cope with crime-fighting costs
Related - 2006 09 22 - Tories to introduce three-strikes bill for violent offenders
Related - 2006 07 31 - More Prisons? Dumb Idea
Related - 2006 05 12 - Harper introduce new anti-crime bills
Related - 2006 04 10 - Private prison operators waiting to cash in on Harper policies
2007 04 19 - Harper honours Mulroney - once a rival, now an inspiration
2006 11 01 - Jack Layton and Stephen Harper forge an apparent alliance
It can be readily seen that the apparently venal Jack Layton-led NDP elites, were singularly responsible for triggering-off an election in January 2006 which led to the election of Mr. Harper's minority right-wing government. It is also apparent that the actions of these same NDP elites, are singularly responsible for propping-up Mr. Harper's Conservative government.
Did you ever notice at how apparently coordinated Mr. Harper and Mr. Layton's attacks were against the Mr. Martin during the last election, as if Mr. Layton and Mr. Harper with his backroom supporters had discussed their strategies in meetings? That is because Mr. Layton and Mr. Harper are apparently unofficially on the same Mr. Bush-led team, with Mr. Layton perhaps hoping for some kind of political self-advancement of some kind, like Mr. Mackay.
A working alliance between Mr. Harper and Mr. Layton is the only thing that can explain why Mr. Layton has chosen not to apparently rally Canadians against the clearly reactionary agenda of Mr. Harper. Indeed, if Mr. Layton had logically chosen to galvanize Canadians against the clearly unpopular policies of Mr. Harper in Afghanistan, Lebanon, on Global Warming, AIDS, public healthcare, and on other issues, Conservative popularity would have sunk, arguably to less than 20% of the popular vote, and Mr. Harper's government would be on its way out. The Conservative government facing the prospects of an election triggered-off by a series of unpopular policies would likely fall. The current Conservative minority government would likely collapse, to-be-replaced by a Liberal-NDP minority, with Canadians rewarding an inspired NDP which showed leadership on behalf of Canadians by winning more seats. The reason this has not occurred, appears to be the result of the NDP elite selling-out of the progressive voices and traditions of the NDP.
Related - 2006 11 03 - Environmentalists apprehensive about NDP-Conservative deal on clean air
2006 10 10 - Harper's Fitting Award For NWO Service
On Thursday, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper received an award aptly named for Woodrow Wilson, the American President who confessed, "I have unwittingly ruined my country."
The "Woodrow Wilson Award for Public Service" is in the tradition of the "Jeffrey Dahmer Medal for Better Human Relations." It reminds me of the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize won by Henry Kissinger.
Previous recipients include James Baker, Dick Cheney and the much hated former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. At the dinner, George W. Bush lauded Mr. Harper (via video) for his "leadership" in the war on terror and ended by saying "God bless Steve."
Harper is following in the footsteps of Woodrow Wilson who betrayed his country in 1913 by setting up the Federal Reserve Bank, and again in 1917 by entering World War One, which was about to end in a draw. In both cases Wilson was blackmailed and manipulated. In a famous statement for posterity, Wilson confessed:
"I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men." ("Repeal the Federal Reserve Banks" by Casimir Frank Gierut, p.31)
2006 08 11 - Imperial Harper's air rage
Buried at the very end of a long Globe & Mail story about a mega-shuffle of deputy ministers in Ottawa by the Harper regime--apparently he's looking for a battalion of senior yes-persons--was this little anecdote, which speaks volumes about the character and personality of the man who stumbled into power earlier this year:
[O]n a recent trip, the Prime Minister was asked by a flight attendant to turn off his cellphone and BlackBerry. Mr. Harper declined. The pilot then made a request, saying it was for safety purposes. The PM relented. But, at the end of the journey, one of his staffers gave the pilot some news: His services would no longer be required on prime ministerial trips.
2006 08 04 - Harper Blames the UN Dead
Just when I thought he had shown a glimmer of statesmanship, Stephen Harper, Canada's prime minister courtesy of just over one-third of the vote, reverted to character. Following Israel's apparently-deliberate targeting of four UN observers in Lebanon, including one Canadian, Harper thought it appropriate to ask, not why Israel killed them, but why the observers were there?
His inspired question reminded me of nothing so much as a rape-case lawyer attacking the victim with questions along the lines of why was she in such a place? at such a time? wearing such a dress?
2006 07 01 - Tories may have taken in $1.7m in illegal donations
The Conservative party may have illegally accepted $1.7 million in unreported donations last year because it didn't understand political financing laws.
That's the startling conclusion drawn from testimony given to a Senate committee by the Harper administration's point man on cleaning up government.
Treasury Board President John Baird told the committee late Tuesday that his party did not consider fees paid to attend its March 2005 policy convention to be political contributions.
Related - 2006 09 22 - Kingsley leaves little doubt Tory failure to disclose donations broke the law
2006 06 12 - Stephen Harper's real agenda of "Senate reform"
Mr. Harper sought fixed election dates, including so-called "Senate reform" is part of a strategy to resolve an apparent dilemma. The dilemma is, having already "achieved" the reversal of former Prime Minister Trudeau's Canadianization of the national economy, how to enable the political take-over of Canada when the Canadian and U.S. political systems are so different. In order to try to "resolve" this apparent dilemma Mr. Harper's reforms appear to be directed to seek the political conformity of Canada, with U.S. political norms which are far from being substantively democratic.
Mr. Harper's Bill C-16, has been created by the same minds who gave us the dubious "Free Trade" agreement. Bill C-16, appears to be a strategy to enable the sought political assimilation of Canada into the United States, in order to match an economic take-over by the United States which has been enabled by so-called "Free Trade".
Related - 2006 12 29 - Harper introduces bill to let voters choose senators
Related - 2006 09 08 - Harper to appear at Senate committee to push reform
During a ceremony today in the Quebec National Assembly’s Red Room, Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Quebec Premier Jean Charest signed an agreement establishing a formal role for Quebec in the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
“Today we welcome Quebec into the UNESCO family, as we promised we would on December 19 of last year,” stated Prime Minister Harper. “With our signatures at the bottom of this agreement, Quebec can now participate fully in all of UNESCO’s activities, together with and through Canada’s Permanent Delegation. This agreement is a clear illustration of our vision of open federalism.
Related - 2006 11 24 - Liberals, NDP Support Harper's Quebec Nation Motion
Related - 2006 06 14 - Giving Away Our Sovereignty; One Park at a Time
2006 04 14 - Who will benefit from the GST cut ?
Imagine a tax cut that you only get when you buy stuff. The more you spend, the more you get from the tax cut.
Skill testing question: who would benefit more from this tax cut, the poor or the rich?
2006 04 07 - CanWest Donate to Conservatives
Elections Canada has strict rules regarding political campaign expenses. These rules are supposedly designed to protect the integrity of the Canadian democratic process. However, it appears that the Conservative Party of Canada interests, have found a way of circumventing the integrity of Elections Canada-related democratic legislated safeguards.
2006 03 31 - McGuinty and Harris Smash Poor
2006 03 20 - Harper tightens leash on his ministers
Does this sound familiar? Terror, Terror, Terror, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Terror... When the government decides to limit discussion to only 5 minor topics, everyone should be concerned and that much more curious about anything but those 5 things.
In an effort to appear focused, Prime Minister Stephen Harper is tightening the leash on his cabinet ministers and top bureaucrats by restricting what they can say to the public, a report says.
The Globe and Mail says Harper has ordered them to say nothing to the media unless it is first cleared by the Prime Minister's Office.
"Maintain a relentless focus on the five priorities from the campaign. Reduce the amount of ministerial/public events that distract from the five priority areas identified in the campaign," the Globe quotes the e-mail as saying.
2006 03 10 - Canada's military goes on offence at home - OTTAWA—Canada's military is cranking up a public relations offensive in the face of new casualties and fresh questions about its Afghanistan mission that now is expected to stretch longer than first expected.
To bolster support for the mission, the defence department is planning to recruit army brass, the minister of defence and frontline troops to reinforce opinion on the homefront.
Military officials had always recognized that they would have to sell the Canadian public on the merits of its Afghan mission.
Related - 2006 03 13 - Canada's Military Involvement in Afghanistan
Related - 2006 03 03 - Majority of Canadians Opposed to Afghan Mission
2006 02 24 - Stephen Harper Breaks Pledge To Close Five Loopholes In Ethics Rules For Ministers - Prime Minister Harper and the Conservative Party pledged before and during the election campaign to close five loopholes in the Ethics Code. All five loopholes have been left open.
Related - 2006 02 06 - Final Gomery Report Fails to Impress Taxpayers
2006 02 22 - Canadians to need national ID card, Stockwell Day says
The British Commons has just adopted legislation for a government-issued national ID card and Stockwell Day suggested in an interview with The Canadian Press that such a card is inevitable for Canada.
Related - 2006 06 12 - Microchip implants raise flags
Related - 2006 05 08 - New Canadian Govt. Promises Better US Border Security
Related - 2006 04 24 - New RFID travel cards could pose privacy threat
Related - 2006 04 12 - Border ID cards coming, PM says
I hope everyone likes the idea of being tagged and tracked like cattle. This will soon expand into a national ID card. Enjoy the slave state.
Related - 2006 04 03 - Bush stands firm on passports for Canadians
Related - 2006 03 08 - Health and immigration records sold at B.C. auction
2006 02 15 - Conservatives want fully privatized healthcare - The elites of Stephen Harper's Conservative Party of Canada, seek a healthcare system in Canada, that is 100% privatized. This apparent hidden Conservative agenda on the Canadian healthcare is contained within the Manifesto ironically entitled "A Canada Strong and Free". This Manifesto goes well beyond even Alberta Premier Ralph Klein's publicized calls for a flawed "two-tier" system of co-existing private and public system. "A Canada Strong and Free" was written by former Ontario Premier Mike Harris and Reform Party of Canada founder Preston Manning.
Related - 2006 11 27 - Vancouver to get Canada's First Private ER
Related - 2006 11 27 - N.S. introduces legislation to regulate private health clinics
Related - 2006 09 29 - Ontario allows hospital to hire private company to run ER
Related - 2006 08 23 - Private health-care advocate wins CMA presidency
Related - 2006 07 08 - Nova Scotia's D'Entremont reopens private health debate
Related - 2006 06 14 - The Pharmaceutical Health Minister
Related - 2006 03 24 - MDs want hospitals kept public
Related - 2006 02 17 - Liberal Senator reveals hypocrisy on Universal Public Healthcare
Related - 2006 02 17 - Private health care has role in Quebec, says Charest
2006 01 18 - Think Twice on January 23 - What would Conservative policies mean for Canadians?
2005 12 19 - Harper Misses The Point
The Conservatives have completely missed the point on democratic reform, according to Fair Vote Canada, a multi-partisan citizens' group for fair voting reform, and are dodging the real issue.
2005 12 14 - The "Do Anything, Say Anything" Conservative Party
Conservative members, it seems, pull policy from a hat to win applause with no concern for contradictions or inconsistencies. A party willing do anything and say anything will not have much success: Look at Mr. Martin’s performance as prime minister.
2005 10 23 - Blame Mulroney and subsequent governments for high gas prices - Canada - U.S. Free Trade Agreement (CUSTA) provides that oil companies operating in Canada, both foreign and domestic, could no longer charge more for oil and natural gas exported to the United States than they charged Canadian citizens.
Related - 2005 10 22 - So remind us again why Canada had to sign NAFTA?
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