The CBC doesn’t seem to have a problem doing similar things :rolleyes:
I really don’t know how it was in text. I only have the clipping, so you very welll could be correct in assuming it was a letter to the editor. But any chance to poke fun at the government is a good one.
Prime Minister Steven Hitler… I mean… bleh whatever
i cant wait to see funding get cut for everything… then heath care go private… then everyone go… “Crap…” :roll:
I don’t think comparing Stephen Harper to Hitler is really all that appropriate. Last I checked Harper wasn’t down with mass extermination of millions of people because of their race.
Dave, turning off their power(impossible since there is no such thing as a separte Canadian and US power grid…remember the big blackout) and water would hurt us more than the US. Many of our industries depend very heavily on sales to the US market. To the US we are a market smaller than the population of California. I don’t think they need us as much as we need them. Sad as this is, it is true.
With all of that being said, this whole Canada US relations crap is blown way out of proportion. There is a lot of cooperation within our integrated institutions and certainly in business. Hell, Canada’s CF18s are flying security cover during Super Bowl on sunday.
On a related note, people wrongly conclude that US Republican = Canadian Conservative and US Democrat = Canadian Liberal. These are over-generalizations and it would be more accurate to place, from left to right, the Liberals, then the Conservatives, then Democrats and then Republicans. One only need to delve slightly deeper than the soundbites and rhetoric to see this.
I have lived in the US and have relatives there. In general, the United States is a more conservative country than Canada, in their political system, social welfare, economics, foreign policy, etc., so yes, even their Democrats fall further to the right than Canada’s Conservative party so it is unfair to compare Stephen Harper to George Bush if your only basis for comparison is Kyoto and Iraq and if this is your only basis you have been listening to the news too much.
You libs are all in for a big dissapointment when Stephen Harper doesn’t do ANYTHING scary, or remotely extremeist, because he has a minority, and is outnumbered in the senate and courts.
He’s going to be balancing between keeping the west happy, and keeping middle class voters in Ontario and Quebec happy.
Enough with the “OMG HARPER=BUSH=HITLER=OHGOD right wing utopia” crap.
The problem with the argument you make is that it won’t help the Conservatives if they remain “un-scary”. When the next election comes the opponents will say “see, we kept the right wing extremist in check.” And the Conservatives will say, “we couldn’t make any changes for you the voter because the opposition blocked us.”
It is too bad decisions of voters can’t be made by analysing actual outcomes-based policy rather than rhetoric and whether or not Harper can’t smile or Martin is losing his hair or Layton has a moustache or Duceppe wore a hair net.
Sad that voters are this simple. Ever wonder why politicians rarely speak about the outcomes of their policy and only announce it in terms of how much money they will spend on it? The simple reason is that voters don’t actually care about the outcome, they only measure the value of a policy on how much the government blows on it.
Regardless of your political stripe try to look below the rhetoric and really consider what they are saying. I suggest ignoring the news for starters.
Its almost too bad this isn’t true. At least that would mean that parliment was filled with REAL people with real problems in their own lives. Everyone expects politicians to be PERFECT all the time, and the moment anyone catches wind of the slightest bit bad… its “OMG!!!”. Those numbers in those proportions may not be correct (eg. for example I don’t believe 10% of all adults abuse their spouses… can’t be THAT high) but in any given sample group of our population you WILL find spouse abusers, drug and/or alcohol addicts, people with bad debt management, people that have committed fraud in some form (insurance claims is a common one), etc. Sadly these traits are all too common in society.
Just try and find a slice of ~300 people ANYWHERE where you wouldn’t find some if not all of those “bad apples”.
Frankly harper terrifies me. Any party that has members of cabinet, let alone a PM, that led the Citizens Christian coalition scares me. The whole bluring of church and state terrifies me, and frankly, like it or not, bush and harper are much closer in ideologies than bush and martin.
Not to mention the member of cabinet who, in his private school, expressely bought books that told students the holocaust never happened. Maybe the conservaties are closer to the nazis than we thought…
I mean they are against immigration to an extent. That was a major point in mein kampf.
This is totally absurd I realize, and I do not support the liberals and what they have done either. But in this case and this election, it’s a lesser of the two evils situation.
Why can’t we just have Trudeau back.