So much for PM Hypocrite's "Accountability Act"

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It's got more than enough loopholes built into it so that the Hypocrites can do as they said they wouldn't when they were whining about Liberals.

Mr. Baird said the aim is to avoid having junior staff caught up in the ban.

Translation: "We have to have some system for dishing out favours to party insiders, corporate buddies, and special interest groups."

[tough love]

Liberal Rag Meat, and The Liberal Cartoon Machine:

Now you are just making me feel sad for you.

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Liberal Rag Meat, and The Liberal Cartoon Machine:

Now you are just making me feel sad for you.

:roll:

Typical Reformatard response.. deny, spin and blame and cast all of the media as being Liberals..

:roll:

[tough love]

Please stop projecting.

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[tough love]

Liberal Cartoon Machine:

I'm guessin that cartoons is all you die hard libby clownfools got left.

You need to take a page outta the 40% and growing fearful libby voters book who now realize that Prime Minister Steven Harper is without doubt the Real Deal, and get the hell offa that corrupt sinking ship while you still retain a half of a mm of self respect.

You can't ride a dead horse, my brother, everyone makes mistakes (Yes, sometimes even huge ones) now come give us a big hug. :)

[Hapday]

Liberal Cartoon Machine:

I'm guessin that cartoons is all you die hard libby clownfools got left.

You need to take a page outta the 40% and growing fearful libby voters book who now realize that Prime Minister Steven Harper is without doubt the Real Deal, and get the hell offa that corrupt sinking ship while you still retain a half of a mm of self respect.

RACK!

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We'll see how accountable PM Hypocrite is come May 3rd after people have had a chance to listen to their tax dollars being fleeced from them by Hypocrite's broken promises.

[tough love]

Otis Wrote:
We'll see how accountable PM Hypocrite is come May 3rd after people have had a chance to listen to their tax dollars being fleeced from them by Hypocrite's broken promises.

Why wait?
All of Growing Daily Harper Canada knows that no amount of accountability will ever be enough to satisfy a brain washed libby, so why not you just rag all over it now, and be done with it?

:twisted:

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Ah but there's the beauty of it tl...

Remember how the Hypocrites used to rag about the Liberals each and every day...

Shoe's on the other foot now.. and there's plenty of flip flopping by the Hypocrites to rub your nose in.

Can't handle the heat Tina?

Get out of the kitchen then.

[tough love]

Otis Wrote:
Shoe's on the other foot now.

Oh Happy Days. :)

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Otis Wrote:
Shoe's on the other foot now.

Oh Happy Days. :)

Not for long tl...

To borrow a line of yours..

tick...tock..

The media's just getting warmed up.. and Hypocrite's numbers are about to be cooled down.

[tough love]

Otis Wrote:
The media's just getting warmed up.. and Hypocrite's numbers are about to be cooled down.

Just to be clear, you speak of the liberal media; and it's a good thing that New Canada's Prime Minister is mostly concentrating on what is best for the all of the country and not what the scumbag libby media would prefer, otherwise his popularity would most certainly not be as favorable as it is in the non-partisan poll's.

I think it's just great that your media continues to insult the public's intelligence, as if they were still under the libby spell of fear.

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Otis Wrote:
The media's just getting warmed up.. and Hypocrite's numbers are about to be cooled down.

Just to be clear, you speak of the liberal media; and it's a good thing that New Canada's Prime Minister is mostly concentrating on what is best for the all of the country and not what the scumbag libby media would prefer, otherwise his popularity would most certainly not be as favorable as it is in the non-partisan poll's.

I think it's just great that your media continues to insult the public's intelligence, as if they were still under the libby spell of fear.

Um no tl, I was referring to ALL of the country's media.

Including your home boy and Rush Limbaugh wannabe, Chuckles Adler...

The real story is that our guys are giving up their lives to give Afghanistan a chance at freedom and democracy. The hope is that the country can become something other than one in which the world's sickest of predators train to commit mass murder. Canadians are fighting the good fight. But the Harpoons in Ottawa are spearing the real story. Four heroes falling in Afghanistan has morphed into a sad tale of flags and caskets. Flags won't get lowered in Ottawa and caskets won't be seen in Trenton. The left-wing media isn't making this one up. And the more the Harpoons try to lay it off on the media, the more Bush they look.

Harper's whiz kids surely must have computers. It doesn't take a minute to find out who put an end to having TV cameras at Dover Air Force base when the U.S. coffins were coming from Gulf War I. Dick Cheney was Bush the Elder's secretary of defence. Today Bush continues to talk about his personal relationship with Jesus. But many Americans have come to believe that George's Jesus is fat, bald and evil and goes by the name of Dick.

If the Harpoons want to ape the George and Dick White House, they will get smeared with the kind of language that you see at the top of the column. For years now, the Bush-Cheney strategy has been to blame the media while at the same time feeding selected stories to certain members of the media.

The strategy now has Bush's approval numbers starting to resemble Richard Nixon's. When Neil Young's Let's Impeach the President is released it won't be just the burned-out dope-smokin' lefties who nod with approval.

This week it isn't a Liberal defence minister who is telling the media to stay off the property in Trenton when the caskets come home from Afghanistan. In justifying the move, the honourable member for Subterfuge says the ban was being put in place to protect the families.

Hey, minister. Please jam a teething ring back into the mouth of the backroom infant who offered you that.

You have not a lick of evidence that military families have been offended by this or by the lowering of the flag at the people's house, the House of Commons. If you want to keep boiling your reputation in oil by putting all this off on the media, good luck with that.

It's probably not easy being Stephen Harper.

Ever since he first went to Ottawa to do backroom work in the '80s, he fell in love with the idea that Liberal governments were without moral legitimacy. The Liberals only formed government because the national media framed the issues, and in doing so, real Canadian leaders were getting framed. The Liberal Goodfellas took Mulroney out to the desert and beat him with a shovel and then did the same to Preston Manning. Facts rarely fracture the fantasies of a young man who is a chartered member of the paranoid right.

The problem is that even paranoids have enemies. If Harper continues play it Bush, his government will be buried in a casket of his own making.

So tl, how does it feel to be proven what you despise...

You're a Bu$hite and you didn't even know it...

[tough love]

^
I consider all of the media to be self_serving scumbags, so what's your point?

Adler is a red lining motor mouth of a gas bag, and I have told him so in print on more then one occasion, so once again your dart misses the mark.
btw..UpChuck picked up on the PigMartin bit, and ran it on his drone of a mourning radio show...Sorry, move along, no autographs today.

Bu$h is a self_serving poli_poser retard whose personal quest for power and his sorry need for greed has debilitated America and brought the world to the brink of disaster.
I deservedly dumped on the poser_christain before his tard corp criminally amd immorally invaded Iraq, and since, so once again your lame attempts reap zilch.

You are in serious need of a new drug, Otis, may I suggest you give Harper's frog a lick, who knows my brother from same sex lovers, you just may never go heathen commie again.

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I consider all of the media to be self_serving scumbags, so what's your point?

But wait, Adler's not part of your "left wing media", he's one of your own Tina...
Nice ladepkcab Tina..

Adler proved my point for me. The fact that you can't see it just reaffirms it, dumbfuck.

Adler is a red lining motor mouth of a gas bag, and I have told him so in print on more then one occasion, so once again your dart misses the mark.
btw..UpChuck picked up on the PigMartin bit, and ran it on his drone of a mourning radio show...Sorry, move along, no autographs today.

As did several others in the media tl.. and the voters got to hear all about Hypocrite's disgusting move for his political gain..

Guess what, the resounding message was that what Hypocrite's has done is absolutely wrong.

You are in serious need of a new drug, Otis, may I suggest you give Harper's frog a lick, who knows my brother from same sex lovers, you just may never go heathen commie again.

Now that's rich... a guy who used to post under the nic "The Poet Harriet" trying to run homosmack..

And um Tina, I'm not your brother..
Kick your own ass much longfellow...?







But back to the "accountability" thing..

Remember how you Hypocrite's were all up in arms over Goodale's budget leaks..

Remember?

Oops.. try as he might, someone in the Hypocrites is stealing Harpercrite's dream of accountability..

$1B transit windfall for Ontario
Cash from Ottawa will come in next week's budget to help with subway expansion -- as well as housing and campus buildings
Apr. 26, 2006. 05:17 AM
ROBERT BENZIE AND LES WHITTINGTON
STAFF REPORTERS


The Ontario government is expecting a $1 billion windfall from Ottawa that will help extend the Spadina subway line and improve transportation throughout Greater Toronto.

Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty delivered the good news in a confidential four-page letter on March 24 to provincial Finance Minister Dwight Duncan.

Flaherty wrote that as part of the new Conservative government's "collaborative management of the federation," the provinces and territories would receive additional funding of $3.3 billion from the massive federal surplus run up last year.

The Harper government, which had planned to reveal the new funding when its first budget is delivered to Parliament next Tuesday, will set up five independent trust funds to distribute the money.

The trusts would make money available to the provinces for bricks and mortar spending for post-secondary education (up to $1 billion), affordable housing (up to $800 million), public transit (up to $900 million), northern housing (up to $300 million) and off-reserve aboriginal housing (up to $300 million).

Details of what provincial projects will qualify for funding are not yet available.

The trusts are a device to reserve some of the surplus from one year for spending in the next.

Otherwise, any money left over on March 31, the end of the federal fiscal year, would automatically be used to reduce the federal debt.

Duncan told the Toronto Star that his officials estimate that, based on Ontario's population and eligibility, the province would receive about $1.08 billion of the total new federal funding commitment.

He said it is great news for Ontario and will make it easier to pay for much-needed public transit improvements.

Word of the new cash from Ottawa comes on the heels of Duncan's March 23 provincial budget that included $1.2 billion for infrastructure, including $670 million toward the $2 billion extension of the Spadina line from Downsview station through York University and north of Steeles Ave. into Vaughan.

The long-awaited scheme would be the Toronto Transit Commission's first subway line in the 905 area.

"We fully anticipate that it should be fully new money," said Duncan, who added that Flaherty's missive was the kind of letter finance ministers dream of receiving.

"This is money that Ontarians have paid into Ottawa. It essentially represents money that they (federal authorities) have decided through their own legislative processes and financial processes to give back to the provinces. This is our portion."

"It's certainly encouraging, but we do need clarification," said the provincial treasurer, who has written to Flaherty seeking details.

In the March 23 budget, Duncan devoted a total of $838 million for transit in the GTA.

Aside from the subway, money will be spent to develop the Mississauga Transitway, which is a dedicated bus-only line along Highway 403 and Eglinton Ave., and Brampton's Acceleride bus program, among other non-TTC projects.

In exchange for Ottawa's largesse, Flaherty wants to ensure that the federal government is given lots of credit by the provinces and territories, which are trying to address Canada's fiscal imbalance in which some of them struggle with budget deficits while Ottawa records surpluses.

"In the spirit of the new, more collaborative relationships between our governments, we look forward to working with you to ensure all partners receive appropriate recognition, such as, for example, the display of Government of Canada wordmark on all assets and services connected with this funding," Flaherty wrote.

"A formal announcement of this commitment will be made by the federal government later this spring," he concluded.

In the House of Commons, Liberal finance critic John McCallum accused the Conservatives of "flip-flopping" on budget matters by utilizing Bill C-48 to earmark the additional money for the provinces.

When they were in opposition, Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the Conservatives fiercely opposed that Liberal legislation, which allows the government to spend surplus cash from one fiscal year in the following fiscal year.

Prior to C-48, any money left over in Ottawa's coffers when a fiscal year ended on March 31 had to be used to pay down the $499 billion national debt.

The bill, which was part of a deal between the Liberals and the NDP, was intended to provide extra federal funding for universities, public transit, affordable housing, foreign aid and aboriginal people.

At the time, Harper called C-48 irresponsible fiscal policy and the Conservatives tried, but failed, to bring down the Martin government over the legislation in May 2005.

In response to McCallum, Flaherty confirmed that the budget on Tuesday will "be dealing with surplus issues" and will provide money to deal with the priorities covered by Bill C-48.

"I am sure the member will look forward to May 2 when we will be able to provide the information that he is seeking concerning many of those issues," Flaherty added.

Outside the Commons, he refused to provide details.

Because of the unexpectedly strong performance of the economy over the past 12 months, the federal surplus for the 2005-06 fiscal year that ended March 31 is forecast to reach $9 billion or higher.

This has provided Flaherty with unexpected manoeuvring room as he designs his first budget.

But he had to decide what to do with the extra money before March 31 and thus turned to the mechanism in C-48.

Now how did that leak happen to get out eh?

And well look at that.. the Hypocrite's flip-flopping once more.. this time over Bill C-48.

And to the tune of $1 Billion all headed specifically for the Liberal voting 416 and 905

Guess that makes us a bit more relevant eh?

[tough love]

Desperation Wrote:
But wait, Adler's not part of your "left wing media", he's one of your own Tina...
Nice ladepkcab Tina.. Rolling Eyes

Adler proved my point for me. The fact that you can't see it just reaffirms it, dumbfuck.

I'm not the one who is a slave to others, Otis.

Not everyone needs to agree with everything about what a leader does, to be more on side with a paticular poser, then another...It's not like there are real meaningful choices out there.

So far; Harpers done an overall good job leading Canada, but more important then my personal take on that, his style has garnered him some favorable results in the honest non-partisan polls that were recently held.

The Public, Otis, remember them next time to beat off to whatever disgusting poli-porn that one of your scumbag media heroes offers up to you in print.

The Opposition has done a brutal job of screeching, they bleed like PigMartins over any possible thang... They are seriously coming across like spoilt little rich brats in tantrum cuz they didn't get their way, AND the louder those bought and paid for scum suckers wail, the wiser the now public becomes to their pathetic act, and will continue to rightfully distant themselves from the such thereof.

Sorry ole chum, but your poison of choice no longer effects the general public...Me thinks they have grown tired of being played by all media po$ers, and have become wise enough to decide for themselves.


Instead of lamenting over your personal loss, sinner, you need to put a little love for Canada in your heart.

Harper Did.

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We'll see what the polls say once Hypocrite's bs starts sinking into the pocket books of Canadians...

Or the auditor general starts reaming the Hypocrites a new asshole for lying about their so-called accountability..

Thu, April 27, 2006



The deal that wouldn't die

By GREG WESTON



If Paul Martin were still in power today, he and Jack Layton would be celebrating the first anniversary of their marriage of convenience, consummated in a Toronto hotel room on the eve of last year's live-or-die Liberal budget.

Taxpayers are not likely to forget the price of the New Democrats vowing that night to stand by the minority Grits in the ensuing government-toppling budget votes -- a staggering $4.5 billion in federal spending this year and next on a vague NDP wish list of social causes.

Needless to say, this unseemly bit of hotel-room hanky-panky between Martin and Layton -- officially known as Bill C-48 --did not sit at all well with the then opposition Conservatives.

Stephen Harper properly denounced the deal as "complete irresponsible fiscal policy," and accused the Liberals of trying to "ruin the nation's finances with the biggest vote-buying spree in Canadian history."

In fact, Harper and his party were apparently so outraged at Bill C-48 that they voted against it in the dramatic Commons showdown last May that brought the Martin government to within one vote of defeat.

One year after politics and a desperation deal made strange bedfellows of Martin and Layton, now it is PM Stephen Harper who is using exactly the same $4.5-billion bribe to jump into the sack with Jack on the eve of the first Conservative budget.

A recent exchange of letters between federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty and his provincial counterparts indicates next week's Conservative budget will reveal plans to forge ahead with the NDP-inspired spending spree that Harper so aptly called "irresponsible fiscal policy."

There is so much wrong with this fiscal folly, one can barely imagine what Layton must have promised the PM in return.

Fact is, Harper didn't have to do it. Despite the failure of the Conservatives to defeat Bill C-48 while in opposition, a glitch in the bill means there was no obligation on the new Tory government to spend a dime of the promised loot.

Here's the deal: According to a leaked letter, dated March 24, from federal Finance Minister Flaherty to his provincial brethren, the Conservative government will spend $3.6 billion of the promised $4.5 billion this year, and the rest next year.

Roughly speaking, there will be $320 million more for foreign aid, and the provinces will get $1 billion for post-secondary education infrastructure; $900 million for public transit equipment; and $1.4 billion for affordable housing, including assistance to off-reserve aboriginals.

In short, it is the same old NDP wish list from last year.

Here's the catch: Like the Martin-Layton deal, the money will only flow if there is a year-end federal surplus after all the government's bills have been paid, and $2 billion has gone toward reducing the national debt.

The problem is that by federal statute, the government can't spend surplus money on anything except the debt after the fiscal year-end at March 31. But the federal beancounters won't know how much cash is left in the till until they close the government's books sometime in August. By the time the government knows how much surplus money it has for the NDP goodie list, it will be too late to spend it.

So the new Harper government of integrity and accountability came up with a better idea.

Last month the government secretly set up five separate trust funds that are essentially "owed" up to $3.6 billion of taxpayers' money from the March 31 surplus, if it is available.

But there's another issue here. The Conservatives could have devoted that massive amount of spending to anything else they wanted. For instance, that $4.5 billion would pay for all of the Liberals' promised income tax cuts that Harper has promised to roll back in order to fund his GST reduction.

Or it would buy equipment for the military, or build hospitals and schools. Or help clean up the environment.

Whatever the potential uses for $4.5 billion of our money, stuffing it in secret trust accounts to keep Jack Layton happy is still exactly what Harper said it was last year -- completely irresponsible.

One thing is certain: The auditor general is going to have a field day with this one.

Once more the Harpocrites flip flop...

And while we're at it... from another well known right wing Harper loving Conservative pundit...

Thu, April 27, 2006



Harper dropped ball

By PETER WORTHINGTON

A gesture of sensitivity ... stupid and thoughtless ... or an error in judgment?

Which is it?

Whatever it is, the decision to ban media from witnessing or documenting the arrival "home" of four soldiers killed in Afghanistan -- and the caskets of future soldiers killed -- seems, at first blush, to be astonishingly foolish.

One wonders at the thinking behind it.

Is it because the Americans ban media coverage for the homecoming of their dead from Iraq? Is it a brainchild of DND public affairs? Is Prime Minister Stephen Harper uneasy that coverage of coffins will weaken the resolve of Canadians for the "war" in Afghanistan?

Whatever the reason, it should be reevaluated.

Personally, I think it's reasonable when the caskets arrive at Trenton that grieving families be protected from reporters -- TV, radio and print. But cameras and TV should record the arrival. Canadians also grieve in their way for our dead -- and are entitled to see their homecoming.

Defence Minister Gordon O'Connor thinks journalists embedded with our troops in Kandahar witnessing the departure of the flag-draped coffins is sufficient.

He's wrong. Their arrival "home" is also a vital part of the story.

That doesn't mean a journalistic scrum among relatives at Trenton. But it does mean TV and photographic coverage. Words and interviews can come later when emotions are more settled.

In fact, the Canadian media have been exceedingly sensitive and respectful towards families of soldiers killed. Even the CBC, which normally doesn't approve of soldiers or the military. (Why has the CBC never run a documentary on the work our soldiers do in the field?)

While many families don't want reporters prying into their grief, others realize that Canadians want to share this moment and share the pain. The dead are our countrymen, serving our interests, and these days Canadians appreciate their soldiers as they haven't since the days of World War II.

Harper and O'Connor should understand that.

In general, the families of Afghan casualties behave with extraordinary dignity, courage and pride. The media too, invariably, is respectful and admiring of the poise shown by families, and share the sorrow each family endures. The media have not been paparazzi scrambling to intrude.

Each family is different. Some seek to mourn alone, away from outsiders, reluctant to speak their private thoughts. Others want the world to know their grief, and feel their pride in the decision of their dead loved one who died serving his country.

A greater concern than barring the media from witnessing and recording the arrival of the dead at Trenton is why Prime Minister Harper chose not to be there to meet the plane and express to the families his and Canada's gratitude for the sacrifice of these men in the full bloom of life.

A shoddy oversight.

Richard Leger, father of Marc Leger, one of four killed (and eight wounded) when the Americans mistakenly bombed them in Kandahar, told the CBC how important it was to the family that Prime Minister Jean Chretien was there when Marc came home.

Can't Harper see that?

News reports say he had chatted with one of the dead Canadians when he visited Afghanistan. Yet he couldn't be there when the body of this soldier came home.

Yes, it would have been painful, but it was the right thing to do and Harper didn't do it. For shame. It would have meant a lot to the families who were there.

It's not as if Canadians haven't been through such trauma before. We are not a weak people and historically have never cringed from pain, emotional or physical.

By shrouding events in secrecy, it's as if there is shame attached. But the only shame is to prevent Canadians from witnessing the return of their honourable dead.

And those Tina are Hypocrite's allies in the media slamming him for the Bush move he's pulling...

At this rate, by the time the next election is called, Hypocrite's going to have the popularity level of Mulroney in his final days in office..

Tick tock Tina.... enjoy the ball while you can.

And God Bless Canada.. except for Harpocrite's band of idiots.
They aren't worthy.

[tough love]

Otis Wrote:
We'll see what the polls say once Hypocrite's bs starts sinking into the pocket books of Canadians...

Do you mean pocket books like this?

WASHINGTON -- U.S. officials hailed a new era in relations with Canada on Thursday after reaching a softwood framework deal endorsed by a powerful American lumber group but rejected by the country's home builders.

"It sends a strong signal of deeper co-operation between true friends,'' said U.S. Trade Representative Rob Portman, who called it "a good day for a strong relationship.''

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/s ... ?hub=World


Good things happen when Canada rids inself of self_serving poli-tards who practice smack board diplomacy.



And the next poll will chant, 'Bode Harper.


As for the rest of your post, Otis, wake up and smell the politics.
For a guy who has sold out to one low life party, your "this is a travesty" act is wearing thin.

IT'S A FREAKIN GAME, AND ALL POLI_POSERS PLAY THE POLI GAME.

Harper just happens to be better at playing the poser-game then most thought he would be, especially that god hating lot you support, even with their many years of pocket padding practice.
You really should drop the pathetic act and admire the guy for the way he effortlessly manouvers around the many land mines your desperate self-serving tards keep laying in his path.

The guy is a politician's politician. :)

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WASHINGTON -- U.S. officials hailed a new era in relations with Canada on Thursday after reaching a softwood framework deal endorsed by a powerful American lumber group but rejected by the country's home builders.

:roll:

I can imagine how those negotiations went...

Bush: Stephen, start sucking..

Hypocrite: Why thank you for the opportunity Mr President. I'd be honoured to swallow it all for you as well Mr President.

Bush: There's a good boy Stephen. I knew you'd make a good PM.


That's quite the deal Hypocrite sold us out for there Tina...

The Hypocrites gave in on almost every single measure available.

Firstly, we have to pay America's legal costs which is $250 million dollars. We are rewarding the US for dragging this out.

Secondly, they get to keep 22% of the illegal duties that they slapped on us and which they had deposited in their bank all these years and had the interests accrue. This is especially ridiculous because when we had to buy US dollars to pay those illegal duties, the Canadian dollar was much lower.

And the Canadian government have to impose a mandatory tax on our lumber and give it to the US!!! And if the lumber prices fall, we have to increase the tax by the corresponding amount so that the prices stay the same for Canadian lumber.

How the hell is that a win for us?!!!!

The US won the softwood lumber dispute, despite the fact that NAFTA dispute settlement board that was supposed to protect us from our much more powerful trading power consistently sided with us. What the hell is the point of free trade if it is one way?




But a measly $1 billion's nothing for Hypocrite to toss out to his election financing pals..

Ya, that's a deal alright... reminds me of the Mulroney era...

God fucking help this country..
Please off Harper before he sells it out completely.

[tough love]

THE GAME OF POLITIC'S - Diplomacy Event
Score:
Liberals = Nothing
Alliance = Everything

Go Team Harper. :)

Otis Wrote:
God ******* help this country..

He did, you are simply reacting to blindly to behold a true blessing.


Thank GOD for Harper
Sincerely;
New Canada

Thank You New Canada for the rocking poll results
Sincerely;
Your servant, Steven Harper.

[Hapday]

In a few months, Harper did what the gLiberals couldn't do in 13 years. BODE Harper!

[tough love]

In a few months, Harper did what the gLiberals couldn't do in 13 years. BODE Harper!

RACK the real deal.


I sure hope we don't get fat feasting on all the 'Bode that Prime Minister Harper will be bringing to our table - New Canada

Information czar blasts Tory reform

Clearly; New Canada needs a new imfo czar.

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Information czar blasts Tory reform

Clearly; New Canada needs a new imfo czar.

:roll:

What's next for your Reich Marshals? When the auditor general starts slamming your tards for hiding money, skimming off the top.. poor ethics..

Are you going to say they have to be replaced as well?

You're a good fascist Tina... Mussolini and Hitler would both be proud of you.

Canadian Press
Published: Friday, April 28, 2006
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Stephen Harper has done a complete about-face, introducing plans that would increase government secrecy after campaigning on openness, says Canada's information czar.

The proposed Accountability Act, now being debated in the House of Commons, will actually make government less accountable when it comes to making information available to Canadians, Information Commissioner John Reid said Friday.

In a special report to Parliament, Reid said no government has ever put forward "a more retrograde and dangerous'' set of proposals to change the Access to Information Act since the legislation first came into effect in 1983.

The Accountability Act, and other reforms being proposed, will "increase the government's ability to cover up wrongdoing, shield itself from embarrassment and control the flow of information to Canadians,'' says the scathing report.

Earlier this month, the Harper government released proposals to reform the Access to Information Act by including more government entities under its umbrella, and by turning over to a Commons committee another set of suggested reforms.

But the Accountability Act, which would add another 19 entities to be covered by Access to Information, also creates 10 new loopholes that would allow civil servants to deny requests for information, says the report.

The proposed legislation, for example, would prevent draft audits or audit working papers from being released for 15 years. Currently, there is no such wholesale exemption.

And the proposed reforms to be examined by a Commons committee also fail to deal with fundamental problems, Reid said, such as requiring civil servants routinely to create records, and giving the information commissioner more investigative powers.

Reid noted that while in opposition, Harper railed against the Liberals for failing to reform a system that encouraged civil servants to withhold information and allowed abuses such as the sponsorship scandal to flourish undetected. Harper also promised during the winter election campaign to toughen the Access to Information Act.

But the Tories are now guilty of the same abusive behaviour as they try to make government less transparent, he said.

"The new government has done exactly the things for which its predecessor had been ridiculed,'' says the report.

John Baird, president of the Treasury Board which is responsible for the Access to Information Act, called Reid's language "excessive.''

He acknowledged that the commissioner and the government disagree on some changes, but said the government is willing to work with Reid to refine the amendments.

"We're keen to work with him on those areas where I think there can be some agreement,'' Baird said.

"He's submitted some draft amendments -- we're just currently looking at that. ... I have a lot of regard for the commissioner.''

Baird suggested that 85 per cent of Reid's concerns are minor.

An NDP spokesman said government needs to strike a balance between Reid's pro-access position and privacy. But MP Pat Martin also said he takes the commissioner's concerns seriously.

"This is a pretty serious condemnation by the one leading authority on access to information,'' Martin said.

"It was the culture of secrecy that allowed corruption to flourish in Ottawa during the Liberal years. John Reid has actually now said we may be in a worse situation.''

For a $5 application fee, Canadian residents can request government information, but the system has been widely criticized for delays and excessive exemptions. More than 20,000 requests are filed each year.

The Hypocrites get caught again...

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In a few months, Harper did what the gLiberals wouldn't do in 13 years. Sell Canada out. BODE Harper!

FTFY

[tough love]

Otis Wrote:
When the auditor general starts slamming your tards for hiding money, skimming off the top.. poor ethics..

Are you going to say they have to be replaced as well?

Replacing a noncompatible Auditor General would entirely depend upon the poll results. :twisted:
If they continue to rock on favorably, there would be no need to rock the self-serving media boat.


Harpers smiles and New Canada swoons
Ten Years..Ten Years
New Canada wins and the Libby's prune
Ten Plus Years Long.


:)

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Keep on living in that bubble tl...

Tick tock...

Meanwhile in the real world... people aren't falling for Hypocrite's bullshit.

[tough love]

Otis Wrote:
Keep on living in that bubble tl...

Tick tock...

Meanwhile in the real world... people aren't falling for Hypocrite's bullshit.

In politics, the only reality of consequence is the end result after the ballots have been counted.

Libby Loser keeps Screeching, You Just Wait...You Just Wait

Well, we waited and New Canada is now living large in Harper World.

And:
That big self-serving crap being taken by the AG is for the same reason John Reid made his big self-serving stink over nothing.

The provisions would weaken the commisioners power

Rapidly Diminishing Opposition Support at the door said you were a Jive Turkey :wink:

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Otis Wrote:
Keep on living in that bubble tl...

Tick tock...

Meanwhile in the real world... people aren't falling for Hypocrite's bullshit.

In politics, the only reality of consequence is the end result after the ballots have been counted.

Libby Loser keeps Screeching, You Just Wait...You Just Wait

Well, we waited and New Canada is now living large in Harper World.

A blip on the radar screen..

Kind of like when the radio station says "We're experiencing technical difficulties" you get to hear some lame filler music while you wait for the real show to come back on...

And:
That big self-serving crap being taken by the AG is for the same reason John Reid made his big self-serving stink over nothing.

The provisions would weaken the commisioners power

Rapidly Diminishing Opposition Support at the door said you were a Jive Turkey :wink:

Quit kidding yourself moron...

Look at your numbers again and see how many of them stated that they would actually vote for Hypocrite...

That's right.. despite the fact that the Liberals don't have a leader in place yet.. that the Hypocrites have done everything in their power to avoid being hammered in question period by not bringing the house back until the very last day possible...

President Harpocrite's numbers as to who would actually vote for him next time around haven't gone up at all.

But don't just take my word for it...
Why not ask a fellow Winnipeger..

[Hapday]

I see the cartoonists at the Toronto (Red) Star have removed their heads from the sand, now that the gLiberals are in opposition...

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I see the cartoonists at the Toronto (Red) Star have removed their heads from the sand, now that the gLiberals are in opposition...

Harpocrite's easy pickings Hap...

Even the Hypocrites own media asskissers at the Sun are in on it...










I thought this one was exceptionally funny though...

[Hapday]

I love the fact that Harper has caused such a meltdown in the gLiberal media up here, all because he wants them to actually do their jobs.

GO HARPER GO!!!

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They will do their jobs Hap...

Running Harper out of office for being a hypocritical lying fascist..

[Hapday]

Harper is not going anywhere for at least two years. Despite what the chicken littles in the gLiberal media are saying, Harper is doing a great job.

[tough love]

Otis Wrote:
as to who would actually vote for him next time around haven't gone up at all.

Let's have a little look see at the big opposition three, shall we.

Montreal = Prime Minister Harper Recieves A Standing Ovation Of Support
Vancouver = Soft Wood Dealio Spin Off Votes A No Brainer
Toronto = screw them losers, they don't even rate capitol letters. :P

Here's something for your ulcer to ponder over Otis.
Before the next election, New Canada's Masterful Mr. Harper, will of thunk up a way to win your neighborhood of morons over to his vision of Canada, as he has done with Quebec Tard, and The Drugcouver Trackmarks.

Boohooing sad desolving rivering away libbytards will be redeemed to nothing more then cartoon caricatures of their former po$er selves.


GO HARPER GO!!!

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Tina, put down the crack pipe.

President Hypocrite's going to make Joe Clark look like a success story by the time he's run out of town.

Nice dodge on not taking the challenge to listen to one of your own Winnipegers tl..

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Otis Wrote:
Nice dodge on not taking the challenge to listen to one of your own Winnipegers tl..

More like challenged.
I'll leave the 'being a slave to the rantings of nay sayers' part to you, my crim(e)son washed fiend.

As for The Harper doing's, he's looking more and more like the great statesman with each passing day, which is what is really bothering you, isn't it?

RIDE 'EM HARPER :)

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Otis Wrote:
Nice dodge on not taking the challenge to listen to one of your own Winnipegers tl..

More like challenged.
I'll leave the 'being a slave to the rantings of nay sayers' part to you, my crim(e)son washed fiend.

So you're a pussy who is not up for the challenge?

Duely noted.

As for The Harper doing's, he's looking more and more like the great statesman with each passing day, which is what is really bothering you, isn't it?

RIDE 'EM HARPER :)

No Tina, what bothers me is that Harpocrite's fascism is blinding suckers like you into believing in it.

I pity you.

[tough love]

So you're a pussy who is not up for the challenged?

Something like that.

No Tina, what bothers me is that Harpocrite's fascism is blinding suckers like you into believing in it.

I pity you.

BIG SMILE BIG SMILE

Being washed you may find this hard to grasp, but it's New Canada who will decide Harpers fate, not the whinny self-serving screechmedia.

You Know What...Our Good Prime Minister Harper Knows That


BODE HARPER> :)

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No, Harper's a chickenshit that tucks his tail and runs from the media because he doesn't have the balls to stand up and be accountable to this country.

Well if you won't challenge the good Reverend... perhaps I'll point out your lack of balls to take him on there and invite him to bring it to you here instead.