Stephen and Laureen Harper in Dollard des Ormeaux

HM PM Harper and his amazing wife Laureen were in Dollard Pierrefonds yesterday and i attended the speech. There were at least 7000-800 people in the room!. He was introduced by Agop Evereklian and Larry Smith. The atmosphere was electric and the enthusiatic crowd responded very well to Harper's message of Quebec having more power in Ottawa with Tory MP's! Many of our candidates in the greater Montreal area were there including Outremont's Rodolphe Husny and and TMR CandidateSaulie Zajdel. It was a great event.

Again....

The grits again want to spend vast sums of your money. They have been promising national childcare every few months since 1993. It has become a running joke. The grits never actually fulfill their promise. Why... becuase they can t find the money for it. The grits promise all kinds of things. Hard to believe their promises when they break so many. Remeber pseudo chretien wanted to cancel free trade , get rid of the GST. He did cancel the helicopter deal and we had more depths of air force personel.
If you want higher taxes and more nanny state vote for iffy and his coalition of losers. If you want lower taxes and a more prosperous Canada vote Tory!


WINNIPEG — A Liberal government would start a fund to open up more early learning and child-care spaces across Canada.

The Liberals say they would start with a $500-million investment in the first year, rising to $1 billion by the fourth year.

Free Trade and the Tories

The Tories are pro free trade. They will finish the trade deals with the EU and India. The iffy coalition has opposed free trade. The dippers always oppose free trade. The grits wanted to tear up the US Canada free trade agreement. Trade brings jobs and prosperity. Vote Tory and Canada will continue signing ever more free trade agreements!
HALIFAX — A re-elected Conservative government will aim to finish free-trade negotiations with the European Union by 2012 and with India by 2013, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced Thursday.


Harper made the commitment at a campaign stop in Halifax, where he went to shipping docks at the harbour to illustrate his point that trade is crucial to the Canadian economy.


"Canada is a trading nation," he said. "Canadian businesses and their workers succeed and prosper when they have stable and secure access to markets and customers around the world."


Harper said that is why the governing Tories have made expanding and improving access to foreign markets such a priority since they came to power in 2006. "New free-trade agreements have been signed with eight countries and negotiations are underway with 50 more," he said.

Stephen Harper in Edmonton

I will be attending a rally with Stephen Harper this afternoon in Montreal. here is video from a rally yesterday in edmonton!

No May at debates

Excellent decision by the broadcast consortium. may was not elected and will not be elected. Her party has never has no elected members. She should not be at the debate. I also think there should be one on one debates between iffy and Stephen Harper.


Elizabeth May not invited to leaders’ TV debates



By Cindy E. Harnett

VICTORIA — Green leader Elizabeth May says a broadcast consortium’s decision to exclude her from a televised leaders’ debate is “breathtakingly anti-democratic.”

She is calling on Canadians to rise up and to register their disapproval.

“It’s very important that in the next few hours that Canadians from coast to coast express their concerns,” May told the Victoria Times Colonist. “Otherwise, the old-boys’ club will win.”

Consortium spokesman Marco Dube told media Tuesday only the four leaders whose parties are in the House of Commons — Conservative, Liberal, NDP and Bloc Quebecois — are invited to take part.

HM PM Harper Makes me Proud!

A lovely duet with Maria Aragon!

Iffy fails the test

Professor iffy has announced $1 billion for students. It's not really as generous as the iffy is saying. He would cancel educationa and textbook tax credits. He is canceling $700 million in grants. The way iffy has structured this he may increase student incomes to a point that they are not eligible for existing programs, making them worse off than they are now.  So besides robbing Peter to pay Paul. The big grit program is smoke and mirrors like most grit programs.  Spending programs like this should be eliminated and we should continue with tax relief for  us all.

· $210 million in education tax credits for students in 2010 eliminated.
· $39 million in textbook tax credits for students in 2010 eliminated.
· $240 million of education and textbook tax credits transferred to parents in 2010 eliminated.
· $203 million in carry forward education and textbook tax credits students can use in future years whey they are earning more eliminated.

Income Splitting

 I like the idea of income splitting. It wouldn't help me at all , I am a single man. I would prefer a flat tax and then everyone would get tax relief, but all measures to reduce taxes are a good idea. My friend Sara at Choice For Childcare like the idea and I respect her opinion. I am glad that the Tories will only implement such a promise after our fiscal house is in order. The iffy bq dipper coalition is willing to spend a lot mre now. They want to buy your votes with new social programs, while the Tories want to cut your taxes. I prefer lower taxes!


SAANICH, B.C. — The Conservatives will allow Canadian families with children under 18 to split up to $50,000 of their income annually to lower their taxes, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced Monday.

The tax-saving measure, the first of the Tories’ new promises in this election, was made by Harper on the third day of the campaign.

The initiative would cost the federal treasury $2.5-billion annually, but won’t take effect until the federal government balances its books — which now isn’t expected to take effect until 2015-16, perhaps a year earlier if the Tories are able to cut program costs throughout the government.Harper said the new “Family Tax Cut” will apply to parents with children under 18 and will provide “significant tax relief” to nearly 1.8 million Canadian families who will save an average of $1,300 per year.

No coalition in 2004

gilles duceppe has been busy calling Stephen Harper a liar. he says there was a coalition between the bloc, dipper and Tories. What nonsense. Hear it form duceppe's own mouth. duceppe is the liar. duceppe and the bq is bad for Quebec and bad for Canada.



It is the grits dippers and BQ that have a hidden agenda. They want to form a coalition.

No one believes iffy

A few days ago I wrote I don't believe iffy on the separatists socialist, near socialist agenda.
Apparently no oine believes iffy.


OTTAWA - Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff tried to be as clear as he could on Sunday.

"We're ruling out a coalition," Ignatieff told reporters in Montreal.

And yet, according to an exclusive new poll commissioned by QMI Agency, most Canadians - including his own supporters - simply don't believe him.

Leger Marketing surveyed 1,119 Canadians Saturday and Sunday and asked, among other things, if they believe Ignatieff when he says he's "ruling out a coaliton." Only 17% of those surveyed were prepared to take him at his word.

And even among those who identified themselves as Liberal voters, 35% do not believe their leader's claim while just 32% do believe him. Nearly half of all NDP supporters, two-thirds of BQ supporters and 86% of Tory supporters aren't buying what Iggy's selling when it comes to the coalition.

R.I.P. Corporal Yannick Scherrer

My deepest sympathies to the friends and family of this courageous young hero. He died defending freedom.


For the first time in 2011, a Canadian soldier has died in Afghanistan. Corporal Yannick Scherrer, from Montreal, was killed around noon Sunday by a roadside bomb during a foot patrol in the Panjwaii district southwest of Kandahar City.

He is the first Canadian to die in the Afghanistan campaign in more than three months and just the second since August 2010.

“Our thoughts and deepest condolences go out to Cpl. Scherrer’s family and to the soldiers and friends who served alongside him,” Canada’s top soldier in Kandahar, Brigadier-General Dean Milner, said in a statement read beside the Canadian memorial at Kandahar Airfield.

Cpl. Scherrer’s death brings the total number of Canadian soldiers killed in Afghanistan to 155.

Statement by the Prime Minister of Canada on the death of a Canadian soldier in Afghanistan

March 27, 2011
Ottawa, Ontario

Prime Minister Stephen Harper issued the following statement today on the death of a Canadian soldier:

“I join all Canadians in mourning the loss of Corporal Yannick Scherrer, who was killed by an improvised explosive device while on patrol in Afghanistan. Our sympathies are with his loved ones, friends and colleagues on this tragic day. The entire country is deeply saddened by your loss.

“The relentless commitment of Corporal Scherrer and other brave Canadians in Afghanistan is a source of pride to all Canadians.

“We will forever be grateful for the sacrifice made by Corporal Scherrer.

Dr Roy on Cross Country Checkup

 I was a caller yesterday on Cross Country Checkup. The show was on, what else , the election.
I questined iffy's motives for going to the polls.
You can hear me at 0:29:45 here.

Ipod Tax?

I love my iphone and have owned  at least 6 ipods.  Do the grits want an ipod tax? They deny ever having proposed this but look at this. It seems they were calling it an ipod tax internally while denying it was an ipod tax.

http://gurbaxsinghmalhi.liberal.ca/tag/ipod-tax/

The link has been deleted but interesting to see thats what they were calling it.

Here is the web cache

Liberals propose amendments to Conservatives’ copyright bill to protect the rights of artists

16. Dec, 2010 in News

Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff today outlined several amendments the Liberal Party will be seeking to the Conservatives’ new copyright bill C-32 to protect the rights of artists. “Bill C-32 is flawed and does not strike a proper balance, particularly in ensuring Canadian artists and creators are fairly compensated for their work,” said Mr. Ignatieff. “Our [...]

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Saulie Zajdel, CPC Mont Royal!!

Former City Councillor Saulie Zajdel is now the Tory candidate in Mont Royal. This is great news. He will give Irwin Cotler a run for the money. Saulie was a city councillor for many years and is beloved by all!


But, like Scarpaleggia, Cotler has seen his level of support fall in every one of his four federal election victories, from a staggering 81.2 per cent support in 2000 down to 55.6 per cent in 2008. Meanwhile, the Conservatives have gone from 8.6 per cent support in 2004 to 27.3 per cent in 2008.


Rodolphe Husny in Outremont and Saulie Zajdel in Mont Royal will be a formidable team in the heart of Montreal.

Rex on more grit hypocrisy

The grit contempt for parliament is legendary. So says Rex. grits and their supporters think it is a grit right to be in power and loot the treasury. The grits are entitled to their entitlements. The people of Canada or on to the grit pattern of abuse of power. It's time for a Tory majority or we'll end with a grit dipper separatist coalition.

Rex Murphy: Liberals hope to sell a civics lesson as a campaign theme


Why are we having an election? According to the Liberals, it’s because Stephen Harper is choking Canadian democracy, and, most of all, because he treats Parliament with contempt. That’s ripe from the Liberal party. When it enjoyed unrivalled electoral sway, as it seemingly did forever, it inscribed the A in Autocratic. It was led by Pierre Trudeau, who thought so much of Parliament that he described its elected members as “nobodies.”

When last in power, the Liberal party went on for a full year about fixing the parliamentary “democratic deficit” without of course actually doing anything about it. Any party with Jean Chrétien at its helm for 10 years knows more than a little about playing roughhouse with the House of Commons, and has grown totally comfortable with the art of neutering its own backbench. It’s because of this history, as much as anything else, that the Liberals’ claim that the election is about restoring democracy has no force behind it.

Ambiguous iffy

The liberal msm is trying to give iffy cover. iffy refused to answer the clearly when first asked the question last week. His clarification is just another waffle. The grits know they can't get the most seats. They want to form a coalition with the dippers and bq. Why else would they force an election with such a poll deficit. Here is the letter that still hasn't expired


Yet ambiguity remains. The release is very specific that the no-coalition commitment applies in the event the party that wins the most seats is called on to form the government. It is clear that, if the Liberals are first past the post and can’t gain the confidence of the House, then Mr. Harper would be called on to form the government.

This legitimizes the concept of a coalition, which no-one seriously disputes under the Constitution. But what the statement does not make clear is whether the commitment is unequivocal in the event of a Conservative minority. Could Mr. Harper win on election day and be defeated over his Throne Speech by the opposition, leading to a Liberal-NDP coalition, backed by the Bloc?

Mr. Ignatieff said he has made a formal commitment to the Canadian people. “Your word has to be your bond in this business,” he said – which shows just how fresh to politics he remains.

But he has to make clear that he is ruling out a coalition in all circumstances – even if this kills what may be his best route to 24, Sussex Drive. One thing is for certain – until this issue his finally put to bed, he will not be able to move on to what he really wants to talk about.

I don't believe iffy

The coalition is very much a grit ndp bq strategy.

New Quebec Tory Ads

The campaign has started. Some great new ads.

grits have moved fully to the left

Yesterday iffy wouldn't answer a question about forming a coalition. jack and jill are only too happy to say the will form a coalition. The grits have now toi\tally become a party of the far left. How can blue grits continue to vote for a party like that. It's time for a Tory Majority.
socialism doesn't work.
Michael Ignatieff is usually more cocksure about everything than most people are about anything. But, at his first press conference of the 2011 election campaign in the foyer of the House of Commons, his composure deserted him.

He was asked whether he would pursue a coalition government, even if the Conservatives win the most seats on election day. Mr. Ignatieff hemmed and hawed; he blathered and skited; he baldered and dashed. At the end of expressing how he’d been a Liberal since age 17 and how he was leading a team of proud Canadians to form an alternative government, he concluded: “I can’t be clearer than that.”

But reporters wouldn’t let it lie. “You are not clear at all sir, actually. Do you believe that a coalition is a legitimate parliamentary option that you will pursue … ?”

“I’ve answered that question in the past.”

Angus Reid 14 point Tory Lead

I don't think any party has voluntarily gone to the polls with such numbers in our historyu. Perhaps the polara numbers show something else but that sounds unlikely. These poll numbers are good, but we must all work hard to ensure a strong conservative majority. help elect string candidates like Rodolphe Husny in Outremont, Chris Alexander in Ajax Pickering, Ryan Hastman in Edmonton Strathcona, John Williamson in New Brunswick Southwest and so many more. Donate , volunteer and vote for your local Tory candidate. We must all work together to win a majority.

The Harper Conservatives are at the threshold of a majority government as the country plunges into the fourth election campaign in seven years, according to an exclusive Toronto Star/La Presse poll.

The Angus Reid poll shows that the majority will most likely be won or lost in Ontario with a particularly pitched battle in the 905 belt around Toronto, where the Conservative have worked overtime on the reeling in the ethnic vote.

The survey of 2,365 Canadians reveals the Conservatives are in the lead nationally with 39 per cent support, the Liberals at 25 per cent, and the New Democrats at 19 per cent. The Bloc Québécois has 10 per cent support and the Green Party 7 per cent.

“The Tories are knocking at the door of a majority,” Jaideep Mukerji, vice-president of Angus Reid Public Opinion, said.

Stephen Harper will visit Governor General David Johnston Saturday morning, when the 40th Parliament will be officially dissolved, setting the stage for an early May election.

Even wk is afraid

I dislike and don't particularly trust catsmeat, but it is interesting to read this article. Of course we shouldn't be overconfident. This will be a nasty fight to the end, but it is good to have a demoralized opposition.

Nineteen Eighty-Four wasn’t just the title of a good book by George Orwell.

It’s also a useful reminder of what may be about to happen to the Liberals and NDP in the coming election campaign.

You remember: Sept. 4, 1984, and Brian Mulroney sweeps to a massive parliamentary majority. The once-great Liberal Party — the Natural Governing Party, no less — is reduced to a paltry 40 seats.

Ever since, Grits like me have regarded that year, that number, with a unique combination of fear and awe. And, every so often, we wonder, could history repeat itself?

Well, apparently, it could. If Ipsos’ Thursday night bombshell is to be believed, 1984 is happening all over again.

Ipsos has long been regarded as the gold standard in the Canadian polling industry. My political consulting firm uses them and so do plenty of others, including past Liberal and Tory governments. So the numbers found in its latest survey of public opinion can’t be dismissed. Instead, nervous Grits could perhaps regard the numbers as they would, say, the words carved on the federal Liberal Party’s tombstone.

Conservatives, up to 43%. Liberals, down to 24%. NDP, unchanged at 16%.

And if you just look at voting preferences of those absolutely certain to trek to polling stations, according to Ipsos, the Cons go up to 45%, and the Grits slide to 23%.

La Sagouine

I just attended the Segal Production of La Sagouine. It is an amazing one woman show. The actress who plays the lead is the same actress that originated the role 40 years ago. Indeed she is a retired grit Senator! She gave an absolutely outstanding performance of this iconic Canadian play. The audience was spellbound.
At the reception after the play Antonine Maillet, the playwright, talked about how this was the first time the Acadian language was written down in this way.
I thoroughly enjoyed the evening and recommend you go and see this play.

19 point Tory Lead

The latest poll must be giving the grits ulcers. A 19 point Tory lead inspite of all the opposition mud slinging. I wonder if some grits will be wondering about going to the polls.

Majority government in the pending federal election is there for the Conservatives to lose, if you believe a new poll taken after the budget this week.

The Ipsos Reid poll for Postmedia News has the Tories entering the campaign in majority territory at 43%, almost 20 points ahead of the Liberals, who have fallen back to 24% support. The Harper government recorded a healthy lead over the Liberals in almost every region — ahead by 16 points in Ontario (46 versus 30), seven points in Quebec (25 versus 18) and 28 points in British Columbia (50 versus 22). It also leads among young people, the middle-aged, seniors, men and women.

A coalition?

If there is an election one of the central issues will be whether Canadians want a coalition between the socialists, near socialists and the separatists. iffy wouldn't answer that yesterday.

I don't want these 3 in power. I doubt most Canadians do.


Roy Green: The central election question is — coalition, yes or no?


National Post

Wait a minute, you can't have the big office, I want the big office

Answer the question Mr. Ignatieff. In the event of a minority Conservative Party election result might Canadians be treated to a rebirth of the Liberal, NDP, BQ coalition?

An on the record “yes” or “no” would be preferred. “Maybe” would be acceptable.

Instead you chatter about voters having the choice to walk through a “blue door” or “red door.” By the way, did you, did any of your associates take note that not once, but twice the first option you offered in front of national microphones and cameras was the “blue door”? Still having the bus towed to Harper Diesel are we?

I put the coalition question to Minister for Public Safety Vic Toews on air last weekend and Mr. Toews directly accused you, Jack Layton and Gilles Duceppe or your surrogates of having an in-place coalition agreement. Minutes later Jack Layton declared that to be nonsense but has since agreed he is willing to “reach out to other parties”

Canada Us Relations

I am going to a conference for the next 2 days on US Canada relations sponsored by McGill University and CIC.
It has quite an impressive list of speakers including HM PM Brian Mulroney, Prezident H.W" Bush and HM Minister of Finance Jim Flaherty.
You can be there too. Watch the event live here starting at 4pm EST here. You can even ask questions.

trudeau was a disaster for Canada

David Frum reminds everyone why this is indeed the case. I despise trudeau and almost every thing he ever did or said. He has left Canada far worse off than he found it. he hated the United States and all things English. trudeau's legacy is debt and a strong separatist movement in Quebec. trudeau strongly embraced communist leaders like castro.

Pierre Trudeau inherited a strong, growing and diversified Canadian economy.

When Trudeau at last left office for good in 1984, Canadians were still feeling the effects of Canada’s worst recession since the Great Depression. Eight years later, the country would tumble into another and even worse recession.

The two recessions 1981-82 and 1992-93 can both fairly be laid at Trudeau’s door.

Pierre Trudeau took office at a moment when commodity prices were rising worldwide. Then as now, rising commodity prices buoyed the Canadian economy. Good policymakers recognize that commodity prices fall as well as rise. A wise government does not make permanent commitments based on temporary revenues. Yet between 1969 and 1979 – through two majority governments and one minority – Trudeau tripled federal spending.

L. Ian Macdonald on Budget 2011

L.Ian Macdonald thinks that the Tories will have an easy time running on this budget. I tend to agree. It looks like I am wrong ( certainly not the first time and definitely not the last) and there will be an election. The Tories are very ready for an election. I guess the grits have gone cap in hand begging to the many banks they will need to finance this ill advised election. I don't think I can tolerate a month of whining iffy. If there is to be an election so be it. Our candidate in Outremonet Rodlophe Husny is ready!



Jim Flaherty's sixth budget isn't about economic policy or fiscal frameworks. It's a political statement, one to run on in an election in the event the government is defeated on it.

And it may well be, after Jack Layton jumped his own gun and announced in the lobby of the Commons Tuesday that the NDP would "not be supporting the budget in its present form."

Would he be open to amendments? Sure, but he couldn't really see how an election could be avoided at this point.

The NDP had put it out that Layton would sleep on it Tuesday night, and announce his decision after meeting his caucus on Wednesday morning. But that's Layton for you.

This is a budget for the Conservatives to campaign on, a consumer budget aimed squarely at middle-class voters and families. Consider, for example the Children's Arts Tax Credit of up to $500 of expenses for children under 16.

Maxime Bernier

Had the pleasure of seeing a lot of friends at a fundraiser for Maxime Bernier at the historic Mont Royal Club in Montreal! The Rt Honourable Brian Mulroney gave a great speech. Maxime seemed genuinely pleased by the large turnout and by the presence of one of his mentors, Brian Mulroney. There was a big crowd and everyone had a wonderful time. Our Outremont Candidate Rodolphe Husny was there as well.

Dr. Patrick Moore

Sebastian Cote , director fraser institute Montreal

The Fraser Institute sponsored a lunch with Dr Patrick Moore one of the greenpeace. He has written a new book called Confessions of a Greenpeace dropout. Dr Moore is a practical environmentalist. He started off his talks saying humans are part of nature. He thinks, like I do , that a lot of the radical environmentalists are very anti human. See the clip below from Not Evil Just wrong. He is a believer of science and said he left greenpeace after they started ignoring science and become increasingly marginal. Dr Moore is a practical environmentalist. He is very sceptical of global warming and thinks that the science in that case has become totally politicized. Dr Moore is a man of silence. It was a pleasure to listen to someone who I didn't always agree with, but he mad his points with facts and was willing to change his mind based on facts. I had a chance to chat with him. I very informative and pleasantt lunch!

HM Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Jason Kenney

I am a big fan of HM Minister Jason Kenney. I am lucky to count him as a friend. He is a truly amazing person with an encyclopedic knowledge of religions and culture. He is an excellent Minister . He has left the Church of England and joined Rome, but I will forgive him for that lapse.:) He like I, is a staunch defender of the Canadian Crown.
Here is an interview he did with Salt and light TV.

Happy 80th Bill!

I am a trekkie. I have seen every one of TOS 20 times. It is William Shatner's 80th Birthday. I have always loved William Shatner. He is now one of the funniest actors on TV! I wish him a very happy birthday!

The Budget

 Today is Budget day in Canada. What would I like to see in the budget? Deep cuts to all funding of advocacy groups. Defund the hrc industry. Large cuts to cbc. Major cuts to government departments such as eliminating the sow. A solid plan to cut the civil service to 1990 levels. An elimination of the capital gains tax and a flat tax. Raise the age of retirement to 68. Address equalization!
This is pretty good as well.
The federal budget that will be brought down later today by Finance Minister Jim Flaherty is unlikely to contain many surprises. Small-c conservatives, including some within the Conservative party, are baying for deep spending cuts. Meanwhile, opposition parties are howling about bringing the government down if there is too little new spending on universities, home care, daycare, unemployment, seniors and Quebec. Mr. Flaherty is likely to respond to these competing pressures by avoiding both dramatic new spending and drastic tax cuts, in the hope that all sides are satisfied just enough to avoid defeat of the government in the House of Commons.

That’s politics. But fortunately, we’re not politicians. And so we won’t let the reality of a minority Parliament interfere with our dreams for a truly ideal budget.

Threats at McGill Followup

Well the news story has had a lot of coverage, even on Fox, Maclean's and many blogs including the filmaker of Indoctrinate U Evan Coyne Maloney, Mike Adams at Townhall ( Mike also mentions the Prince Arthur Herald), The Jawa report, Jihad watch, Atlas Shrugs and many others. There was a follow up piece in the Tribune. The Prince Arthur Herald also covered this story.
 I'm glad that some people are paying attention. It is a serious thing to make death threats against people. I have yet to see  an apology.

Update An apology

Is Quebec freeloading?

Yes of course it s. My home province has 60% of all daycare spaces, turition half the national average and many other programs all paid with Alberta oil money. Come to our RLQ event on April 16, 2011 to hear more.


Graeme Hamilton: Quebec, tired of being portrayed as a freeloader, demands more

Graeme Hamilton Mar 21, 2011
Among the hundreds of pages of documents tabled last week to support the 2011-12 Quebec budget, one booklet was aimed squarely at readers outside the province.

Under the title, Update on Federal Transfers, it contained a seemingly contradictory message. On the one hand, Quebec does not appreciate being depicted as a sponge that soaks up federal money to fund generous social programs not offered elsewhere; on the other hand, Quebec would like billions more dollars from Ottawa, please.

More Polls

 So the Ipsos Reid poll shows the Tories are most trusted and the grits at the bottom when it comes to honesty. Not a surprise, the libranos history of corruption is well known.

28 per cent of Canadians believe the Conservatives, if reelected, would do the best job of "providing honest, open and trustworthy government."

. 22 per cent believe the NDP would do the best job of this.

. Just 15 per cent say the Liberals would be best at providing honest, open and trustworthy government....
When it comes to the party that can do the best job at "making sure our economic recovery continues," 37 per cent chose the Tories, while significantly fewer believe the Liberals (20 per cent) or NDP (14 per cent) are best positioned to do this.

Thinking about which party would "keep taxes under control," 36 per cent believe the Conservatives are best able to do this, while fewer believe the Liberals (17 per cent) or NDP (16 per cent).

One in three (33 per cent) believe the Conservatives would do the best job at "spending taxpayers money wisely," while others believe the NDP (18 per cent) or Liberals (16 per cent) would do the best job of this.




A Nanos poll with an 11 point Tory lead is being spun as bad news. HM PM Harper's personal rating went fromm 99 to 83. iffy is at 40! More spin from
grit free campaign team.

HRH Prince William in Oz

HRH continues on to Oz to bring comfort to the victims of flooding and a cyclone.


Prince William sends Australia wild with visit by ITN

pat and david make fools of themselves

Here is HM Minister Oda's statement and the dipper attack dog martin. david mcguinty isn't any better. This Sun editorial is spot on.

If you can get by the foam coming from the mouths of the Liberal-NDP coalition's two attack dogs, respectively MPs David McGuinty and Pat Martin, then May 2 appears to be the day Canadians will be forced to the polls.

Ottawa is such a busy place, however, that it is often difficult to keep track of all the side shows.

Adler on pretty boy justin

Shama Chopra , the new CPC candidate in Papineau will be a real MP for her constituents. The dauphin and his "leader will both be looking for new jobs.

Multiculturalism mine
You almost want to excuse Trudeau for falling into dad’s trap. Almost

Everyone knows by now that Justin Trudeau is uncomfortable being out of the limelight.

This week he Charlie Sheened himself back into the spotlight by saying he was “uncomfortable” with the word “barbaric” being associated with certain cultural practices in Africa and Asia. Justin was hurling this politically correct vomit all over Twitter. He thought he had an opportunity to make the Harper government look insensitive to visible minority immigrants and he seized it.

Michael Ignatieff defended Justin. Canada’s “visiting professor” would sooner flunk the Christ child than mark “incomplete” on the report card of Pierre Trudeau’s eldest son. Pierre Trudeau, the patron saint of the modern day Liberal Party, is the midwife of state-sponsored, state-subsidized, state-corrupted multiculturalism.

A tiny part of me wants to give Justin a pass.

Perhaps it’s not really his fault that he slipped on the multicultural banana peel. It was left for him by the 800-pound gorilla, his father.

But to excuse him would be to behave like a modern-day Liberal, to absolve him of responsibility for his own actions.

And he is a man.

Many still coddle and swaddle him, but this coming Christmas Day, he turns 40. Let’s not infantilize him the way his dad’s nanny state has tried to infantilize so many groups in this country, including visible minorities who have immigrated to Canada. These are not children who cannot hear a Canadian leader giving them the all-too-infrequent straight talk.

Salim Mansur on Libya and Japan

I agree with Prof Mansur that Japan with the help of its western allies will indeed recover.

The terrifying natural disaster from the tsunami that swept through a part of Japan, leaving in its massive surge coastal areas wrecked and human casualties still being counted, also ironically swept from the headlines the man-made wreckage of Libyan towns and people by Moammar Gadhafi’s gangsters.

Japan will recover from the wreckage wrought by the tsunami, as it did after the terrible destructions of the Second World War. It is a modern country, and the Japanese are a gifted people. They are proud, resilient, patriotic — and since 1945, a people devoted to peace having absorbed full well the lessons from the criminality of war.

Two weeks ago, I indicated Gadhafi likely will prevail, with his military forces unleashed without any compunction against the opposition. Gadhafi will have done this by taking lessons from the pages of Arab-Muslim history — an Arab ruler must not hesitate to lop off as many heads as necessary to quell the notion that people have rights, and to put fear into the hearts and minds of the rest of the population lucky to survive their ruler’s wrath.

The practice of Arab rule is the pre-modern principle that the prince is absolutely sovereign, and he remains so as long as he, surrounded by a loyal coterie, can hold his threatening scimitar above the people.

Rex on the fallen obamessiah

bo is not the chosen one anymore. He is not a leader. rex sums him up very well


Rex Murphy: When crisis strikes the world, Obama falls silent

There’s a great vacancy at the top of the world: A retreat by the American government from its global leadership role.

From the end of the First World War right up until about a year ago, there could be no gainsaying the predominant role of the United States in the world, the product of its economic and military power, and its active, however spotty, promotion of the core concepts of liberty and democracy. The tired metaphor of the United States as a beacon to the oppressed has been no less true for all its fatigue. Similarly, the style, vigour and continuously innovative broad popular culture of the United States has proved to be a benign contagion to the young of the world, meaning that America also has had an enormous secondary or “soft” influence on the great events and broad currents of an always changing and dangerous globe.

Hebert on the circus that is Parliament

The opposition parties last week showed themselves to be the very little, petty people they are.
While HM Government will help defend the population of Libya and tried to help the people of our ally Japan, the opoostion talked about spending money on sports stadia and trying to bring up more non scandals. As Chantal Hebert notes it is trivial pursuit.


This was the week when the opposition parties had hoped to focus public attention on the Conservative government’s cavalier approach to Parliament.

Instead they unwittingly ended up providing voters with another vignette of the growing disconnect between parliamentarians and the public.

In a week when most Canadians wondered how the country would cope with a crisis on the scale of that which has befallen Japan, the merits of funding sports arenas and the relative crudeness of the wording of an updated citizenship guide were uppermost on the mind of some of Canada’s leading politicians.

Against the backdrop of a potential nuclear disaster in the immediate vicinity of Tokyo, the main federal attractions featured a government on a publicly funded vote-shopping spree and three opposition parties engaged in a procedural inquisition.

Tim Hudak will be Premier of Ontario in October

Inspite of grit front organizations like the working families coalition. The Ontario Tories have a solid lead over dalton mcliar. Tim Hudak has called out the so called working families coalition for exactly what it is a grit front organization. The Ontario Tories have started a site to fight grit lies. Visit The Truth about Tim Hudak. Let's see who funds the working families coalition, they say they are independent. Let's see a list of their funders.


Ontario Tories continue to hold solid lead over Liberals, poll says
Megan O' Toole, National Post · Mar. 19, 2011 | Last Updated: Mar. 19, 2011 4:07 AM ET

TORONTO . The Progressive Conservatives continue to hold a solid lead over the governing Liberals in Ontario, a new Nanos poll shows, with just over six months to go until a provincial election.

The random telephone survey of 504 electors placed Tim Hudak's Tories at 44% among decided voters, nine points ahead of Premier Dalton McGuinty's Liberals -a lead that held when respondents were asked who would make the best premier.

HRH Prince William in New Zealand

HRH Prince William has flown to New Zealand to give support to the people of that afflicted Dominion.

IDF and Settlers save Palestinian mom and baby

While Palestinian murders kill babies, the Israeli save the children of their enemies. The Palestinian death cult trains their children to become suicide bombers. It celebrates the death of Israeli children.
I'm so proud that our friend and ally Israel values life.

IDF forces and local paramedics helped save the life of a Palestinian woman and her newly born infant Wednesday, at the settlement where Fogel relatives are sitting Shiva for the five Israelis brutally murdered last week.
Just as IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz arrived in Neve Tzuf to offer his condolences, a Palestinian cab raced towards the community’s entrance. In it, soldiers and paramedics discovered a Palestinian woman in her 20s in advanced stages of labor and facing a life-threatening situation: The umbilical cord was wrapped around the young baby girl’s neck, endangering both her and her mother.
The quick action of settler paramedics and IDF troops deployed in the area saved the mother’s and baby’s life, prompting great excitement and emotions at the site where residents are still mourning the brutal death of five local family members.

grit scandals

if you want to see real scandals pseudochretien and his libranos can't be beat. Who got those brown paper bags full of cash that subverted election? The libranos will never tell. Many millions are still missing. My friend Paul Tuns has a summary.

Paul Tuns

It has been seven years since Auditor General Sheila Fraser made public her findings on the federal Sponsorship Program. For those with short memories, this was the scheme that benefited the federal Liberal party’s brand in Quebec — and the coffers of Liberal-friendly advertising agencies — through government financing of sporting and cultural events in the province. The scandal broke merely two months after Jean Chrétien stepped down as Liberal leader and prime minister, and contributed to the defeat of his successor, Paul Martin, in 2006.

But the Sponsorship scandal was merely the worst of the indignities plaguing — but never dethroning — the Chrétien government over its decade-long reign. The others included: Breaking his promise to scrap the GST; interfering with commissions investigating Canada’s tainted blood system in Canada; covering up the brutalization of a Somali teen at the hands of Canadian armed forces; allegations of interference by the Prime Minister’s Office in the police crackdown on the 1997 APEC summit in British Columbia; responding to an aggressive protestor by violently choking him and chipping his tooth; lobbying the Business Development Bank of Canada to grant a loan to a friend involved in the purchase of a property in Shawinigan; and the Human Resources Development Canada debacle, in which it was found that HRDC-funded job-creation projects, mostly in Liberal ridings, routinely lacked proper paperwork.

R.I.P. Kenneth Rea and Raymond Waler

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

Two brave volunteer firefighters died fighting a fire. I have immense admiration for firefighters and volunteer firefighters are just amazing people. My deepest sympathies to the friends and families of these fallen heroes.

LISTOWEL, Ont. - Two volunteer firefighters have died battling a blaze at a store in Listowel, Ont.
The firefighters were noticed to be missing as the Listowel Volunteer Fire Department battled a fire Thursday afternoon at a Dollar Store in the southwestern Ontario community.
Provincial police say a search of the building revealed that two firefighters had succumbed to injuries sustained while fighting the fire.
Police and Listowel's mayor identified the firefighters as 30-year-old Raymond Walter from Listowel and 56-year-old Kenneth Rea from Atwood
The Ontario Fire Marshal's office is investigating and a spokesman for the North Perth Fire Service said he could not comment on the incident.
Premier Dalton McGuinty released a statement Thursday night expressing condolences to the family, friends and colleagues of the firefighters.
"I was saddened to learn today of the death of two volunteer firefighters in Listowel," McGuinty said.

When Middle East Politics Invade the Campus

Liberal McGill President kathleen Klein and Conservative President Jess Weiser

Yesterday I attended an event with MP Marc Garneau and HM Minster John Baird. It was an event cosponsored by Liberal McGill and Conservative McGill at Hillel house. Both of them roundly condemned Israeli apartheid week. It was nice to see bipartisan support against this hate filled week of events. I had a nice chat with Mr Garneau about osteoporosis and space travel. I must say he is a grit , but he is a most gracious and soft spoken man. Each spoke for 10 minutes and then there were questions. A question was asked about the threats to members of Conservative McGill. Both Garneau and Baird said the threats must be taken seriously and investigated.
A question was also asked about hopefully ,soon to be ex student rector, nick day. Hm Min Baird graduated from Queen's and both men denounced day's editorial in favour of IAW. Some students from Queens were in the room.
A great event against IAW.


here is the video of that event I attended last month in Toronto:When Middle east Politics Invade the Campus.



Lorne Saltman, President of Advocates for Civil Liberties from Advocates for Civil Liberties on Vimeo.



JUDGE HADASSA BEN ITTO for the Conference: "When Middle East Politics Invade Campus" from Advocates for Civil Liberties on Vimeo.


Student Leaders Speak Out from Advocates for Civil Liberties on Vimeo.


Andrew Roberts from Advocates for Civil Liberties on Vimeo.


Dr. Richard Cravatts, Boston University: The War Against Israel on Campus from Advocates for Civil Liberties on Vimeo.


PHYLLIS CHESLER: The New Antisemitism from Advocates for Civil Liberties on Vimeo.



ELLIOT CHODOFF Realities of War…Perspectives for Peace from Advocates for Civil Liberties on Vimeo.


GIL TROY, SALIM MANSUR, DR.CATHERINE CHATTERLEY: Changing the Narrative on Campus from Advocates for Civil Liberties on Vimeo.

More on pretty boy justin

Seems pretty boy justin has made a non apology apology. If there is an election the Tories have a new candidate who will take him down. Shama Chopra is the new Tory candidate in Papineau. She is an outstanding candidate and she will defeat pretty boy justin.


Trudeau's weasel words 'absolutely unacceptable'




BY NAOMI LAKRITZ, CALGARY HERALD MARCH 17, 2011 4:02 AM




For someone whose father didn't mince words -remember "The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation," "Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent," and "Fuddleduddle"? -Justin Trudeau didn't exactly act like a chip off the old block this week.


Trudeau, MP for the Montreal riding of Papineau and the Liberals' immigration critic, objected to the use of the word "barbaric" in Ottawa's new citizenship guide to spell out Canada's stance on honour killings and other violence against women.


"There's nothing that the word 'barbaric' achieves that the words 'absolutely unacceptable' would not have achieved," Trudeau said.


So, I had a look at the Oxford Paperback Dictionary and Thesaurus. It lists the synonyms for barbaric as cruel, brutal, barbarous, brutish, savage, vicious, wicked, ruthless, vile and inhuman. "Absolutely unacceptable" isn't on the synonym list.

                                        Sama Chopra  HM Minister Baird

Canadians don't want an election and the Tories still have a big lead

Another day, another poll showing a 13 point lead for the Tories. The grits are unchanged. they are a party with no momentum and stumbling pretty boy doofii. The Tories will get the budget on the records and the grit mudslinging startegy will continue to fail. I actually attended  an event with Dr Darell Bricker last night with Conservative McGill. He also seems surprised that the grits want an election.


The poll, conducted March 7 to 9, found the Conservatives were still well-positioned as they prepare for the vote in the Commons. If an election had been held last week, 40 per cent of decided voters would have supported the Tories, a three percentage point drop from the last poll in February.

Support for the Liberals remained unchanged at 27 per cent, while the NDP's support grew by three percentage points, to 16 per cent. The Green party would receive five per cent of the vote.

Darrell Bricker, president of Ipsos Reid, said Tuesday the poll results are good news for the government because there are no "clear expectations" among Canadians about what the budget will contain, and there is little public support for the Tories to be defeated over the issue. "This is exactly the kind of ambiguity the government needs," said Bricker.

Her Majesty's Government

I am a strong supporter of the Tory party, but I would never call Her Majesty's Canadian Government , the Harper Government. Father de Souza understands this. I am disappointed that HM Government does not. We are a constitutional Monarchy. The Crown is the ultimate protector of the people.
Contempt for Parliament is serious thing. The Speaker's ruling, welcome though it was, is rather late to the game. For generations, Her Majesty's Government -that's the proper name for it, by the way, independent of who holds the premiership -has been treating Parliament with contempt.

A generation or two back, visiting the office of a freshman MP, I noted an unusual figurine on the shelf -a circus seal balancing a coloured ball.

Tragedy in Japan

I am truly saddened by the tragedy in japan. I pray for the safety of the people of Japan. HIM The Emperor Akihito has spoken to the nation. Please donate to the Red Cross.



Many brave people are going to Japan to help. God bless all of our allies and friends. Let us all do whatever we can to help!

Barbara Kay on Pretty boy justin

The failure of multiculturalism is once again made clear by the empty headed dauphin. Keep on talking justin, you make more Tory converts daily. The liberal party's years of pandering to immigrant communities ( or mostly to immigrant leaders) for votes , has turned that party into a multicultural relativist mess. Unfortunately he and his vile father brought Canada into that mess.

Barbara Kay: Trudeau the multiculturalist walks into trap of his own making

What I mean to say was ... ummm ...
An updated government information pamphlet for newcomers to Canada, “Discover Canada,” warns against such “barbaric” practices as honour killings, forced marriages and other immoral or criminal practices. Federal Liberal Immigration critic Justin Trudeau yesterday made it known that he is “uncomfortable” with the word “barbaric.” “You could say it’s absolutely unacceptable as a phrase,” says Trudeau, adding that the word could have the effect of making newcomers “defensive.”

Reaction from the blogosphere, as well as from Conservatives, to Trudeau’s reflexive political correctness was swift and uncompromising. Immigration Minister Jason Kenney responded that the language in Discover Canada is deliberate and accurate. “There’s nothing more brutal than killing a woman because of some perceived slight to family honour,” Mr. Kenney observed.

Taken aback by the kerfuffle, Mr. Trudeau backtracked. In an email to The Globe and Mail, he wrote: “Perhaps I got tangled in semantic weeds in my comments, particularly in view of the Conservatives’ cynicism on these issues. I want to make clear that I think the acts described are heinous, barbaric acts that are totally unacceptable in our society.”

I’m puzzled by Trudeau’s logic. Both Justin Trudeau and the Conservatives believe that honour killings are “barbaric.” But according to Mr. Trudeau, the Conservatives’ views on immigration are “cynical.” Therefore, actually identifying honour-motivated crimes as “barbaric” in an official document is unacceptable to people like Liberals, who are not cynical about immigration, and who are therefore made uncomfortable by accurate adjectives pointing to unpleasant realities.

Death of Environmentalism?

A speech given at Yale! Some rational ideas for our green friends. Even their allies are beginning to wonder.

Last week Breakthrough co-founders Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus returned to Yale University for a retrospective on their seminal 2004 essay, "The Death of Environmentalism." In their speech they argued that the critical work of rethinking green politics was cut short by fantasies about green jobs and "An Inconvenient Truth." The latter backfired -- more Americans started to believe news of global warming was being exaggerated after the movie came out -- the former made false promises that could not be realized by cap and trade. What is an earnest green who cares about global warming to do now? In this speech, Nordhaus and Shellenberger reflect on what went so badly awry, and offer 12 Theses for a post-environmental approach to climate change.


by Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger

It is a great pleasure to be here at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies for this retrospective on "The Death of Environmentalism." In early 2005 Yale invited us to debate that essay, and since then the School has continued to demonstrate a genuine interest in what our friend and colleague Peter Teague has taken to calling ecological innovation. You train your students to ask hard questions -- we saw this first hand in 2010 Breakthrough Fellow and Yale School Masters candidate David Mitchell -- and your flagship publication, Yale360, is publishing some of the most interesting green thinkers today. We are grateful once again for this opportunity to reflect on the nearly seven years since we wrote our essay, and make some new arguments about what the green movement must do now.

Threats at McGill

Last week I went to a Conservative McGill/ Libertarian McGill event. It was a showing of the excellent documentary Indocrinate U. It is about the overwhelming leftists bias on University campuses in the US ( applies just as much to Canada). There were maybe 20 people in the room. It was announced before and was open to the McGill committee.
Afterwards I went out for coffe with Brendan Stevens , Kevin Pidgeon and Zach Paikin of the Prince Arthur Herald. It had been a pleasant evening.
A few days later I was told by friends from Conservative McGill about a student who had been in the room and had threatened us all with violence. Read his twitter feed above. He has deleted his twitter account but there multiple people who have screen shots of his twitter feed. I didn't see this person, but there is a picture of him at the event and he was tweeting that he wanted to kill us all while at the event. The police and administration are already involved. The story was reported today in the McGill Tribune. I hope these are just the ramblings of a an immature fool, but many of the students who were at the event, and  even I am a bit spooked.

 Watch the movie that so inflamed this person.

Indoctrinate U -Part 1/3 @ Yahoo! Video

Indoctrinate U -Part 2/3 @ Yahoo! Video

Indoctrinate U -Part 3/3 @ Yahoo! Video

Reseau Liberte Quebec: April 16, 2011 in Montreal

Things are going very well for our April16, 2011 event. You should register now to avoid disappointment , like last time when we were sold out! Join the RLQ for a mere $20 and you can have a discount on our events and take our survey. It should be a lot of fun.!
We have great speakers including Danielle Smith!

Hebert sees a Tory Majority and a bloc disintegration?

An interesting piece by Chantal Hebert on why a Tory majority would be very bad for the bloc. Anything bad for the bloc makes me very happy indeed.

In an election held last week Duceppe could have knocked off a handful of Conservative MPs.

But an election held under such auspicious circumstances could also result in an inauspicious outcome for the Bloc.

While the path to a potential Conservative majority is unlikely to run through Quebec in the next election, polls suggest that a combination of gains in Ontario, Newfoundland/Labrador and British Columbia could bring Harper over the line.

A stronger Bloc caucus that ended up sitting across from a Conservative majority in the next Parliament would be akin to a dog that had traded its bite for a louder bark.

The loss of opposition influence that is attendant to majority rule would only be the first of many new headaches for the Bloc.

More so than any other party it has come to depend on the per-vote subsidy to finance itself. Along with the long-gun registry, that subsidy would be in the crosshairs of a Conservative majority government.

Its elimination alone might not cripple the Bloc to the degree that some pundits predict but it is not far-fetched to assume that Duceppe would bow out of the House of Commons at some point in the four-year course of a majority mandate. He is in his third decade in federal politics.

The combination of a substantial decrease in public funding and a lesser-known rookie leader would spell hard times for the Bloc.

Happy Commonwealth Day

I love the fact that Canada is a member of the Commonwealth. Today is Commonwealth day. i would love to see the Commonwealth as a huge free trade zone. The Commonwealth represents 1/3 of the earth's peoples.

Here is HM The Queen's Commonwealth Day Message.


Our honoured War Dead

The Secret Garden

I attended the new Mirvish production of The Secret Garden.
I have seen this musical at least twice before. I enjoy the story of redemption and self discovery. I enjoyed this production. I thought the characters were well cast and the sets and costumes sumptious. However I do agree that the children were somewhat overshadowed by the added spectors. It was a bit scary to be a children's story. I was also annoyed by a woman who brought a perfectly adorable 2 year old boy to the theater. It as not the child's fault, but he talked throughout most of the performance. ugh.

Krauthammer on defunding npr

Krauthammer slaps down npr resident lefty Nina Totenberg. cbc should be privatized. I don't object if they want to be the media wing of the liberal party, but let it do it without state money.



and of course Juan Williams, not lefty and pc enough for npr.

Judge Napolitano vs al sharpton on unions

Judge Napolitano challenges leftist al sharpton on unions.

Andrew Bolt slaps down Eu Carbon commisoner

Andrew Bolton asks a so called carbon guru some basic questions.
Hopefully Oz's dion, gillard, will be stopped from bringing in a carbon tax( which she promised not to).

THERE are two fundamental questions journalists never ask the Gillard Government about its mad scheme to cut our emissions.

They're the two questions we'd ask whether buying a ShamWow cloth or a Merc.

One, how much will this cost?

Two, how well will it work?
So when you get a government selling you a huge new plan to cut our emissions by 5 per cent by 2020 to help stop global warming, it seems even more critical to ask them.
Prime Minister, how much will your plan to transform our economy cost? And by how much will it cut temperatures?

Basic, right? So why have you never heard these questions asked?

Why has this government never told you how much the temperature will fall in exchange for the X billions we'll pay?

I'll tell you. If they tried to answer, they'd look as silly as Jill Duggan.



Duggan helps to run Europe's emissions trading system, which is the biggest in the world, covering 25 times more people than we have here.

And if anyone should be the full bottle on that scheme - which has in fact been rorted sideways while achieving bugger-all for a Europe with 10 per cent unemployment - it should be her.

After all, Duggan is from the European Commission's Directorate General of Climate Action and is the EC's National Expert on Carbon Markets and Climate Change.



Listen to Andrew Bolt slap down duggan.

Chris Alexander

Chris Alexander is profiled in the Globe today. He is the CPC candidate in Ajax Pickering. He will be a great MP. Please vote, donate and volunteer to help this great man become the CPC MP in Ajax Pickering.


Mr. Alexander would be a dream candidate for any party. He's young (42), photogenic, smart and likeable, and he has a fabulous résumé. As a foreign service prodigy, he was named Canada's first ambassador to Afghanistan at the tender age of 34,

and stayed on as a United Nations special representative until 2009. “When I arrived in Kabul, we didn't even have an embassy there,” he says. “We worked our asses off.” He immersed himself in Afghanistan's history and culture, and earned wide respect from Afghans and foreigners alike. But for all of his efforts, Kabul and Afghanistan are still a mess.