Wait, were you not extolling the virtues of premiers looking out for their own provinces a few weeks ago?
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MilEME09
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May i remind you a few months ago Pierre was making fun of the liberals for going up north to announce their arctic plans. Wondering if they were visiting Santa. This is a cpc that's lost its message
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That's a fair observation.
Do you see correlation there ? I honestly see them as two separate situations and judge them as singular.
For me I see a difference in a premier acting for the best interest of the country. And another trying to be an obstruction.
And in all honesty that letter is pretty tame.
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Interesting take from a former GG and former PPCLI/GGFG/GGHG/Cdn Grenadier Guards Honorary Colonel ....
www.theglobeandmail.com
Also viewable (via Google Translate) here if firewalled for you.
Shared under the Fair Dealing provisions of the Copyright Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. C-42).
"Let’s face it: the rules of the game have changed. The election of Donald Trump means we are now in a world whose rules we never imagined could be broken so quickly and so arbitrarily. When I watch the Rorschach blobs of orange and yellow that signify the image of the current President of the United States, I diagnose him with logorrhea – he cannot start talking without continuing to talk – and talk – and talk. The moment he sees a microphone, he has to talk. On inauguration day, this 78-year-old man continued nonstop, from microphone to microphone, with his incoherent ramblings.
At times, I see hope in his condition because he obviously doesn’t know what he’s saying most of the time. However, the people who he has put in power and who are interpreting his instructions are very frightening. He has been democratically given the authority to try anything. He can call the Prime Minister of Denmark and try to buy Greenland. He can rename the Gulf of Mexico and announce that he will take back the Panama Canal.
We watch Mr. Trump’s breakneck hurtling down the airless passage of monomania. We cannot escape it without cutting ourselves off from the reality of everything that is around us.
Sometimes listening to Mr. Trump reminds you of your funny old uncle Bert who you go to visit with your mother twice a year at his retirement home. He raves on about “those people they let in” whenever he’s not complaining about how the scrambled eggs are overcooked. But this person is not uncle Bert – he is the President of the United States, the most powerful country in the world. We cannot pretend that everything is normal. We should not hope that this too will pass.
The second term of Donald Trump means that we in Canada have to be even more watchful, careful and clever in our reactions to his actions. We have to overcome our disbelief and suspend our feelings. It has really happened.
Recently visiting the University of Tübingen in Germany, I learned that in 1931 they fired their only Jewish professor – two years before Hitler came to power. A combination of disbelief and passivity make a dangerous cocktail in the face of unscrupulous domination. We must beware of what Timothy Snyder warns of in his book On Tyranny. It is called “anticipatory obedience” or “vorauseilender Gehorsam” in German. Hitler and the Nazis benefited from it. It is a resonant and depressing fact that most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given in times like these, in moments of historical apprehension.
So, what are we to do as Canadians in our professions and our personal lives? The most important factor is that we are all Canadians and we have to behave like Canadians. We all have to brush up on our history and realize that we live in one of the oldest continuous democracies. John Ralston Saul, who wrote the biography of Robert Baldwin and the reformers of 1848 in Upper Canada, has been saying this for a long time, but it is necessary to keep emphasizing it. Because it is true. We have had in our history no civil war, no rewriting of the Constitution. We have had a continuous democracy since 1848. We must treasure that. We must protect it.
What we have to do is to continue to believe in the project that is Canada, and which has despite so many difficulties and challenges remained the Canada that we know: bilingual, based on the Magna Carta, and parliamentary democracy. A Canada that has a Charter of Rights and Freedoms and a Canada that is bilingual in French and English. These are things that do not need to be changed; these are things that are valuable; these are things that make us Canadian.
We are going to be constantly challenged and threatened. We must continue doing things for others. We must continue to be a welcoming nation. We must continue our path of reconciliation with Indigenous people. We must continue these things because we know that’s the right thing to do. We must continue to do them because it makes us more human to do them. Canadians can only try to mitigate whatever evils there are in the world, even if they come from our closest neighbour with whom we share an unguarded border.
We must always remember the words of the great reformer Joseph Howe who, in 1835, posed the most important Canadian questions: “What is right? What is just? What is for the public good?” "
Opinion: Under Trump, the rules of the game have completely changed
The U.S. President’s second term means that we have to be even more watchful, careful and clever in our reactions to his actions
www.theglobeandmail.com
Shared under the Fair Dealing provisions of the Copyright Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. C-42).
"Let’s face it: the rules of the game have changed. The election of Donald Trump means we are now in a world whose rules we never imagined could be broken so quickly and so arbitrarily. When I watch the Rorschach blobs of orange and yellow that signify the image of the current President of the United States, I diagnose him with logorrhea – he cannot start talking without continuing to talk – and talk – and talk. The moment he sees a microphone, he has to talk. On inauguration day, this 78-year-old man continued nonstop, from microphone to microphone, with his incoherent ramblings.
At times, I see hope in his condition because he obviously doesn’t know what he’s saying most of the time. However, the people who he has put in power and who are interpreting his instructions are very frightening. He has been democratically given the authority to try anything. He can call the Prime Minister of Denmark and try to buy Greenland. He can rename the Gulf of Mexico and announce that he will take back the Panama Canal.
We watch Mr. Trump’s breakneck hurtling down the airless passage of monomania. We cannot escape it without cutting ourselves off from the reality of everything that is around us.
Sometimes listening to Mr. Trump reminds you of your funny old uncle Bert who you go to visit with your mother twice a year at his retirement home. He raves on about “those people they let in” whenever he’s not complaining about how the scrambled eggs are overcooked. But this person is not uncle Bert – he is the President of the United States, the most powerful country in the world. We cannot pretend that everything is normal. We should not hope that this too will pass.
The second term of Donald Trump means that we in Canada have to be even more watchful, careful and clever in our reactions to his actions. We have to overcome our disbelief and suspend our feelings. It has really happened.
Recently visiting the University of Tübingen in Germany, I learned that in 1931 they fired their only Jewish professor – two years before Hitler came to power. A combination of disbelief and passivity make a dangerous cocktail in the face of unscrupulous domination. We must beware of what Timothy Snyder warns of in his book On Tyranny. It is called “anticipatory obedience” or “vorauseilender Gehorsam” in German. Hitler and the Nazis benefited from it. It is a resonant and depressing fact that most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given in times like these, in moments of historical apprehension.
So, what are we to do as Canadians in our professions and our personal lives? The most important factor is that we are all Canadians and we have to behave like Canadians. We all have to brush up on our history and realize that we live in one of the oldest continuous democracies. John Ralston Saul, who wrote the biography of Robert Baldwin and the reformers of 1848 in Upper Canada, has been saying this for a long time, but it is necessary to keep emphasizing it. Because it is true. We have had in our history no civil war, no rewriting of the Constitution. We have had a continuous democracy since 1848. We must treasure that. We must protect it.
What we have to do is to continue to believe in the project that is Canada, and which has despite so many difficulties and challenges remained the Canada that we know: bilingual, based on the Magna Carta, and parliamentary democracy. A Canada that has a Charter of Rights and Freedoms and a Canada that is bilingual in French and English. These are things that do not need to be changed; these are things that are valuable; these are things that make us Canadian.
We are going to be constantly challenged and threatened. We must continue doing things for others. We must continue to be a welcoming nation. We must continue our path of reconciliation with Indigenous people. We must continue these things because we know that’s the right thing to do. We must continue to do them because it makes us more human to do them. Canadians can only try to mitigate whatever evils there are in the world, even if they come from our closest neighbour with whom we share an unguarded border.
We must always remember the words of the great reformer Joseph Howe who, in 1835, posed the most important Canadian questions: “What is right? What is just? What is for the public good?” "
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And some (very few) people think the LPC is making a comeback!
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He will have 1 to 6 months to prove himself as PM.
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Someone may be reading the tea leaves re: her chances of staying in Cabinet once MC (at least allegedly) picks up the baton?
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You better start calling out everybody for similar behaviourThat was gratuitous and unnecessary, but I am sure you got your smug on. Well done.
if you want to HYPER focus on me, fair game.
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People on here have bitched and complained about the youtube videos I shareThat was gratuitous and unnecessary, but I am sure you got your smug on. Well done.
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And to your earlier post.That was gratuitous and unnecessary, but I am sure you got your smug on. Well done.
People want to discuss things, lets do it. Guess what? Its going to get tense, DEAL with it.
I asked several times for people to explain the LPC and the candidates and their stances on key political issues, REAL issues like the kind they discuss on CBC, CTV, Global, True North, Northern Perspective, etc. I got one faint half ass response.
I am not raging, I am pointing the far left can't explain or stand by their positions. Its all "anything but Pierre/Conservative", thats the ad hominem
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Probably because most people on here are Conservatives and I dont know that we have much to go on policy wise from the Liberal contenders
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We need an election
seeing as you're a self described asshole, maybe nobody wants to talk to you.
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Coming from you, I don't give a damn. I am an asshole but I am upfront with what I know and what I believe. Like any good infantry grunt, I dig. That means no matter what I think I know, I dig deeper and deeper until I find out everything.
You could learn from me.
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For those of you who didn’t have the time or inclination watch the JCCF have a go at Mr Trudeau for prorogation of Parliament, todays arguments before the court ended with the government stating that Canadians have no constitutional right to effective representation through a sitting Parliament so long as there is a government formed through Parliament. [Obviously haven’t read the Charter, and even if it was true then front runner Carney is not yet part of Parliament so …. For example Carney right now has the same political status as Maxine Bernier and it should stay that way until he is elected both to lead the party and holds a seat in Parliament.]
They made this assertion after conceding that the Liberal Party of Canada is a private organization and that whoever heads that organization is also a private matter for members only. Even the Judge noted that the LPC could change its leadership privately without prorogation so why approach the GG without a sound Parliamentary reason.
They are done. After that, if this rotten house if cards does not collapse we deserve to be a province of Zimbabwe.
Hopefully we’ve see our last prorogation for personal and political preservation ever.
They made this assertion after conceding that the Liberal Party of Canada is a private organization and that whoever heads that organization is also a private matter for members only. Even the Judge noted that the LPC could change its leadership privately without prorogation so why approach the GG without a sound Parliamentary reason.
They are done. After that, if this rotten house if cards does not collapse we deserve to be a province of Zimbabwe.
Hopefully we’ve see our last prorogation for personal and political preservation ever.
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