Gilles Revives the Coalition Talk

Just a little more than a month before the federal budget is scheduled to come down,  Bloc leader Gilles Duceppe has resurrected the idea of the coalition.

(Ottawa) A few weeks of possible federal election, the Bloc Quebecois revives the idea of supporting "a coalition of political parties" - presumably made up of Liberals and NDP - to dislodge the Conservatives of Stephen Harper.

Now we need to know where Jack and the Iffy Waffle stand.  They need to make it clear before Canadians go to the polls.  It will be the coalition of the losers or a Conservative majority. PM Harper has made that clear. This latest just plays into the Conservative party's narrative they will use the in the next election whether it be this spring or fall 2012. 

With the last couple of polls in the last few days that have come out from Ekos and Ipsos, it certainly doesn't look that positive for the coalition so they need to be careful.  That's if these polls are accurate and indicates a trend.  I would caution though to take these polls with a grain of salt. None the less this latest from the Bloc partner will make it more difficult for the coalition partners and their media cheerleaders play down the coalition of losers.

Now that Gilles has spoken, it's time for Jack and Iffy to put up or shut up.

CTV Gets Outed By Sun Media Journalist

Sun News can't come soon enough and here's one reason why. The shoddy journalism of the lame stream media.  Case in point is the latest by CTV and Toothpastegate.  They pick on the PM's comment about toothpaste and miss the rest.  How ignorant!
Thank God for Brian Lilley from Sun Media who calls out CTV for their hit job on PM Harper  He clarifies what PM Harper actually said.   The last part on his blog is bang on.

I hope no one relies on Question Period for their news.
This is why viewers are hungering for something different.
This is why Sun News is on the way.

Amen!!!  If this is the kind of stuff that Sun News will be offering, bring it on!   It's about time some of these arrogant Harper Conservative hating so called journalists were called out on their hatred and bias.  It'll be refreshing to actually get some facts for change.

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Do We Need An Adult Conversation on Multiculturalism?

I think we do. Saturday British Prime Minister David Cameron declared multiculturalism a failure. German Chancellor Angela Merkel said it before him last fall.  Now French President Nicolas Sarkosy has come claiming multiculturalism has failed.
Charles Adler feels our Prime Minister  here needs to say something too and states that it harms our country.

If we love this country, let us share what we treasure and what we are happy to discard. Let’s declare that Canada is not for sale on the corrupt and corrosive altar of multiculturalism. Let us declare the “experiment” has been a monstrous failure.
Just as alchemists have not been able to turn base metals into gold, government-subsidized multiculturalism has not turned diversity into unity. A hoax is a hoax. And it’s time to call BS on the hoax of government-sponsored multiculturalism. It has created division, not unity. It has generated suspicion, not cohesion.
Multiculturalism divides Canadian against Canadian. It gives power to the basest elements in Canada, those who don’t believe in national unity and ultimately those who don’t believe in Canada as we know it.

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I am looking forward to seeing Stephen Harper rise in the House of Commons and offer a David Cameron-like speech on multiculturalism. Does anyone doubt that the private Stephen Harper is on the same page as the now public David Cameron?

John Ibbitson clearly disagrees that there needs to be a debate in this country on that issue calling anyone who wants to debate frustrated, angry bigots.

Debating multiculturalism gives a voice to the angry, the frustrated and yes, the bigoted. It makes newer Canadians feel less welcome. It has the best walking on egg shells and the worst throwing eggs.

Excuse me?  So he basically  thinks that those of us who are not satisfied with our multiculturalism policy should just keep quiet. Well why should we walk on egg shells, not say anything and kow tow to those immigrants who demand the same things they had in their home country?  This is Canada for goodness sake! Our values, our way of doing things should be respected.  We should not be so timid.

To be against multiculturalism is not anti-immigrant. We should welcome immigrants but they should respect our values and integrate otherwise don't come.

So PM Harper, I'm with Mr. Adler, please stand up and say you agree with your counterpoints in Britain, Germany and France! I think.there is a silent majority out there who would support him.

PM Harper's Coalition Narrative

Are the opposition parties falling into PM Harper's coalition narrative  without even realizing it?   Increasingly all three opposition parties are in unison when it comes to opposing the government on kinds of fronts. Case in point, last night the three opposition's were united in voting for a Liberal motion to hike corporate taxes.
Then the Liberal leader comes out flip flopping on Bill S-10, a bill that would impose tougher sentences on some drug offenders stating the Liberals  will now vote against it.  They actually origninally supported this bill. They have now come in line with their coalition partners the NDP and the Bloc who have always been against Bill-S10.
Then you have Lib and Dipper social policy, you can't even tell them apart anymore.  It seems like the Libs are morphing into the NDP.   It's like they're one.

With all the opposition parties practically in lock step with each other these days it will make PM Harper's case that much easier.

NDP Hypocrisy

The NDP have been trotting out Charlie Angus  lately to howl about how terrible the  political discourse is becoming, that's it's American style but Matt Gurney aptly points out their hypocrisy.

Hoo boy. After NDP MP Charlie Angus expressed fears that Canada would reach American-style levels of poisoned political discourse, linked to the pending arrival of Sun News and the CRTC’s decision to water down its regulations against false news, Sun Media’s David Akin took to Twitter and launched a counter-attack. With a barrage of links, Aiken helpfully reminded the Canadian public of some of NDP moves that, evaluated fairly, wouldn’t have really done all that much to elevate the tone of our national political dialogue. A lot of them were familiar. There was Pat Martin’s bizarre asbestos puppet show. Or the time that an NDP MP accused Tory James Moore of surfing porn on his laptop while sitting in the House of Commons (the photos, which were not pornographic, were shots of his girlfriend taken on a beach vacation).
But the real winner was a link on the NDP’s homepage titled Taking Aim, inviting members to become part of an ominously named Target Team. The map helpfully includes references to taking the Tories “head-on” … and a map of Canada covered in — you guessed it — bulls-eyes.

Yup it comes with their own targeted map alright.

Is this not hypocrisy?   
Then the NDP are suddenly worried about truth in news?  It's not like we've been getting a whole lot of truth in the news anyway.   It's been going on for eons.

David Akin writes about NDP Speech police
 Lorne Gunter asks Who Gets to Decide What's True
This is all about SunTV.   The voices on the left are obviously terrified.