Rumours of its death . . .
By Alison@Creekside
Just three months shy of 2010 — the date by which the Canadian Council of Chief Executives originally projected the goals of the SPP would be completed — some people have been mourning and others celebrating for years already.
The SPP is dead (a short history):
Oct. 10, 2007 “The Security and Prosperity Partnership is dead,” [...]
Stephen Harper, panicked child
Stephen Harper reminds me of a panicked child, surrounded and overwhelmed in the schoolyard, red-faced and flailing at every perceived enemy and striking not a one.
It would be nice if our issues could be solved with quick fixes, but they can’t. For instance, more people in jail does not reduce crime — just glance south [...]
Will Canada become bank bait too?
I still haven’t made up my mind how to vote. But I do think that if any leader is going to beat Harper, who is still doing astonishingly well in the polls despite ample evidence that his party is populated by boorish ignoramuses, he or she has got to quit reacting and start providing a [...]
This election, let’s talk about real quality of life
Maybe it is because the prairies are still wide open and pristine that Western Canadians would rather vote for Harper than Dion or Layton. Or maybe it’s because Harper, as savage as his world view is, hasn’t been tainted by corruption. I don’t know Dion well enough to know whether I trust him but I [...]
Oh, for a non-stupid socialist party!
In preparation for the Alberta election on Monday, New Democrat canvassers have phoned me twice. I have spoken to three of them, all of them well-intentioned and well-spoken and all delivering messages of alarming stupidity.
The first fellow asked me if Brian Mason (ND leader) could count on my vote.
“Sure,” I say, “If you can tell [...]
Plumping for the SPP
By guest blogger Alison@Creekside
After it became clear that the main result of the Security and Prosperity Partnership meet-up in Montebello was to alert Canadians to the fact that their country’s sovereignty was in deep shit, deep integration’s best friends were unanimous in their tough love advice to the ailing SPP’s enablers.
Tom d’Aquino of the Canadian [...]
Harper has a good week
By Nora Abercrombie
I am not a fan of Stephen Harper by any measure but we have to acknowledge that he conducted himself fairly well this week. He did not shy from telling Canadians that economic times are going to get tougher. He commended Manley’s report on Afghanistan without leaping to agree with it, asserting to [...]
In preparation for the weirdness ahead
Everybody I talk to thinks the same thing: the United States of America is perched at the top of a very long, steep downward turn, economically and politically. And since we get a cold every time our elephantine neighbour to the south sneezes, we might want to prepare for what will happen to us when [...]
