Harper offers 'hard-headed' platform in tough times, accused of lacking empathy

 

"If we stay on this course we'll get through this," Harper said.

 

"The alternative is a bunch of guys who want to do some things, and they are big things, hiking spending by $40 billion is a big thing ...

 

"(But) they are also very bad ideas that would make the problems of ordinary people, job creation, savings in the stock market infinitely worse."

 

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Harper's comments and the Conservative platform drew a swift and caustic response from the opposition parties, who accused the prime minister of ignoring reality.

 

"He doesn't do hope very well; he doesn't do empathy very well; he doesn't do understanding very well and frankly those are all qualities we expect in our leaders, particularly in a time of difficulty," Toronto-area Liberal MP Bob Rae said of the prime minister.

 

Liberal Leader Stephane Dion described the platform as a "brochure" of small tax cuts.

 

"Stephen Harper says 'Don't switch votes in the middle of a storm,' but we have a captain who is asleep at the wheel," he said.

http://news.sympatico.msn.ca/abc/Election_...itemid=67783034

 

As the "Canadian Guy" on the board I thought I'd remind everyone of our little election up north. Most people assumed the Conservatives and Stephen Harper would win this election and possibly win a majority thus having total control of the Parliament. The Opposition Liberal Party has a leader, Stéphane Dion, perceived as weak, but now because of the economic crisis the Conservatives are tumbling in the polls and the Liberals actually have a chance of winning, a very surprising turn of events. Early in the campaign there was even talk that Liberal Party might actually be replaced as the Official Opposition Party by the New Democrats, a more socialist leaning party, but not anymore. I still think the Conservatives will win a minority government, but it's a strange time. Here's some of the ads the parties are running for a little flavour of Canadian politics.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I won't force any of the french Quebec ads on you guys though.

Edited October 8, 200817 yr by KipWellsFan

Thanks for posting those ads. Really pretty interesting to see.

Awww, that's cute, look, America Jr. is holding an election too. AWWWWWW.

Awww, that's cute, look, America Jr. is holding an election too. AWWWWWW.

 

Watch it...the Canadians might invade wielding back bacon and niceties!