Stephen Harper will never be known as the Great Conciliator but people tend to forget that, had he not won the 2006 election, Canada’s relations with the United States would have been at their lowest ebb since Lyndon Johnson accused Lester Pearson of peeing on his rug.
Remember the Liberal election ads that urged voters to back Paul Martin or “elect the most pro-American leader in the Western world”? I’m not making this up.
It was, then, one of the great surreal moments in Canadian politics, when Liberal trade critic Scott Brison stood up to the microphone yesterday to complain about the “pathetic” deal the Conservatives had just struck with the Obama administration on Buy American, the provisions that cut Canadian companies out of the bidding for U.S. infrastructure projects funded by stimulus money.
The Harper government had concentrated on the Bush Republicans and hadn’t developed relations with the Obama Democrats, he said. There were too many “carve-outs,” where states had exempted certain sectors. Too much of the stimulus money has already been spent. Canada should have linked a deal to its status as the U.S.’s preferred energy supplier, to ensure we weren’t taken for granted.
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Well, it seems that even some Conservatives are worried about a prorogation ‘back-lash’ as some GTA an Quebec Tories are expressing concern in caucus meetings about the recent dish of perogies as served up by HM PM Harper.
Will this come back to haunt the right during the next federal election? Who knows but Canadians maybe looking at another minority government. But who?
http://www.hilltimes.com/page/view/angelo-02-08-2010
It always amazes me how the press finds out what goes on in a private political meeting…especially if it has the word caucus in it…
I am not letting the press lead the agenda…we conservatives are onward and upward and getting on with it on March 3.
Jack I posted your video because I had a past article on that subject, and I was so glad that Sandy brought it up today as well. http://justpoliticsonline.wordpress.com/
….it was brilliant of her….
I often mention your blog in the group I started ” I support the Prime Minister of Canada, Stephen Harper” – of which link can be found on my sideboard on my blog.
You are on that sideboard too as we are not taking news from the usual suspects any more.