Tuesday, January 10, 2006

Harper Isn't Scary But This Is

A Conservative Majority Government.

Repeat this Mantra; Conservative Majority, Conservative Majority, Conservative Majority.

Because even Harper knows that scares the bejesus out of Canadians. So he is backtracking on the polls and his musings the other day about having a majority. It killed them in 2004 and if we keep repeating it maybe it will work again. But this time the alternative is NOT the Liberals but as Layton kept saying last night, it's the NDP.


Harper muses on possibility of majority win

Alberta Tories muse majority

Klein not unhappy election prediction may be wrong
Klein added that a Conservative government in Ottawa would be good for Alberta, because it would address issues important to the province, such as same-sex marriage, the Kyoto accord and the Canadian Wheat Board.

Klein pleased with Conservatives' new numbers




An interesting question to Harper about whether it would be better for the Conservatives to win a majority rather than try to strike an alliance with the Bloc. Harper wisely doesn't bite on the majority government question, and repeats his pledge to govern on an issue by issue basis.

Moderator: That's our time I'm afraid. Let's move on to the third question in this national unity phase. Mr. Harper, this is a question for you. A year and a half ago, many observers say that the Liberals won because you asked voters to give you a majority government in the last days of the campaign, and that spooked a few people and, as a result, many of them rushed back to the Liberals and, as you know, you didn't win. So let's try to go at this question again. Would it not be better -- tell me this; would it be better for you to win a majority government rather than a minority so you wouldn't have to make deals with the Bloc to stay in power?

Stephen Harper: First of all, let me just say that I dispute what occurred in the last election but I will say this; I'm certainly not going to be drawn in to any questions that can be used to have me making predictions. My role here is not to be a political analyst. My role is to explain to Canadians why we need a new government, a new government that will bring in accountability, and a new government that will deal directly with their concerns. What I tell Canadians is that I will be respectful, I will accept whatever wisdom they deliver at the polls. If, through that wisdom, they happen to give us a mandate, we'll accept the mandate that they give us. That requires us to work with other parties on an issue-by-issue basis, of course we will work with other parties. We're not naive. We have three national parties here. They have different platform planks. We have one party that's not a national party. That party may sometimes agree with us. We know when they do agree with us, even when they do agree with us, it's for entirely different reasons. We're not naive about that. We will govern this country in the interests of Canada as a whole.


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