tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post2410268427592430992..comments2024-03-26T20:19:35.180-04:00Comments on Northern Reflections: They Were About PowerOwen Grayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-17613781797894227612015-10-30T02:32:41.025-04:002015-10-30T02:32:41.025-04:00As former Ontario finance minister Dwight Duncan s...As former Ontario finance minister Dwight Duncan said of the late Jim Flaherty, Anon: "He was penny wise and pound foolish."Owen Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-77757806175268662522015-10-30T02:30:23.118-04:002015-10-30T02:30:23.118-04:00"Potemkin Village Government" -- an exce..."Potemkin Village Government" -- an excellent phrase to describe the Harper years, salamander. The government, like the man, was a phoney.Owen Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-54935497204152371832015-10-29T21:33:30.531-04:002015-10-29T21:33:30.531-04:00.. suppression .. secrecy.. massive propoganda.. i..... suppression .. secrecy.. massive propoganda.. in support of a 'government of one' .. Who knew ? ! ?<br /><br />Potemkin Village government.. painted faces along the shore.. Look! There's Steve & Laureen with Novak & Kenney !the salamanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06853337802990122289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-68667490108686060622015-10-29T19:59:51.151-04:002015-10-29T19:59:51.151-04:00You're forgetting his GREATEST achievement.
H...You're forgetting his GREATEST achievement.<br /><br />He divested Canada of the penny.<br /><br />Anonymous-AAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-49096708100003119752015-10-29T17:26:28.541-04:002015-10-29T17:26:28.541-04:00Mound i beg to differ harpola has a lasting legacy...<br />Mound i beg to differ harpola has a lasting legacy. It goes something like this " I turned a democracy into a 'mockracy' hey hey hey. I'll make a mound out of pure B.S. the real stuff not what he is peddling in Saskatchewan and call it the harper ski hill in the winter. In the summer perhaps more fitting bull shit harper hill :>Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12450128191960715245noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-42035759106355567262015-10-29T16:21:26.907-04:002015-10-29T16:21:26.907-04:00When it comes to the public good, Scotian, Harper ...When it comes to the public good, Scotian, Harper has very little to show for his ten years in power.Owen Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-57439875335485450832015-10-29T16:11:47.432-04:002015-10-29T16:11:47.432-04:00I called Harper the Destroyer and Salter of the Sc...I called Harper the Destroyer and Salter of the Scorched Earth because that really was his true agenda and legacy as a PM. He was never a builder unlike any other PM in our history, he had no real vision of the country in positive terms, only in negative anti-Trudeaupian terms, and therefore there is nothing really to point to as a long lasting positive achievement. Even the few Coyne comes up with are not likely to hold up over the long term scrutiny to come, the economic record will almost certainly be shown to be a mirage either through accounting tricks or resting on the legacy of the prior Lib government he replaced, and the Accountability Act was clearly for show and not substance as shown by the way Harper actually governed.<br /><br />I've asked people for years now what kind of long term positive achievement has the Harper government given Canadians, and I would point to things/exmples from both Lib and PCPC PMs of years past from the Charter with Trudeau, and the Acid Rain treaty and anti-Apartheid from Mulroney, Dief's original bill of rights, Pearson's Peacekeepers, etc. To this day I've never heard anyone find something that fit the bill, nor can I think of one either. That as much as his corruption of the tools and levers of government is the true measure of the Harper legacy of government, and it is not a good one.Scotianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06284856315992405261noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-89282991712744496002015-10-29T13:27:25.575-04:002015-10-29T13:27:25.575-04:00I can't imagine, Pam, that future historians w...I can't imagine, Pam, that future historians will refer to the Harper Era as a "Golden Age."Owen Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-75898796051910313612015-10-29T13:25:03.084-04:002015-10-29T13:25:03.084-04:00It would be ironic, wouldn't it lungta, if Har...It would be ironic, wouldn't it lungta, if Harperism took on the same connotations as McCarthyism?Owen Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-3945979806818343752015-10-29T13:01:22.180-04:002015-10-29T13:01:22.180-04:00he gave us 10 years to ferment
and forced us to co...he gave us 10 years to ferment<br />and forced us to consider <br />that if you drop the progressive from the conservatives<br />you get regressive times 10<br />when you get canadians of every political stripe <br />joining together to evict the harper style it is telling<br />he may have shaken us enough <br />to have us re-evaluate our real values<br />and have us re-discover voting as a way to be really heard<br />oh the irony<br />the man of no vision <br />gets unintended consequences<br />his legacy will be like a scary bedtime legend <br />to warn your political children<br />of what can happen if you don't pay attention and respondlungtahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06526204597913219959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-71693258703869105362015-10-29T13:00:58.946-04:002015-10-29T13:00:58.946-04:00"But then, the Harperites were never about po..."But then, the Harperites were never about policy. They were about power" You hit the nail on the head Owen. There is no Harper legacy, because there were no Harper achievments. Instead historians will be left with following Harpers attempts at destroying the Canadian government and Canadian democracy. It will be a sole discovery of Harpers pursuit and acquisition of power. A legacy of tyranny and destruction.For Canadians, 9 yrs. of Harpers governance, was 9 yrs. of living in a cultural and political wasteland.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07842215982128591742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-49446058863720522742015-10-29T11:03:25.306-04:002015-10-29T11:03:25.306-04:00As time goes by, ron, I suspect that historians wi...As time goes by, ron, I suspect that historians will reach the same conclusion.Owen Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-7086155357482085762015-10-29T11:01:43.848-04:002015-10-29T11:01:43.848-04:00Length of time in office, Mound, is no measure of ...Length of time in office, Mound, is no measure of greatness.Owen Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-52243471009010479062015-10-29T10:40:39.305-04:002015-10-29T10:40:39.305-04:00I guess my HDS (harper disgust syndrome) has not y...I guess my HDS (harper disgust syndrome) has not yet subsided because I cannot for the life of me think of anything they/he have done that would be considered a benefit to or an accomplishment for Canada or Canadians.ron wiltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15395990851263472440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-35836112458958203272015-10-29T10:12:31.065-04:002015-10-29T10:12:31.065-04:00It's refreshing to hear a MSM voice put Harper...It's refreshing to hear a MSM voice put Harper's record, Canada's 10-lost years, into perspective. Coyne is right. Harper has no legacy. There's nothing he truly achieved that put a lasting stamp on the country and our people. Even those who did like the guy spoke of him as a competent shopkeeper, nothing more. The editorials endorsing Harper reflected a bar set laughably low. I suspect that partly explains the outburst of demands that an airport be named after him. They probably realize he'll be quickly forgotten, at best a footnote in Canadian history. There's no Bill of Rights, no national flag, no Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and nothing approaching these achievements for Shifty Steve to prevent him from fading into obscurity.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.com