tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post1232770483806715272..comments2024-03-03T17:01:57.876-05:00Comments on Montreal Simon: How Stephen Harper Changed the Face of CanadaSimonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15309809679331128837noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-83104024451334520572015-06-30T08:39:20.926-04:002015-06-30T08:39:20.926-04:00hi lagatta...I always knew the Cons were grotesque...hi lagatta...I always knew the Cons were grotesque ideologues, but when they gutted the census, and could offer no sane reason, I knew that it could only have come from the Straussian mind of Stephen Harper, who believes that knowledge is for the elites, and that the masses should be kept ignorant. And that we ad entered a whole new stage that couldn't be more insane or more dangerous. As for Mount Royal I lived for a while in the McGill student residences at the top of University street, so the mountain was on my doorstep. And I enjoyed it in all seasons, whizzing down from Mount Royal to the residences on my snowboard, or biking up to the chalet and Beaver Lake But mid July, when the tam tams are beating in the evening was my favourite time, and it was absolutely magical....Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15309809679331128837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-24834963498923775372015-06-30T08:25:28.560-04:002015-06-30T08:25:28.560-04:00hi thwap....I think we stop it by both attacking t...hi thwap....I think we stop it by both attacking the Cons in the most devastating manner, while offering a shining vision of something better. And if we do that I think the desire for change will overwhelm everything else....Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15309809679331128837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-87119290472229905692015-06-30T08:23:07.793-04:002015-06-30T08:23:07.793-04:00hi Steve....yes it is easier to be a Harper than i...hi Steve....yes it is easier to be a Harper than it is to be a Trudeau. Harper spends most of his time just catering to his base, and using one wedge issue after another to try to add another ten percent to his fold, which was enough to give him a majority last time. And of course he has no moral scruples so he is free to do anything. While Justin who is constrained by scruples, is trying to find a middle ground, and in this country at this time that's not easy. But yes, with Harper spouting off wearing a Maple leaf on your back in many places these days, is like fixing a target on your back. It will take many years of patient work before we can do that again...Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15309809679331128837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-31756208507553302042015-06-29T12:37:37.397-04:002015-06-29T12:37:37.397-04:00Much easier to inflict damage than to repair. You ...Much easier to inflict damage than to repair. You can destroy a lot with very little, but that destruction is huge, costly, and perhaps impossible to fix. <br /><br />Harper has done the equivalent of the German's Blitz on England, so much destruction in so little time, and from which we will unlikely rebuild but only transform into something different. If he has not killed Canada, he has given in a mortal wound. Noah Pattersonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-39584700849550337662015-06-29T10:31:12.165-04:002015-06-29T10:31:12.165-04:00The odd thing with the census is that is just as i...The odd thing with the census is that is just as important for business as it is for social programmes. I'm sure there are some businesspeople who are fed up with the obscurantist side of Harper's policies. <br /><br />That photo of Mont-Royal is beautiful, but I'm not looking forward to autumn, now that we have several of the fresh summer vegetables here at Marché Jean-Talon. <br /><br />A piece by Mulcair in the ghastly Sun, of all places. I copied the article elsewhere so as not to read the sunnish comments: http://www.torontosun.com/2015/06/28/cities-key-to-middle-class-jobslagatta à montréalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02610410709900333230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-34246755447613436142015-06-29T09:53:46.480-04:002015-06-29T09:53:46.480-04:00This level of monstrous stupidity had always been ...This level of monstrous stupidity had always been sitting there in the hearts and minds of the right-wing demographic. Who knows why it's been awakened? But it certainly serves elites. They've brought their Rush Limbaugh, Sheriff Arpaio vileness north of the border, giving us the careers of Ezra Levant, Rob Ford and stephen harper.<br /><br />How do we stop it?thwaphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15399550285738440669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-22454553444828322842015-06-29T09:43:41.469-04:002015-06-29T09:43:41.469-04:00On the other hand, while everyone else is celebrat...On the other hand, while everyone else is celebrating comming out of the closet, Harper is making it his home.<br /><a href="http://thinkingaboot.blogspot.ca/2015/06/the-confederate-flag-moves-to-it-while.html:>Times change </a>harder than one mans fantasy.Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14162783936999869984noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-54944796131901694962015-06-29T08:53:31.455-04:002015-06-29T08:53:31.455-04:00The problem with politics is its easy to be a Harp...The problem with politics is its easy to be a Harper and hard to be a Trudeau. Moving people backwards is easy, forwards takes leadership. The flag on the backpack is a good example. Now that Canada is seen abroad as a war mongering nation our citzens are no longer safe to travel with stickers on the backpack.Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14162783936999869984noreply@blogger.com