Prime Minister Harper unveils grand plan to reshape Canada

[polly7]

Prime Minister Harper unveils grand plan to reshape Canada

JOE FRIESEN AND BILL CURRY

TORONTO AND OTTAWA— From Friday's Globe and Mail
Published Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012 10:05PM EST

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/prime-minister-harper-unveils-grand-plan-to-reshape-canada/article2316795/

"After five years of minority governments, Stephen Harper finally has the freedom to act.

He’s no longer looking at the limited horizon of the next budget or the next election. He’s planning on transforming Canada for a generation or more. This is Stephen Harper’s blueprint for reform.

Although short on details, Mr. Harper’s speech to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Thursday made clear the sweep of his ambition. He will change how Canadians finance their retirement. He will overhaul the immigration system. He will make oil and gas exports to Asia a “national priority” and aggressively pursue free trade in India and Europe.

Several times in his speech, Mr. Harper portrayed his agenda as a fix for a generation – a fix he claimed is necessary to confront the challenges of an aging population. Canada’s demographics, he warned, pose “a threat to the social programs and services that Canadians cherish.” Preserving those social programs will likely mean cuts elsewhere."........

[Joe Shlabotnik]

1. Friggin Meglomaniac.

The ego of this asshat kills me. He uses the world stage to push his conservative economic moralizing, every chance he gets. His quest for international relevance is embarrassing. Meanwhile at home, his credibility should be shit with a new scandal or cover-up occurring almost everyday. Oddly, his complete legislative impunity creates fear and complicity from the CBC, and apathy and resignation from voters. His vision of the future is un-Canadian in every traditional sense.

[CHIMO]

2. He Seems

To be drunk with power when he is out of the country.

It used to be that when he was away there was a breakdown in the system. Now he is away and the whole story has changed.

Seems to me that a black blob in Ottawa is all that has some control on the fellow.