He’s not a man of his word,” Williams said. “He doesn’t keep his commitments, written or oral. I’m just basically saying to Canadians you can’t trust him and he doesn’t have any integrity.” “Everything (Harper) stands for, I don’t get it,” said Williams. “I just don’t understand how Canadians could put possibly put him back…
Marois’ and Drainville’s Parti Québecois – a party that is a far cry in gravitas and substance from the PQ of yore — struck a win-win for themselves with this Charter proposal. Win-win because when – not if – it is struck down by the Supreme Court of Canada, it’s more ammunition to claim that…
[An edited version of this text also appeared in the Montreal Gazette] I have an ask of my fellow progressives: get behind David Cameron. At the end of the debate and vote in the British parliament tonight (which expressed opposition to the government’s desire to intervene militarily in Syria), Prime Minister David Cameron said the following:
Some of the damage that the Harper Conservatives have done is semi-permanent. – We may never again have a long-gun registry; no government in the next thirty-fifty years will want to take that on. What a double-waste: the initial mismanagement cost us $1 Billion, then the Harperites flush that down the toilet too.
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