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Old 07-04-2004, 10:13 AM   #13 (permalink)
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Originally posted by james t kirk
Stephe Harper is scary because:

1. He is socially conservative and he and his party in particular have a conservative social agenda.

2. He hid his conservative social agenda (abortion, equality for gays, death penalty, etc. ) throughout the election always tap dancing around the issues.

3. His party does not have a clear party policy on social issues. In fact, they have no official policy in writing whatsoever

4. Although raised in Ontario, Harper has spent the last 20 years in Alberta and he has become very Alberta Reform right wing, with comments about Alberta building a firewall around itself to insulate itself from the rest of Canada, etc.

5. His stupid comments about bilingualism. (It's here, it's here to stay, let's not take a step backward.)

6. His stupid comments about Paul Martin being for kiddie porn.

7. Ralph Klein.

8. Harper's ideas to drastically increase the size of military spending, increase health care, decrease taxes AND balance the budget. I'd love to know just how in hell he planned to do that little soft shoe routine. Either he would have to massvely cut through out the rest of the government or he would have to deficit finance. Deficit financing is the worst thing a country could do.

9. His lack of a credible Quebec wing.

10. A two tiered health care system.

11. His changing hair cut.
1. Then where does that leave the NDP and why aren't they scary.

2. Can't comment on the death penalty, but as for abortion and gay marriages he stated that is more provincially bound than federally. And what was Paul Martins platform on abortion, gay marriages and the death penalty? I heard nothing of those from him.

3. That's because the party is 6 months old. Perhaps Paul Martin could have extended them time to have a convention but was to afraid, so he rushed an election.

4. O.K. it's fine for Quebec to do that but not Alberta. I guess that's the difference between a have not province and a have province.

5. Bilingualism. He is not interested in scrapping Official Bilingualism. He simple wants some accountability since no one seems to know where the annual 1 billion Quebec receives yearly
goes. And it was Martin who started that rumour. Somehow it went from changes to the Air Transportation Act or something like that to Official Bilingualism, I don't know. Fooled alot of people though.

6. First of all, it wasn't his comments but a press release from someone within the Consevative Party. None the less, as stated somewhere else he should have followed Martins leads and hid all the mouthpieces. Worked for Martin ( re McGuinty) He just should have stuck with the message that Martin doesn't give a shit about our kids when it comes to sexual predators or that would have been a Liberal party policy years ago.

7. What about Ralph Klein? What about Dalton McGuinty?

8. Well then what is worse? Rendering the military useless, destroying healthcare through health transfer cuts, increasing taxes just to balance a budget?

9. And how credible is a Liberal wing in Quebec right now? Seats are what wins the day, but credibilty is another story. But how does this make Stephen Harper scary?

10. What's wrong with a two tiered system. Everybody still pays the same but if you can afford it, go privately. It's not like those who go private won't have to pay like everyone else. They actually are paying twice.This is something that people fail to understand. The more people who go private, the sooner those who can't afford it get treatment quicker.

11. I prefered the Mad magazine look myself.
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