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And you seem like an attention seeking, infantile fuckwit.

QuoteAnd you seem like an attention seeking, infantile fuckwit.

QuoteYou would be too if you had arms and legs that could be used as toothpicks and a face that resembles a deluze pizza like Edweird.

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Quote from: Herman post_id=439763 time=1645062778 user_id=1689


He is one hundred percent responsible for all the protests. He implemented that stupid vaccine mandate on truckers without consulting them and while we are in the middle of a suplly chain crisis. They protested, he threw gasoline on the fire he started by calling them a fringe minority. He then threw a pressurized bottle on the fire by refusing to talk to them and calling them racists and misogynists.



He broke the law with the pressure on GoFundMe to block funding to the protest. He refuses to end these useless restrictions and mandates even though most provinces and European countries are doing that. He implemented the unnecessary Emergency Measures Act after all the border blockades are winding down and there is only the Ottawa protest left.



We lost hundreds of millions of dollars a day, shortages became worse all because we have an arrogant, reckless incompetent dickhead who wants to be a supreme leader and not a prime minister.

I agree.  He's caused so many problems.  Calling people names is a huge mistake for a leader to do.



I never voted for him and I want to see him gone.  He has no idea that majority of people actually have to work for a living...not everyone comes from a rich family and frolics thru life.  There's no doubt he's got crooked deals going on behind Doors that benefit himself only.



If Canada votes him back in next election, I've lost all respect for Canadians.

He won the last two elections, but lost the popular vote..



Most leaders in that position would reach out to people that disagree with their positions...

Quote from: Fashionista post_id=439993 time=1645199045 user_id=3254
Generally, a prime minister of a minority government in Canada, would be more magnanimous..



That was the case of our former prime minister, Stephen Harper who put aside many of his own partisan beliefs to work with opposition parties as they guided this country through the 2008 financial crisis..



He lead minority governments for five years.

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Quote from: Fashionista post_id=439993 time=1645199045 user_id=3254
Generally, a prime minister of a minority government in Canada, would be more magnanimous..



That was the case of our former prime minister, Stephen Harper who put aside many of his own partisan beliefs to work with opposition parties as they guided this country through the 2008 financial crisis..



He lead minority governments for five years.

Harper never struck me as particularly amazing. The Mike Duffy scandal was appalling, but then I was often amazed at the sheer level of corruption openly practiced in Canada. There aren't  too many careers that can take a postal clerk and turn him into a multimillionaire in a practical tick of the clock, but Harper sure found his.



"Financial crisis? What financial crisis?"

Quote from: Herman post_id=440368 time=1645336452 user_id=1689
I thought Harper ran a pretty clean government.

Quote from: Herman post_id=440368 time=1645336452 user_id=1689
There was only one sitting pm that has been convicted of ethics violations and it was Justine. He did it twice. And until recently, Harper lived in an upper middle class house in SW Calgary. He didn't live an opulent lifestyle like Justine or Nancy Pelosi.



Harper, like Chretien, had very capable cabinet ministers. It can be argued that his minority governments were the most successful ones we ever had. And I think that is what Fash was getting at with the 2008 thing. Old Harper schooled Obama how to retire stimulus spending as the markets stabilized.



While not perfect, he was a steady hand at the wheel. Foreign investment left this country when he left office.

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I'm not surprised.



Harper was never a showman .. rather very low key and very real ...



a just got the job done without fanfare kinda guy .. the doer kind of person Canada desperately needs NOW

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We did business with Martin Jr. in Windsor before he became uber-wealthy. At the time he owned (or part owned) Boblo Island Amusement Park in the middle of the Detroit River. People came to it from Windsor & Detroit via boat

At the time he was an OK guy. We negotiated a contract, designed and installed  a large irrigation system to keep the island  green for him... project was different = fun as crew had to enter and leave via boat including trenchers

He paid quick & treated us fair. After that he got filthy rich and likely changed



Martin Sr. was the type of politician one dreams for, albeit a quite left liberal. He worked with all parties, in fact used CCF Tommy Douglas's plan as his starting point and got Canada Health Care. Everything anyone said about him was very good .. a very different era I guess