Due to the relevancy and diminishing window of time, I decided to post these Harper quotes here in the Lounge as opposed to the Politics Forum:
On Canada: “I’m starting to wonder what kind of banana republic we’re living in up here.”
On immigration: “You’ve got to remember that west of Winnipeg, the ridings the Liberals hold are dominated by people who are either recent Asian immigrants or recent migrants from eastern Canada: people who live in ghettoes and who are not integrated into western Canadian society.”
On human rights commissions: They “are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society. . . It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this very scary stuff.”
On arts funding: “I do think we’ve gone too far on some of that arts and culture funding.”
On bilingualism: It “is the god that failed. It has led to no fairness, produces no unity and cost Canadian taxpayers untold millions.”
On the Liberals: “The fundamental strategy of the Liberal party for the last 30 years remains screw the West, get the rest.”
On medicare: “If we had a health-care system based on insurance and we paid for these services out of our own pocket, this would be a non-issue.”
On the French language: “That special status is needed to protect the French language in Quebec is simply false.”
On poverty: “Providing for the poor is a provincial, not a federal responsibility.”
On western alienation: “We may love Canada, but Canada does not love us . . . let’s make the province strong enough that the rest of the country is afraid to threaten us.”
On second-tier country: “We (Alberta) are the only province in Canada keeping pace with the top-tier countries in the world. Now we must show that we will not stand for a second-tier country run by a third-world leader with fourth-class values.”
On why he quit politics in 1997: “The last thing that Parliament needs is to be filled with people who have never done anything but partisan politics.”
On campaign nastiness: “You, like many Canadians, were probably very disturbed by the tone of that (2000) election campaign. Frankly, the personal attacks, unsubstantiated slanders and left-wing media fear-mongering reduced the exercise to the level of farce.”
That quote is laughable now, given that even Harper’s own supporters concede he’s the toughest, meanest campaigner they have ever seen on the federal scene.
Many of the quotes have been widely cited in the past. But, taken together, they provide a deeper insight into Harper’s beliefs and his dislike of virtually all things that are linked to Ottawa or progressive governments.
Why anyone would consider voting for this lying, xenophobic, hypocritical troll is beyond any sense of comprehension, anywhere.
On Canada: “I’m starting to wonder what kind of banana republic we’re living in up here.”
On immigration: “You’ve got to remember that west of Winnipeg, the ridings the Liberals hold are dominated by people who are either recent Asian immigrants or recent migrants from eastern Canada: people who live in ghettoes and who are not integrated into western Canadian society.”
On human rights commissions: They “are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society. . . It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this very scary stuff.”
On arts funding: “I do think we’ve gone too far on some of that arts and culture funding.”
On bilingualism: It “is the god that failed. It has led to no fairness, produces no unity and cost Canadian taxpayers untold millions.”
On the Liberals: “The fundamental strategy of the Liberal party for the last 30 years remains screw the West, get the rest.”
On medicare: “If we had a health-care system based on insurance and we paid for these services out of our own pocket, this would be a non-issue.”
On the French language: “That special status is needed to protect the French language in Quebec is simply false.”
On poverty: “Providing for the poor is a provincial, not a federal responsibility.”
On western alienation: “We may love Canada, but Canada does not love us . . . let’s make the province strong enough that the rest of the country is afraid to threaten us.”
On second-tier country: “We (Alberta) are the only province in Canada keeping pace with the top-tier countries in the world. Now we must show that we will not stand for a second-tier country run by a third-world leader with fourth-class values.”
On why he quit politics in 1997: “The last thing that Parliament needs is to be filled with people who have never done anything but partisan politics.”
On campaign nastiness: “You, like many Canadians, were probably very disturbed by the tone of that (2000) election campaign. Frankly, the personal attacks, unsubstantiated slanders and left-wing media fear-mongering reduced the exercise to the level of farce.”
That quote is laughable now, given that even Harper’s own supporters concede he’s the toughest, meanest campaigner they have ever seen on the federal scene.
Many of the quotes have been widely cited in the past. But, taken together, they provide a deeper insight into Harper’s beliefs and his dislike of virtually all things that are linked to Ottawa or progressive governments.
Why anyone would consider voting for this lying, xenophobic, hypocritical troll is beyond any sense of comprehension, anywhere.
