Sunday, June 04, 2006
Canada: 'Unelectable' Harper firmly in control
The new conservative Canadian prime minister looks like the real deal.
I can't help wondering if their media is liberal and biased and will try to discredit his every move...
I can't help wondering if their media is liberal and biased and will try to discredit his every move...
The Canadian News network's Bruce Cheadle writes, 'Unelectable' Harper firmly in control as Tory government hits 100-day mark:
"As the focal point in an administrative system dubbed the hub-spoke, Harper has been churning out policy and personnel decisions with a methodical regularity since being sworn in Feb. 2."
"He's negotiated a softwood lumber deal with the United States, signed off on a compensation package for residential schools, announced a judicial inquiry into the Air India bombing, cut off Canadian aid to the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority and banned the Tamil Tigers as a terrorist group."
"He has poached a senior Liberal cabinet minister, appointed a party fund-raiser to the Senate and his cabinet, stared down Parliament's ethics commissioner, inflamed public and military opinion by changing the protocol for soldiers killed in action, fired a communications director and scorned the national media."
"Critics are also quick to note that he has pulled the plug on a fledgling national daycare program, slashed funding for Kyoto climate-change programs and ditched the Kelowna aboriginal accord."
"He's travelled to Afghanistan to visit the troops, delivered a budget that makes good on election promises to cut the GST and pay parents of young children $1,200 a year (minus taxes), and he's signed an agreement with the Quebec government giving the province a presence at UNESCO."
