From the National Post: Prime Minister Stephen Harper has to make a choice: cash for Quebec or an election, says Bloc Quebecois leader Gilles Duceppe. “I am now challenging Stephen Harper to respond to Quebec’s expectations,” a pumped Mr. Duceppe said Sunday in a speech closing a party general council meeting. “We are asking for [...]
Tags: Bloc Quebecois, Budget, Canada, Coalition, Conservative Party of Canada, Gilles Duceppe, House of Commons, Liberal Party of Canada, Michael Ignatieff, Quebec, Stephen Harper
Former National Citizens Coalition vice-president Gerry Nicholls seems to think so, and I’d have to agree given how much in disarray the Canadian Liberal Party is: After much pondering, I have come to the conclusion that if we do have a federal election this spring, the result will be a Conservative majority. Now I realize [...]
Tags: Canada, Conservative Party of Canada, Gerry Nicholls, Liberal Party of Canada, Michael Ignatieff, National Citizens Coalition, Parliament of Canada, Stephen Harper
Not a minute after Jared Loughner opened fire on a crowd in Arizona, members of the media began frothing at the mouth, dreaming of blaming the shooting on Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Sarah Plain et al. It turns out that Loughner is a leftwing, atheist/occult, pothead, and most importantly, mentally disturbed. However, seeing a political [...]
Tags: Arizona Shooting, Canada, Conservative Party of Canada, Glenn Beck, Mainstream Media, Media Bias, New Democratic Party, Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin
According to Neil Reynolds of the Globe & Mail “when it comes to setting corporate tax rates, you get to choose between expansive revenue with lower rates or restrained revenue with higher rates.” Canada’s Conservative Finance Minister, Jim Flaherty, has brought his country’s corporate tax rate down from 21% to 16.5% over the past six [...]
Tags: Canada, Conservative Party of Canada, Economics, Jim Flahrety, Taxes
On this Strictly Right, Ari analyzes the the media and the Left’s reaction to the Arizona shooting, the hypocrisy of the Left on profiling, the success of Canada’s corporate tax cuts, the targeting of Sarah Palin by the left and more. Listen online: Strictly Right 76 Subscribe to Strictly Right Radio in iTunes.
Tags: Arizona, Arizona Shooting, Barack Obama, Canada, Conservative Party of Canada, Economics, Glenn Beck, Jim Flahrety, Mainstream Media, Media Bias, Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, Strictly Right Radio, Taxes, Timothy McVeigh
Yesterday BHP Billiton announced that it is withdrawing its bid for Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan. The Harper Government blocked the bid from BHP Billiton because the deal did not provide a ‘net benefit for Canada’ – according to Industry Minister Tony Clement. Whether or not the deal benefits Canada should have nothing to do with [...]
Tags: BHP Billiton, Canada, Conservative Party of Canada, Economics, Government, Potash Corp, Stephen Harper, Tony Clement
I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I actually found a CNN.com article I just read really insightful. It’s lengthy, and a bit of it is devoted to explaining Canadian political history, but it’s a pretty accurate assessment of the Reform Party’s impact in Canadian politics, and the ideological conservative movement in Canada. We’re getting [...]
Tags: Canada, CNN, Conservatism, Conservative Party of Canada, Preston Manning, Reform Party of Canada, Tea Party
The West is entirely dependent on the United States military. Following the Second Would War, Europe and Canada decided that they would build up social welfare plans, and allow the United States to be the one superpower that defends them all. The obvious requisite in this deal is that the United States forswear socialism, in [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Canada, Conservative Party of Canada, Liberal Party of Canada, Stephen Harper, United States
In the previous post on this site Andrew made the point that the Conservative Party of Canada’s new budget is anything but conservative. Now there are a plethora of reasons for the size and scope of the budget that could be debated from here to kingdom come, but the unavoidable fact is that Canada’s ‘conservative’ [...]
Tags: Conservatism, Conservative Party of Canada, Democratic Party, Health Care Reform, Healthcare, Liberalism, Obamacare, Republican Party, Welfare State
