tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17859678.post5329681140547858542..comments2023-10-14T05:50:19.314-04:00Comments on Making Sense with Nicholls: My Open Letter to Stephen HarperGerry Nichollshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10496716615185797501noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17859678.post-33498690913449636202011-05-15T12:57:44.436-04:002011-05-15T12:57:44.436-04:00The Canadian Wheat Board monopoly will end and whe...The Canadian Wheat Board monopoly will end and when one considers the Tories have always said they wanted to do this and still won by massive margins in the Prairies, I think they have a clear mandate here. As for human rights commissions, that is a tougher one as most of the outrageous decisions have been at the provincial level so it is really provincial governments who need to scrap these although the feds could lead. Many of their advisors will probably say it will cost them amongst ethnic voters who helped deliver the gains they got in the GTA and thus their majority but I have found those in ethnic communities most likely to use these and be fans of them are ones who would never vote Tory in the first place. The ones who vote Tory are strong believers that minorities should have equal rights, not special rights and so I doubt it will hurt them as much as some say. After all their crackdown on bogus refugees hasn't cost them either.<br /><br />As for the Gag laws, I suspect those will stay as unions and various left wing organizations will probably spend a fortune trying to defeat them. A more likely thing to happen is the Tories will cut funding to all those left wing groups and then once they have gone under, then maybe change this. They will also scrap the gun registry.<br /><br />As for Quebec language laws, they won't go near those. Even if Harper was against them in the past, he is also a strong believer in respecting provincial jurisdiction so he would argue such laws are up to each province not the feds and from a strictly constitutional sense he is right.<br /><br />And I should add as a long-term bonus for your side, with Quebec swinging to the left and English Canada to the right, Quebec may separate and although this would cost them in the short-term, long-term it would make it a lot easier to adopt conservative policies. After all, if you took Quebec out of the picture, the Tories, not the Liberals would have won the majority elections in the 20th century. One columnist somewhere argued the main reason the US is so much more conservative than Canada is because the South pulls the US to the right and Quebec pulls Canada to the left. You take Quebec and the South out of their respective countries and the differences would be much less.Miles Lunnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03677415435270746921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17859678.post-92072305172224510442011-05-07T22:46:27.912-04:002011-05-07T22:46:27.912-04:00Excellent article.
I trust the PM is thinking in t...Excellent article.<br />I trust the PM is thinking in that direction, as he should.Rotterdamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06014089653357959792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17859678.post-53440154415097875192011-05-07T18:01:14.973-04:002011-05-07T18:01:14.973-04:00If Harper is our last hope, we are categorically d...If Harper is our last hope, we are categorically doomed. Seriously, just throw in the towel at the federal level already.Cytotoxicnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17859678.post-30911730179119767312011-05-07T16:37:35.122-04:002011-05-07T16:37:35.122-04:00Great article. LinkedGreat article. LinkedDon Sharpehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03870356811336658340noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17859678.post-85531979857114364712011-05-07T16:28:08.955-04:002011-05-07T16:28:08.955-04:00I'm no Harper fan but I appreciate GN's le...I'm no Harper fan but I appreciate GN's letter.<br /><br />It's an open challenge that will go unanswered.<br /><br />Bet on it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17859678.post-67288970666466713872011-05-07T16:04:08.684-04:002011-05-07T16:04:08.684-04:00Harpo is "our last chance"?
Then we'...Harpo is "our last chance"?<br /><br />Then we'd best forget about gun rights and doing anything about the threat to free speech posed by the CRTC, as these are two other areas the prime minister is notoriously weak on.John Collisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06224569566655043954noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17859678.post-17747538811932406702011-05-07T13:48:55.590-04:002011-05-07T13:48:55.590-04:00I posted the follpowing on Dr. Roy's weblog pi...I posted the follpowing on Dr. Roy's weblog piece but you ought to know that I am pissed off with the HRC, too. And also for another reason.<br /><br />I agree about your view of the HRC. Because if they read my little weblog with hard-assed comments well then there would be battles. But even though people in many parts of the world somehow got to know about my blog the HRC haven't done a damn thing. What? I am insignificant? Maybe I should go after them for not going after me.Edmund Onward Jameshttp://www.onwardjames.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17859678.post-17259651721984926202011-05-07T11:04:49.252-04:002011-05-07T11:04:49.252-04:00Harper is not 'our' last chance, as long a...Harper is not 'our' last chance, as long as our children, and our children's children, are thought of as being part of us.Paul Blairnoreply@blogger.com