Only time will tell what kind of opposition Jack Layton’s New Democrats will become. But four days after the Conservatives abandoned their pledge to balance the nation’s books by 2015, Haroon Siddiqui examined Stephen Harper’s claim that his party is t…
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Northern Reflections: Making The World Safe For The Wealthy
The pledge was pretty straightforward. This, after all, was the government of the “steady” hand. The Conservative platform proclaimed that: “Through accelerated reductions in government spending, a re-elected Stephen Harper government will eliminate t…
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Micheal Ignatieff In Retrospect
In a recent column, Kate Heartsfeld recounts an incident which occurred less than a week after the election:Five days after the federal election, I was sitting in a car dealership in suburban Ottawa, reading the paper and drinking my watery free cof…
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Shifting Blame
I suspect that the 24% of Canadians who gave Stephen Harper his majority don’t read Paul Krugman. But, as Mr. Harper and his acolytes rest smugly in their certitude that corporate tax cuts create jobs, the rest of us should read Krugman’s column in th…
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Something Wicked
In the same week that Canada’s political pundits hailed Stephen Harper’s “remaking of the political landscape,” — the week that Micheal Ignatieff resigned as leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and headed to the University of Toronto — Andrew Coyn…
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: The Mushy Middle?
Those who are hailing the new “clarity” reflected in Monday’s election results should read Dan Gardner’s column in this morning’s Ottawa Citizen. Looking back at the demise of the British Liberal Party, Gardner writes:Something similar is quite possib…
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Russell’s Nightmare
Canada changed last night. It was a change which voters made consciously and deliberately. In doing so, they ignored the warning of one of Canada’s best known constitutional scholars. A week before the election, Peter Russell appeared in what will beco…
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: A Failed Prime Minister
Stephen Harper set the bar for success in this election. There were only two choices, he said — a Conservative Majority or Chaos. No one at this point can accurately predict the outcome of this election. But it would appear that Canadians — as they d…
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