Most New Democrats – probably all New Democrats – genuinely dislike Steven Harper. With good reason, he’s muzzled scientists, bullied unions, abandoned the impoverished, given tax breaks to the largest corporations, all things that stir up democratic socialists. Yet, their newly minted leader was not only represented the Quebec Liberal Party in the Quebec National […]
Tag: Bob Rae
Impolitical: Rae’s clever privilege motion on the F-35s
Here it is, the full text: Liberal Leader Bob Rae’s Point of Privilege (h/t to David Akin for posting) The most important parts are at pages 5-9. Essentially, Rae’s point is that the Auditor General’s report says one thing. The Harper ministers, on the other hand, said very different things
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: The F-35 Boondoggle
I know we’ve been over this ground before, but remind me again… why does Canada even need this heinously expensive new class of fighter jet at all? What possible military threat are we defending ourselves from? Seriously. What is the point? Aside from the absurdity of ploughing something like $30
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Bob Rae’s Ridiculous Assault on Thomas Mulcair
I’m sorry to see that Liberals and the NDP are attacking each other, and that Bob Rae is calling Tom Mulcair a “mini-Harper.” “If there was any doubt in anyone’s mind in Canada, let me just say that the era of love and good feeling is clearly over inside the
Continue readingPample the Moose: Resign! Or not…
I got rather frustrated yesterday by series of articles reporting on Liberal leader Bob Rae’s demand that Stephen Harper resign over the F-35 issue. My frustration wasn’t specifically aimed at Rae or the Liberal party, but more broadly at our political culture where the first instinct of all of our
Continue readingPample the Moose: Resign! Or not…
I got rather frustrated yesterday by series of articles reporting on Liberal leader Bob Rae’s demand that Stephen Harper resign over the F-35 issue. My frustration wasn’t specifically aimed at Rae or the Liberal party, but more broadly at our politica…
Continue readingPample the Moose: Resign! Or not…
I got rather frustrated yesterday by series of articles reporting on Liberal leader Bob Rae’s demand that Stephen Harper resign over the F-35 issue. My frustration wasn’t specifically aimed at Rae or the Liberal party, but more broadly at our political culture where the first instinct of all of our
Continue readingImpolitical: Memories of Mulcair
This Canadian Press report from Friday is about the use of the debate time in the House of Commons Friday on the reaction to the budget. The NDP took up all the debate time that day to prevent Liberals from getting any of it. Rae pointed it out as being
Continue readingCanadian Progressive World: Canada Federal Budget 2012: Canadians React
NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair slammed the Harper Conservatives for recklessly cutting services vital to many Canadians’ livelihoods, such as Old Age Security. Liberal Leader Bob Rae called the budget “an exercise in small-mindedness and mean spirited-ness. And ordinary Canadians weighed … Continue reading →
Continue readingA BCer in Toronto: Rae’s budget town hall: From gas prices to gas taxes, and other stuff too
This morning I randomly heard that interim Liberal leader Bob Rae and members of the Liberal caucus were holding a post-budget town hall at the Armenian Community Centre in Toronto. After debating it for a bit, I decided to drop my previous Saturday plan of re-runs of Holmes Inspection, followed
Continue readingThe Equivocator: Thomas Mulcair’s flip-flop on cannabis is disappointing but not surprising
On January 25th, 2012, a survey was released on EndProhibition.ca (a pro-NDP anti-prohibition website) where Thomas Mulcair’s campaign stated that he was in favour of decriminalizing cannabis and was very much in favour of medical marijuana. On March 18th, 2012 Mulcair was doing a t.v. interview with Tom Clark (see
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading… – No, we shouldn’t read too much into the first wave of polling following Thomas Mulcair’s election as NDP leader. But there are a couple of points where the early returns are far enough out of line with expectations to be worth pointing
Continue readingwRanter.com: Why Thomas Mulcair gets it when it comes to Israel
Not surprisingly, Thomas Mulcair won the NDP leadership last month, replacing Saint Jack Layton as the man social democrats hope can rally left-of-centre voters to defeat Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservatives. Here’s hoping he’s successful, but as I argued in an earlier post, it seems unlikely that he will be, because
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Liberal Party should not pay for Bob Rae’s defence against Tory attack ads
Harper’s trademark politicking rears its head again, with the Tories using the admirable money-raising machine they have created with the use of their vaunted CIMS outreach computer database to fund ads reminding voters (and most importantly, the fickle media, who rush after any shiny thing that Harper waves in front
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Cons: The Horror and the Desperation
Well I see the politicians may be on a spring break, but the sinister Con War Room, like death, or Great Ugly Leader. Never takes a holiday… Golly. I have to admit when I first saw that attack ad it struck fear into my heart. I was afraid I might
Continue readingA BCer in Toronto: Rae ad a well-aimed Conservative grenade into the Liberal tent
Proving that you don’t need to ignore or even bend electionlaw to execute a savvy political strategy and tie your opponents in knots, theattack ad launched Sunday night by the Conservatives against interim Liberalleader Bob Rae is clever strategy on many levels. Most of all, it’s awell-aimed grenade into the
Continue readingIs It Just Me, or Does Anyone Else Find the Timing of the Latest Harpercon Ads a Tad Curious?
Yep, boys ‘n’ girls, the Harpercons have come out with a new shiny thing–an attack ad against the Liberal interim leader, Bob Rae. I guess it’s never too early to get a jump start on that election campaign now, is it? I mean, they better get chopping now!! Only 3
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Defending “Rae Days”
Unlike his two immediate predecessors who unwisely allowed themselves to be negatively defined by relentless campaigns of character assassination from the Conservatives, Bob Rae is making it clear that he’s not going to sit idle and simply allow attack ads by Harper’s mufti-million dollar smear machine to go unanswered. Instead,
Continue readingCalgaryGrit: New Tory Ad Blitz
The Tories have launched a pair of ads which they assure us will get plenty of air time. That’s probably true since, after all, they’ve got heaps of money and no election to spend it on. Garnering the most media attention has been the following Bob Rae attack ad: The
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