Category: Canadian politics

Thank you Stephen Harper

Friday Stephen Harper formally resigned as a member of Parliament .

From: Bloomberg

“We united all Conservatives behind our agenda,” including tax cuts, a balanced budget and tougher criminal sentencing laws, Harper said in a written statement Friday confirming his departure. “Friends, we did a lot together but I know the best is yet to come. Our country must continue to serve as a model of prosperity and freedom.”
Trudeau’s party won a
the majority of districts last year with 39.5 percent of the vote, while Harper’s Conservatives secured 31.9 percent. Harper won his own electoral district and has stayed on as a Member of Parliament since….

He was first elected as a lawmaker in 1993, briefly then leaving politics before returning to seek and win the leadership of the Canadian Alliance party that — frustrated by multi-candidate races that divided the vote and delivered commanding majorities to the Liberal Party — later merged with the Progressive Conservatives under the unified Conservative banner. He became prime minister in 2006, winning his only majority in 2011.
On the world stage, Harper was an ally of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and former British Prime Minister David Cameron in advocating for global austerity. As Prime Minister, he was an avowed supporter of Ukraine and a vocal critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

OL: waste millions of Dollars Promoting Themselves

What a surprise.

From: national post

“I kept bringing this up. I kept making it clear that we were moving ahead (with the ORPP), and I kept making it clear that we all knew that there was a national problem,” she said at the time.
A couple of months later, with Ontario’s pension plan formally in the ground and the province $70 million in the hole, Wynne’s government has again decided to tout its influence by taking to the airwaves to remind Ontarians of the good work it did on the file. A radio ad paid for by the province notes that “Ontario has been working to help close the retirement savings gap” and tells listeners that “the improved CPP would help close the gap and strengthen retirement security for working Canadians.”
Ontario auditor general Bonnie Lysyk has called the ads more “self-congratulatory” than informative and said she likely wouldn’t have approved

In addition, another poll released today has the Ontario Tories at an advantage.