Dawna Friesen: When this is all over, not just the election, but politics—and you’re out of this game—and you look back, you will go down in history as the only Canadian Prime Minister—the only Prime Minister in the Commonwealth—to ever have their government voted in contempt of Parliament. Does that irk you?
Stephen Harper: Not at all, well it irks me in a sense that I think this was this was a completely unjustified act. It was an example of the kind of political games and maneuvering that are taking place in this minority parliament. There was no basis for that … it was a pretext for an election that Canadians did not want. There’s no case for that. This government—and we don’t say we’re perfect—but this government is focused on Canadians’ concerns and I think we’ve governed competently, our ministers and MP’s have acted with integrity, and we’re proud of that record and you know as I say, I think it’s unfortunate that those kinds of things are being done in a minority parliament but I think it tells you why we must have a majority government and not a minority parliament that focuses on that kind of stuff instead of the economy.
I feel like when I read this response, I see a man who doesn't believe his government has made any error. That literally he feels that his government has actually acted with integrity. Not that I'm making a case for saying all Conservatives are soulless bastards or anything of the like, I do believe that in their own way, perhaps they are justified. But surely on some fundamental level, we must agree that there have been improprieties over this last session of Parliament.
There has been no transparency over the F35 Issue. Why?
Bev Oda scrawled a tiny little ^not on a document, stood before the house and said she did not make that alteration on a legal document, and then later confessed that she had LIED, and had been confused about the question.
Richard Colvin has been systemically attacked for doing his job, raising serious allegations about the possibility that Canadian soldiers and military have had a direct hand in handing over innocent Afghani men and women for torture.
The entire world derided Canada's performance at Copenhagen, citing serious concerns that Canada has not done enough on a global level to be the leader on environmental policy it should be. We turned a blind eye and vilified our detractors.
For two days, downtown Toronto became the site of running skirmishes with police, ending in hundreds of innocent Canadians detained illegally, and abused. On our own country soil, men and women were run down, their belongings searched or confiscated, and they were arrested without due cause or without proper representation.
Canada lost its seat on the United Nations Security Council, literally because we did not pursue it enough and we were not considered influential enough on the global scale. Harper's ministers blamed Ignatieff''s mongering. Many of the other country's diplomats however said "Ignatieff who?"
Widespread nips and tucks to funding for organizations, institutions and services are quietly being eliminated beneath the government regime. Is the price of this 2% lowering of GST mean we Canadians will lose out on a host of important services and institutions from arts and culture, museum funding, status for women, to planned parenthood?
When the opposition, as is their job, raised serious concerns to the government over a number of these issues, Harper chose to prorogue parliament, granting himself and his ministers 2 months off work seemingly for the Olympics, that is 2 months with pay, while our entire legislative body of government ground to a halt.
Is this what our Prime Minister means when he says he believes he and his ministers have acted with Integrity?
Why doesn't it irk you, Mister Harper?
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