Speaking for the Prime Minister

Gerry Nicholls:
I have written (free of charge) a speech for Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
It's a speech he will never deliver, but it sure would make Canada's political scene a lot more interesting if he did.
But don't take my word for it, judge for yourself. Here's the text:
My fellow Canadians,
Starting today you are going to see a dramatic change in me and my
party. That's because from now on, I am going to start acting and
talking like the real Stephen Harper.
No longer will I listen to those advisers, pollsters and spin
doctors who for the past five years have convinced me to act like a
sweater-vest wearing, big spending, quasi-Liberal.
That's not me.
In fact, I am every Red Tory's worst nightmare: I am a dyed-in-the-wool, honest-to-goodness, small "c" conservative.
That means I believe government should be a lot smaller, that free
enterprise is superior to socialism and that the only good thing about
the CBC is Don Cherry.
I also believe government must live within its means. Simply put,
deficit spending is wrong; today's deficits are tomorrow's taxes.
So to help eliminate the deficit, which admittedly my own government
wrongly created, I am going to cancel many of the spending projects
previously announced as part of my so-called "stimulus package."
Let's face it, the only thing government spending stimulates is more government.
Rather than increasing spending, I am going to do something I have
wanted to do ever since I became prime minister, which is move the
capital of Canada to Calgary.
Ha, ha, just kidding.
What I really want to do is cut spending. Under my government there
will be no more corporate bailouts; no more handouts to special
interest groups; no more pork-barrelling and no more regional
subsidies.
Deep tax cuts
Plus I want to make deep tax cuts. I would rather Canadians keep and
spend their own money rather than hand it over to bureaucrats who will
use it to subsidize things like balloon festivals in Quebec.
And speaking of Quebec, I now realize how much time, energy and
money I wasted trying to win seats in that province by pandering to
nationalists voters.
That's going to stop.
I will now treat all citizens and all provinces equally. There are
no "nations" within Canada, there are no special groups with special
rights, there are just Canadians.
Now I fully understand the Opposition will resist my new conservative agenda and force an election.
But that's OK. I welcome the chance to offer Canadian voters
something they have not had for a long time: A true political choice.
In the next election, voters will have an opportunity to support the
Liberals, who stand for big government, or the NDP, who stand for even
bigger government, or the Bloc Quebecois, who want to run a foreign
government.
Or they can support my party which wants to get government out of people's lives.
That's an election I can win.
Thank you and God bless Canada.
Pretty good speech I've written, eh?

JTF wrote:For the life of me I still cannot comprehend the ignorance of some Canadians....they credit Chretein/Martin for "fixing the deficit" while all they did was off-load the problems onto the provinces...something were still fighting with Ottawa about.

umcrouc0 wrote:Ahh, found the monument. "Memorial to the Victims of Totalitarian Communism" Interesting name choice. Guess if the monument is exclusive to totalitarian communism and not other forms of totalitarianism it makes sense. I guess also the political system isn't necessarily as much of a problem as the people running the system (sort of like saying victims of persecution in Iran are 'victims of democracy', doesn't really make sense). But totalitarian communism does have a pretty poor track record so maybe it's a fitting name. I can see a number of potential issues with it, none if which have anything to do with offending communists. But that's a typical Adler argument. Well, not a real argument, but it gets CJOB folks riled up over something that isn't the actual issue. Again, it's just his character misrepresenting things for entertainment. But whatever works for them I guess.

umcrouc0 wrote:If that was the actual reason behind the problem with the name I could see some people getting mad about it. But I don't know if it really is. Could be, but I've heard Adler say a lot of things are done for a reason that will get people worked up, when they are really done because of something completely unrelated to what he's talking about.
But in some cases he's correct, possible this is one of them.

umcrouc0 wrote:Heard Adler talking about this again today. The issue is that they want to add the words 'and other oppressive regimes' to the end of the title and the people who are behind the monument want it to be exclusive to communism. Then he went off with some garbage about how it's all because they don't want to offend communists in Canada. The original title was the current proposed title without the word 'totalitarian' so it covered all communism.