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Harper and Co. are steadfast in toadying up to Washington and Co. Such partisanship is not necessary: ALL Canadian parties toady up to the US, given that it's
by corresation 14y ago
Harper and Co. are steadfast in toadying up to Washington and Co.
Such partisanship is not necessary: ALL Canadian parties toady up to the US, given that it's 10x our size and are our overwhelmingly dominant trading partner.
- RyanMcGreal 14y agoSome toady a lot more than others.
- graeme 14y agoErr....do you remember the Iraq war? We weren't in it. Harper demanded that we enter. That was a pretty big deal at the time. The other parties do toady, but there has been a significant increase in toadying under this government. They believe in what they're doing. I do recall there was a fair bit of Americanized copyright legislation under the liberals though. It just kept failing to pass due to frequent changes of government near the end.
- corresation 14y agoErr....do you remember the Iraq war? We weren't in it. Harper demanded that we enter. Firstly, the opposition generally will be against whatever the party in office does. However to your actual example, while that is the standard revisionism, it's completely wrong. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-qx6fwn8XM&noredirect=1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-qx6fwn8XM&noredirect=1 Harper didn't demand that we were in it. He demanded that we be honest about what we were doing in Iraq. At the same time the Liberals proudly promised that they were working overtime to convince the UN Security Council to allow the invasion of Iraq, at which point we would be in there guns in hand. So compare that to what you just said (I don't blame you as it is the completely standard narrative). -We were in Iraq -We were working all channels to get the UN to sanction the war -Then we would be in the war