[penelopesire]

I thought Australia had a copyright on 'aboriginal'......

[UpHereEh]

Stephen Harper and George W. Bush

[adamsjas]

Harper, speaking in Halifax, said he'd abandon Kyoto because its emission-reduction targets can't be met and he'd set Canadian-made targets instead.

Crissake! At last a common sense plan from North of the Border? Maybe there is a breath of life in the Canadian Conservative movement after all?

[beaver fever]

"renegotiate a recent $5-billion federal-provincial deal with natives."

He just stepped into the cow pie with that one.

[conservative in nyc]

Harper announced that Zeisman will not be allowed to sit as a Conservative MP if elected. But he added that it's "too late in the campaign legally for me to withdraw the candidate or change the candidate."

I guess B.C. isn't New Jersey and the Conservative Party of Canada believes in the rule of law (unlike the Democrat Party of New Jersey and their judiciary).

Martin said the ad wasn't aimed at soldiers.

"I support our military," he said. "I've probably put more money into the military than almost any prime minister . . . (The ads have) nothing to do with soldiers."

Ads with the words "Soldiers with guns. In our cities. In Canada" have nothing to do with soldiers. We're not making this up.

Liberal MP Keith Martin, who represents a B.C. riding that includes CFB Esquimalt, went further. He apologized to Canadians and blamed the ad on an "idiot" who released it by mistake.

The "idiot" *cough* Paul Martin *cough* not only "released" the ad "by mistake", but just happened to keep it up on the Liberal party's french-language website for a day "by mistake" and happened to air it on TV in Quebec "by mistake" which just happened to host a few unwanted Canadian soldiers "by mistake" in the 1970s. Very little in politics is done "by mistake".