- We have no one to blame but ourselves for Harper and his Con's ruining this country.

Posted: 5/29/2010 10:36:02 AM The Globe and Mail
Opposition balks at Tory loophole in detainee record deal, Steven Chase, Globe and Mail, 28 May '10
Tabs 40 & 45

Subtitle: Harper and the Con's doth protest too much, methinks.

One would think that the legal opinion would be the first thing that a person acting in good faith, with honesty and integrity, and prudently would want to release since it could explain why they took the position they did.

Acting on a legal opinion may very well be no legal excuse as far as the law is concerned, of course. But, as far as the Court of Public Opinion, i.e. politics, it very well can be. And, presumably a Court could take such into consideration in sentencing, unless it is being 'tough-on-crime', of course. Now that would be ironic.

One must ask why Stephen Harper and the Con's would want to exclude not simply the legal opinions but all records “subject to solicitor-client privilege”

Well the logical inference is perhaps Harper and the Con's are not and/or, were not, either: acting in good faith or honesty or integrity or prudently.

My hunch is don't rule out any of these possibilities. But then I am just basing this on my observations of 'Hide-Everything' Harper, Peter 'if-it-it-isn't-in-Hansard-it-did-happen' MacKay.

Harper and the Con's m.o. of viscous personal attacks of anyone that dares to stand up to them,or say anything that they think might go against them, obstruction-obscuration-obfuscation, and building and using liberally the greatest propaganda machine seen in Western democracies in recent history to effect these things are, in my opinion, the hall-marks of someone, or someones, that has something to hide.

Here's a scenario. The legal opinions that Harper received advised that what Harper and the Con's was doing contravened International Criminal Laws as well as domestic criminal laws.

Now that might explain wanting these legal opinions excluded.

But, Stephen, it is exactly due to this type of scenario that Parliament is requiring the Afghan Detainee Transfer and ensuing cover-up documents.

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posted: 5/29/2010 10:56:27 AM The Globe and Mail

. . . Continued

'We have no one to blame but ourselves for Harper and his Con's ruining this country . . .'

On the other hand, what better way of taking attention away from Harper and Jim Flaherty's wasting over a billion dollars of our taxes, which is a significant portion of our deficit, for personal aggrandizement, partizan self-interest in order to buy the next election. Or, Jaffergate, for that matter, or, . . .


Just keep in mind that the only reason Harper and his Con's can do these things is because we let them.

There is a certain logic to Harper saying this is what Canadians want, since, presumably if we didn't, he get the boot and forthwith.

We, the Canadian people, are ultimately responsible and we, the Canadian people, and our children and our children's children, and their children, down thru the ages, will ultimately have to pay.

Here's an interesting quote (well actually it is an adaption from the US to the Canadian context - for illustration purposes only, of course):

“The danger to Canada is not Stephen Harper but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the running our government. It will be easier to limit and undo the follies of an Harper Prime Ministership than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Harper, who is a mere symptom of what ails us. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. Canada as a Nation can survive a Stephen Harper, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their leader.”

see: 'christian views america' at, http://ccviewsandnews.net/2010/01/too-many-jokers/

Lloyd MacILquham cicblog.com/comments.html