- Harper 'Nation Building' ??? - yah, 'Con - Nation Building' !!!

Posted: 8/28/2010 12:31:59 PM
Stephen Harper’s northern renaissance, John Ibbitson,
Globe and Mail, Aug. 27, 2010
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/john-ibbitson/stephen-harpers-northern-renaissance/article1686928/ Tab 52

Stephen Harper on the ATV - think: Stockwell Day and Jet Ski.

Everything does Stephen Harper is hyper-partizan.

You betcha his 'holiday' in the North is for partizan, political purposes and the million(s) spent on the military exercises was to provide a backdrop for a Harper photo-op. Harper has no qualms about spending billion(s) of our hard earned taxes in a two day photo-op in Toronto, a million seems like boy scouts.

It is beyond credibility that the Russians planes that came within 30 kl Canadian air space and met by 2 F-18's is justification for spending 16 billion on 65 F-35's as apparently offered up for Canadian consumption by Harper's press spokesman, Dimitri Soudas. (Compare: "At no time did the Russian military aircraft enter Canadian or U.S. sovereign airspace," said NORAD's statement. "Both Russia and NORAD routinely exercise their capability to operate in the north. These exercises are important to both NORAD and Russia and are not cause for alarm."Ottawacitizen)

These Russian aircraft obviously had no intention of entering Canadian air space and, if they did, the F-18's were easily up to the task.

More likely they were Russian Paparazi looking for some footage of the Harper holiday - now, I see what Harper meant by making Canada an International player, a pic of the Canada PM riding a ATV on the front page of Pravda is nothing to shake a stick at, just ask Vladimir Putin.

Harper: "We're not going to win or lose an election in the North, . . .We're doing it because this is about nation-building, this is the frontier, this is the place that defines our country."

yah, 'Con Nation' building.

Harper doesn't specify just exactly what 'nation' or just exactly 'who' when he says 'our'.

Given Harper's career long ambition to tear Canada as a nation asunder, sounds like code for his right-wing, extremist, die-hard supporters with epi-centre in Alberta, for an Alberta - North West Territories nation.

Lloyd MacILquham cicblog.com/comments.html

submitted: 9:54am, PDT, 28 Aug.'10
Nation-building, not politics, behind week-long Arctic tour: Harper, Stephanie Levitz, The Canadian Press, 27/08/2010
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/breakingnews/harper-says-choice-in-next-election-is-tory-majority-or-opposition-coaltion-101629833.html?commentConfirmed=y#comments