- Harper: “politics stops at whose water’s edge???”

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Cannon blasts Ignatieff to diplomats, says he puts party before country, Toronto Star, Oct 6 2010
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/871792--cannon-blasts-ignatieff-to-diplomats-says-he-puts-party-before-country

“'One of the few persons who believe that Canada should not sit on the Security Council unfortunately is the leader of the Opposition, Mr. Ignatieff, who has shown himself to be unable to put the interests of this country above the interests of his political party,' Cannon said."
(Toronto Star)

Anyone else, catch the hypocrisy in Cannon's accusation, I mean other than it simply being untrue.

What Ignatieff actually said was:

“This is a government that for four years has basically ignored the United Nations and now is suddenly showing up saying, ‘Hey, put us on the council,’” Ignatieff said days before Harper delivered a major speech at the UN to support Canada’s bid.

“Don’t mistake me,” Ignatieff said. “I know how important it is for Canada to get a seat on the Security Council but Canadians have to ask a tough question: Has this government earned that place? We’re not convinced it has.” (Toronto Star)


For Stephen Harper and the Conservative Party of Canada “politics stops at the . . . nothing.”

Everything Harper and the Con's do are partizan, for their personal political gain and the good of Canada be dam[redacted]ed.

These type of things do not go unnoticed on the International scene and can do irreparable hard to Canada's reputation.

There is little doubt that Canada's reputation on the International scene has been severely injured since Harper took the helm. This is just one more instance.

We can only hope that the International community is writing it off to a 'right wing extremism anomaly in Canada's history' and it is our responsibility to not only our forefathers, who built this great country on the blood, sweat and tears, but also our children and our children's children, who will be left to deal with this condition, to ensure that it is.

If I recall the Con's have been attacking the Opposition and the Liberals in International arena from the very start of the regime - e.g. wasn't it in '06 ('07) the Con's (then Min of Environment Ambrose) launched a vicious tirade on the Opposition and Liberals at an International Environmental conference.

That reminds me. From what I heard of Harper's speech in the UN a few weeks ago pitching Canada on the Security Counsel (you know, the one that was so purely attended - if it wasn't Harper speaking I might think it was intended as a 'message' on Canada's current efforts in International diplomacy - they do that kind of messaging at that level), Harper based the argument on Canada long and proud history of positive contribution to International peace and comity of nations and not its track record for the past 4 years. Although I don't recall him drawing attention to the significance of this.

The same goes for Canada's economy and banking system.

It seems that Harper and the Con's are proud of Canada's achievements in the past. They just want to take credit for it, despite not having participated, except for the brief period in Opposition when the opposed everything they are now so boastfully extolling.

Lloyd MacILquham cicblog.com/comments.html