As polls show a softening support for Harper’s conservatives it may well be Canadians are once again resorting to our collective wisdom and we are heading toward another minority government. As one Globe and Mail reader commented “We cannot afford another minority government.” This reader is dead wrong as under the circumstances we have no other option.
OTTAWA -- The text from a speech made by Stephen Harper, then vice-president of the National Citizens Coalition, to a June 1997 Montreal meeting of the Council for National Policy, a right-wing U.S. think tank, and taken from the council's website:
"First, facts about Canada. Canada is a Northern European welfare state in the worst sense of the term, and very proud of it. Canadians make no connection between the fact that they are a Northern European welfare state and the fact that we have very low economic growth, a standard of living substantially lower than yours, a massive brain drain of young professionals to your country, and double the unemployment rate of the United States. "(Full text included in the article)
The Collective Wisdom of Canadians - Vive
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