Posts tagged as: Stephen Harper

Photos – ADS signed

Share ADS signed by China’s tourism tsar Shao Qiwei and Canada’s international trade minister Van Loan. (Xinhua) 中國國家主席胡錦濤和加拿大總理哈珀在渥太華舉行會談後出席簽字儀式。中國國家旅遊局局長邵琪偉和加拿大國際貿易部長範洛安簽署中加旅遊目的地協議。 Tags: ADS, Canada-China relation, Hu Jintao, Stephen Harper

Transcript – Hu Jintao meets Harper

Share The transcript is released by the PMO. STEPHEN HARPER President Hu, welcome to Canada. It’s tremendous to have you here, after…particularly after the very enjoyable and successful visit that Laureen and I made to China last December. Wonderful to have you returning this visit, and I hope we will continue this regular tradition. (Interpreted [...]

Hu Jintao receives maple syrup from Harper

Share Hu Jintao begins his state visit today. This is his second official visit to Canada since he became the president. Photos released by the PMO… include them here just for the sake for keeping a record. :) Tags: Canada-China relation, Hu Jintao, Stephen Harper

Canada’s big right turn?

Share French paper La Presse has summed up my fear all along…. that the Canadian general public is making a right turn in social and political stance after 4 years of conservative leadership. In a La Presse column Monday, Alain Dubuc argued the Harper government’s stance on abortion funding is just another example of a [...]

A tale of two dictators

Share Elections BC says government HST flyer too focused on anti-HST campaign THE CANADIAN PRESS VICTORIA – Elections B.C. says the provincial government can’t fight an anti-harmonized sales tax petition with a taxpayer-funded mail out. Finance Minister Colin Hansen says he’s disappointed with the ruling and the government will pull its mail out until after [...]

25,000 march against Harper’s proroguing of parliament

Share 12,000 rally in Toronto, 3,500 in Ottawa, 1,000 in Calgary, hundreds more elsewhere Photo gallery: anti-prorogue rallies Canadians Against Proroguing Parliament (CAPP) release – In over 60 cities and towns across Canada and internationally, tens of thousands of Canadians rallied against Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s suspension of Parliament. In Toronto, police estimate between 10,000 [...]

What Canadians are conerned about is determined by…?

Share OK, PM has determined that Canadians aren’t concerned about the Afghan-detainees-gate controversy. And he told us that we only care about the economy. Well, he’s really getting closer in thinking with the Chinese Communist Party. The CCP has always believed that as long as the people flourish economically, they’ll turn a blind eye to [...]

Canadians unhappy with Harper’s performance in Copenhagen: poll

Share Many also express dissatisfaction with the commitments made at last month’s global meeting on climate change. Angus Reid poll results – Canadians are generally unhappy with the results of last month’s Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen, Denmark, a new Angus Reid Public Opinion poll has found. (full report) In the online survey of a [...]

Harper kills parliament until after Olympics… what kind of democracy Canada has?

Share I’m very, very angry. Last year when the opposition threatened to bringing down the Tories with a coalition — which is completely legal and constitutional in Canada — Harper could still remotely, barely able to justify to ask GG for a prorogue. But this year… it’s absolutely unjustifiable… it really is an abuse of [...]

Harper in contempt of real democracy

Share OK, this is what one of the most developed western democracy would do in face of dissidence and accountability: shut them all up. Harper doesn’t like dissident noises; he doesn’t like criticism; he doesn’t like being advised, lectured and he doesn’t want his authority and power be weakened by the elected parliament. When he [...]

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