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This doesn't surprise me ONE bit. It's part of the two faced culture up here and that we all have to put up with DAILY!!
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> OTTAWA -<span style="font-weight: bold"> <span style="font-size: 14pt">Stephen Harper made two very different sales pitches for his economic plan this week: one a public pep talk to jittery Canadians, the other a private smoothing-of-the-feathers for uneasy conservatives.</span> </span>
The marquee speech Canadians saw on television Tuesday or read about the next day was about how the economy would recover swiftly and strongly through targeted spending in the budget.
The other was behind closed doors Thursday evening to a group of key conservatives - <span style="font-weight: bold">sharply partisan remarks that ripped into the Liberals, libertarians, <span style="font-size: 14pt">the Obama administration's tax policies</span> and Wall Street. </span>
The prime minister spoke at a conference sponsored by the Manning Centre for Building Democracy, a conservative think-tank run by former Reform Party leader Preston Manning.
The prime minister's office did not signal beforehand that he was giving the speech, and refused to make his remarks available afterward.
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He twice pointed disdainfully to tax hikes U.S. President Barack Obama introduced for the highest tax brackets.
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"We have tried going out and selling things we don't believe in - how's that working?"
Said Michel Kelly Gagnon of the Montreal Economic Institute: "If you want to vote for a centrist party, you can vote for the Liberal party of Canada. They're very good at that."
But Harper vigorously defended his policies, arguing that compromises had to be made to face the economic reality.
"I'm talking about compromises that address the reality of the lives of real people."
He went on to deride the spendthrift culture in the United States and the recklessness of Wall Street. Harper, who has been described as a libertarian in the past, surprised some in the audience by critiquing those same ideals.
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> Mike Brock, a Conservative blogger who attended the conference, called the speech bewildering.
"The treatment to classical liberals and libertarians - of which I consider myself - was nothing short of stunning," he wrote.
"<span style="font-weight: bold">The condescension was literally dripping from his mouth. </span>Was this his response to the disillusionment that libertarians across the country have had to his government and its policies of late?
"If it was, it did not build any bridges. Rather, it burnt them right down."
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To quote a former Red Rose Commercial:
<span style="font-weight: bold">Only in Canada, eh! </span>
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> OTTAWA -<span style="font-weight: bold"> <span style="font-size: 14pt">Stephen Harper made two very different sales pitches for his economic plan this week: one a public pep talk to jittery Canadians, the other a private smoothing-of-the-feathers for uneasy conservatives.</span> </span>
The marquee speech Canadians saw on television Tuesday or read about the next day was about how the economy would recover swiftly and strongly through targeted spending in the budget.
The other was behind closed doors Thursday evening to a group of key conservatives - <span style="font-weight: bold">sharply partisan remarks that ripped into the Liberals, libertarians, <span style="font-size: 14pt">the Obama administration's tax policies</span> and Wall Street. </span>
The prime minister spoke at a conference sponsored by the Manning Centre for Building Democracy, a conservative think-tank run by former Reform Party leader Preston Manning.
The prime minister's office did not signal beforehand that he was giving the speech, and refused to make his remarks available afterward.
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He twice pointed disdainfully to tax hikes U.S. President Barack Obama introduced for the highest tax brackets.
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"We have tried going out and selling things we don't believe in - how's that working?"
Said Michel Kelly Gagnon of the Montreal Economic Institute: "If you want to vote for a centrist party, you can vote for the Liberal party of Canada. They're very good at that."
But Harper vigorously defended his policies, arguing that compromises had to be made to face the economic reality.
"I'm talking about compromises that address the reality of the lives of real people."
He went on to deride the spendthrift culture in the United States and the recklessness of Wall Street. Harper, who has been described as a libertarian in the past, surprised some in the audience by critiquing those same ideals.
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> Mike Brock, a Conservative blogger who attended the conference, called the speech bewildering.
"The treatment to classical liberals and libertarians - of which I consider myself - was nothing short of stunning," he wrote.
"<span style="font-weight: bold">The condescension was literally dripping from his mouth. </span>Was this his response to the disillusionment that libertarians across the country have had to his government and its policies of late?
"If it was, it did not build any bridges. Rather, it burnt them right down."
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To quote a former Red Rose Commercial:
<span style="font-weight: bold">Only in Canada, eh! </span>