A Kinder Gentler Harper - I Don't Think So
Harper is pulling a con job - he used Dion on the "nation" issue and he wants to use him again on Afghanistan. As soon as he gets Dion to talk to him, he'll be able to spin it like they're working together and then he'll throw it back in his face when it suits him. Dion has to stand firm on this one, out of combat by 2009, period. Someone other than Mr. H. - any normal human being - it would be two politicians rising above partisansip. With Harper it can only be setting a trap.
posted by Susan at 10:43 PM
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It's up to Dion, we'll have an extension or we'll have an election. I'm good with it either way.
"Harper is pulling a con job - he used Dion on the "nation" issue and he wants to use him again on Afghanistan."
Poor victimized Dion! He was used? By that Machiavellian Harper? "Shame!" in the words of that great actress MP Marlene Jennings, who does outrage almost as well as the bombastic Denis Coderre.
Let's see what one prominent Liberal said:
“I have never denied the existence of the French-Canadian nation; nor do I deny the aboriginals led today by Ovide Mercredi the status of a nation in the sociological sense. What I rejected well before the advent of the neo-nationalism of the 1960s and still reject today is the doctrine that claims that every sociological nation must have political sovereignty and independence.”
Who said that?
Pierre Trudeau, Memoirs, pp. 72-74, 1993
Now let's see what Dion himself has stated re: the nation question.
http://www.vigile.net/Lettre-de-Stephane-Dion-aux
“Depuis des années, je maintiens que nous, les Québécois, formons une nation, c’est-à-dire une communauté fière de son identité propre.”
Again, Dion speaks:
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2007/10/24/4602172-cp.html
«"For years I have maintained that we, Quebecers, form a nation," Dion wrote.
"That is to say (we are) a community proud of its own identity." ...
Dion repeatedly notes that he was teaching his university students two decades ago that Quebec is a nation.»
What's the matter, don't you trust Dion to distinguish between a legitimate proposal and a political ruse?
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