Here's a site that Canadians might find worth bookmarking.

[tuvor]

"In Their Own Words collects quotations by and about Canada's Conservatives, as well as quotes about Canada by well-known American conservative pundits."

http://www.intheirownwords.ca

"I don't know all the facts on Iraq, but I think we should work closely with the Americans."

- Stephen Harper, Report Newsmagazine, March 25th 2002. As it turned out, Harper wasn't the only one who didn't know all the facts.

http://www.intheirownwords.ca/harper.html

[Laha]

1. Thank you..

From one Canadian who sees North America's problems as essentially borderless.

It's too bad the more I read about Harper, the more he scares the living crap out of me, in very much the same way Bush did when I started reading about him.

[tuvor]

2. Glad to share it.

And a very belated welcome to DU, Laha! :hi:

[glarius]

3. Thank you so much for posting this site.

I have just read Harper's printed comments and am absolutely stunned that these quotes were not used over and over in the election by the Liberals. I cannot believe Canadians would EVER have elected him if these things were known about him. The only words of his I recall being quoted during the election were the ones about the firewall around Alberta, and what he said to the right-wing American think tank..."Canada is a Northern European welfare state." There is much more to be alarmed about in some of his other quotes.
I posted a few of them here. I haven't heard most of these before. Perhaps I am the only one, but I doubt it. Joe Clark's comments at the end should have been listened to.
Harper's quotes: (the italics are mine)
"The establishment came down with a constitutional package which they put to a national referendum. The package included distinct society status for Quebec and some other changes, including some that would just horrify you, putting universal Medicare in our constitution, and feminist rights, and a whole bunch of other things."

"The NDP could be described as basically a party of liberal Democrats, but it's actually worse than that, I have to say. And forgive me jesting again, but the NDP is kind of proof that the Devil lives and interferes in the affairs of men."

"In terms of the unemployed, of which we have over a million-and-a-half, don't feel particularly bad for many of these people. They don't feel bad about it themselves, as long as they're receiving generous social assistance and unemployment insurance."

"I don't know all the facts on Iraq, but I think we should work closely with the Americans." - Stephen Harper, Report Newsmagazine, March 25th 2002.

"Withdraw from the Canada Pension Plan... Collect our own revenue from personal income tax... Resume provincial responsibility for health-care policy. If Ottawa objects to provincial policy, fight in the courts... ach province should raise its own revenue for health... It is imperative to take the initiative, to build firewalls around Alberta... "
"We also support the exploration of alternative ways to deliver health care. Moving toward alternatives, including those provided by the private sector, is a natural development of our health care system."

- Stephen Harper, Toronto Star, October 2002.

"In a sense, people are so enraged at the Liberal government, that they're giving Stephen Harper and his government a bye. They should take a look at what he proposes."

- Former Progressive Conservative leader Joe Clark, April 26th 2004, accusing Conservative Leader Stephen Harper of harbouring a "hidden" agenda. Reported in the Globe and Mail.

[Jazz2006]

4. Thanks, tuvor

Bookmarked!

[laundry_queen]

5. THANKS!

That will come in handy while trying to debate my closed minded Harper-bot father who had NO idea Harper wanted Canadian troops in Iraq back in '03 until I told him. Sheesh!