CORNWALL — A city company that provides the federal government with passport cover material is reeling from the news that their business is no longer wanted.
And instead, that business will be taken care of through a factory somewhere in the former Czechoslovakia, now the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
Brian Lynch and Daniel Plourde of Columbia Finishing Mills Inc. said they have been supplying passport cover material to the government for about 30 years.
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Why Harper Dispensed with Reform Idealism
Because they couldn’t win with it, alas…
One of the rarest commodities in politics — besides honesty, integrity, civility and decency — is idealism.
The reason for this is simple. Idealism, while nice in theory, can sometimes hinder the two things that matter most to politicians: winning power and holding on to power
When you understand this basic fact you will also understand what happened to the idealistic notions that once guided Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
And yes, at one time Harper was an idealist. Recall that once he was a Reform party MP, meaning he belonged to a party that stood for noble-minded ideas about democracy, open government and citizen empowerment.
Harper Pressures MPs to Vote Against Motion on When Life Begins
Conservative MPs are under intense pressure from the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) to vote against a Tory MP’s non-binding motion that calls on Parliament to study when human life begins.
Tory sources say Prime Minister Stephen Harper wants southern Ontario MP Stephen Woodworth’s motion eliminated before Parliament rises for the summer in late June.
“The PM himself wants this vote beaten down,” one source tells QMI Agency.
The PMO is said to be telling MPs that voting in favour of Woodworth’s motion would be like forcing Harper to break his promise not to “reopen the debate on abortion.”
Tories who side with Harper are said to be putting the screws to their colleagues by telling them that a vote in favour of Motion 312 is a vote against Harper’s leadership.
Typical.
Canadian social conservatives who think Harper is their ally: you’re idiots. Useful idiots, to the Tories. Harper doesn’t give a shit what you believe; he obviously isn’t a social conservative himself, and reveals himself to be effectively pro-choice, by not merely inaction, but actually pressuring pro-lifers in his own government to shut up.
Now will you wake up, and stop slutting yourselves to the Tories, getting nothing in return? They’ve already shown they’re pro-gay-rights; now they show they’re pro-abortion.
