Conservatives can take Quebec seats, Harper says - Globe and Mail

[Screaming Lord Byron]

http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040430.wharper0430/BNStory/National/

Conservatives can win a majority of seats in Quebec, party leader Stephen Harper said Friday as he dismissed recent polls that placed his party a distant third in the province.

Mr. Harper said the Conservatives can win up to 45 of Quebec's 75 seats with promises to respect provincial rights and to make French in Canada a “national priority.”

“To form a strong and ongoing national government, we need to win seats in Quebec,” Mr. Harper said.

-I'll comment on this when I stop laughing.

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1. In other news,

The Bloc Québécois vows to take a majority of seats in Alberta...

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3. Pretty much, yeah.

I smell desperation on Mr. Harper's breath.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

2. The Bloc Quebec was a nationalist Pro-Quebec party. Quebec is...

NOT a right wing province. It's on the East Coast!

The Liberals will win some seats there. Why would Quebec vote for the Party of Anglo-Bigots??? Oh, that's right, they wouldn't!

[Screaming Lord Byron]

4. Harper's obliged to say this crap to maintain the pretense

of being a National party. His party are starting to bomb, and he knows it.

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9. Really?

What are the electoral manifestations of the sponsorship scandal? I don't follow Canadian politics at all closely, but I'd imagine that M. Guité's problems would hurt the Liberals, especially in Quebec. If not, why not?

[Screaming Lord Byron]

10. Today's Ipsos Reid poll has the CPC down 5%, Liberals up 5%. NDP on 18%

The sponsorship scandal may have just blown over. However, 59% of Canadians say that the Liberals do not deserve another mandate, so who knows? The CPC is at 23% in the polls. They're not getting traction. If this continues, the NDP will overtake them (fingers crossed).

[TrogL]

5. I'm beginning (ok, continuing) to question Harper's sanity

Quebec is possibly the most (lowercase) liberal province. They're the ones who started the gay marriage thing in Canada. The Bloc is liberal socially and fiscally kind of middle of the road. Quebec has done very well with Liberals in power and only flirt with the Bloc to keep the Liberal bribes coming.

They would get nothing from the Conservatives (or whatever they're called this week).

[Screaming Lord Byron]

7. Now the focus is on Harper. He won't handle the spotlight well.

[Holly]

6. HAhahahahahahahahahah

That Harper what a joker. No wait, he's serious isn't he?
hahahahahahahahah!

[Screaming Lord Byron]

8. Anyone with hair like that has to be a bit of a joker, I'd have thought.

[Holly]

11. Harper's hair

sort of a cross between a classic little boy haircut, and Mike Harris hair. Scary!
Boy, the CAonservatives are imploding faster than I thought they would.
With claims like 45 seats in Quebec, he's not only dangerous...he's crazy!
They have less than 10 nominated candidates in Quebec.

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12. It's like carpet. Do we want such a man representing us?

[Hand]

13. No, no... it's the eyes....

Those little piggy eyes that are set too close together. They remind me of Rick Santorum's eyes...

:crazy: :scared:

[Holly]

16. oh ya, the eyes

and it looks like he's wearing eye-liner now, to make them look larger.
Also, in his TV ad, they dressed him in a Mike Harris blue shirt.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

17. Yeah, I've been getting the eyeliner vibe from him.

Mmmmm....Beefy Goth :evilgrin:

[Canuckistanian]

14. Like they say in Frank magazine

Vote for The Conservative Party of Canada
We still don't believe in evolution - we just don't want to talk about it anymore.

[Spazito]

15. Harper lives in the same world as george bush...

the delusional one, the one where up is down, pot and kettle meet all the time and truth should be illegal.

[Hand]

18. Pity the swine doesn't live in the same country...

Although we've already afflicted the poor old US with David Frum, Mark Steyn, Bogdan Kipling, and... GAHHH! HOWIE MANDEL!!!!

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