May 2010
2 posts
A bunch of flip flops for this summer weather!
Recently, I have noticed 3 flip flops made by the Conservative gov’t. For the most part they are small flip flops so I’m going to put them all in here.
Flip Flop - Women’s Groups Funding
Let’s start with what I just heard Minister Ambrose say during Question Period:
She stated the Conservative gov’t has provided more funding for women’s groups and that more...
Maternal Health Flip Flop Update
On our main list of Flip Flops, down towards the bottom, you’ll see a mention about maternal health.
There was a lot of flip flopping about this but in the end, the Cons have refused to include abortion into their maternal health funding for African countries. See the Conservatives do not believe that abortion should be apart of this; even though we are talking about countries where women...
April 2010
8 posts
Afghan Documents flip flop
We’ve seen the headlines in the past 24 hrs. Examples being:
Harper open to suggestions on detainee documents
Compromise appears possible in Afghan detainee dispute
But see here’s the thing, the headlines are misleading. If you watched Question Period yesterday (April 27th), you’d know that Stephen Harper is not truly willing to compromise on this issue. Well at least...
Harper wears his flip flops proudly when it comes...
I think the title sets out what this post will accomplish.
Back in late 2005/ early 2006, we had an election going on, it would prove to be an election that, for better or worse (I say worse), changed the political map in Canada. See up until now, the Liberals had been in power for about 13 yrs.
2 things happened to change this:
1) Stephen Harper realized that if he united the right, that he...
"If you want to be a government in a minority...
The above quote was said by Stephen Harper in an interview with Evan Solomon in 2004. At the time, Harper was the leader of the Opposition.
How have things changed since Harper has become PM of 2 minority governments? How is this a flip flop?
Well, let’s take a look, with Harper as he wears his flip flops, on this stroll down memory lane:
He prorogued parliament twice because saying that...
Flip Flop in the making
Last month, when the House was vigorously debating Canada’s role in maternal health for emerging nations (specifically, most parties wanted funding to include access to abortion and contraceptives), PM Harper made it clear that he did not want to reopen the abortion debate.
2 quotes that support what I just said:
Harper: “But we do not want a debate, here or elsewhere, on...
Access to Information - who needs it, right?...
In 2006, Stephen Harper and his Conservatives campaigned on creating a more open and transparent government. As part of this, they said they would update the Access to Information policies, in fact this was one of their main campaign promises.
Throughout the years, they have made it harder for people to access information and at one point shut down one of its key databases, claiming that it was...
Another flip flop in the making?
This is still quite new, so forgive me for not having links to everything. With that out of the way, here is what I think could be a flip flop in the making. I think it’s important to capture these flip flops as they happen; they sometimes happen fast and furiously or on days when other political stories are grabbing more of the media’s and Canadian public’s attention.
From the...
Conservatives have been flip flopping since 2006
The following list details the Conservative government’s flip flops since 2006. It’s important to note the difference between a flip flop and a lie.
A flip flop is where the government says 1 thing and then changes its mind soon after, most likely due to internal polling telling them that their policies or programs are not popular. So they are changing their mind for political gain...
Flip Flop - Mission and Introduction
Flip Flop.
Stephen Harper.
What do those 2 things have to do with each other? Well if like us, you’ve been following Canadian politics the past few years, you would begin to see a pattern with Stephen Harper and his Conservatives. That pattern is quite simply: flip flopping. They say 1 thing and then do another. They say they won’t do something and then they do. They have an ideology...
March 2010
1 post
