What kind of Canadian Prime Minister threatens Provinces with court? Let's take a look at this article where Stephen Harper is beginning to show signs of a mentally disturbed dictator and not an elected servant of the people.
Read this story from June 12, 2007 METRO NEWS Read it here.
Prime minister dares provinces
Prime Minister Stephen Harper is threatening to go to court to rebut critics who say he is breaking his word and shortchanging Nova Scotia and Newfoundland.
“We don’t break contracts; we respect contracts,” Harper told the Commons yesterday in reply to sharp criticism from Conservative Nova Scotia Premier Rodney MacDonald on the heels of months of protest from Newfoundland’s Danny Williams, and the ouster last week of Tory MP Bill Casey.
Harper disputes the charge his government breached the Atlantic Accords, and broke an election promise to let those provinces keep 100 per cent of their offshore oil and gas revenues without suffering hits to their federal-provincial equalization payments.
Yesterday, a combative Harper first dared the provinces to take him to court if they are serious.
“That’s a serious allegation: The federal government’s breaking the law. We’re not breaking the law. And if Nova Scotia believes that, they would take the appropriate action.”
Harper added he was still open to talks to resolve the dispute as voters expect leaders to do, “like adults.” But Harper said there would be no more “side deals” with provinces.
Then, Harper — who has long held that courts should not intervene in political decisions — said if the provinces don’t do so, he would put the whole question of whether a contract was broken to some kind of judicial review.
“I don’t think we can let this stand. At some point, we’ll consult the courts to see if we’ve respected the contract,” said Harper.
Torstar News Service
What kind of Canadian Prime Minister threatens Provinces with court? A very bad one.
Stephen Harper and all of his sick, bible-thumping, cross-burning, gun-toting, neo-fascist haters and superstitious C.N.P. allies need to leave Canada for good. They don't belong in this country and they would be happier elsewhere - as would the rest of Canada with them gone -.
