…of course when the Harper Conservatives are close to a deal, they don’t describe them as “Harper Conservatives”, but rather as “Canada”, or “the Canadian government”. (Any other day, liberals would hate that as they see it as incongruous to be Canadian, and yet conservative).
Canada, U.S. closing in on softwood agreement
Updated Tue. Apr. 25 2006 6:29 AM ET
CTV.ca News StaffCanada and the United States may be on the brink of an historic breakthrough in the decades-old softwood lumber dispute, CTV News has learned.
Quotas on Canadian softwood lumber and the return of a significant portion of punishing U.S. duties are part of a complex framework agreement officials from both sides were hammering out in around-the-clock discussions.
As part of the agreement, Canadian lumber firms would be held to a 34 per cent share of softwood lumber in the U.S. market, which is roughly Canada’s current share.
The U.S. would return 78 per cent of the $5 billion it collected in anti-dumping and countervailing duties beginning in 2002.
At least they allow that it’s thanks to the Harper Conservatives, rather than a guy named “Canada” who was on the horn with “The U.S.”:
[…] CTV News has learned that the impending deal is the culmination of phone conversations between Prime Minister Stephen Harper and U.S. President George W. Bush over the past 10 days.
Meanwhile, news stories that are popular among the pacifist and appeaser set, the liberals, are marked by which political party (hey whadyaknow it’s the Conservatives!), run the government.
Media banned from covering dead soldiers’ return
Updated Tue. Apr. 25 2006 9:43 AM ET
CTV.ca News StaffThe media will be barred from an Ontario airfield Tuesday when the bodies of four Canadian soldiers killed in Afghanistan over the weekend arrive home.
The Conservative government’s decision to keep the public from seeing images of flag-draped coffins follows Sunday’s announcement that the Peace Tower flag will not be flown at half-mast to mark the deaths of the soldiers.
The Peace Tower flag will instead now only be lowered once a year, on Remembrance Day.
And then they pop right into their liberal-left media handbook and do what’s required of them according to that media guide: the anti-Bush, anti-American “American-style” liberal-left fundamentalist thumping. Watch as they also manage to call it not “Canada”, suddenly, but invoke the name “Harper” and “Conservative”, and “the Harper government” as often as possible:
…“The move mirrors a practice that is controversial in the United States and has prompted opposition critics to accuse Harper’s government”…
…“In the U.S., the Bush administration’s concern that a stream of images of coffins”…
…“correspondent Craig Oliver said the Conservative government may be afraid that Afghanistan will become to Prime Minister Stephen Harper what Iraq has become to U.S. President George Bush.”…
…”“They’re modeling their approach a little bit on the way George Bush and the American administration has approached it,” Layton told CTV Monday. “I don’t think it is the right way to go.”“…
(Sensible people know that the liberals and the Taliban and Al Qaeda all hope to weaken our resolve by making a media event of every Canadian soldier’s death. The latter two have admitted as much. The liberals and their media haven’t yet. )
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