tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2022452485619502579.post1705805181434642668..comments2024-03-28T09:38:52.661-04:00Comments on thwap's schoolyard: They Called Itthwaphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15399550285738440669noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2022452485619502579.post-85002343925650390222008-08-09T17:50:00.000-04:002008-08-09T17:50:00.000-04:00Ugh. Bob Rae. How do I get to read your blog ste...Ugh. Bob Rae. How do I get to read your blog stephen?thwaphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15399550285738440669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2022452485619502579.post-88622540043876440592008-08-09T13:30:00.000-04:002008-08-09T13:30:00.000-04:00Back in October of last year, Bob Rae wrote an op-...Back in October of last year, Bob Rae wrote an op-ed for the Globe in which he warned that Stephen Harper would collude with Gilles Duceppe to hobble the federal government, using the throne speech to announce a plan to permanently weaken the "spending power of the federal government."<BR/><BR/>This threat to confederation and visionary nation-building was, according to Rae, one of Duceppe's "conditions for propping up the Harper government."<BR/><BR/>Now, less than a year later, we see the results of Bob Rae's own propping up of the Conservative government: a federal government lacking the full fiscal capacity to act in the best interests of its citizens.<BR/><BR/>What Rae warned might be carried out with the help of the BQ has instead been accomplished with the help of his own party, the Liberals.Stephenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13948813957907216580noreply@blogger.com