{"id":392,"date":"2005-06-28T10:40:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-28T14:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=392"},"modified":"2005-06-28T10:40:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-28T14:40:00","slug":"errors-in-logic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=392","title":{"rendered":"Errors in Logic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stephen Harper’s first and third questions in QP yesterday<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Hon. Stephen Harper (Leader of the Opposition, CPC): Mr. Speaker, during the trip to Ireland it was more than apparent that the victims’ families were not satisfied with the government’s handling of the Air-India issue, and neither are most members of Parliament.<\/p>\n

On April 12 a majority of the members of the House voted to direct the government to immediately hold a public inquiry into the Air-India issue<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Will the Prime Minister honour the will of the House<\/strong>, yes or no?<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hon. Stephen Harper (Leader of the Opposition, CPC): Mr. Speaker, it is amazing that when they were talking to Jean Chr\u00e9tien’s lawyers, unlike the hep C or Air-India cases, they were able to get immediate action and immediate agreement.
[Translation<\/em>]<\/p>\n

I have a third example. On November 2, 2004, the House passed a resolution calling on the government to recognize the existence of the fiscal imbalance<\/strong>. Almost eight months later, the Prime Minister still has not reacted.<\/p>\n

Is the Prime Minister close to admitting that the fiscal imbalance exists?
<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Just a few hours after making these comments, Stephen Harper declared that the Same Sex Marriage legislation lacked legitimacy because a majority of federalist MPs opposed it. For anyone interested, the vote on the Air India inquiry passed by a 172-124 margin<\/a>. Since the Bloc supported it, that means that…uh-oh…a majority of federalist MPs voted against<\/em> the motion<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The fiscal imbalance (which, by the way, is the number one pet issue of the separatists) motion was carried by a 165-128 vote<\/a>. Since the Bloc supported it, that means that…oh crap…a majority of federalist MPs voted against <\/em>the motion<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

So there you have. An hour before he screamed about a bill every court in Canada and a majority of MPs support as lacking legitimacy because it will pass on BQ support, Harper was urging the government to accept non-binding votes that were passed…thanks to the separatists. At least Martin will usually go a few days between hypocritical contradictions – Harper pulled it off in a matter of minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stephen Harper’s first and third questions in QP yesterday: Hon. Stephen Harper (Leader of the Opposition, CPC): Mr. Speaker, during the trip to Ireland it was more than apparent that the victims’ families were not satisfied with the government’s handling of the Air-India issue, and neither are most members of Parliament. On April 12 a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}