Thank you Mr. Harper for exercising some logical reasoning in politics and thank you Mr. Mansbridge for leaving no room for talking points now let's see you do that to the opposition.
+Emily P Harper was the best PM this country has seen in ages. Zoolander just sold the rest of our gold reserve off. Liberals are the most dishonest, disrespectful, people in this country.
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he actually was. its sad how cbc has to warp people's realities. it is funded by justins liberal party. they're giving 675$ million to cbc by 2021, its crazy george orwell 1984 irl
Excellent interview! Very good questions from Mr. Mansbidge and very good & honest answers from Mr. Harper, as one would expect. This interview is exactly why Mr. Harper is the man to continue in the drivers seat to keep our Amazing Country of Canada strong. The other guys running, do not have the experience OR backbone for the job!
+Rj Smith My gawd! There are still intelligent people left in this corner of the world. Thank-you sonny! Not only is Prime Minister Harper honest and compassionate (the only Prime Minister that openly supports the Jews-enough reason alone to support him), but he's very intelligent. We can only hope he gets re-elected again or all hope is lost for Canada.
Mamma Kate I Agree with you totally Mamma Kate. I also have a Huge heart for Jewish people. In my opinion only, Mr. Harper is the only man of the 3 running for PM, who has the Intelligence, Experience & Backbone to keep Canada strong and safe! I don’t agree with ‘everything’ he has done, but I look at the BIG picture, and his INTEGRITY. He has my vote, no question.
+Rj Smith I don't get this constant argument about "experience". How do you get the experience to be Prime Minister if you haven't been Prime Minister? By your line of reasoning Harper wasn't ready to be Prime Minster when he was first elected. Further, Stephen Harper was basically the same age as Justin when he first became Prime Minister.
+Rj Smith Hey Rj. Unless you are a millionaire, voting for Harper equals to voting against yourself. The only backbone I see in Harper is his ability to lie to us and use the fear handle to make himself look credible.
Claude Gravel Hey Claude: Thank you for taking time to reply. I totally respect & understand what you have said. LOL, no I’m no millionaire. I am self-employed and live WAY below the poverty line. I chose wrong careers. One thing I’ve learned about politics & politicians over the yrs Claude, NO PM will ever be perfect or Please everyone. Just NOT possible. There will always be people who Hate & Love the PM, whoever it may be. There are things Mr. Harper has done, for sure I don’t agree with. But I just cannot fathom Mr. Trudeau or Mulcair as Leader of our Great Country. I remember in 2011 reading in Yahoo News, there were 12 Political Experts across Canada, interviewed & asked ‘Who’ is the right man to lead Canada. At different times, each man said, without knowing what the others had said ‘Mr. Harper is the man to run this country’. So, if Mr. Harper loses, you at least will be happy! Cheerz
I'm a little shock to see that only 8586 people viewed this interview. I think everyone should watch the interview for each candidate for voting - minimum. Get informed.
+Frank Daniels I think more people probably watched in when it aired on TV. Also, I watched it on the CBC site before it was posted to YT. I can't be the only one :P
+Frank Daniels people dont need to "get informed" everyone already knows what they are all about some people like me simply enjoy watching some stuff already known to everyone, sometimes
The Number 83 is neat of course some people are uninformed, because of their preferences to ignore politics but the huge majority is vastly interested in the nation's growth thus you can say "everyone" is informed because those who arent decided that so it would be
I would 100% agree with you on that. Canada wasn’t even in a recession in 2015, it was just slow growth coming from other countries. People were able to live a normal life with minimum wage, shootings were low, taxes were low for small businesses, 80% of Canada was proven to be healthy and strong. Obviously Harper wasn’t perfect, he often tells people that. When people got too comfortable with the way things were, people just thought anyone could run this government.
Just curious, can people give me three UNBIASED reasons why he had to be removed from power? Like, facts, not just blind hatred. I am having a hard time finding neutral websites on what Harper did during his term.
He removed all protection on endangered animals, so you can kill a endangered deer without a prob if you are following TN the guidlines for regular deer. He removed science advisor roll and cut Canada's science budget and almost half the scientist were laid of.(Biased part) He is an asshole
+Philippe Well some issues that happened in Harper's tenure were: -Continuing with the F-35 program that has gone over budget and costly from it's original projection -He was found in contempt of parliament in 2011 because he wouldn't disclose the information on the program -Stephen Harper's PMO office had become a highly centralist organization whereby cabinet ministers were put on a tighter leash (MP Michael Chong made a bill to react to Harper's actual restrictions) - Many people blamed Stephen Harper on cutting budgets to Health Canada to properly test drugs and pest chemicals (notably Neonicotinoids that kill bees), as well as meat processing/ mad cow disease response -He removed the mandatory long form census and replaced it with a voluntary household survey, which has removed important information for government to make valued decisions. -Harper used Lynton Crosby (australian campaign strategist), who gave him hints to use ethnic politics to rally up the conservative base against the liberals, but people saw right through it and were very angered by that action. -His caucus was staunchly Pro-Israel, and many people, even conservatives, saw it as an obtuse policy during last years palestinian conflict. -Harper made Bill C-51, which basically ended all votes from the libertarian side of the conservative party. -Bill C-24 was viewed as a highly controversial bill that made a two-class system of citizens, ones who are not first or second generation canadians, and those who have been here for a long time. - Private prisons, the same entity as that used in the United States (blamed for causing high incrimination rates: refer to cash for kids scandal) was created by Harper. - Stephen Harper cut income tax rates for the upper income individuals of canadian society, but also cut employment insurance and welfare transfers to the poorest -He didn't take any action about murdered or missing women, he didn't see the death of indigenous women as important. -His actions and spending for the G-20 summit on gazebos and fake lakes was scene as extremely overzealous spending by a majority of canadians -His muting of Canadian scientist on climate change was abysmal, even by many conservatives. He intentially defunded environment canada scientific discoveries. -He was staunchly a denier of major climate impacts of the Alberta Oil Sands, really rallied up the environmentalist side of Canada. I probably missed a lot more, but that's just a few of many reasons that he rallied the people of canada against his party.
When are the Veterans of this country that have "Written a check with their lives, to be cashed by Canada if need be" now that the check wasn't cashed, when will our Veterans looked after for the sacrifices we/they have made. I don't give a shit if duffy spent 90k I care that thousands of Veterans are starving because they can't work, are medical/mentally injured, and need the help. Harper needs to open on the VAC offices, and to delete the limitation of veterans pensions penalized at 65. When do we get this help? When our Vets are getting help from the citizens (which is appreciated from my point of view). Thank you Canadians, now government needs to step up. Thank you.
if you really wanted to improve the quality of life for millions of Canadians you would stop discluding specific parts of the human body from the Canadian healthcare program. you know like teeth and eyes and shit like that.
+oicub2 Delivery of healthcare is a provincial responsibility, it has nothing to do with Harper. Unfortunately, Ontario Liberals have delisted several procedures in order to pay off their union buddies.
+Ric O'Shea You understand the federal government is the one in charge of distributing the healthcare budget to each province, right? They also, for the most part, control the legislation. So when Harper makes cuts, each province takes a hit.
He has everything to do with making Canada overly dependant on the price of oil, though. He's been in power for 9 years, so the economic policies that lead to us falling into a recession when oil prices drop, are fully on his administration. 9 years of deficits and 2 recessions under a conservative government. Economic policy should not be a conservative talking point as they clearly aren't very good at it.
+stygiansun Statist myth and BS on stilts. The size of the oil and gas industry in Canada (and hence our dependence on it) was determined long before Stephen Harper's Conservatives came to power. The environment in which the oil and gas sector developed included free markets, the size of the resource and a combination of federal regulation and provincial regulations and royalties. The biggest influence by far was provincial government policy. This is made obvious by the differences between conservative Alberta and socialist Saskatchewan. Alberta's oil industry grew and Alberta became wealthy while Saskatchewan's stagnated and Saskatchewan remained a have not province for decades until conservative Brad Wall recently turned things around.
Mr. Smith doesn't know what fascism means and neither do you. The conservatives are miles left of the republicans and at least a couple km left of the British conservatives.
+Kyle Dohmann I know that the Conservatives aren't fascists, and I'm not a conspiracy theorist like "Mr. Smith" probably is, but I do agree with him that the Conservatives should get asses thrown out on October 19th
+Brenden Schneider At least I think he wants the Conservatives thrown out, but I could be wrong but based off what he said, it sounds like he wants them thrown out.
+Kyle Dohmann The myth of fascism is that they are on the right wing and communists are on the left and somehow there is this perfect mix of freedom in the middle.Fascists and Communists are on the right and left wings of the totalitarians.Democracy is the other side and stands for freedom.
20 minutes of lies, half-truths, and question avoidance. When your re-election campaign depends on obfuscation, perhaps you don't have the country's best interests in mind.
The Conservatives are the only party putting the economy first and their they only part who's fiscal policy actually makes a lick of sense. I have problems with his social policy, but I think his policies are the most beneficial for the Canadian taxpayer in a long time. What I'm hoping is that if he wins that in 2-5 years, he'll step down and a new leader will continue his economic policies with a more center leaning social policy. That would be innumerably better than the current opposition alternatives. Particularly Justin Trudeau.
***** I think that's confirmed by your bias more than it is through actual facts. I'm not that big of a fan of Harper's crime policies (with the exception of imposing life sentences which I think actually makes practical sense), but I think you're just painting Harper as the boogieman that you want him to be in relation to his criminal legislation.
***** That's a gross exaggeration. He's a more competent fiscal administrator than Pierre Trudeau ever was. and his policies are arguably some of most beneficial policies to the taxpayer in Canadian history. He's not perfect but we've had worse Prime Ministers. Harper gets alot of flack that he doesn't deserve (the same with Mulroney) while several other more damaging PM's get ridiculously hero worshiped or over-hyped.
***** I think its more that you just don't like conservatives plain and simple You want to paint them as this evil force that is out to ruin society, but from what I can tell you're opinions reek more of indoctrination than they do of any common sense or empirical evidence. There have been plenty of right wing leaders who've done great things for Canada, several of them are among our countries greatest leaders (John A MacDonald, Robert Borden, John Diefenbaker, Brian Mulroney etc.) And the fact that you don't care about economic aspects or as you put it "who the better monetary slave maker is" proves that you're out of your element when it comes to politics. Especially when your neglecting one of the most important aspects of governmental administration.
***** You're generalizing to the extreme. Your bunching up all the right wing into racial bigots such as the KKK and Fascists. That alone is evidence that you have absolutely no grasp on the things your talking about. By your logic I could say the same thing about the left wing and attribute all of them to Joseph Stalin, Mao or Pol Pot etc. It's a logical fallacy. Racial intolerance, suppression and genocide don't belong to either the left, or right wing. They're prevalent in both throughout history. Your perception is so warped from reality its genuinely scary. Your comparing the right wing in its entirety to death cults. This is not common sense, this is not an opinion affirmed by facts, It's one created by an extremely warped perception.
***** Except you're doing the same thing by determining that all atrocities and injustices are committed by the right wing. As for Pol Pot and Stalin, both men themselves refereed to themselves as part of the left wing. And regardless of either case, the argument still doesn't add up. You can't just bunch up all the negative aspects of the political spectrum into one ideological wing. Its immensely more diverse and complicated than that. Plus even if you don't like Harper, It's a huge leap to be comparing him with Nazi's or members of the KKK.
Harper and his party love certain parts of Canada. They love what our natural resources can sell for, but not what their security can provide to our people and our futures. They love people who have money, but don't do much for the people struggling to make their way. It would seem they don't really love women at all, and they're very invested in "protecting" Canada from terrorists, despite focusing their efforts on war vs. peacekeeping and foreign aid. Harper going on about balanced budgets is laughable, considering the Conservative Party's* (*Reform Party's) history of deficits. Even if this fiscal year ends in a surplus, they will have run deficits for the majority of their time in office. Skirting the Duffy issue is so predictable. He talks about needing diplomacy to mediate important issues like the situation in Syria, but even this interview makes it clear that he is not open to discussion, he is invested in domination. Voting in a party looking to keep things status quo, is horrifying. A Canada that doesn't care about its human resources, its natural resources, its international reputation or its longterm future is not a Canada I want to live in. I will have to disagree with you, Stephen, I do not believe your plan is the best for Canada.
If Canada was like a car and the prime minister was the driver. Which out of these three would you pick to drive you through a historically deadly narrow cliff side road? A) A driver who has his full license and gets you to where you need to go. The cost of this driver: A cover that prevents you from seeing outside the car so that you don't panic and ask him to stop and turn around. His main goal is to get you to where you asked without you panicking about the cliff. Occasionally in the cover you forget there is even a cliff. B) A driver who says he has a full license and is promising you to get you to where you need to go. He seems like a nice guy. Based on this you believe him. The cost of this driver: It turns out the driver doesn't have a recognized license (he has a license from a failed driving school. People keep going to this driving school because the driving instructors seem like nice guys. Unfortunately their previous graduates have driven down this road and have been killed. C) A driver who is completely honest and forthcoming, leaves no covers, tells no lies. The cost of this driver: He admits from the onset that he has no license. But if you let him drive you through the deadly cliff side road, he will get practice. And if he gets practice he might be able to drive you again. At the end, this might end up in him being the only driver that can drive well and be transparent. But most likely it will end in another car in the deadly cliff side. D) Green Party. Cost: Won't get to drive even if you pick them. E) Bloc Quebecios. Cost: Will take one of the tires off the car and try to make a new car from that tire. As for journey, you now have a car with three wheels and still no driver F) This. I'm not letting any of these guys drive in my world. I'll let others decide for me since all of these guys aren't perfect. A= Harper B= Mulcair C= Trudeau (Despite what you all may say I support none of these guys for the reasons stated above.) Although it might seem as if I support the Liberals or Conservatives I'm in F) response camp for now. Unless Trudeau magically finds his license or Harper cuts the secrecy and lies I plan on remaining there.
**failed to provide a stable balanced economy in 8 years, refuses to invest in our military industrial complex to revive it in order to reduce absurd spending in the military for equipment that doesnt completely fullfil the needs of the army at lower costs than imports, claims that he plans to have a balanced economy, ** really Harper? we NEED to invest in transit infrastructures BADLY if we want to live in the modern world where the latest and most efficient technologies drive our economy and facilitate our lives build cutting edge technology high-speed transits across the nation, modernize the bus system to be more efficient, make sure renewable energies comes from the most efficient type of energy and explore the unknown only then will Canada be able to say "we are proud of being modern and progressive", its obvious Harper's government has cut everywhere so much that now we need to restructure and refit our entire military (thus the need to revive the military industrial complex) and spend billions on transit infrastructures... AND HE WANTS TO CUT EVEN MORE?
PLEASE CANADA! Vote Harper out. Please, please, please go to those polls, there's no snow on the ground, so there's NO excuse! I just voted GREEN, and it feels SOOOOO good putting that "X there... Please, watch ALL these interviews with the leaders.
Drinking game: take a shot every time Harper redirects a question whose obvious answer is embarrassing by aggressively opening with "Look..." "Look..." "Look..." it's like his personal panic button.
I suggest we should change our way to vote for the PM. He or she must be qualified in math test, have a degree of business or law. Stop voting for the dreamer - drama queen trudeau
Stephen Harper: why are you the way that you are? Honestly every time canada tries to make something fun, or exciting, you make it... not that way. I hate, so much, about the things that you choose to be.
I'm incredibly worried about the level of exaggeration going on in the discussions about this election. None of the party leaders are evil, or out to do harm to Canada (Quebec separation aside), or the people they represent. The reality is that these are all people who sacrifice their personal lives to do their best to serve the public. Obviously that's not true 100% of the time for any one of them, and there is an intense need to look critically at each politician's shortcomings - whether they're the leader of their party or not - but it needs to be understood that we are electing people to these positions, and not the perfected personas that they put forward during a campaign. Stephen Harper is a person, with feelings, who understands the pressure of being the leader of this country. That being said, in this interview I believe he showed that he can no longer hold the confidence of the members of his party enough to dictate their actions the way he's done in the past, and his track record has shown that he is not a collaborative leader. This means to me that his lack of absolute control can very easily turn into a lack of any control. He and his party don't have economic, social, security, or international policies that I support so I won't be voting for them - but that doesn't mean I think he's evil, he simply doesn't represent what I want for Canada. It's important to understand the issues, and be informed so that you can form an opinion for yourself, the idea that this hyperbole is contributing to the political conversation whatsoever is absolutely wrong, and actually dissuades people from looking farther into important issues.
I think Harper is a Globalist and answers to people who do not care about our country. I saw him praising Klaus Schwab on a segment of infowars. He was speaking at the World Economic Forum.
Shorter Stephen Harper: I billed the Canadian public $200 million for a self-promotional government advertising binge to promote myself, my government and my Economic Action Plan, but am a paragon of ethics and responsibility because I told Mike Duffy to repay the Canadian public $90,000 for expenses and kept the Conservatives who tried to interfere in Mike Duffy's audit and protect him on the public payroll.
I don't hate Harper. He seems like a nice guy. His policies are ridiculously close minded and I can't wait to see him go. I think he'll make a good post-PM, you know one of those guys who shares his opinion in newspapers. Got to get him out of power though.
+Dan Brennan You are an idiot. The Harper Government™ has given us record debt, record deficit, two recessions, a government that spies on its citizens, withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol, undermining women's rights, undermining our democracy by not showing accountability and being secretive, turning Canada into a war mongering country when we used to be peacekeepers who were respected worldwide, anti-Muslim sentiment for creating a debate over the niqab.
The problem with Harper is, it's either his way, or no way. Kind of closed off about what he does, not transparent enough. You can see he doesn't like taking questions though, despite this i don't mortally hate him like what i'm seeing in the comments.
A good interview by Peter Mansbridge. In spite of the badgering now and then, it was tough but fair. Stephen Harper's responses were excellent, he appeared relaxed and in a good humor, tossing a couple of good zingers Mansbridge"s way. Harper is a better choice any day than the hopelessly immature boy Trudeau or the NDP (no matter who leads the NDP, it will be dominated by far left, out-to-lunch radicals).
I'm not really concerned about the niqab lol or Muslims at all, there actually nice hard working ppl if you ask me but what I'm concerned about is, jobs, economy, healthcare and putting the Canadians first... And he's not worried about any of those things. He just wants to hate, I can care less what someone wears on there face, that's there choice... I can't wait tell this guy losses! That's not what Canadians stand for! This is Canada the best country in the world. And FYI Muslims have been here since Canada's day 1 and there not goin anywhere, all this crap he says about them I don't see in them, I grew up with lots of them, there just as Canadian as anyone else is.
According to CBC/Radio-Canada latest polls. The Conservative Party lost support from Canadians. While support for other parties is rising. BUT if the election were held today the Harper/Conservative Party would be elected :( I'll let you decide if you want to vote or not and which candidate you want to vote for. I encourage all to express themselves proudly by voting. Your vote matters and counts. View latest polls results at www.cbc.ca/news2/interactives/poll-tracker/2015/index.html
I respect the Conservative Party but they are to tight. Like Justin Trudeau says Stephen Harper tries to always separate Canadians. NDP is OK but I do not fully trust them. Go Liberals for Monday!!!
One thing I don't get is how he was president for such a long time and randomly one day everyone is like 'SCREW HARPERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR' what the hell happened lol?
International issues, as well as Canadian issues. You need someone that understands how to drive, who has there driving licence for awhile. Why be quick to give teens the keys to the car with you in the back seat?
He actually had a degree in economics and Trudeau was a drama teacher with no experience
Doesn't matter. (You just have to "Look Good.")
I am sad to say I was fooled by the Liberals, I was fooled, never again , never again.
Who cares?
@@Bolizen about what? That Harper was actually educated?
If only that got us results. The economy grew faster under Trudeau than it did under 10 years of Harper
Thank you Mr. Harper for exercising some logical reasoning in politics and thank you Mr. Mansbridge for leaving no room for talking points now let's see you do that to the opposition.
+NBGTAIV never asked for a 3 hour RUclips video. I want 3 more 20 min interviews with tough questions and no room for bs talking points.
+Kyle Dohmann I'm confused what does that have to do with what I said?
+NBGTAIV I'm asking CBC to do some more of these interviews the same way with the opposition.
+Kyle Dohmann The opposition continually does interviews with the CBC. Only Harper continually dodges the press.
+Kyle Dohmann All of Harper's responses were the same talking points he has been using for months, particularly on the Duffy scandal.
Why do people hate Harper? I accept logical, coherent answers and not insults, thank you.
+Emily Fitch most of canada is (even upper) middle class. harper did not serve those people one iota
this is just one example
+Emily P The mainstream media shaped opinions rather than informing them.
+Emily P Harper was the best PM this country has seen in ages. Zoolander just sold the rest of our gold reserve off. Liberals are the most dishonest, disrespectful, people in this country.
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Best prime minster of Canada hands down
That's a good one lol
please....his tenure was inconsequential compared to Mulroney's
I'm so sad that he's not the prime minister anymore.
It's devastating... double bitter taste, cause the bad guy won and the good guy lost...
Why?
I was depressed for three weeks when that goddamn Justin won
Great interview Mr. Harper. Cheers, from a True Blue supporter!
Good Man!
+Joe Wilshire You're a puppet and un educated moron if you support this bigot
Cballin Trudeau knows nothing of foreign policy
+Cballin Don't blame him we have mass conservative media here in Britain
Best PM we've had...a decent person whose party has done what they promised to do.
All of his speeches sounded better in the original German.
He was an amazing Prime Minister. Justin Trudeau is not ready.
he actually was. its sad how cbc has to warp people's realities. it is funded by justins liberal party. they're giving 675$ million to cbc by 2021, its crazy george orwell 1984 irl
@@deepspacecobra4276 cbc is government funded, theyre going to support the government whoever is in.
i love conservative stephan harper
+Rhaxys hes bae
+The Catalyst Finally! Someone Conservative on this video.
Excellent interview! Very good questions from Mr. Mansbidge and very good & honest answers from Mr. Harper, as one would expect. This interview is exactly why Mr. Harper is the man to continue in the drivers seat to keep our Amazing Country of Canada strong. The other guys running, do not have the experience OR backbone for the job!
+Rj Smith My gawd! There are still intelligent people left in this corner of the world. Thank-you sonny! Not only is Prime Minister Harper honest and compassionate (the only Prime Minister that openly supports the Jews-enough reason alone to support him), but he's very intelligent. We can only hope he gets re-elected again or all hope is lost for Canada.
Mamma Kate
I Agree with you totally Mamma Kate. I also have a Huge heart for Jewish people. In my opinion only, Mr. Harper is the only man of the 3 running for PM, who has the Intelligence, Experience & Backbone to keep Canada strong and safe! I don’t agree with ‘everything’ he has done, but I look at the BIG picture, and his INTEGRITY. He has my vote, no question.
+Rj Smith I don't get this constant argument about "experience". How do you get the experience to be Prime Minister if you haven't been Prime Minister? By your line of reasoning Harper wasn't ready to be Prime Minster when he was first elected. Further, Stephen Harper was basically the same age as Justin when he first became Prime Minister.
+Rj Smith Hey Rj. Unless you are a millionaire, voting for Harper equals to voting against yourself. The only backbone I see in Harper is his ability to lie to us and use the fear handle to make himself look credible.
Claude Gravel
Hey Claude: Thank you for taking time to reply. I totally respect & understand what you have said. LOL, no I’m no millionaire. I am self-employed and live WAY below the poverty line.
I chose wrong careers. One thing I’ve learned about politics & politicians over the yrs Claude, NO PM will ever be perfect or Please everyone. Just NOT possible. There will always be people who Hate & Love the PM, whoever it may be. There are things Mr. Harper has done, for sure I don’t agree with. But I just cannot fathom Mr. Trudeau or Mulcair as Leader of our Great Country. I remember in 2011 reading in Yahoo News, there were 12 Political Experts across Canada, interviewed & asked ‘Who’ is the right man to lead Canada. At different times, each man said, without knowing what the others had said ‘Mr. Harper is the man to run this country’. So, if Mr. Harper loses, you at least will be happy! Cheerz
I'm a little shock to see that only 8586 people viewed this interview. I think everyone should watch the interview for each candidate for voting - minimum. Get informed.
no kidding... it's insane.
+Frank Daniels Whaddaya talkin' aboot? I am well informed eh? Don't make me give you the rights and lefts and throw your fuckin' head in the sno bud.
+Frank Daniels I think more people probably watched in when it aired on TV. Also, I watched it on the CBC site before it was posted to YT. I can't be the only one :P
+Frank Daniels people dont need to "get informed"
everyone already knows what they are all about
some people like me simply enjoy watching some stuff already known to everyone, sometimes
The Number 83 is neat
of course some people are uninformed, because of their preferences to ignore politics but the huge majority is vastly interested in the nation's growth
thus you can say "everyone" is informed because those who arent decided that so it would be
Youve done an excellent job Mr. Harper!
I miss Harper.
10+ years in office? This guy has had a good run. And he still almost won 2015.
+Indie Media Eastcoast only by ignorant trash like yourself
Mansbridge's mug, when the P.M. slaps him with Ghomeshi & Solomon's names like fish across his face, is a treat to watch.
+CheckDare thetyee.ca/Opinion/2015/08/10/Harper-Abuses-of-Power-Final/?
+Irene Vautour
Hahahahahahaha!
+CheckDare Yes, Harper may not be the best orator but he knows what to say.
+CheckDare omg, Mansbridge walked right into that one. Harper must be so frustrated having to deal with these idiots on a daily basis
+Dylan Mathieson clearly you didn't see the report the CBC did they all knew..
Most Canadians would agree that their quality of life was significantly better under Harper
I would 100% agree with you on that. Canada wasn’t even in a recession in 2015, it was just slow growth coming from other countries. People were able to live a normal life with minimum wage, shootings were low, taxes were low for small businesses, 80% of Canada was proven to be healthy and strong. Obviously Harper wasn’t perfect, he often tells people that. When people got too comfortable with the way things were, people just thought anyone could run this government.
This is aging like gold
Just curious, can people give me three UNBIASED reasons why he had to be removed from power? Like, facts, not just blind hatred. I am having a hard time finding neutral websites on what Harper did during his term.
Same here..
He removed all protection on endangered animals, so you can kill a endangered deer without a prob if you are following TN the guidlines for regular deer. He removed science advisor roll and cut Canada's science budget and almost half the scientist were laid of.(Biased part) He is an asshole
+Philippe Well some issues that happened in Harper's tenure were:
-Continuing with the F-35 program that has gone over budget and costly from it's original projection
-He was found in contempt of parliament in 2011 because he wouldn't disclose the information on the program
-Stephen Harper's PMO office had become a highly centralist organization whereby cabinet ministers were put on a tighter leash (MP Michael Chong made a bill to react to Harper's actual restrictions)
- Many people blamed Stephen Harper on cutting budgets to Health Canada to properly test drugs and pest chemicals (notably Neonicotinoids that kill bees), as well as meat processing/ mad cow disease response
-He removed the mandatory long form census and replaced it with a voluntary household survey, which has removed important information for government to make valued decisions.
-Harper used Lynton Crosby (australian campaign strategist), who gave him hints to use ethnic politics to rally up the conservative base against the liberals, but people saw right through it and were very angered by that action.
-His caucus was staunchly Pro-Israel, and many people, even conservatives, saw it as an obtuse policy during last years palestinian conflict.
-Harper made Bill C-51, which basically ended all votes from the libertarian side of the conservative party.
-Bill C-24 was viewed as a highly controversial bill that made a two-class system of citizens, ones who are not first or second generation canadians, and those who have been here for a long time.
- Private prisons, the same entity as that used in the United States (blamed for causing high incrimination rates: refer to cash for kids scandal) was created by Harper.
- Stephen Harper cut income tax rates for the upper income individuals of canadian society, but also cut employment insurance and welfare transfers to the poorest
-He didn't take any action about murdered or missing women, he didn't see the death of indigenous women as important.
-His actions and spending for the G-20 summit on gazebos and fake lakes was scene as extremely overzealous spending by a majority of canadians
-His muting of Canadian scientist on climate change was abysmal, even by many conservatives. He intentially defunded environment canada scientific discoveries.
-He was staunchly a denier of major climate impacts of the Alberta Oil Sands, really rallied up the environmentalist side of Canada.
I probably missed a lot more, but that's just a few of many reasons that he rallied the people of canada against his party.
Liberals, liberals, and liberals. Same goes for the US.
+yomamasapeach a lot of what you said is heavily subject to opinion and aren't facts you can view objectively.
When are the Veterans of this country that have "Written a check with their lives, to be cashed by Canada if need be" now that the check wasn't cashed, when will our Veterans looked after for the sacrifices we/they have made. I don't give a shit if duffy spent 90k I care that thousands of Veterans are starving because they can't work, are medical/mentally injured, and need the help. Harper needs to open on the VAC offices, and to delete the limitation of veterans pensions penalized at 65. When do we get this help? When our Vets are getting help from the citizens (which is appreciated from my point of view). Thank you Canadians, now government needs to step up. Thank you.
if you really wanted to improve the quality of life for millions of Canadians you would stop discluding specific parts of the human body from the Canadian healthcare program.
you know like teeth and eyes and shit like that.
+oicub2 I totaly agree that dental care should be added for all Canadians, this is a great point that isn't brought up enough or at all.
+oicub2 Good point child! Let's hope eventually it will be so. After all, teeth and eyes are just as important as the rest of the 'body parts'.
+oicub2 Delivery of healthcare is a provincial responsibility, it has nothing to do with Harper. Unfortunately, Ontario Liberals have delisted several procedures in order to pay off their union buddies.
+Ric O'Shea You understand the federal government is the one in charge of distributing the healthcare budget to each province, right? They also, for the most part, control the legislation. So when Harper makes cuts, each province takes a hit.
Get this terrible man out of Parliament
Harper is going down come October.
As will the dollar
+Daniel Burgess Naw, he's already destroyed the dollar.
stygiansun I don't understand how you can blame this all on the Harper administration. He has nothing to do with the dropping oil price.
He has everything to do with making Canada overly dependant on the price of oil, though. He's been in power for 9 years, so the economic policies that lead to us falling into a recession when oil prices drop, are fully on his administration.
9 years of deficits and 2 recessions under a conservative government. Economic policy should not be a conservative talking point as they clearly aren't very good at it.
+stygiansun Statist myth and BS on stilts. The size of the oil and gas industry in Canada (and hence our dependence on it) was determined long before Stephen Harper's Conservatives came to power.
The environment in which the oil and gas sector developed included free markets, the size of the resource and a combination of federal regulation and provincial regulations and royalties. The biggest influence by far was provincial government policy. This is made obvious by the differences between conservative Alberta and socialist Saskatchewan. Alberta's oil industry grew and Alberta became wealthy while Saskatchewan's stagnated and Saskatchewan remained a have not province for decades until conservative Brad Wall recently turned things around.
At least Stephen is not saying that the budget will balance itself
+yarabamba thetyee.ca/Opinion/2015/08/10/Harper-Abuses-of-Power-Final/?
+yarabamba You're right. He just says he will balance the budget and then proceeds to have 7 consecutive deficits.
+Anthony Ruggerio 8 now haha
+Tailsonic6 perhaps you have a good crystal ball to know the future, only six are in record. Trudeau will also run deficits in his own words
+yarabamba First of all Trudeau never said that. Your bff also added $150 billion to the national debt.
Sorry, not going to watch "Peter"and "Steven" have a chat. Give me a break. Mansbridge is a waste of taxpayers money.
+Rob V agree with you....I couldn't watch it all, Peter had my blood pressure boiling......what a jerk
+Rob V That's kind of ignorant.... You disagree therefore there is no value to his interview?
Come back. Junior is messing things up
Canadians made a very bad change indeed.
I can agree with you Mr. Smith.
Mr. Smith doesn't know what fascism means and neither do you. The conservatives are miles left of the republicans and at least a couple km left of the British conservatives.
+Kyle Dohmann I know that the Conservatives aren't fascists, and I'm not a conspiracy theorist like "Mr. Smith" probably is, but I do agree with him that the Conservatives should get asses thrown out on October 19th
+Brenden Schneider At least I think he wants the Conservatives thrown out, but I could be wrong but based off what he said, it sounds like he wants them thrown out.
+Kyle Dohmann Harper wants to abolish medicare but knows he can't. He's way to the right of the Republicans but pretends he isn't.
+Kyle Dohmann The myth of fascism is that they are on the right wing and communists are on the left and somehow there is this perfect mix of freedom in the middle.Fascists and Communists are on the right and left wings of the totalitarians.Democracy is the other side and stands for freedom.
Mr. Harper you will win! you are the only candidate that has a clue about what's going on. Go team Harper!!!!
Harper cant stop lying, you tell him Mansbridge
Great interview. You guys are knocking it out of the park. So interesting & funny. Have a big ole smile on my face from 1 little SNAK !
How is this not targeted. Current pm can’t answer the simplest of questions.
20 minutes of lies, half-truths, and question avoidance. When your re-election campaign depends on obfuscation, perhaps you don't have the country's best interests in mind.
Miss him
11:40-11:45 the most blatantly obviously lie ever! His eyes are hilarious here!
+Gareth Chev 11:44 : ''Yeah, yeah'' (shakes head)
+Gareth Chev Mansbridge is like um ok.. lying fuck..
Mr. Harper, i have a question you have not answer. How are you going to pay back printed money ?
The Conservatives are the only party putting the economy first and their they only part who's fiscal policy actually makes a lick of sense. I have problems with his social policy, but I think his policies are the most beneficial for the Canadian taxpayer in a long time. What I'm hoping is that if he wins that in 2-5 years, he'll step down and a new leader will continue his economic policies with a more center leaning social policy. That would be innumerably better than the current opposition alternatives. Particularly Justin Trudeau.
***** I think that's confirmed by your bias more than it is through actual facts. I'm not that big of a fan of Harper's crime policies (with the exception of imposing life sentences which I think actually makes practical sense), but I think you're just painting Harper as the boogieman that you want him to be in relation to his criminal legislation.
***** That's a gross exaggeration. He's a more competent fiscal administrator than Pierre Trudeau ever was. and his policies are arguably some of most beneficial policies to the taxpayer in Canadian history.
He's not perfect but we've had worse Prime Ministers. Harper gets alot of flack that he doesn't deserve (the same with Mulroney) while several other more damaging PM's get ridiculously hero worshiped or over-hyped.
***** I think its more that you just don't like conservatives plain and simple You want to paint them as this evil force that is out to ruin society, but from what I can tell you're opinions reek more of indoctrination than they do of any common sense or empirical evidence. There have been plenty of right wing leaders who've done great things for Canada, several of them are among our countries greatest leaders (John A MacDonald, Robert Borden, John Diefenbaker, Brian Mulroney etc.) And the fact that you don't care about economic aspects or as you put it "who the better monetary slave maker is" proves that you're out of your element when it comes to politics. Especially when your neglecting one of the most important aspects of governmental administration.
***** You're generalizing to the extreme. Your bunching up all the right wing into racial bigots such as the KKK and Fascists. That alone is evidence that you have absolutely no grasp on the things your talking about. By your logic I could say the same thing about the left wing and attribute all of them to Joseph Stalin, Mao or Pol Pot etc. It's a logical fallacy.
Racial intolerance, suppression and genocide don't belong to either the left, or right wing. They're prevalent in both throughout history.
Your perception is so warped from reality its genuinely scary. Your comparing the right wing in its entirety to death cults. This is not common sense, this is not an opinion affirmed by facts, It's one created by an extremely warped perception.
***** Except you're doing the same thing by determining that all atrocities and injustices are committed by the right wing. As for Pol Pot and Stalin, both men themselves refereed to themselves as part of the left wing. And regardless of either case, the argument still doesn't add up. You can't just bunch up all the negative aspects of the political spectrum into one ideological wing. Its immensely more diverse and complicated than that. Plus even if you don't like Harper, It's a huge leap to be comparing him with Nazi's or members of the KKK.
stephen harper. what a great man ;(
+Oscar Montes are you a simpleton Oscar? haha
Harper and his party love certain parts of Canada. They love what our natural resources can sell for, but not what their security can provide to our people and our futures. They love people who have money, but don't do much for the people struggling to make their way. It would seem they don't really love women at all, and they're very invested in "protecting" Canada from terrorists, despite focusing their efforts on war vs. peacekeeping and foreign aid. Harper going on about balanced budgets is laughable, considering the Conservative Party's* (*Reform Party's) history of deficits. Even if this fiscal year ends in a surplus, they will have run deficits for the majority of their time in office. Skirting the Duffy issue is so predictable. He talks about needing diplomacy to mediate important issues like the situation in Syria, but even this interview makes it clear that he is not open to discussion, he is invested in domination. Voting in a party looking to keep things status quo, is horrifying. A Canada that doesn't care about its human resources, its natural resources, its international reputation or its longterm future is not a Canada I want to live in. I will have to disagree with you, Stephen, I do not believe your plan is the best for Canada.
Please Help .Peter please get in touch with Mr Harper ,we need him now.
If Canada was like a car and the prime minister was the driver. Which out of these three would you pick to drive you through a historically deadly narrow cliff side road?
A) A driver who has his full license and gets you to where you need to go. The cost of this driver: A cover that prevents you from seeing outside the car so that you don't panic and ask him to stop and turn around. His main goal is to get you to where you asked without you panicking about the cliff. Occasionally in the cover you forget there is even a cliff.
B) A driver who says he has a full license and is promising you to get you to where you need to go. He seems like a nice guy. Based on this you believe him. The cost of this driver: It turns out the driver doesn't have a recognized license (he has a license from a failed driving school. People keep going to this driving school because the driving instructors seem like nice guys. Unfortunately their previous graduates have driven down this road and have been killed.
C) A driver who is completely honest and forthcoming, leaves no covers, tells no lies. The cost of this driver: He admits from the onset that he has no license. But if you let him drive you through the deadly cliff side road, he will get practice. And if he gets practice he might be able to drive you again. At the end, this might end up in him being the only driver that can drive well and be transparent. But most likely it will end in another car in the deadly cliff side.
D) Green Party. Cost: Won't get to drive even if you pick them.
E) Bloc Quebecios. Cost: Will take one of the tires off the car and try to make a new car from that tire. As for journey, you now have a car with three wheels and still no driver
F) This. I'm not letting any of these guys drive in my world. I'll let others decide for me since all of these guys aren't perfect.
A= Harper B= Mulcair C= Trudeau
(Despite what you all may say I support none of these guys for the reasons stated above.) Although it might seem as if I support the Liberals or Conservatives I'm in F) response camp for now. Unless Trudeau magically finds his license or Harper cuts the secrecy and lies I plan on remaining there.
Please bring back Stephen Harper.
LMAO that was a great comedy routine. Thanks for the laugh.
How he showed up on PUTIN gave me a respect for Harper as the Leader of Canada... Strong Smart and Proven
Man... Harper knew what was happening. Mansbridge you sound like such a goofball, especially in hindsight.
So many lies and denials, It's time for harper to go, Get out and vote this clown out of office!
All the thumbs-down were the people who liked Justin's hair better than Stephens and that the budget would actually balance itself.
It's a tupee
9:58 the look of "get off my back" about the Duffy-Nigel business!
**failed to provide a stable balanced economy in 8 years, refuses to invest in our military industrial complex to revive it in order to reduce absurd spending in the military for equipment that doesnt completely fullfil the needs of the army at lower costs than imports, claims that he plans to have a balanced economy, **
really Harper?
we NEED to invest in transit infrastructures BADLY if we want to live in the modern world where the latest and most efficient technologies drive our economy and facilitate our lives
build cutting edge technology high-speed transits across the nation, modernize the bus system to be more efficient, make sure renewable energies comes from the most efficient type of energy and explore the unknown
only then will Canada be able to say "we are proud of being modern and progressive", its obvious
Harper's government has cut everywhere so much that now we need to restructure and refit our entire military (thus the need to revive the military industrial complex) and spend billions on transit infrastructures... AND HE WANTS TO CUT EVEN MORE?
xGoodOldSmurfehx Yeah blame everything on Harper for the Saudis
These 'scandals' are nothing compared to Trudeau's scandals
I long for the Harper days. The good days were Harpers fault.
honestly what a great interview, (considering I'm not a conservative) but wow did Harper ever get Peter with that gomeshi line haha
I'm here because of shane's new video.
He was 100% correct. We're screwed right now.
We are missing you
I think their chairs ought to be closer.
please come back
PLEASE CANADA!
Vote Harper out. Please, please, please go to those polls, there's no snow on the ground, so there's NO excuse!
I just voted GREEN, and it feels SOOOOO good putting that "X there... Please, watch ALL these interviews with the leaders.
Drinking game: take a shot every time Harper redirects a question whose obvious answer is embarrassing by aggressively opening with "Look..." "Look..." "Look..." it's like his personal panic button.
please fix the audio if at all possible
I'm not voting for Mr. Harper ...BYE!
good man!
vote for the gay part heeeeey ;)
+RadyoMusic We're voting for Harper... SEE YA!
ya you'll vote for social experiments and a big debt.
+SCG Niagara ?
"It's our duty as a rich nation to help poorer nations in the world" drops us from top foreign aid nation to 63rd because of his cuts to it???
I miss having a qualified and educated PM
I will NOT vote PC and Stephen Harper.
I voted for you, Mr Right Honourable Stephen Harper..❤
I suggest we should change our way to vote for the PM. He or she must be qualified in math test, have a degree of business or law. Stop voting for the dreamer - drama queen trudeau
I've never voted before, but Indie Media Eastcoast's smug trolling comments have earned the Liberal Party a vote, purely out of spite. Well done!
Stephen Harper: why are you the way that you are? Honestly every time canada tries to make something fun, or exciting, you make it... not that way. I hate, so much, about the things that you choose to be.
Something i've noticed, and something for you guys to watch for next time, anytime Stephen Harper knows a rough question is coming, he drinks
I'm incredibly worried about the level of exaggeration going on in the discussions about this election. None of the party leaders are evil, or out to do harm to Canada (Quebec separation aside), or the people they represent. The reality is that these are all people who sacrifice their personal lives to do their best to serve the public. Obviously that's not true 100% of the time for any one of them, and there is an intense need to look critically at each politician's shortcomings - whether they're the leader of their party or not - but it needs to be understood that we are electing people to these positions, and not the perfected personas that they put forward during a campaign. Stephen Harper is a person, with feelings, who understands the pressure of being the leader of this country. That being said, in this interview I believe he showed that he can no longer hold the confidence of the members of his party enough to dictate their actions the way he's done in the past, and his track record has shown that he is not a collaborative leader. This means to me that his lack of absolute control can very easily turn into a lack of any control. He and his party don't have economic, social, security, or international policies that I support so I won't be voting for them - but that doesn't mean I think he's evil, he simply doesn't represent what I want for Canada. It's important to understand the issues, and be informed so that you can form an opinion for yourself, the idea that this hyperbole is contributing to the political conversation whatsoever is absolutely wrong, and actually dissuades people from looking farther into important issues.
The economy isn't growing. Canada's richest are getting richer. Everyone else is loosing jobs, social services and money
I think Harper is a Globalist and answers to people who do not care about our country. I saw him praising Klaus Schwab on a segment of infowars. He was speaking at the World Economic Forum.
I feel ill listening to him talk. It's as if he, himself, knows he's evil but goes on with it anyway
How do you feel now? Trudeau bankrupting our country.
The PM's Ghomeshi-Solomon reference made me laugh.
None of these people are actually raising points lol just calling harper a slimeball but not telling why he is
Shorter Stephen Harper: I billed the Canadian public $200 million for a self-promotional government advertising binge to promote myself, my government and my Economic Action Plan, but am a paragon of ethics and responsibility because I told Mike Duffy to repay the Canadian public $90,000 for expenses and kept the Conservatives who tried to interfere in Mike Duffy's audit and protect him on the public payroll.
I don't hate Harper. He seems like a nice guy. His policies are ridiculously close minded and I can't wait to see him go. I think he'll make a good post-PM, you know one of those guys who shares his opinion in newspapers. Got to get him out of power though.
Is justin T. better? 1st prime minister committed ethical offense in Canada. shame on him.
this is a Harper Mansbridge interview rather than a Mansbridge Harper interview
Stephen harper is the best. like I say dont fix what is not broken. you have my vote harper. thank you
+Dan Brennan You are an idiot. The Harper Government™ has given us record debt, record deficit, two recessions, a government that spies on its citizens, withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol, undermining women's rights, undermining our democracy by not showing accountability and being secretive, turning Canada into a war mongering country when we used to be peacekeepers who were respected worldwide, anti-Muslim sentiment for creating a debate over the niqab.
The problem with Harper is, it's either his way, or no way. Kind of closed off about what he does, not transparent enough. You can see he doesn't like taking questions though, despite this i don't mortally hate him like what i'm seeing in the comments.
OML ppl please vote for Steven Harper!! I feel like those other aren't better than Steven Harper!!!
i fell asleep after harper said 2 words
Wake up and listen closely
Vote for change. Vote NDP.
Trudeau would hide from tough questions like these.
A good interview by Peter Mansbridge. In spite of the badgering now and then, it was tough but fair. Stephen Harper's responses were excellent, he appeared relaxed and in a good humor, tossing a couple of good zingers Mansbridge"s way.
Harper is a better choice any day than the hopelessly immature boy Trudeau or the NDP (no matter who leads the NDP, it will be dominated by far left, out-to-lunch radicals).
I wonder if he locked himself in the bathroom to get his way with this interview!!!!!! We need a change CANADA!!!!!
I'm not really concerned about the niqab lol or Muslims at all, there actually nice hard working ppl if you ask me but what I'm concerned about is, jobs, economy, healthcare and putting the Canadians first... And he's not worried about any of those things. He just wants to hate, I can care less what someone wears on there face, that's there choice... I can't wait tell this guy losses! That's not what Canadians stand for! This is Canada the best country in the world. And FYI Muslims have been here since Canada's day 1 and there not goin anywhere, all this crap he says about them I don't see in them, I grew up with lots of them, there just as Canadian as anyone else is.
Harper all the way
Mansbridge is the man, hands down... Harper doesn't know how to tell the truth anymore.
Does anybody notice how Harper's nose gets bigger in this interviews every time he lies?
According to CBC/Radio-Canada latest polls. The Conservative Party lost support from Canadians. While support for other parties is rising. BUT if the election were held today the Harper/Conservative Party would be elected :(
I'll let you decide if you want to vote or not and which candidate you want to vote for. I encourage all to express themselves proudly by voting. Your vote matters and counts. View latest polls results at www.cbc.ca/news2/interactives/poll-tracker/2015/index.html
20:15 He admits he's not coming back in October!
Harper, most definitely, all the way!
I’d love to be the Chief Reportering to Mr Harper…
who is happy today will the new prime minister? October 19, 2016 Wednesday.
Stephen Harper was my favourite….
Minority governments serve all canadians...not just political parties
I respect the Conservative Party but they are to tight. Like Justin Trudeau says Stephen Harper tries to always separate Canadians. NDP is OK but I do not fully trust them. Go Liberals for Monday!!!
One thing I don't get is how he was president for such a long time and randomly one day everyone is like 'SCREW HARPERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR'
what the hell happened lol?
International issues, as well as Canadian issues. You need someone that understands how to drive, who has there driving licence for awhile. Why be quick to give teens the keys to the car with you in the back seat?
Steve, you just weren't ready.
I thought I hated the guy. Then I watched Donald Trump