He may be selling Canada's resources away to the U.S. and making the country a bigger contributer to Global Warming, but at least he can actually care, unlike some other similar conservative leader.
Thats a leader!! I thought it was really funny that he left all the media that were travelling with him in Cyprus to make room for the those haha! I agree with the comment below, if the Liberals didn't gut the CF top down over 13 years, he wouldn't have had to do it himself...
He's got heart, maaaaan, first time I seen a leader do that, probasbly the only leader you will ever see do something like that, seriously. Whether what a leader does, or NOT do. The leader will get flak, amazing.
too bad this turned out to be a huge scam and abuse of Canadian citizenship..More than half of these"convenient Canadians" have since retuned to lebanon..True Canadians, live, work, and pay taxes in Canada!!!
It's pretty obvious that this was meant to smooth over the fallout from the government's earlier inaction and Harper's comments about Israel's "measured" response.
The largest evacuation in Canadian history, 15,000 Canadian citizens evacuated from a war zone. Are you saying there were no Lebanese-Canadians evacuated?
thats right. The MAJRITY where white canadian born/heritage non lebanise that were evacuated. Of course I guess you missed the news on that eh. The ONLY person using an easy escape are people like you that throw the word "leftists" to rant about your conspiracies as "facts"
It isn't a Leftist thing when Harper picks his nose for 6 days before starting evacuation plans. He 'cares', fine maybe he does, but Martin or any other PM would have done the same thing. Then again, Harper didn't have to make a huge media show of it. It's comical to think he's only about the 'common man' when he saves 8 seats on the plane for his photo op posse.
I love this. PR stunt on not it's a beautiful sight to see a leader who cares about his people. All the while the Americans were trying to get away with charging every citizen a $300 evacuation fee to get to Cyprus + standard air-fair back to the states. As usual Leftist assholes will scrutinize this, but only because it shows that they were very wrong when painting him as a monster.
the new conservative government is already milking this for political gain. Him going there himself and handpicking only women with small babies for his post rescue photo-op..
please just wait and watch when they land how much of a show it will be and how the prime minister will pretend that he had anything to do with this other then taking advantage of the situation.
Just remeber in 1964 Canada Sent 50,000 Canadian soldiers to keep the Peace in Cyprus and only 28 were killed.
Airborne1995 1 year ago
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These aren`t true Canadians...look at them, they should be reffered to as simply citizens.
iLuvBarRefaeli 1 year ago
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iLuvBarRefaeli 1 year ago
He may be selling Canada's resources away to the U.S. and making the country a bigger contributer to Global Warming, but at least he can actually care, unlike some other similar conservative leader.
Darcksaac 2 years ago
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iLuvBarRefaeli 2 years ago
publicity stunt
fightpollution 3 years ago
can you see Dion do that???????????????
Autobahn2006 4 years ago 2
Thats a leader!! I thought it was really funny that he left all the media that were travelling with him in Cyprus to make room for the those haha! I agree with the comment below, if the Liberals didn't gut the CF top down over 13 years, he wouldn't have had to do it himself...
rabrams420 4 years ago 4
He went personally to Cyprus to evacuate the canadians ,he is a great leader indeed
luxeden 4 years ago 4
Ladies and Gentlemen, lets not forget, that is not Stephen Harpers private plane.
That plane was paid for and fund by the taxpayers of Canada, those people have as much a right to ride on it as Harper does.
As the leader of the country, he has to look out for his people all 34 million of them.
gundamWWW 1 year ago
@gundamWWW yes but he is a good leader since he went personally to follow the mission of evacuating the canadians out of Lebanon!
Veetina 1 year ago
He's got heart, maaaaan, first time I seen a leader do that, probasbly the only leader you will ever see do something like that, seriously. Whether what a leader does, or NOT do. The leader will get flak, amazing.
johnfox1 5 years ago 2
I can see Trudeau doing that if he had the opertunity.
Darcksaac 2 years ago
It took Harper long enough to get our citizens out, I could have rowed over in a cargo ship & gotten them out faster!
Leslie1965 5 years ago
too bad this turned out to be a huge scam and abuse of Canadian citizenship..More than half of these"convenient Canadians" have since retuned to lebanon..True Canadians, live, work, and pay taxes in Canada!!!
goal56 5 years ago
It's pretty obvious that this was meant to smooth over the fallout from the government's earlier inaction and Harper's comments about Israel's "measured" response.
fishhead06 5 years ago
Maybe if you leftists hadn't gutted the CF the evacuation could have gone alot smoother. Good work Harper!
davidmolson 5 years ago
right... us "leftists" LOSER!
If he cared he would have gotten the lebanies canadians out as well. But hay its easier to label than to look at the actual problem.
SolarisZen 5 years ago
The largest evacuation in Canadian history, 15,000 Canadian citizens evacuated from a war zone. Are you saying there were no Lebanese-Canadians evacuated?
Don't talk to me about easy labels.
davidmolson 5 years ago
thats right. The MAJRITY where white canadian born/heritage non lebanise that were evacuated. Of course I guess you missed the news on that eh. The ONLY person using an easy escape are people like you that throw the word "leftists" to rant about your conspiracies as "facts"
SolarisZen 5 years ago
It isn't a Leftist thing when Harper picks his nose for 6 days before starting evacuation plans. He 'cares', fine maybe he does, but Martin or any other PM would have done the same thing. Then again, Harper didn't have to make a huge media show of it. It's comical to think he's only about the 'common man' when he saves 8 seats on the plane for his photo op posse.
cinaroll 5 years ago
I love this. PR stunt on not it's a beautiful sight to see a leader who cares about his people. All the while the Americans were trying to get away with charging every citizen a $300 evacuation fee to get to Cyprus + standard air-fair back to the states. As usual Leftist assholes will scrutinize this, but only because it shows that they were very wrong when painting him as a monster.
SupaDawg 5 years ago
You're absolutely right zshiek. Women and children first - what a bastard!
hebegebes 5 years ago
the new conservative government is already milking this for political gain. Him going there himself and handpicking only women with small babies for his post rescue photo-op..
please just wait and watch when they land how much of a show it will be and how the prime minister will pretend that he had anything to do with this other then taking advantage of the situation.
Am I Wrong?
zshiek 5 years ago