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This is something I've been wondering about lately: Harper represents the whitest/rightest in Canada, when Bush was in power and 9/11 happened Harper published a full page open to letter to the Bush administration criticising Canada for not immediately going to war in Iraq with the Americans, I know that is ancient history in politics, that Harper eventually changed his mind and said the Iraq war it was a mistake, but still there are plenty more examples of Harper's right-wingness, and yet, Harper as PM of Canada, finds himself governing a country which has universal healthcare for all, and many other national social programs, a decidedly non-right wing thing. Does Harper's lust for power supercede his ideologies?
Obama, already an icon, a symbol of hope and change and multiculturality, is governing a country where carrying guns is a constitutional right, where the death sentence is still in place, where social security has been privatized, where church & state have become fused of late, and where supporting social programs are seen negatively as the formation of a socialist state.
In the Star today it said that Obama And Harper "despite big differences in philosophy" they forged a common front. Obama's economy & population is ten times the size of Harper's. My question is: who is more on the right, Obama or Harper??
Obama, already an icon, a symbol of hope and change and multiculturality, is governing a country where carrying guns is a constitutional right, where the death sentence is still in place, where social security has been privatized, where church & state have become fused of late, and where supporting social programs are seen negatively as the formation of a socialist state.
In the Star today it said that Obama And Harper "despite big differences in philosophy" they forged a common front. Obama's economy & population is ten times the size of Harper's. My question is: who is more on the right, Obama or Harper??
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