CBC -- Prime Minister Stephen Harper said his Conservative party will work to keep earning the trust of Canadians and will listen and adapt as it governs with its new majority mandate.
Harper made the comments as he opened the national Conservative caucus for the first time Wednesday since winning his first majority government on May 2 by introducing all of his new MPs.
Harper received a standing ovation as he approached the front of the room, then called all of the new MPs up to the podium one-by-one, shook hands with them and posed for photos.
"These outstanding Canadians now joining our ranks helped us win our third mandate, our strongest mandate, a majority mandate for Canada," Harper said when he had finished the introductions. "I don't really get tired of using that word," he added, referring to his majority mandate.
He said winning a majority government with so many new MPs is a sign the Conservative party has become a home for Canadians from all regions and backgrounds and that "Conservative values are Canadian values."
"The Conservative party is Canada's party," Harper said.
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Democracy Gone Astray
Democracy, being a human construct, needs to be thought of as directionality rather than an object. As such, to understand it requires not so much a description of existing structures and/or other related phenomena but a declaration of intentionality.
This blog aims at creating labeled lists of published infringements of such intentionality, of points in time where democracy strays from its intended directionality. In addition to outright infringements, this blog also collects important contemporary information and/or discussions that impact our socio-political landscape.
All the posts here were published in the electronic media – main-stream as well as fringe, and maintain links to the original texts.
[NOTE: Due to changes I haven't caught on time in the blogging software, all of the 'Original Article' links were nullified between September 11, 2012 and December 11, 2012. My apologies.]
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