Canadian Heritage Moment: Chrétien Chokes a Guy

In the spirit of Sheila Copps’ “heritage moments”, Fildebrandt.ca is pleased to bring you the latest addition to this site.
February 15, 1996: Prime Minister Jean Chrétien is shaking hands at an event to commemorate Canada’s national flag. Radical socialist and separatist  Bill Clennett heckled the prime minister and in close proximity. The closeness of that [...]

May 3, 2010  Tags: Bill Clennett, Heritage Moments, Jean Chrétien, Shawinigan Handshake, Shawinigan Shake, Sheila Copps  Posted in: Blog Content, Canadian Heritage Moments  5 Comments

Nice Things to Say About: Obama, Chrétien, Clark, Broadbent & Axworthy

I squirm at the thought as much as any realpolitik-minded foreign policy sophist, but President Obama has made a real and positive move on global defense and security policy in the form of today’s nuclear non-proliferation treaty. What’s more is that Jean Chrétien, Joe Clark, Ed Broadbent and Lloyd Axworthy – all doves of a [...]

March 26, 2010  Tags: Barack Obama, Ed Broadbent, Foreign Policy, Jean Chrétien, Joe Clark, John F Kennedy, Kennedy, Lloyd Axworthy, National Security, Non-Proliferation, Nuclear Weapons, Obama, Reagan, Ronald Reagan  Posted in: Blog Content  4 Comments

Harper Calls Chrétien More Conservative than Mulroney

“The [former] Liberal government is more conservative on most issues than the [earlier] Progressive Conservative government. Whatever the Liberals [did] seem[ed] moderate because [we] urge[d] them to go further and faster. Conservative voters [got] better results as outsiders influencing a Liberal government than they did as an inside influence within a Progressive Conservative government.”
Well, that’s [...]

December 15, 2009  Tags: Brian Mulroney, Conservative, Debt, Deficit, Jean Chrétien, Our Benign Dictatorship, Tom Flanagan  Posted in: Blog Content  Comments Closed

FAIL: Top 5 Political Fails by Gerry Nicholls

I suppose its not stealing an idea if someone else acts on it first, so well done to Gerry Nicholls!  I’ve pondering for some months now what to include in a post for the “Biggest Fails in Canadian Political History”, but Mr. Nicholls just beat me to it with his “Five Top Biggest Political Blunders [...]

October 20, 2009  Tags: Canadian Political Fails, Gerry Nicholls, Jean Chrétien, John Tory, Kim Campell, Libertas Post, Stephane Dion  Posted in: Blog Content, Canadian Political Fails  4 Comments

Autocratic Outremont Nomination Underscores Need for Nomination Reform

The federal Liberals appear to be undergoing something of a unity crisis within their Quebec wing, as Ignatieff’s lieutenant Denis Coderre butts heads with former former Justice Minister Martin Cauchon.  The issue at hand is not over who will represent the electors of Outremont in Parliament, but over who will represent the Liberals in Outremont. [...]

September 25, 2009  Tags: Bob Rae, Denis Coderre, Jean Chrétien, Martin Cauchon, Michael Ignatieff, Nomination Reform, Open Primaries, Outremont, Primaries, Sheila Gervais  Posted in: Blog Content  4 Comments

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