Harper's staff and top senators colluded to whitewash Duffy report: RCMP

[evewithanapple]

The prime minister's chief of staff went to Stephen Harper for approval of a secret plan that would have seen the Conservative party repay Mike Duffy's contested expenses and whitewash a Senate report, new RCMP documents suggest

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[alexvdl]

Now which one is Harper? I can never recognize him...

[evewithanapple]

[mellawe]

Is he holding that poor cat hostage?

[soleiltropiques]

ROTFL!!!

[seishin]

The general consensus among Canadians is that he ate Cheddar (the name of the kitty).

[soleiltropiques]

"Canada is currently our largest goods trading partner with $616 billion in total (two ways) goods trade during 2012." (Office of the United States Trade Representative, Executive Office of the President, http://www.ustr.gov/countries-regions/americas/canada)

Canada is also one of only two countries with which you share a border. So... while I would sympathize with the notion of wanting to block out all knowledge of Stephen Harper and his cronies from one's mind (i.e. given what they stand for -among others they have received kudos from people such as Newt Gingrich), it does seem a tad... ignorant to not have knowledge of one's neighbor.

Just saying. (So I'm hoping you were making some kind of joke?)

[muppetfromhell]

recognizing Harper from a photo was a jeopardy! question last week that no one got right.

[soleiltropiques]

Thank you! I saw that post -still unsure about some of the replies though...

[alexvdl]

http://ontd-political.livejournal.com/10856499.html

[soleiltropiques]

I saw that post, thanks. I may have missed something, I'm still not sure everyone was joking in response to this post though, which is why I was asking the question.

[alexvdl]

Some of the replies? You and I are the only one with top level responses...

But yes. I was being sarcastic.

[soleiltropiques]

Um, I was referring to the replies to the original post about the Jeopardy thing?

Can we be done now? Pretty please?

[alexvdl]

Sure?

I have no clue what's going on at this point.

[yndigot]

I'm definitely not defending ignorance nor suggesting that people aren't responsible for educating themselves.

However, I will say that as someone who lives in a home where major network news is frequently watched, I've rarely seen photographs or video of Stephen Harper shown on US television. In fact, in US TV news coverage, he's virtually nonexistant compared to, for example, David Cameron. I don't think I've ever seen him on the front page of our local major newspaper either.

Again, not saying that everyone does or should get their information from major network TV news or the front page of my city's newspaper. Perhaps he's getting extensive coverage from other segments of the US media that I'm not aware of. And I'm still not trying to say that people aren't responsible for correcting their own ignorance. But I am saying that, based on my experience with the amount of attention Canada and the Canadian Premiership gets here, I'm really not shocked that USians who don't specifically google 'what does the Canadian Prime Minister

[soleiltropiques]

I don't disagree with you. :)

I think where I started to get concerned was when people didn't know what the capital of Canada is, personally.

(Edited for clarity)

[romp]

I don't think I knew until I moved here as an adult. I think people often assume it's the largest city. Many people in the US don't know the capital of California, for example.

I mean, it's narcissistic and not being a good neighbour but we knew that.