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Graham Fraser Makes Harper Look Good

Posted on Monday, October 16 at 12:02 by BC Mary
This is also the same Harper who is convinced the Parliamentary press gallery has a liberal bias against him. Fraser is the national affairs columnist for the Toronto Star, the country’s leading anti-Harper liberal newspaper. Fraser is the press gallery's liberal emeritus commentator and a journalist extraordinaire. He is married to Barbara Utek, who ran Rideau Hall for the former governor general Adrienne Clarkson. Graham and Utek would seem to have little in common with Harper. But Harper seems to have risen above his suspicion of Ottawa’s liberal media and filled a sensitive post with one of the best political journalists in the country. http://www.cbc.ca/news/viewpoint/vp_zolf/20061016.html

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  1. by Deacon
    Mon Oct 16, 2006 7:16 pm
    Appointing someone to a prestigious post is one thing, it is quite another to leave them alone and allow them to do their work.

    My guess is that micro-manager Harper won't be able to resist.

    Time will tell.

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    "and the knowledge they fear is a weapon to be used against them"

    "The Weapon" - Rush

  2. by gaulois
    Tue Oct 17, 2006 2:59 pm
    Graham Fraser was also quoted in June this year as saying that francophone minorities outside of Quebec should "have more visibility". Harper's government has yet to state a francophonie hors-Quebec policy. Bev Oda and Josee Verner have done absolutely nothing so far. The only trend that can be percieved at this point from this government is a transfer of the francophonie bloated bureaucracy from Ottawa to Quebec City. Won't that help solve our problems?

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    "We are all in this together somehow, some more than others somehow"

  3. by gaulois
    Tue Oct 17, 2006 3:03 pm
    PS I forget: Harper lined up Canada's francophonie to support the pro-Israel/USA foreign policy at the last francophonie summit held in Lebanon. We call that "bidonner" in French. The Conservatives polls are way down in Quebec: one can only "bidonner" for that long.

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    "We are all in this together somehow, some more than others somehow"

  4. by franklee8
    Wed Oct 18, 2006 7:56 pm
    The appointment is no surprise tactic to garner french support and the same would be done if it were a Liberal government if polls were low. Personally i would have preferred to see Fraser in a different posting but c'est la vie.



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