Former Progressive Conservative Party of Canada National Director, David Scrymgeour, is part of Green Party leader Jim Harris inner circle.
While this remains true, I could never support the Green Party. After watching Mr. Scrymgeour in action within my former party, it is my opinion that Mr. Scrymgeour lacks character and scruples, which calls into question for me the character and trustworthiness of Mr. Harris.
On a day where the US President is continuing his campaign of disinformation, attempting to revise his own sorry history, let us revisit Canada’s Parliament during the late winter and spring of 2003:
Hon. David Collenette (Minister of Transport, Lib.): Mr. Speaker, the terms and conditions of resolution 1441 are clear and the Government of Canada supports them. I do not know why the hon. Leader of the Opposition continues to take the position he does.
He should be standing with the government in this united position, supporting UN action, and letting the inspectors do their job rather than coming into the House and being so precipitous with his questions.
Mr. Stephen Harper (Leader of the Opposition, Canadian Alliance): Mr. Speaker, this party is never going to sit proudly on the fence like that party seems to.Hansard, 37th Parliament
One of many references Stephen Harper made, affirming his support for charging into Iraq with the United States, full speed ahead, damn the torpedoes
“Mr. Speaker, what the Prime Minister does not seem to understand is that Iraq will never disarm as long as Saddam Hussein is in power. Everyone else has figured that out.”Mr. Stephen Harper (Leader of the Opposition, Canadian Alliance Hansard, 37th Parliament
In fact, Saddam had disarmed – years prior, as evidenced by the comprehensive post-war CIA report on Iraq. The US intentionally promoted faulty and in some cases fictitious intelligence to fool folks like Mr. Harper who was too keen to jump on the US bandwagon. Shouldn’t Canada have a smarter, more independent, leader at its helm?
Mr. Speaker, none of that overshadows what we know and what the Americans know. We should be there with our allies when it counts against Saddam Hussein.Mr. Stephen Harper (Leader of the Opposition, Canadian Alliance Hansard, 37th Parliament
Again, Stephen Harper wanted Canada to be at war with Iraq, hand in hand with the ill-conceived America invasion. The US was promoting, at the time, information that it knew to be false, that it knew did not support the conclusions the US administration was promoting as facts, which were in reality falsehoods