The Secret Diary of Stephen Harper: Yikes, Stéphane Just Called...

Monday, October 15, 2007

Yikes, Stéphane Just Called...

... with an ultimatum: "Either you say da nice ting about Kyoto in da Trone Speech or I suspend myself."

I finally talked him down and told him I knew he deeply cared about this issue and we were working on a "Made-in-Canada solution" to climate change and maybe his friend Elizabeth May could be on the panel if he really insisted.

I got Kevin to listen in on the other line. Right away he thumbed Senator Smith, who is going to have a chat with him ASAP.

Must be off his Paxil....

Talk Tough Like Mike

•“Look, this is America and you have to decide what kind of country you want. This is your country as much as it is mine.” - 2004
*"Look, if I lose, I'll just move back to Massachusetts." - to the Harvard Crimson newspaper - 2006
*“If you mess with me, I’ll mess with you until I’m done.”
• "You're looking at someone who turned down the chance to become Prime Minister of Canada, and I did so, in part, because I felt it would divide the country."
• “I don’t need any lessons in legitimacy from Harper.”
• “He knows where to find me.”
• "He's creating a parliamentary crisis and dividing the country."
• "It’s his budget, not mine."
• "It's up to Harper to make the right decision and up to me to decide if he made it."
• "We're putting the government on probation."
•"Mr. Harper, your time is up.”
*"This is a prime minister who a year ago was trying to make you embarrassed if you liked opera or classical music or the ballet or poetry. I mean, come on, let's get over this. You can like hockey, you can like classical music. Let's stop playing Canadian against Canadian and taste against taste."

The Susan Delacarte Stephen Harper Attack Thesaurus (Under Construction)