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And his unwillingness to back down from a fight.
In the 1990s, Ted Rogers bid to enter the pay TV business resulted in a public battle with the CRTC, which tried to block his move.
Canadians are to continue to see, hear and read about ourselves.
We must compete with these global giants on our own turf.
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Now returning to the day's top story, the political goings-on in Ottawa.
It used to be that Stephen Harper was considered a master political strategist.
Well, that was before last week's economic statement, which turned out to be quite a miscalculation, according to some critics.
Now the Prime Minister is fighting just to stay in power.
Michael Meehan is a Conservative Senator who has been watching events unfold.
He joins us now from the House of Commons.
Michael Meehan, good to see you. Thank you for joining us today.
My pleasure, Eric.
How do you view this?
Was this to some extent a conflict that was inevitable in this Parliament, or is this pretty well a self-inflicted mess?
Well, I think there's obviously a combination of a number of factors.
It's pretty clear now that the opposition parties had this in mind for some time when the so-called trap was going to be sprung, as anybody's guess.
Also, I suppose one could argue, as has been argued, that the economic statement, by including some perhaps extraneous factors,
such as the elimination of political contributions, just lit the flame, and that provoked the crisis.
But the governments now, as everybody knows, withdrawn the contentious items.
So we're left with an economic statement that is just that, outlines a general approach, may not be as specific as some people would like,
but I frankly don't think it's something upon which the government deserves to fall at this stage, given the circumstances, economic climate surrounding it.
If I'm clear on what I'm hearing you say, it was a little bit of the worst of both sides.
But generally, prime ministers tend to surround themselves with sage advisors, people like yourself who are in a position who have seen through other governments
the things that can go right and go wrong.
So how does something like this happen? How does something like this spin so badly out of control?
Well, as I said at the outset, I think that it was planned by the opposition for quite some time.
As one of them said, you don't just put an agreement between three disparate parties, very disparate parties with very different views, together in three hours.
I mean, this had been planned for quite a while.
So Stephen—
The excuse. The excuse was the economic statement.
Yeah, I was just going to say, do you think then that Stephen Harper fell into a trap, that he wasn't clever enough to see the trap had been set?
Well, I don't know who did know the trap was set.
You know, you have to be pretty smart to know what's going on in the minds of the opposition unless you're told or unless there's a leak.
All I was saying about the economic statement was perhaps if the extraneous factors hadn't been included, we wouldn't be in as far as we're in right now under this constitutional crisis.
But that being said, I've come to the conclusion that the crisis is going to come sooner rather than later.
Now we've got to decide as to whether or not it justifies the bringing down of a newly elected government just received a stronger mandate, albeit a minority one.
Well, given what you have said, that those measures, those—what some have perceived to be partisan measures have been withdrawn from the statement by the prime minister,
what advice would you suggest now for a prime minister in this position?
What should Stephen Harper be thinking about and doing now to forestall or avoid what seems to be the inevitable that his government will fall?
Well, I don't know that it's inevitable.
I mean, you know, members of parliament are independent people.