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To: elmatador who wrote (53625)	8/16/2009 4:55:06 AM
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Fiery rhetoric greets NDP delegates United Steelworkers International President Leo W. Gerard delivers a speech at the New Democratic Party National Convention in Halifax, N.S. Saturday August 15, 2009. Aug 15, 2009 05:12 PM Richard J. Brennan OTTAWA BUREAU HALIFAX – In a vintage union hall table thumping speech today, international United Steelworkers president Leo Gerard lambasted the "right-wing nut balls" in the U.S. and slammed Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff. The Sudbury native, who heads the Pittsburgh-based union, left the NDP convention delegates standing in the aisles clamouring for more. "I see Stephen Harper wanting to be an important person on the world stage. I want to tell Stephen Harper you can't be a master of the universe if you not even master of your own house and you are giving away our resources and our jobs and our economic future," Gerard bellowed. He called Ignatieff the "prince of darkness" who too believes the free market is the answer for everything. "The country knows that Stephen Harper and the prince of darkness in the Liberal Party ... believe in the outmoded ideas that have brought this economic collapse to our doorstep," he said. Gerard said it was hard to stomach the right-wing attack on Canada's universal health care system as their ways of whipping public sentiment against U.S. President Barack Obama's health care plan. "Many of you must be watching ... in disbelief at the bunch of nut bars, hairpins and lunatics collectively and every right-wing (nut) ... in the United States of America who is parading around during this health care debate," he said. When Gerard asked if anyone in the room would give up Canadian health care for the private sector-driven system that exists in the U.S., where 48 million American don't have health care it was a resounding no. "Remember this, when the wrong people win our most prized possession, which is health care, is put at risk," he said. Gerard, whose union has 800,000 members across North America, also called on working Canadians to join with environmentalists to protect the environment because without a good environment there can't be a prosperous economy. "If we care about the future of our planet, if we care about the future we are going to leave to our kids and our grandkids, it's not that you can't have good jobs and clean environment, it's not that you have to make a choice. We are either going to have both or we will have neither," he said. thestar.com