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" Sometimes I get so frustrated because the people are just sitting back listening but they don't pick up the phone, don't go down to city hall, they don't ask questions," he said. " I want people to get engaged in municipal politics and find out who their councillor is and know how they vote." Ford said it would be difficult to rescind the motion, explaining it would require someone who voted against the measure to get 30 votes out of a 45- member council to reopen the issue. He said it would require people taking action for it to happen. " If there was a couple of hundred thousand people down at Nathan Phillips Square today ( saying) they want plastic bags back, yes, then the councillors would listen." Toronto is joining other major centres such as San Francisco, Seattle and Los Angeles, who have already implemented a ban on single- use plastic bags. The tiny community of Leaf Rapids, Man., was the first community in Canada to ban the bags in April 2007. - The Canadian Press Toronto mayor blames council, public for plastic- bag ban O TTAWA - It's unclear whether Stephen Harper made any European friends during his visit this week. It's a safe bet, however, that his Conservative MPs in Ottawa made none. As the prime minister jetted out of France on Thursday after breakfasting with the newly- minted president, Conservatives in the House tore a strip off of Europe - particularly the socialist kind represented by Fran�ois Hollande. It all started with a question Wednesday from NDP Leader Tom Mulcair, who castigated Harper for lecturing Europeans about their festering financial crisis while not participating with G20 nations on possible solutions. The following day, Tory MPs stood up one after another in the House of Commons to deliver member statements denouncing the NDP leader - and to especially tell Europe that if they are looking for help from Canada, the answer is " non." The language got especially colourful when it was Pierre Poilievre's turn. " They have taxed to the max, borrowed to the brink and are seeking a bailout to continue spending what they do not have," said the Ottawa- area MP, known for his hyper- partisanship. " This prime minister will not force hard- working Canadian taxpayers to bailout sumptuous Euro welfare- state countries and the wealthy bankers that lend to them." In case the message wasn't clear, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty later met with reporters to again reject a proposal, supported by the majority of the G20, that nations contribute to an emergency fund to prevent a European financial collapse. Canada is under pressure - even more so than the United States, where presidential politics and congressional gridlock render the question moot - to add its weight to the International Monetary Fund initiative, but Flaherty has so far refused. " What we do know is that Mr. Mulcair criticizes our government for not participating with Canadian taxpayers' money in bailing out European banks," Flaherty said. " Quite frankly, these are among the wealthiest countries in the world and they can manage their own issue before looking to other countries to bail them out." Flaherty said the IMF is there to help out poor countries, not rich ones. Still, both Harper and Flaherty have warned that if the Europeans don't fix their mess, countries like Canada will be hit by aftershocks similar to those that occurred when the U. S. financial system collapsed in 2008. In France, Harper called the 17- country eurozone a " halfdone project" that lacks the tools to contain Europe's spiralling debt crisis. " The problem here is we have a monetary union, but the European Union and the eurozone lack the strong institutional structures that normally go with a monetary union," he said. Analysts agree with the view there are sufficient funds to backstop sovereign and bank debt in the zone, but they say creating a sufficiently large safety net, as Canada has urged, is politically difficult because most of the money would need to come from Germany. - The Canadian Press Ford: ' Dumbest thing council's done.' Tories blast ' sumptuous' Europe, deny bailout By Julian Beltrame SEAN KILPATRICK / THE CANADIAN PRESS Prime Minister Stephen Harper is on friendly terms with French President Fran�ois Hollande in Paris Thursday. A_ 19_ Jun- 08- 12_ FP_ 01. indd A19 6/ 7/ 12 9: 58: 57 PM ;