“Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing itself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks. Methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam.” [John Milton (1608-1674) Areopagitica]
In the impossible construction called a democratic nation every evil that arises in community can gather itself into a single force and seem to spread without hindrance: greed, bribery, flagrant breach of public trust, oppressing fear, racism, cynical exploitation of the weak and vulnerable, cronyism, manufactured militarism, organized corruption ….
Heartbreaking is the ease with which the single force seems to be accepted as … well … ‘the way of the world’.
All those who can benefit seem to choose to do so as the wrecking ball swings through the democracy. The others, mostly, seem to cower in fear. Here and there voices are raised. Records are kept. Violations are recorded and broadcast by means possible. Many of the ordinary means are bribed or coerced into silence, closed to what is real. Even so … the word goes round.
The single force concentrating evil in a democracy is not to be confused with the dark evil that controls despotisms, dictatorships … and that violently erases opposition. The single force doesn’t have that power in a democracy but works to achieve it, to turn the impossible construction called a democratic nation into a real, full-fledged despotism. It wants to do so. It works tirelessly to do so. It is like a poisonous boil that grows and pains and weakens the whole body. The pain is the warning sign … the call for remedial action.
In the impossible construction called a democratic nation the single force is usually given a name … and here in Canada it has been called Harperism, the name adopted from the chief (fronting) instigator, controller, manager, designer, and implementer of the steps that have been undertaken to turn this democracy into a despotism. And – as is usually the case – the beneficiaries of the single force actively deny its existence. Of course.
Our society – the kind of community talked about here – “the impossible construction called a democratic nation” possesses an almost magical ability to respond. Apparently a gathering of disconnected individuals, it is greatly and deeply more than that. We speak of “the body politic” (“polis”in Greek meaning “the people”) as if the whole nation is, at rare times, a single organism, a body … which thinks and acts.
As it did on October 19, 2015.
Word went round … and round. People talked. Books were written. Articles were exchanged. ‘Strategic’ organizations formed. Opposition parties spoke of ‘change’ to avoid open condemnation of incipient (and shaping) despotism. They were careful … almost complicit….
But "like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks” Canadians took hold. They watched, towards the close, as “Harperism” employed one of the most unlovely political advisors in the English-speaking world. They watched “Harperism” goad on racism, attack a minority … and then (upon advice?) promise to mount greater racist attacks on that (and any other slandered ‘odious’) minority. They watched Stephen Harper declare (in campaign) the outright, bald falsehood that Canada is “the largest per capita refugee receiver in the world”, as he also declared the simple flat lie that, of the CBC, “there are no cuts” … lying openly, easily, casually, readily, frequently since lying has become second nature to him: his special skill - his sign of contempt for Canadians, his testimony of loyalty to thug corporations … and to thuggery.
In that behaviour is revealed such a closeness to madness that the Canadian organism – the impossible construction called the Canadian democratic nation – made up its mind.
It would remove Harperism. It would go around the fundamentalists – Corporate, Christian, neo-liberal, “Conservative”, Monetary, Media. It would remove Stephen Harper and “Harperism”.
And so the Canadian body politic “kindling her undazzled eyes”, watched and listened, weighed and worried. And then the impossible construction called a democratic nation made a choice. It didn’t make the ideal choice, perhaps. It didn’t choose even what it might have chosen if given a wide-open set of choices … and time to consider, perhaps. It may even have chosen wrongly… for the impossible construction called a democratic nation has, always, to work within the possible. But the magic of Canadian democracy happened (despite Harper and Harperism using every fraudulent tactic to prevent it from doing so). The indefinable thing called Canadian history went into play; the indescribable thing called Canadian culture – deep and invisible – showed its face. And so … from the possible … it took the major step and lanced the boil from the body politic as an intentional act. It removed Harper and Harperism. For the moment … a possible (and likely) despotism was removed by “a noble and puissant nation, rousing itself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks ... kindling her undazzled eyes ….” The other political leaders thanked Harper for his “contribution” to Canadian life. The neo-fascist-supporting major media began white-washing, ‘retrospective’ looks at Harper and Harperism. Paid ‘historians’ began the task of writing volumes of lies.
Hello friends, readers, bloggers and political junkies, I needed to rerun a Straight Goods article from October 15 2012..
You all, most of you scoffed at me then, ridiculed my opinion, sometimes in life clarity, vision and even the future is apparent, sadly too many people , even good people are blinded by partisan politics...
The Straight Goods ..... (Grant G October 20th/2015)
Alise Mills, Norman Specter, Stephen Harper and Especially Sun News and Ezra Levant
There is fear in your voices and trembling in your written words,
bombastic name calling of Justin Trudeau, blaming his father, the
mother, lightweight, insufferable, no policies, fickle, well, as
reported here at the Straight Goods, Justin Trudeau is indeed a
superstar, Justin the Thunderbolt Trudeau...And for the record, I`m not a
Federal Liberal groupee, I am a staunch NDPer...However, I would vote
for kilt wearing little people(midgets) if it meant tossing Harper out
on his ass...Adios Stephen Treason Harper...
You Stephen Treason Harper lost British Columbia and Ontario will
gladly toss you out on your ass, Ontario, like British Columbia is not
locked into a red-neck religious right dogma, we are not Alberta or
flathead, err, flatland prairies, .....For those that missed this post,
for those that didn`t believe...Here`s Nik on the numbers, The Globe n
Mail, link to comments, and of course, The Straight Goods...
Trudeau’s leadership bid boosts Liberals in recent poll
The contrast of political fortunes is striking, on one hand we have a
shooting star blazing a trail across Canada and on the other hand we
have a comedy of errors, actually it`s far worse than that, Christy
Clark has descended into a sad pathetic role, she`s been exposed as
unintelligent, shallow scripted soap opera actress, playing a role and
playing it badly, there will be no Emmy award coming her way..
Christy Clark, a lifetime Federal Liberal member, the reason a right
wing BC Liberal(Liberal in name only) party chose her as leader was
obvious, who would want Kevin Falcon as premier, Mike De Jong or Mr.
milktoast, George Abbott, the BC Liberal hierarchy was banking on pure
sex appeal and name recognition to carry the day and win the election,
it was a strategy that may have worked if Christy Clark called an
election the day after she won party leadership, she didn`t and that was
her fatal flaw, for time, time revealed her glaring shortcomings, can`t
think on her feet, doesn`t know the issues, inability to speak English,
day by day the real unqualified Christy emerged while the illusion of
skilled debater and speaker waned, the one-time radio voice with cut-off
button nearby crashed, for without the ability to hit the kill button
and cherry pick callers the game quickly ended and reality crashed in on
both Christy Clark and her handlers..
Long in the tooth old Socreds who dominated the BC Liberal backrooms
soon became frustrated, ill-tempered and panicky, the genie was out of
the bottle and internal revolt was soup de jour, what was Christy to do,
a long time Federal Liberal being stalked by angry old white men, well
of course, Christy Clark needed to prove she had Federal Conservative
credentials and brought in Ken Boesenkool as her chief-of-staff, surely
this move would satisfy the cranks, it did, for a millisecond, the poll
numbers went the other way, for the name Stephen Harper had already
turned to mud, assaulting BCers pensions, de-funding healthcare, closing
coast guard bases, radar stations and slashing food inspectors and not
to mention the robo-call scandal, which is working it`s way through the
courts, there was also Bay street hedge fund manager Joe Oliver calling
British Columbians radicals and terrorists for speaking up for our
environment, the flavour had changed, Christy Clark jumped on the
Federal Conservative band wagon at the same time Canada was egging and
tomatoing Harper off the stage, did no one notice, did no one in the BC
Liberal party see the changing tide, could they not smell the Harper
stench...
And today, Christy Clark is still a life long Federal Liberal, yes
Stephan Dion was a cruel joke, he too couldn`t speak English, well, if
you get right down to it Michael Ignatief, Stephan Dion and Christy
Clark, none can speak English fluently enough to persuade the
electorate, one in need of a Rosetta stone, another who talked down to
Joe average and one that still needs to complete her GED...
Rather than Christy Clark being herself and vying for the center Liberal
vote she cast her Federal pals under the bus, she took a Harper plunge
and hit her head on the bottom of the pool and what`s so ironic, if only
she bided her time and told those old white haired Socreds to get
stuffed and stayed in the middle, for if she did that she could`ve
jumped on Justin Trudeau`s rising star, and let`s be perfectly clear,
Justin Trudeau terrifies Stephen Harper, forget the lightweight
monicker, forget his mother, or father the man has sex appeal, charm and
raw intelligence, he also possesses a rare thing, the wow factor, yes
Justin Trudeau gave the Conservative party the big middle finger in the
House of Commons, but he did far more than that, for charity Justin went
into the ring and fought(with gloves) a big fat over-stuffed Federal
Conservative MP and shoved his fist over and over down his opponents
throat, the Conservative MP was left laying on the ground gasping for
air and pleading for mercy and that my friends is the wow factor...
Meanwhile poor uneducated Christy, exposed Canada wide as a shallow
fluttering butterfly who flits from flower to flower leaving her mark,
churning through Chiefs of Staffs faster than Gordon Campbell did
mistresses, how does that saying go....
"beauty is only skin deep but dumb is forever"
The game is over for Christy Clark, her attempts of a public pissing
contest against unions, teachers and Adrian Dix backfired, the only one
covered with urine is Christy Clark herself, something about a
hurricane, I`ll leave that one to your imagination..
Stephen Harper, the man is terrified of Justin Trudeau, a young charming
attractive man with a young family, no white hair, not afraid to speak,
Quebec will never turn for Stephen Harper, that Province which is now
painted Orange is willing to vote Federal Liberal Red, willing to vote
separatist, willing to vote any colour but Conservative blue...
Alberta doesn`t matter, with all the gangbang bullying going on, Ottawa
and Alberta, those two teaming up against the rest of Canada, it hasn`t
gone unnoticed, that alone will change the vote in riding rich Ontario,
for one only need to take a short glance at the 2010 Federal election
results in Ontario to see that with a.....
Charming, aggressive well versed and ultra skilled politician, one that
female voters swoon over, with name recognition, and good hair(sorry El
Bloatto), a man that backs up his tough talk with tough fists in the
real ring, I can already see the ads running, Justin`s arm held up high
by a referee while the Conservative lay on the ground bleeding and
weeping...Ah, an instant classic..
There were so many ridings in Ontario which Conservatives won but by a
margin so small, with Canadians rejecting Michael Ignatief, he didn`t
even win his own seat, just imagine how many of those ridings, ridings
full of baby boomers and seniors who value both healthcare and pensions,
not to mention a good steak, the question isn`t ..
Will ridings in Ontario turn from blue to red? the question will be...
How many ridings in Ontario will turn from blue to red?
Here are a few examples...
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Welcome to the big leagues Justin, I wish you well..
You can peruse more riding results here...But as you can see, with a
popular well schooled leader a dozen ridings go the other way..Adios
Stephen Treason Harper.
http://www.elections.ca/scripts/OVR2011/default.html -------------- Yes indeed, Justin Trudeau is a political rock star and Christy
Clark is Canada`s national joke, our own version of Sarah Palin, only
with fewer brain cells and not as sexy...
Oh what could have been Christy.....
Welcome to the big leagues Justin, I wish you well..
Updated here, October 5th/2012....Hmmm, looks like my instincts were correct.
"If an election were held today, a Liberal party led by Justin Trudeau
would win a strong minority government from Canadians while the NDP
would tumble to a distant third, a new poll suggests. Under Trudeau, 39% of respondents in a Forum Poll for the National Post said
they would vote for the Grits, while the Conservatives would take 30%
and the NDP would fall to 23% — less than a quarter of the popular vote. Those numbers would win the Liberals 150 seats in the Commons, just
short of the 155 needed to have a majority in the 308-seat House. “It’s clear by now that the Trudeau phenomenon is no one-day wonder,
and that a Liberal Party led by him would be the prohibitive favourite
to beat in the next federal election,” Forum Research President Dr.
Lorne Bozinoff said."
[I am on a list of people who receive periodic emails from William Thorsell, who was the Globe and Mail’s
editor-in-chief from 1989 to 2000 and the CEO of the Royal Ontario
Museum for a decade after. William sends out occasional thoughts on
events, design, urban life and other preoccupations. The other day he
sent this, calling it “the editorial I’d write” — about the current
federal election campaign — “if I were still writing them.” I’ve
checked, and he consented to let me publish his article here. This is
William Thorsell’s argument, not my own, but I offer it as interesting
contrast to what his successors at the Globe have produced. — PW]
Written by William Thorsell
Not
in recent times have Canadian voters had an opportunity to “throw the
bastards out” in the classic phrase. Elected officials generally leave
office before such public urges get to them.
Brian
Mulroney stepped down five months before an election was required in
1993. (Kim Campbell launched that campaign in September running high in
the polls.) Voters rather gently rebuked Pierre Trudeau with his close
defeat in 1979, but his resurrection in 1980 set the stage anew. Mr.
Trudeau stepped down in 1984, nine months before an election was
required. (John Turner called an election that July, also running well
in the polls.)
This
time however, Stephen Harper is sticking his head up above the parapets
after nine years in office — nine years generally seen as the Best
Before Due Date in politics, as it is for leadership in the private
sector. Knowing when to leave is among the more elegant qualities of any CEO, but then Mr. Harper has never laid claim to elegance.
An
accumulation of baggage eventually weighs the owner down to the point
of stumbling and falling. Mr. Harper is quite overweight in that
department. In recessionary times, he is running a primary budget
surplus (revenues over program spending) of some 1.4 per cent of
GDP — an elementary error in Economics 101, less a matter of ideology
than incompetence. Governments should not pull money out of an economy
facing strong economic headwinds: We might refer to Stephen “Hoover” in
this context, after the hapless U.S. president in the 1930s.
You
do not cut the national sales tax in favour of targeted tax goodies in
your party’s political interest. Nor do you do so to reduce Ottawa’s
capacity to fund grievously inadequate infrastructure, undermining
productivity and aggravating social divides. You do not claim success in
energy policy having seen no new significant pipelines approved or
built on your watch, either domestically or in our interest in the
United States. Nor do you sit out the global conversation on climate
change in words and action.
You
do not exacerbate income inequality by providing significant new tax
breaks for the wealthy in tax-free savings and investment accounts.
You
do not fan cultural conflict in Canada in the face of unprecedented
cultural diversity and high rates of immigration. Canada’s generally
successful experience in accommodating diversity needs nurturing
attention, not a matador’s incendiary skills.
You
do not acquiesce to deteriorating relations with Canada’s First
Peoples. You do not evince contempt for science or, for that matter, the
Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the courts mandated to
interpret and uphold it. You do not tendentiously attack the Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada as cover for your own
incompetence in making laws and appointments.
You
do not turn your backside to the federal nature of Canada, refusing to
meet the premiers and other leaders in congress to explore and debate
issues of common national concern.
On
your watch, Canada’s relations with the United States appear as cool as
they became in Pierre Trudeau’s latter years — a fundamental failure in
a critical arena. And you have reduced Canada’s stature in the world at
large through excessively partisan positions on matters of great
complexity in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, for example.
Barely
concealed hostility to China and the United Nations, ineffective
diplomacy regarding the Arctic and a general downgrading of Canada’s
foreign service personnel and facilities add yet more weight to the
baggage. Only apparent enthusiasm in military matters indicates much
appetite for engagement in foreign affairs.
New
trade agreements may hold promise, though there has been no public
consultation and we have seen no details on the large ones.
Prime
ministers do not have to be eminently likeable if they are sufficiently
competent and inspiring. But to demonstrate qualities of meanness with a
scent of pouting in the air makes the wheels on the luggage squeak. Who
but the deeply petulant would forbid his entire parliamentary caucus
from speaking to the former Progressive Conservative prime minister of
Canada on ethereal grounds?
Indeed,
who is allowed to speak to Canadian voters themselves in Stephen
Harper’s caucus — you know, the voters who hired them? Empty chairs at
public forums, gag orders on ministers of the crown, refusals to respond
to media enquiries evince deep contempt for the democratic process at
its most intensive phase.
All
this is consistent with unprecedented contempt for Parliament in the
use of closure and reliance on Brodingnagian omnibus bills — not to
mention a promise to un-man the Senate, which remains an essential
player under the Canadian constitution.
Yes,
an unusual opportunity to “throw the bastards out” lies just a few days
away, and there are reasons and a chance it may well happen.
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That was really good William Thorsell..Great writing with a succinct accurate message.....William Thorsell, Fantastic stuff indeed, I applaud you!
The Straight Goods
Globe and Mail`s Message To Canada....Eat Cake
(I do apologize for writing very little on election 2015....as mentioned before I am neither pom pom(ing) for Liberals or NDP, ...However I am bashing Conservatives with their own sorry record every chance I get....And yes, I strategically voted orange in my riding..
There was nothing important enough to report on, as this 2015 election was essentially over a month ago, the Munk Debates...Everything turned after the Munk debates and Trudeau was it, Destiny was shinning and inevitability was apparent, at least to those with Eyes Wide Open..Trudeau was going to be Prime Minister.)
Globe and Mail`s Message to Canada....Eat Cake
Written by Grant G
The Globe and Mail with their bizarre endorsement of the CPC party...The message was quirky, vote Conservative and (hope), believe, suggest, pray Stephen Harper resigns because as a leader he is a democracy killing, divisive, race-baiting zealot,...According to the Globe and Mail owner, low corporate taxes and boutique tax cuts for the chosen few trump the rule of law, override fairness and process, .
What kind of message is that?..Good governance be damned as long as we get ours, a new standard of lowbrow messaging was sent by corporate media to Canadians....That message is..
We no longer punish miscreants or illegal behaviour, in 2015 the Globe and Mail ownership believe assholes, liars, corrupt politicians who derail investigations and stifle information, muzzle the truth at every turn and offend almost every Canadian deserve to carry on with business as usual as long as someone in charge(Stephen Harper) falls on his sword, that message again is, after Harper is granted another four years to govern we hope he steps aside for a human being...?
Hilarious...Hello Globe...Why didn`t you advise Stephen Harper to fall on his sword last year and resign, advise him that a "mythical" new Phoenix Rising conservative leader is needed to right the good ship lollypop for election 2015.....We heard Silence from you then media, no?, perhaps?, or maybe Stephen Harper already rejected stepping down when asked by party operatives..?
This is why I personally refuse to ever buy any mainstream corporate news, no matter what the issue, whether it be an environmental issue, a social issue, a fairness issue, any debate that makes the news without fail, time and time again media owners espouse the corporate line...
Election 2015 is a perfect example....poll after poll shows 70% of Canadians want change...Harper and HIS party has had 10 years to prove themselves and after failing miserably on so many democratic and fiscals fronts big corporate media comes out against the 70%...
All Post media newspapers endorsed Harper`s Party...The Province..Vancouver Sun...Alberta papers, the Ottawa Citizen..Globe and Mail...National Post....The National Post muzzled Andrew Coyne on election eve weekend..
Comment sections lit up with dismay and disgust over these endorsements and bizarroments...
Globe and Mail, big media....They failed badly, Stephen Harper should never have been a contender in this election had they done their job, had they reported and even remembered, remembered that Canada`s navy and shipbuilding procurement announced to much fanfare days after Harper won a majority four years ago has sputtered, floundered, we are no closer to new ships today than we were five years ago..
The money for the navy rebuild was clawed back for election budget 2015...GM shares sold early for election budget 2015....Canada`s priorities were put on a dangerous hold for blatant political purposes...
Harper appointing a Kinder Morgan employee to the NEB the weekend of the writ dropping....Dean Del Maestro sent in handcuffs to jail....
Harper raising retirement age to 67 from 65....Illegal Bills..gutting environmental laws, divisive fear mongering. ...Corruption corruption and more corruption....
Campaign speeches, ...Harper.."1.3 million new jobs" ...Yes, but that increase was measured against the 2008 employment lows, in the depth of the recession, meaning it is a phony stat..
Boutique tax cuts and raising the TFSA by double...More money for those that already have money..
These issues and more were ignored by big media throughout the campaign, fact-checking by the MSM was near non-existent and those that did fact-check(cknw)... their fact-checkers needed to be fact-checked, media fact-checkers were spinning..
In Alberta an economic disaster and severe provincial recession is blazing away, Harper`s home province, an oil driven economy is drowning and the media went silent, why no Alberta economy questions to Harper?..No time, a short election?..Harper even had the audacity to chastise Rachel Notley, a government of but a few months taking over over for a Conservative government that had 44 years to get it right..
The media allowed Harper to bash Alberta`s new premier Rachel Notley and no reporters dared to ask, no newspapers set the record straight.
I heard not one big-media question to Harper about Alberta`s economic disaster...Not enough time?
Stephen Harper should never have been in the running or anywhere near having a chance to win election 2015 had the media, had the Globe and Mail actually investigated, reported or engaged in honest journalism over the last five years..
Canada`s longest ever election campaign...
Muzzled Conservative candidates, a muzzled Stephen Harper..Faked foreign photos..Insulting the Governments of Ontario, Alberta, insulting governments of decades past in many more provinces, silent on Alberta, silence on Canada`s laughing stock rustbucket Navy, media silence on cooking 2015 budget books for partisan electioneering purposes..
Deafening media silence on so many issues....including ethics, morality and humanity..
Post Media`s, Globe and Mail`s message to Canadians.....We got our corporate tax cuts, we have our own dedicated corporate government and nothing else matters, eat cake Canada!
First Justin Trudeau pummeled Patrick Brazeau and now he`s Ko`d Stephen Harper in the late rounds.. Watch this Trudeau campaign rally video(linked directly below), witness a powerful performance by Canada`s next Prime Minister....(Make sure to watch the last 10 minutes)
I wrote several years ago in a Straight Goods`s post titled (Justin the Thunderbolt Trudeau) that Justin Trudeau would be Canada`s next Prime Minister...
Check out this poll, pay special attention to the riding rich Ontario numbers..
Trudeau and his Liberal team.....When Stephen Harper dropped the writ on August 2/2015 Justin`s team was in distant third place.....Now Justin Trudeau is leading in the polls and surging..He`s run a fabulous campaign and his people deserve kudos for leading Trudeau to victory..
Thomas Mulcair played it too safe, he will however have many pockets of strength, including here in BC and Quebec..
Justin Trudeau has endured three years of personal attack ads from Harper`s smear machine, Stephen Harper many years ago vowed to destroy the Liberal party of Canada...That is not going to happen, change, Canadians want change in Government and that message is crystal clear leaving only one question remaining to be answered,,, Change to who, who would grasp the brass ring and inspire Canadians from coast to coast...
Justin Trudeau...He`s walking with forceful stride exuding the confidence of a man whose date with Destiny is near....And it is.
Justin Trudeau`s family.....Today in Ontario at a campaign rally Justin Trudeau hit homerun after homerun out of the park, his family was beautiful, stage perfect, his youngest child bubbled with pride, he smiled and gave an Oscar winning performance in the position of Best Supporting Actor....You can`t script what went down today in Ontario..
Pure power, belief, bravado and confidence and it`s all Justin Trudeau...
Play it safe Mulcair cemented his third place position in Federal election 2015
Stephen Harper with his deranged Joker grimace striped across his face infused with arm-flapping shoulder shrugging terrorist threat invoking divisive scripture has lost this election, lost direction, his flailing of fear and division promoting sermons are falling on deaf ears in an ever shrinking flock...
Canadians on mass are rejecting Canada`s Conservative Party and more importantly are rejecting Stephen Harper....Change. Canada wants change..
I have very little to say about Thomas Mulcair, he ran a safe, too safe campaign and yes many of his policies are progressive and have merit but you need more to win....Canada`s NDP party failed to rectify, purge or rid itself of a disease it has ailed from for decades...Too safe disease..Carole James was afflicted and Adrian Dix was far along in stage 4, in the fatal zone..
Justin Trudeau didn`t play it safe....He was bold!
Running infrastructure deficits.....More money for senior`s healthcare, including more money for Health Canada`s next medical growth sector, home-care...Legalizing marijuana...
Justin Trudeau`s team ran the anti Harper campaign, no fear, no worries no middle ground.
Thomas Mulcair ran a Stephen Harper light campaign, Tom muddled, nuanced and instead of firing heavy guns at Harper he fired blanks against Teflon Trudeau...Mulcair`s last fatal mistake came in the Munk debates..And he can`t come back..
Don`t mess with someone`s father...Especially when his name is Trudeau, as in Pierre Elliot..
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Lastly,....I`m still voting NDP as I`m in a strong NDP riding....Strategic voting still matters, stay informed, do your research and vote for the candidate most likely to win the riding, anyone but Harper.. Also, I hope Thomas Mulcair concedes his errors and chooses to spend the remaining two weeks damning Harper and his anti democratic deeds....
For the good of Canada Trudeau and Mulcair need to forget about each other and attack the real enemy, that being Canada`s Conservative Party under Stephen Harper`s deranged leadership..
The Straight Goods has been deliberately quiet on the federal election, sort of, I`m not prepared to endorse either Thomas Mulcair or Justin Trudeau, I am however continually highlighting the evil that exists in Stephen Harper and his reform ultra rightwing base..
Tom Mulcair wants to bring in affordable quality daycare and his goal deserves merit, ..remember the days of large families with stay at home moms, average Joe worker could support a wife, home and a basket full of kids on a modest middle of the road income, those days are long gone, year after year bit by bit the lack of buying power has decimated large family units ...Mulcair`s daycare plan might turn that around, perhaps..
Justin Trudeau`s promise of an infrastructure spending spree....I like this idea for a couple of good reasons, it will put people to work and interest rates have never been lower, what better time then now to invest in Canada....But what to build...A $3 billion dollar subway line along Broadway to get students to UBC is a big fat toilet bowl flush of money....However sewage treatment for our B.C. Capital District and Capital City Victoria is a must....18 million litres of raw sewage would no longer be dumped directly into the ocean each and every day...Light rail is good, even a high speed rail line for moving people around Canada...Canada needs to build infrastructure for the future and that shouldn`t include wider highways and bigger bridges for moving cars, we need vision, we need new water systems, sewage treatment a must, clean drinking water essential, greening of buildings, a push to develop geo-thermal power, tidal power, we do not need to spend gobs of money on technology of the past..
There was a time in man`s history where one would be jailed or executed for claiming the earth was round, seems silly today but back then if you went against religious based beliefs espoused by the Catholic church, hell have no fury like a bunch of false prophets wearing white robes...
There has been plenty of white noise in recent days about the niqab and swearing-in-ceremonies, oh the humanity, of all the issues to discuss, strawmen come in many shapes and colours and if one believes the polls the niqab controversy is a winner for Stephen Harper, or is it...
If one cares about the environment, the future of healthcare, pensions, human rights, respect and saving Canadian Democracy from ideological erosion one can`t vote for Stephen Harper and if people do care about those causes..
For the life of me I can`t see people foregoing those values and virtues and jumping on the Harper crazy(as a shit house rat)train over the niqab issue and on a more fundamental but personal level any persons who would change their vote to the gruesome blue bullshitting Harper over a face covering that one almost never encounters in their day to day life..I don`t want to be associated with those persons, those creatures can vote for Harper, those prehistoric remnants can vote for working longer before receiving a pension, vote for private profit healthcare, vote for a scorched earth....Stay there, stay with Harper....my conscience will sleep easier knowing I voted for a party that didn`t court the flat earth knuckle-dragging segments of society...
Remaining quiet has become increasingly difficult, I ponder away, muse to myself wondering when Thomas Mulcair and Justin Trudeau are going to wake up and fight, not for power but fight for Canada, fight for the reinstatement of Democracy...A legacy of Harper corruption has sullied the office of Prime Minister...A single(so far)Stephen Harper majority term in office has been catastrophic for Democracy, ...Muzzled scientists, environmental laws gutted, regulatory bodies tainted with the insertion of political and heavy industry cronies, a Harper Government that deliberately writes laws that fall under the weight of the supreme court justices but for how long, how long until all the current justices are replaced with hard-line reformacon ideologues...
Promises promises and more promises, stump speech after stump speech reciting tired talking points, enough already, I want to hear for a solid week by all three opposition leaders about Democracy, or should I say the return of Democracy and respect for all members of a civil society and as far as I`m concerned this Campaigning for Democracy doesn`t include pandering and courting voters so fickle they would switch parties and vote for a diabolical Stephen Harper because of a rarely seen face covering..
The removal of the navigable waters act, the removal of species at risk act, the destroying of historical scientific libraries(book-burning),,,Muzzling of scientific voices and the denial of science itself, the continual assault on the supreme court, the endless legislation against The Charter of rights, ...Cronyism, patronage appointments and downright dirty criminal hires, Bruce Carson, Arthur Porter, Vic Toews to name but a few..
Marine safety gutted, coast guard stations closed, veteran offices closed, Kinder Morgan employees appointed to Canada`s National Energy Board, the regulator of oil and oil movement tainted with the insertion of industry whores, this is not acceptable and damn it, it`s not Democracy..
Justin Trudeau...Thomas Mulcair....Canada has heard your promises, your plans, your ideas but we haven`t heard stump speeches entirely dedicated to reciting point by point the erosion of Democracy under the tyranny of Stephen Harper...Remind Canada why we hate and fear Harper, props are allowed while campaigning so throw dead fish on the stage, dump piles of shredded paper and tell Canada about Stephen Harper`s historical scientific research book-burning, pick up a set of the scales of justice and hurl at the ground with force and smash them to bits and tell Canadians the truth, tell Canada how Democracy under Stephen Harper is the next endangered species...
In my last column I made a mistake to apologize for. That column is about the failure of the three Opposition Parties to focus – as the major election issue - on what many Canadians believe is the criminality and near-criminality of Stephen Harper and his supporters. It bears upon all the abuses of power, all the violations of the rights and freedoms of Canadians under his prime ministership.
In that column I made an absolute statement – that none of the Opposition Parties is dealing with the economic treaty with China, FIPA, (signed, almost secretly, into law by Stephen Harper) which encroaches on Canadian sovereignty and the future freedom of Canadians. In fact, at the early September Green Party press conference and large meeting in Nanaimo on Vancouver Island, the subject was seriously addressed and Professor Gus van Harten’s criticism of the treaty seriously considered.
Ms. May, with Mr. Manly, spoke to a very large audience about the importance of the treaty and of van Harten’s criticism of it. I apologize.
As Well … Not Quite An Apology … Because ….
One of my informants also remarked that “at both events Elizabeth May spoke of Harper’s behaviour as criminal.”
I apologize for missing that … but I apologize with less completeness and conviction about that apparent error on my part.
The English language being what it is – to say someone’s behaviour is criminal is very different from saying that the person is a criminal. In the first case “criminal” often means outlandish and extreme but it is not necessarily intended to say the person is in criminal violation of Canadian law. But when a person says someone is a criminal, the meaning is much more certain and unequivocal … and usually does mean that he or she is believed to have broken the law, criminally, in Canada and is, therefore, a criminal (but not necessarily a “convicted” criminal).
What Is A Criminal?
When I say I believe Stephen Harper is a criminal, I mean I believe he has acted criminally repeatedly but has not been investigated, charged, and convicted. Examples could be listed tiresomely.
Take any and all the abuses of power apparently emanating from Stephen Harper’s office, called The Prime Minister’s Office, for example – “the PMO”, possessing nearly one hundred unelected workers directly accountable to Stephen Harper (and paid for by Canadian taxpayers).
Repeatedly, Stephen Harper has hidden behind the highly questionable claim that even though he is (and has to be by definition) the person totally responsible for the actions of people working in his office, he claims he is not touched by criminal and other abusive actions in which they engage.
What Should Opposition Leaders Do?
In the present election campaign ALL the Opposition Leaders should force that matter into debate. They should confront Stephen Harper directly, and they should make enough of the issue publicly that it has to be reported over and over and over…. They should demand, now, (and all through the campaign) full RCMP investigation of Stephen Harper’s role in every questionable action arising from the PMO and from his foreign policy actions unaccounted for to Parliament.
Informed Canadians are standing back in wonder and surprise. “Omnibus bills” have gutted transparency and have destroyed the role of the elected representatives of the Canadian people. They have been combined with Acts intended to strip Canadians of fundamental rights (as in the dis-enfranchising new “Unfair Elections Act”).
Citizen organizations in Canada – Leadnow and Dogwood Initiative (to mention only two) are working valiantly and tirelessly to blunt the effect of Conservative/fascist legislation intended to disenfranchise Canadians in this election. Those organizations are not, it appears, receiving nearly the public recognition and encouragement from Opposition Party leaders, candidates, and Party structures that they should be receiving!
Opposition Party leaders … and candidates running for Opposition Parties … should be seizing the national media (“conventional” and unconventional) to force all those matters onto the attention of every Canadian (whether “interested” in this election or not).
In the heat of a democratic election campaign “hot”, “hidden” issues are easily brought to the forefront. Bringing forward the truth about the neo-fascist activity of the Conservative Party and government would be easy. Every Opposition leader should be forcing the national media to focus on Conservative Party and government fascism. And from the body of Opposition Candidates should spring angry members appearing in unexpected places to underscore the foul, dirty, criminal, democratically destructive actions of the Conservative Party and government in the last ten years.
Instead, Canadians face Opposition Parties which are – almost unanimously – accepting the Conservative “New Order” of deceit, dishonour, Parliamentary abuse, lies, criminal behaviour, attacks on the vulnerable, the destruction of Canadian history and records … and more. It is not enough for Opposition leaders to say “we bring this up in meetings” (where the Party Faithful gather – and the rest of Canadians remain uninformed). Opposition Leaders must take the information to ALL Canadians by whatever means (conventional and unconventional) the historical moment demands.
Where is Stephen Harper In All This?
Close to Stephen Harper in friendship and Party work, some Party members admitted criminal guilt as part of the In-and-Out Election Scandal (2006-2011). RCMP and other investigation never went near Stephen Harper. Could a Canada-wide Conservative criminal scam (involving more than 65 constituencies) to de-fraud the election of 2006 have happened without the knowledge of the Conservative Party leader, Stephen Harper?
And if he was innocent, why did he not act to remove ALL those involved, including Conservative senators? He did not remove or discipline important people involved in that fraudulent and criminal activity.
Close to Stephen Harper in friendship and Party work, Nigel Wright is the payer of an alleged bribe that Mike Duffy is charged criminally with having accepted. The trial itself (as I argue in an earlier column) may be wholly fraudulent. The failure of the RCMP and Prosecution services to charge Nigel Wright is illogical as well as scandalous - as is the willingness of the judge on the trial to hear argument based on that nonsense charge. Failure of the Opposition Party leaders to question the (probably phony) trial should be deeply disturbing to Canadian voters.
Increasing evidence reveals that the closest colleagues of Stephen Harper knew of the attempt to act fraudulently in the Mike Duffy matter. There is powerful reason for alleging that Stephen Harper was, at least, an accessory before and after the fact of the alleged crime…and is therefore a criminal. Where are the Opposition leaders on that subject?
The RCMP - which permitted its findings to be distorted for the Mike Duffy trial - is not investigating the role of Stephen Harper in the Mike Duffy affair.
In 2013 an order came out of the PMO, from a top officer there, we are told, that set in motion an extensive improper Robocall campaign throughout Saskatchewan to influence the process of redrawing constituency boundaries. The Robocalls were reported; the Conservative Party of Canada paid a fine to the CRTC of $78,000.00 for violating CRTC regulations.
No charges were laid. No investigation was undertaken to find who ordered the violation. Stephen Harper was not questioned about his role in the violation. Because no criminal law was broken. And that is so because corrupt governments don’t write laws to entrap themselves when they engage in what is, in fact, criminal activity. In fact, they do everything they can to erase the connection between the Law and their lawless activities. Opposition leaders should be making the Saskatchewan fraudulent 2013 Robocalling by the Stephen Harper forces known to every Canadian.
No employee in the Prime Minister’s Office would dare to undertake an action – like the Robocall Fraud in Saskatchewan - without knowing the action would be approved of by his/her employer – Stephen Harper.
What Are The Opposition Parties Doing?
As the September 17 Election Debate among Stephen Harper, Thomas Mulcair, and Justin Trudeau proved – the Opposition Party leaders involved refused to confront Stephen Harper with alleged criminal actions…even when they were involved in the subject of the Debate.
So far – I think it is fair to make an absolute statement – no Opposition Party leader will state publicly and loudly that he/she believes Stephen Harper is a criminal – someone who has engaged directly and/or as an accessory – in criminal activity, and is – therefore – completely unsuited to be prime minister of Canada or even to be qualified to run for political office in Canada. Many, many Canadians are wondering what is wrong with the Opposition Party Leaders.
THE ISSUE In This Election
As I wrote in my last column, Stephen Harper’s dishonesty is THE ISSUE in this election. His abuses of power – many of which could, I believe, be categorized as criminal breaches of trust (if investigated by an RCMP which, instead, protects this government from charges of criminal activity), his almost certain participation (the Mike Duffy affair) in criminal activity, his violation of democratic practices, his attacks upon the weak and vulnerable in Canada (upon almost defenseless crippled Canadian war veterans, for instance), his endless abuses of power in Parliament and out of it …and much more, constitute the most important issue in this federal election.
There is not an Opposition Party Leader in Canada who has named the most important election issue – Stephen Harper’s dishonesty… with the allegation that Stephen Harper is, in fact, a criminal who must face full criminal investigation by all the forces in our society tasked with that role. Instead, they are all giving him “a pass”, agreeing not to push publicly what for a huge number of Canadians is the key issue in the election. And so – ironical as it may seem – the leaders of the Opposition Parties in Canada are accepting criminal activity as a natural and normal activity of the prime minister of Canada.
That means “goodbye to the Canada created in 1867”, and it means “goodbye to legislation on behalf of the Canadian people” and it means “goodbye to the normal daily safety of Canadians and to their rights and freedoms”.
This posting is entirely based on the comment of Mark Zain, ..The comment was under a Harvey Oberfeld blog posting.. Here is the link to Harvey Oberfelds posting..
Grant g here.....Harvey
Oberfeld is upset that the BC NDP of the 90`s, according to Mike
Harcourt, who proudly and truthfully proclaimed on the CBC that the
record of the NDP of the 90`s was far superior than the record of the
BC Liberals(rebranded Social credit party) Harvey Oberfeld is upset with
the fact that the CBC didn`t bring in someone neutral...Even though
real facts bear out that the NDP of the 90`s outperformed the BC
Liberals by a country mile....Read Mark Zain`s link-filled comment and
ask yourself...
You see folks, Harvey Oberfeld is
right in a way, Mike Harcourt is definitely not neutral, because,
occasionally even partisans can tell the truth.. ..Mike Harcourt spoke
the truth...
As for Harvey Oberfeld, he seems
unconcerned if the facts stated by Harcourt on the CBC are true....As
for me, I don`t care who speaks and where one speaks, all I`m concerned
is the truth...
Mark Zain nails the truth..
I present you Mark zain`s comment..
Mark Zain // Sep 20, 2015 at 3:18 pm
"The Secret Dirty Truth that Christy Clark & the BC Liberals
DO NOT ever want you to know and find out ever about the real BC economy
& BC Liberal Jobs Plan – What the Corporate Mainstream never
revealed to protect the BC Liberals to get their tax cuts and
advertising funding; Hiding behind smoke & mirrors Finally REVEALED
& EXPOSED: The Dirty Facts:
1) It took BC 140 years to accrue a $30 billion debt in its history since its very creation.
2) Since the BC Liberals took over, Gordon Campbell and Christy Clark
increased that to around $165 billion in just around 12 years, which is
$135 billion more in debt and contractual obligations.
http://www.fin.gov.bc.ca/ocg/pa/13_14/Contractual_Obligations.pdf
3) 25% of that increase in debt has been generated under Christy Clark’s leadership in just 3 years!!! They always get elected based on the “Job Lies” they keep promising now fully exposed. The Hard Economic Facts according to Statistics Canada:
1) BC is last or 10th place in Canada of all the provinces based on “% Change in Employment Rate”. (2006-2014)
2) BC is the only province with NEGATIVE “% Change in Employment in
Canada”. BC is again last or 10th place in Canada of all the provinces
based on the “% Change in Employment Rate”. (1996-2014)
3) BC is again last or 10th place in Canada for “Service Sector Earnings Change”. (2012-2014)
4) BC is not last, but 8th out of 10 places in Canada for “Goods Producing Earnings Change”. (2012-2014)
5) BC has the worst performing “Employment Rate Change” in Canada. (April 2011- April 2015)
6) The BC Liberals under both Gordon Campbell & Christy Clark has
the worst “Average Monthly Job Growth” & “Average Monthly Job
Creation” in the last few decades.
7) BC had the highest “BC Log Exports, m3, Monthly Average”, but the LOWEST “BC Log Exports – Value per m3″. (1991-2015)
8) BC Job Growth has massively dropped from “14.5% to 1.8%” from 1991-2015. Very scary times indeed. With Statistics Canada data compiled, the data charts in the links
below reveal the true BC Liberal dirty truth. This info can never be
deleted & shredded.
Warning: You can get sick to your stomach after seeing all the charts that exposes the Dark Truth.
Do you call that “Debt-Free BC” as you see on the BC Liberal election
buses and ads? Forget about the “balanced-budget” illusion as the
total debt is what really matters. Oh, yeah how is that “BC Liberal Jobs Plan” going? Nowhere, but down, worst in Canada in employment performance.Yet, the BC Liberals have given those making over $150,000 a year a
tax break. With large energy companies such as Encana, Teck Cominco,
& the Albertan energy companies donating to the BC Liberals and
gov’t paying billions in their royalties, the future is screwed and the
province raped. “Alberta Oil and Gas Millions Fuel BC Liberal Machine” http://www.vancouverobserver.com/news/alberta-oil-and-gas-millions-fuel-bc-liberal-machine
BC Hydro is buying power from private “Independent Power Producers –
BC Liberal donators” at least 4x’s the energy cost when they can be
producing their own cheap energy as their dams are overflooded. As a
result, BC Hydro is billions in debt and our electric bills have
skyrocketed by more than 50% and even more.
The BC Liberals were voted on big promises (LNG – selling out the
province) and the fake illusion of a prosperous smoke and mirrors
economy funded by media advertising. Their time must come to end. And that’s the tipping point as there are even more.
We can no longer keep watching this but to kick and vote them out for good. Enough is enough.
Many of us have been fooled, but not anymore. This is one mistake that
we cannot afford to make ever again as our current and future
generations are greatly impacted by the choices we make. Copy/paste & share it to everyone. This cannot be kept quiet any
longer. If this was the NDP, the media would be hiding in Christy’s
backyard stalking their sundeck for any news until someone has to resign
kinda how the media loves to beat the BC Fast Ferries and Adrian Dix’s
skytrain ticket to death.
We must do our part and spread the word as more people are waking up
everyday to the grand BC Liberal deceit and deception. The BC Liberals
represent the 1% and we are the 99% resistance against the corporate
takeover and selling away the resources of our future generations. It
is time for mass resignations and recalls before they delete and shred
any more public documents and leave behind nothing left for the future
generations.
The Future is Yours."
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Harvey Oberfeld usually responds to commenters with a response, ...Mark Zain`s comment received nothing but silence from Harvey Oberfeld..
And that is no surprise to anyone..
I couldn`t have said it better Mr. Zain....Bravo
Najib Razak (Petronas boss) Malaysian Prime Minister is now being investigated by the FBI for money laundering..
Christy Clark and Rich Coleman`s LNG Guru ...$700 million deposited in his personal bank account...
My Gawd, you BC Liberals will do business(sellout) to any criminal, ...UNREAL!
Sweet, seductive and oh so feminine, eyes are the entrance way to one`s soul and as a man I find many female attributes appealing but nothing can compare to inner feelings brought on by a direct gaze into a woman`s eyes.. Stephen Harper`s reference to "Old stock Canadians" in itself would be an inert statement but in last night`s debate it wasn`t, Stephen Harper uttered those words when the debate moved into the refugee, refugee healthcare and niqab issue, and perhaps Canadians are making too big of a deal over the inappropriate comment but I don`t think so...
Regardless of anything, even IF a refugee`s claim is denied once they arrive in Canada they must be given healthcare, I watched a divisive debate years ago on this issue and health officials, doctors and the medical community as a whole advocate for healthcare, how small minded and irrational can Stephen Harper be, should a sick refugee denied status suffer, spread illness, not only is Harper small-minded, his policy of denying healthcare is potentially harmful to all Canadians..Harper made the same error with food inspectors, he slashed their budget resulting in far less Canadian food inspectors on the ground actually inspecting food, it resulted in corporations and industry regulating their own inspections, by trying to save pennies countless Canadians lost their life over ingesting tainted meats...Clearly Harper hasn`t learned his lesson, penny wise turns pound foolish, turned to needless death!
The wizard of oz or as he is known in Australia "The Lizard of oz"...Prime Minister Harper after a month of campaigning and lackluster polling numbers brought in a well-known political hatchet man, a hired gun whose specialty is racebaiting and bigotry division, the man`s name is Lynton Crosby... http://www.thetyee.ca/News/2015/09/11/Lynton-Crosby-Things/ The game-plan designed by Lynton Crosby for Stephen Harper is exactly that, to turn "Old Stock Canadians" into haters, to instill fear of others different, Mr. Crosby has honed the knife`s edge of the Karl Rove doctrine of smear and fear politics razor sharp, refugees, immigrants and fear are his only issues, you can call Lynton Crosby a specialist.... Let me be perfectly clear, "Old Stock Canadians" is not a mainstream phrase, with all the preparation and talking points rehearsed pre-debate by all the leaders makes a phrase like that uttered by Prime Minister Harper a deliberate act, with a very specific purpose, and it`s clear what that purpose was...Aimed at seniors and hardcore rednecks, aimed at the racists that live among us and there are many... I watched the Globe and Mail debate last night and to say the least, wasn`t impressed with anyone but I was disgusted with Prime Minister Stephen Harper, because before he blew his reformacon dog whistle he attacked provincial governments of different stripes(NDP and Liberal) both sitting and past, he attacked the BC NDP Government of 1991 to 2001, Harper claimed the BC NDP ruined the economy and drove up debt, preposterous claim it was...The BC NDP took power in 1991, BC`s debt stood at $16 billion dollars and when they were voted out in 2001 they did indeed double the debt to $31 billion dollars, however, the BC Liberal party, who have no relationship with the Federal Liberal party are not Liberals, they were a re-branding of the discredited Social Credit party, Gordon Campbell took the name Liberal because the name was available, the BC Liberal party are actually Conservatives in sheep`s clothing, or as I call them, Corporatists...For that is who they govern for, spend for, the big multi-national all-mighty Party donating corporations...The BC Liberals came to power in 2001 with a near $3 billion dollar budget surplus...BC`s debt under these quasi Liberals has gone from $31 billion to over $70 billion dollars, $170 billion if one counts contractual obligations and hidden crown debt, a sixfold increase in BC`s debt... More people immigrated to BC in the 90`s than did between 2001 to 2011...Economic growth was higher under the NDP of the 90`s than it is under the BC Liberals...Only because interest rates for Governments have fallen to historic lows, that`s the only reason B.C. isn`t bankrupt...Everywhere Governments have gathered up debt and economic disaster would fall many a nation if interest rates returned to past levels...And yes, I remember 20% mortgage rates...I remember 12% savings accounts...Today mortgage rates are below 5% and interest rates for savings near zero...What Stephen Harper muttered about the BC NDP was patently false... Harper blamed last night in the debate, he blamed Rachel Notley for Alberta`s fiscal woes, my gawd, they have been in power but for a few months....Hogwash Harper, Alberta after 44 years of Conservative rule left the cupboard bare, oil drops and Alberta was INSTANTLY broke, no nest egg, no Norwegian type heritage fund...Mr. Harper...Rachel Notley raising corporate taxes next year from 10% to 12% is still less than the rate in the USA or any other developed country in the world by far, just where would those tar-pit miners go??..Russia....Harper attacked the Ontario Government of decades past in Bob Rae and he verbally assaulted the current Wynne Government... You Mr. Harper are the current Prime Minister, you are supposed to govern a nation, all the nation, not just your hard-core reformers...Exactly how does a Prime Minister after insulting Ontario`s government, Alberta`s government, and BC`s next Government...After lying, insulting, denigrating those sitting Governments how on earth could you ever sit down with them and come to agreement on healthcare, the environment or the colours of the new curtains for the new administration at 24 Sussex drive...? How indeed... No Mr. Harper...Justin Trudeau did not say, Thomas Mulcair did not say they were bringing in hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees, that`s a lie on the national stage ....No Mr. Harper...Trudeau and or Mulcair did not say that the 30 or 40 thousand proposed to be brought here(Over 4 years) Syrian refugees will not be subject to security checks, another bold-faced lie!....How can you Prime Minister Harper stand on a national stage and lie your face off.....Clearly Stephen Harper you are NOT mentally fit to Govern. There is even more distasteful race-bait antics by Harper, politicizing the Niqab face covering, it`s bad enough enough that $millions of dollars have been wasted on Conservative Government lawyers to abolish a religious freedom garment, Harper lost in the courts, lost the battle in the appeals court and now he vows to fight it all the way to the supreme court and after that loss Harper plans to write new legislation to circumvent the Charter of Rights....On an issue that means nothing to most Canadians, but resonates with "Old Stock Canadians" ...Say hello to Lynton Crosby for me would ya... Face coverings, oh the humanity, you mean like millions of children donning costumes and face-masks for Halloween, you mean the person wearing a giant chicken suit outside of Church`s Chicken....Some of the world`s greatest Super-heroes wear masks, Spiderman...
Where would we be without our super heroes, should they be forced to take off their masks.... Perhaps men should be forced and legislated to remove their..
Beards....Who is thee that hides behind a face full of hair.... Could it be that even Santa Claus is hiding his identity...Could Santa Claus actually be a terrorist lurking around looking for innocent targets, after-all, "Old Stock Canadians" leave their doors and chimney flutes wide open and invite him in, without verifying his true identity or intent..
Lynton Crosby and Stephen Harper, separated at birth, maybe, birds of a feather, race-based politics, unbecoming of a Prime Minister... Didn`t we go through this with Turbin wearing Canadian Mounted Police and ceremonial daggers in courtrooms... Oh the humanity, let`s vilify a tiny minority of beautiful proud Islamic ladies for crass political gain Well Mr. Harper.. You and your reformacon "Old Stock Canadians" should be forced to wear special hats as identification so we can see you coming..
