Showing posts with label Serving the public. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Serving the public. Show all posts
Meet Your Conservatives: Cabinet Monster Vic Toews,
"Civil Rights for Gays & Lesbians? No Way!"
Minister of Public Safety Vic Toews (thankfully, gone)
Who could forget Vic Toews?
He once described gay marriage ceremonies as satanic “black masses”.
Seriously? And it gets better... he insisted that including gays and lesbians under Canadian civil rights statutes would "bring the jackboot of fascism [down] on the necks of our people.”
Mr. Righteous – who worried that gay marriage could lead to polygamy
– got his underage babysitter pregnant. Not surprisingly, his wife of 25 years divorced him.
– got his underage babysitter pregnant. Not surprisingly, his wife of 25 years divorced him.
Bill C-51 -
A Banana Republican Is Running Our Country
The Cautionary Tale of Bill C-51
If you missed it, here's a quick primer on C-51.
On June 9, 2015, the Senate passed Bill C-51 into law, ignoring hundreds of
thousands of Canadians and the country's top privacy experts who were all
adamantly opposed.
Let's look at how Stephen Harper handled Bill C-51. What convinced him
to proceed despite the concerns of so many people?
Was he persuaded by the input of experts, as the Liberal government
was? After the Al-Qaeda attacks in 2001, the government heard
80 expert witnesses at 19 committee hearings before they passed an
amended version of the anti-terrorism bill into law.
Law and Order on Planet Harper
Steve and his gang built their "brand" on the myth of their economic prowess.
If there is one other cause that's close to their cold, dark and wizened hearts,
it is the need for LAW AND ORDER!
If there is one other cause that's close to their cold, dark and wizened hearts,
it is the need for LAW AND ORDER!
Like their economic record, this desire for a police state is not supported by the facts
of life in Canada, but it does let them keep the fear buzz going...
When it comes to law and order, Steve and his apparatchiks in the PMO have let
their adoration for pricey, discredited American crime initiatives - like the War on Drugs
- truly run amok...
Steve knows his frightened, cranky core supporters like nothing better than simple, manly answers
to important, complicated issues...
These knee-jerk - and often illegal - responses to issues like those G20 protests and the niqab,
which will never get any closer to his cranky core than their big-screen TVs.
In a variation of the classic Conservative "if you're not doing anything wrong,
why do you care about enhanced police powers", those Steve supporters aren't going
to think much past "You must have been doing something wrong for the police to beat
on you like that."
...all the while, maintaining a distinctly un-Canadian immunity to irony every step of the way.
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