GOODBYE to Conservative Canada!

 

To Be Strong (if not free)

Meanwhile, in Parliament...

   
 



... from your elected job
at the House of Commons
in session.


Don't you care at all?

 

"... not more than one further sitting day shall be allotted!"

.. that's how often the Conservatives shut down debates since the 2011 election. That's 25 times a year, on average.

In the last 8 months,  Conservative House Leader Peter Van Loan has already cut off debates 14 times.

Compare that to the three decades BS (that's Before Steve), when fewer than 4 debates were shut down a year, on average.

Conservatives don't play well with others, do they?

Find more baffling and fascinating Conservative misdemeanors at Press Progress.

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In The Conservative Republic of Canada: The Divinely Appointed Leader!

 

...but if you're not doing anything wrong,

then why do you care if The Harper Gang
reads your email, taps your phone,
passes around your personal information 
like a party favour,  and/or
locks you up because they think you're thinking
about doing something?

These privacy pirates are the same people 
who trashed Statistics Canada's long form census 
for being "too invasive".

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!

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.

$ 1 Billion Pork-a-Palooza

It's probably a coincidence, but...

a few days before Our Leader dropped the writ on the longest election campaign in living memory, His government slipped over a BILLION bucks into ridings across Canada.

It's probably just another coincidence that $839 million of that landed in Conservative ridings (... keeping the election love flowing...!).

Here are the grisly details from Sun Media's Parliamentary Bureau Chief. *

* Yes, they do have a terrible Liberal bias, but hey, numbers are numbers.

Harper is scary, but Jason is worse...

For those pondering the tea leaves of federal politics,
the omens seemed clear.While Kenney kept his distance
from Harper’s scandal-tarnished brand, his riding
association books revealed a staggering $315,000 war chest,
far more than he needed to recapture his own safe seat,
yet ample enough to share with MPs whose
gratitude might come in handy during a race for the top job.

Certainly, no other candidate boasted comparable credentials
or such populist appeal.As the architect of a seven-year strategy
to woo ethnic voters away from the complacent Liberals, Kenney
was hailed as the rainmaker behind Harper’s long-coveted majority,
but he had also built up a database of immigrant loyalists
that his rivals could only envy.

After tagging along on one of his fifteen-hour days, watching him
shuttle among a dozen national and religious festivals, munching
his way to his nickname, Curry in a Hurry,the Toronto Star succumbed
to breathless hyperbole, comparing his wattage to Justin Bieber’s.
As recently as last January, Ottawa’s influential Hill Times profiled
him not as a minister but a “contender.”


read the whole scary saga of Mr. Kenney by Marci McDonald at THE WALRUS



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