Showing posts with label You Call This Democracy?. Show all posts
Showing posts with label You Call This Democracy?. Show all posts
Meanwhile, in Parliament...
... from your elected job
at the House of Commons
in session.
Don't you care at all?
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| "... 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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...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?
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".
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.
$ 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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