Donate Money To The Opposition Parties

Ten bucks. Five bucks even.Encourage other people to do it. harper will be raising money hand-over-fist after his "Fucking With Elections Act" passes. If the opposition parties get inundated with small donations from all over, it will help them resist.

I'm going to be campaigning for my local Liberal Party candidate because the NDP here are a fucking joke. I still wish the Liberal Party of Canada would die. But they at least respect the institution of Parliament. If harper steals the next election (which a couple of bloggers are saying will be a surprise snap election) then this country is finished.

Went to a protest rally last night

It was a small, spur of the moment thing. The gutless coward stephen harper doesn't let people know his itinerary until the last minute, but CUPW keeps track and organizes protests wherever he is, just as a point of principle.

You know what? We should do to the corporations what the harpercons do to the unions. Especially those greedy, selfish assholes smashing their freight trains all across the country. And the meat packers too cheap to worry about basic hygiene. And the banks stiffing us all and then forcing their own employees to train their overseas replacements. And the Bay Street fraudsters gouging Canadians and their workplaces.

But we won't be able to even begin doing any of this until and unless we learn how the people can hold their political representatives accountable. Right now, we can't. Because last night, some First Nations people got to the megaphone and expressed their pain and I obviously don't begrudge them that. But let me tell you something; I had a room full of twenty-somethings a couple of weeks ago and I asked them if they'd heard about "Idle No More." They hadn't. They had no idea what it was. Flash mobs aren't going to force harper to do anything.

Then some white people got on the megaphones and recited their laundry lists of grievances and there were shouts of "Shame! Shame!" against stephen harper and then a rousing chorus of "The people, united, will never be defeated!" Then some CUPW types talked about the "fight back" against the harper government.

One guy shouted how we were ALL Canadians, one people, one set of laws. Totally oblivious to the protestations of the Idle No More contingent against his rant. Later, some libertarian twit took the microphone to denounce taxation as theft, causing the ONE PEOPLE - ALL CANADIAN guy to intervene; roaring BULLSHIT!!!! at him. The contingent of 50 people were showing their divisions.

That's why we get defeated.

The Ugly, Cretinous Head of "Conservatism"

Pierre Poopleevair, ... if you've got nothing to hide you should have nothing to fear. But of course, your "Fucking With Elections Act," crafted in secret and rammed through with minimal oversight, is a disgusting effort at vote suppression, fraud promotion and corruption enabling.

Chris Alexander, your immigration reform proposals are cynical, racist, totalitarian garbage. Call someone a "terrorist" and strip them of their citizenship? Even if they were born here? Then you call civil disobedience "terrorism" and Bob's your molesting uncle. What else could one have expected from a mental degenerate like Chris Alexander though?

Jimbo Flaherty ... the dunce says that he hasn't been following the latest Rob Ford scandals; "except for what's on television and in the news."  This fucking moron can't even grasp that watching and reading about Ford's boorishness is the very definition of "following" it. The shit-head then goes on to say that Ford should still be praised for getting Toronto's finances in order. Aside from the fact that they weren't out of order to begin with, and that Ford showed himself to be entirely ignorant and stupid with regards to the city's financial situation, fuck-head Flaherty has a point.

Rob Ford comes out and says he doesn't like homosexuals but brother Doug says that doesn't make him a homophobe. I'm sure it all makes sense in Doug's tiny brain. It's fascinating in a sick sort of way. The completely idiotic brother blurts something out and the merely stupid brother tries to interpret it for himself and we get to observe the glorious results of both.

stephen harper's swing bandmate is up on charges of sexual assault. That darn liberal media/police/courts/tantalizing young females conspiracy at work again!

Tim Hudak wants to impose "right-to-work" laws. Next on his agenda of Southern USA cultural imports is the enslavement of non-whites. Randy Hillier is salivating at the prospects.

How long, O' Lord, how long must we suffer????

Lil' stevie harper's Corrupt Petro-State

It's beyond ridiculous.

A CBC News investigation has unearthed a critical report that the federal regulator effectively buried for several years about a rupture on a trouble-prone TransCanada natural gas pipeline.

On July 20, 2009, the Peace River Mainline in northern Alberta exploded, sending 50-metre-tall flames into the air and razing a two-hectare wooded area.
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Final reports are typically published by the investigative bodies, either the NEB or the Transportation Safety Board, but this report wasn’t released until this January when the CBC obtained it through an access-to-information request.

The NEB said the delay was caused by an “administrative error” when an employee left without transferring the file over.

TransCanada did not respond to a CBC request for an interview.

 What a steaming pile of total bullshit. Of course they don't want to be interviewed. They're already lying through their teeth. Exploding pipelines and derailing freight cars. All thanks to deregulation or self-regulation. This is a corporate petro-state ladies and gentlemen.

I hear that today, racist, stupid lazy pissant Pierre Polivierre is going to be releasing his secret election reform legislation. It will obviously be a travesty. 

And, we will continue to do nothing. We grumble about it, but we Canadians let the thieves run the joint.

The Super-Incompetence of stephen harper

Now, harper's never been much good at anything. For economic policy, the fact of the matter is that he's been coasting. Canada's economy was, for some reason, far more stable than that of the USA's. A big part of that was because harper hadn't yet been able to allow our financial sector to become as uncontrollably corrupt as the USA's. In the face of the present economic crisis, harper's content to stupidly indulge in a policy of austerity (albeit of lesser magnitude than the austerity of the Chretien-Martin years). The fruits of this brainless policy are beginning to show. Canada is running on empty.

But harper's a failure everywhere else. People die from tainted meat (again). The RCMP remains a disgrace. Our foreign reputation is in tatters (except with this idiot):

His Defense Minister, Peter MacKay, couldn't even organize the purchase of new trucks for the Canadian Forces. Announced in 2006, MacKay abruptly cancelled the process via email, three minutes before the bidding deadline, with no explanation.

Now it's our municipalities' turn. harper announced $14 billion in infrastructure spending in fuck-head Flaherty's last budget. It seems, however, that ramming in everything via massive omnibus bills and then focusing on the Senate Scandal (which in harper's case means sucking his thumb in the dark while everything goes to hell, or galavanting around the world on the taxpayers' dime) has produced the result of nobody bothering to tell the municipalities how much money they're each getting and for what purposes.

Canada's cities say with the construction season approaching there is an "urgent" need for the federal government to reveal the details of a new infrastructure plan scheduled to come into effect April 1, despite the fact that money from the new fund has already been promised to Toronto for the extension of a subway line.

The Conservatives announced in last year's federal budget $14 billion over 10 years in new infrastructure money under a new Building Canada Fund but the details have yet to be made public.

With the 2014 budget just over a week away and still no details about the new fund, cities say they are at risk of losing thousands of jobs that come with the construction season.

In an interview with CBC News, Vancouver City Councillor Raymond Louie said not only is time of the essence, but it's important the federal government get the details right

Nobody fucks it up like "conservative" morons. From Mike Harris to george w. bush, to Christy Clark, to stephen harper. I'm again reminded of the imbeciles of Free Dominion and the way their board's demise is mourned by the white supremacist yahoos of Storm Front. Expecting competence from these cretins is like expecting a newborn baby to wipe its ass.

And We Continue To Do Nothing

Obama is a cynical con-man. harper is contemptuous of parliamentary democracy. harper devastates science. Fantino insults veterans. Carbon emissions are increasing, not decreasing. Inequality runs rampant and the welfare state lives on fumes. Etc., etc., and so forth.

Some people put their faith in a political system that harper is continuing to sodomize with a splintery broomstick. A political system that barfs out the pretty-boy Justin Trudeau ("He beat Patrick Brazeau in a boxing match! He's prime minister material for sure!") and the centre-right, Zionist apologist, Thomas Mulcair as your options. (Oh, and the Greenies have Elizabeth May.)

Other people put their faith in some lazy, incoherent mishmash of pointless marches and rallies, coupled with rambling, pointless essays about how shitty everything is.

And never the twain shall meet.

We either embrace politics-as-usual or "radicalism"-as-usual.

And nothing happens. Either way, nothing happens. A corrupt, capitalist-dominated system won't change without genuine pressure and "genuine pressure" is a concept completely beyond the imaginations of those would can grasp that simple truth.

Shameless Stupidity of Julian Fantino

Since my last post on him, Fantino has decided to show off even more of his mad skills at being a complete asshole.

Turns out that the veterans who had come from all over Canada to try to talk him out of closing their local Veterans Affairs offices, and who were upset that he didn't attend the meeting, and who then expressed their disgust and anger with him when he bumped into them afterwards and gave them some attitude, ... weren't really in control of their thoughts and emotions at all.

No sirreee. They were DUPES of the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC). PSAC paid their way to Ottawa and put them up at a hotel (some of them are on fixed incomes now). So, you see, these veterans weren't really upset about he closure of their VA offices. They weren't really mad that Fantino missed their meeting. (My source for this is a Joe Warmington interview with Fantino in the Toronto SUN, which I try not to link to.) They weren't really enraged with his boorish, obnoxious, arrogant behaviour. The poor darlings didn't know what to think. PSAC put all those doubts about Fantino into the empty vessels that are their skulls. Fantino insists that nobody cares more than he does about veterans. (In all honesty, I despise the ease with which right-wing vermin like Fantino or Rob Ford will express how they're the bestest, mostest in the world on any particular issue.)

As I understand it now, Veterans Affairs treats veterans like shit anyway. I think the closing of the offices and the transferring of their duties will be like Dalton McGuinty's consolidation of Ontario government offices into ServOn branches. He reduced employees and resources in the process, which was the point of the exercise. Fantino's empty-headed, self-righteous, self-pitying drivel notwithstanding, I suspect the same thing is happening here.