I wasn’t planning to write anything about the NDP leadership race today, but after yesterday’s attack on Thomas Mulcair by Ed Broadbent, I feel I have no choice. For that attack was ill advised, intellectually dishonest, and cognitively challenged. And mark my words, if the NDP rejects Mulcair it will
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Montreal Simon: RoboCon Scandal: The Cover Up Starts to Unravel
Oh. My. Gravy. I don’t know if the Chief Electoral Officer likes poutine. But it’s good to know that even if he doesn’t, he’s got a heap of complaints to munch on. “Immediately following the 2011 general election, the Commissioner of Canada Elections deployed resources to investigate complaints of fraudulent
Continue readingMontreal Simon: An Idiot’s Guide to the RoboCon Scandal
Well, I guess this Gable cartoon kind of says it all. I mean what more can you say eh? That’s what the Cons have done to our Parliament. But since this is after all a four-ring fascist circus, it’s a quiet day, and I’m feeling a bit idiot, I thought
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Quebec to Harper: Take Your Crime Bill…
…and shove it. The debate isn’t over yet for the Harper’s government’s criminal justice legislation – at least not in Quebec. The provincial government announced Tuesday that it would do everything in its power to limit the clout of the legislation that passed a day earlier. And why wouldn’t they?
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Blogging in the Darkness of Harperland
On a grey, wet, day in Harperland it wasn’t too hard to imagine myself in the last scene of The Planet of the Apes. Or imagine myself giving up blogging. For it was the worst of days. First there was this devastating blow Which means we might never know who
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Some Questions for Pierre Poutine
Golly. I see the identity of the elusive Scarlet Pimpernel Blue Poutine is about to be revealed. The news that Elections Canada investigators are aware of the IP address that “Pierre Poutine” used to set up the Guelph, Ont., robocall account has convinced a suspect to step forward and accept responsibility
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The RoboCon Scandal: Taking it to the Street
I had to work today so I wasn’t able to make it to any of these rallies. But I was with them in spirit, I really liked their signs and their message. “We need an independent inquiry right now so it can be dealt with and the crooks should be put
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Preston Manning and the Campus Crusaders
Lordy. I see that Preston Manning, the Big Daddy of the ReformCon movement, thinks that the robocall scandal is deplorable. The patriarch of the modern-day conservative movement in Canada is calling for better ethical training for campaign workers in the wake of the robocall scandal. Which would be a lot more
Continue readingMontreal Simon: John Baird’s Absurd Democracy Lesson
Well I see that John Baird’s Screaming Buffoon World Tour has arrived in Burma. Only to have the stench of hypocrisy follow him all the way there. Canada will be monitoring Burma’s elections next month with a keen hope to see reform amid allegations of voting “irregularities,” Foreign Affairs Minister
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Con Robots
Well there he was in Question Period, looking and sounding like a robot, refusing to say why his Cons are refusing to cooperate with Elections Canada. Repeating the same answer over and over again. “Mr. Speaker, I gave clear answers regarding the activities of the Conservative party of Canada,” he
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Robo-Call Cons: When the Stupidity Burns
Holy Bossa Nostra. I didn’t think that Dean Del Mastro could be more of a Con buffoon than he already was. But I guess I should have known better. Dean Del Mastro, the parliamentary secretary to the Prime Minister, stood repeatedly in House of Commons Monday to answer questions from
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Hercule Poirot and the RoboCop Investigation
Mon Dieu. I see that Jeffrey Simpson wishes that Hercule Poirot was handling The Case of the RoboCon Calls and the Stolen Election. Where’s Hercule Poirot when we need him? The victims – defeated opposition party candidates – are known. The weapons – computerized telephone calls designed to infuriate voters
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The RoboCon Scandal: Now Can We Call Them Klowns?
Well I can only imagine the scene in the Con War Room tonight. The hum of shredders, the mumbled prayers, the muffled screams. The sight of Vic Toews dressed in a bloody butcher’s apron. As the hunt continues for those accused of the ultimate Con crime. No, not stealing an
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Is Stephen Harper Going Off the Deep End?
In all my years of studying Stephen Harper, like a bug, I have never seen him look and act so crazy. Blaming the RoboCon scandal on the Liberals. As only he could. Or hunched over his desk writing away, pretending to ignore a debate about whether he stole an election.
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Humbling of Dean Del Mastro
Well there he was in the House of Commons today, claiming that Joe Volpe paid an American company to make robocalls. Voters were upset because they were being contacted and asked to support Mr Volpe or take a lawn sign, and the calls were based in North Dakota. What we’ve
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Cons and the Big Boiled Wolf
When I hear Vic Toews howling that he’s being victimized. WAAAAAAAH !!!! Because he can’t do his job after being “anonymously degraded” by Vikileaks. “I take strong issue with the idea that House resources would be used to attack secretly a member of the House,” Toews said, adding that the
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Should the Governor General Fire the Cons?
Well I see Great RoboCon Leader is accusing the opposition of conducting a smear campaign. Stephen Harper is now categorically denying the Conservative Party machine was behind misleading robo-calls that confused voters in Guelph and elsewhere, calling the entire matter a “smear campaign” by the NDP and Liberals. Because when
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Dean del Mastro’s PG-Rated Committee Hearing
Mama Mia. I see Dean Del Mastro wants to grill the creator of Vikileaks before a Commons committee. “This is just the latest in a long history of shady Liberal practices that harm our democracy,” Del Maestro said. “These nasty, dirty Internet tricks were deeply personal and fall short of
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Jean Poutine and the RoboCon Mob
You know it takes a certain kind of mentality to pay cash for a disposable cellphone, like criminals do, and call the phony owner Jean Poutine. A telephone number used to place automated calls directing voters to the wrong polling station in Guelph, Ont., in the last federal election was
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Vic Toews Goes After Justin Trudeau
Uh oh. Con Zombie Alert. I see Vic Toews is going after Justin Trudeau. An angry Vic Toews wants an investigation into whether Justin Trudeau encouraged personal Twitter attacks against him after it was revealed a Liberal staffer was the mastermind of the Vikileaks Twitter controversy that aired details of
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