He didn't bother to attend the parliamentary debate on his dangerously flawed anti-terrorist bill C-51. He shut down that debate after only a few hours.And now he's making sure that even the experts won't have a chance to explain why the bill is such a threat. Read more »
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Politics and its Discontents: Harper’s Contempt For Thinking Canadians Is Egregious
That is the only conclusion I can draw, based on the unseemly hurry the regime is in to pass its ‘anti-terror’ bill: The Conservatives are pushing to devote just three meetings to hearing expert testimony on the government’s proposed anti-terrorism bill when it goes to the public safety committee for
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: More Warnings About Bill C-51
H/t The Globe and Mail Increasingly disenchanted Globe readers weigh in with their thoughts: Re Kenney Spurns Calls To Increase Security Oversight (Feb. 23): The Security Intelligence Review Committee (SIRC) only reviews security-agency operations after the fact. Defence Minister Jason Kenney and the Prime Minister maintain that we don’t need
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Very Little Separates The Parties On Bill C-51
A twitter argument I had with NDP MP for Newton – North Delta Jinny Sims: She retreated then, knowing perhaps that her ass had been kicked. But the bottom line is that before the bill’s inevitable passage the NDP will do a little dance like this, and the LPC will do
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Days of Drums and Dummies
He's rushing his dangerously flawed anti-terrorist bill through the House of Commons, to the machine gun beat of a fascist drum.Bill C-51, the government's proposed anti-terror law, has passed second reading in the House of Commons with a vote of 176-87 and will now be sent to committee.He didn't bother
Continue readingHarper outmaneuvers Trudeau on Bill C-51
If any political party ought to oppose Bill C-51, it’s the Liberal Party. After all, it’s liberal values that the Bill threatens to erode. And yet, Liberal Party leader Justin Trudeau has decided to support it. He wants some changes, and if the Conservatives don’t make them, he will …
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Rafe Mair–Exploiting Fear is ‘Wrong and Racist’
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Canada is facing a deliberate overheated racist attack against Muslims launched and fuelled by our Prime Minister Steve Harper. Steve’s latest is his attack against Muslim women wearing niqab, a veil, while taking her citizen oath. Gutter snipe politics of division and hatred threaten not only Muslim
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Screw Oversight! In HarperLand, We Watch YOU, You Don’t Watch Us.
What’s the point in having domestic spying if it means you’re going to be, oh I don’t know, “accountable?” Canada’s Closet Clausewitz, def min Jason Kenney, says there’ll be no additional oversight of national security operatives after the Harper government rams through bill C-51. Defence Minister Jason Kenney, who has
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Thomas Mulcair And Joe Clark On Bill C-51
H/t The Toronto Star Yesterday, Tom Clark on The West Block asked both Mulcair and Clark for their thoughts on Harper’s ‘anti-terror’ legislation. You will note that by the end of the interview, it would seem that Mulcair’s ‘principled’ stand against the bill is perhaps less than what it seems
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: I’ve Made My Decision. What More Is There To Discuss?
H/t Occupy Canada It would seem that our supremely arrogant confident demagogue, Dear Leader, feels little need to waste his time in the House of Commons talking about a bill (C-51) that represents a substantial threat to the rights of all Canadians. That, apparently, is a task for lesser mortals,
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Ralph Nader On Harper’s Politics Of Fear
The following is a letter that the iconic American activist Ralph Nader has written to Stephen Harper regarding his ‘war on terror.’ Following the letter is a video of an interview Evan Solomon had with him. As you will see, there is little doubt that Nader views Harper’s exploitation of
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Rex Murphy Praises Thomas Mulcair’s Stand on Bill C-51
Regular readers of this blog will know that I have no particular use for Rex Murphy. Yet last night I found myself in total agreement with him as he offered an eloquent rebuke of Harper’s Bill C-51 by praising NDP leader Thomas Mulcair’s opposition to it. You can watch his
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: At Issue – Harper’s Terror Bill
I happened to catch last night’s At Issue Panel discussing Harper’s (anti) terror legislation, Bill C-51. One of the interesting points that emerged was that although polls show the vast majority of Canadians seem to support this legislation (based, I suspect, on little or no knowledge of what it contains),
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Ah, The Sleep Of The Just
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Continue readingMontreal Simon: Tom Mulcair, Bill C-51, and the Monstrous Xenophobia of Stephen Harper
It was good to see Tom Mulcair finally take a stand against the Con regime's totalitarian anti-terrorism bill. Opposition Leader Tom Mulcair says the NDP will fight the Conservative government's new anti-terrorism bill when it goes before the House on Wednesday and pushed for the Liberals to do the same. After
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Ralph Nader: What’s Happening to Canada? Open letter to Stephen Harper
Ralph Nader tells Stephen Harper, “You talk like George W. Bush,” warns that the Conservatives’ anti-terror Bill C-51 would harm Canadian democracy. The post Ralph Nader: What’s Happening to Canada? Open letter to Stephen Harper appeared first on The Canadian Progressive.
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: On Egregious Stupidity And Willful Ignorance
I readily admit to being intolerant of people at times. Not for me are the excuses that others may make for their shortcomings, such as the limitations of their upbringing, their education, or their natural abilities. At the top of my list are those who either embrace or promote egregious
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Black Helicopters
It was a chilling moment in Question Period yesterday, that should raise questions about whether Stephen Harper is still mentally fit to govern, and whether we are already living in a police state.The moment when Tom Mulcair asked him whether his totalitarian bill C-51 could be used to spy against
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