Oh goody. Pass the ketchup and call an ambulance. It looks like Jason Kenney's Little Shop of Con Horrors and Foreign Workers just got even MORE entertaining.Because now not only is the fast food industry going after Kenney for cutting off its juicy supply of cheap foreign labour. Now they're so
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Montreal Simon: Jason Kenney and the Foreign Workers Turd Blossom
Oh dear. I'm afraid I have some shocking Con fashion news to report today. It seems that Jason Kenney has been forced to replace his fine feathery foreign workers pimp hat, with a very ugly, but suitably Con blue, dunce cap.Because not only has he blown another hole in his fraudulent
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your Sunday reading. – James Greiff makes the case against the right’s faith-based reliance on costly high-end tax cuts in place of attracting people through jobs and quality of life: (T)he recent record suggests those U.S. states that cut taxes find themselves with bigger deficits and none
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Jason Kenney and the Foreign Worker’s Farce
Well I see that Jason Kenney has been reduced to playing King Canute.Frantically trying to hold back the rising tide of foreign workers flooding into Canada. Trying to make it look like he's The Solution, not the guy who created the problem.Read more »
Continue readingAlberta Diary: Where’s the beef? Ottawa and the fast-food lobby are serving nothing but baloney about the need for Temporary Foreign Workers
Whatever it says on the menu, fast food restaurant owners, other employers of temporary foreign workers and their pals in the Harper Government are serving baloney. Below: Dominique M. Gross of Simon Fraser University; Charles Decatur “C.D.” Howe. Advocates of the Harper Government’s so-called Temporary Foreign Workers Program are using
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: TFWP: Yet Another Reason To Shut It Down
The consequences of the Harper Government’s widening of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program over the last several years keeps going from bad to worse. At first it was employers choosing to hire TFWs over Canadians. Then we started finding out that not only were the companies forcing them to living
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Canadian Airlines Hired Temporary Foreign Worker Pilots
by: Obert Madondo | May 11, 2014 Obert Madondo, Editor, The Canadian Progressive Canadian airlines exploited the Harper Conservatives’ Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) to “systematically” exclude Canadian pilots and hire foreign ones, a new memo reveals. No only that. Employment Minister Jason Kenney’s department blessed the hiring even though the applicants
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Day the Jason Kenney Went Crazy on Twitter
Lordy. For a moment the other day I thought that I might have to change my poster for Jason Kenney's leadership campaign, fearing that he had finally gone over the deep end.And that the combination of his sagging personal popularity, his sinking leadership chances, and/or his painful chastity vows, had caused
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Jason Kenney, Stephen Harper, and the Foreign Workers Monster
You should have seen them today in the House of Commons, like a two-headed beast attacking the foreign workers monster they created.Stephen Harper vowing to crackdown on those who abuse the program. "It does appear to be the case that there are some Canadian employers who believe that they can have
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Jason Kenney and the Issue That Could Kill the Harper Cons
Oh boy. Try as I might I can't escape the feeling that things are out of control in Harperland.If it isn't the snow in Saskatchewan, it's the runaway blimp in New Brunswick. And of course floating gently over us all in his runaway hot air balloon balloons is Jason Kenney…Read more
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Harperland Spring and the Big Con Makeover
If it wasn't for the fact that it's almost May, and Spring still feels like Autumn, I might have trouble believing I'm still living in Canada, or Harperland.For when I check out the news these days I can't believe what I'm reading.First there was Pierre Poilievre watering down his toxic Unfair Elections
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Monster Burger and the Inner Torment of Jason Kenney
Lordy. I think it's safe to say that Jason Kenney is now wrestling with his greatest inner torment since he chose chastity over sex, so many painful years ago.For he is truly caught between the devil and a Big Mac.On the one hand, because so many Canadians are so outraged, he's
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: TFWP: SHUT IT DOWN, Minister Kenney
If the C. D. Howe Institute study released yesterday isn’t a clue as to what is so fundamentally flawed with the TFWP, I don’t know what is. In its report, the non-partisan C.D. Howe Institute looked at a number of examples, but focused on what impact the program had on
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Political Ambition And Public Outrage
The interesting thing about political ambition and public outrage is that sometimes they work synergistically to produce positive results. Jason Kenney, whose ambition to become the Conservative Party’s next leader have been widely rumoured, announced yesterday that fast food restaurants are being suspended from participation in the Temporary Foreign Workers
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Thom Hartmann discusses how Reaganomics were designed to crush the U.S.’ middle class – and have succeeded in that goal: Progressive taxation, when done correctly, pushes wages down to working people and reduces the incentives for the very rich to pillage their
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Jason Kenney’s Other Big Foreigner Problem
Well surprise, surprise. I see that Jason Kenney has stopped bragging about how he plans to fix the foreign workers problem, after the tragic story of that waitress in Weyburn, Saskatchewan.Who was reduced to tears after she lost her job to one of them.And who can blame him eh? When
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: More On The Temporary Foreign Workers Program
As noted yesterday, the Temporary Foreign Workers Program continues to cause both grief and outrage among Canadians. The latest publicly-identified victims, two former employees at a Weyburn Sask. eatery called Brothers Classic Grill and Pizza [previously called El Rancho], are receiving a groundswell of support both locally and across the
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Jason Kenney and the Shameful Foreign Workers Scam
I've watched with growing anger how the Con regime has flooded this country with foreign workers, even though so many Canadians are unemployed.I've watched them use the Temporary Foreign Worker's program to drive down wages and try to bust unions.I've looked on helplessly as some of my own friends have
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Rob Anders: The Con Loon Finally Bites the Dust
He tried every dirty trick in the book to try to win his nomination battle.He smeared his opponents as closet Liberals. He used misleading robocalls against them. He called on his rabid religious base to save him.But nothing could stop the Con loon Rob Anders from facing his own personal Armageddon. Read more
Continue readingAlberta Diary: Rob Anders loses by a nose in Signal Hill as Cowtown Cons make the best of a bad choice
Lost by a nose … but what a nose! A 22-year-old Rob Anders in 1994, heckling an Oklahoma politician. Below: Calgary Signal Hill nomination victor Ron Liepert; Mr. Anders as he looks today. There was blood in the water of the Bow River as it flowed through Cowtown last night.
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