Well the story says it all for itself. A Conservative MP sleeps at a committee session on veterans. Now before you bash the Conservative sleeping and saying that he doesn’t care about veterans I think it is important to know that we have all sleepy moments. I just last Friday night slept way too early and forgot
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CuriosityCat: Robocalls: Let’s fund The Dirty Seven counter attack
Once more our democratic traditions and rights are under attack by people who would deprive Canadians of the rights that men and women have died to protect. Let us not take this meekly. Let us fight to defend our country, our Parliament, and the rights of our Canadian citizens to
Continue readingRedBedHead: Tory Terrorists More Dangerous Than Child Pornographers
The Tories’ “Protecting Children from Internet Predators Act” has more to do with suppressing dissent than with stopping child pornographers. I mean, where is the evidence that child pornography is such a major problem that it requires the introduction of a piece of legislation that is a serious intrusion into
Continue readingRedBedHead: Psst…Torture’s OK. Pass It On.
Vic Toews, Minister of Torture and Morality We’ve always known that the Tories mission is to makeover Canada into a far-right Republican spa resort by stealth, since most Canadians hold values to the left of their lunacy. So, they change tax rules for film financing here and chip into same
Continue readingRedBedHead: Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister Drops The "H-Bomb"
I’m not talking about that other H-bomb, the one that the US government dropped on innocent civilians in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. No, I’m talking about Adolph Hitler, yes, that H-Bomb. Every time our leaders want to justify a war against another people they whip out the Hitler’s name. He is
Continue readingThe Happy Wanderer: Opposition to Harper: Nonexistant
Who will rise this year to challenge Stephen Harper, to oppose him credibly? There might be many credible attacks on the Conservatives in 2012, but the no one will be listening. There was a reason the Tories received a majority government in May: so that Canadians would not have to
Continue readingRedBedHead: Why Peter MacKay Is So "Highly Regarded"
I didn’t hear Harper’s weasel words defense of our frequent flying Defence Minister, the Honourable Peter MacKay, so I can’t for certain. But I can only assume that Harper took a pause for breath between his description of MacKay’s reason for using all those VIP flights, including on search and
Continue readingThe Happy Wanderer: Let Quebec Pay
The federal government is not only going to destroy the long gun registry, but is going to destroy all the data too. However, Quebec wants to keep the registry and maintain it on its own. They are willing to foot the bill as long as it gets the data. Why
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Tory donors versus Liberal donors in 2010: The 3 to 1 advantage Harper enjoys
In 2010 the Conservative Party of Stephen Harper received donations from almost three times as many individuals as the Liberal Party did.The Tories raised $17 million from just ovvr 95,000 donors, while the LPC raised only $6 million from just over 32,…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Which Canadian federal parties are the Rulers of Twitterdom?
The answer is found in the politwitter website. The statistics on the site are a bit out of date but do give us a snapshot of how the parties fare with regard to twittering.Premier Redford recently showed the importance of politicians being up to speed…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Harper Tory hypocrisy in full view re EU crisis
Harper’s new Tories finance minister todaywent on record to spur on steps to combat the sovereign debt crisis. Consider his words:Finance Minister Jim Flaherty on Sunday repeated his calls for European leaders to deal with an ongoing financial cr…
Continue readingThe Happy Wanderer: Rick Mercer Thank You
Rick Mercer has outdone himself now. He ranted about the money the Finance minister is spending to try and cut government spending. 20 million dollars to find out how to cut spending. 90,000 dollars a day!
Rick Mercer is right …
Continue readingRedBedHead: Harper’s Unearned Economic "Credibility"
It’s one of those “truths” in politics that is beyond questioning, like the “necessity” of an independent (i.e. free from democratic controls) central bank, but which, like everything else has evolved from a time when it wasn’t actually the truth. I’m,…
Continue readingThe Happy Wanderer: Ontario Has a choice
Ontario on October 6th has a choice they can vote for Hudack who will hurt health care in the province. Hudack will be a sell out to Harper in 2014 on the health accord. Hudack would cancel corporation deals that are going to create thousands of jobs. …
Continue readingCuriosityCat: The Cat backs Alison Redford to take over the federal Tories when Harper retires or is fired
It’s not too early to start spotting the most likely successor to Stephen Harper. Given his growing penchant for believing that he is indeed the smartest politician in the House and on the Hill and in the country, and his ever-growing hubris (demonstra…
Continue readingThe Happy Wanderer: Elections almost here!
Today is October 3rd and the first big test’s for all the political parties on the provincial stage. First up is today in PEI. It seems that the Liberals will grab this province, but the question is will they be able to fully eliminate the Co…
Continue readingRedBedHead: Dirty Oil Has More Freedom To Move Than People
Free ride for dirty oil, border checks for people. But which is more dangerous?
It’s one of those typical injustices of capitalism that money, capital and dirty, earth-destroying, toxic oil products, have more right to cross borders and move around t…
CuriosityCat: The Cat says Horwath won the Ontario leadership debate
And I would not be surprised in her performance in last night’s debate moves between 3% and 4% of votes her way in the next full scale polls over the coming week or so, shifting voters from both McGuinty and Hudak.Why did she win?Because the other two …
Continue readingThe Happy Wanderer: Scary is Governing with Ignorance
It’s been blogged about again and again, but that is because it’s so stupid and at the same time, scary. With their majority government, the Tories are looking to spearhead an omnibus “tough on crime” bill to increase jail time among other th…
Continue readingRedBedHead: Baird’s UN Rant Is A Museum Piece
Baird was the attack dog for the Harper government at the UN yesterday with his meandering rant that read like it was written by the Israeli ministry of international propaganda. Claiming people and nations who didn’t support Israel were akin to appeas…
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