Harper’s Shame

Harper’s only shame is that he has no shame. Just like his idol Brian Mulroney. Harper pulls another dirty trick just like Mulroney did. Mulroney found an obscure legal loophole to appoint extra senators to stack the senate and ram the GST through. That was not democratic. That was not fiscally responsible. That was not noble. It was an example of how the conservatives talk the talk but they do not walk the walk of democracy. Democracy means listening to the constituents not railroading them. Kind of like what Harper did with David Emerson. It is a repeating precedent.

Harper closing parliament for six weeks just prolongs the inevitable. What we have here is a minority government. Whenever this happens, the party who gets the most seats must team up with one of the other parties and form a government. Harper never did that. Either time. Instead the rude cat calling arrogance typical of a majority government prevailed as he persisted to flame the other parties in the house.

Harper failed to form a coalition to form a minority government. There is nothing stopping the other parties to pool their seats and assume the role of government. Nothing. And as I said before I do think it’s rather humorous.

The Conservatives did come out hard painting Dion as an idiot. I don’t know much about Dion other than he can’t speak English very well. However, he can speak English better than I can speak French and better than Harper can speak French. Personally I don’t care what language he speaks. French, Mandarin, Punjabi…

.

My beef with Dion was him resorting to the Conservatives mud slinging over crime. He sent out a flyer saying Harper is wrong on crime then walks out on the vote when Harper tries to introduce a bill addressing crime. We need to rise above the pettiness. They all do.

There might well have been something wrong with Harper’s crime bill. We asked for minimum sentences for violent crime and he proposes minimum sentences for the possession of Marijuana. From one extreme to the other with out addressing the issue we needed to address, violent crime.

I do prefer Dion to Paul Martin. There was something about Martin that I just didn’t trust. Maybe it was Buz the snake Hargrove. I didn’t like how the Liberals screwed the TWU in their dispute with TELUS’ offshore call centres. Then again it turned out the TWU was screwed by Bruce Bell and Buzz Hargrove who turned down a special mediator so maybe it wasn’t the Liberals fault.

The Liberals did come out with a good web site comparing Harper’s goals to George Bush. It is no secret Harper drooled over the thought of meeting not to mention following Bush. That is a colossal red flag. Harper would have followed the States into Iraq based on a lie. That would have been criminal. Cretchien may have been bad with money but not invading Iraq was one thing he did right. http://www.thestar.com/FederalElection/article/509958

My concern with Harper and with Martin is their position on the North American Union. Throwing away the constitution and the Charter of Rights and replacing them with TILMA a trade agreement that opens Pandora’s box by making it illegal for any government to create any law that would inhibit a corporation’s ability to make a profit. When you think about the seriousness of the ramifications of that, it’s simply mind boggling.

The Coalition isn’t just Dion. Dion has to get agreement from the NDP and the Bloc on issues, which keeps him in line. As a result the Liberal's carbon tax was axed. The NDP and the Bloc are the only ones other than the Green Party, which has expressed any concern about the wording of the North American Secret Union deal. That is a huge election issue.