Stephen Harper's Conservative campaign shows its bullying side over Michael Ignatieff connection
The spokesperson for the boy in the bubble, a.k.a. Conservative Leader Stephen Harper, has apologized after the campaign took this concept to a new low.
The Toronto Sun has reported that 19-year-old University of Western Ontario student, Awish Aslam, says she was thrown out of a Conservative rally because she had a picture of Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff on her Facebook page.
You read that correctly. It wasn't a typo. And Aslam reportedly cried afterward.
She and a friend had to register online to go to the event. The Harper Conservatives obviously want to be able to check into the backgrounds of anyone who is in the vicinity of the Great Helmsman.
One of the Conservative henchman ordered Aslam and her friend into a room and ripped off their name tags, saying: "We know you guys have ties to the Liberal party through Facebook....You are no longer welcome here.'"
Harper spokesperson Dimitri Soudas issued an apology through the paper's owner.
It comes after revelations that Bruce Carson, a former senior aide in the prime minister's office, had five fraud convictions.
Harper said that had he known this, his office wouldn't have hired him.
That prompted Ignatieff to quip that Harper "talks tough on crime everywhere but in his own office".
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Comments
12 Comments
LTD.Edition
Apr 5, 2011 at 12:12pm
So... I can't be a Canadian who considers all of the options? I have to be 100% devout or I'm out?
What an asshole.
J.D.
Apr 5, 2011 at 12:59pm
Das Fuhrer's rallies do not allow the untermenschen.
glen p robbins
Apr 5, 2011 at 4:28pm
It's Harper out to an early lead - rounding the first turn its Harper by 3 lengths --- heading to the clubhouse its Harper - by two clear furlongs --- coming out of the backstretch -- Harper looks coast to coast---------
heading into the final turn - what's this? Ignatieff is starting to charge - Harper is whipping -- but here comes Ignatieff - folks moving towards the final stretch------------ this is anybody's race.
I remember what my father said - son he said life is simple:
It's either Cherry Red or Midnight Blue.
Terry J. Nanaimo
Apr 5, 2011 at 5:45pm
The door is open...... Trust Jack.
Liberals adopt NDP policy ideas.
Jack will ensure Liberals enact them.
[ ...just like Medicare and Canada Pension Plan...]
Trust Jack. Vote NDP.
Morty
Apr 5, 2011 at 8:33pm
I had to put up with Jack in Toronto when he was city councillor. There is no way I'll support him—he was as two-faced as anyone on council, willing to champion the poor and downtrodden so long as they didn't end up in his ward. For all of his brave talk he always put petty ward interests ahead of the common good.
Dan Weiler
Apr 6, 2011 at 2:17am
I love Harper! Lowered GST, sick of bleeding hearts who want more rights for criminals than their victims! Liberals point to Europe to justify their social policies and will spend Canada into devastation! Much like Europe is in today. What's the problem with small Government, you want higher taxes and waste you sickos go ahead and vote for the Liberals.
RonS
Apr 6, 2011 at 7:42am
Dan what have you been smoking? I don't know what your reading either because if you had opened a newspaper recently you would have seen that the CONServatives have been spending us into the poor house. Now all of a sudden they want to balance the books! How? By increasing tax is the only way! Canada once had money in the bank. Our so called "fiscally conservative" CONServatives blew the whole bank account giving it to their friends the CONServative Sponsors, aka BIG BUSINESS! The CONServatives are a joke!
Will
Apr 6, 2011 at 10:50am
The Brown Shirt mentality at Harper gatherings must scare anyone who is even half awake. I can't believe his party is openly tossing people because they might disagree with the CONs, and I can't believe people aren't more upset by this.
What happened at this rally speaks to what sort of leader Harper really is. He's the type of leader who endorses brown shirt tactics! Doesn't matter who his opposition is, we must vote against anyone who endorses, or engages, such practices!
spartikus
Apr 6, 2011 at 3:07pm
<a href="http://www.thestar.com/NEWS/article/970185">Yet another young person barred from a Tory rally</a> on suspicion of belonging to "undesirable" groups. Possibly a Facebook group trying to get rid of bottled water on a campus.
This is not the behaviour of self-confident people.
vigilantz
Apr 6, 2011 at 3:12pm
Stephen Harper has always been a 'control' freak'. He is deathly afraid that we will find out what he has/has not been doing on our behalf. He has his Ministers on a very tight leash, severely limits press access and then criticizes Michael Ignatieff for saying that 'only he speaks for the Liberal Party of Canada".
If a "vote for the Liberals is a vote for Michael Ignatieff", is a vote for the Conservatives not also a vote for Prime Minister Stephen Harper. As far as their many, election promises goes, don't believe a single word any one of them says!