News for Youse: the Harper government doom and gloom report
Elections Canada is currently investigating charges of election fraud during the 2011 federal election back in May. At the heart of the investigation is a company called Racknine Inc., which provides autodialer services. "Robo-calls"—those irritating automated calls that will ring you at least five times on the weekend before you answer the call and start screaming at the person on the other end before realizing that you are talking to a pre-recorded message—are being blamed for voters going to the wrong polling places on Election Day.
Predictably, Harper is claiming "Golly gee willikers, guys! I didn't know anything about this!" and has vowed that any offenders "will face the full consequences of the law.” Harper, may we just say it's a big mistake to pass the buck onto the poor, defenseless robots. Machines don't forget betrayal easily. Plus side: Harper has guaranteed he'll be one of the first meat puppets slaughtered when the inevitable Matrixing begins.
What do we know for sure about the Tories? They're planning to buy 65 F-35 stealth fighter jets. Oh, and they'll spend at least US$75 million on each plane, which, if we've done our math right, works out to about US$4.9 billion.
Yes. Fighter jets are more important than the citizens in Harper's Canada. Dear Leader doesn't give a shit about the provinces' budget shortfalls and belt tightening. Nope, he's got fucking stealth fighter jets to buy.
Who else doesn't seem to have any legitimate concern about the welfare of Canadian citizens? Just a little political entity known as the EU, which saw a recent vote on whether to classify Canada's tar sands as highly polluting end in deadlock. But Harper's Canada was threatening a trade war with the EU if the vote passed, so we suppose it's not that the EU hates Canadians after all. It's just Harper who does.
Somehow this feels appropriate today.
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Exposed
Feb 24, 2012 at 1:28pm
Heed this Harper, it isn't the first time elections in BC took a underhanded turn to support a party without any ethics or morals or not.
back stabber
Feb 24, 2012 at 2:07pm
Canadians have the right to bounce the back stabber out. Corporate take over and underhanded deeds do not have to be our lot as democracy takes a beating as liars and dirty tricksters do anything to win. Along with desperate measures to keep Canadians in the dark and fighting for their rights. This could end the Conservatives questionable majority. Deny, deny, deny but there is no denying Harper's relationship with Canadians is in desperate need of fixing as Harper's croonies put the fix in and the people's trust takes a beating. Canadians don't have to worry about the other parties stabbing them in the back. It was Harper who had a problem with the NDP and the Liberals doing their jobs and protecting the interests of Canadians instead of corporate interests.
Give it back to the stabber who couldn't careless about Canadians and Canada and stand up for your right to a fair election. The Conservative's majority was not. Jack Layton must be rolling in his grave.
Argulion
Feb 24, 2012 at 6:48pm
I'd say this is definitely a valid reason for the Governor General to prorogue parliament. And, Elections Canada forcing by-elections in all affected ridings to ensure no voter had their right subverted. Along with serious jail time for all involved.
TheLaughingMan
Feb 25, 2012 at 6:41am
Stephen Harper, Rob Nicholson, John Baird, Jim Flaherty and Vic Toews, along with the rest of the Conservatives are liars, cheats and thieves! Bill-C10 threatens to throw many in jail longer and needlessly! Bill C-11 would strip Canadians of even more rights to what we already own and censor our flow of information! Bill-30 will strip us of our privacy! Now lets not forget the G20 fiasco, Vic Toews immortal centimes about Canadians being pedophiles, the planned pension cuts, or their election fraud, and now they're delaying the budget, as if we don't know their motivations! The fascist Conservatives and would turn our country into an Orwellian nightmare! They aren't even a legitimate government! Canada needs to rise up march on Ottawa and occupy the parliament! We need to take back our country, remove the Conservatives from power! Those that would appose the will of the people need to be taught a lesson, followed by some good old fashion tarring and feathering, finish with banishing traitors from Canada! Finally Canadians need some laws that allow us to force referendums on the government and punish corrupt politicians who think they can screw with their people, their employers, you and me! Shout from every mountain top, "WE WILL NOT STAND FOR CORRUPTION WITHIN OUR GOVERNMENT! WE'RE COMING FOR YOU HARPER REGIEM! EXPECT US!"
People shouldn't fear the government, the government should fear the people!
Disgusted
Feb 25, 2012 at 8:13am
Allowing his MP (Mckay) to have the military do his dirty work, (trying to get even) because he got caught using SAR equipment for a fishing trip.
Refusing to respond to questions of what will be done with out of control MP pensions, while at the same time targeting the OAS of seniors that barely make ends meet.
Robo calls (election fraud)
Sucking up to China & threaten a trade war with EU.
All while driving a spike (dutch disease) into the eastern provinces
PUTIN POLITICS
martin in toronto
Feb 25, 2012 at 10:35am
Maybe, with their less-than-stellar public record, it is time to gently ease the Conservative trash to the side of the road and get on with building a really GOOD Canada, which they seem utterly incapable of doing. Abandon decency principles, abandon Canadian workers, no ethics (except win at any cost) and a self-righteous moral certitude that makes stiff-necked Baptists look like Nadia Comaneci ... all lead to inevitable disposability of these weird Conservatives (most of whom are actually CRAP-ers).
The Libs and Dippers aren't perfect ... oh no ... but they're a heck of a lot better than this gang of liars and thieves we've stuck ourselves with now.