Showing posts with label Canadian election. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Canadian election. Show all posts

Thursday, September 19, 2019

UPDATED: "Boy, is my face red! Errr... OK, it's brown! Black?!"

Here they are, folks, the pictures that have exploded in Justin Trudeau's blackened face. M Trudeau, the former Prime Minister of Canada (now seeking a second term in that lofty office) is, as he keeps telling Canucks, a great believer in multiculturalism, inclusiveness and diversity. "Diversity is our strength!" And equality. Don't forget equality. "A Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian!"

These pix push the bullshit meter well into the red. The excrement first interfaced with the air-conditioning device yesterday afternoon, when Time ran the picture at right, taken in 2001, of the 29-year-old Mister T exercising his penchant for playing Mr Dress-up by appearing as Aladdin [or is it the genie? Ed.] at an entertainment at West Point Grey Academy, a private school in Vancouver, where the young(ish) Trudeau was a drama teacher.

That was the pic that hit the news... and the Trudeau campaign... like a bombshell yesterday evening. But in his fulsome apology -- and I use the word correctly -- Mr Socks revealed that, errr, there were other pictures. Here's an even better one.


Looks like the same costume, so let's be charitable and assume it was taken at the same event, but it wouldn't surprise me if it turned out to be M Trudeau showing ethnic solidarity with a couple of his candidates in Brampton and Mississauga. (By the way, former Liberal MP Raj Grewal, the one with the gambling problem, announced yesterday that he wouldn't be running again this time. Surprised?)

On CBC's The National last night, a clearly crestfallen (and unbiased LOL) Rosemary Barton, described the makeup M Trudeau is wearing (not just on his face, but on his hands too) as "brownface", as if that made it... you know... not quite as bad as wearing blackface, which is something only racist Americans do. (Imagine if Donald Trump was photographed in blackface! Cazart!)

Rosie must be even more dismayed today, looking at this picture of an even younger Justin Trudeau singing "Day-O" in a talent show at Le collège Jean-de-Brébeuf. Looks like blackface to me, and if you look closely you can see the enormous Afro which completed the image. Harry Belafonte he's not, but "racist", errr...

And that's the point. The other party leaders, the (((controlled media))) and every "progressive" in Canuckistan has pounced on poor Just In, whose face, as he spoke to the press on the campaign plane last night, was not red but ashen.

The Cuckservative, Andrew Scheer, and the NDP (Socialist) leader Jagmeet Singh (a brown-faced man in a turban!) were just about beside themselves with glee, all the while trying to look and sound deeply offended, accusing Just In of racial insensitivity, "wearing ethnicity as a costume", and, of course, racism.

The feminist champion of diversity and multiculturalism is truly hoist on his own petard. Ya gotta love it!

There are, to be sure, a few sane individuals who say that you shouldn't hold a "youthful indiscretion" against someone, especially if he apologizes sincerely (with tears, if possible) and has "matured and evolved" so that he realizes and takes responsibility for his political incorrectness. That's what Andy Sheer said just a few days ago, while standing up for a couple of his candidates who'd been somewhat compromised by past "errors of judgment".

The hyuge KA-BOOM is still reverberating through the newsrooms, corridors of power, Tim Hortons and other places where people discuss such things. It will be some time before people stop talking about Just In Trudeau's bad hair day... make that bad face day. Stay tuned!

Further reading
: What's wrong with wearing blackface or brownface? The leftist ideology explained: "Why wearing blackface or brownface is considered 'reprehensible'", by (((Mark Gollom))), on the CBC News website... of course. [And let that be an end to the accusations that we never link to the CBC! Ed.]

UPDATE ADDED 0800: Canada's Global TV has obtained video of another incident -- not the high school "Day-O" incident but something more recent -- in which Mr Dressup wears blackface. Not "brownface" but blackface. Note the comment about resignation. Could it happen?

Monday, September 16, 2019

Conspiracy to silence Max Bernier fails! He'll be at the debates

It took a month, but the conspiracy to keep Maxime Bernier, leader of the People's Party of Canada, off the platform at the Canadian Leaders' Debates has been not just exposed but defeated. "Mad Max" will join the leaders of the Liberals, Conservatives, NDP and Greens in the two "official" debates, in English on October 7th an in French on October 10th.

The Right Honourable David Johnston, formerly the Governor-General of Canuckistan and now chairman of the "independent" Leaders' Debates Commission announced the hyuge climb-down today, saying that he is now persuaded that, given "new evidence", the Commission is persuaded that the PPC does in fact have a "reasonable chance" at winning multiple seats in the federal election to be held on October 21st. Mr Johnston said his decision was based in part on the party's membership count, its strong media presence and recent polling numbers.

What other "new evidence" did the Commission see? For one thing, an online petition signed by tens of 1000s of people, including some of Walt's agents, who believe that the interests of fairness, if nothing else, demanded the inclusion of the leader of a party with a nearly-full slate of candidates, tens of 1000s of members, and the support of hundreds of 1000s "from coast to coast to coast", as Canucks like to say. The Commission simply could no longer pretend (like the CBC) that the People's Party no longer exists.

The Leaders' Debates will be much more interesting, now that some dissent from the prevailing liberal orthodoxy will be heard. I'll make the popcorn.

Wednesday, September 11, 2019

VIDEO: "Mad Max" Bernier says he doesn't mind his nickname

Agent 3, who pays attention to the politics of Canuckistan, has just e-mailed me to say that at this very moment, Justin "Mr Socks" Trudeau has emerged from his little tête-à-tête with the Governor-General, holding in his hand the writ which officially begins the federal election. Polling day will be October 21st, and the campaign is expected to be nasty, perhaps even approaching the nastiness level of an American campaign. [Impossible! Ed.]

The Leaders' Debate Commission, the creature of the Liberal government and dominated by the (((controlled media))) -- especially the state-owned Canadian Broadcorping Castration -- have conspired to keep Maxime Bernier, leader of the People's Party of Canada, off the platform for the main debates scheduled for October 7th and 10th. See "Canada's 'independent' Debate Commission shuts out Max Bernier", WWW 12/8/19.

This interview was recorded in early July in Alberta. At that time, M Bernier assumed that he would be included in the leaders' debates, so he speaks about being confident that once Canadians here what he has to say and what the PPC stands for, many will support them. And why not. Every poll done in the last year shows that the majority of Canucks are in favour of reducing immigration levels, a major plank in the PPC platform.

Now the lefties -- all the other parties are to the left of the PPC -- have dropped a cone of silence over Max, so, in the interest of fairness, Walt is reposting Mad Max's interview with Community TV, Medicine Hat's web-based broadcaster. I know M Bernier will not mind my calling him "Mad Max". Listen to his answer to the very first question. And hear what he says about Just In Trudeau, at the 56 second mark. LOL



Further reading: People's Party of Canada 2019 Electoral Platform. Don't listen to the lies of the lamestream media about what Mad Max and PPC are proposing for Canada's future. Check it out for yourself.

Monday, August 12, 2019

Canada's "independent" Debate Commission shuts out Max Bernier

Right from the getgo, the "progressive" "forces for good" in Canada's chattering classes -- the politicians and the (((controlled media))) -- determined that it would be dangerous to allow Maxime Bernier, leader of the People's Party of Canada, to give a voice to the millions of Canucks who are sick, sore and tired of the prevailing liberal orthodoxy.

God help anybody who dared to utter a politically incorrect word or even think a politically incorrect thought about things like "refugees", immigration and multiculturalism. The cult of "diversity" reigns supreme in the Great No-longer-white North, and anyone who dared to challenge the conventional wisdom was to be silenced.

When "Mad Max" announced the formation of the People's Party last fall, Elections Canada (a creature of the Canadian government, Just In Trudeau, Prop.) decreed that it wasn't a party, and couldn't be until it had so many thousand members. Done, and quick too! Well, then, they said, you can't be a party until you have fielded candidates in a certain number of elections or by-elections. Done! So, in February, Elections Canada reluctantly allowed that, yes, the PPC was officially a party, and could start giving out tax receipts for donations. End of story? Not quite?

Canada's lamestream media stepped in at this point and made a secret agreement that even if M Bernier was technically the leader of a political party, he wouldn't be treated as such, and would be "deplatformed" -- not given any but the barest minimum opportunity to speak through the mainstream print and broadcast channels.

The CBC (Canadian Broadcorping Castration) is the worst offender to the notion of allowing all voices to be heard. Elizabeth May, the leader of Canada's Green Party appears regularly on the CBC's political programmes, even though the party has only one seat (hers) in the House of Commons. (Overheard at an Ottawa restaurant: "May? Party of one?") She will be allowed to participate in the televised Leaders' Debates to be held in October, ahead of the federal election, even though her party has only one plank -- close down Canada's oil industry -- in its platform.

Logic would seem to dictate that Max Bernier would also participate, since the People's Party has a seat -- his -- in the House of Commons. And he has lots to talk about. Not just the environment, the economy, and foreign policy, but also refugees, immigration and "diversity", which the media (Hello, Chantal Hébert! Hello Toronto Star! Hello CBC!) keep telling us are non-issues, of no interest to the Canadian people.

If you think "Mad Max" -- who has been described by the (((controlled media))) as a "racist" and (shudder) "populist" (gasp!) -- is going to get a chance to debate those "non-issues" with the other leaders, you are wrong! For the "independent" Leaders' Debate Commission -- like Elections Canada a creature of the Liberal government -- has invited the leaders of five political parties, including the Greens and the Bloc Québecois, to participate in the October debates. But Maxime Bernier, errr, NO!

Why not?! The transparently flimsy excuse the debate organizing group has come up with is that the People's Party has not yet met one of the criteria to participate in the televised debates, namely that the party isn't represented in the House of Commons by an MP who was elected as a member of that party. M Bernier, a former cabinet minister in the government of Steve Harpoon, was re-elected in 2015 as a Conservative, before before leaving the "Conservatives" to start the PPC.

Beyond that, the Commissioner said in a letter to M Bernier, a survey of recent opinion polls, including the CBC News Poll Tracker (!!), led him to conclude that the People's Party would have a difficult time actually getting one of its candidates elected in October's general election. So if the polls already say you're not going to win, why should you speak in the debate? That's the "logic" employed by the Liberals and their media sycophants.

M Bernier told the media that itès not fair to rely on current polling data, given how well populist parties in other Western democracies have fared in recent elections. He said the PPC has an "excellent chance for rapid growth" if Canadians get a chance to hear the party's message.

According to M Bernier, "The PPC represents a unique perspective, and is the only party that offers distinct policy positions on several topics that are at the heart of political debates, including immigration, climate change, freedom of expression, corporate welfare, foreign aid, supply management, and many other topics."

In its report on this story today, the CBC called these "right-wing policy proposals". Perhaps they are afraid that, as M Bernier claims, the PPC's positions on these issues are similar to those of a large minority, or even a majority of Canadians. Said M Bernier, "Canadians have the right to hear views that differ from those of established parties."

From the outrage being voiced on social media, even in the "Comments" section of the CBC's article, it would seem that ordinary Canadians -- those who are not among the elites -- want to hear what "Mad Max" has to say. The Debates Commission is already backing away from the Commissioner's letter, saying that it will give the matter further consideration, and will make a "final decision" on September 16th. Stay tuned.

Further reading: "What's a debate if you don't hear from the opposite side?", by John Ivison (no fan of Max Bernier but a big fan of free speech and fair play), in the National Post, 13/8/19. Quote: "The ruling seems profoundly undemocratic.... Most Canadians, including this one, find many of [the PPC's] policies toxic. But a sizeable minority do not and, as Bernier pointed out, they have a right to hear views that differ from those of more established parties.

And more: "The media blindspot for the People’s Party of Canada", by David Haskell (PPC candidate in Cambridge), in The Post Millennial, 9/8/19.

Further viewing: "The Rebel's May 3rd interview with Maxime Bernier", WWW 11/5/19.

Monday, July 1, 2019

To all our Canadian readers, HAPPY CANADA DAY!

On this 152nd anniversary of Confederation, here's a
special message for our Canuck friends and readers
from Walt, Pure Len [and Ed.! Ed.]

If you want your country to last another 152 years, or even 15 years or 1 year...


Note from Ed.: Dear me! I hope that Elections Canada (which, as we all know, is absolutely independent of the Liberal Party) won't regard this message as some kind of foreign meddling in the upcoming election.

Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Canucks heave Steve, elect the Hair Apparent

It was a dark and stormy night. [This is not the Bulwer-Lytton contest. Start again. Ed.] Seriously, then, I'm using toothpicks to keep my eyes open after a loooong night following the Canadian federal election results on the idiot's lantern. It was a night to remember. [No movie titles, please. Ed.]

No analysis this morning, just the numbers and a couple of comments. Fear and loathing of Stephen Harper, impelled Canadians to show him the exit/sortie. That this would happen was apparent for weeks. The question was who would replace him, with some wondering if the opposition NDP and Liberals would split the anti-Harper vote, allowing the Dear Leader to rise from the coffin he built for himself.

Turns out Canucks are smarter than that.There was an organized push for strategic voting. ABH (Anybody But Harper) voters were asked to mark their ballots for the candidate with the best chance of beating the Tories in their riding, and most decided that would be the Liberal. That caused the NDP vote to collapse, even in long-time strongholds like central Toronto.

The NDP lost big in Québec, where the aberrant "orange crush" of 2011 turned into an "orange crash". Québécois are great bandwagon jumpers too, and, once they saw which was the wind was blowing, turned around to get it at their backs. It must be said too that the niqab issue hurt the NDP in la Belle Province, which, interestingly, seems more committed to Canadian values than TROC.

In the end, Mr. Harpoon's Conservatives didn't do that badly, hanging on to 99 seats in the 338-seat House of Commons. It was the NDP collapse -- they finished with 44 seats compared with over 100 before -- that propelled Justin Trudeau's Liberals into government, with a comfortable majority -- 184 seats.

There is much rejoicing in the urban liberal parts of Canada. In his acceptance speech this morning (Montréal time), Trudeau II spoke of "sunny ways", inclusive politics, celebrating diversity (especially if it wears a Sikh or Muslim head covering), yada yada yada. He channelled Obama 2008, with lots of talk about hope and change, concluding with "For Canadians, better is always possible."

Well... yeah... Canucks are glad to see the back of a prime minister even more despised than Brian Baloney. In the euphoria of the moment, nobody's talking much about what happens next. Expectations of M Trudeau are high, very high, and it will be interesting to see to what extent he can rise to meet them.

Further reading:
"Justin Trudeau's turn to face the weight of expectations" - Neil Macdonald (no relation to Sir John Eh), CBC News
"Stephen Harper's legacy: Good, bad and a dose of ugly" - the estimable Terry Milewski, also on the CBC News site.

Sunday, October 18, 2015

Where's Walt(o) now? Notes from Ed.

Ed. here. Walt has left me to shovel out our cabin in the pines while he is at an undisclosed location in the Great No-longer-white North. Tomorrow night he and Poor Len Canayen and two of Walt's trusted agents will sit in the middle of a large room, surrounded by TVs and computers, tracking and discussing the returns from the Canadian federal election. Many a good time will be had by all. Or not, as the case may be.

Walt has predicted the result of said election. He thinks Trudeaumania II will produce a Liberal minority. (Lifetime pct .976.) The Liberal minority, he says, will have been elected by the visible minorities of Canada's three big metropolitan areas: Vancouver, Montréal and, above all, Toronto.

The Canadian press -- not to be confused with Canadian Press -- labour under the delusion that their endorsements matter. The Toronto Star endorsed Justin Trudeau's Liberals. No surprise there, the Red Star being so liberal, so PC as to make any other endorsement impossible. La Presse, of Montréal, also chooses le Parti Libéral, for reasons which make sense in that city.

The oddest endorsement of this election -- perhaps of this century, so far -- comes from the good grey Globe and Mail. The Glob's editor, David Walmsley, is an Ulsterman, who could hardly be expected to plump for either M Trudeau or Mr Mulcair, both Cafeteria Catholics. But he couldn't bring himself to stand up for the dictatorial Steve Harper, so penned a leader calling on Canadians to vote for the Conservatives, on condition that Mr. Harpoon resign immediately after winning!

No, dear reader, Ed. kids you not. See "Globe and Mail mocked on Twitter after endorsing Tories but not Harper". Mr. Walmsley evidently thinks it possible to suck and blow at the same time. Best Tweet: "I endorse the Globe but not the Mail." Poor Len's comment: "It's like calling the Montréal Canadiens to win the Stanley Cup, providing they trade Carey Price for Jonathan Bernier." (Canuck readers will doubtless understand that one.)

Speaking of les Glorieux, with last night's victory over Detroit, they have now won the first six games of the new season, the best start in the history of the club. Sadly, the very fine game was once again not available to Francophone (= French-speaking) fans residing west of Québec who don't subscribe to Robbers ridiculously expensive NHL Centre Ice package.

The game was telecast, in English, on Hockey Night in Canada on the CBC, with the Toronto game relegated to CITY. But the TVA coverage, which should have been on "Le forfait en français", was not. Channels 423 and 424 were dark, once again. See "Canada's team MIA from 'Hockey Night in Canada'" (WWW 11/10/15). If you're a Bell customer and subscribe to the "NHL French package", complain!

That's it from this corner of the woods. Walt will return on Tuesday, or possibly Wednesday depending on how long it takes him to dry out.

Thursday, October 8, 2015

Walt's Canadian agents disclose their voting intentions

Walt is hearing a lot of moaning from north of the world's longest undefended border. Many Canadians, including at least two of Walt's agents, are genuinely distressed by the prospect of having to vote for: a) another four years of corrupt Harper dictatorship; b) the Hair Apparent (not Donald Trump but Justin Trudeau; c) Angry Tom Mulcair, the socialist wolf in cheap clothing.

This editorial cartoon by the estimable Brian Gable, in today's Globe and Mail, pretty much sums up their sentiments.


Note from Ed.: We are not unaware of (c) copyright law, and hope Mr. G and the G&M won't mind. Hey, we don't make any money on WWW!

Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Canuck pols censor selves, avoid further debate of niqab ban

Yesterday, Walt concluded "Niqab ban becomes hot Canuck election issue" by saying that it would be amazing if the issue of whether Muslim women should be allowed to wear then niqab didn't come up again in the election debate scheduled for that evening. Within 13 seconds of the debate's end, Agent 3 was on the horn to tell me to be amazed because the word was never mentioned.

Perhaps the omission is not such a surprise after all. Walt is not a believer in conspiracy theories -- except when it comes to MH370 -- but can envision a secret pre-debate meeting in which the minions of all three parties prepared 10-foot polls with which not to touch, ever again, the question of whether immigrants should be or can be required to adapt themselves to the customs and values of their new home.

As Chantal Hébert pointed out on "At Issue" -- see video in yesterday's post -- the vast majority of Canadians think the Harper government's proposal that people should show their faces when giving or receiving any public service, including taking the oath of citizenship, is reasonable. But, the powers that be in the editorial boardrooms of Toronto deem the subject politically incorrect.

The English-language Canadian media, and the politicians chasing the large immigrant vote -- particularly in Toronto, which has the largest Muslim population of any North American city -- are so afraid of offending the Muslims, or being accused of stoking the fires of Islamophobia already burning across Canada, that they have colluded to ban any further discussion of the topic. So when the Groan and Wail headlines its lead story "Federal leaders clash over Canadian values, security in lively debate", they overlook -- deliberately -- the one glaring omission.

Not so Walt's favourite Globe and Mail columnist, Margaret Wente. In today's piece, headed "Why the niqab matters, now and in future", she writes:

If there is one issue that strikes a nerve with Canadians, this is it. Public opposition to the niqab is deep, and wide. A recently released Leger poll, commissioned by the government and conducted in March, found that more than four out of five people – 82 per cent – supported the Conservatives’ position that there is no place for niqabs in citizenship court. In Quebec, the figure was 93 per cent.

As the magnificent Chantal Hébert reminded Mr. Coyne on CBC the other night, the niqab debate is anything but trivial – despite what pundits in Toronto think. The debate about accommodation and values will last far beyond this election. It will be among the biggest issues of our future.

I'm torn. I believe that Canada is strong and confident enough to tolerate a few women in face coverings. I also believe that the niqab has no place in Canada, and that women who wear them should be strongly discouraged (but not, under most circumstances, barred) from doing so. Symbols matter. And this one matters more than most.

Footnote: Another debate, in French only, is scheduled for Friday night. The Big Three leaders -- MM Trudeau, Harper and Mulcair -- will be joined by Gilles Duceppe, leader of the Bloc Québécois, who has vowed to legislate a ban on all religious head coverings in the (unlikely) event his party is elected. At the risk of repeating myself [and being wrong two days in a row. Ed.], it will be amazing if the niqab question isn't raised, politically incorrect or not.

Monday, September 7, 2015

Filmed peeing in customer's coffee mug, politico quits election race

Canadians go to the polls on October 19th to elect a new federal government. And not a moment too soon, given the urgent necessity of ending the dictatorship of Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harpoon, now seeking his fourth (4th!) term in office. The number of seats in the new Parliament will be 338, so Steve's (or any other party) needs to win 170 of those to have a majority in the House of Commons.

Mr. Harper's Tories are struggling in the Greater Toronto Area. The Dear Leader himself is campaigning in the eastern part of the city area today. He will be accompanied by two Conservative candidates, but not by Jerry Bance, the candidate for Scarborough Rouge Park, who is withdrew from the race after CBC News aired a spycam video of him peeing in a customer's coffee cup while on a service call.

Former candidate Bance owns XPress Appliance Service, an appliance repair company [Duh! Ed.] in the GTA. He has been a service technician for the last 25 years. In 2012, he was caught in a sting by CBC-TV's Marketplace urinating in a homeowner's coffee mug and dumping the contents into the sink. Do we have the video, Ed.? ... ... Apparently not, but we do have a screen grab.


The original Marketplace show only named Mr. Bance as "Jerry". It did not mention that he had been a Conservative candidate in the previous elections of 2006 and 2008. When contacted by CBC News yesterday, Mr. Bance said, "I deeply regret my actions on that day. I take great pride in my work and the footage from that day does not reflect who I am as a professional or a person."

Walt is resisting stoutly the temptation to indulge in cheap shots of the "Peegate" variety. End of story.

UPDATE: Turns out it wasn't the end of the story, after all. CBC News has just reported that the Tories have been forced to drop a second GTA candidate (Tim Dutaud -- Toronto-Danforth) over embarrassing videos that surfaced on YouTube. No peeing or worse, just prank calls. Agent 3, who is a politics junkie, says it doesn't matter, because the Harperites didn't have a snowball's chance of winning either riding.

Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Canucks! Trust in Justin! (VIDEO)

This post is for Canadians who are fretting about who to vote for in the federal election on October 19th. There must be a great temptation to adopt the stance of Mark Twain [or was it H.L. Mencken? Ed.] who wrote "Don't vote. It only encourages them."

The counter-argument is that all that's necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing. So Walt recommends voting in every election, if you live in a country where elections are free, fair and meaningful. Ah, but we risk going around the Horn here. Let's not. The question for Canucks is, which party and/or which leader is the least of the three evils.

The prospect of Steve Harper's quasi-Conservatives being returned to power for a fourth term fills most of Walt's Canadian agents with fear and loathing. It's one thing to have a dictatorship forced on you at the point of a gun, but to go out and vote for the Dear Leader -- on the better-the-devil-you-know theory -- is beyond contemplation.

That leaves the quasi-socialist New [sic] Democratic Party, led by Angry Tom Mulcair, and the decidedly liberal Gliberals, Canada's former Natural Governing Party. The same old Toronto-centric elite have a shiny new front man, Justin "Nice Hair" Trudeau, son of Himself.

As Walt sees it, there are two ballot issues. Canadians are rightly worried about their economy, which has sunk into a recession from which it can only recover if there is a miraculous increase in the price of oil. [Is there a patron saint of oil? Ed.] Mr. Harpoon claims he (and he alone) can pilot Canada through the rough waters. At the same time, he says the country's economic and financial crisis is due to global conditions, not to any failure of management on his part.

The NDP and Liberals claim to have plans to revive the economy by throwing money at Canada's middle class, which neither Mr. Mulcair or Mr. Trudeau can really define. In fact, the Liberal economic policy begins with "Oremus", and the NDP version with "Let us pray."

The other issue is nothing less than the future of democracy in Canada. More than ever before, political power in Ottawa resides with and in the Prime Minister's Office. The House of Commons, where Mr. Harper commanded a majority in the last parliament, has no power. The Senate, packed with Tory hacks and bagmen [and bagwomen. Ed.] marches to the beat of the PMO's drum. When the Supreme Court of Canada rules against Mr. Harpoon's legislation, the Dear Leader ignores the ruling.

Stephen Harper has more power, in "his" country, than the Prez of the Excited States of America, perhaps even more than Vlad the Impaler in Russia. The ongoing trial (for bribery and fraud) of Senator Mike Puffy -- Harper's appointee -- reminds us of Lord Acton's dictum: Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. In Walt's opinion, Canadians must end the corrupt Harper dictatorship. Throw them out!

But who to vote for? Ed. won't give me any more space today to explain why I can't recommend either the NDP or the Liberals. Good arguments can be made for and against both parties. But, for today, I'll leave you with a little ditty by "Canada's Favorite [sic] Musical Comedy Duo", Bowser and Blue. Thanks to Agent 6 for sending this along.



Note from Ed.: I have no idea why the screen is split like that. Reminds me of an old stereopticon. (Look it up.)

Further listening: Click here to check out the Bowser and Blue YouTube Library.