Live Ignatieff Townhall

For those of you who have questions for Michael Ignatieff, please feel free to join this online townhall, which is starting at 2:45pm. Since i am busy at work at that time feel free to ask the Leader about?
Why the Liberals won't Prorogue?
Why the Liberals would be better at reigning in spending?
And many other questions.

This is a rare opportunity to hear from a party leader. I highly doubt that the Prime Minister would subject himself online. He wouldn't want candid and hard questions being asked of him. So take the opportunity, and find out what is on Michael Ignatieff's brain today.

The link is here http://lpc.ca/1k

"I do not know Tom Flanagan"

Shelly Glover, Conservative MP, has never met the architect of Stephen Harper's electoral success. She also has no idea who the prominent commentator is. Here are my theories why.
1) New Conservative memo, that in the media's presence all Con MP's must disavow any knowledge of Flanagan.
2) THE PMO has decided to recreate the history of their electoral success, a new history minus Tom Flanagan
3) Since Tom Flanagan now has his own opinion, the PMO is making sure their MP's never exercise theirs with their iron fist.

Enjoy the clip.

Merry Christmas!

I have to apologize to all my readers. I haven't been writing as prolifically as i should have been in the past month or so. I hope to remedy this by the end of the year and get back on the horse in the new year.

But until then, I wish all of you a Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year!

The Yes Men totally punk the Conservative Government

It took a couple of anti-globalization activists to really put the Conservative Government on notice in the media to show that they have no real plan to battle climate change, and would prefer to ignore Kyoto protocol obligations. Canada is officially the laughing stock of the first world in terms of our government and their lack of any environmental policy. We are blessed with having unlimited natural resources, yet we continue to pollute at unsustainable levels in our largely uninhabited country.

The profile of the yes-men, and their reputation around the world shows how far Canada has fallen in its reputation and profile in the world sice the Harper Tories have been in Power. They have targeted such luminaries as George W Bush, Dow Chemicals, and the World Trade Organzation. I would reccomend the Yes men movies to anyone who has a progressive world view. Here is a trailer of their 2009 film.

once in a while someone says something crazy and the media doesn't pick up on it....

Tom Flanagan, remember that guy who was the mastermind of the Paul Martin being soft on child porn. Well he said....


Flanagan cited the example of Stockwell Day suggesting that a lawyer by the name of Lorne Goddard, who had defended a client accused of possessing child pornography, believed the same thing as their client — “that the lawyer himself believed that it was OK to have child pornography.” Flanagan then continued, saying “But that’s actually another interesting debate or seminar: what’s wrong with child pornography — in the sense that it’s just pictures? But I’m not here to debate that today.”

Now I am going to let you the readers decide what you think about a prominent Conservative saying these type of things. Imagine the outrage the right would have if someone on the left said something like this.

If Peter Van Loan were talking to the mirror would he get confused?

Its about time the press got short with this guy. He is the most partisan, and over the top member of cabinet. This report about the gun registry needs to come out, I don't like it when Tories endanger average Canadians.

The money just keeps going out the door...

I haven't had much time recently to blog about the issues, but I have noticed one thing about this government. They have an uncanny ability to spend large amounts of the taxpayers money on very little. Whether its big signs on GO train cars across the lakeshore line around the GTA, or big signs on Stone Road in Guelph talking about a bike lane, or even commercials on big american tv shows, this government has become an ad agency's dream.

It is all very reminiscent of the late 1990's where the Ontario Tories cut and snipped everything but spend lots of money on advertising how great their plans for education were. It scammed voters for one election, before they were given the boot in 2003, and hopefully this won't be the case Federally.

Running up a huge deficit while only spending stimulus on advertising, while projects rot and wait is a sure fire way to not help the economy. If Harper thought calling Paul Martin "Mr. Dithers" was amusing, what should we call Harper and his gang of free spending republicans. That is what i leave up to you the reader. I think the Bush Tories is a good start.