Excuses, Excuses

Take a shot if you heard someone blame the shuttering of the Ontario legislature on Stephen Harper this week.

Stephen Harper didn’t invent prorogation and omnibus legislation, but he has made two arcane polysyllabic political terms part of our everyday lexicon, improving our vocabulary but diminishing our democracy.

His shut-it-down and take-it-or-leave-it approach to procedure and legislation has gone viral, with the Ontario legislature now sitting dark, prorogued by Dalton McGuinty.

Poor Dalton. He had a lapse or something and found himself following "Stephen Harper's approach."

Not everyone is blaming the prorogation on Stephen Harper. Some people are blaming it on Tim Hudak and Andrea Horwath!

If the opposition parties – and they likely would – were to combine in the legislature to defeat a government headed by a premier who is in the process of leaving office, as Mr. McGuinty now is, who would lead the Liberals in in the ensuing election?

Prorogation was the only means available to Mr. McGuinty to ensure an orderly transition of power in a minority government. He used it, and in so doing, he upheld democracy, he did not undermine it.

Is it bad that I'm still a little shocked when people do this? Or does it just mean I'm still human?

I Am Dalton's Botched Cover-Up

Project Vapour, huh? Reminds me of Project Mayhem.

The first rule of Project Vapour is.....

Toronto-Danforth EDA Presents "2016: Obama's America!"

As always, TCAM is happy to promote your event to our network of hundreds-to-thousands (depending on whether the OLP is feeling particularly interested that day or not in what I have to say).

This time we've got the Toronto-Danforth Federal EDA's EXCLUSIVE screening of "2016- Obama's America"- to be held in the VIP room of Varsity Cinemas, located at 55 Bloor Street West on November the 1st at 6:15 PM. I say EXCLUSIVE in capital letters because this film has not yet been released in Canadian theatres!

Join fellow Tories for cocktails and exchange economic apocalypse scenarios for the low, low price of $100 per ticket!

 

 

 

For necessary (?) Canadian content, you can compare and contrast Obama's America with post-Dalton Ontario. Lots of commonalities there!



He Mocks Us Still

Yeahhhh.....so now that Dalton has quit and people are breaking out the champagne, let's talk about how this means that Ontario is screwed even harder than it ever was.

Problem: WE CAN'T BRING DOWN THE GOVERNMENT WHEN THE GOVERNMENT HAS NO LEADER. THIS MEANS NO ELECTION. AND ALSO THE GOVERNMENT IS PROROGUED SO NO BILLS OF ANY SORT WILL GET PASSED. OH NOEZ.

Another Problem: UNIONS AND SUCH ARE UNDER NO OBLIGATION TO GIVE A CRAP WHAT THE GOVERNMENT SAYS WHEN IT HAS NO LEADER AND ISN'T MEETING BECAUSE THE LIBERALS WERE STUPID AND PROROGUED THE LEGISLATURE.

Yet Another Problem: DALTON IS NOT GOING TO RUN FOR FEDERAL LIBERAL LEADER AND TAKE ON JUSTIN TRUDEAU IN A FIGHT TO THE DEATH (WHICH WE ALL WANT TO SEE) BECAUSE A) HE IS HATED IN ONTARIO AND UNKNOWN OUTSIDE OF IT AND B) NOBODY, NOT EVEN DALTON, IS ALLOWED TO INTERFERE WITH THE ASCENSION OF THE CHRIST-CHILD TO THE THRONE. THIS LAST ONE IS NOT AS IMPORTANT BUT IT IS DISAPPOINTING.

Well. Isn't that a kick in the pants.

Now let us recall that Dalton, bless his pointy little head, was, in his half assed Liberal manner, TRYING to get the deficit under control by picking fights with people he'd coddled for years while handling a minority situation. When that didn't work, he tried to steal the formerly PC seat of Kitchener Waterloo. And that didn't happen either because he thought he was God and the teachers unions' had other ideas.

So he said "Screw you guys, I'm going home" and dumped the mess on the rest of his caucus who will murder each other in the upcoming leadership race because they've been waiting for decades to rule. And none of them will be able to fix the mess either. 

And therefore if  we want to win the next election, we will say to Ontarians that we will kill the deficit by any goddamned means necessary, and then DO SO, while all the while reminding those Ontarians that the Liberals utterly failed to do so. Because that is the only way out.

OK. Well, anyway, things are about to get a lot more interesting around here. Stay tuned!

Apres Dalton, Le Deluge

 

Unfortunately, this is as close to a confession of guilt as we're going to get.

I can't wait for the demolition derby that's going to be the leadership race against the backdrop of the power plant mess playing itself out. Grab your hazmat suits, because this is going to get U-G-L-Y.

Unpleasantness

Yours truly was incognito at a launch last night. I won't tell you which launch it was. That would upset too many people.

Anywhoo, at one point during this launch I found myself face to face with a prominent Liberal cabinet minister!

And this prominent Liberal cabinet minister, when asked how she was finding things at Queen's Park, characterized this week as "unpleasant"!

Unpleasant!

Unpleasant is when you wake up and you see it is raining hard outside.

Unpleasant is when you are sick with the flu.

Unpleasant is stepping in some dog poop.

Unpleasant isn't when one of your cabinet buddies might very well be found in contempt of the legislature! I'd say that's a bit higher on the oh-noez scale than "unpleasant". Remember, the last time someone got found in contempt of something, we had to have an election!

A Game Of Thrones

Let's stop underestimating Justin Trudeau for a minute and look hard at this so-called phenomenon. Because, as you well know, that's what I do.

There are a sizable number of Liberals and others in this country that believe this man to be the rightful King of Canada, based on his last name, and are currently falling over themselves to come up with reasons why he deserves to be Prime Minister. For them, a leadership race, an election, are merely formalities before we re-institute the Trudeau dynasty. This, as I've said before, is a completely unnecessary exercise on their part.

If they could be honest with themselves for one minute, they would say, "Canada is Justin Trudeau's birthright, as it has always has been. The Harper government is invalid, and all other pretenders are invalid, and all other parties are invalid, and the opinions of all dissenters are invalid, because they are not the rightful heir to Canada."

For these people, democracy is a pageant, something they do to reassure themselves that we are a civilized country, instead of a comfy sinecure for high-born Liberal families. They are peasants, crying out for a lord to rule over them.

When Peter Lougheed died some time ago, there was considerable lamentation about how he and people like Bill Davis represented some bygone era that is sadly lost to us. I was not alive during this time, when Premiers and Prime Ministers were living gods. For me and my generation, there is only darkness ahead.

Only I and a few others can accept that the golden days are over. Harper's Canada is the Canada of the future. But these Liberals, the ones who vote for Dalton, and will vote for Trudeau II- not because he represents the future, but because of his tie to the past-  will not hear of it. For them, happiness is just around the corner. Make Trudeau King and we will be back in Camelot again.

That is the Trudeau phenomenon. Not some sort of flowering amongst the youth. The youth are disposable idealists, trying to salvage something from their ruined lives. Their futures are to be mortgaged so that the Liberal lordly class can continue to live the lifestyles they are accustomed to.

The world is a scary place, and we must retreat back to the familiarity and comfort of the past to shut it out. Trudeau's derpy blue eyes and shiny hair are but a mask for that terrifying reality.

Have your King then, you bastards. Let him collapse under the weight of your hopes. Ignore his failings, as you do for Dalton, while we all suffer.

Can it be called progress, where we move from a supposed democracy to effectively a monarchy?