Best Government Ever

An incomplete selection of articles, op-eds and other material about Stephen Harper and the Conservative Party and their alleged campaign to powder the bones of orphans to create a malt-like drink that certain occult sects believe may lead to immortality. Additionally, this blog is also about photos of baby animals.

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We're number fucking awful!

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What could possibly be to blame for this? Is it possible that being led by a group of crooked, psychotically partisan pathological liars leaves Canadians feeling some kind of despair about the direction of this country?

Oh well, they're going to take care of the economy for us, right? That was the trade-off, if I remember correctly. Democracy: not that important. What REALLY matters is that Chinese corporations do super well in this country!

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It's cool, PM Steve and his minions will ignore this just like they've ignored every one of the thousand pieces of evidence that prove their immoral, ideologically driven conservative agenda is useless and suicidal.

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Oh, in other surprising news:

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I haven't really been keeping this tumblr up lately because, honestly, I find keeping careful track of PM Steve and his cronies' catalogue of lies, deceit, and contempt for this country emotionally hard to endure.

But hey, every once in a while there's something big enough that I can't let it slide by. And today it's the not-at-all-surprising ruling by the Federal Court that there was NO FINANCIAL MISMANAGEMENT in Attawapiskat at all, making it clear that PM Steve and Indian Affairs Minister John Duncan's imposition of a third-party manager was nothing more than an attempt to deflect the criticism they were receiving for abandoning a whole community of Indians to freeze to death in dire poverty. And of course the tool they called on was the brutal and casual racism of pretending that Indians are corrupt and incompetent, unable to govern themselves (rather precisely as the Right[-wing] "Honourable" Stephen Harper and his thugs have been unable to govern this country without wallowing in the filth of their own sociopathic selfishness and dishonesty).

So, like, there's that.

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Q: How can we make Canada better?

PM Steve: Private prisons run by American companies that are having trouble operating in the US due to their various violations of human rights! And mandatory minimum sentencing for certain crimes, just like the mandatory minimums that failed all over the United States!

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Among other things snuck into the Omnibus crime bill: erosion of Canadian sovereignty.

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Okay one more... cause it's been way too long since we shared some cute with you, Constant Reader. Forgive us. Things are just. So. AAAARGH in our country right now. 

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Alright, the time for celebrating Bev Oda FINALLY stepping down--after defrauding the signatories of the CIDA document and lying about it in parliament--is over. Remember that our government is still run by these crooks, and remember they hate nothing more than they hate poor people.

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Finally, a little good news.

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Do you expect me to believe that Dean Del Mastro, of all people, LIED about something? And was engaged in illegal behaviour related to elections?

No fucking way, man.

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No, dickhead, foul-mouthed abuse is reserved for those of us who have to be governed by shitbirds like you.

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You know what this country needs? A room full of pictures of Stephen Harper.

Wait, what's that you say? Where would I go to see that?

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I'd seriously have a hard time finding an argument that Stephen Harper is the worst thing that's ever happened in this country's political history. And his rule just goes on and on.

Asked about his environmental critics getting government funding, he replied, more generally: “If it’s the case that we’re spending on organizations that are doing things contrary to government policy, I think that is an inappropriate use of taxpayers money and we’ll look to eliminate it.”

This is an important statement, no doubt about it, but it’s hardly a revelation. Its significance is that no other prime minister in the past half-century has dared to articulate the same principle. Since the concept of government funding of civil society first emerged in the 1960s, both Liberal and (Progressive) Conservative governments have swallowed their ambivalence and accepted this remarkable enhancement of Canadian democracy.

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Lyin' Brian urges big pharmaceutical companies to use their position of having a friend-to-oligarchy running the country to push for a ban on generic medicine.

Because what's important here is corporations becoming richer and poor people not being able to afford to stay alive.

Can an invitation to meet with Unkle Karlheinz be very far off?

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War of 1812, fought by two countries we're not: celebrated in a multi-million-dollar party!

Charter of Rights and Freedoms, setting down for the first time Canadians' legal democratic rights: fuck that shit, as if we're celebrating something that just gets in the way of PM Steve handing over the country to oil barons.