There is some serious weirdness going on lately. I don’t like it. It’s creepy.
Our so-called “national broadcaster,” The Ministry of What You Should Think (aka the ceeb) has long been known as one of the great money pits of the Canadian taxpayer. It has also been consistently hostile to anything and everything that bears even the slightest resemblance to a conservative — big or small “c” — thought.
The ceeb long ago stopped being the “voice of the Canadian people.” If memory serves me correctly (and this was quite some time ago, remember), it was sometime around about the early 70s when the CBC stopped reporting on what Canadians were thinking and started telling Canadians what to think. The federal Tories have, during their time in both opposition and minority government, frequently criticized this blatant waste and bias. Rightly so, too.
So just why the hell are the Conservatives being so damn nice to it all of a sudden?? I think I might have an idea. That the ceeb was is the Liberal party’s propaganda arm has been one of the worst kept secrets in the country for years now. Are the Tories, now that they’re swinging the big stick of majority government, looking to put it to the same purpose? It’s the only explanation I can think of for some of what’s been going on lately. (more…)
“We will not release or comment on our audit report on the G8 Legacy Infrastructure Fund. Under the Auditor General Act, we can only present reports when Parliament is sitting. The Office of the Auditor General of Canada remains the custodian of its reports until they are presented to the Speaker of the House of Commons for tabling.”
-Auditor General Sheila Fraser
Funny, ain’t it, how just when the Terrifying Tory Majority™ was starting to look more and more likely (uh, waitaminit, wasn’t the Tory campaign supposed to be stalled??), out of nowhere pops up one of those handy-dandy “leaked documents” that news outlets love so much.
Next thing you know, it’s all AHA! AHA! GOTCHA!GOTCHA!GOTCHA!
Gimme a friggin’ break.
CP supposedly has a draft of a confidential report Sheila Fraser was to have tabled in Parliament on April 5. Now they’re claiming that:
The Harper government misinformed Parliament to win approval for a $50-million G8 fund that lavished money on dubious projects in a Conservative riding, the auditor general has concluded.
And she suggests the process by which the funding was approved may have been illegal.
Well, now. Ain’t that just some damning stuff, huh? The only fly in the ointment seems to be that the AG doesn’t want to go along with the little dog and pony show. Unfortunately, the law does not allow her to come right out and address this head-on, but there are a few things that she can say: (more…)
I have to say, this is kind of refreshing. Small c conservatives like myself have been going on for years about how the Ottawa press gallery is blatantly biased against conservative ideas in general and Stephen Harper in particular.
“But-but-but,” sputters the Left, “the media gives every government a hard time.”
Please. Give me a damn break.
Ever since he became leader of the Canadian Alliance, and then the new Conservative Party, the media (and Mothercorpse in particular) have accused Harper of everything anyone could dream up. They were more critical of him than they were of PM the PM during Adscam, fer chrissakes! They obediently paraded out the boogeymen of “using the notwithstanding clause to ban gay marriage,” “criminalizing abortion,” “taking away a woman’s right to choose,” and played the hidden agenda card until it was ragged. If you didn’t know better, you’d have thought that they were the ones running the Lieberal campaign. But, of course, whenever a conservative brings this up, it’s all deny, deny, deny.
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There is some serious weirdness going on lately. I don’t like it. It’s creepy.
Funny, ain’t it, how just when the Terrifying Tory Majority™ was starting to look 
