Category: Government

Two hundred days in office and still going.

It’s great to be conservative these days, isn’t it? Just in case you’ve been living in a cave lately, today marks the 200th day of our latest Conservative government and despite what all the nervous Nellies from the left told us, things are moving along pretty damned good.

Can anyone seriously doubt that we have seen more leadership in the past 6+ months from Stephen Harper’s rookie government than we saw in over a decade of rule under the “natural governing party of Canada?” I would find that rather hard to swallow.

Let’s indulge ourselves (just this once) on a little smug reflection on what the Big Bad Scary Tories have managed to do for the country in a mere 200 days, shall we?

• The GST, which the Grits promised to scrap but never did, has been cut by one percent, just like Steve told us it would.
• The long running trade irritant with the US over softwood lumber is finally within sight of its end. The Grits couldn’t solve this one in over a decade but Harper and his crew managed to hammer out a deal in only months.
• Money that would have been wasted on a bloated child care bureaucracy is now being routed directly to the ultimate child care specialists (parents) who can decide for themselves how best to spend it.
• We have a government that isn’t afraid to dig in its heels and declare exactly where it stands on issues, whether politically convenient or not. The recent conflict in the Middle East is a perfect example of this.
• Our long neglected military is finally getting a desperately needed injection of billions of dollars for both equipment and manpower.
• We now have the Federal Accountability Act to help keep a leash on crooked politicians.
• We have legislation working its way through Parliament to crack down on crime and make scumbags start doing some serious time behind bars where they can’t hurt anybody else.
• With vigorous operations in Afghanistan, the myth of Canada being the “mouse that roared” on the international stage is rapidly being put down.
• Federalism has been revived in Quebec, with more and more people realising that they aren’t really stuck between the rock and hard place of crooked Liberals and rabid seperatists.

All of this, and a whole lot more, from the scary bunch that the MSM howled and prophecied would bring about the ruin of the nation.

Not bad for a bunch of bogeymen, eh?

Congratulations to Tory MP Jason Kenney for being one of the first to really grab all the egghead apologists for Hezbullshit by the scruff and truly rub their noses in some of the crap that they’ve been feeding us for so long. Not only that, but he did it in terms that even the most dense and logic-resistant socialist could understand.

Several Grit and commie NDP MPs have lately dropped the huge clanger on our rug of national discussion that Hezbullshit is a bunch that we should be engaging in dialogue with. The logic being that, since they have a political wing, it should be all fine and dandy to talk with that bunch as long as we aren’t talking to the ones actually doing the bombing. Sort of like saying that you should hire a NAMBLA spokesman to babysit your kids because all he does is talk…

And then, along came the Big Bad Tory to just bugger their wonderful little delusions all up. Kenny bluntly pointed out that having a political wing doesn’t mean that you aren’t scum. In the 1930s, Germany had a political party (the National Socialist German Workers’ Party) which ran in elections and provided social services but, like Hezbullshit, had an agenda of genocide and conquest and made little effort to hide it. The world (with a few notable exceptions) tried to appease that gang for a while, and look what that got us.

Fortunately for the rest of us, however, Kenney and company seem to have actually cracked a history book or two in their lives:

“Their idea of a balanced approach is one where Israel is always wrong,” Kenney told a news conference on Tuesday. “This represents a totally irresponsible approach to foreign security policy.”

“The Liberal Party of Canada cannot claim to be prepared to be ready to govern Canada if they can’t establish a coherent position on such a clear cut issue as the terrorist nature of Hezbollah.”

The Grits, to nobody’s surprise, have been backpedaling like hell on this issue,

“I’ve said all along that Hezbollah is a terrorist organization and will continue to be,” Borys Wrzesnewskyj said.

but everyone knows it’s already too late for that. They’ve shown themselves for what they really are. Again.

This is just too rich to be true. Really, it is. Even I had to look twice at this one to make sure I wasn’t dreaming. Or maybe hungover.

The eternally unassuaged Grits moan and groan into every microphone they come across that PM Harper is a mean, nasty partisan who never lets anybody but Conservatives do anything. Then, Steve goes and does something totally unpartisan: he picks Liberal MP Wajid Khan as his special adviser on South Asia and the Middle East. Yes, you heard that right: Harper hired a Liberal. And the Grits totally lost it(NTTAWWT). Hell, I love watching moonbats turning on each other like a pack of starving dogs (insert big, scary, rightwinger grin here).

TO Grit Maria Minna (no relation to our apparently resident troll) hacked up the best hairball so far, I think: “Wajid’s appointment is a slick, sick, calculated move on Harper’s part. Liberals shouldn’t touch this thing with a 10-foot pole . . . Wajid should have known that he was playing into the hands of the Conservatives and Bill Graham should have said NO.”

Others are howling for Wajid to either quit the job or quit the Liberal party. Correct me if I’m wrong here, but isn’t that exactly the kind of “with us or against us” attitude that liberals are always whining about??

Naturally, the MSM, being the good little leftist lapdogs that they are, have gone all out to put whatever sort of machiavellian spin on this that they can. Not that we would expect anything else. It’s the same old “heads I win, tails you lose” attitude we’ve been seeing for years. Harper is damned if he does and damned if he doesn’t, so the best thing to do is to just stick with his “principles, not polls” way of doing things and let the voting public make up their own minds.

They’re perfectly capable of it, and they’re getting rather unwilling to let the Grits or MSM or Big Nanny or anyone else, for that matter, tell them what they should be thinking. Minds are getting made up. And if what I see is any indication, most people are in their right mind. In many senses of the word.

Proving yet again that they know where their priorities are, the McWimpy government is waging a desperate battle to get back to the business of doing nothing. Attorney General Michael Bryant is going to court to argue that endless chinwagging is better than actually doing something to resolve the situation in Caledonia. Being typically Grit, Bryant seems to think that the law just doesn’t apply to everybody.

On Tuesday, Ontario Superior Court Justice David Marshall knocked the wheels off this little bullshit bandwagon by ordering that there will be no talks between the protestors rioters and anyone until the law of the land is followed and a previous court order to vacate is obeyed. Let’s face a nasty truth here, boys and girls. No matter what some of the lefty-lovers try to say, everybody with a brain in their head knows damn well that if these were white people pulling a stunt like this, they’d have been dragged off to the pokey long ago, using any force necessary.

This puts the provincial Grits in one hell of a bind. No longer able to hide behind the “but we’re doing all we can; we’re talking to them” BS, they are still going to be expected to do something about the problem. Grits hate having to solve problems. Problems keep people distracted from Liberal incompetence and malfeasance so, obviously, it is in the Liberals’ best interest to drag every “crisis” out for as long as possible. Without any looming politically correct disaster to dazzle the masses, they start asking hard questions that Grits, with their wishy-washy, mealy-mouthed absence of guiding principles, are utterly unable to deal with. Conservatives (both big and little C), on the other hand, seek out such challenges and meet them head on; hence all the lib-left media fearmongering about us.

Got that? For Liberals, the logic is: problems good, solutions bad. Come to think about it, it’s kind of like a scaled down version of the way that Mideastern despots rail against Israel lest their people realise that it is their own leadership that is the author of most of their miseries. Hmm.

The natives, meanwhile, have been taking every opportunity to drop not-so-subtle insinuations that, without talks ongoing, the only alternative is mayhem. More proof of their thuggery.

Hazel Hill, a spokeswoman for the group, calls the ruling “an act of aggression.” What bullshit. Attacking an elderly couple in their car and trying to run over a cop are acts of aggression.

Rioter mouthpiece Janie Jamieson even has the nerve to imply that it’s up to the townspeople to keep cool heads. “There is a constant push from some (residents) to see bloodshed and they’re going to keep on creating situations until it happens,” she barfed.

When will this hypocrisy end?

Well, that didn’t take forever, did it? Only about six months, right? And hey, what’s six months of crass lawlessness compared to the warm, fuzzy feeling that we all get from being nice and politically correct? After all, it’s not as if the “non-native” residents of Caledonia can actually expect the same rights and security as everyone else now, is it?

In case you haven’t heard, Superior Court Justice David Marshall has pulled the plug on the appeasement tactics of the McWimpy government and ordered that ALL talks with the rioters protesters be called off until they get the hell out of Caledonia. Saying that “It is common knowledge that the people of Caledonia, after five months of occupation, have seen security in their town replaced by lawlessness, protesters in battle fatigues, police officers in riot gear,” Marshall displayed a rare convulsion of judicial common sense and made it clear, in no uncertain terms, that ignoring the law of the land is not going to get you what you want. It also shows the Ontario Grits that they’re not going to get away with jerking off a bunch of home grown Robert Mugabe wannabes, pretending that they’re actually doing something. The Grits, however, don’t seem to be getting the message.

Many, including a lot of Caledonia residents, are worried that this is just going to throw gas on an already smoldering woodpile. Guess what, kids? The fire is already lit. These thugs have clearly gotten in into their heads that bullying is the way to get what you want. If this isn’t stopped dead in its tracks, you can all bet your arses that we will be seeing one hell of a lot more of this in the future.

No one wants another Ipperwash or another Oka. We may not want it, but it may be what’s needed.

The courts are at it again. As if things weren’t bad enough, the marsupials in charge of Canada’s beleaguered “justice” system just keep on flinging the crap hither and yon like a bunch of disgruntled caged chimps on angel dust.

For those that need the latest count, here it is (more or less):

• 2 of the TO17 have been sprung on bail.
• 2 of the accused in Jane Creba’s murder have also been allowed to fly the coop.
• Jodie Wheatle was out on bail for gun charges when he gunned down salesman Sepehr “Danny” Fatulahzadeh-Rabti outside a car dealership last year.
• Edward Kelly strolls out on aggravated assault charges after he had sex with an 18-year-old without telling her he has AIDS (something he is in a habit of doing, BTW).
• 48 suspects busted in the Project Triple XXX gang sweep went in the revolving jailhouse door and right back out again.
• After having both their names and faces splattered all over the Canadian media, the courts still persist in the belief that information about the identities of the Medicine Hat murder suspect and the Taber shooter can be hidden; as if the genie can be shoved back into the bottle.

And those are just the ones that pop off the top of my head. Luckily, you & I don’t seem to be alone in our outrage over this tomfoolery. Ontario Opposition Leader John “Guess-What-Party-I’m-With” Tory has sounded off that he’s ready to make an election issue of this. Well, it’s about damned time. The high-and-mighty ‘roos have been buggering about with justice in this country for decades now with virtually no government willing to step up and rein them in. From the Singh decision to same-sex marriage to upholding a sentence of only one day for killing someone, the SCOC has taken one clanger after another that no elected official would ever dare try to make into law and rammed them down our throats.

So just how did we end up with this mess in the first place? Well, I hate to say it, but most of this trouble started with a document that was intended to protect Canadians: The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Yes, you heard that right. No matter how well or poorly intentioned the authors were (and that’s not a debate for here), the fact remains that it is a deeply flawed document.

Adopted in 1982 courtesy of Pierre “Up Yours” Trudeau, the Charter was intended to replace The Chief‘s Bill of Rights and provide equal protection for all Canadians. The actual result, however, has been the limiting of democracy in Canada and the emergence of an increasingly militant and beligerent judiciary, which can only be reigned in through the invocation of section 33, the infamous “notwithstanding clause” that the lefties like to shriek about so much (except when a Quebec court puts the boot to the Canada Health Act). In ratifying the Charter, power has been taked out of the hands of duly elected individuals in Parliament and final, absolute authority has been bestowed on nine unelected individuals, answerable to virtually no one, who show with ever-increasing frequency that they are both out of touch with the everyday realities of average Canadians and dangerously condecending and paternalistic in their views of the same. And the worst of the bunch is SCOC Chief Justice Beverly McLachlin (who I’ve ranted about before).

McLachlin, with her “The rule of law requires judges to uphold unwritten constitutional norms, even in the face of clearly enacted laws or hostile public opinion” attitude, feels that judges and judges alone should be trusted with deciding what the law is and what it is not.

Since Her Majesty signed the Charter into law, no Canadian Prime Minister has had the guts to stand up to the courts and take back what rightfuly belongs to our elected Parliament: the final authority of legislation (some have even suggested that the Liberals have deliberately encouraged judicial activism to get things into law that they could never get away with in the House). Harper, however, has been subtly daring the Supremes to screw with him for some time now but the Almighty Boomers have been reluctant to hop in the path of ol’ “Roo Bar” Steve. This is likely because they know damned well that Harper is one wonk with the guts and backbone to not only amend the Charter, but also to scrap it altogeather and start from scratch, if that’s what needs to be done (and it may well be).

Yes, the lefties will pinch a titanic fit and assorted special interest groups will go ballistic but the sooner power is given back to the government, and the people who elect them, the better it will be for everyone. Here’s hoping the Supremes call Harper’s hand, and soon.