I begin this week with a pretty awesome article from Raif Mair. Wow...I made about six typing errors coming to grips with that first sentence...Anyhow, Rafe talks about Dianne Watts running for the Conservatives. Which isn't all that interesting. Until he starts talking about how useless the life of a backbench MP are. Makes you understand all the hooting and hollering in the House, doesn't it? Wouldn't we be better off if we all just decided this was a farce? If all MP's are there for is to vote how they're told...shit...must be a better way to do things?
I must admit that I have some strange tendencies. All it takes to bring me on side is a bit of grovelling. I love an underdog. I think that's why I hated Lance Armstrong so much. Now that he's sad and apologetic he's coming around for me. And now Paul Calandra, I can't help but feel a bit sorry for him. I mean, his responses in Parliament were absolutely idiotic. But there's no way he came up with that all on his own. Now...hung out to dry. This is the Conservative Modus Operandi. My question is this: How come they put so many questionable people into positions of authority to begin with? Bev Oda. Paul Calandra. Dean Del Mastro. Mike Duffy. Pamela Wallin. That other guy. On and on it goes. And...we still don't really have answers as to what is happening in Iraq.
Statoil is backing out of an OilSands project. This is interesting for two reasons. First, does this signify a larger problem within the OilSands? Second, how come every other fucking country on this earth is allowed to have a state oil company invested in our OilSands, except for us?
Is there anything worse than somebody who wants to "advise" on an issue and not get involved in any other way? I laughed a bit when our contribution to the ISIS fight was 60 or so military advisors. Now we might send some planes...really fucking old planes.
The Canadian 1% is still a bit sad. $191,000 in yearly salary gains you entry. I mean...must be nice. But you're basically an American shoeshine boy with that money.
Andrew Scheer does not respond kindly towards questioning of his impartiality.
I actually kind of like Jason Kenney's recent responses on Temporary Foreign Workers. We'll see if there's any substance to it. If we're going to sell out the country in the name of jobs, let's at least make sure people can get jobs and salaries go up a bit. Nobody should have sympathy for Alberta companies complaining that they can't hire cheap foreign labour.
It's tough to figure what Steve is thining about the UN these days. I mean, don't show up for the climate conference, but show up for dinner? And then re-announce an announcement that we already announced a few years ago? That basically does nothing but bring us in line with US Regulations? At least we brought some cash...Canada forks out a bit of UN money for Ebola...and some more UN money for a maternal health initiative.
This needs to be read because it's just too weird. A murdered man in France had stolen the identity of Glenn Miller...and was living the life of a washed up Canadian "rockstar".
I'll start by pointing out the obvious. Nobody thinks this is a good thing or should have happened. The question is what we should do about it? The response to the murder of a Surrey teen by a recently released High Risk Offender has been about what you would expect. I'd like to see a happy medium between keep-everybody-in-jail-forever and do-absolutely-nothing-once-high-risk-offenders-are-released-except-deliver-a-warning.
The Cons look to shaft everybody by re-introducing their union finance law, ignoring the recommendations of the Senate, and limiting debate on the whole sordid affair. Nothing to see here, folks.
So, ya, there is an argument for stripping terrorists of their passports. But that comes at a cost. And I don't trust these assholes enough to give them the right to start stripping citizenship, especially with the loose definition of "terrorist" these days.
Some more info on North Korean refugees. The reason we don't accept them? Well, Chris Alexander sucks. And the loophole seems to be that since South Korea will accept North Koreans, they're no longer considered to be refugees in Canada's eyes. Which is some fucking loophole.
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