Shut Up. That's Why

Stephen Harper will not be questioned about the census. Everyone go away, the man has a country to destroy.

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Just Like The Good Old Days

I see the pogrom is making a comeback. Well, it did keep the Romanovs in power for a bit longer. Nothing like a bit of racial/religious hysteria to help people forget their problems, eh? No matter that the airline in question has denied the incident took place as screamed in the Sun chain. As we all know, in Harper's Canada, truth is overrated. It's belief and gut instincts that matter.

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OOOkay

Since Mr. Harper has called raising taxes "dumb", I think he owes Canadians an explanation of what programmes he intends to cut, to wipe out the structural deficits, his "smart" tax cuts have created. And before the next election please. Or, perhaps deficits don't matter.

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Get Ready For Endless Ronald Reagan Biopics

News item: The government has announced it will no longer fund movies or TV shows it considers "offensive". I suspect there won't be any more "Prairie Giant" type projects.

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Steve's Cannon Fodder

For those following the Helena Guergis fiasco and are not yet convinced this was a put up job by the PMO, I give you "Exhibit A". John Ivison yesterday, writing on another Tory fiasco, the Gary Lunn/Linda Keen contretemps.

The Minister of Natural Resources hasn't been seen in public since before Christmas, except by one alert letter-to-the-editor writer who spotted him in a Canadian Tire store in Vancouver.

No wonder he's made himself scarce. Who'd want to be hauled in front of a parliamentary committee and asked awkward questions such as: "Minister, did you really write that letter to nuclear regulator Linda Keen asking her to give one good reason why she shouldn't be fired, or was it penned by someone in the Prime Minister's Office, who told you to sign your name to it on pain of political death?"

We are reliably informed that's what happened. Mr. Lunn has been widely condemned for making Ms. Keen, president of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, the scapegoat in this whole affair. But it's possible that the Minister is the fall guy for a caper dreamt up in the Prime Minister's Office.

This is the way this government works. The PMO comes up with a "brilliant" strategy, writes it out and then shoves a hapless Minister out on stage to deliver pre-scripted attacks on the enemy of the day. Then when things go south, the PMO hides in its bunker while the Minister (Lunn one day, Guergis the next) gets grenades lobbed at them. Harper and the thugs who surround him see everyone in government, even his senior ministers, as expendable assets in their unending war on anyone who challenges the absolute authority of Stephen Harper.

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Shhh, The Walls Have Ears

This is really, really creepy. I used to think Psycho Steve was like this guy, but now I think he is becoming more and more like this guy. Harper is at heart a Tsar. He is an autocrat and not particularly competent in any field save for running a fine internal intelligence network. Hat tip to the Jurist.

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