BS: The writ dropped in Canuckistan 150802

Subject: BS: The writ dropped in Canuckistan 150802
From: gnu
Date: 02 Aug 15 - 07:12 PM

Parliament has been dissolved. Election is 151019. This is a big deal for Canada and those well beyond our borders. It would take months to explain why.

Here is a sign of how much damage Harper has done to Canada and the world... http://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/womans-obit-asks-people-to-drive-harper-from-office#.sqxe2Ea7d

He is a menace to Canada and to the world... seriously... to the world. I shit you not.

Here is a FB page that would take you months to digest if you just read the titles to the links... https://www.facebook.com/groups/UnseatHarper/

Subject: RE: BS: The writ dropped in Canuckistan 150802
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Aug 15 - 07:42 PM

The Machiavellian prick just called the second longest election campaign in Canada's history knowing full well that the other parties can't match them financially over that period of time. Of course their coffers are overflowing with donations from the one percent because that's the constituency he panders to with his policies. I hope the bastard gets his ass handed to him at election time.

Subject: RE: BS: The writ dropped in Canuckistan 150802
From: GUEST,#
Date: 02 Aug 15 - 08:20 PM

Harper is the worst person ever to become PM of Canada, and we've had a few doozies. I hope his balls rot; all his teeth fall out but one, and in that he has a permanent toothache; his hair is infested with lice and his crotch with crabs; his nose get stuffed with stinging wasps, and his tonsils eat his tongue. Then I hope the lying sack of shit has a REALLY bad day.

Subject: RE: BS: The writ dropped in Canuckistan 150802
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Aug 15 - 08:34 PM

I take it you folks Up There don't care for him? If so, we'll be happy to send you 16 or 17 others.

Subject: RE: BS: The writ dropped in Canuckistan 150802
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Aug 15 - 08:58 PM

DeAdder cartoon sums it up:


Political cartoon 

Subject: RE: BS: The writ dropped in Canuckistan 150802
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Aug 15 - 09:14 PM

I thought Canada was a Federal Constitutional Monarchy, not a democracy.

Subject: RE: BS: The writ dropped in Canuckistan 150802
From: GUEST,#
Date: 02 Aug 15 - 09:22 PM

It's a constitutional monarchy. It's also a democracy. It's the democracy part we're trying to preserve.

Subject: RE: BS: The writ dropped in Canuckistan 150802
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Aug 15 - 12:10 PM

Good. So am I, down here in Southern Canada.

Subject: RE: BS: The writ dropped in Canuckistan 150802
From: gnu
Date: 03 Aug 15 - 12:35 PM

This evil trash is the first PM to have been found in contempt of Parliament. He prorogued Parliament twice to avoid a vote of confidence. I gotta stop. Like I said, it would take months. As we say up here in The Great White Frozen, he's not very nice.

Subject: RE: BS: The writ dropped in Canuckistan 150802
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Aug 15 - 09:50 PM

So it's a couple of months or so until your election. GOD! Have you seen what's going on down HERE?? And we've got until next year November 8!!! I may go stark, raving, mad (moreso that I am already, that is). I think it would be great to have only a couple of months!

I haven't met a Canadian yet who likes what Harper has done; they especially don't like C-51 or whatever that was. I'd like to see 'em all tossed out on their collective ear.

Subject: RE: BS: The writ dropped in Canuckistan 150802
From: Bill D
Date: 03 Aug 15 - 11:16 PM

Makes Trudeau look positively decent, hmmm?

Well... we had Nixon. You all will have Harper as just a bad example someday.

Subject: RE: BS: The writ dropped in Canuckistan 150802
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Aug 15 - 07:03 AM

Let's not be so innocent to speculate that Harper has not been in the pre-election mode for over year. The only difference, since the election call was made, is fewer Canadian taxpayer dollars, and public servant resources are being "directly" used to try to get him re-elected.

In the USA, it may just seem a bit more obvious.

Subject: RE: BS: The writ dropped in Canuckistan 150802
From: Ed T
Date: 04 Aug 15 - 07:32 AM

""Justin Trudeau was just four months old when a sitting United States president pegged him for high political office.

"Tonight we'll dispense with the formalities. I'd like to toast the future prime minister of Canada: to Justin Pierre Trudeau," Richard Nixon, who presided over the bete noire of American presidencies, said at a post-gala buffet in April 1972 during a state visit to Ottawa.""




Nixon-a Trudeau prediction 

Subject: RE: BS: The writ dropped in Canuckistan 150802
From: gnu
Date: 04 Aug 15 - 10:58 AM

Vile... foul, nasty, unpleasant, bad, disagreeable, horrid, horrible, dreadful, abominable, atrocious, offensive, obnoxious, odious, unsavory, repulsive, disgusting, distasteful, loathsome, hateful, nauseating, sickening; see Harper.

Subject: RE: BS: The writ dropped in Canuckistan 150802
From: Mooh
Date: 04 Aug 15 - 03:31 PM

Smarmy bastard. His is a party of deluded lemmings and the arrogant self-interested privileged. He's buying some voters, denying others, and qualifying his promises with unrealistic conditions.

History will not be kind to him.

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: The writ dropped in Canuckistan 150802
From: GUEST,DrWord
Date: 04 Aug 15 - 10:22 PM

What Gnu said. What Mooh said. 'Nuff said.
keep on pickin'
dennis

Subject: RE: BS: The writ dropped in Canuckistan 150802
From: gnu
Date: 05 Aug 15 - 02:12 PM

Debate tomorrow night.

Fer yer ferriners... Harper has screwed over Canada on the debates. There will be no CBC televised debates as has been done for YEARS. He has refused to debate under various "circumstances" because he knows he is gonna get his ass kicked and he doesn't want ALL Canucks to see it happen. Fuckin sneaky underhanded coward piece of fuckin garbage. I have never hated anyone as much as I hate this puppet maniac.

Seriously, I actually enjoy this.

Subject: RE: BS: The writ dropped in Canuckistan 150802
From: gnu
Date: 05 Aug 15 - 10:14 PM

2008 and it's just what he said

Harper is evil. Toxic.

Subject: RE: BS: The writ dropped in Canuckistan 150802
From: GUEST,#
Date: 06 Aug 15 - 08:23 AM

"Harper is evil. Toxic."

He's a product of the Northern Foundation; substantially beyond evil and toxic.

Subject: RE: BS: The writ dropped in Canuckistan 150802
From: Charmion
Date: 06 Aug 15 - 09:49 AM

Mr Harper's election campaigns always begin on the day after the last one. Those who were paying attention knew what we were getting back in 2006, when he issued a diktat to the Public Service to cease all references to the Government of Canada, which would henceforth be known as the Harper Government (capital letters included).

I live in the "safe" Liberal riding of Ottawa-Vanier, where the politics revolve around who speaks French, where French is spoken, where French should be spoken and isn't, and not much else. No contender to the throne of our local Member of Parliament, Mauril Bélanger, has yet managed to steer the conversation to issues of true national importance; Mr Bélanger always somehow manages to remind the voters that he -- all by himself -- prevented the closure of the local hospital, where the language of operations is French, when the bean-counters wanted to consolidate Ottawa's health-care services in three large English-majority bilingual institutions. The debate then seems to stop, and the voters cast their ballots for the familiar Liberal logo.

Consequently, the New Democrats and the Conservatives don't bother running candidates of any stature in Ottawa-Vanier, and those who care little about language politics (or are sick to death of language politics) have nobody to vote for.

And for the next two and a half months, I have to read the foreign newspapers if I wish to remain reasonably sane.

Subject: RE: BS: The writ dropped in Canuckistan 150802
From: gnu
Date: 06 Aug 15 - 02:39 PM

At least you HAVE a newspaper(s). We have the Irving Family Newsletters. There's only English daily in the entire province that they don't own and they own most of the radio stations (I think???). I get watered down news CBC TV and radio (until it gets sold when Harper rams the TPP up our). I get news on the net from Huff Post, The Tyee...

Subject: RE: BS: The writ dropped in Canuckistan 150802
From: ragdall
Date: 07 Aug 15 - 04:34 AM

How about that debate? Did anyone else watch it?

Subject: RE: BS: The writ dropped in Canuckistan 150802
From: gnu
Date: 07 Aug 15 - 06:49 PM

Yup. You couldn't cut the bullshit with an axe. I find it soooo unfortunate that twits are allowed to lie through their teeth and not have to resign for it. BTW... I recorded it and I am still not finished watching it as I can't breathe in that much stank all at once. I am about 3/4 in and I wanna smack some of them upside the head.

Subject: RE: BS: The writ dropped in Canuckistan 150802
From: GUEST,HiLo
Date: 09 Aug 15 - 09:13 AM

Gnu, who would you like to see win and why.i am truly interested. Thanks.

Subject: RE: BS: The writ dropped in Canuckistan 150802
From: gnu
Date: 09 Aug 15 - 10:02 AM

See the OP.

Subject: RE: BS: The writ dropped in Canuckistan 150802
From: GUEST,HiLo
Date: 21 Sep 15 - 08:40 AM

Hello Gnu, any thoughts on the campaign so far ? Would like to have your take on it .

Subject: RE: BS: The writ dropped in Canuckistan 150802
From: gnu
Date: 21 Sep 15 - 10:10 AM

Mulcair did second best in the second "debate". May won it hands down via twitter. Trudeau is out of his league. Harper is Harper and I think he's toast but anything can happen... sad to say.

Subject: RE: BS: The writ dropped in Canuckistan 150802
From: GUEST,HiLo
Date: 21 Sep 15 - 10:32 AM

Thanks Gnu. Why do you think Trudeau is out of his league ?

Subject: RE: BS: The writ dropped in Canuckistan 150802
From: meself
Date: 21 Sep 15 - 02:30 PM

Harper was just in Alberta, telling us that, in effect, our NDP government is to blame for the drop in the price of oil internationally.

Subject: RE: BS: The writ dropped in Canuckistan 150802
From: Greg F.
Date: 21 Sep 15 - 02:58 PM

Harper & Govs. LePage of Maine & Christie of New Jersey should get together- prefearbly on some uninhabited Pacific atoll.

Subject: RE: BS: The writ dropped in Canuckistan 150802
From: gnu
Date: 22 Sep 15 - 06:19 AM

"Why do you think Trudeau is out of his league?" I watch the debates and I watch him flip-flop and orate like a puppy that wants attention.

Subject: RE: BS: The writ dropped in Canuckistan 150802
From: GUEST,#
Date: 22 Sep 15 - 08:32 AM

ABC (Anyone But Conservative) will work for me in this election. Strategic voting looks like the way to beat the SOS (Sack O' Shit). In my district that will be NDP. The thing to watch for now is spin in social media. Harper will keep promising any- and everyone money, so he has to be called on that every single time he does it. I detest Harper, but frankly I'm not too thrilled with either Mulcair or Trudeau. Elizabeth May is the smartest of the lot but the Greens with luck will take two of the 338 seats up for grabs. The battleground is Ontario, Saskatchewan and Alberta. Harper has promised to resign if he doesn't win, but he didn't define what win means, and since he's never said anything he's stuck to in his miserable fu#king life, who knows.

Subject: RE: BS: The writ dropped in Canuckistan 150802
From: gnu
Date: 22 Sep 15 - 06:30 PM

Evil Steve actually said if any party gets one more seat than the Cons, he will abdicate as supreme ruler. We all know the lyin SOS will rescind that one with BS. Certainly, May (Green) is head and shoulders above the rest but she's a snowball and we all know it so - NDP. My riding? Pffft! It's going Fiberal. No doubt in my mind. But I will not vote strategically. I am tired of the BS so I have to vote my conscience save voting Green (May).

My fear is that which Trudeau wrought when he rejected outright any deal with the NDP but said he was open to the Cons. He softened when he said, well, ahhh, err, maybe we could deal with the NDP but not if Mulcair is the leader.... fuckin little rich kid wimp asshole suckup piece of shit. Fuck him. If PET was above the grass, he'd tan the little fucker's ass. When he stood up and ayed C-51, he pissed on his father's and my father's grave. I break wind in his general direction.

Ya know, in my family, we NEVER spoke of our politics... we never HAD TO. Now, we do. Too much is at stake. These bastard are subverting our Parliamentary system, our democracy, our rights and freedoms, and our nation's ethics at home and on the world stage. We used to be Canada. Now, we are CanaDUH?

HARPER Harper! (Canuck joke.)

Subject: RE: BS: The writ dropped in Canuckistan 150802
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Sep 15 - 10:32 AM

Couldn't Liz toss the whole lot and let y'all start over?

Subject: RE: BS: The writ dropped in Canuckistan 150802
From: GUEST,#
Date: 23 Sep 15 - 06:12 PM

No. She is the Queen of England, true, and also true that when she visits this country she does so as the Queen of Canada, but she has no authority over our parliament unless she is asked through the governor general at the behest of our parliament to rule on an issue.

Subject: RE: BS: The writ dropped in Canuckistan 150802
From: ragdall
Date: 28 Sep 15 - 03:41 PM

Subtle signs of the times?
https://flic.kr/p/yTK9ru

Subject: RE: BS: The writ dropped in Canuckistan 150802
From: gnu
Date: 28 Sep 15 - 03:55 PM

Well, George W. Harper is surging in the poles over the niqab issue and his stance on the migrants from Syria. Sigh.

Subject: RE: BS: The writ dropped in Canuckistan 150802
From: gnu
Date: 19 Oct 15 - 08:52 PM

Holy shit!

Subject: RE: BS: The writ dropped in Canuckistan 150802
From: JennieG
Date: 19 Oct 15 - 08:57 PM

Gary, it's a very interesting time to be visiting Canada.....and like you, I'm flabbergasted!

Subject: RE: BS: The writ dropped in Canuckistan 150802
From: gnu
Date: 19 Oct 15 - 09:10 PM

Good Lard! Oh me Dog! She's RED RED RED all across Atlantic Canada. Fucks my retirement plans up if this keeps up. Sweet Jaysus H.! How could... oh yeah... strategic voting and fear mongering and an uneducated voting pubically challenged electorate. Looks like Canuckistan may get fucked yet again. Ten years of this shit... 147 years in total of this fuckin bullshit save Tommy and Lester.

I think Mulcair screwed himself on two issues. I am so sad. It ain't over but... it ain't lookin good for democracy in Canada.

Subject: RE: BS: The writ dropped in Canuckistan 150802
From: Ebbie
Date: 19 Oct 15 - 10:11 PM

Keepin' it crossed for you, gnu.

Subject: RE: BS: The writ dropped in Canuckistan 150802
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Oct 15 - 10:28 PM

It looks right now that the Liberals and Trudeau have 179 seats, giving them a majority. Harper and the Conservatives look to be out of power. This from Elections Canada.

Subject: RE: BS: The writ dropped in Canuckistan 150802
From: gnu
Date: 19 Oct 15 - 11:08 PM

Yeah... looks it like might be a done deal. More of the same shit maybe... just a different hair colour. I can't believe Canucks would put this pup in charge. All I can hope for now is that the old alliances firm up and provide him the support and guidance he needs to actually be a Prime Minister... cause that stunned little boy can't do it on his own.

Buddy b'y from La Belle, I owe ya one... you know who you are. Perfect call.

Subject: RE: BS: The writ dropped in Canuckistan 150802
From: Ebbie
Date: 20 Oct 15 - 01:15 AM

Still, it is good news, isn't it? Better than it might have been?

Subject: RE: BS: The writ dropped in Canuckistan 150802
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 20 Oct 15 - 04:53 AM

Australian election analyst comments on Canadian election result with several comments from an Australian perspective

Good political party, Safe, Steady and Fair to the people.

( The Liberal Party of Canada), colloquially known as the Grits, is the oldest federal political party in Canada. The party espouses the principles of liberalism, and generally sits at the centre of the Canadian political spectrum.
Historically the Liberal Party has been positioned to the left of the Conservative Party of Canada and to the right of the New Democratic Party (NDP)
The party dominated federal politics for much of Canada's history, holding power for almost 69 years in the 20th century—more than any other party in a developed country—which resulted in its being sometimes referred to as Canada's "natural governing party".
Among the party's signature policies and legislative decisions include universal health care, the Canada Pension Plan, Canada Student Loans, peacekeeping, multilateralism, official bilingualism, official multiculturalism, patriating the Canadian constitution and the entrenchment of Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the Clarity Act, restoring balanced budgets in the 1990s, and making same-sex marriage legal nationwide.

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Those Canadians are strange people, they have a Liberal Party that is actually populated with liberals. What a novel idea. (Australian Liberal party is very right wing & attacks in Australia some of the things the Canadian liberals support or created)

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Subject: RE: BS: The writ dropped in Canuckistan 150802
From: Ed T
Date: 20 Oct 15 - 06:45 AM

On Justin Trudeau and Harper 

Subject: RE: BS: The writ dropped in Canuckistan 150802
From: GUEST,#
Date: 20 Oct 15 - 10:35 AM

Gnu, you are a gentleman, scholar and good friend. Thank you.

Subject: RE: BS: The writ dropped in Canuckistan 150802
From: meself
Date: 20 Oct 15 - 01:00 PM

It's great news. Is it the best possible news in the best possible of worlds? Probably not. But for now - it's great news.

It WAS a damn shame to see the NDP so thoroughly clobbered - but a real joy to see the Harperites get dunked under.

Subject: RE: BS: The writ dropped in Canuckistan 150802
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Oct 15 - 01:02 PM

If Canada is lucky, only bubbles will arise from the dunking.

Subject: RE: BS: The writ dropped in Canuckistan 150802
From: gnu
Date: 20 Oct 15 - 09:27 PM

Yer welcome, #. Right back atchya.

Rap... them bubbles might be farts... we'll see. Will these Libcons be any different from the Conlibs? Well, they voted with them 70% of the time. Even on C-51! (Ya gotta know Canuck political history.) I can only have hope. It's all I have.

Subject: RE: BS: The writ dropped in Canuckistan 150802
From: GUEST,ollaimh
Date: 21 Oct 15 - 12:12 AM

thanks all the gods and goddesses we now have a prime minister and a party that has common decency. the liberals have been great for Canada. they brought in all our progressive legislation and were fiscally responsible over all. in fact in spite of tory mythology about the debt, pierre trudeau ran more surplus budgets than all the conservatives combined since the war(WWII).

but harper was such an evil guy.   I thought he was just an oil industry hack, but he actually spent several millions dollars in legal fees to try and hide the criminal records of people convicted of torture and sexual abuse of children. torture convictions are rarer than rare, these were the worst of the worst, and he appealed all the way to the supreme court of Canada to stop these, public records by law, from being seen by the public.and of course lost--as he did with 14 appeals to our highest court.   that's when I knew he was downright evil.

these conservatives really thought the law didn't apply to them.

why did he do it, the children were natives and the criminal torturers were good Christians. he represents the worst of racist Christianity, and the worst of the toxic oil people.

Justin trudeau ran a principled and positive campaign and ignored the cheap shots and smears from both mulcair and harper.

so we are rid of the spendthrift racist tories, and we have a real liberal liberal party.

I thought trudeau did fine in the debates. the format doesn't allow proper debate, so he stuck to headlines on his policies and deflected the feeble attempts by mulcair to bait him with cheap sots about smoking marijuana and about his having speech writer(like they don't all have speech writers), and harper was a dead fish for most of the debates.

the meanness of harpers government self destructed. they could have avoided plowing omnibus bills through parliament,stiffling debate, and manipulating the senate--which led to the duffy affair, and then avoided bribing duffy, and they could have avoided the constant refusal to answer questions and the destruction of scientific work. all for no good reason. they did those things because they are mean bigots kinda like our q.   if they had shown some diplomacy and tact and answered questions, and avoided attacks all the time, they would have been re elected. but as it was they advertised their meanness so much even their own supporters couldn't miss it.

so we have great government with a fantastic list of talented mps, and every reason to be hopefull.

Subject: RE: BS: The writ dropped in Canuckistan 150802
From: Ed T
Date: 21 Oct 15 - 05:01 PM

Seems like you are repeating Mulcairs election speaking points, gnu, by giving only part if the story.

Trudeau voted for C-51 and said if elected, he would fix the issues/problems with it. Unlike former NDP Leader Layton, who tried to negotiare and cooperate to influence changes to legislation (as Trudeau did) Mulcair tended to mostly vote against everything put in front of him. This, among other things, gave him the common title of "Angry Tom".