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1. Remember Harper’s Birthday: 30 April 1959 (He’s a Taurus)
2. Give more
allegiance to the Party than to the Constitution (Prorogation crises what
prorogation crises?)
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3. All Canadians elect – and a few maybe vote against
– the Prime Minister of Canada (He is not to be known as “Leader of the House
of Commons”, now an antiquated notion)
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4. MPs and
Cabinet members are only puppets for the Prime Minister and the (non-elected)
PMO (see also above)
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5. Multiple omnibus bills sind immer gut für die Gesundheit (forget the
contrary - what Harper said in plain English while in Opposition)
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6. Think big:
we could have withdrawn from the League of Nations United Nations
after most of the world voted Canada down over the issue of Palestinian ‘state’
status (the only significant vote Harper has lost in years)
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7. But it’s “Serenity Now!” with the Prime
Minister’s yin and yang ways: we will have an uninterrupted investment pact with
China for 31 years – all without a single public vote in any land (quite a coup: the hapless Mulroney’s trade deal
with America was an election issue)
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8. Citizens
are not always citizens (you can be deported)
9. Child soldiers in
war are to be known as murderers (especially when they are Muslim)
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10. Those considered mentally ill are always
responsible for their acts (this makes people feel better about themselves)
11. Remember: Canada
outspends Poland on its national broadcaster (Hurray!)
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12. Free trade if necessary but not necessarily
free trade (the Nexen oil company takeover by Communist China’s state-owned enterprise ,
CNOOC, is now a celebration of Canadian “multiculturalism”)
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13. Memo to the Minister of Heritage: Karl Marx first published his Das Kapital in London in July 1867. The Conservative quest to return Canada to
nineteenth-century values is complete.
We may now observe Communism as part of Canada Day (see above)
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14. Robo-calls are really a minor issue (it’s
the pollster behind the Supreme Court case that has a character problem!)
4.
15. The Great Recession is ‘not a problem for
the government, but a problem for the people’ (so a wise man says)
5.
16. Canada’s police are never violent (G20 ‘activity’
was an overreaction by the people of Toronto, who are prone to excitement)
17. Apartheid is a foreign word (it applies neither to our
indigenous peoples, nor to the homeless)
1. 18. Bitumen is not carcinogenic but it can be
cancer causing (“let me be clear”)
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19. F-35 Economics (avoid any conversation
thereof or your head will go into a tailspin)
This is some of the most trenchant political commentary today on Canada and the puzzling disinterest of Canadians in what is happening to democratic governance in their country. They have lost interest in their own sustainability and well-being as a polity. This allows other interests, such as well funded, professional and ruthlessly focused corporate interests (Canada and international) to push their agendas to the forefront of the political agenda. It also allows the government to not be called to account when it trades away or acts against its citizens' own shared interests - such as coastal communities have in the fishery as a resource - in order to accomplish its own, ideological, reorganization of society solely according to economic dictates. An example will be the sacrifice of the East coast fish processing in negotiations for "free trade". (This is ironic given the European Union hostility to the barest economic survival of Inuit Canadians by banning the import and sale of seal products).
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