tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post337617261166701801..comments2024-03-03T17:01:57.876-05:00Comments on Montreal Simon: The Many Lies and Scheer Nonsense of Andrew ScheerSimonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15309809679331128837noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-38868496214846445022017-08-03T10:51:48.339-04:002017-08-03T10:51:48.339-04:00sorry, but I was just reading this while looking a...sorry, but I was just reading this while looking at articles of Andrew Scheer. I went to school with one of his sons! You cant possibly be so mean- I know this guy I'm surprised there are so many bad articles about him! how many of you actually have met him instead of listening to the press?????Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-65757460037521351332017-07-31T05:37:10.264-04:002017-07-31T05:37:10.264-04:00Scheer will continue with the same lines and polic...Scheer will continue with the same lines and policies Harper did. It did get them 100 seats and kept them as official opposition. Its not a bad gig as far as jobs go and if the Liberals ever screw up, well they expect to be returned to office in 15 years or so. Scheer is young enough to wait. the rest of them have their time at the public trough and so we go on and on. Now it may come to pass that some voters may become tired of the conservatives and make the NDP the official opposition, but it is doubtful. The Cons have their base and life continues. for theme. a. f.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-50693915935061677902017-07-30T10:21:15.795-04:002017-07-30T10:21:15.795-04:00I was being sarcastic, but when Scheer opens him s...I was being sarcastic, but when Scheer opens him self up to be eviscerated I would like to see Justin stick the knife in like his father would have.Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14162783936999869984noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-60845707601243290952017-07-30T08:40:27.972-04:002017-07-30T08:40:27.972-04:00hi Steve...I wish you wouldn't call Trudeau wh...hi Steve...I wish you wouldn't call Trudeau what Ezra Levant calls him. It's beneath you. But as for standing up for what is right, but not popular, I think Justin has done well, and his father would be proud of him...Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15309809679331128837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-11322767273722532772017-07-30T08:37:57.757-04:002017-07-30T08:37:57.757-04:00hi John...I'm not very good at lawyer talk, an...hi John...I'm not very good at lawyer talk, and in the Khadr case I believe it only serves to conceal and confuse. The fact is Omar Khadr was a Canadian child soldier, who according to the UN protocol on child soldiers, which we were the first to sign and the first to ignore, he should have been rehabilitated not punished. And above all never tortured or held for almost ten years in a monstrous place like Guantanamo. The case was a legal travesty, and in my opinion Omar Khadr deserves every dollar he receives...Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15309809679331128837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-89227982675346960822017-07-30T08:32:16.826-04:002017-07-30T08:32:16.826-04:00hi anon 5:40pm...thanks for your excellent and mos...hi anon 5:40pm...thanks for your excellent and most interesting comment. I love it when an Americans helps educate Canadians about our own country. Because goodness knows some of us need all the help we can get ;)<br />We really do need to remind those "purity ponies" that perfection can sometimes be the enemy of the good, and that progressives should stop fighting themselves and unite to fight the real enemy...Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15309809679331128837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-25141748734339756562017-07-30T08:26:50.369-04:002017-07-30T08:26:50.369-04:00hi anon 1:05 pm...I find it as shocking as you do....hi anon 1:05 pm...I find it as shocking as you do. I'm sure I would never have voted for somebody like Diefenbaker, or any Con for that matter. But back then at least, Con leaders acted like Canadians, and could be trusted with our humble but precious values... Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15309809679331128837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-59750986637934602722017-07-30T08:23:48.721-04:002017-07-30T08:23:48.721-04:00hi anon...he is indeed, and I'm glad you menti...hi anon...he is indeed, and I'm glad you mentioned bigot The Rebel. For let us never forget that one of the Rebel's bosses was Scheer's campaign manager. And that Ezra Levant was one of his loudest cheerleaders...Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15309809679331128837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-45160813607951841082017-07-29T22:14:41.833-04:002017-07-29T22:14:41.833-04:00Ok Shiny Pony stand up your father would have with...Ok Shiny Pony stand up your father would have without hesitation.Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14162783936999869984noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-3453643423191916612017-07-29T17:40:35.528-04:002017-07-29T17:40:35.528-04:00The party of Diefenbaker is as distant of a memory...The party of Diefenbaker is as distant of a memory for Canada as the party of Eisenhower is for us Americans.<br /><br />I recently discovered a book that Canadians may be aware of called The Authoritarians, by a professor from Manitoba named Bob Altemeyer. It gives a pretty good insight into not only the Harper-Scheer-Bush-Trump types but their cultlike followers, who not only want a rigid traditionalist to be their "protector" but want him (and it's always a him) to impose that will on others they view as a threat.<br /><br />In Scheer's case it's not only Khadr whom rank and file conservatives want excoriated by their sociopathic altar boy, but Muslims in general, the "enabler" Trudeau and, by extension, those who voted him in (which would include Muslims). The "constituency of the ascendant" as it's called, for the scattershot Democratic party that unfortunately seems to have already undergone a schism between the Bernie progressives and the Obama/Clinton centrists. One hopes that the same doesn't turn out true for the Liberals, because enough purity ponies staying home or voting for the spoilers would let the cons walk right back in.<br /><br />As for going back to the future and "rethinking things as basic as space and time," when Trudeau said he wanted "his" Canada back, he meant it: Pierre's Just Society, the Canada his father envisioned long ago that he wanted to bring <i>forward</i> and away from the regression of Bush-lite Harperism. But Conservatives want "their Canada" to go back, way back, to John MacDonald, and never leave. For them, the answer to why they want to do this is "because it's 1867." The same is true of U.S. Republicans who think the current year is (or should be) 1790.<br /><br />Ike is just a character on South Park now (a Canadian, how about that), and Diefenbaker is little more than the wolf-dog on the quirky '90s CTV/CBS crime drama Due South. The Harpercons are the GOP of the North, and for both mirror-image parties there's no going back.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-57700641585791820982017-07-29T13:43:43.406-04:002017-07-29T13:43:43.406-04:00"In spite of the Supreme Court’s strong recom..."In spite of the Supreme Court’s strong recommendation that Khadr be repatriated in 2010, the Harper government refused to repatriate him." <br /><br />That's one way of putting it. It occurred to me when reading that passage that I hadn't picked up on the "strong recommendation" cited when I read the decision. This is what the SC said in 2010:<br /><br />"After repeated requests by K that the Canadian government seek his repatriation, the Prime Minister announced his decision not to do so. K then applied to the Federal Court for judicial review, alleging that the decision violated his rights under s. 7 of the Charter. The Federal Court held that under the special circumstances of this case, Canada had a duty to protect K under s. 7 of the Charter and ordered the government to request his repatriation. The Federal Court of Appeal upheld the order, but stated that the s. 7 breach arose from the interrogation conducted in 2004 with the knowledge that K had been subjected to the 'frequent flyer program'. ...<br /><br />"K is entitled to a remedy under s. 24(1) of the Charter. The remedy sought by K — an order that Canada request his repatriation — is sufficiently connected to the Charter breach that occurred in 2003 and 2004 because of the continuing effect of this breach into the present and its possible effect on K’s ultimate trial. While the government must have flexibility in deciding how its duties under the royal prerogative over foreign relations are discharged, the executive is not exempt from constitutional scrutiny. Courts have the jurisdiction and the duty to determine whether a prerogative power asserted by the Crown exists; if so, whether its exercise infringes the Charter or other constitutional norms; and, where necessary, to give specific direction to the executive branch of the government. Here, the trial judge misdirected himself in ordering the government to request K’s repatriation, in view of the constitutional responsibility of the executive to make decisions on matters of foreign affairs and the inconclusive state of the record. The appropriate remedy in this case is to declare that K’s Charter rights were violated, leaving it to the government to decide how best to respond in light of current information, its responsibility over foreign affairs, and the Charter."<br /><br />A "strong recommendation" based on factors lacking sufficient strength to support "specific direction" while specifying judicial misdirection in the order to request repatriation? Okay.John B.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-430846427915700352017-07-29T13:05:37.760-04:002017-07-29T13:05:37.760-04:00It's hard to believe that the leader of the op...It's hard to believe that the leader of the opposition could tell so many lies in such a short article. He must believe we are all fools. The party of Diefenbaker is indeed dead.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-18360030233048290322017-07-29T10:53:05.102-04:002017-07-29T10:53:05.102-04:00He truly is a hideous con-rebel monster.He truly is a hideous con-rebel monster.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com