We already knew that Andrew Scheer has no respect for science, for if he did he would never have come up with a fake climate plan designed by and for Big Oil.
Or rejected the idea of carbon taxes over and over again, despite what Nobel prize winners have to say about them.
But now as he grows more and more desperate, he's claiming that he knows more than scientists.
It's starting to resemble a nightmare in a beer garden, with Doug Ford already looking like one of the worst Premiers Ontario has ever known.
He has ended the fight against climate change, even as the province is hit by record temperatures.
He has halved the size of Toronto's City Council without any consultation. He has slashed funding for the poor and the mentally ill.
He is cancelling badly needed school repairs, and threatening the lives of LGBT children as only a coward could.
But the beast would like you to forget all that and focus instead on this.
As we all know Stephen Harper used the Canada Revenue Agency for his own foul purposes.
To try to intimidate his enemies, and harass environmentalists, and even humble birdwatchers.
But although Harper has left the building, it seems the CRA is still haunted by his foul legacy.
I took this picture yesterday of a humble monument next to a community clinic in Toronto.
It's believed to be the first monument anywhere, to those who died of drug overdoses or drug related causes.
But if we were to build a monument to all those who have died the same way all over Canada in just the last ten years, it would be massive.
Because our country has a huge opioid drug problem, and these days the most dangerous killer is the drug fentanyl.
In the last nine years I wrote more than 100 posts about the case of Omar Khadr, because I considered it one of the most shameful episodes in modern Canadian history.
And could never accept that a Canadian child soldier could be tortured and jailed in a place like Guantanamo. And abandoned by his own government.
But this will probably be my last post about him.
Not because the case is over, it isn't. The federal government is still appealing his release on bail.
But because amazingly enough it seems to have had a happy ending.
He is said to be boiling with anger, lashing out in every direction, and he is crazy desperate.
So you know Stephen Harper and his Con gangsters will try to steal the election.
For what can you say about a leader whose former PMO lawyer believes he has lost the moral authority to govern?
Stephen Harper has whipped up hatred against a group of Canadians. He has made hooded bigotry the centrepiece of his foul campaign.
He has tried to set this country on fire.
He has shamed us in the eyes of the world, by making us look us look like dumb rednecks from Alabama or Albertonia...
And now we are reaping his harvest of hatred.
I was planning to stay away from writing about polls for a while because all of them suggest a three-way tie, and with the margin of error could mean anything.
But something about this latest Nanos poll bothers me.
Not because of the result, which with a margin of error of 2.8% could have any of the three parties in the lead.
But because of the tracking line...
Many hours after I first saw it, I am still haunted by this photo of that poor little Syrian boy washed up on a Turkish beach.
And by the knowledge that his refugee family begged the ghastly Chris Alexander to let them emigrate to Canada. But got absolutely nowhere.
But while I'm disgusted I'm not really surprised. For Alexander, like all the other Cons, are just cowardly stooges of their depraved master.
And Stephen Harper would rather talk about WAR.
Stephen Harper stood in the middle of a too-small-for-the-crowd hotel meeting room in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., and tapped the notes on the lectern in front of him in time with his words.
"Canada is not immune to jihadist terrorism," he said. "Two [tap] brave soldiers [tap] dead [tap] on our own [tap] soil [tap]."
For crass political purposes.
"If you cannot even bring yourself to call jihadist terrorism what it is, then you cannot be trusted to confront it, and you cannot be trusted to keep Canadians safe from it."
At this, Harper received his most enthusiastic response from the crowd, which erupted into an ovation and calls of "Four more years. Four more years."
To pleasure his rabid base, and his own monstrous instincts...
And try to scare Canadians into voting for him, because fear is all he has left.
Even though he himself admits our puny for show war is faltering. Even though everybody knows that religious conflict will only be settled by the ground forces of those who live in that region.
And even though it was the insanity of war that caused this human catastrophe in the first place. The criminal invasion of Iraq, that he supported, is what led to the rise of ISIS.
And the bombing of Libya helped turn that country into a paradise for some of the world's most dangerous terrorist groups. And no safe haven for all those now seeking to escape to Europe.
But what horrifies me the most about the criminal Con regime is the way they mock those who would act like Canadians and seek to help those desperate refugees.
Like they do in this hideous attack ad aimed at Justin Trudeau...
But then again, why should we be surprised? When as Frances Russell points out this is a government that is really at war with Canada, its values and its democracy.
They have trampled on virtually every tenet of British parliamentary democracy and hacked, slashed and abolished vital national programs, storied institutions and highly respected civil society organizations simply because they disagreed and disliked them.
On the international stage they have sullied Canada’s reputation as a one of the world’s most esteemed democracies by ignoring science in their pursuit of re-making Canada into a freewheeling sole-source hinterland to serve the global oil and gas industry regardless of the costs to the environment; appropriated big portions of Canada’s identity and institutions for their own political and electoral purposes and grafted American governmental forms onto Canada’s parliamentary democracy determined to twist it out of shape – and – all without the slightest consultation or regard for the sensibilities of many Canadians.
This is a government that is philosophically and genuinely hostile to the nation and people it seeks to govern.
And Russell is right about this too.
As October 19 gets closer, Liberals and New Democrats should stop the petty blood feud they love to carry on over petty and marginal policy distinctions without genuine differences.
Otherwise, Canadians will be subjected to another four years of a government determined to dismantle the Canada most Canadians know and cherish and hope to pass on to their children and grandchildren.
Now is not the time to fight each other, now is the time to stand up for Canada.
You know, I used to be so proud of this country, and its humble but noble role in the world.
But if I has been on that Turkish beach, and had gently picked up that poor little child who never knew anything but war in his short life...
And if I had known that the Cons might have been able to save him and his brother and mother, but didn't even try. I would have wept with sorrow AND shame.
Because I dream of a better Canada, and the day when we are free at last.
And until that glorious day this is my army.
Those are my heroes, the healers not the killers, who are standing up for my values.
And Stephen Harper can keep his war, and shove the fear factor where the sun don't shine.
Or keep it company in his closet...
Because he will never scare me.
Unite to defeat that monster.
And take back our Canada...
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By now most people have seen the video of that angry old Con attacking reporters for asking questions about the Duffy trial.
And it has become a popular internet meme.
Chris Sigurdson.
But if you thought that Stephen Harper might be smiling, or in his case opening his mouth and showing his teeth, at that show of support from a member of his Con base, you'd be wrong.
Because there was another angry old guy at that rally, and he's Harper's nightmare.
It's one of the most dangerous street drugs this country has ever known. It's killing on average one Canadian every three days.
But while local police forces are trying to warn people about the danger of illicit fentanyl.
The Harper Cons are refusing to issue a country-wide alert.
Well this is certainly bizarre. Yesterday I portrayed Stephen Harper as the lead character from the TV series Breaking Bad, the crystal meth maker and dealer Walter White.
The idea was to try to drive home my firm belief that not only is Stephen Harper a Con criminal, he is slowly going crazy.
Only to have Harper put out a video today claiming that Breaking Bad is his favourite TV series !!!
Sometimes when I'm writing about the atrocities of Stephen Harper's bestial Con regime ,I like to end a post by saying please unite to defeat that monster before he kills more Canadians.
And I'm sure some who read that probably think I'm exaggerating. But actually I'm not.
Because when you put ideology before humanity, and wage war on the poorest and most vulnerable Canadians, you will blight their lives further and kill many of them.
And this is just the latest example.
As the world celebrates V-E Day, on the 70th anniversary of the great victory over the Nazis.
And Stephen Harper uses the occasion to celebrate himself.
A disturbing question must be asked.
Are him and his foul Con regime sheltering a Nazi war criminal?
I wrote my first post on Omar Khadr eight years ago, and called it The Guantanamo Kid and Canada's Shame.
And nothing that has happened since has ever changed my view.
For what was done to that child soldier has been one of the most shameful episodes in modern Canadian history, and an absolute travesty of justice.
So you can imagine how happy I felt today when I saw that picture of Omar walking free in his own country at last. Or read these words.
Years ago I predicted that Canadians who didn't care about the way Stephen Harper was raping the human rights of the child soldier Omar Khadr would live to regret it.
For if he was able to get away with it once, and enjoy the taste of blood in his mouth, it was only a matter of time before the monster would try to rape THEIR rights
And sure enough here we are living in his ghastly Harperland, where the bully is trying to use fear to win an election, while stealthily turning us into a police state.
And the way he has treated Omar Khadr tells us all we need to know about the monstrous nature of his Con regime.
Over the last eight years I have written almost a hundred posts about the case of Omar Khadr, Canada's child soldier.
For I consider it one of the greatest cases of injustice in the history of this country, a shameful episode that should haunt us forever.
So you can imagine how I felt today when I read that he may finally be free.
While Stephen Harper declares war on the Great Terrorist Menace, claiming only he can save our lives from those who would behead us in our beds.
His foul Con regime continues to wage war on some of Canada's most vulnerable Canadians.
Even if it could cost thousands of them their lives.
For while this is good news.
Well I'm sure it's just a coincidence that on the day Dean Del Mastro appeared in court for his sentencing hearing.
And demanded a mistrial.
Former MP Dean Del Mastro is asking the Ontario Court of Justice to dismiss his Oct. 31 guilty verdicts related to overspending in the 2008 federal election campaign and declare a mistrial.
After having told the judge that her guilty verdict was just a matter of opinion:
The Cons would choose this day to let it be known that they're all for harsh sentences.
Yesterday I wrote a post denouncing the Harper regime for its refusal to protest the savage punishment the Saudis are inflicting on the blogger Raif Badawi.
For the price of $10 billion dollars worth of armoured cars.
But what I didn't know at the time is that Badawi's family lives in Quebec, which makes the silence of the Cons even more shameful.
