It's taken me two days to come down from last Saturday's big demonstration against the Harper regime's foul Bill C-51.
Because I do wear my heart on my sleeve, and it was so great to see so many Canadians in the street at last.
Instead of letting Stephen Harper scare them into allowing him to turn this country into a police state.
But sadly I would probably still be flying, if it wasn't gloomy Harperland, and so many progressives seemed so determined to shoot me out of the sky.
When we last left Stephen Harper yesterday afternoon, he was in his Terror Command Bunker, also known as the Fear Centre, trying to block out the sights and the sounds of yesterday's massive Day of Action.
And no doubt shocked by the sight of all those demonstrators, all those Stop Harper signs.
And of course, his failure to scare them into submission, or muzzle them, like he has so many other decent Canadians.
Still, you might think he would tell his grotesque Con committee members, who are "studying" the bill, to back off a bit. And listen to the experts instead of treating them like terrorists.
Well as could have been predicted, the committee hearings into Stephen Harper's totalitarian Bill C-51 are turning into a sinister spectacle.
With a little bit of Orwell, and a little bit of Kafka.
The Kafka part being that although the bill would give the security forces massive powers to invade our privacy, on a scale never seen before.
The Cons don't think the committee needs to hear from Canada's Privacy Commissioner,
With Stephen Harper's anti-terrorist bill now being rammed through a parliamentary committee.
And the Con regime sounding ever more desperate.
“The Holocaust did not begin in the gas chamber. It began with words.”
Or veering into the realm of farce.
I see there are now at least two ways we can help shred the bill AND Stephen Harper.
On Monday the Health Accord between the provinces and the federal government will expire.
There will be no longer be a signed agreement to enforce the five principles of the Canada Health Act.
The Health Council of Canada, the independent agency charged with monitoring our healthcare system, will cease to exist.
And although roughly the same amount of money will continue to be transferred to provinces until 2017, it will mark the beginning of a new stage in Stephen Harper's stealthy war on medicare.
I was glad to see that Idle No More's Day of Action took the movement's message to Canadians.
Loudly but peacefully.
From downtown Toronto to Vancouver Island, protesters ramped up weeks of demonstrations to another level, still peaceful, stopping traffic on busy highways and major rail lines, forcing Canadians to stop and listen.
