He's tried everything but nothing is working. And the situation couldn't be more desperate. So Stephen Harper is going back to the basics. Back to what he does best. Trying to scare Canadians into voting for him. And attacking Justin Trudeau. Or as he does in the latest, and most grotesque Con attack ad ever, trying to do both at the same time.
For months Stephen Harper has been working day and night to try to create a climate of fear. He has fanned the flames of paranoia and xenophobia, appealed to the beasts that dwell within us. He is using the armed forces to help him portray the world as a dark and threatening place, with videos like this one...
Which is designed to dovetail with his own party propaganda, is full of the hollow words he uses every day, like "values" and "freedoms." And is being played over and over again on Canadian TV. So not surprisingly he is reaping his harvest of fear.
In the monstrous darkness of Harperland, and when I read a poll like this one. There’s rarely been a bill before Parliament that was more popular. The public Conservatives’ new anti-terror legislation is filling a public demand for tough new measures aimed at a terrorism threat that Canadians believe is serious, and close to home, according to a new poll. More than four in five Canadians – 82 per cent – back the new legislation to expand the powers of intelligence agencies and police, according to the survey of 1,509 Canadians conducted by the Angus Reid Institute. Far from seeing it as too sweeping, they tend to want more: 36 per cent say it does not go far enough. I wonder what's happening to my country. And how so many could surrender their freedoms so easily. So I'm glad to see that a person like Ralph Nader is asking the same question in this open letter to Stephen Harper.
It's a bitter pill to swallow. Stephen Harper's anti-terrorist Bill C-51 is deeply flawed, threatens our civil liberties and our internet freedom. But if progressives don't want to risk handing Harper another bloody majority what Justin Trudeau said today was the way to play it. Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau says his caucus will vote in favour of a bill to vastly increase the powers of Canada's spy agency — with or without the improved oversight civil rights experts are calling for. Because whatever anyone says, the brutal truth is that any other position at this time could be absolutely fatal.
When I first heard the news that another Canadian jihadi had surfaced on YouTube, and was making wild threats against us, at first I was naturally terrified. Could Great Closet Leader really have found another warrior wannabe like himself, to scare the cowardly into voting for his foul Con regime? And try to justify turning us into a police state. But then I saw it was only this loser.
