It's the last thing I needed to do at this time of the year. Stare at a picture of a lovely Caribbean island with all that light blue water and all those warm sandy beaches. While freezing my butt off in Canada. But unfortunately that's the Aga Khan's private island, Justin Trudeau and his family had a short holiday there last winter. And our grubby Con media is trying to turn a slap on the wrist by the Ethics Commissioner into a huge scandal.
I think that most sensible Canadians understand that elbowgate isn't a real scandal. No matter how loudly Ruth Ellen Brosseau screamed, or tried to look as if she had been shot. And that by trying to make a huge deal out of it the opposition is just looking ridiculous. So I'm glad to see that John Oliver also believes the same thing.
Well I see that Stephen Harper has nothing to worry about for shutting down Parliament. 46 per cent of Canadians just don't care whether Parliament starts sitting in January or takes a break and comes back after the Olympics in March.
"There's a high level of indifference," said pollster Doug Anderson with Harris Decima. Just call it democracy...Canadian style. Although that doesn't stop Kady from looking for the mouse in the manure. Although a plurality of respondents greeted the possibility with indifference, those who did not were more likely to be disgruntled than delighted by the move, which was, I should point out again, at that point purely speculative. You have to wonder whether this isn't a potentially dangerous metric for the prime minister, at least in the short term, since it seems reasonable to assume that those who hold strong views -- or any view at all beyond benign apathy -- over whether the House should or shouldn't take a two month break are more likely to take their opinions to the ballot box. Good for her. I mean somebody has to eh? Because you can't count on our leaders to do ANYTHING. “We are interested in working with the opposition parties in regards to the Afghan detainee file but we are not interested in mock Parliaments,” Michael O’Shaughnessy, a spokesman for Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff, said Monday. Oh boy. I'm with the Bionic Liberal.
Because if Jack won't do anything, and Iggy would rather prepare for his upcoming tour of university campuses than fight the Cons, and defend our parliamentary system...
We really are on our own.... in our own invisible democracy.
Golly. Who knew a young country could die of exhaustion? Oh well... so much for my plans for a series of bonfire rallies, with music and songs. To try to put some passion into politics and get younger people involved.Now I see it's just going to be me and my drum, and those Facebook democrats.
Which is OK with me eh? Because 20,000 and counting shows we haven't given up yet.
As for our leaders and all the other indifferent Canadians I only hope they come to their senses before it's too late. Before they forget what democracy means...and that indifference in the face of a government as evil as Stephen Harper's Cons is in itself a form of dementia. Before they wake up in a country they don't recognize. Wondering where their Canada went. Looking like idiots. And shouting "Come on back baby !!!!"
OMG. That video really does SUCK.
But when you think how that Con tyrant gets away with EVERYTHING eh?
