It wasn't long ago that I told you that Andrew Scheer and his grubby Cons had dropped the Omar Khadr story like a hot potato. Or a poisonous snake. After spending days trashing our country in the United States for crass political purposes. And now we know why.
The other day I accused Stephen Harper of acting in a treasonous manner, by trashing his country in Trump's America for crass political purposes. But now his filthy Harper Party has taken that traitorous behaviour one foul step further. By threatening to destroy tens of thousands of Canadian jobs.
It was Family Day in Ontario, and and a slow news day at CBC Ottawa, so they invited Rona Ambrose to appear on Power and Politics. So she could talk about the subject that excites her the most: bombing Iraq and Syria, and Justin Trudeau. Not necessarily in that order. And needless to say it was a bomb. A political porn show if ever there was one. For obvious reasons.
Well I didn't think anyone would be able to turn the tragedy of climate change into a comedy show. At least not since the hapless Con stooge Peter Kent returned from the Durban conference to announce that Kyoto was dead. And that was a GOOD thing. But apparently somebody has tried. And it's getting good reviews.
I could run this old video of Peter Kent introducing a documentary where he calls global warming “the greatest threat to life on the planet” and warns that the devastating effects of climate change “will be seen in our children’s lifetime.
Or I could run this picture of him returning from the Durban conference yesterday, like some shabby Neville Chamberlain declaring "There will be peace grease in our time...
Claiming that we would have to pull every car off the road, or pay $14 billion to stay in the treaty. Which is totally absurd. But even if it was true would be less than we are going to pay for our shiny new prisons.