This much we know about Andrew Scheer, the man who likes to call himself Stephen Harper Two, or Harper with a smile.
We know he is a serious religious fanatic, who owes Brad Trost his new job.
We know that his political philosophy is more Republican than Canadian.
But who knew he was such an appalling coward?
You might think that Kellie Leitch had embarrassed herself enough. Done what was left of her reputation enough damage.
During the last election, her cultural barbarism show bombed so bad, the stench alone helped bring down the Harper regime.
And the way her campaign for the Con leadership race went down in flames, after all that effort, and all that money, couldn't have been more humiliating.
But it seems that Leitch just can't control herself, and now she's embarrassing herself and her party again.
I must admit I didn't think that anything that happened in Syria could shock me more than it already has.
The more than 400,000 dead, the countless wounded and traumatized, the sea of desperate refugees, the indifference of the world.
But if Amnesty International is right about what has been happening at the Saydnaya military prison in Damascus, it must surely be what it has been called "the worst place on earth."
Ever since Justin Trudeau was sworn in as Prime Minister, the Con media has been declaring that his political honeymoon is over.
And in recent weeks with the confusion over electoral reform, and the controversial pipeline decision, that clamour has become almost deafening.
With one story after the other declaring that his golden ride was finally over.
But sadly for the Con media it seems they couldn't be more wrong.
I'm really looking forward to this weekend. It's going to be warm and sunny, and perfect for biking, or sailing.
And on Sunday, in this park in my neighbourhood, there is going to be a big book fair with lots of authors and artists. So it couldn't be better, or more lovely Canada.
But I can't forget what's happening to so many people in this nightmare place.
And ever since I found out that Chris Alexander and Kellie Leitch will be reuniting.
I can't help wondering what might have happened to some of the Syrian refugees now living in this peaceful country if the Cons had been re-elected?
It's hard to believe that it's been a year since since the body of three-year-old Alan Kurdi washed up on a Turkish beach.
For it seems so much longer.
But although the passage of time has dulled the impact of that horrible tragedy.
What we must never forget is how that poor little toddler awakened the conscience of Canada, and helped bring down the Con regime.
For weeks Michelle Rempel has been keeping a fairly low profile, and staying out of trouble.
But knowing Rempel, I knew that wouldn't last.
And sure enough there she was yesterday, having a hissy fit in the Commons.
Well the 25,000th Syrian refugee has arrived in Canada. I couldn't be happier or prouder.
And I thought John McCallum was right to say that despite some delays in getting them all here, and problems finding them permanent housing, it is something to celebrate.
“Many countries … are making it more difficult for refugees to come in,” he said. “We’re among the few countries saying, ‘No, come on in.’”
But don't expect Michelle Rempel, the Con's shadow minister for refugees, to join the celebration.
Well what a difference a day makes. On Wednesday I was worried that Justin Trudeau was being too nice to the Cons.
And warned him it would get him nowhere.
But yesterday Justin and his government more than made up for that momentary lapse.
By delivering two more crushing blows to Stephen Harper's foul legacy.
As you know I have been urging Justin Trudeau to demolish Stephen Harper's legacy as soon as possible.
Bulldoze it into a smoking heap of rubble.
And because patience is not one of my many virtues, he could never do that fast enough to satisfy me.
But I have to say, that in that regard, yesterday was a very good day.
The other day I wrote about how shocked I was to see that Michelle Rempel hadn't said a word, or tweeted a single solitary line, about that horrifying pepper spray attack on a group of Syrian refugees in Vancouver.
And that even though she is the Con's new shadow minister of immigration and REFUGEES, she hadn't condemned the attack, or offered up a word of sympathy.
So today I went back to her Twitter feed to see if the situation had changed.
Only to find myself staring at this ghastly tweet.
I'm glad that police in Vancouver are calling it a truly disturbing hate crime.
Vancouver Police Chief Adam Palmer is calling a pepper spray attack outside a welcome event for Syrian refugees a very troubling hate crime and asked the perpetrator to turn himself in.
I'm glad that Justin Trudeau is saying it's not who we are.
But what I also find truly disturbing is the silence of the Cons.
There couldn't be a more brutish act, or one more disgusting or more cowardly.
Than attacking a group of refugees seeking shelter in Canada.
Men, women, and children.
On their welcome night.
It's hard to believe, but it looks as if we can safely sew those little Canadian flags on the back of our backpacks again.
After having to remove them during the Harper years.
And travel around the world dressed like this...
Because thanks to Justin Trudeau, and the way he welcomed the Syrian refugees in our name.
We're suddenly cool again.
It's a strange feeling. I want to celebrate the end of Stephen Harper's ghastly Con regime. I want to think that the monster has disappeared into his own darkness.
But I still can't quite believe it.
And what with the state of the world, and the sound of the Cons grinding their teeth like cicadas, and violence and insanity everywhere.
I'm having a hard time getting into the spirit of the season...
But luckily a lot of good things really are happening in the New Canada, and this has got to be one of the best.
As you know, I believe the challenge of settling thousands of Syrian refugees in this country is a gift not a burden.
A chance to show that after the darkness of the Harper years, we still remember what it means to be a Canadian.
So although the Con media is running around gleefully screaming "broken promise!!!! broken promise !!!!!"
I'm glad Justin Trudeau has decided to give us two more months to get ready to receive them.
The other day I told you how Scotland was getting ready to welcome its first group of Syrian refugees, and how that small country had been working hard to try to make them feel at home.
In a country so different from the ones they were coming from.
Well now they have arrived, on a miserable cold wet afternoon in Glasgow, which must have made at least some of them wonder to what icy grey hell had they been condemned.
But they did get a warm welcome.
And this picture probably sums up how many of them were feeling...
I like to think that in some refugee camp in the Middle East, a mother and her children have just found out that they could be in Canada in just a few weeks.
And that they are a lot happier than they are in this photo.
For they have been living in hell.
So you can imagine how I felt when I saw that Brad Wall, the Premier of Saskatchewan, the Little Con on the Prairie, the ferocious oil pimp, thinks they and 25,000 other refugees should just cool their jets.
Because he thinks they're too dangerous.
He insisted that he had done all he could to help those desperate Syrian refugees.
He tearfully claimed that he was torn up by the death of poor little Alan Kurdi.
But now it turns out that months before that tragedy he personally intervened to deny help to the most vulnerable refugees.
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...
