Ever since the Tony Clement sex scandal became public, questions have been asked about Andrew Scheer's role in that tawdry affair.
How long did he know that Clement was bothering women? And why did he hesitate to throw him out of the caucus?
Scheer says he believed him when he said it was just a one off affair, a terrible mistake etc etc.
But it seems at least one well known Con finds that claim outrageous.
It's funny. Andrew Scheer was in Toronto yesterday trying to scare Canadians into voting for him.
By accusing Justin Trudeau of being soft on crime.
Only to find himself accused of being too soft on Tony Clement.
A few months ago, I questioned whether Tony Clement was the right Con to go after Liberal scandals, considering how many scandals he had in his past.
Like the way he spent #50 million of G8 border security money on unrelated projects in his riding, like that gazebo in the middle of nowhere.
Or the way he mutilated the long form census, for no good reason.
And now of course there's this scandal.
They called Tony Clement Tony Gazebo, for building one during the G8 summit nowhere near the summit, but in the middle of his riding.
Of all the scandals of the Harper years, that scandal is one of the easiest to remember.
Even though there were so many others, like the time he gutted the census for no good reason...
So I was stunned to see that the Con propaganda machine has made a new video starring Tony Gazebo called, believe it or not, These Liberal Scandals Take The Cake.
I know it's hard to believe, but Kellie Leitch is still insisting she's not trying to be Canada's Donald Trump.
Even though she's not fooling anyone.
“While the elites and most media harshly criticized even the mention of the discussion, you knew better,” wrote Leitch in the fundraising note. “Together we will stand up to those who don’t want to discuss Canadian values and whose politically correct elitism remains tone deaf to the views of most Canadians.”
For that one could have flown like a bat out of the cavernous orifice of the Angry Orange himself.
And to make matters worse this Trumperisation is spreading.
As Canadians debate Stephen Harper's legacy, and the Cons and the Con media try to whitewash it beyond recognition.
It's important to remember one of Harper's worst, and definitely most insane decisions.
His decision to kill the long-form census.
We all knew that Tony Clement's campaign launch for leader of the Harper Party was going to be a ghastly spectacle.
Because all the hype or the lipstick in the world can't make him look like an attractive candidate, let alone a winning one.
He's got loser written all over him.
But who knew the big launch would be both farcical AND deeply disturbing?
As announced, today is the day Tony Clement, the King of Muskoka aka Gaz Boy or Gas Bag, will make what he calls an "important announcement."
When he will solemnly declare that he too wants to be the new leader of the Harper Party.
And while the poor scribblers in the MSM draw straws to see who gets the deathly assignment of covering that Con clown's "important announcement."
And who will be forced to stifle their yawns, and try not to die laughing.
I'm happy to report that Clement's doomed leadership bid just got even more hilarious.
It may seem hard to believe, but many in the MSM are saying that Jason Kenney's decision to leave his job in Ottawa to go fight the commies in Alberta, has blown a giant hole in the Con leadership race.
Which speaks volumes about the dilapidated state of Rona Ambrose's Harper Party.
And so does this...
Ever since Jason Kenney tweeted out his enthusiastic support for the Brexit referendum result, he has been widely ridiculed.
Especially since the Brexiteer's bubble burst.
European leaders have insisted they will set the terms of the EU’s split from Britain, rejecting suggestions by British Prime Minister David Cameron that informal discussions can take place.
The future is looking grim, and it's getting hard to tell who is more confused Boris Johnson or Nigel Farage.
It's been five long years since the Cons gutted the census, and left us stumbling in the darkness, unable to determine who we really are, or what kind of country we're really living in.
But now the long-form census is back.
And while I'm happy to see it back, it still bothers me to see that Tony Clement, the Con who presided over the blinding of this country, has still not been held properly accountable.
Well Justin Trudeau's fairy tale visit to Washington is over.
And no doubt the entire Trudeau family is resting up after their extraordinary performance...
Including the youngest member who also did his part to win over the Americans.
And so successful was the visit that even the Con friendly L. Ian MacDonald was forced to admit that Trudeau had a very good week.
Uh oh. Move over Michelle Rempel. There's a new star at Rona Ambrose's Con clown circus.
His name is Tony Clement also known as The King of Muskoka.
Or the new shadow minister of Foreign Affairs.
And he couldn't be funnier...
It seems only fitting that on his last day as Con leader Stephen Harper should leave through a door darkly, while being humiliated over and over again.
In the same manner he ruled and humiliated this country, its people and their values, for nine nightmarish years.
First he had to humble himself before his shrunken caucus, by accepting the blame for the Conapocalypse that booted them all from office.
Then he was caught by some reporters making a quick getaway only a few minutes after ending his short speech.
It's now been five years since the ghastly Tony Clement announced that the Cons were killing the long form census.
Claiming that it was a gross invasion of privacy, and that they had been "flooded" with complaints.
Which like all things Con turned out to be just another Big Lie.
The Conservative government listened to only a relative handful of Canadians — including conspiracy theorists afraid the government was going to round them up — before scrapping the mandatory long-form census, according to documents obtained by the Toronto Star.
There were just a handful of complaints, many of them from the usual suspects.
And the decision to kill it was made by one of the screaming voices in Stephen Harper's head.
I suppose we should have known that anything Tony Clement proposes would be hideously flawed, so rotten is his record.
And his so-called "Open Government" plan" is no different.
The Conservative government has rejected calls to reform the Access to Information Act as part of a new openness plan.
The final version of the federal blueprint on open government for 2014-16 remains silent on updating the 32-year-old law despite public pleas during several consultations — including a recent round of public feedback on a draft version.
Doing nothing to improve access to government at a time when the situation couldn't be more dire or desperate.
As probably you know, the Con regime has given the Canada Revenue Agency more money to go after its enemies.
While depriving it of the resources and the inspectors to go after tax evaders.
Well now it turns out there may be method to that madness.
For it seems that when it comes to tax evasion, the Cons are part of the problem.
Well he's off to Ukraine today to try to pose as Great Warrior Leader by inflaming a dangerous crisis for crass political gain.
Which is scary enough.
But there's another scary story doing the rounds in Ottawa.
And that's the one about how Stephen Harper wanted to replace Jimbo Flaherty as Finance Minister with nobody less than HIMSELF.
Someone recently compared the Ukrainian crisis to the beginning of the First World War.
Where new alliances, old hatreds, and excessive nationalism created an explosive mixture until one act of senseless violence set the whole thing off.
And this couldn't be a more a dangerous showdown.
So needless to say I'm not happy to see that Stephen Harper is still planning to visit Ukraine.
Still threatening to inflame the situation.
It's hard to believe after what the Harper Cons have done to our veterans, that they could treat or betray them even more than they already have.
But that's exactly what they are doing. First they closed down those veteran service centres for no good reason.
Now they're going after their healthcare plans.
