It's sad that Tony Turner, who wrote and sings the song Harperman couldn't be there in person.
He's been suspended from his job as a scientist at Environment Canada for simply exercising his right to free expression, and forced to keep a low profile.
But wherever he was today he must smiling to know that his song was played all over Canada today.
Like at this rally on Parliament Hill.
If you remember when we last left Stephen Harper, he was sitting in the office of his Australian spin doctor getting the bad news about his campaign.
And either squirming uncomfortably, or gagging violently.
Which as it turns out now seems almost like proctologist poetic justice.
Now that we know that he has slapped a gag order on his own nomination candidates.
It has been several days since the Harper regime suspended the federal scientist Tony Turner for writing and singing the song Harperman.
And as expected it has triggered a debate over whether public servants can be political activists.
And while some Cons claim they can't, and that they must remain loyal to their monstrous master.
The Supreme Court settled that question twenty-four years ago.
If Stephen Harper thought he could get away with punishing the scientist Tony Turner for daring to write and and sing the song Harperman, he must be sorry now.
For as I said yesterday it is an outrageous assault on freedom of expression.
And as I predicted it has only made the song even more popular.
