As you may know I lost my respect for the Senate long ago, during the days when Stephen Harper ruled the roost.
And those stuffed turkeys couldn't kiss his ass enough.
And although Justin Trudeau allowed them to become independent, they're still gobbling like crazy.
And the ghosts of Harper past still haunt the place.
Ever since Andrew Scheer was chosen as the new leader of the Harper Party, I've been trying to explain to the few Cons I know, that they've made a terrible mistake.
Trying to explain that by choosing a religious fanatic who would criminalize women, marginalize gays, and ignore climate change, they haven't just lost the next election.
They've also lost the future.
It was quite a sight.
Jeremy Corbyn, the much mocked Labour leader, addressing a massive crowd at the Glastonbury music festival.
And getting a rapturous reception.
Calling on young people to rise up, and send a message to Donald Trump.
I must admit I'm still enjoying the aftermath of the British election.
Seeing the Cons and their media stooges trying to explain why Jeremy Corbyn is so popular with young people.
After all the Corbyn haters did to try to destroy him.
And failing in an epic manner, even though the answer is so simple.
When Theresa May called a snap election, I'm pretty sure she was confident her Cons would be able to destroy Jeremy Corbyn.
Her campaign manager Lynton Crosby, the malignant Aussie known as the Wizard or Lizard of Oz, must have had her dreaming of making meat pies out of the mild-mannered Labour Party leader.
And no doubt also reminding her that even many of Corbyn's own MPs, the lost followers of Tony Blair, thought he was dead man walking.
After the Con media had spent years demonizing him...
Well there he was yesterday, marching in Montreal's gay pride parade, just like he did in Toronto and Vancouver.
And no doubt winning tens of thousands of new supporters.
But what's just as significant is the way Trudeau is going after the votes of young Canadians.
With every day that passes Donald Trump looks more like a loser, and less like the next American president.
As he now spends most of his time blaming the media for his sagging polls.
As only a loser could.
But tragically even when he does go down in flames, his monstrous legacy will almost certainly live on.
As you know I was not happy with result of the so-called Brexit referendum
I thought it was a reckless move, that amounted to throwing out the baby, and the future, with the bath water.
I hate the way it has triggered an explosion of racism.
And I also hate the way it has driven a wedge between the young and the old in Britain.
About a year before the last election I decided the most useful thing I could do was to try to get as many young Canadians to vote as I could.
So together with many other people and organizations all over the country, I set out to convince them that if they didn't vote our country might die.
And their future could die with it.
And although I knew from the election results that it did work, now it's official.
During the last election campaign I spent most of my free time trying to encourage young Canadians to vote.
As did a lot of other people and groups all over the country.
I got the feeling that more of them would vote than had voted in other elections. But I couldn't be sure.
That is until yesterday.
I don't know if you've noticed, but Rona Ambrose has recently stepped up the Great Con War on Marijuana.
By rerunning that old anti-marijuana ad, the one with dirty glass tubing representing the human brain on drugs.
And sticking us with the bummer bill.
For years they have had to endure the pain of austerity. Look on helplessly as their jobs disappeared, and their pensions shrank.
But still the cruel and greedy banksters wanted to impose even more austerity upon them. And humiliate them further for daring to elect a left-wing government.
But today the Greek people finally rose up and said enough is enough.
Now that the referendum in Ireland is over, and the great battle won, I want to tell you about something I learned from that campaign, that I believe can help progressives win the next election.
And that is the way the Yes side motivated and mobilized young voters.
And how they used social media to maximum effect to get their message out.
When Joe Oliver made his outrageous statement about leaving Harper's granddaughter's generation to pay for the Con's revenue killing tax policies, he only said it because he thought he could get away with it.
Because he knows, like we all do, that a lot of young Canadians don't bother to vote.
And it is fashionable in this aging country to blame the young for that troubling democratic deficit.
But as the crusty Globe editorialists point out, all political parties must also share the blame for not making a serious effort to appeal to them, or involve them in the political process
Well Spring has finally arrived in the little corner of Canada where I live.
The hockey goals have been fished out of the once frozen canal where they sank after the ice melted.
And biking season is here at last...
Which would be perfect if I didn't live in Harperland, where winter never really ends.
And you can still be hit by this kind of icy chill.
As you probably know, I believe that one of the most important things progressives must do is reach out to young Canadians and encourage them to vote.
Not just because if they did vote in greater numbers we could crush the ghastly Cons who are destroying our country and torching their future.
But also because they could help build a better Canada.
Last week I wrote a post looking at how important it is to get more young Canadians to vote in the next election.
Because if more of them do vote, we will almost surely defeat Stephen Harper.
I said that if you want them to cast a ballot, first you must move them with a vision of a better future. And I promised to look at how people in other countries are doing that.
Now I think I found a pretty good example.
