Well I think I can now OFFICIALLY declare that Spring has arrived in Simonville, the small humble corner of Canada where it's never Harperland.
And I must admit that all I feel like doing is climbing on to the old boathouse roof, stretching out my arms like Jesus, giving thanks to the merciful Gods of The Great White North, and soaking up the sun.
But this is shaping up as a Spring like no other.
Because everywhere I look in Canada I see signs of rebellion, as ordinary Canadians mobilize to defend their democracy...
I'm sure Sheila Fraser knew when she called the Con's Fair Election Act an "attack on democracy" that the Cons would come after her like a pack of rabid rats.
And sure enough, as I pointed out in my last post, the Cons are trying to smear her.
But if Pierre Poilievre, the leader of the rat pack, thought he could intimidate her, he must be very disappointed and very desperate.
Because there she was on CBC Radio today. Gently, but firmly, taking his bill apart again...
I must admit that when I saw that Pierre Poilievre was going to absurd lengths to avoid mentioning Sheila Fraser's name, at first I was amused.
I figured that the way she demolished his foul so-called Fair Elections Act, had left him in a state of shock, totally humiliated, and boiling with anger.
And that he was afraid that just allowing Fraser's name to escape his pie hole, might cause him to lose control.
And of course, that would be HORRIBLE....
As I've mentioned before, one of the reasons Stephen Harper's Cons are rushing their Unfair Elections Act through Parliament, is that they want it to become law before Michael Sona's robocall trial begins in June.
And with good reason. Because the bill would make it harder to go after those who would try to steal an election.
And that robocall scandal just got a whole lot more interesting.
When Sheila Fraser was the Auditor General and exposed the Liberal sponsorship scandal, the Cons were only too happy to quote her every word.
They couldn't say enough good things about her.
But not today. Today they were running for cover.
Because today she was calling their so-called Fair Elections Act an attack on democracy.
Uh oh. Somebody call Jason Kenney or an exorcist.
Or an embalmer.
There is trouble in the Garden of Steve.
Well as you probably know, I don't just question Stephen Harper's judgement, I question his mental state, and study it extensively.
Because better safe than sorry eh?
And in that regard, for a moment today, I thought that the shock of his faithful Dimitri's sudden departure had driven him over the edge.
OMG. Somebody please throw in the towel. This fight has gotta end before I start feeling almost sorry for Pierre Poilievre.
Because the way that palooka and his foul Unfair Elections Act are getting pounded in the ring of public opinion is almost too brutal.
So many Chief Electoral Officers, law professors, election experts, and outraged Canadians want to take a shot at him and his bill, you gotta take a number eh?
And today it was the Election Commissioner Yves Côté's turn to pound him some more. And make him look like a absolute idiot.
Well I can only imagine him today, huddled in his bunker with his closest advisers. The shrinking band of PMO fanatics he still trusts.
Lamenting the fate of his faithful Dimitri.
While suggesting for public consumption, that he was the one who fired him.
It was good to see Canadians out in the streets across the country today, sending a loud message to Stephen Harper:
Take your grubby paws off our medicare system.
On the day the Canada Health Accord died.
