Thank You Stephen Harper

Stephen Harper and I

Stephen Harper has been the best Prime Minister of Canada in my memory.  These have have been the best 10 years of my life.  It wasn't Stephen Harper that made them great but I must acknowledge the man who created the conditions for that to happen.

The GST cuts alone have put thousands of dollars where they belong: in my pocket.  If you bought a house, car or some other big ticket item you can count your savings in the thousands as well.  I'm thankful for the TFSA and the UCCB.  These are things that affect my family directly and I will always respect and appreciate the consideration the Harper Government has shown us.

If Stephen Harper were a monarch I would have called him Harper The Trader.  I'm still amazed at the deals Harper's team was able to reel in.  A trade deal with Europe and another with the nations of the Pacific as well as many others are golden geese that the Harper Conservatives can be most proud of.

Canada's position in a world of turmoil and evil demonstrated courageous morals and emotional discipline.  We can be proud of our clear support for Israel and against Russian aggression.  I'm proud of our humanitarian efforts in the world despite opportunist claims to the contrary.

I used to think of Harper as the accidental Prime Minister.  It seemed so unlikely.  Here we are after almost 10 great years.  How unlikely that he turned out to be the best of them all.  I'm glad he didn't take a walk in the snow.  Stephen Harper ended his tenure as Prime Minister the same way he started it and practiced it; fighting all the way.

 The Economist PM was always a hard sell.  It was never about him honestly.  Conservative voters wanted policies based on values and economics.  Stephen Harper was the delivery man, never the package.  Yet. after all the Minority Years, the Coalition Crisis and even terrorist attacks, I've come to both love and admire this unlikely hero Stephen Harper.

That democratic pendulum has swung ferociously back to the natural governing party now.  There is an eerie symmetry in the accidental Prime Minister being replaced by someone who was born to be one.  These are silver linings of a very dark cloud, but I see hope in Trudeau's easy win.  If Trudeau was aiming at Harper he's managed to hit Mulcair between the eyes.  That's where strategic voting gets you.  Liberals with their shiny pony PM and their majority will have no excuses now.

Conservatives may have lost the mantle of power but Stephen Harper's record is one we can all be proud of.  The Conservative party never had a divine right to govern.  The privilege Canadians have assigned them is of the Loyal Opposition.  It's a job Conservatives, including lowly MP Stephen Harper, are ready and eager to do.

Rally Ho! Experience a Conservative Rally.

Last night Conservatives rallied in Calgary.  I highly recommend attending one of these rallies when Stephen Harper comes to your town.  It's one thing to watch it on CPAC, another thing entirely to be there.

I've captured the essence of being there in this video.  I didn't cut any of the thunderous cheers and applause.  That would take forever and besides what is the point of an event like this if you aren't going to hear things that make you want to shout and clap.  I even left a lot of Jason Kenny's introduction in as well.  It deserves to be heard.

You'll see the view swap to a wide angle and the sound is lower about halfway through.  I had battery issues and had to switch to my backup device.  It still works though.  Harper is that good.



There are a few things you should know before you go.  Don't expect the Prime Minister to be precisely on time.  He's the Prime Minister.  He runs a country and a party and a campaign.  He arrives just when he means to.  It's ok if you are late.  You might have to stand though.  If you are really late, you might be standing behind a hundred or so other people standing.  It's all good though.  You're in good company.  Strike up a conversation.

You are among friends at a rally.  I'd never met most of those good people but I felt I knew them anyway.  We are patriots and active participants in democracy.  It's not enough for us to observe or click 'like' here and there.  The outcome of this election is our personal responsibility.  It's our job to put a face and a friendly smile to our important message: that Canada is the greatest country in the world on purpose.  That is our purpose:  Keeping Canada great through sound fiscal and foreign policy. 

We've seen some of the greatest global upheavals during Stephen Harper's watch and come out on top.  That's how we know Conservative principles can weather any storm and capitalize on every windfall. 

Harper keeps his promises and reaches his goals.  It's an easy sell.  We just need to get the message to enough people.  For that we kindly need your help.

Monday in Canada

In just about a year from now there will be a fevered federal election campaign on.  The Media Party will breathlessly discover that Stephen Harper is an awful person who just needs one more majority win to finally poke the eye of every Canadian like he always planned.  Meanwhile they will use up their last excuses for poor wealthy famous Trudeau.  Its going to be a lot of fun.

There is no way I'm going to sit out the silly season.  Nothing is more enjoyable than sniping the bullshit that comes out of politicians and legacy media. That is the whole reason for this blog.  That is the reason I'm back.

Where did I go?

Well I've become a father.  My Boy is one!  He walks.  He throws things down the stairs, and feeds the dog from his high chair.  He calls me "Papa" though I never taught him to say that.  He just knows things somehow.  He is the BEST!

I've also been filling my time with Bitcoin and cryptocurrency in general.  For a libertarian computer nerd like myself Bitcoin is a dream come true.  Beyond the Austrian economics of a decentralized currency there is the technology of decentralization itself that is just utterly fascinating.  Bitcoin works.  The technological miracle of the blockchain is even now being adapted for other uses.  Developers are building decentralized exchanges, organizations, prediction markets, file storage, and so on.  We could have decentralized facebook and twitter.  We could have decentralized governments!  -decentralized justice!  Why stop at decentralized banking?

Centralized systems like banks, governments, media, academia or courts can be captured and directed into an agenda against their own users.  How many times have we seen this happen?  Its the normal way of things.  Its so normal people are afraid of a better way.

Our way is based on discreet units of value agreed upon by every node in the system equally.  -And we don't need anyone's permission to do it.  We are just going to do it.  We don't need or want government to do anything but watch. It will be marvelous.

Its a new day in Canada.  We can be proud of our PM, our party and our government.  All three are the best this country has ever known and we aren't even done yet.  There is a lot of excellent work to do.  We have a nation to save from a jug headed prince and a world that needs us to be strong.  Lets fire it up!

Conservatives should strongly oppose the Values Charter

Last week in relation to Peekist so-called "Values Charter" Andrew Coyne asked:

What, in particular, will be the reaction of the federal government? Will it defend the rights of local minorities, in the role originally envisaged for it, as it has pledged to do? Or will it do as federal governments have done since Laurier, faced with a determined local majority: shrug and abandon them to their fate?

The answer should be obvious.  Yes we will stand up for minorities.  That is who we are.  It's the right thing to do, never mind it being the law of the land.

The Quebec Values Charter

Lets recap what is going on in Quebec.  The minority PQ or "Pequiste" (we can anglify it as Peekist) are making a cynical play for majority power using the xenophobic prejudices nurtured inside their cultural solitude.  

With this charter they plan to expel all religious minorities from the public service that do not comply with their dress code.  Outward displays of religion will be banned, including head scarves, turbans and even subjectively large crosses.

A key point we can all agree on is a unified stance on the Niqab and Burqa.  These are dehumanizing, segregating and misogynistic garments that have no place in our society.  We would not allow hooded KKK goons to openly go about their business let alone work in a hospital or a government agency so garbed.  

Could you imagine a police woman in a burqa?

Could you respect or obey such an abomination?

No.  It's now illegal to wear a mask during a protest.  It should also be illegal for police and other public servants to be masked in such a way that their identifying faces are obscured when dealing with the public.

The hijab, on the other hand, is no different than the robes of a Nun or a Mennonite's bonnet.  It may be a tad pretentious to be sure, but the hijab is nothing but a style of scarf.  We should be no more inclined to public enforcement against the head scarf than against short skirts or yoga pants.

My own child was skillfully delivered by a nurse in a hijab.  I don't see what purpose it would serve anyone to have her removed.  The Quebec Charter of Values is as wrong as the PQ itself.

Religious Aparthied

This is not a case of Godwin's Law or Reductio ad Hitlerum.  I'm completely serious in comparing the Peekists to the Brown Shirts over the mundane pejorative sense.  This goes also beyond the trivial similarity between the PQ and NSDAP acronyms being joined to make the words Peekist and Nazi party's respectively.  

Ask yourself these 3 key questions that expose fascists:

1. Is the PQ Nationalist?  Yes.
2. Is the PQ Socialist?  Yes.
3. Is the PQ Racsist?  Yes.  

The entire purpose the Values Charter is the disenfranchisement of self identified religious minority's not limited only to Jews but Muslims, Christians, even Hindus and their Bindi adornments.   The Peekists are opening the door to apartheid or worse.  All the ingredients for a Krystallnacht event are present in 2014 Canada.  

Tell me it isn't possible and I'll tell you to read up on the tragedy of residential schools right here in our beloved country.  Minorities need to know they are protected from xenophobia by the highest offices and courts in the land.

Of course not all of Quebec culture is about xenophobia any more than its all about corruption.  Southern people will still tell you that the Confederate Flag is merely the flag of The South even though it was flown in a war for slavery.  In the eyes of everyone else, the flag emblazoned on the "General Lee" from the Dukes of Hazard, represents racism and slavery.  In a similar vein the Swastika once represented peace.  Sorry, not anymore.  This awful and evil Values Charter threatens to do the same to the symbols of Quebec.

Are proud Quebecers really so eager to lace their culture with the stench of intolerance like the Southern States?  It seems to me the unique culture of Quebec is threatened more by the racist Peekists than by any competing culture.

Strategy

The Quebec Values Charter reportedly enjoys overwhelming support.  I can't imagine its supporters include many Conservative voters.  A strong and sensible position against the niqab and burka should inoculate the Conservative party against any blow back from opposing the Values Charter.

In any case there isn't much to lose.  Conservative support in Quebec is notoriously soft.  Ironically this frees the government to do what is right irregardless of electoral consequences.  We might even gain some support in Quebec.  Minorities will look to the steady strength and sobriety of a Conservative government as the best defense from Peekist zealots.

And what of the hard won immigrant and minority Conservative vote in the rest of Canada?  What kind of loyalty can we expect from them if we timidly throw their friends,family and fellow ex-patriots to the wind?

The Harper Government has an obligation to oppose the Values Charter.  Blunt and direct statements to the effect should be continued.  The Government should deploy the Office of Religious Freedoms to study the Values Charter and voice its very strong support.  The irony that the Office was created to protect religious minorities in other countries won't be lost on anyone.  The Courts will also have a role to play and they should also have the vocal support of the government.  The people of Quebec should be under no illusion that if the Bureaucracy and Judiciary fail to protect minority's, new federal laws will be passed to ensure the freedom of every Canadian Citizen.

The Dog That Caught The Car

Well Done CPC!  Well Done PM Harper.  Well done everyone.

1. EU Free Trade Deal
2. End of Long Gun Registry
3. Getting Canada out of Recession
4. Stopping the Coalition
5. Strengthened Military
6. Strengthened Laws

Great!

So what now?  Its a question I've been wondering for a long time now.  Years have gone by since the minority times.  I always trusted that the big brains in the high halls had some kind of plan.  

Its not that they weren't busy.  The EU Trade Deal took years of work to put together and it will take a few more years yet.  It's also a little boring not to mention practically in the bag.  People overwhelmingly support the deal.  There is so much support that even the usual liars are lying about supporting it.

Yawn.  The Base is bored.  We are the Dog that caught the car.  We want the thrill of the heroic challenges we faced down in the past.  We want to do the impossible again.  

In the absence of monumental goals what has filled the vacuum?  Senators and their chronic attendant scandals.  (if there was a 'spit in disgust' punctuation mark I would put it here.)  Like a creeping deadly mold the Senate corrupts all it touches.  That institution has resisted change for over a century.

Let's take down the Senate.  Lets do the impossible again and change the Senate forever.

In fact here is a list of desirable and impossible things the Party can get to work on:

1. Reform the Senate
2. Sell the CBC
3. End all supply management
4. Make a Taxpayer Bill of Rights 
• No combination of governments may require a summation of taxes over 50% of any person's income,
• May not tax naturally occurring molecules essential to life (a life tax)
5. A National Energy Corridor Act 
• to join all 3 coasts in specifically zoned energy corridors to facilitate the unimpeded transport of all forms of energy
6. Legalize Private Health Care
7. 
   

I'm leaving 7 blank.  What would you like to see?

The key thing is that the government needs to get on with it.  Make some waves and take some risks.  We don't need to wait for the election.  We won the election already.  Do it now.

Its ironic that being paralyzed in fear of the next election increases the chance of losing it.  Elections are unpredictable things.  No one should harbor any illusions of the real possibility of losing the next one.

Carpe Diem.

Media Party Retaliates with Attack Columns

I dispute the whole concept of Attack Ads.  The establishment punditocracy have fabricated the idea that any political ad that is critical of a rival is an attack.  It is no more an attack than any political column ever written by Andrew Coyne.

Coyne writes his opinions, and those opinions are always negative towards the Conservative Party.  In fact I don't remember him ever writing a kind word.  If he has he can't be much good at it, since nobody else remembers either.

"Attack Ads Are Political Deathstars But Their Target is Democracy" reads the title of Coyne's latest attack.  I know Attack Editors write Attack Headlines but they coordinate their attacks with Attack Hacks so that the Attack Columns shut down all thought and Democracy.

It has been widely shown that media in fact has a huge negative impact on the functioning of democracy.  They can tell a bald faced lie and then quietly correct it when no one is watching.  They do it all the time.  Think of Robocalls.  Think of Communion Wafers.  Think of Benghazi.  Think of Global Warming.  Even the Vietnam War was lost on television, not the battlefield.  

I'm not saying this should change.  I'm saying that a great amount of power resides in an un-elected and unaccountable media.  They don't just act irresponsibly with this power but with outright open malice towards one side of the political spectrum in particular.

Why didn't any of these media experts notice the positive things in the ads?   Can you not say anything about your opponents in politics?  They invented the idea of Attack Ads so you think they would have a formula worked out for how negative they can be.  What is the acceptable percentage of opinions related to the opposing party should be allowed? Is it 25%?  Is 51% an official attack ad?  How would you measure this? -by the second or by the word?  Do printed words carry more weight than spoken words?  What do images count for?  What does music count for?  I found the music for the latest ads light and comical.  The music was decidedly positive beyond any doubt.  Whats so aggressive about comedy anyway? 

The CPC ads weren't all that negative or even attacking really.  Mocking is the word.  But Coyne is downright nasty and purposefully so on a regular basis.

"-they are corrosive. Their intent is not merely to criticize, but to inflame. They’re not trying to provoke thought, but to shut it down."

Corrosive?  Does he read his own work? Caustic!  And where exactly did he divine the intent of the ads?  If Coyne actually does read minds he still lies about it.  He can't even imagine that the ads might have been made as amusement.  Why do people tell jokes Sour Puss?  Do you even know?

Anyway, even more grounded writers also seemed to miss the mark.  

Chris Selley thinks the ads contain a lie.  Trudeau is out of context when talking about Quebec we are told.  The fact is Trudeau put words into his father's mouth as if he approved of it.  Another fact is that it doesn't matter who said it, its still a stupid thing to say.  So where then is the lie?  Trudeau Junior is constantly invoking the Senior.  Constantly!  Even his letter to the Chinese asking for temporary workers mentions it.  He is Liberal Leader because of it.  Trudeau was telling that story because he was proud of it. Or is he just stupidly trampling his father's name?

Jonathan Kay, who is sometimes friendly to the CPC, wrote about the ads too.  The gist of the article is: "Is that all you got?"  Come again?  Were you expecting the Battle of Endor?  Yub nub!  The election is 2 bloody years away.  There is plenty of material and Trudeau is a gaffe machine too. You really think Truedeau's welcome card should have been an orgasmic explosion?  

Kay also says the adds are "lame."  Yes, there were no exploding spaceships and I don't think there are going to be any.  One Coalition Crisis is enough for a lifetime.  This is Canadian Politics after all and lame is actually good.  Nice and harmless.  We can all share the joke that is the Shiny Pony.

Just today we learned that Trudeau wants to get empathetic and cozy with poor murderous Boston Marathon Bomber.  At best its an unforced error.  Its what these ads are trying to tell people.  That is the intent of the ads: Jr. hasn't got a clue!

You almost get the sense he was pushed into it.  He was obliged to lead the Liberals seeing how low they are now.  Didn't his wife say it was his duty or something?  There are plenty of stories where the prince runs away to be something else.

Trudeau Jr. should have gone into entertainment.  Ben Mulroney has more sense than hapless Trudeau.  Ben knows full well that in politics he would have been in his father's large inky shadow for decades.  Shiny Pony invokes that shadow at every opportunity   Shamefully so.  There's no "did you know Ben Mulroney is former Prime Minister Mulroney's son?"  That never ever happens with the Dauphin.

Sack PSAC

PSAC can blow me. You can put that on a button.

I could care less what PSAC thinks about the Prime Minister. They can display thier stupidity as much as they want on thier own time.

I prefer it actually. The beauty of free speech is that somebody that says something wrong or stupid is immediatly outed by thier own words. Tell me what you think. I want to know. Tell me if you are an idiot leftist.

If you wear that button on the public dime, I agree with Sandy Crux, you should be considered as part of the cutbacks.

Firing a civil servant for political demonstration after a warning is fair game. There isn't even a risk of losing a voter. It's win/ win. PASC does't win of course. They are the problem. If you let the problem win then you havn't solved it.

There is a lesson for the government in this story. You can't please the left. You can't. Don't even try. They will fight against you no matter what you do.

Even if you borrow and spend billions. Even when you grow the size of government. They will never be pleased with a Conservative. They will always be the enemy.

So pretty please, with sugar on top, this voter asks you to shrink the defecit and PSAC. They are complimentary goals where everyone wins. Cut PSAC now.

Doubt of the Benefit

I'm trying to get my head around this story from Sun Media today.

Conservatives send congrats to Chinese communists

I don't get it.  Why would our president go out of his way to send birthday wishes to the Communist Party of China?  Ironically the acronym for both parties is the CPC.  Funny.

Is this a result of the recent security breach of the Conservative website?  Is it just Chinese propaganda?  Is John Walsh looking to make a spectacular exit?

If he really did write this letter then I suggest his resignation letter is soon to follow.  It had better be.

I'm trying to imagine what benefit would come from sending the Communist Party a birthday note.  There is no political benefit.  There is a substantial cost in fact.  Was there some favor owed or solicited?  Maybe he really doesn't understand what the heck he is president of and thought he was doing a good thing.

Diplomats I can understand.  Being nicey nicey to their evil hosts can only make their jobs easier even if its all crap.

This makes no sense.  I'm going to need an explanation.  I'm still a loyal CPC supporter but I can't in good conscience participate in a party who's president honestly believes 90 years of totalitarian Communist control is something worth congratulating.

Did you send the letter Mr. Walsh?  Is this out of context somehow?  I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt because I greatly doubt the benefits of this move.

Drop Progressive from Conservative Parties

Its time for a name change for parties that sport Progressive in their titles but are actually conservative.  Sorry.  Liberals and Socialists have taken up Progressive as one of their key words.  It matters.  Whenever the electorate begins to realize what socialists are all about, they change the name and keep the ideology.

This is why Socialists became Liberals and now Liberals are Progressives.  Its more palatable they think.  I know what was meant by Progressive when applied to Conservatives.  The route word is progress while its anything but.  Now progressive is about the progress of bigger and bigger government.  Its about progress of the laws over people who follow them and coddling for people who don't.  Its the same way that Liberals are liberal with spending good peoples money.  The classical liberal is gone and so is the progressive.  They are all just socialists.

Do you doubt me?  Good.  Google Progressive.   Here is what you see when the Liberal Party shows up.

The Liberal "blog" goes out of its way to use the word progress and its derivatives in every post.  "..The summer progresses..., ...we are making progress...'' etc...  You might not want to drop your P word yet but they are obviously moving in on it. 

Lets ask Alf Apps, Liberal Party President, what he thinks Liberals are:




The Alberta PC's can keep Progressive.  They are more progressive than conservative.  The rest of you PC's had better think long and hard about what progressive means and what its coming to mean.  Do you really want to be socialist conservatives?  Its not about progress.

The Best Defence

The best defense is a good offense.  Its an old saying that you've probably heard before and its still true.

There hasn't been any serious offense yet, but its coming.  Very soon after Stephen Harper's Conservative victory there was a hint of what the enemy is going to do next.  It came from Heather Mallick and it was the same vile old hatred we are all used to.

Hatred is the default position of those on the left wing.  It is their true character.  It comes out when they are roundly beaten as they have been.  Intolerance and a cheating insubordinate attitude to the mutually agreed process is the natural recourse to an ideology that is naturally geared to "Social Justice."  To demand "Social Justice" presupposes that there is some injustice already.  There is always some imagined injustice that gives them the moral justification to lie and cheat in the name of their cause-de-jour.  The supposed injustice in our case is the loss of the election by the combined left.

Evidence for the extra-legal counter attack to the shame of losing so badly to Stephen Harper is already beginning to accumulate.

We have the Page firing.  A silly girl, Bridgette DePape, smuggled a "Stop Harper" sign into the Senate for the Throne Speech.  She made a statement with the signature of left wing blindness requesting that Canadians rise up in an Arab Spring.  Where have we heard that before?  Canada is arguably the freest and most prosperous country in the world, but the left thinks we would be better off with a military junta that tortures, rapes, and sexually abuses its 'free' people.  

Then we have Lulz and the hack attacks against the Conservative party, possibly Elections Canada and Husky.  The malicious story about the Prime Minister had a lot of people worried and a lot of leftards celebrating.  This isn't the first time they have done this.  Recall the attacks against Canada during the Copenhagen summit a few years ago.  They posted a fake story about the fake climate scare and I dare say it back fired.  The fake story about the Prime Ministers hospitalization has also backfired because he is anything but wounded.    Leftlings dreaming of harm on our Prime Minister will have a rude awakening to reality.  In fact it should wake the Tory base up.  The enemy is alive and the tactics going to get ugly.

The reason I'm pointing this out is because its just the beginning.   I don't have all the answers but I do know the enemy's game plan.  I don't even think they know their own game plan.  Ugliness is their natural state and they will sort themselves out like grains of sand on a beach (wave action sorts sand grains by size and weight).  They will slowly align due to what Brian Liley has been calling Harper Derangement Syndrome.

The game plan is hate.  They have done it before.  We've seen it.  The obvious examples are Brian Mulroney and George W. Bush.  Both of them have made mistakes but neither of them deserved the venom and derision leveled at them by a hostile media, unions, and the rest of the useful idiots.   

I don't know what the best course of action is, but we can't just sit back and wait.  We can't play defense alone and expect to win.  Take the hacking incident for example.  Much more work is involved in building and maintaining a website than there is in vandalizing it.  The age old equation between arms and armor always favors arms.  A deeper bunker or thicker walls will always yield to a bigger bomb.  We see this in nature as well as warfare and I believe it applies to politics as well.

We need to take the fight to the enemy.  Seize the initiative.  Its better if the media is talking about what the government did or said, than what some child or petty vandals did to the government.  The election was the easy part.  Conservatives won the war.  Conservatives can win the peace if they can keep the offense on the field; their hands firmly on the ball.

What I like about Liberals

What I like about Liberals is that they are Canadians first and Liberals second.  This is a key similarity between Liberal and Conservative and of vital importance in this election.  In the grand scheme of things Conservatives aren't much different from John Manley Liberals.  We believe in Free Markets and Strong Economies.  We believe that government has a regulatory role that is best kept to a minimum.  Government is not a player but a referee.  The less we see of the referees, the better the game.  So it is with Capitalism. 

When John Manley was Finance Minister many years ago the Liberal Party was in its glory days.  Here is John Manley espousing Conservative ideals earlier this year.

I believe the country is facing a great turning point in this 41st election.  Canada has had a long line of crisis from American invasions as in the War of 1812 to World Wars to the FLQ crisis and the Quebec Referendum.  Each time we have come perilously close annihilation or disintegration and each time we prevail. 

This election is about preventing the conditions that lead to such upheavals.  An NDP coalition government will generate an economic collapse.  Their very promises including 70 billion in new spending and balancing the budget by 2014 should raise alarm bells in any thinking person.  There will have to be massive tax increases and expropriations in order to balance that equation.

Crushing taxes and a stalled economy will personally cost each of us many thousands if not tens of thousands of dollars before its over.  While an electoral hammer in time can be brought down on them, the NDP and their Bloc partners will loot the treasury while we are distracted by the drama of reopening the constitution.

I can imagine the dismay of Liberal supporters at the prospect of an NDP coalition government.  The Liberal Leadership is a travesty and has been so for many years now. They have slowly whittled away trust and support by jumping in front of every craze to come along, even when its at odds with their own basic beliefs. First it was the Green Shift and their anti-Alberta campaign and then they go even further left to try scoop up the socialist kooks at the outliers of society.

Its a poor and transparent strategy that has been rejected by the target voters in favor of true socialists, the NDP.  Centrist John Manley Liberals must be left feeling dirty and betrayed.  Not only does their party no longer support their ideals, but their best hope lies in simply fooling socialists into helping them win the government.  What folly.

All is not lost however.  You only need to look to the Conservative movement today for hope.  Correctly chastised by voters the PC Party was obliterated.  The rump of the PC's hung on for far too long before finally joining the Canadian Alliance.  Now the Conservative Party is Canada's best hope for the sparkling future we all want and deserve.

I want to ask you centrist Canadians to temporarily lend the Conservative Party your vote.  These past 5 years have been pretty good all things considered.  The next 4 will be even better.  You don't have to love the Conservative Party as many do, you just need to hold your nose and vote.  Your country needs you.  Your family and your neighbors need you.  We Conservatives need you.  All Canadians need you to vote Conservative.

This is not a hockey game.

The result of this election will impact your personal finances in the short and long term.  Its too important a decision to just be a partisan rah rah go team thing.  You can still be a Liberal in fact.  Nobody knows how you vote unless you tell them.  Why be ashamed of your freedom anyhow?  Send them a message.  No more goofy antics with the fate of the country.  No more haughty imported finger wagging elites unconnected to your real concerns let alone the country's.

Vote Conservative on May 2nd and tell them about it.  Nothing inspires change faster than temporarily losing a loyal supporter.  That is how democracy really works.  That is a lesson Micheal Ignatieff and the people who appointed him need to learn.  You'll get 4 years to rebuild the brand and a stable and prosperous country in the meantime.

Vote for Canada and the Conservative Party.

The Calgary East all Candidates Debate

Yesterday I attended the all Candidates Debate in Calgary East.  I'm not going to do an actual report as if it was anything more than a mickey mouse version of the leaders debate.  It was however entertaining to watch politics in action and witness the local media coverage and spin.

The only agency to cover the debate was Global Calgary.  I'll get to the expected media bias of the actual segment but it seemed to me that the programming editor arranged to have nobody at all see it.  I don't really ever watch Global Calgary so I can't really say if it's normally so off-putting.

The big story of the day was the weather.  Snow!  Somebody snapped a picture of a bird in the snow.  Awe.  They came back to the story 6 or 7 times over the hour.  I wasn't counting.  The debate segment was right at the end of the hour.  It was right behind a story about a lady who didn't like her sofa.  I'm not kidding.  Who will pay for the sofa?  The lady doesn't like it.  It wobbles.  It sinks too deep.  Wow.  Anyone still watching by this point must have been on the phone or in the bathroom.

Finally, the debate coverage!  What was covered?  A ruckus caused by an unkempt and disheveled heavy set man at the back.  Him and a co-ordinator for the seniors hall sitting next to him could not keep quiet during Deepak Obhria's opening remarks.  The co-ordinator would let out load moans and sighs while the unkempt man was more vocal.

"My ears hurt!" He was shouting over our MP.  "Let him speak." Others were saying.  He also said that the Deepak's statements were "pressing him into his seat."  He felt like "his chair would soon fall over backwards."  Three rows ahead of the man, I felt no such effect. 

That was it.  Global didn't show any of that.  They showed arguing.  Its amazing to me that there can be a dispute about being quiet during opening remarks of a debate but there you have it.  The controversy according to Global.  Nobody is watching anyway.

The rest of the debate was very silly.  The various antics of the opposition staff had me tempted to throw a word grenade  of my own into the mix, but I still have honour.  I'm a partisan.  I want to hear the people speak... in between the antics of the desperate partizan's in the room.     

The NDP candidate was pretty entertaining. He said voting NDP "is like playing baseball."
"Sometimes you hit a home run.  Sometimes you have to take one for the team."
I will hit my home runs for me and I won't be taking one or ten for any NDP team, thanks. 

He also said that Jack Layton was from Toronto, making him especially attuned to the needs of Calgary East.

He would pull our troops out of Afghanistan and somehow return to "when Canadians stood like Giants of peacekeeping."

He said he would not stop the Tar sands but impose a Cap and trade carbon tax and raise corporate taxes to 19% .  Then he complained about gas prices ans oil subsidies, as if NDP promises would make gasoline cheaper.

You get the feeling the NDP will say anything and knows nothing.

The Liberal lectured the audience on the structure of the UN a if we were in her class and then later called Conservatives "reckless teenagers."  Standard stuff.  She did get quite a laugh from the crowd when she claimed Liberals would get a majority in this election or the next.  It is pretty funny.

The Greens did a lot of talking but nobody is listening.

Deepak Obhria was himself.  He is a seasoned campaigner of 14 years.  He laid out the familiar Conservative vision of a safe and strong economy.  He also warned against the Coalition.  On the question of the UN seat Deepak masterfully shot down the Liberal by saying "we will not compromise Canadian values for the sake of a security council seat."  Many general assembly votes in the corrupt UN belong to autocratic dictators like Colonel Gaddaffi or Mubarak of Egypt. The Liberal even mentioned Egypt by name.

I'm glad we didn't pander to the likes of them.  Liberals want Canada to be a doormat for every misogynistic racist, lets say it: evil, abusive tyrant of the middle east and the world.   The UN is an unelected and corrupt body that is showing visible signs of decay.  But that's my opinion.

That's what I heard and saw.  It was worth attending and I would do it again.  I much more appreciate door knocking.  Its nice to talk to people one on one in their homes; unscripted and less the phony antics of the desperate parties and their biased media friends.  Politics happens on the doorsteps of constituents.  The rest is just manipulated media circus and people are tuning out.

Update: Calgary Herald had a similar story.  Heckler, personal remarks heat up Calgary East forum

Majority now or later

I can't think of a more painful way to get a majority Conservative government than to submit to a socialist coalition led by Jack "lay-off" Layton.  He didn't get anyone laid off?  Well you just wait.  I really don't want to go through an NDP era the way Ontario did with Bob Rae.

Can we skip that please?  Canadians, think of your family, your neighbors, your fellow citizens half a world away and blissful under the same flag.  The Liberal ship is going down.  Its only a vote.  You can even be a loyal Liberal and vote Conservative just this once.  Look at that party.  Its a disaster.  You will keep getting Martins and Dions and Iggys if you don't shut them down.  Conservatives had to vote Liberal in order to slap down the Progressive Conservatives.  Its your turn. 

Let Iggy go down with the ship.  You don't have to go down with him.  There is no shame in success.  Let the Liberals beg for your loyalty next time around.

We will all go down if lay-off Layton sneaks in.  20 billion in Carbon Taxes.  Hundreds of billions sucked out of the economy in total.  Larger endless structural deficits as Government expands explosively.  And to top it off we reopen the constitution!

Do you know what Meech lake was about?  Separatists have personally griped about that to me and it happened when we were kids.  This next time I fear there will be more than one provincial nationalist at the table.  Bring in a Green Shift/NEP2 and there will be several grieved parties to deal with.

Yes, he is that stupid.  A grinning fool.  He says so himself.  We are looking at the worst of all outcomes with the NDP in power.  "We can do this" is suddenly their motto.  They will do it, if you don't stop them.  Vote Conservative on May 2nd and get out the vote from everyone you know.

The Pie in the Sky Socialism of the NDP

The last thing Canadians need is a socialist wrecking ball to the fragile economy.

The latest polls showing a surging NDP in second place was delightful at first.  Its nice to see the old Grits falling flat, but a second place NDP means they will have the right to lead a coalition.  Unlike the weasel worded Liberals, the NDP has given full throated support to a Coalition with the Bloc.   They will be quite happy to overturn an election result and they might not even need the Liberals at all.

It's worse than that.  NDP promises are impossible even to the NDP.  Now that the possibility of an NDP government is actually a reality we saw them retract some of their campaign promises.  Yes its true.  I don't remember any party in any campaign in any country in the world to ever retract an expensive promise 1 week before the election.  Their actions are more astounding than their surge itself.

The retracted promise had to do with billions in spending on the back of Canadian industry.  In the last election the NDP wanted to "shut down the tar sands."  They would make the NEP look like a fun fair.  If  even the NDP has to rethink their own platform you really have to worry what these ideological purists haven't imagined they have gotten wrong.  Manufacturing, Transportation, Agriculture in addition to Energy would be hit hard.  No industry would escape.  The NDP is aiming for your pocket.

Lets look at the tricks from the NDP platform:

• "Stop the Tar Sands" They said so in the previous election.  Now the agenda is buried in their carbon taxes.
• Force credit cards not to go 5% above prime.  Are they going to force them to hand out cards too because  you can get loans like that if they think you can pay them back.  Does anyone really need another card?  This promise is essentially the end of credit cards.  Current accounts would be closed and new cards would probably have to be backed.
• Abolish the Senate.  I'd like to abolish some aspects of the Senate but the whole thing would be irresponsible.  They do important work in government and adding shocks to the government while shocking the economy is a recipe for disaster.
• Pull out of Afghanistan.  Jack always liked the Taliban.  He would leave those people high and dry, undo all our hard work and make future terrorist doubt our resolve.  If there was a war that was more justified and worthwhile since WW2 its Afghanistan.  Our combat role is over but our contribution isn't.
• Reopen the Constitution.  What could go wrong?  Woopee!
• Balance the budget by 2014.  LOL.  The platform that includes jokes.

Of course, this platform was never intended to be taken seriously.  A coalition provides a good excuse for completely ignoring any and all promises.  This goes for Liberals too.

They make tax and spend Liberals look tame by comparison.  Iggy would be nothing more than a minister while Jack would actually be PM.  Jack would turn this country around all right.  We would go directly into the same dumpster the United States finds itself in.  How many examples do we need that socialism doesn't work?

I don't suppose that BQ voters who flirt with ruinous federal socialists would ever vote Conservative.  The majority of Canadians who are in the center should wake up and realize this is a two party system.  You don't have to love the PM, but the alternative is a far left coalition of losing parties headed by a socialist and supported by a separatist and a zombie party. 

Pick up a newspaper.  We aren't out of the woods.  Don't gamble your country with an experimental socialist coalition.  They will personally cost you thousands of dollars and collectively put us all deep in the hole.  On May 2nd Vote Conservative.

The Virtual Coalition

Tom Flanagan has come up with the latest term for what the Liberals, the Bloc and the NDP are planning.  A Virtual Coalition is as good a name as any.  They plan to overrule the will of the people if they can.   Many senior Liberals have independently confirmed the plan while simultaneously denouncing a narrow definition of a Coalition.  I've prepared a value added video of Tom Flanagan's discussion with other political strategists.


They think that if they just don't call it a Coalition, Canadians will be okay.  Their collective contempt for the mind of a citizen is astounding to behold.  They think we can't put it together.  If they called it cotton candy, they believe we would suddenly think a coalition with these three was sweet and fluffy. 

Not only would a virtual coalition be a betrayal of the electoral mandate and illegitimate.  It would be inherently unstable, weak and wasteful.  Unstable and wasteful because the Bloc would strong arm it into paying ransom above and beyond what is fair to the rest of Canada, and weak because this situation would leave Canada vulnerable to external shocks to the economy that a natural loser like Micheal Ignatieff is unfit to cope with.  The Troika would put us at a competitive disadvantage with huge deficit spending, large tax hikes and general policy instability.

This is why a majority is so important.  Winning the election is not enough.  We can't count on the word of the opposition  parties, especially when they lie so openly about their bid for power.  This is truly a two party system.  The only problem is that the left wing party is schizophrenic.  We don't want a schizo government.   Iggy himself doesn't know who he is half the time.  He doesn't know he isn't entitled to be Prime Minister.

Vote For Canada

If you are Liberal you need to read this.  I won't take much of your time.  I know how all these parties and special interest fight for your eyeballs all day and how tiring it gets. 

Here's the thing:

Some of you vote Liberal because you are liberal.  You feel that liberalism is your identity.  You feel that voting for some other party would betray your personality and your identity.  You don't stay loyal because they are actually good for you or for the country.

I want you to know that your vote is not your identity.  Your vote is your property.  It belongs to no one else in the universe but you.  We have a secret ballot.  Nobody has to know about how you vote.  Not even the people who count your ballot know who cast it.   You don't have to obey your husband.  You don't have to please your wife.  You don't have to impress your clique or live up to some imaginary standard set by some interest group.  When you enter the voting booth its you alone that must choose the fate of this country.

Would you choose Micheal Ignatieff and his version of the Liberal Party?  Is he the best we can do?  I'm 33 years old.  Mr. Ignatieff has been out of the country for longer than I have been alive.  I don't mind if he wants to call himself Canadian.  Not at all.  I do mind if his absenteeism is supposed to make him so much more Canadian than any of us.  That is absurd.  He can be Canadian, but Prime Minister is a whole other story.  He doesn't even show up to work.  He's missed 70% of votes in the house.  He can't even win the leadership of his own party, yet this lousy MP wants to be PM.  Without a Conservative majority Iggy would seize power even while losing the election.  

This weak leader heads a steadily diminishing Liberal Party, who's best hope for becoming PM is to forge an agreement with the Bloc separatists and the socialist NDP.  Is this why you are a Liberal voter?  To borrow favors for the separatists?  This means all his slight of hand promises will be in the garbage on May 3rd no matter what the outcome.  This applies to all the parties on the left.  A vote for them is a vote for a mishmash of incoherent doublespeak and unbridled spending that won't last more than a year anyway.  We'll be right back here again in an election about nothing in no time at all. 

Just this weekend the Bloc vowed to pursue the break up of this country.  Is any of this the reason you might vote Liberal?    Is this just the cost of asserting your identity?  David Suzuki and Margaret Atwood don't even know you exist and they don't care.  They would love to see this country brought down as low as the USA is now.  They are happy to be sad for you because it validates their worldview.  How shallow would it be to trade your vote, for the imaginary approval of George Strombolopolous or some CBC executive?  

Conservatives in this country went through a terrible time after Brian Mulroney.  We deserved it and the country needed it.  It makes us all stronger.

Its time that the Liberals reinvent themselves.  They can only do this if you turn your back on them.  Its the only way they will get it.  Show them you can't be taken for granted.  Remind them who owns your vote.  They need some quality time in the wilderness finding their soul again.  They need it.  You can still be a liberal or even a Liberal by voting for the Conservative Party of Canada.

The Conservative Party is the right choice for Government.  A majority government can stand up to the Bloc.  Conservative experience is the best suited to protect the economy, national unity, health care, our troops and security.  Conservatives are the right choice for Canada.   

Vote Conservative.  Vote for Majority.  Vote for Canada.

Which came first? Liberal Media Bias or Media Access to Slam Conservatives?

Access!  Access.  All this time.  A lifetime of Liberal Media and it was all because one day Stephen Harper would have a Minority Government and would deny that same Liberal Media access.  Unbelievable! 

John Ibbitson addressed the fact that the Ottawa Press Gallery hates the Prime Minister.  Well colour me surprised!  I've only known this since before it happened.  Now its so obvious they write about it.

Who's fault is it?  Well It's obviously Mr. Harper's.  He didn't provide access to himself and his Government that is why the media trashes Conservatives.  It's not because they are self-selected lefties and have been trashing Conservatives like Brian  Mulroney to Preston Manning to Stockwell Day.  They have been at it since they learned to write from left wing professors like Iggy himself.

The Government has to entertain the media.  We have to make them happy.  That is why they "fixated" on the refused entry to events to activists.  Remember they "fixated" on this while Liberals were expelling Neo Nazi's from their ranks and making apologies for thug hugging no-means-yes judges.  By the five furies you guys make me sick!

How did I miss this before?  The mainstream media hates Mr. Harper, because he isn't friends with them.  He isn't friends with the media because...the media hates Conservatives and Stephen Harper in particular.

How dare you call yourselves reporters.  Reporters report!  You don't make fake excuses for your "fixation."  You don't actively campaign for one party or another.  You don't push your personal agenda over the facts.  You don't LIE!

It was good of you to finally come out and admit what we have been saying all along.  You hate Harper, and by extension you hate all of us.  Fair enough, we hate you too.  You are just like the Unions; a special and selfish interest that uses its position in society to advance your own agenda.

Your propaganda subverts our democracy and weakens our country.  Instead of a strong experienced and responsible government, you would submit Canadians more tumultuous minorities and elections.  We saw it in Wikileaks.  Heck, you are even telling us about it.  You are exposed!  You aren't just exposed, you are lying about the reasons for too.

Shame on you despicable liars.  

So what should we do?

We can disenfranchise them.  This is what we are actually actively doing as conservatives apart from the Conservative Party.  Sun News is a part of this.  We can patronize Sun Media and any other media that services our wish for a friendly view of events and the world.  We didn't invent this.  We are the victims of this.  This is the whole point of socialism and its latest incarnation: green socialism. 

I believe that people are basically good.  Absent all the lies people are conservative.  Too many of them just don't know it.  You can't really change people by insulting them or threatening them.  People can only change themselves.  You can only lead them to water.  Disenfranchisement is the long term solution.  What do you know, its already happening organically too.  People are waking up to the Liberal Media.  Even when I was in high school we learned the saying: Its not NEWS, its VIEWS.  Well the next question is: Who's views are are making news? 

I'm a good sport though.  I believe in capitalism.  I want the best product so lets give the incumbent media a fighting chance.  They aren't all Liberal scum bags.  Ibbitson himself is evidently a lefty, but its his honesty that is endearing.  That's what this is about.  Its not about creating an empire of the right.  It's about tearing down the empire of the left.

Lets reach out to these dinosaurs and offer them the access they so dearly covet.  Go ahead.  Pick and choose reporters who may not have this hateful predisposition and give them a golden ticket to all the access they want.  Performance should be rewarded.  Wouldn't it be funny if access was dreaded by lefties for the favor that it implies.  LOL

Sitting down with Canadians

Midway through Stephen Harper's excellent platform release yesterday he sat down with some average Canadians to tell them how a Conservative Majority will directly benefit them.

He went through some major planks while telling jokes and getting cozy with voters.  I like it.  I like the rousing speeches too of course but when they all sat around a coffee table the feel of it changed in a good way.

It was like The Stephen Harper Show suddenly.  He was the host and interviewing many guests.  It was something you would never see on CBC or CTV, but perhaps SUN News. 

Enjoy.

Stephen Harper rolls out the Conservative Party Platform

Friday in Mississauga Stephen Harper told us what a Majority Conservative Government would be like for Canadians.  The ebullient rally is available on CPAC if you weren't lucky enough to be there.  I'm excited about the future.  I want to live in the Canada Stephen Harper hopes to bring us.

Some things I'm looking forward to are:

• A balanced budget by 2014 - 2015
• double the maximum TFSA allowance
• Income splitting
• Fitness Tax Credit

There is so much more in their actual document.  Just looking at the table of contents makes me happy.  It seems to make reporters and the opposition unhappy, but that is expected.  They aren't on our side.  They aren't on your side.  This is for Canadians, not special interests.  Media blowhards are declaring it "phony baloney."  Go ahead.  See if Mr. Harper is bluffing.  You've got nothing to lose and a whole lot to gain. 

Conservatives are the only party that will be expected to actually implement a platform after a majority election win.  None of the left wing parties can hope to form a government by themselves which means they can throw their platforms in the trash on May 3rd.

The only way a citizen can get something tangible out of this election is to vote Conservative.  All the rest is a mirage; a lie that weakens the country to satisfy the personal lust for power of the combined left.

The Conservatives are here for you, and their platform proves it.  Nothing can be worse than the Great Recession and all we have to do now is let Stephen Harper do his job.  I can't wait to see what he'll do with the upswing.

Micheal Ignatieff: Admit me to your Rally!

Two people were barred from a Conservative rally recently.  You've heard the scandalous and righteous hype from the Liberals and the media about it.  Oh the humanity.  Oh the democracy.  Oh the something else, with tears of blood etc...

I'd like to challenge Micheal Ignatieff and the Liberal Campaign to allow me into their next rally in Alberta.  I have pictures with Mr. Harper on Facebook too.  "Democracy" for he but not for me, right? 

I'm a self-declared Conservative Supporter, blogger and card carrying member.  That basically means I'm a fan.  I'm just a vocal and opinionated private citizen and that's it.  I have as much to do with the Conservative Party as I do with the Calgary Stampeders.  -which is nothing at all.  I love them because I believe in them.  They are the best party that consistently exceeds my expectations for my Government.


I began planning to crash a Liberal Event here in Alberta but there don't seem to be any.  Here's a screen cap of Liberal events in Canada for the Election.

I couldn't resist re-colorizing the Liberal logo to reflect their ideology, but other than that, this is a direct lift from the Liberal website.  

The first thing you might notice is how sparse Liberal events are west of Windsor.  There are only 2 events in the west, one in Calgary and one in Vancouver.  Saskatchewan and Manitoba don't have any events at all and neither does Newfoundland.  You could fit entire continents into the area's that Liberals ignore and this is a general reflection of their policy as well.

The second thing you should notice is that the Territories are completely missing.  Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut are just gone.  They don't matter to Liberals.  They don't have to visit, they don't even include them in Canada really.  4 times as many American States appear on the Liberal event map than the 3 important Territories that were simply cut off.  The election happens there too.  The Territories send many MP's to Ottawa including our outstanding Leona Aglukkaq.

Even if I crashed the event in Calgary, I can't be sure Iggy will be there.  It says Paul Martin will be there and he isn't even running.  Where are you Iggy?  The media tells us Conservatives have abandoned Quebec which they most definitely have not.  The Liberals have abandoned Alberta since Trudeau and that is a generally accepted fact.  Its not news. 

Well, if you can be bothered Iggy, come on out here.  I've got some things to say to you.  I won't put a pie in your face.  I promise.  This is what will happen if there is no security at your events.


I feel bad that this happened to those girls.  I want to share this great party with them.  It was overzealous and I'm sure it has happened to others in every party without media coverage.  I hope they can understand the care that must be taken against people who would harm our Prime Minister.  I'm sure Liberals and their media don't.  Perhaps the CPC campaign can reconcile the error with them and arrange a personal meeting with them to work it out.  I've heard the security guard has apologized.

Rallies are held for the party faithful and the faithful will understand the needs and possible sacrifices for success of the Party.  The fact we are even talking about this makes me wonder how much of this whole situation is some media theater.

If those 2 girls are somehow entitled entry to a Conservative Rally then I am equally entitled entry to any Liberal Rally.  I demand the right to enter all Liberal Rally's.  Let's see if the same rules apply in the other direction.

This is the disingenuous part of the latest faux scandal.   There have been credible threats against the Prime Minister before.  People are serving time prison for wanting to murder him right now. 

Jean Chretien once strangled a man who got in his way on TV.  Is this the scene you are trying to create at a Conservative Rally?  How about at your rally?

I once shook hands with Jean Chretien.  I wash my hands 6 - 10 times a day so those skin cells are long gone.  Not a trace of the old cretin are on me (but I could use a shower all of a sudden).

It was Canada Day and I was on Parliament Hill.  Her Majesty the Queen of Canada was there too and if my Prime Minister was shaking hands with the crowd then I was happy to shake it and wish him well too.  I respect the office and everything it represents if not the man holding it. 

If Liberals are serious about their faux scandal than they have to invite and admit me to their rally.  (If they have the guts to hold one around here and tell me about it)  They have nothing to fear except from what I might say to Count Ignatieff.  What would you say if you had a face-to-face to the Count?

....We all know this is nothing but another steaming pile of cow dung though.  I won't hold my breath.