Nortel employees predicted a bleak future filled with illness, poverty, homelessness and even suicide after the Harper government signalled it will kill legislation aimed at protecting workers from losing their long-term disability benefits. The 400 disabled employees were distraught Thursday after Conservative senators used their majority on the Senate's banking committee to recommend that the upper house not proceed with the bill.
Think of the time this new senate saves! Leg breakers for the mob don't debate, they just act.
How do you justify killing such a Bill, a Bill that would give disabled employees the benefits they paid for over many years?
Right. You just vote it down, no need for debate or justification. You do it because you can.
However, all is not lost. CON justice will yet blaze forth, protecting Canadians from those dangerous criminals who...grow five pot plants or more.
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I've seen a lot of this anti-senate stuff going on in the progressive blog-o-sphere recently. Fully justified at the idiocy of the Cons, but....
Why does Harper want you to be angry at the Senate?
It is too much, too fast, too sudden to not be planned. Is it his election platform? Does he just want to take another run for the triple E?
Harper always seemed like he was flailing about to me, but maybe some of that "master strategist" stuff I've heard about is true?
PeterC
I don't think this senate stuff is a clever strategy. Watch what the senate does pass, that'll show it's ideological. If they only kill bills they are ideologically opposed to but pass all the crime bills and anything else they openly promote, then it's not a brilliant strategy to drive home his past stance on unelected senates.
As for master strategist, his tight fisted treatment of vets, his vile treatment of seniors, especially poor ones, his flip-flops on Afghanistan, losing rights to use the Dubai airfield...not exactly brilliant strategy.
Harper's success lies in his ability to shut doors so opponents and even citizens can't do much to stop him. That lets him situate himself in an even more secure position as he then gets rid of independent auditors, kills independent agencies, gets a good strong stranglehold on the public service so they work for him out of fear rather than for the public.
Is that brilliant? Some would say so. It works...for awhile. But it destroys democracy.
Harper doesn't want us to be angry at the senate. He just doesn't care, because he knows most Canadians won't either. And for now, they are a useful tool for him.
In other words:
Never mistake for malice that which can be explained by stupidity....
Yea, but something is itching at me on this one....
it is very bizarre
It's a disgrace.
Harper is a bully - doesn't make him the brightest in the schoolyard. But he has stacked the Senate to ensure he does as much damage as possible during his reign and beyond.
Occams Razor, the simplest solution is often the best...but I prefer the way Peter put it. I too agree that something feels wrong about all this.
Maybe. It's hard to analyze the actions of a sociopath by normal standards. We look for reasons but we look with relatively healthy minds and emotions, trying to understand a beast that is far from normal.
I used to play war games with someone like that. Freaky. There were times his weird actions just came down to his messed up need to hurt others.
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