Holy Corrupt Government, Batman!

Damn!  What a couple of weeks!  Even some stevie fans are starting to grumble.

Let’s drag the cesspool and take a look:

Bill C-30 and Towes’ raves

Vikileaks

#TellViEeverything

Bill C-10 continues to make no sense

Seniors can go fuck themselves 'cause they're jut a useless burden and why the hell should we give them money they paid into retirement?

Nicholson wants to bring in the wild, wild west

Airshow MacKay ignores the Public Service Act – again – and uses DND as his personal shit throwing monkey

From fake lakes to fake immigrants and the resurgence of fake Elections Canada calls

Chris Paradis hands out favours to buddies at our expense while putting many people out of work

Tony-sides-with angels-clement is still a monumental moron

Flaherty lies one way then lies the other (or he’s using that broken crystal ball again)

Brian Lilley tries to justify his existence while avoiding top stories that could make Vic and Pete cry and force young CONbots to sing to steve outside his Sussex home and pathetically revives an old story, writing pretty much the same error riddled thing three days in a row.  (because, you know, French people and visible minorities are a whole lot much more scarier than a government that muzzles public servants and scientists, seeks to spy on us at will, denies our very democracy by fixing elections)

And Beloved Leader?  Well none of it is his fault, of course.  Probably Michael Sona just got carried away.

And Parliament wasn’t even sitting this week.  I have a feeling more than a few CONsorts will be putting in serious overtime this weekend.

Asbestos and the old pusher arguments

If I don’t sell deadly drugs to naive kids, someone else will.

I’m just giving them what they want.  They can say no. 

It’s legal in Amsterdam, so what’s the problem?

(emphasis mine)

“But for years, Canada has been scraping asbestos out of buildings, including those on Parliament Hill and at 24 Sussex Dr., the prime minister's residence.  Asked during the recent election campaign how Canada can justify the contrast, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said as long as countries are willing to buy it, he won’t stand in the way.

"This government will not put Canadian industry in a position where it is discriminated against in a market where sale is permitted," Harper said.

By that logic, we should be able to sell drugs to several countries and nuclear bombs to any country that wants them, including Iran.  Arms dealers should be able to expand their exports to include chemicals and diseases.  We could sell children for arranged marriages.  We just can’t sell those things here in Canada.

Canada:  the pusher who sells death but won’t touch it himself because...damn!  That shit kills!

Pretty appalling, right?  Most Canadians would be very upset with a government that not only sells a deadly product to other countries as though lives outside of Canada have less value, but a government that actively attempts to block information on the very deadly nature of the product.

So what do our elected pushers do?  Don’t tell Canadians.  It’s not like they have a right to know.

On the eve of a conference to decide whether to label the substance as a hazardous material under the United Nations' Rotterdam Convention, a spokeswoman for Industry Minister Christian Paradis said this isn't the time to tell Canadians what Canada's position actually is.

"There are times when it's time to disclose it and there are times when it's not the time, and now it's not the time," Pascale Boulay said Friday. "Canada knows what its position is."

As Dr. Dawg points out, try to fathom that mindset.  

Makes you ask what harper considers makes up the national entity, Canada.  Not Canadians, apparently.  Canada is harper.  It’s not Canadians.  We’re just there to provide workers, taxpayers, and consumers.  Not the elected Parliament.  The members of the opposition don’t know the position harper will take on asbestos.  They can make a very educated guess, but they are not privy to what Canada knows.

That’s some very scary shit.

This is no longer a democracy.