51 Replies to “Oh, Shiny Pony!”

  1. The people have spoken but they’ve spoken before. It is Trudeau who is not with it.
    ANY Islamic head covering is a thumb-in-the-eye of the popular culture and the perpetually aggrieved know it. For every complaint a covered woman gives, accompany that with images of women who are scarred for not covering up.

  2. The guy is on the wrong side of almost every issue. He’s against a tax cut everyone wants, he’s against taking out ISIS and everyone wants that and now he wants ladies wearing terror hoods and no one wants that. He’s a walking talking failure.

  3. Perhaps his coalition bro angry tom can comment
    CTVtass put on a little luv show for mulcair and both cbcpravda and ctvtass have been screaming obliging for a week now

  4. Maybe those numbers are on the low side:
    “The poll indicated that 88 per cent of Canadians strongly or somewhat support the “requirement that people show their faces during Canadian citizenship ceremonies.”
    At the same time, 72 per cent of respondents said they strongly or somewhat agree with Harper’s comment about the niqabs and burkas being symbols of oppression.”
    http://globalnews.ca/news/1894770/most-canadians-say-faces-shouldnt-be-covered-at-citizenship-ceremonies-poll/?hootPostID=b5adcca01d14cabf58fdc8711cb6f519

  5. Mulcair and Trudeau are about to piss themselves if the Neqab is banned in public, how else will they manage to attend prayers and spend some quality time with their buddies at the mosque on a regular basis without being recognized?

  7. In other words 88% would prefer to remain CANADIAN…
    I gather all that racist rubbish just hit the trash bin.
    Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch.
    Cheers
    Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
    1st Saint Nicolaas Army
    Army Group ‘True North’

  8. ………..”Quebecers and senior citizens were far more likely than other Canadians to agree with niqab restrictions.”………
    There goes angry Tom and JT’s constituency…..they are neither popular west of the GTA…..

  9. Even CBC’s own Ballot Box question shown here a few days ago showed significant support 55% vs 42% that there should be limits on where a niqab may be worn. This is the poll with the typo error present. For CBC it is a poll gone quite wrong.

  10. The response by province to this question is interesting;
    ” At a citizenship ceremony women should be required to remove the Niqab ”
    84% in Quebec agree.
    62% in Alberta agree.
    Which province is home to the intolerant rednecks ?

  11. What is the one that doesn’t allow signs in your own language on your own business for $400 Alex3

  12. It is amazing and for many discomforting to realize how far Quebec has gone in its anti-religion quest. A friend of mine who grew up in Montreal went back to visit family after many years. He is a nominal Christian and even he felt uncomfortable because of the anti-religion beliefs of many Quebecers he met. Unfortunately I believe that unless and until we develop a ‘Canadian’ identity we will devolve into a cesspool much like the nations the niqab/burqa crowd comes from. Most liberals have no idea of the evil they face and will endure when they welcome Muslims into their nation. Cleopatra is a apt analogy of modern liberalism. Narcissistic, entitled, clueless and wanting to put on a great show of her own suicide. Liberals are now holding the asp to the breast of Canada. Shall we Conservatives stand idly by?

  13. Need to ask JT what he thinks of all halal cafeterias in schools? And then ask the public the same

  15. If they want to wear it in Canada, they clearly don’t share our outlook on life and do not belong here.

  16. So, will the new seats that the Harper Conservatives appear likely to gain in Quebec be at the expense of the Liberals or the NDP or both?
    When that happens, will both Just In and Mulcair appear in public wearing a niqab in order to hide their embarrassment and bruises delivered by voters at the ballot box?
    I can see the cartoonists, okay only the bravest ones, have fun with that.

  17. Flip most progressives a loonie and they will sacrifice their convictions. The unfortunate aspect of that trait is the next time they will want a twooney.

  18. Ralph Surette, a Michael Harris type, though having higher levels of arrogance and self-righteousness, shows how Harper is sowing the seeds of destruction of the fabric of the nation:
    “This is the Harper technique. Stake out an extreme position, then dress it up in moderation and wait for it to be accepted as such, by the Harperist “base” first, and then beyond.”
    When it comes to the niqab, that’s some “base” buddy.
    Let me see if I have this right: take a mainstream position, that people should show their face in a citizenship ceremony, paint it as extreme, and call two thirds of Canadians racists. Hmmm?
    Or, perhaps take the mainstream view that the new terror bill, while not perfect and certainly can be tweeked a bit wit more oversight, paint it as extreme, with the idiotic view that we have suddenly been placed into the clutches of the police state. How are we doing so far?
    Then again, what should one expect from anyone who would pen these ignorant ramblings:
    “Stephen Harper is now serving notice that he’s willing to tear the social fabric of the country apart if that’s what it takes to get his party re-elected.”
    “Here’s the picture. No prime minister before — not Paul Martin, Jean Chrétien, Brian Mulroney, Pierre Trudeau, Lester Pearson, John Diefenbaker and beyond — have ever assaulted the very principle of Parliament itself, ever attacked the chief justice of the supreme court, ever muzzled the scientists, neutered the parliamentary committee system, and so on. Dirty politics, corruption — yes indeed. But Harperism is worse than all that. It is an ideological assault on the elements of the constitutional order. It hangs pictures of the Queen all over, but owes its loyalties to the same dark, anti-democratic, corporate and imperialist forces that drive the American right wing. ”
    Do people actually believe this unsubstantiated, blithering nonsense?
    “Meanwhile, Harper will be emboldened by the victory of his fellow traveller, Benjamin Netanyahu, who played the fear and race card at the last minute and won. Who knows what a desperate Harper might do?”
    Harper is neither Jewish nor desperate, Surette. Are you an anti-Semite whose afraid his anachronistic, Marxist ideas are no longer listened to, having caused nothing but misery everywhere they’re tried. Hmmm?

  19. Ra;ph Surette:
    “No prime minister before — not Paul Martin, Jean Chrétien, Brian Mulroney, Pierre Trudeau, Lester Pearson, John Diefenbaker and beyond — have ever assaulted the very principle of Parliament itself”
    Pierre Trudeau “Most MPs are nobodies 100 yards away from Parliament Hill”

  20. Anyone wearing a face a covering or full burka in this country I consider to be shunning our way of life and have no intention of integrating.

  21. >Liz J…..soooooo true. But you do realize that makes you a racist beyootch? :):).

  22. It’s all good. Mulcair and JT are both doing their best to alienate the main stream voters by beating on Harper for taking a popular stance. In this case Harper has a huge advantage. It’s called common sense. He actually pays attention to world events and has seen the turmoil brought by the joy of Islam. Like this:
    http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/5423/sweden-saudi-arabia-wallstrom?anid=7
    Mulcair and JT listen too often to the brainfried riffraff coming out of the universities and other institutions with picket signs that only a socialist could endorse but mainstream Canada shrugs it off until they become annoyed and actually pay attention. This is one of those issues that shows leftists that CBC is not speaking for the majority. Must be hard to accept, as the CBC IS Canada in their view. Reality begs to differ. Our equivalent of MSNBC only caters to the fringe loonies better known as die hard socialists. Harper’s laying his prospects of winning the next election on that very theory. I believe it will pay off.

  23. I have had complete stranger, in stores or elsewhere, especially women, also immigrants, discuss this with me. The Lieberals are backing the weak horse here (OK the shiny pony)

  25. There are still a lot of mentally deficient liberal out there who agree with Trudeau.

  26. The leftie socialists always have it that Harper is a tyrant, bully & every other foul thing they can think of.Their minds are so closed they can’t see the forest for the trees. I believe most Canadians are smart enough to get by the NDP Liberal BS.
    mf327h

  27. …the brainfried riffraff coming out of the universities and other institutions with picket signs that only a socialist could endorse …
    Well said. We must retake academe. It has become a socialist propaganda organism.

  28. I am surprised Psychiatrist in Canada have not listed liberalism as a mental disorder on their list of disorders

  29. can thank the “church” (RC)for the anti religious attitude of the queerbeckers. It used to be so over bearing that families with 18-20 kids were common over there, and usually in 2 bed room houses. They just got fed up with the restrictive bullsh*t!!

  30. What we have here is a failure to comunicate!!! Trudeau and Mulcair have their heads stuffed up you know where and are pretty much tuned out to anyone but their own inner leftist circles. Mr. Harper on the other hand despite being maligned by most of the press and the intelegencia obviously has his finger on the pulse of the electorate on this issue. Further he has the correct stance on how to treat the issue politicaly and is applying pressure as he should be.

  31. JT is much like that stunned democrap gal in New York who couldn’t believe W was re-elected.
    “Nobody I know voted for him…..”
    Leftism is a mental condition. Despite Obamuggabbe’s antics re Isreal and Bibi, the J street Democraps would vote for Obamuggabbein a heartbeat….without a second thought…or any thought at all.

  32. Kate,
    Around this thread and FYI but check for yourself
    A friend sent me an email re this and DuckDuckGo seems to say it happened
    “If only all our politicians stop the politically-correct spin and be as refreshingly straight forward as this guy! Mr Scott Morrison, senior government minister in Australia
    I’m sure you won’t see this interview aired in the mainstream media.
    Part of the transcript of an interview aired on Al Jazeera that a friend sent me, where Mr Scott Morrison, M P was invited for comment.
    ——————————————————————————————————————————–
    Transcript Station:
    Al JaZeERa ENGLISH
    Date:
    9/1/2015…
    Program: The STREAM Time:7:06 AM
    Compere:
    AL JAZEERA Summary ID:W00059934129
    —————————
    INTERVIEW ON CHARLIE HEBDO KILLINGS
    MORRISON: I’m sorry. I have to interrupt here.
    I’m sorry I am not going to sit here and listen to people stupidly suggest that the French or the magazine or anyone else brought this on themselves.
    Are you for real?
    We have a dozen people dead, killed in the name of a religious belief and you are seriously going to even slightly justify this?
    Al-Jazeera interviewer: I don’t think anyone is justifying anything here.”
    And more

  33. “It is amazing and for many discomforting to realize how far Quebec has gone in its anti-religion quest.”
    Quebec has a long and storied history of protecting their French heritage. Islam is, at it’s root, Arab cultural hegemony. The good Muslim must emulate the Arab prophet Muhammad, who was the perfect Muslim man, in every way. This means that regardless of the national/ethnic cultural background from which a Muslim comes, to be a good Muslim they must adopt Arab culture as their own. Quebec’s policy is more about protecting Quebec’s culture than about being anti-religious.

  34. Shamrock: Surette and his fellow travellers have been left with no other tactic than hyperbole. Canadians have discovered that after almost 10 years in office there is no hidden conservative agenda. In fact, the Conservative agenda is far more open and transparent than any Liberal or NDP agenda has ever been

  35. 70% is nuthin.
    Until you have 97% of climate scientists on your side the science isn’t settled.

  36. Thanks for the link. Here it is.
    Transcript
    Station: AL JAZEERA
    Compere: AL JAZEERA
    Item: PANEL DISCUSSION ON PARIS ATTACKS

  37. Good for Mr. Morrison. Too many people in the west want to play the part of a sheep and bend over for the 7th century thugs.

  38. A poll done a few years ago indicated that residents of Calgary & Edmonton were among the most accepting of neighbors who were significantly different (religion, culture, etc); if memory serves residents of Vancouver were the only ones of any major Canadian city that were more tolerant.
    Alberta being populated by bigoted rednecks is a myth perpetrated by the leftist media in response to Alberta supporting conservative politicians & not buying into nonsensical progressive fantasies.

  39. What I find ironic, odd, juxtapositional and disgusting, and all that, is that the very same people who criticize Mr. Harper for ruling the roost with an iron hand, in support of a “hidden agenda”, immediately pounce on any members of his caucus who stray outside the alleged “fence” — John Williamson, MP and Larry Miller, MP, to wit.
    And then almost as immediately accuse Mr. Harper of having a “hidden agenda”, as represented by these two clowns. Which “hidden agenda” would be what, exactly? And, how, exactly, do you get to be a Conservative candidate and MP, anyway?
    While it will take a week or two yet to recover from this particular controversy (assuming, of course, that there aren’t any more, er, “public policy pronouncements” from renegade livestock), I think Mr. Harper has made a pretty articulate case for a niqab ban at citizenship ceremonies.
    After all, many, many people, over the decades, have open-facedly and full-throatedly sworn their allegiance to this country in the usual constitutional manner, which even Mr. Trudeau, Sr., and his flunky, Mr. Chretien, dared not change. Why, exactly, shouldn’t everybody else (the Toronto Star’s Bob Hepburn’s ludicrous complaints, notwithstanding)?

  40. Well David, these people get away with this because no one in the media other than a small number of politically aware non media people on the right and who have no mass circulation calls them on this hypocrisy.
    Trudeau and Chretien ruled the roost with an iron hand every bit as much if not more than PM Harper, but the leftist media and rabid lefties have been flogging this meme so long that the public to some extent believes it. Who was it, Lenin, Hitler, that said if you tell a lie long enough it becomes truth. And so much of the media is in bed with the parties on the left that they get away with almost every lie they dream up.

  41. “Who was it, Lenin, Hitler, that said if you tell a lie long enough it becomes truth.’
    It was Goebbels, wasn’t it? I agree it still holds today, just talk to the CAGW crowd.

  42. A Muslima can have the right to wear the niquab ONLY if I have an equal right to refuse to interact with someone whose face I cannot see.

  44. Catholic nuns should be forced to take off their habits because they don’t share Canadian values.

  46. @Joe conservative: “Catholic nuns should be forced to take off their habits because they don’t share Canadian values.”
    The truth is that most of them have abandoned the “habit”, at least when in public. I can’t remember the last time I saw a nun wearing a “habit” except in the movies and on TV….. you might remember Sally Field and her flying nun gig and the nun’s in the movie Airplane.
    But anyway, it’s irrelevant. The nun’s habit never covered their faces.

  47. In so many ways this reminds me of the feminists trying to impose women priests on the Catholic Church. My response then and now is if you don’t like the rules don’t attend. If your cause is just go start your own and others will flock to follow. If your cause is simply a manifestation of your own ego then you will lead a one person parade.

  49. You know what I would like to see? A poll comparing the public’s tolerance for muslim women publicly wearing a hijab (head scarf) versus wearing a niqab (scarf that covers the full face).
    I suspect that what you might find is that people are fine with the hijab, just as they are fine with a Hutterite’s scarf, or a nun’s habit, or a Sikh’s turban, but they are opposed to the niqab because it is hiding the wearer’s identity AND preventing them from taking part in society.
    Then you can toss the argument that we’re a bunch of redneck racists out the window, because that is not what it is about for most Canadians. The media can’t, or doesn’t want to, understand that. Ditto for Mssrs. Trudeau and Mulcair and their ilk.

  50. I note a program tonight on CTV. To introduce the real Tom Mulcair. Who (they say) could be the next Prime Minister.
    It seems that so bold are the media, they can shamelessly promote a political figure.
    Their distaste and snide manner regarding Prime Minister Harper speaks volumes about their utter bias. Possibly they are so corrupt they do not even realise it.

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