69 Replies to “Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors”

  1. “The [party name here] pre-screened crowd seemed particularly sheep-like at [party leader’s name here] event today, shouting down journos, applauding randomly.”
    Yawn.

  4. Conservatives picking up in Ontario? Wouldn’t have anything to do with Premier Wynne’s woody for Justin? The promise that Canada might be treated to Ontario economic policy must be disturbing as they have to live it.

  5. The polls said the exact same thing during the last election, that the Conservatives were on track for another minority. What happened again? Oh yeah, the Media Party sat there with their junk in their hands in stunned disbelief as the numbers rolled across the screen announcing the new Conservative majority. “but……but……..but…….contempt of Parliament!!!!!!!!!!!!”
    Yeah, I’ll pay perennial Media Party hacks like McGregor no heed.

  6. “Wouldn’t have anything to do with Premier Wynne’s woody for Justin?”
    I think that’s actually a ‘strap-on’ in Wynnie’s case.

  7. Why doesn’t Prime Minister Steve contrast/juxtapose The Liberal Party of Canada’s Adscam’s 100’s of millions stolen to expense account chiseling by a single senator every time he’s asked to tie himself to this overblown case.
    He could lose and is missing a golden opportunity to TRUMP the media party.
    Win!

  8. But they are sheep. The can sit there listening to a man who just a few years ago would have been screaming bloody murder if he had to listen to his own deflections. The fact that those people (and you guys) can disconnect that man from this one indicates just how partisan you are. You guys accept everything this government does without question. That’s what makes you a bunch of goose-stepping sheep.
    Taking a broader view, I think it’s healthy for a democracy to float back and forth across the left/right spectrum, though never straying far from the centre. This government has gone way too far to the right, but what’s worse, they are doing things that are outright bad for democracy itself. You can’t exercise the kinds of control Harper does and have a free and open government regardless of whether it’s left or right. His supporters clearly don’t get that and don’t get democracy.

  9. Frankly I am totally unimpressed with this government, a very poor job of governance. the only reason I will vote for them is because I am a gun owner and I know the other 2 would do a even worse job of governing. The only place I will give harper full credit is his foreign policy, which seems to be his strength.
    the Omibills are a terrible way to introduce law and results in utter crap as no one has the time to study, debate and amend things.
    I am hoping for a minority CPC win to prevent utter stupidity from all sides

  11. The dream of taking down Harper was fatally wounded when the mounties, for obvious reasons, didn’t charge Nigel Wright.
    So, as your post demonstrates, there is nothing left but whinging about what a bad person and right wing extremist Harper is. With the required and shopworn Godwin trope thrown in.

  13. “I am hoping for a minority CPC win to prevent utter stupidity from all sides”
    Including your own, I presume. There can be no CPC minority gov’t that lasts beyond a few months. And if 2008 is any indicator, a few weeks.

  14. John, you’re always such a hoot. You HAVE to be less than 30 years old. Define “centre” (for that matter, define “democracy”). Canada hasn’t had a right of centre government since John Diefenbacher. Harper’s government is NOT a right of centre government – it only tilts slightly that way. Thing is, you really have no idea where the centre is. Canada since WWII has always been left of centre, regardless of who was in power.
    It might come as a surprise to you that no western nation is a democracy. The only thing about western nations that is democratic is the election of representatives, and even that, with party selection of candidates, is hardly democratic. Democracy is a historic ideal that only works for tribes, and which we don’t really believe in. We elect representatives, who then go about telling everybody how they are going to live whether they like it or not. Nothing democratic in that, and the NDP and their far left cousins, the Liberals, are far worse than the CPC for telling you how to live. We don’t do referenda. We don’t hold public votes.
    There is no such thing as a “free and open government” – never has been, never will be. Multi-culti societies can’t handle their own ugly truths.
    You whine about Harper this and the CPC that, when in reality, like most liberals, you really have no clue how the world really works.

  15. “Omibills are a terrible way to introduce law and results in utter crap”
    Omnibus bills have been around for 148 years as has proroguing Parliament. It’s just that no one has ever whined about it before. The biggest joke of all time was the Contempt of Parliament thing. The opposition didn’t want to defeat the government because they would have lost the election, as they eventually did. Instead they introduced a motion to censure the government. While censuring the government they maintained confidence in it. Morons!

  16. “Goose-stepping sheep” – wow! As for shouting down journos, I’ll try that if I get a chance. PMSH is far from ideal, but he is way better than the Liberal’s answer to rat Obama. As for Tom Mulcair, I think that Canada really deserves a doctrinaire socialist.I’m being a sadist here – I would (will) enjoy Canada under a Venezuelan regime. Har! May you get what you vote for, as the Americans are so thoroughly getting theirs.

  17. Actually, every time omnibus bills get sent to the floor, everybody (but the government of the day) whines about them. Liberals have such attention deficits they never remember that the Liberals are just as bad as anybody else for omnibus bills. That doesn’t make them any better – they’re still a lousy way to introduce legislation. Omnibus bills would be necessary if governments would realize there are already FAR too many statutes on the books without cramming so many more new ones into a session you have to bundle’em to get them through. This campaign, ask your local door to door party salesman how many statutes their candidate will move to repeal this session, and ask them if the candidate will vow to leave fewer laws on the books when he leaves then when he got there. I guarantee you’ll have fun with the conversation.

  18. a butch premier and an effeminate liberal leader , you couldn’t get anymore disturbing if you added Scooter Brison to the mix

  20. big story on CBCpravda is that the crowd is heckling the CBC reporters now . sometimes they kiss them , sometimes they heckle them but its pulp for the pulpfiction of the cbc

  21. “That’s what makes you a bunch of goose-stepping sheep.
    Taking a broader view, I think it’s healthy for a democracy to float back and forth across the left/right spectrum, though never straying far from the centre.”
    Border Collie blues…
    Mr. In-Between

  22. Somebody needs to remind McGregor that there are no journos in Canada. Especially not him, and certainly nobody in the Parliamentary Pest Gallery.

  23. Well, sadly for you nobody here is interested in the psychotic raving of a lobotomized imbecile.

  24. Clearly, JohnBOY, you are from the far far left, if you think the Conservatives are “rightwing”.
    Many of their policies verge on centerleft, from the tolerance of the CBC, to their telecom regulatory stance, which could come straight from Layton, and their “Family Cheques” giveaways, three clear examples of leftwing policy.
    Now go back to your lapdogs at the Ceeb and CommieTV, both the media outlets for the NDP and the Fiberal Party of Canada.

  25. Article in the New York Times yesterday about that controlling Stephen Harper – The Closing of the Canadian Mind. Of course progressive Canadians like the author of this article love Obama who has turned out to be super controlling despite his promise of transparency.
    Anyway Pm Harper learned long ago he had to control the message as the media jumped on anything his caucus members said.

  26. Let’s discuss:
    Having a little chat on social media with a friend re: Duffy!!.
    I countered…why aren’t the ‘media’ asking more important questions?
    Ok SDA and gang: What SHOULD the lazy media being asking Harper, Mulcair and Trudeau?
    I have my own list of what I think they should be asking:
    Ask Mulcair about his illegal satellite office and the use of taxpayer $ for that.
    Ask Trudeau how he feels being endorsed by the Ontario Lib leader who is under ‘OPP investigation’ for breaking election rules (Sudbury) gas plant funding?
    Ask all parties if they would like to see RCMP follow up with charges after the findings of MANY investigations into missing and murdered FN women.

  27. scar
    I am a regulator, I get to work with the end result and it results in crap. any bill should be debated properly, time for public comments, time for expert comment and discussion in committee which is where you work out most of the major failings. Omibills are the “slap on bondo” of law. It’s crap work by people are who are getting paid big bucks to produce good work.

  28. This is exactly right: the left have pushed their ugly agenda so long and so hard through their MSM sock puppets that the centre – or hell, just plain rationality – is perceived by many as “far right.”
    Stupid, transparently childish trick, but damned if it didn’t work.

  29. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CMsjiruWUAAwFhq.jpg
    Laurie Graham, of course, is the reporter who the CPC supporter was confronting directly. From this angle, you can see Graham with an expression and approach that is eerily similar to when she had gone after CPC MPs Michelle Rempel & Shelly Glover, both of whom were criticizing Trudeau for his “Ladies Night Out” event in 2013, proving clearly she is no objective reporter.
    BTW, does anyone know where to find that video on Youtube of Graham going after the two conservative women as if she was JT’s jealous girlfriend and another woman had attempted to come onto her man? It’s on youtube still but I don’t know what serach terms to use to find it. Maybe someone can provide the link.
    I wish that gentleman whom Laurie was arguing with had that video on his phone and held it up to her face as it played. I’m sure that part of the media’s attack on him would’ve been edited out.

  30. Clearly, Colin, you watch too much CBC and CTV, if you are SO concerned about “Omnibus bills”. No one outside of partisan Dips and Fibs care about such things.
    I hardly find the Conservatives an ideal party, however, given the Unionist Socialist Environutter Statists of the NDP, and the Utopian Naive Environutter Leftists of the Shiny Pony Silver Spoon Party, I will take my chances with the Conservatives.
    Taxes have gone down, not up.
    Regulations have been slightly reduced. Not ideal, but they have not been ratcheted up.
    Climate Change remains a very minor issue.
    Government is not “getting in our way”.
    Government is not indoctrinating our kids, unlike the Fibs and Dips, who both want to implement government daycare indoctrination centers, for their multi-culti, statist, green propaganda to be implemented at as young an age as possible.
    There are clear differences between our current government, and the leftist statists who wish to turn Canada sharply to the left, and give away our sovereignty to UN Globalist causes. The Dips and Fibs blur these lines with their desperate rhetoric and whimsical “feel good” policies.
    Quebecers would sell themselves out for a pack of smokes and a bottle of cheap vino.

  31. Quebecers would sell themselves out for a pack of smokes and a bottle of cheap vino.
    Gauloises aren’t cheap, unlike that shot.

  32. Mike, it certainly works on the Low Information Voters, who cant do their own research, relying on the blather and propaganda at Mother Corpse and CTV, which is desperately trying its hardest to being even worse than the CBC, despite, apparently, being a -private media firm-, owned by Bell/BCE. Global is getting there, a Shaw company.
    Why are these private companies in favour of bigger and bigger government? So they can pay more taxes? Be under more scrutiny?
    The media aside from the Corpse, apparently forgets that they have to get funds from private interests to run, although out here in BC, about every other commercial on Globull and CTV seems to be a gubermint commercial, of one level or another….who is buttering their bread?

  33. I always get a laugh from commenters like John who feel the NDP & current LPC are “centrist” parties by Canadian standards. Hardly – they are both led by progressives & statists who believe in much more interventionist and thus even bigger government, who are more closely aligned to the ideas of socialism than liberalism or conservatism.
    Look at Trudeau’s “from the heart rather than from the top down” comments on economic growth. He cannot understand that people, their families and communities – civil society – from the “bottom up,” voluntarily determine their own economic decisions in “spontaneous order” rather than by government signal, fiat or “guidance.” His comments reveal his statism and indeed how far left the LPC has drifted, a process instituted by his Rousseauian father.
    Harper has straddled the centre ground the LPC used to occupy many years ago (and pushed even further left by their recent leaders), along with the centre-right preferences of contemporary conservatives. Harper is both classical liberal/libertarian (what liberals used to be over fifty years ago), and conservative in his tendencies & ideology. He believes in the libertarian ideas of the free individual in civil society, able to voluntarily conduct themselves to the point of not hurting others or denying their natural rights, and by corollary, not being expected to pay for others’ desired outcomes.
    On international matters of interdependence, Harper is somewhat conservative, more willing to engage Canada in collective military action & security – more than a true libertarian would wish; but, this is more in keeping with our history and traditions as a trading & conscientious nation.
    On social policy, Harper is pragmatic and personally believes matters of conscience such as abortion, gay marriage and euthanasia are best left to civil society rather than to government.
    By any reasonable relevant comparison, Stephen Harper’s government has been centrist, moderate and sensible – though not as limited as many libertarians or conservatives would like, and too “right wing” for others.
    There is no crisis PMSH has caused that needs to be fixed; there is no lost justice that needs to be reinstated. His opponents want us to believe our nation is broken and only they can “fix” it.
    His radical foes are the ones who judge, from their collectivist perch, that he is “extremist.” They are progressives who think moving our country to the left in a socialist economic experiment is what is “Canadians want.” They have moved the political goalposts to the left and are hoping voters won’t notice.

  34. Can anybody help me with these crazy google ads? Why would they be trying to sell me Captain Morgan I.V. dispensers?

  35. “I am hoping for a minority CPC win to prevent utter stupidity from all sides”
    Colin you do realize that the fix is already in should Harper be held to a minority?
    Very quickly, the opposition will defeat the government, but instead of this triggering another election, they will ask the GG to install them directly into power as a “coalition” government.
    The Libs and NDP know this is likely to be their only chance at power, and they will happily sign off on each others wettest of wet dream policies and will run massive deficits to finance them along with making binding commitments to international agreements on C02 emmissions.
    A Conservative minority government will be the very worst thing you could imagine, even worse than an NDP outright majority, because allowing two losers to intall themselves into power without facing the electorate diminishes our Parliamentary system.

  36. The self projection is endless.
    Proggs are so blinded by their own image that they see nothing else.
    Any who doubt their muddled waffling, why they must be evil and stupid.
    Notice after the last two federal elections all the wailing and snarling from our presstitutes.
    Why the media party would have carried the vote, if only those stupid voters had listened to us.
    So what disclaimer are these members of the Canadian Media Guild using to preface their so called reporting?
    Surely they are not pretending to be impartial reporters while they contribute to a campaign participant?
    Proffessional university educated journalists would never be that unethical…
    Right?

  37. John, you’re a fool. The reason most conservative voters will continue to support Harper is because he hasn’t actually done anything scandalous or bad. The only complaints about his government come from the partisan hacks in the media.
    “He’s a control freak!” – who cares? He’s the boss, if he likes to maintain tight control, that’s his style. When the CPC themselves start complaining about it, they can choose a new leader.
    “Mike Duffy! Senate scandal!!” – Mike Duffy and many other senators, including Liberal senators, were abusing the expense system. This has nothing to do with the CPC or Stephen Harper.
    Stephen Harper has been operating in a hostile environment for 10+ years. The CBC hates him. The Toronto Star hates him. The Globe and Mail hates him. CTV hates him. Where Just-in and Mulcair generally get a free pass, soft questions, and friendly editing to make them look as good as possible, Harper has to be extremely careful in what he says, otherwise the hostile media will use it against him. Considering all the stupid things Just-in has said, how is it he’s even considered a credible candidate for Prime Minister? Oh wait, his last name is Trudeau? Well, he must be a natural then!
    The simple fact is, conservative voters and liberal voters are completely different. Liberal voters will continue to vote for the liberal party, regardless of how badly they perform. Ontario’s current election history is proof of that. But conservative voters won’t do that. If they don’t think the leaders are capable, they’ll stay home. Look at Mulroney, Hudak, Tory, Prentice…if a conservative government had been responsible for Adscam, the party would be officially disbanded because they’d never be capable of winning another election. The only sheep in Canada vote Liberal.

  38. Maybe Canadian journalists need some new questions. Here’s one:
    Ask the party leaders the following, “Have you given more to Charity than you have received”
    I’m pretty sure that Trudeau wouldn’t be able to answer in the affirmative.

  39. Except it won’t happen that way. There’s a strategic reason for a long campaign – bleed the opposition financially dry. Even if Harper winds up in a minority position, frick and no-frack won’t pull the plug in a big hurry, because to do so sends them right back to the polls and right back to writing cheques their intellect can’t cash.

  40. Maybe Canadian journalists need some new questions. Here’s one:
    Ask the party leaders the following, “Have you given more to Charity than you have received”
    I’m pretty sure that Trudeau wouldn’t be able to answer in the affirmative.

  41. No surprise that the Union thugs and their Media comrades don’t like it when citizens fight back against the Media’s political agenda. Bullies and gangsters never like it when their targets fight back primarily because bullies are cowards and usually mentally disturbed. Mentally disturbed cowards describes the “progressive” Media Party well. I applaud the man who called out the Media hack as a “lying piece of shit”…Yep… Question for Trudozo today from the intrepid media hounds… “who is your favorite avenger?”

  42. The thumbsuckers keep trying to get Harper to comment on Duffy – duh -no politician on the stump, much less the Prime Minister, is going to comment on a political trial before the courts. Duffy will own this one and Harper knows it, so maybe McGregor and the rest of the no talents can actually think of something intelligent to ask the leaders, like getting Mulcair to explain how he’s going to unfreeze the monkey’s brass balls in a Cdn winter (especially like we’ve had) with no Oil Sands, no eastern pipeline supply. They should maybe ask both Trudeau and Mulcair if the grand plan is to bring in containers of camel dung for fuel as a replacement. Trudeau can smoke it.

  43. Pete, while I agree with you sentiments, if memory serves me correctly, the Globe & Mail editorialists decided to support the Tories in the last federal election.

  44. ANd now Tommy the Commie writes a letter to the RCMP to investigate……….
    News for the citizen of France, it`s already been investigated.
    Blitheringly stupid, but, he`s playing to his base, trying to milk the issue for what its worth, because, when you have no valid economic plan, its time to turn to attack your opponents apparent weakness, or at least attempt to.
    Hope the RCMP replies immediately, that they finished their investigation, and there`s nothing further to pursue, shoving it in the French residents hairy, scary mug

  45. It was just some goon from Toronto who wrote that opinion piece. Standards at the NYT are clearly going down. Why not some analysis or counter argument? The article was also just a tiresome regurgitation of leftist complaints. Not even the negative points mentioned about Harper are explained in any way that would substantiate the claims. Poor, poor journalism.

  47. The centre is ever-shifting. Socially we are far more conservative about things like smoking and drinking than diefs day.
    And with 60% favouring parties left of the centre, the cpc is right of it.
    And Harper has been slowly pushing the country to the right on all fronts – from taxes, to crime, to immigration, to foreign affairs, to the size of government (including the age of cpp eligibility) to the gun registry and the wheat board and transfers and federal interference in provincial affairs.
    It is an admirable achievement that he and the cpc have done as much as they have and stayed in power.
    Naysaying knobs who profess to be conservative yet roast the cpc are naive fools.

  49. I’ve been out of country for a while, but weren’t the media just scandalized because Harper actually *Shocker* directed his Senators to allow legislation he didn’t want proclaimed to die in the Senate?
    Now they are shocked that he doesn’t know every single detail of every single expense on every single expense claim.
    With the Media Guild and Unifor weighing into the election as third parties, I would point out that journalism, now more than ever, is a career, not a profession. Professionals actually have to qualify for their credentials, they have to follow rules of conduct, and there are dire consequences if you don’t. It is becoming more and more clear that journalists don’t fit that definition.

  50. I caught the National Newswatch [sic] twitter feed this morning and all the journos are going ape over not being treated with the respect they deserve from the CPC crowd.
    And for any potential CPC anti-MSM hecklers at Conservative events reading this, starting asking the CBC ‘journalists’ when their boss is going to pay back the $30,000 in illegal expenses he’s just been caught wrongly expensing. It should make for a fun interview.

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