In the opening weeks of the provincial election, I expressed my underwhelm with the SaskParty campaign in this way;
And perhaps the most important question of all – will the Saskatchewan Party leave the security of pre-election poll results showing their party with a wide lead to campaign like a government in waiting? Is SaskParty leader Brad Wall going to step up his “football dad” image and act like a premier?
Will he lead the wave or just hope to ride the “change for change’s sake” trend to victory? At the moment, there is a sense of the latter. He may passively ride the trend. The SaskParty platform, while well thought out and publicly detailed, is decidedly tepid. The campaign style seems haunted by the fear of misstep. They’ve forgotten that battles aren’t won by keeping one’s head low.
It was advice not taken.
I’m slow to anger. This does not mean I lack a quick temper, but there’s a difference between leaving a bruise and leaving a body. Genuine anger requires time, reflection, and something heavy that balances well in your hand.
It all started with a call from the CBC’s Jeff Leo, who broke the news. Sometime between March 28th and April 1st, the United Nations had issued the Universal Declaration On The Rights of Crack Whores – and I didn’t get the memo.
Unfortunately, my Premier did.
And they had caught him off guard, in a position of strength. So I was not surprised that he distanced himself, to heal the rift I’d created between the SaskParty and a deeply hurt intravenous drug user community. When a man will throw “being a good dad” under the wheels of an NDP opposition he’s just annhilated at the polls, what possible chance does a Bingophobe have?
So today, the intended shoe dropped. Because when a man will throw a Bingophobe under the bus, what possible chance does a Conservative MP saying “faggot” on video have?
Or that was their hope.
For that was the plan all along. Few reacted to my Station 20 West commentary because within its “harsh” nature, it spoke the truth. It went virtually unnoted until NDP MLA Cam Broten issued the Saskatchewan New Democrat’s unilateral redefinition of “Identifiable Group”.
Had he kept his wits about him and remembered Who. He. Is. and more importantly, who they are, there would have been no successful set-up, no “distancing” Premier Wall on fresh tape declaring intolerance zero-tolerance.
But this too, shall pass. The fashion sense jokes are already emerging.
I hope he’s learned a lesson. I hope he’s learned that pleasing your enemies does not turn them into friends. I hope he’s learned that whoever is advising him on his public image needs to be kicked to the curb.
But most of all, I hope he’s learned to stop offering his throat.
One last thing. Speculation abounds in certain quarters about my “motivation” for supporting the SaskParty. Specifically, what benefits might have been coming my way.
Given events of this week, and given my anger, it’s time to put certain facts on the record. Get your pads and pencils ready my friends, because here’s the dirt you’ve been waiting for.
In exchange for my support of the SaskParty in my capacity as a blogger, I have received precisely … nothing.
Nothing was asked for, nothing was offered. No government contracts, no consulting gigs, no private business tilted my way. No invitations to social events, no advertising contracts, no party positions.
Not so much as a free case of beer, left anonymously on my doorstep.
So there you have it. My support for Brad Wall and the SaskParty has been, all along, exactly as represented – the exclusive domain of one private citizen acting voluntarily, without compensation or expectation of reward.
Which means the only “lines” here at SDA remain those drawn by me, and the rule of law.
So, Premier Wall – I ask that in the future you not trespass on my property.
You do not draw the lines here.
You’re not my referee.
And I answer to no one.
(Mr. Broten – I’ll be dealing with you in due course.)
Kate McMillan Warrior Princess.
On safe-injection sites,
“To me it’s just as obscene that our governments would be subsidizing this behaviour as it is for me to say, ‘What the hell, share your needles, you’re killing yourselves anyway,'” she said.
Is that an apology? Or out of context?
Neither.
Awesome! You should take plenty of credit though for bringing blogs into the political discourse. This is a new thing in Canada as far as I’m concerned. You did cross the line.
“I hope he’s learned that pleasing your enemies does not turn them into friends.”
So pithy. So true. So well-stated.
Bravo!
Is that an apology? Or out of context?
What part about safe injection sites being funded by our tax dollars being obscene did you not understand?
Kate, excellent.
I didn’t know telling the truth as it is, would be considered “crossing the line”.
I think that its good to have commentary, like SDA and Ezra, that is not PC. PC needs to end because it prevents progress towards solving difficult issues – immigration, HRC’s, poverty, children’s safety etc. Too much time is wasted tip toeing around, in fear of offending someone. It ends up being about saying the right thing, instead of doing the right thing. Including throwing your supporters under the bus when feeling the PC heat.
My observation on socialists still holds good. Oh,I was British Labour Party supporter as a young man.
On MP Tom Lukiwski’s 1991 home movie, with a few brews under his belt, re homosexuals. “….With dirt under their fingernails that transmit diseases”. Ah, the clucking of chickens and the phony indignation. The calls for resignation.
At least the beggers could call for a brew afterward and have a bit of a laugh- no luck here.
I thought that the quote was implying that both ideas were obscene; (1)safe injenction (2)Kate’s comments. Both obscene. That is how it read anyway.
And as other say, Kudos on reigning in some of the democratic legitimacy back towards the citizen.
The line, which on the left, is often cocaine, is never in the same place twice. They move all around as necessary depending on whether something is being said by a Liberal or a Conservative.
Kate
Good on ya. In this day, many are too quick to apologize when none is warranted, and reticent when an apology is entirely necessary. Nice to see you know which is appropriate for both yourself and Mr. Wall.
Kate, don’t be so hard on Mr. Wall. He saw an apparition of a progressive army, and he truly and honestly believed it was real. That’s why he took off his uniform and ran towards them. It was for his own safety.
Show some mercy for him. He simply got spooked, thought the other side was coming for him, and he just didn’t want to be shot.
He’s still the same old guy. I’m sure he won’t blame his constituents for not following him.
What was that Nixon said about politicians pussyfootin around in the dark ? Lot of that goin on lately . No pussyfootin done here though .
Kate, you said it very well. The best I could come up with was: Grow a Pair!
I had hopes that this new government understood Web 2.0 and could harness the power of what could be. Again good advice has been ignored.
Kate’s comments, as I understand them, were that there are two types of obscene attitudes to drug users: a)gov’t funding safe-injection sites, and b)she, or anyone, telling the drug users to share their needles…because the drugs (in those safe injection sites) are killing them anyway.
So, how could this NDP twit suggest that Kate was advocating sharing needles? She was saying that IF you use drugs, and IF the gov’t encourages you to use drugs by providing ‘safe sites’, then, you might as well share needles since the drugs are killing you anyway.
The NDP/Liberals – always the misinformation, always the smear campaigns. Good for kate – to confront and stand up to them.
Brad Wall is an idiot. Not only does he look like a complete idiot in those videos, he had the brains to leave this video behind for people to find it.
Lukiwski deserves to be canned, he is clearly an ass.
And it’s true that the comments from Kate were used as a political ploy by the NDP.
So let’s clear the homophobes out of the conservative party and move on.
This time it is a 16 year old video with a conservative using the word fagot, and the week before a military defense blue print just happens to fall into the hands of enemies of the conservatives?
Someone made a copy of the videotape and left it there on purpose is what I think, same with the blue prints.
I think there are traitors or spies or whatever you want to call them in the conservative party.
It is not conservatives who have a deep hatred of homosexuals and of immigrants, it is leftists who have a deep hatred of conservatives.
And that deep hatred makes them leftists plant evidence here and there and call their friends at the liberal main stream media who can barely hide their joy when they read their version of event on tv.
I just saw it on CBC and by the way they present this news (with a twinkle in their eyes from the sheer joy of being able to bash conservatives and torture conservative voters) you would think this is a bigger story than Adscam was.
I’ll say it again,
It is not conservatives who have a deep hatred of homosexuals and of immigrants, it is leftists who have a deep hatred of conservatives.
“It is not conservatives who have a deep hatred of homosexuals and of immigrants, it is leftists who have a deep hatred of conservatives.”
You should go about reading some of the comments found around on this blog, my friend. This ‘deep hatred’ is, if anything, a little bit of both on either end.
Karma’s a bitch.
I think that its good to have commentary, like SDA and Ezra, that is not PC.
It’s not good, it’s essential.
What’s the opening line on Broten ? ….. any takers ?
Awwee…you sound as if you’ve been cheated on by your lover, Kate. Hahahaha. Does our little racist feel betrayed by her snuggly wuggly premiere. HAHAHAHAHA.
This whole thing is so hilarious. Wall’s comment was rather benign and as such he stands in a different group than the bigot MP and bigot Kate. I really hope the human rights commission is abolished because Kate will bury herself in no time when she can write without fear of the law. I totally support its abolition.
One more thing,
I saw the part of the video where the conservative MP ( who was not one at the time ) says “fagot”
and he also says fagot spread diseases.
What is wrong with that?
Well it is a fact, homosexuals do spread diseases.
Their life style is the perfect way to spread many disease.
Go to some very liberal-progressive and pro-gay health site such as Colombia University’s “Go ask Alice” site, and there you will learn that they tell women – straight heterosexual women – to be extremely carefull if not avoid anal sex completely because it is the best way to spread dangerous and deadly disease!
yes on a far left site from a far left university they discourage heterosexual women from having anal sex because it spreads diseases.
Does that make them homophobes?
No it is simply a biological and scientific truth.
It has nothing to do with homophobia or being conservative.
Wasn’t there a report a few weeks ago in which we learned that homosexuals have rate of STDs 13 times higher than the rest of the population?
There you go again, it is biology and science but not homophobia or conservative bigotry or whatever.
Politicians today are not up to standard what ever you think.
The problem is partly the population.
Partly the politicians being a bunch of damn demagogues.
Partly with the schools where propaganda is the main subject.
Partly with ‘journalist’ that misrepresent, omit, lie, spin, tell only what will give a jerk to the audience, though there are those rare moments they actually report what’s happening.
Plutarch in The Rise and Fall of Athens, in the book on Solon reports, that certain ‘Anacharsis remarked after attending a session of assembly, that he was amazed to find that in Greece wise men spoke on public affairs, but fools decided them’.
As you can see the affairs of people apparently have not changed to this day, not only the same old, also the same very old.
Don’t know much about this Wall guy, mostly what was written here. As soon as he promised the variant on $15 drug money, he was history.
Trouble is, who do you call. There is serious lack of leadership right across the country. Just because somebody says that he or she is best to lead, that is not a qualification, though it relieves the responsibility of others and sort of gets on with the business at hand.
From reading commentaries on this blog you can tell there are those of good quality material as Anacharsis mentioned.
Look what happened to Brad Wall, Tom Lukiwski. Comments that mean nothing, said a long time ago and these two are groveling like two kids found with their hands in a cookie jar, they can’t even throw a punch. This is quite unbelievable behavior of grown men that are supposed to lead.
Unfortunately we are stuck with this kind of governance for now.
Who the heck is Broten?
Kate; you are a very impressive and remarkable person – I am becoming a fan
Kate, run for office. Consider it, seriously.
Lay waste to these mental midgets looking to politics as a career.
Your motivations would be pure, not tyrannical (like all leftists who merely lust after power and control of others lives) and that is what is lacking today.
Go for it, woman.
“But most of all, I hope he’s learned to stop offering his throat.”
Geez, I wonder if Brad Wall needs a translation of Kate’s advice.
I can hardly wait until Kate zeros in on the Broten fellow.
The leftist MSM is in salivating mode, so Lukiwski
is toast in his Parliamentary secretary job for sure.
Wall is in a better position to survive politically than is Lukiwski.
And in all the confusion, Kate at SDA will have focused in one well worded blog the obscenity and folly of governments offering “safe injection” sites not only in Saskatchewan but across this land, for that matter.
But who is listening?
Certainly not MSM, they are too engrossed in covering “homophobia”.
The NDP’s action equates to proof that they do indeed feel the influence of this blog.
Apparently the word ‘bigot’ has now been redefined. The new definition is: one who holds another accountable for their choices and actions.
Anyone taking the time to read the posts here careful will note the consistent theme. It truly does not matter what race, culture, religion, economic background, sexual orientation floats your boat: you are measured on making use of your abilities and talents to the best extent possible.
My definition of racism: in the name of equality, finding another race so inadequate that special compensations must be made. It is an arrogant and demeaning posture at the same time.
Equality is equality (isn’t it?). A standard is a standard (isn’t it?).
People dealing with setbacks and misfortune is one thing. People making bad choices and expecting others to save them from them is another. In a special category are those who make bad choices, and try to fob them off as setbacks, exploiting the generosity of others.
It is as preposterous to contemplate a society in which there is no pushback on this kind of exploitation, as it is to contemplate a society which offers no framework of assistance for those truly in need.
My comments are already stated on the injection post, & their like. Its asinine if NOT criminal.
That peoples hard earned money tax goes to folks who steal, lie, cheat prostitute themselves out (both sex’s) & cause horrible family problems. Ruin communities with gangs, graffiti, violence to the point your city becomes indistinguishable from a landfill.
Should have a “Safe” injection site using tax monies. While the police are handcuffed by the bleeding hearts & the public has no “Safe”
zone because of these miscreants.
Was Kate’s comment out of line? No in my opinion though it was harsh, it was not as brutal as these people have made their lives. By extension ours, to keep a killing habit that the prohibitionists (mostly socialists) have created for their profit.
That the government condones this is limper than Ex governor Spitzer of NY States sex life these days. Although I think prohibition is the root cause of this epidemic of drugs, by no means do I personally condone its use. Banning this stuff just corrupts our institutions while creating criminal empires.
As far as I am concerned Kate, its the Sask.-Party that turned weakling . In the end this will hurt them if not divide the real conservatives from the opportunists.
Your Premier not only denounced you but free individual expression, which you have had great success generating. Its the Sask.-parties loss. Your gain is more legitimacy with integrity intact. Ms. Walls is deep fried in his own B.S. He looks like the Mad Hatter running from the Red Queen.
Its another sad example of how some Men have turned into wimps with no chins in this Nation. Being a guy I can say that with no qualms. Have witnessed it too many times to count. Cowardice seems to be in vogue these day’s, just like idiocy has been a trend in schools for some time.
Thank You for all the hours that you put in this blog for freedom of thought. Allowing us who post hear, the right to be heard. That they tried to use you as a political monkey’s paw to deflect the oppositions slurs is disgusting to say the least. Not be tainted by your Blog despicable & gutless!
As they used to say: better to have the gentry’s anger, than them owning an obligation to you.
Stand your ground, Kate. I don’t always agree with you, but I always have a sh*t load of respect for you.
As my gay friends would say…”you go girl!!”
It is as preposterous to contemplate a society in which there is no pushback on this kind of exploitation, as it is to contemplate a society which offers no framework of assistance for those truly in need.
Posted by: shaken
Well said!!
Very good comment Shaken. Couldn’t have said it better myself.
Grant Devine, faced the NDP, and their free public relations firm,the media, a media whom he naively thought he could win the hearts of. That, coupled with his in ability to manage the liberals in his caucus brought about his eventual demise.
Wall better grow a back bone and acquire some discernment very soon or we will witness a repeat of the eighties.
Bringing on the likes of Kate as a political adviser would be a great first step!
“Wasn’t there a report a few weeks ago in which we learned that homosexuals have rate of STDs 13 times higher than the rest of the population?”
Was it the same report indicating that if you are not a White Heterosexual Male you are statistically 10 times more likely to contract an STI? Infectious diseases are spread in marginalized communities. All throughout human history – exclusion and poverty has equaled disease.
Good for you Kate.
You are completely correct on all counts.
Cheers
His earth hour support was the writing was on the wall I thought. Now this nonsense.
Grow a pair Brad—you’re making Dion look like Don Cherry.
Now for the acid test.
Jack Layton is to have a blood transfusion. Figure leans over the prostrate Layton. “Running low here on supplies, emergency conditions, five patients beside yourself need blood. We have blood donated by a well known homosexual, can we give it you?” Of course, the next guy to you can have the regular guy’s blood- ok?”
Mr Layton….. oh Mr Layton….
Kate,
you are sooo hot!
You’re the best baby!
ROTFLMAO
Great post Kate straight from the heart !
I agree with you, Kate. I grieve when our so-called leaders fail to lead. Same with Harper rolling over on the marriage issue. I supported both Conservative and Sask party candidates and keep hoping for some courage and leadership, but they just don’t have it.
Does anybody know who Tom Lukiskiw was lampooning in the home video 17 years ago? Apparently there was a human rights or gay rights issue current in the events of the day in Sask. back then.
Tom was mimicking somebody who was apparently making negative comments about homosexuals back then. Does anybody remember what the issue was and who the main players were?
Appeasement never helps you, just your opponent. Will these cowering milk brained so called conservatives ever learn that bloody lesson. Shit on them, not yourself.
Sidetrack, sidetrack, and never face the issues head on continue to throw petty shit in the face of conservative governments, who are trying to run the country and provinces. These pathetic losers ndpeers and lieberals must try ones resolve to the core. They have nothing to offer the people of canada but thievery and political correctness to the point of capitulation. I cannot believe there is anyone stupid enough to vote ndp or liberal, but since there is what exactly are the issues facing Canada you liberals and ndpeers, is it gay bashers, is it Cadman, what losers you all are.
I can appreciate Kate’s approach to this as well as Brad Wall’s. I think the Premier’s initial stance killed the issue and the NDP have been neutered. Mr. Wall is treating the NDP like they don’t exist. He is de-humanizing them.
Having said that, if I were Mr. Wall, I would be getting my long knives sharpened and tomorrow put those knives to work behind the scene within the gov’t bureaucracy. That is where all the NDP snakes are hiding and I would be merciless.
“I hope he’s learned that pleasing your enemies does not turn them into friends.”
Hahahahaha – what have I been saying Kate? Perhaps Brad IS the poster boy for the NDP!
Well said Kate – like Wall – think he is genuinely a good person. Feel bad for his family being dragged through this. He was just a guy with a job then – no wonder no one wants to run for politics these days – the NDP may want to look at themselves..several folks of questionable character over there. I hope this doesn’t turn into a spy vs. spy scenario. That said – I agree Premier Wall shouldn’t put up with this crap – Stop being afraid that we will all turncoat on you and vote NDP if you don’t please everyone – we are sick of the policizing – cut the unions, fire the NDP insiders (clean out the whole public service if you have to) – right now Wall is simply so afraid of being labelled a conservative that he is wallowing in appeasement…..
Brad Wall is making good politically expedient decisions right now. He’s poised to govern Saskatchewan during a huge boom in his next 4 years while towing a moderate line and cutting in to centrist NDP votes. While you people may be his base, you really have nowhere else to go, and you won’t abstain from the next vote because you fear the re-election of the NDP too much. In essence, he can afford to piss you all off, and still raise his chances of holding on to power.