39 Replies to “Oh, Shiny Pony!”

  2. Good column by Kelly McParland: How I came to admire Justin Trudeau
    http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/kelly-mcparland-how-i-came-to-admire-justin-trudeau
    I’ve come to admire Justin Trudeau, who could be Canada’s prime minister-designate by this time next week.
    How could I not? As a student of politics for more than 40 years, how could I avoid quiet admiration for anyone who could run a campaign as sneakily unprincipled as Trudeau’s, and get away with it? Teamed with his very own master of the dark arts – a graduate of the Dalton McGuinty school of unprincipled power – Trudeau has pulled off one of the great campaigns of recent history: a flagrantly dishonest run for office, based on a pledge of honesty. It’s brilliant.

  3. Trudeau the younger also believes, like his dad, that the borrowing capacity of the federal government is, for all intents and purposes, unlimited.

  4. $100 billion is just a statistic alongside the hundreds of thousands of individuals that tragically suffered and never fully recovered from the NEP.
    Perhaps someone could start an online NEP memorial. People could contribute what impact the NEP has had on their lives. Even if it were complied as a book with 10,000 chapters, that would still be inadequate.
    A reminder to contribute to the political party of your choice. If the Conservatives get a minority, a large campaign fund may cause the opposition parties to avoid fighting another election campaign.

  5. “Notley”?? And your Calgary mayor??
    Yes it would seem Albertans have not taught their young. They have not been told that when you pet a rattlesnake, sooner or later your going to get bit.
    But alas even when we think we might have good leadership…they disappoint.
    This guy, with a long memory, remembers Marc LaLonde clinking glasses of wine with Alberta premier Laugheed as the two celibrated the signing of the new “NAtional Energy Program”!! Now Peter is remembered in a posative way as Pieare is not?
    Thankyou Ralph. You were right. One can slide much further on bull s–t than on gravel.

  6. No WalterF. The Grits and Dippers will simply seize power without an election, by defeating the Throne from the Speech when parliament resumes with a new session. Then they can present an “agreement” to the GG, who would then rubber stamp their takeover of parliament and thus the government.
    It hasn’t happened federally in living memory, but did happen once in Ontario in the 80s when Bob Rae then the NDP provincial leader joined with the Liberals and took out the PC. No election there either.
    The sticky point would be convincing the GG the minority would be stable. That’d be a tough point to make given their opposing positions on the TPP. No worries, it would be just put on the “back burner” for now, meaning the Grits wouldn’t bother to ratify it because Canada doesn’t really need trade and it’s a necessary sacrifice to keep his brilliance in “power.”
    After all it’s just led to fake job losses and fake economic decline. Anyway, Harper’s gone and that’s what counts. F**k the voter IOW. How many Liberal voters are OK with this takeover? It’s the most likely scenario going into the election.

  7. Yes there is a good chance that a part time drama teacher will become PM. That is not
    the real issue. The real issue is unchanged from that of Turdeau Sr’s time and time before him. E.Canada has wanted rid of Harper since his election primarily because he was from the West. The West has been the territory from which eastern Canada has taken finances from for centuries. Not only is it a form of internal imperialism but it is a condition that is considered just and right. Western Canada is
    one step above possibly, Oklahomans, as convenient rubes to be exploited.
    Heaven forbid that the fundamental issue of the conflicting economies of east vs west
    actually be debated during a federal campaign. As much as I detest the Liebels and
    Dippers they are what they are. As a conservative and past Reformer my biggest disappointment lies with the Conservative Party that reverted to top down management and abandoned the significant issues that divide this country. They really did not even
    do much of a job teaching conservative thought.
    On a separate thread there were posters guessing at the seat distribution after the election. I was amazed that most had a solid CP majority. As I said at the beginning of this campaign if my riding (strong CP) is any indicator then the party was in big trouble. I am very fearful this riding will go to the NDP.

  8. I remember PET snubbing the western premiers who refused to let him buy jurisdictional influence in the west with a regional development fund bribe.
    I also recall how the primiers sent him packing and how he stormed out of the meeting swearing and threarening to destroy western economic independence and make the west a vassal of the Laurentian elite/Ottawa.
    I remember the NEP as an outgrowth of Ottawa/PET/Eastern elite malice towards the west. I remember the subsequent economic winter as the result of Trudeau vacuuming $100 billion out of the Alberta economy;
    I remember the long convoys of trucks and trains moving oil equipment south as the patch collapsed.
    I remember seeing 2 in 5 stores close in malls and downtown. I remember the millions of bankruptcies and The Alberta Treasury Branch going broke.
    I remember home owners with mortgages selling their home for $1 – and I remember being unemployed and working 3 part time crap jobs to feed the family.
    I remember PET and I beam with pride when I see Canadians using his grave for a urinal
    Bottom line is they Ottawa Libs/Laurentian oligarchy) wanted our oil and wealth but not us or our independent conservative culture and they had one of their’s try to destroy us and steal our energy wealth – they’re still trying and PET rev 2.0 is sure to have the anti-west gene.

  9. Your memories are Canada’s future (not a nightmare, but reality) if the Dauphin wins power – productivity crashes caused by taxation necessitating further taxation/government coercion to “invest” in the economy – which I explained to my daughter was robbing Peter to invest in Paul, until neither has any money.
    We must also remember progressives ditch the voter right after they’re elected, like the useful idiot pawns they really think they are. A one win vote would be sufficient grounds for them to run their entire “progressive” program, promised or not.
    The Niqab simply shines a light on their arrogance and self-assured wisdom to do what’s best for themselves, I mean us. No wait, those are both the same thing. It also helps if you don’t have a conscience so are comfortable stating mistruths to the voters.
    I now daily pray for shy Tory voters and sincerely hope the turnout ad the advanced polls shows trust for Harper. Then again I live in BC and many of the long whiskered ones are watermelons. I understand the 905 belt is preparing a rather large political brain fart. That’s Trudeau’s key to victory.
    Who knew Mulcair would give up all the 2011 gains in a two week period this year. That lack of splits is what gave the Tories their majority in 2011 and now stands as the margin of victory of for Trudeau in 2015.
    How Ontarians can vote for a Wynne clone now, given the inestimable damage done by her and McGuinty, only reinforces the notion of a politically connected friend of mine who could only meekly offer, “well, Ontario voters are really stupid.” Having come from there I can’t help feeling queasy.

  10. It wouldn’t be right not to mention the immediate wealth made over night by Liberal insiders when Petro Fina’s stock price went from the $30.’s to $120.00 overnight upon the government’s purchase of it for the NEP. The taxpayer was led to believe the purchase, for a an extremely bloated price, included valuable refinery and infrastructure. Instead, a wobbly collection of gas station storefronts. No coincidence that Pierre personally owned a s–tload of shares in PF at that time. Then our friend Maurice Strong was appointed CEO and el Presidente of the whole affair, complete with a $1M signing bonus. The whole thing stunk to high heaven and somehow the RCMP looked the other way when it came to the insider trading question.

  12. It was after the 1980 election when the NEP was hatched. The election was precipitated after the short-lived Joe Clark government was brought down by a coalition of Liberals and NDP. The Liberals didn’t win a seat west of Winnipeg but swept Quebec. Who could forget Marc Lalonde when he grabbed a broom and used a sweeping motion on the blackboard that listed the voting numbers for Quebec?

  13. Wrong word, Kate. We have nothing to “reminisce” over. We have to “REMEMBER” how we were screwed over, and shortly thereafter, the ROC. We do not reminisce here, we remember. Well, except for the new NDPeers here, most from down east. When a parasite kills its hosts, it moves on. 30 years later, Alberta forgot that! You would do well to remember that for at least 100 years in Flatbush!

  15. Holy mackerel! Kelly McParland says it like it IS! I can’t understand how anyone could back Trudeau, after how he was raised and how he remains, a wannabe dictator, puffed up by self-importance.
    Obama wants to destroy the USA, that’s clear, yet Trudeau can hardly wait to join hands with him over a Suzuki-style Climate Change campfire. We are in big trouble if the Liberals are elected to govern.
    http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/kelly-mcparland-how-i-came-to-admire-justin-trudeau

  16. Should the Liberals get their grubby hands on the Country, and systematically start raping your bank account and wallets, remember who got Trudeau elected. It wasn’t a brilliant campaign with a Prime Ministerial leader, it was the media party. CTV Liberal vision has been even more biased the the State Broadcaster, if that was possible. Let’s see if they share the shame when our economy tanks and the sheeple are screaming about being taxed to death and whining about how the Liberal 1.5% tax break for the middle class is not covering the huge increases in all our commodities because of a punitive Liberal carbon-tax and new revenue streams.

  17. Shades of Obama….full of deceit…media loves him…and he is promising the moon.
    LIV’s lap it up.

  18. Je me souvienes
    Marc lalond admitted the whole NEP was to break the west
    Broken business,lost houses , dead companies, Jack Gallagher a known liberal was in on it, super depletion and dome Canada were created vernight for tax reasons .

  19. Not content to lie and steal from you the Pony is going to bring in unvetted refugees and we have seen what is happening in Europe and this latest attack in Jerusalem,
    http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=372_1444745300
    A good guy with a gun stops a bad guy with a meat cleaver. In Justin’s world this tax-payer relief shot is uncalled for as the guy with the meat cleaver was just misunderstood and we as Canadians must be more sympathetic to all these new friends that he meets at the mosque every week. If he and Mulcair form a coalition government next week the shooting at the National Monument will be coming to a neighbourhood near you just as it has in Israel, only with their anti-gun legislation there wont be a good guy with a gun on the corner.

  20. I believe Maurice Strong is still out there pulling strings. He was poised to set up an office in Ottawa during Martin’s tenure. And he is the original economy-warrior –father of the Green agenda. If Liberals get in, watch for the Moe Strong puppet master working behind the scenes. Poor Justin so no match for the big boys. When he figures out what is going on, I almost feel sorry for him.

  21. The stupid…it hurts…
    Just had a coversation with a physician. Harper is a lost cause according to him because he shook hands with his son instead of hugging him.
    The dear doc claims Trudeau has empathy, claim JT was a teacher…(did not appreciate me pointing out that he was a drama teacher)…and dear doc claims Trudeau did not say he ‘admired China’s basic dictatorship’.
    Oh…and it is very disrespectful of me to make fun of JT’s pretty hair.
    We are screwed.

  22. ‘Dome’…The house that Jack Built….the shares of the company were known as ‘doom’ shares
    Smiling Jack, hood winked everyone, banks included.

  24. Hmmm hadn’t heard that one…but he is Bob Rae’s uncle.
    LindaL ,good point. Heard an interesting comment from a physician in our town: he will vote Liberal locally because he prefers the local candidate, but recognises Justin Trudeau as a puppet under the control of some backroom boys.

  25. I believe Maurice Strong is hold up in Bejing hiding out from US authorities over some Korean problem.

  27. I thought Strong’s problem was oil for food. Maybe some Korean problem also. Notice how Chretien and Martin were big on China. Libs will make him welcome in Canada. Strong keeps a low profile, but is very powerful — earily so. He has had deals going with Soros, and Al Gore gave him a “shout out” not so long ago. The man is scary.

  28. That is just nuts — not just that someone would think such a thing, but that they would not have any qualms about admitting to thinking something so foolish. My understanding is that it was a tradition to shake the kids’ hands — making them feel grown up. The press, however, decides to turn the incident into a completely unwarranted and mindless attack on Harper. I believe it was one of the fist attacks by the press, and it certainly set the tone for why Harper has no patience for them. Anyway, it just goes to show you that even someone trained as a physician can be pretty ignorant.

  29. “He has had deals going with Soros, and Al Gore gave him a “shout out” not so long ago.”
    cough* Illuminati *cough

  30. Would a physician not be in the upper income earning bracket? Maybe he’s one of those tax cheaters Justine has been talking about who converted his practice to a corporation to lower his tax liability.

  31. Anyone who votes against someone for the simple reason that he shook his son’s hand instead of giving him a hug is a lost cause. Anyone that petty and stupid really shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near a polling station other than to sweep the floor when the election is over, and then only under strict supervision.

  32. Comment on possible outcome of a minority.
    If Harper gets minority he will likely advise GG to drop writ, both libs and ndp know this and one of them will not have the financing to fight another campaign.
    If one of the other parties wins a minority, Mucliar is sharp enough that he would demand whatever was agreed to be in writing so he could have the visual of him getting jt to bow to ndp…not the other way around. Its the visual of who is leading and who plays 2nd fiddle.
    It would also severely damage jt’s reputation and reinforce the idea that he wasn’t ready.
    And should the young princess’s pride get the best of him and he refuses Mulcairs offer, he gets to take the blame and goes down in history as having the shortest mandate ever.
    Finally
    A quote to consider
    “The election isn’t over until someone wins a majority”

  33. Polls.
    Or how the media attempts to spin them in favour of their cause.
    If these Polls are correct…… sure as the last two elections demonstrated.
    Now it is possible the surge in early voting is an amazing achievement and the very young adults have finally got off their asses and indifference and are turning out to vote.
    And lets pretend they vote overwhelmingly Liberal(the media’s story).
    And that these votes bring us a Liberal/NDP collation government.
    Will this be a problem?
    We are already borderline bankrupt, facing a $700 000 000 000 national debt plus provincial debt plus private debt.
    So under the current conservatives we face a long future of paying for the debts incurred to finance this welfare society so loved by Pierre the idiot and voters.
    Under a big spending Liberal government we face even larger debt repayments(In the future)
    Even bigger bureaucracies and likely a debt wall.
    So we crash and burn faster.
    As I have lost any interest in working for the greater good,AKA being taken for over half of the return on my labour, I work less.
    My production is way down and will not be increasing anytime soon under the disincentives of our current tax system.
    The NDP and Liberals are going to tax me more, sure but tax on what?
    I am coming to believe that what we have built over the last 70 years is mostly destructive to a free and civil society and that the mess will not be fixed by tinkering with the mechanism.
    Debt, of the type we have come to consider normal, is theft from future generations unless we use that capital for long term gain(As in infrastructure).
    Civic structures are just a vehicle .
    This vehicle is mired and full of sand. The optimists say we can save it.
    We seem unsure whether we want to.
    All the promises from the past have turned out to be lies.
    Government cannot do the things it has assured us it would do for all.
    Evidence is clear and stark at every government office.
    But how do you save a society from collapse if those who take outnumber those who produce?
    And why would I want to?
    So whoever wins the Federal election, what changes?
    Now I still doubt the media and pollsters, being liars and fools in my eyes, so I do predict a conservative majority, but these conservatives are not my kind of conservative.
    I support them as the least evil, but what if I am wrong?
    Would we not cause less harm to our grandchildren if we orchestrate the fiscal collapse and attempt to control the coming chaos?

  34. ” if we orchestrate the fiscal collapse and attempt to control the coming chaos?” The problem with this is that the LIBS/DIPS have orchestrated a society that cannot protect itself and thus we cannot control the chaos. As we are seeing in Israel and Europe the general population are unable to protect themselves against the oncoming chaos. Past Liberal governments with the backing of the NDP have stigmatized self-defence in this country. Without an independent means of self-defence and a recognized castle doctrine when the rabble come knocking on your front door there is nothing you can do but open the door and escort them in. Elizabeth May has been quoted as saying she wants to take back her Canada, well I’d like to take back my Canada and that means self reliance and independence, with all that entails. I don’t need a government clerk looking over my shoulder at everything I do.

  35. Once the gloves are off, laws mean whatever those holding power mean.Usually the mob, thats us annoyed and on rampage.
    Reference,
    High River.
    Bill C68
    CSA
    Environment Canada.
    We are already a lawless nation as the law is unknown and unknowable, yet we citizens are told ;”Ignorance of the LAW is no defence”.
    Yet we have Human Rights Commissionaires who protect our phoney rights by stripping us of our legal rights.
    The Magna Carta is dead
    Civilization as we knew it was built on private property, no politician today respects property, especially private property.
    The gun law shows how corrupt government breeds contempt and noncompliance.
    At start Alan Rock, quoting his experts said the government believes there to be 21 million long guns in Canada.
    At end RCMP run register brags about 1.9 million weapons registered,including police weapons, pistols as proof of how successful Bill C68 was.
    Orchestrate the fiscal collapse, is a poor choice of words on my part,as I think it is unstoppable, perhaps cease to resist the idiocy and go with the flow while ensuring our back-up plans are ready is closer.
    Indeed large chunks of our population are now good clients and unable to protect themselves or even provide a useful service to those who might.
    By control the chaos I refer to the example of the Rodney King performance, those communities willing to act survived, those waiting for help burned.
    Funny how the mob is still smart enough to recognize armed determination.
    Bottom line know your community or move to one you trust.

  36. The problem with using the Rodney King scenario is that this is Canada not America. If the next election results in a Liberal/NDP coalition then we are destined to be a nation like Britain and Australia, completely dis-armed. As it is Harper rescinding the long gun registry accomplished nothing since the government is still able to track the purchase of ammunition hence they still have the ability to confiscate fire-arms. In mentioning the High River gun grab you bring into play the attitude of the RCMP, and then factor in the attitude of the Metro Toronto Police force and even the Saskatoon police force of the last couple of years and you have the basis for a police state, which would suit the Libs/Dips perfectly. Remember it wasn’t the Conservatives that called the national emergency in the FLQ crisis but Trudeau the First, you can bet the ‘Do-over’ wouldn’t think twice about calling for gun confiscation as soon as he passes the UN International Treaty on Fire-arms.

  37. That was the point, they can only account for 1.9 million firearms as of end of registry.
    I have not seen numbers for totals stolen and destroyed.
    Those who did comply are examples for all.
    How does officialdom intend to force the other 25million long guns and stockpiled ammo out of hiding?
    As for Australia, those are mighty nice machine pistols they are home brewing there.
    Jewellery precision Heh.

  38. I remember my father losing his savings, my inheritance, his landscaping business, and finally his house. (It is not at all surprising how many unemployed oil executives mow their own lawn, or how many half empty condo complexes cut down drastically on non-critical upkeep.) I remember us going from being ‘comfortable’, not wealthy by any means but definitely comfortable, to being virtually paupers and living hand to mouth. I remember my father dying penniless. And I remember reminding my children of this every single election. I will cut my hand off before I will let it vote Liberal.

  39. This article reminded me of some of the reasons why I despise PET and Marc Lalonde, hate the LPC and find One Inch a loathsome despicable swine.
    By way of explanation:
    Q What do you call a man with a one inch d1ck?
    A Just In.

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