164 Replies to “Oh Shiny Prime Minister!”

  1. Well, Canada has been a failed state for a long time now. And there are still fools who say things like “separation is not an option”. Yes, they are the stupidest people still living, but they are the majority, they keep picking people like Joe “Liberal Lite” Clark, and Andrew “Liberal Lite” Scheer and Brad “Liberal Lite” Wall; so we are all boned.

    2. This was just another example of Trudeau, and his Liberals trying to show how superior they are. The tweet was just another example of “virtue signalling” gone wrong. The Liberals are more interested in “LOOKING GOOD” than actually doing good.

      If they really gave a crap about these people the Saudi’s have locked up, they would have held discussions behind closed doors; perhaps even offered to bring them to Canada. But no……no one would have seen that.

      With Trudeau…it’s all about appearances. When you are all icing and no cake…that is your only option.

    1. Canada could get a free refinery tomorrow at no cost and yet it would still close down immediately. Why? Because Canada has foregone economics for leftist socialist politics a long time ago. This makes it impossible to overcome the ridiculous cost of doing business in Canada, the EnviroEvangelist veto, the Drunk Indian Casino Owner veto, and of course we still have not mentioned the mountains of bureaucracy and red tape that Canada is famous for. Even if you could overcome all this, you would still be dealing with an entirely unproductive workforce always teetering on the brink of a strike. Fact is 97.5% of Canada is a 3rd rate nation of bedwetting entitled no-working socialists, and the other 2.5% have their minds right but are defanged, disarmed and of course unwilling to take up arms for what’s right.

    2. Conflict oil. It is immoral to purchase (Islamic) conflict oil. Just as immoral as it is to buy “blood diamonds”.

      Meanwhile, the US is sending ever-increasing amounts of LNG to the EU. Amuurrrica!! Frack YEAH!!!

    3. I hope that Saudi Arabia stop their oil exports to the East! Then we in the West can say to Trudeau , remember Energy East, well boys now you can, “ Forget about It”!

  4. Occasionally, people Mike Harris slip through, but they are few and far between, and will never go far enough. Or do it fast enough.

    One thing the new Ontario premier has to do is break the domination of Toronto over provincial politics. As long as it is simply about numbers, cities will always vote for suicide because of “caring”. Honestly, no mater how big a city is, they should get just one MP. Then, the areas that actually carry the freight get a meaningful say.

    The new rule should be simple; NO REPRESENTATION WITHOUT TAXATION. If you do not have skin in the game, you do not get a say. IF you collect welfare and pay no tax? No vote. No political donations. No volunteering for pet causes. You are out. If you want a say, find a way to contribute.

    You are a career civil servant? A politician? You have no skin in the game; you get no say. Government is an empty swimming pool. People can fill it by collecting rain water, digging wells, carrying buckets from rivers, building desalination plants, condensation on humid days… If you drink cups from the pool, then urinate into the pool to “refill” it, you cannot call this taxation. You robbed Peter to pay yourself, then you take from your left pocket and put some back in your right pocket.

    1. I have long stated that having public sector union workers also voting is a GIGANTIC conflict of interest, worthy of AT LEAST an ethics investigation, surely!

      In addition, I agree, there should be DIRECT correlation between your tax contribution to society over your whole life, and your right to vote. I will make an exception for military service. If you serve in the military for at least 10 years, or you serve in actual combat, you get the vote as well.

      Skin in the game. A new book by behavioural finance guru Nicholas Nassem Taleb. … One of my heroes…

      1. Bdsm.
        Step back a bit.
        Forget the conflict of interest of public sector workers voting.
        There should simpy not be public sector unions.
        Their very existence is the conflict of interest.

      2. Skin in the game, yes. Police, firemen, soldiers automatically get the vote.

        But when the soy lobby decides the limits, and determines that hair care professionals deserve the danger exemption also (“they work with sharp, pointy things that can kill!” “you mean scissors?” “yes, those paired knives!”) the idea is doomed.

        My preferred option is a simple issues test. Taxes / regulations / freedoms at a high level. If you vote against the proven history of the party you claim to support on 2/3 of the 3 questions then your ballot is spoiled. All parties must agree on the questions and note their choice if elected on the ballot. If you vote against your state choice twice then it causes a by-election.

    2. Now, excellent idea Kevin. How do we possibly get that through? I would add to your excellent ideas that if you have served your country in the armed forces or police, or are retired after filing a T4 for your last year of work – you get a vote as well.

    3. means test for voters, and a scaled vote. Simple solution that does not destroy “democracy” to the extent you propose. It’s not that I don’t get your point, it’s that in the future you may wish other wise, WHEN IT IS TOO LATE. Think holocaust, many of those first kills would have been socialist supporters, and those wgo would have supported the very laws used by the nazis to gain power.

    1. It’s all part of that Liberal election strategy – which is looking increasingly incomprehensible.

      1. Not incomprehensible, Robert. It’s all about solidifying the Left vote. Everything is consistent with that.

      2. Vive Revoluci’on!! It is TIME for the Western left to RISE!! And finish the good work started by Barrack Hussein and Sock Puppet … eh Comrades?

    2. He sure has the magic touch. Even Israel has a better relationship with Saudi Arabia than Canada. Left handed, lesbian, vegan, gerbil loving, transexuals everywhere will forever be in Turdeau’s debt.

  6. If the Saudis weren’t stuck in the seventh century, they would realize that the Spawn is their best friend as he says nothing about Saudi money advancing shariah law and jihad in Canada. In fact, he panders to it. They obviously took his government tweets as something other than token virtue signalling which is all he is capable of. Perhaps they can’t get over his glittering presence at every Pride event, celebrating the lifestyles of people the Saudis publicly execute, all justified by their retrograde theocracy.

    1. I’m just curious … did PM Sockeyebrow and Princess Rainbow Freeland issue an ULTIMATUM to China DEMANDING they release all the imprisoned women, and Christians? I dare say there are MORE women imprisoned by a “culturally backward” Communist State than the (2) in Saudi Arabia.

      https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/08/saudi-arabia-is-selling-off-its-canadian-assets-as-row-intensifies-re.html

      Me thinks that these two Canadian FOOLS should spread their words of … justice … equally across the whole world. Oh? What’s that you say? These two are OWNED by the Red Chinese? … OK … got it … they aren’t serious ATall … just virtue signaling …

  7. The importation of Saudi oil will not stop any time soon as there are very powerful interests that are making a great deal of money brokering the imports. The same interests that have the liarberal party of Canada as a wholly owned subsidiary.

    1. Exactly! As well, the Saudi Arabia was among those ‘interests’ that were bankrolling the Canadian internal opposition to any pipeline work to eastern Canada of any sort.

  8. From the Conservative Treehouse comments: “……The Canadian Foreign Minister, Chrystia Freeland, did not just tweet her message in English. She also had her embassy staff in Saudi Arabia translate it into Arabic and then retweet it. In other words, Freeland was effectively speaking directly with the Saudi people, trying to undermine the Saudi government. ”

    Bet the stupid is so strong with our “leadership” that Freeland keeps her job. IRAN tattooed across their foreheads in plain view. Draw your own conclusions.

  10. Please bear in mind all, Canada has to buy oil. The Alberta tar sands have sat on the surface of the planet for untold millennia, so all their lighter fractions evaporated-off long ago – there’s only heavy oil left there anymore, the lightest fraction I’ve heard-of in the tar sands is diesel. So, no gasoline.

    And while not in the least inclined to cut Shiny Potato any slack at all, I view Saudi Arabia with a jaundiced eye over this one – are they really THAT thin-skinned? Well of course they are – surely everybody remembers the Arab boycott of Denmark over the Jyllands Posten’s reprinting the Mohammed cartoons. { – And wasn’t Benghazi caused by a movie? /sarc – }

    Thank FR1G Trump isn’t that thin-skinned, or he’d likely’ve noooked us over Troodie’s comments after the G7 – and Europe as well after all the slimy remarks they made about him when he was elected, and since.

    1. Doesn’t really matter whether SA is that thin-skinned or not. Anyone competent in Foreign Affairs would have known this. This is about “our” government being silly enough to score an own-goal. Either that, or this was deliberately orchestrated to make Spawn & Co look good for the 2019 election by stirring up their left-wing voters to support them.

      And please note that it’s working. The MSM is playing right along with the government’s line on this.

      1. – Again though, lots of nations say lots worse to lots of other nations, all the time – why this was sunny smiles compared to the Norks vs Trump, or the Chinese vs Trump, or the U.K. vs Russia on the Skripal thang, or China vs Japan vs South Korea every second week – so why are the Saudis unloading so furiously on us? And yeah, the MSM is deeply in Liberal pockets – or more like, the Lib’s are in theirs – but they’re that way on every issue; no point expecting anything else.

        1. The Saudis are playing a TWO dimensional game here: on one dimension, they are cozying up to Trump, whom they know despises Shiny Pony, the boxing match fixer, so Canada, I am afraid on this one, is expendable.

          It is not like the Saudis need Canada AT ALL. This is a very clear middle finger up Canada’s ego, to score points with the folks who matter.

          The second dimension is that the Saudis have always seen themselves as the rightful guardians and caretakers of the Faith. With Iran having spent decades’ worth of blood and treasure in the Middle East attempting to seize that role for themselves, and now finding themselves perhaps on their last legs, the louder and more sternly the Saudis push their agenda, the more likely they believe they will be to regain their rightful place as the defenders of the Sunna agains the Shia heresy.

          That Shiny Pony’s foreign service is so incompetent that they couldn’t see this coming, is what is truly laughable… And it is hard to see Harper having fkcuked this up this badly…

        2. YKnott, why are the Saudis unloading on us? Easy. We don’t matter. So they make an example of us as a deterrent to any of the countries that do matter to them and might be tempted to do the same stunt Spawn did. And by taking a strong line, it shores up support domestically for the Crown Prince.

          1. If you’re going to be made an example of , regardless of what you do now , then the Canadian government might as well portray strength of conviction rather than weakness. The KSA has economic problems and is afraid of losing market share to US and frackers, they are horrible human rights violators and they fund religious extremists. Stop importing their oil. Build pipelines and export more oil, like the US is doing. The KSA needs oil around $90 to avoid huge deficits so keeping oil prices lower than that drains their finances and they’ve run out of princes to torture and shakedown for billions.

          2. @ LC Bennett: Sorry, but you lost me at “strength of conviction”….I thought we were talking about Disgusting Justin?

          3. So I guess it becomes a debate or confrontation between the “Crown Prince ” vs the “Clown Prince” wonder who will win this one? JK!

          4. They’ve also seen a sequence of other leaders/governments/organisations publicly b1tch-slap the little prince without consequence, so…why not join the fun?

    2. Bitumen from the oil sands can be upgraded to a refinery stock that refiners say is sweet stuff. The lack of lighter fractions means 2 things – possibly more difficulty in shipping since it cannot be placed directly into a conventional oil pipeline unless it’s mixed with light crude like the ultralight Bakken crude oil, and a lower price per barrel since it must be upgraded which adds cost. US Gulf refineries specialize in extremely heavy crudes, in any event and if the oil sands bitumen can be shipped by pipeline there it will get the highest price it can get anywhere.

      The bottom line is Canada could be self-sufficient in crude oil if the government let it develop without obstacles being placed on the industry.

      1. But, but, but … shouldn’t Canada become the world leader in windmill manufacturing? Wouldn’t that be the … moral … thing to do since oil is killing the planet? Isn’t it the … moral … thing to do to KILL all carbon fuels everywhere on the planet? To save the planet? To save the chilllllllllldren?

    3. coal can be turned into oil and refined to gasoline. the germans did it during ww2.

      1. – and WW1; the Fischer-Tropf process. If you have hydrogen and carbon monoxide, you can make any hydrocarbon you want. Of course the Germans weren’t doing it because they wanted to, and it IS a whole lot more expensive…

      2. They also rigged car engines to accept “coal gas”. Had some sort of contraption which burned coal and sent the resulting “gas” into the engine. Have no idea of how they did this, just remember that – way back in the day – met someone who had actually used the contraption successfully.

        1. It worked by heating the coal (or wood, or just about anything that burns) in an airtight chamber and drawing-off the gases to the engine and burning those. It was widespread throughout WW2 – I read in a book about USS Wahoo (“Wake of the Wahoo”), during a furlough in Australia the crewman writing the book went-about in Aussie cabs that were using a similar system, and always for the same reason – gasoline rationing due to the war.

          And I do mean “just about anything that burns” – I read in an old Popular-Mechanix-style magazine, where they ran a Model-T engine for four hours on the gases from a dead cat.

      3. Yes, but it’s expensive. Far cheaper to turn longer chain hydrocarbons into shorted chains than to start cracking macerals. Besides, coking coals are needed to turn rust (aka iron ore) into iron and steel.

        Price will usually tell you whether something is worth doing yet. If the price for the end product isn’t high enough yet then either wait a while or re-invest elsewhere.

    1. Trump’s … “bull in the china shop” … irrational destruction of Globalist markets is to blame. Trump doesn’t know what he is doing. He is just arbitrarily tearing up trade contracts and agreements in the same way he Tweets about the intelligence of Lebraun James and Maxine Waters. Out of control. Out of his mind. Out of his depth.

      There. I wrote the whole article for the MSM (aka opposition media).

      1. You had me going there for a line or two Kenji but I’ve been here too long at SDA. BTW did not Harper have eyes on the CBC but failed to pull the trigger when he had a majority?

        1. Harper chickened out on trimming the sails of CBC. My CPC MP told me that Harper feared alienating the traditional CBC audience in Eastern Canada, stating that to easterners, “the CBC is sacred” or words to that effect.

          I spoke with the chief of CBC radio one at dinner during the CBC /Harper controversy, he said that Harper was quite reasonable to deal with, more so than Chretien. Harper DID cut CBC funding at one point by a few million,then handed it back via another government funding channel within a few weeks. Net result: no cuts at all.

          CBC is like abortion and gay marriage(some claim CBC IS an abortion,I won’t get into that debate) ; untouchable.

          1. I have to agree: the CBC is as sacramental as abortion is.
            It is indeed untouchable.
            People here, who talk about shutting it down or meaningfully reducing its subsidy, are simply UNSERIOUS.

          2. Any country with a state broadcaster never was, and never can be a free country. It is that simple.

            Anyone who says things like “people who talk about shutting down the CBC are unserious” is am enemy of freedom. It is that simple.

      2. “the intelligence of Lebraun James “” Hmm Lebraun could read the Joe Paterno saga VS the Role on Don Lemon & Sandusky… (That was a Democrat win)
        CNN throws kids under Bus to get a Sound Bite.. WAIT! does Zucker play any role

        JMHO

  12. I don’t think this is a big deal. If the Saudis don’t buy wheat from Canada, they will buy it from somewhere else, and the people who would have bought that wheat still need to eat so they will buy it from somewhere else. As long as the overall supply/demand situation doesn’t change, someone will buy it. Just because you ate yesterday doesn’t mean you aren’t going to need to eat again today.

    1. The juvenile approach used by Trudeau in international relations, And his complete failure to protect Canadian interest is what the big deal is.

      1. complete failure to protect Canadian interest

        Don’t forget that PM Dumkopf declared that we’re now a post-national state with no core identity, so what’s left to protect and why should he care about it?

  13. Wow, these Saudis would make awesome Democrats. Here is what their actions say to me…..

    We consider your message an attack on our sovereignty because it questions the very ideology that maintains our power over the sheople. Thus, we will go to almost any lengths to keep them from being exposed to it.

    Nothing surprises me about Justin’s incompetence-laden reign anymore….. except that more groping victims haven’t come forward.

    1. Canada is trying to punch way above its weight AND its punching power. It will get badly smacked down before this boob’s term is done…

    2. Nothing surprises me about Justin’s incompetence-laden reign anymore….. except that more groping victims haven’t come forward

      PM Sockeyebrow learned from Michael Jackson that … silence … can indeed be purchased. Gropees will gladly whore themselves out for a fat bank account (of inherited family wealth).

      1. Almost every progressive Canadian woman would gladly submit to whatever Justin wants her to do. They are infatuated with the guy, more than that,he’s their dream guy, the guy they envision while boffing their less handsome husband or boyfriend, he must have accidentally groped a conservative woman back in the day,though she kept quiet about it for almost 20 years.

        I’m not in the least bit surprised more women haven’t come forward about Trudeau,or any other liberal icon, they love their heroes, even to flopping onto their back or knees, whatever the situation requires.

        Now,how about all those attractive young women David Suzuki surrounded himself with, are you expecting to hear one of THEM come forward?! LOL! They LOVE the guy! Would perform coprophagy on his leavings if he asked.
        Same as with Justin Trudeau, he is their God.

        1. Mr Morris ! You provided my expanded vocabulary WORD of the DAY … “coprophagy”

          perform coprophagy on his leavings if he asked.
          Same as with Justin Trudeau, he is their God

          Ackkhh!!!! However PM BoyToyputasockinit reminds me of Bill Clinton when first elected. Women would write of their “lucid” “erotic” dreams they had about Billy Bob and make me ill reading it. Leftists truly ARE the odd, socially-awkward, misfits, who have mental problems.

          Might I suggest YOUR … WORD of the DAY … “Dirty Sanchez”
          https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=the%20dirty%20sanchez
          Perhaps you are already familiar with this term, and disgusting, deviant, sex act. But I suggest Billy Bob and PMSockinhispants would perform their own Dirty Sanchez’s on a cadre of willing, goofy, interns and other groupies. I guess it’s good to be a “Rock Star” politician … with PMsockbulge’s daddy even getting the sloppy seconds of a REAL Rock Star. And I shouldn’t leave out Barrack Hussein … because a Dirty Sanchez can be performed with a man too!!

  14. Sure is a bad time to pick a fight with Saudi Arabia. Their second quarter numbers just came in…and they are absolutely fantastic. That usually means risk taking, like finding new markets.

  15. Freeland and Trudeau have been colossally stupid. We need to understand the conflict from the perspective of a Muslim country. Muslims do not recognize human rights. They recognize Sharia law — God’s law. Human rights essentially do not exist (see “What Went Wrong” by Bernard Lewis). So the silly tweet will NOT accomplish anything and touches on sensitive ground — it can be interpreted as an attack on Islamic rule. (Foreign Affairs should have understood this.) That is why various places like UAE and the PLO are not about to take Canada’s side on this. Under normal circumstances we might expect the US to speak on our behalf, but the Trudeau government has successfully alienated the Trump government. We are on shaky ground with this important ally. Unless we are able to fix this, we will pay a big price. I think the only safe-face way to proceed is to get rid of Freeland. It will need to be done delicately, but she needs to go. The NAFTA screw up and now this are creating major problems for Canada.

      1. ….and put a man in her portfolio, cuz it’s 2018…

        Uh, no. This is (post-national, sharia-compliant, gender-balanced, carbon-neutral, Soros vassal) Canada, so it should be a member of the I, Napoleon club…. because it’s 2018.

    2. Trudeau has effectively postured his way into a corner and the only way his arse can be saved is if he can get Trump bail him out.
      Trump likely already knows this.
      What would Trudeau have to do to get Trump to even listen to him?
      NAFTA sunset clause?
      Eliminating supply management?
      Issue one big whooping defense procurement to meet our NATO obligations?
      And then after Trump agrees to listen, what would he ask to help fix the problem?
      Trudeau is screwed.

  16. Trudeau makes a fool of himself in the USA, Asia, India, and now the Middle East.
    Where is he going next and what will he screw up there?
    What do we export to South America and what should I short to make money off of Captain Chaos and his band of idiots World Stupidity Tour?

    1. If we could get PM Assgrabber to Australia or NZ I’m sure he’d make a complete fool of himself because he always goes Full Retard.

  17. Everything the KSA has done thus far is designed to undercut Trudeau. Anything that he can do in retaliation for this comes with a political cost
    He decides to embargo saudi oil he has to find a replacement for it, and if he does the environmental voters won’t take kindly to that, meaning he loses votes. If he continues to do nothing he appears weak and confirms Trump’s observation from the G7, this seriously is dampening the enthusiasm of the generational liberal voter, which if this continues they won’t be showing up to cast a ballot.
    If the Sockmonkey suddenly decides to stop shipping those armored vehicles again thats another hit to manufacturing and would he be willing to issue a contract of equal value to General Dynamics to keep those folks employed? Ironically if the Canadian government signed a contract that big it likely meet that NATO target that Trump made an issue out of. Again a no win as it would be juthtin dancing to Trump’s tune … like I said, every action now has a political cost, including sitting on the fence.
    Liberals fair poorly when there is no middle ground, it does not allow equivocation.
    Trudeau is screwed.

    1. Trudeau is screwed? Not a bit, personally. He still gets paid & he could care less. Butts is & the cabal he represents are on this. The silence from Scheer is deafening, but preferable to even opening his mouth on this subject. He’s bought & paid for. Best stay silent while his enemy is making a mistake(s). He could win by default & barely lift a hand to do so. Let this play out, we’ve several months before the writ is dropped.

    2. About 110,000 BPD comes into the Irving refinery in New Brunswick from Saudi Arabia.

      You remember the Irvings, the guys who take every PM to their fly-in lodge after he’s elected, and there the shiny new PM meets with the Elite powers of Canada, and is given his orders.

      Justin had better NOT embargo SA oil, because if he loses the support of the Bigs, he’s finished politically.

    3. On the plus side Justin has just pissed off the Islamic votes needed for his UN security council seat. On the downside, our Billions given to the UN parasites in pursuit of said seat has just evaporated.
      So ban SA oil imports and funding of mosques. And the university positions that catered to the Saudi students, accept Canadian students or get laid off.

      1. Yup. You don’t get to “hate those bastards” as is the permanent liberal party disease, and then squeal when they don’t drop everything they’re doing, and come rushing over to kiss your boo-boo all better…

      2. In what way was it burnt at the g7? Trudeau repeating how the steel counter tariffs will continue unless the steel tariffs come off?

        The absolute horror….

    2. What a stunningly ignorant statement. An Ally doesn’t score political points by kicking MY President in the balls … publicly. And MY President isn’t a milquetoast punching bag (like the last 7 or 8 American Presidents). My President remembers, and will cut-off the balls of his so-called Ally.

      When your Enemy strikes you, without warning … you must strike him back so that he NEVER strikes you again. Enjoy the pain, eunuch PM.

    3. Allies don’t pay 12 million to the terrorist who murdered their medic on the battle field, trying to assist said “injured” terrorist.
      Canada currently is NOT an ally to USA, the liberal/media hatred of Trump transcends that now.

      1. Exactly. The only thing Canada deserves from the US is an upraised middle index finger.

        1. But like Iran … we don’t HATE the Iranian PEOPLE … just their government
          We don’t HATE the Canadian PEOPLE … just your government.

      2. It’s never been proven that he did kill that medic. In any event, that’s what happens when due process is denied.

        1. Under whose Constitution? Afghanistan? Where the deed was done? Isn’t that international law? That the LOCATION of the crime subjects you to THAT countries laws? If so, then the perpetrator would be (chose one): stoned to death, shot to death, or hung until dead. THAT’S … your peoples … due process.

          – Thin skinned, Trump sycophant (read: admirer of his policies and effectiveness)

        2. Nope, this is what happens when the government prostitutes itself to the pro terrorist constituency. And yes it has been proven. And terrorists are entitled to about as much due process as pirates. And we all know you don’t give a $hit abut due process anyway. You’re just excited that another cultural enricher got away with a murder of a white person.

    4. Allan S, I hope that was a sarc. Didn’t the Turd use the line “So much for allies” in his tear speech around NAFTA talks when the tariffs were imposed on S&A?

    7. Hey Allen, we’re not your pals anymore — Uranium One, remember? G7, remember? your NATO contribution, remember? NAFTA, remember? Some other things may be getting ready to drop as well.

      So just remember Alli boy…if you want a friend, you’ve got to be a friend.

      Love always (j/k)
      America

      1. Ha ha ha !
        Leave it to a … girl … to sign off with XXXOOOXXXOOO
        You’re much nicer and polite than me. But it’s a guy-thing to give each other stick. Yep, there IS a difference between the sexes

      2. Uhm I wouldn’t question our NATO contribution. In fact it was a Canadian who suggested the USA invoke article 5 after 9/11. We were also in Afghanistan in October.

        G7? Nothing surprising happened there. What do you refer to?

        Uranium One? uh what?

    8. You cannot snark at and belittle the US and their current President and still expect support from them. Canada is at fault if the US chooses to leave us twisting in the wind.

      1. Not true… Bernie the commie backs Canada & their SJW mentality.. Hanoi Jane will hold a tear-fest & show her Gunner hips.. The WAPO backs Canada…NYT is not talking

        The SJW’s in America are hiding in safe spaces… They are up Next… When Trump stops his tweeting (fighting back) all hell will breakout…

  19. This won’t entice me to vote for Trudeau or the Liberals but I think they’re right to call out the KSA for human rights abuses. Sometimes politics and partisan posturing needs to take backseat to doing the right thing. There’s no shame in attacking an authoritarian religious regime that violates basic human rights of women, gays, atheists, foreign workers and many others. Even if it costs the economy a bit to do so.

    1. Be nice if they also called out Iran and Hamas (who “execute” more people than the KSA, almost always extra-judicially, but the Territories aren’t measured as a state just yet).

      But you know, it s 2018. Or something.

      2. Concur
        While I agree the Saudis are not shining examples of defenders of human rights, the folks in that neck of the woods that wish to oust them to install their brand of oppression are far far worse.
        Not only do they want to replace the Saudis they would go on a world tour to export their orthodoxy.

    2. All true but the Spawn doesn’t criticize the same human rights issues by the same theocracy at home where votes are involved. Picture him with his ever-present vacuous grin walking through the Mosque with the Imams while giving a token shout out to the “sisters” relegated to the back. Deep down, he and his followers are extremely shallow and in the deranged dominion, it sells.

      If Canada had nothing whatsoever to do with Saudi Arabia, it would be fine with me but they sit on a lot of foreign exchange that is hard not to be interested in, as in selling to. Trump can cozy up to them because he’s involved in policing the planet and within the Islamic wastelands, he sees Iran as worse than the Saudis, this week.

      1. Are the Liberals consistent about calling out human and civil rights abuses? No. Are any politicians or parties intellectually consistent? No. Does that mean we can’t agree with them when we think they are doing the right thing? I can agree with the Liberals on this issue and still never agree with them on any other subject or vote for them.

        1. It’s often a good idea to see if you’d still feel the same way if it was your side saying something similar. If Harper called out human rights abuses by an authoritarian regime, would you still think/feel the same?

          1. I agree that KSA should be criticized by all civilized nations. The Spawn was right on this criticism. Coming from him it is hypocritical as he is likely Islam’s greatest domestic apologist/enabler. If Harper did the same he would also be right but less hypocritical although the CPC is generally weak in their resistance to creeping shariah.

            Saudi money and influence is likely one of the major reasons why the UK is now drifting toward shariah compliance.

            Trump’s annoyance with the Spawn is likely why the Saudis feel emboldened to ramp up the rhetoric and actions. Harper was closer to Israel and further from Iran making him less of an annoyance to the retrograde Kingdom. The US now fills that space and we (the Spawn) have adopted Obama’s old stance. Negotiating anything with the US (particularly with the loose cannon populist “master deal maker”) from a position of weakness without the utmost level of humility is a dangerous game and that’s the way the Spawn is playing it.

          2. excellent question – and i will respond. stephen harper said “get out of ukraine” face-to-face with vlad putin and refused to shake his hand. support was offered and given to the country that was invaded.

            this amateur attempt by a former journalist on a high horse to drag a theocratic monarchy into the 21st century via twitter is just another example of incompetence. good intentions – less than desirable results. fark her and the horse she rode in on.

    3. Trudo’s criticism is an empty gesture that will accomplish nothing. But it will make Justin feel good and garner the oohs and ahs of the juvenile left. Foreign affairs always should be conducted with the knowledge that they are ultimately about national survival.

      Contrary to what you claim, this is nothing other than domestic politics and partisan posturing on the part of Trudles. It achieves nothing positive for Canada and has already caused a good deal of harm.

    4. You can work through normal discrete diplomatic channels to accomplish a goal, or you can publicly shout like a preening idiot to signal your virtue and piss everyone off.

      Protip: True virtue doesn’t have to signal.

      1. Turdeau was elected by Quebec and Ontario to be Prime Minister of Canada, he was not elected to be the worlds conscience or its commissioner of rights and wrongs. His job at which he so far has failed miserably is to be Quebec and Ontario s Prime Minister. He also has been granted authority to control the resources of the Western Provinces and to exploit those resources as mandated by the Laurentian Elite. The NDP, various environmental organisations, and supposed “first nations” are being financed by groups from the US, China and Saudi Arabia in order to shut down the Tar Sands, any proposed pipeline, or any proposed new refinery being built anywhere in the country, No other oil producing country would ever subject themselves to this idiocy, this country is being held to ransome or even blackmailed by environazis in Quebec and BC. We need a PM with some testosterone.

    5. WTF are you talking about? What do they gain? Nothing. What do they change for the better? Nothing. Might they actually impede or delay the few small reforms the latest House of Saud prince has implemented? Possibly. Shouting about how wonderful you are while telling everyone else what a sack of shit they are is stupid beyond belief.

    6. How about China? Or is doing the right thing about THEIR human rights abuses …SERIOUSLY … too costly to the Canadian GDP?

    7. The problem with your view is that it ignores the significance of religious beliefs in Islamic countries. Under Islam, this is God’s world and God’s law prevails (Sharia). Viewed through a Western lens, Canada’s position is reasonable. Viewed through an Islamic lens, it is blasphemy. Canada’s views and Freeland’s tweets are not going to change the nature of Islam. I would call this a major screw up.

    8. I might agree except this is coming from our PM who couldn’t bring himself to label FGM as “barbaric”. He thought it much too harsh. And he seemingly has no problem with a school ?cafeteria being turned into a mosque every Friday where the boys sit up front, the girls sit behind, and the menstruating girls are even farther back because they’re “unclean” or something.

  20. Bear in mind there’re two other simmering feuds going-on in the mid-east at the moment, both involving KSA:

    1) Yemen. Iran is always poking, probing, prodding – and they’re Persians, not Arabs – and they really like having an invasive fundamentalist force on Saudi Arabia’s doorstep; moreso because the Saud’s have had mixed success doing anything about it, much less throwing them out of Yemen. KSA does NOT WANT Iran a short drive across the desert; they’re most unhappy with them across the Gulf, and Arabs and Persians have been fighting to the death since long before Islam; and

    2) Qatar. There’s an enormous gas field underlying the Gulf, with sovereignty shared between Qatar and Iran. One of the reason’s Putin’s so keen on Syria is that he owns the gas pipeline into northern Europe, and while lots of other countries in the south of the Eurasian landmass (all of whom pretty-well hate Russia) have lots of gas they’d love to sell Europe, their pipelines would have to go through Syria – which Assad won’t allow while Putin is keeping the Syrian rebels at bay. Well, with Syrian land routes closed for a new pipeline, Qatar is selling its gas through Iranian pipelines into Russia and hence, Europe – which benefits Iran and Russia as well as Qatar – and the other Arab Gulf states hate Iran and Russia too, and consider this a stab in the back, especially Saudi Arabia.

    So the House of Saud has to keep the pressure on, on all fronts – and Canada is the toad under the harrow. Again. As usual.

    1. That sums it up well enough.

      I’d add the Trudeau Liberal’s infiltration?/alliance with the M.B. makes them also tied in with the Islamic Republic of Iran, who, with Pres. Obama’s assistance, have created a Shia Crescent: Iran/Iraq/Lebanon/Syria/ and now Yemen. They see the Trudeau government allied with their deadliest enemy.

      Note, when was the last time you heard the Justin Trudeau Liberal government criticize the Islamic Republic of Iran? Exactly…

      Linda L. is correct about this being about Sharia, which word the Trudeau Liberals will never say anything negative about.

      If the Trudeau Liberals decide to shut down all the mosques financed by Saudi money and staffed by Saudi money and deport Saudi trained imams. Then it would something to talk about.

      Energy East would be the only Trudeau Liberal response that would engender any credibility. But they won’t allow that because the Energy East pipeline would help build national unity among Canadians.

      That goes against Justin Trudeau’s view of Canada: “There is no core identity, no mainstream Canada. Those qualities make us the first post nation-state. ” – P.M. Justin Trudeau.

      Divide and conquer, class struggle in the current version is identity politics, successfully creating chaos, dysfunction and weakening every institution designed to keep us “strong and free”.

  21. Just my take on this.
    Saudi Arabia is one of the worst countries in the world for repressing Women, Gay’s, Christian’s or anyone that doesn’t want to have sex with goats.
    Why do we care what Saudi Arabia thinks. Why are we dealing with them in the first place? We really have to get away from the New World Order thought programming that we “Need to Trade Globally” all the time. It does nothing but raise prices for local good (more goods the lower the price). It enriches all the Multinational Corporations at the expense of the local “Worker Slaves” we have all become. Slaves to the Large Corporations (not to mention the Military Industrial Complex, that needs WAR and enemies at all times so they can get HUGE contracts for the Multinationals). We are being Conned out of our hard earned money constantly. Look no further than the CIA for most terrorist situations around the world today. We give tax breaks to Companies that ship our jobs overseas so Stock holders can get a better dividend (but the guy down the street is now on EI). Our country gives away $Billions to so called 3rd world countries but some people here in Canada are living in 3rd world Conditions. We all need to start thinking about ourselves a bit more, rather than about countries around the world that just want to USE our good Faith upbringing and Morals to con us into giving them the results of OUR hard labour.
    I say Pis? Off Saudi Arabia. Your Oil is almost used up and you can go back to herding goats in the sand for all I care.

  22. A much smarter, braver government than turdo la doos’s would have orchestrated this Saudi spat as a way to get our stalled/dead pipelines moving.

    PS: if that happens, then we know they read SDA!

  23. As much as the governance of KSA is shit by our standards, the population left to their own devices is worse. I don’t envy anyone trying to make even modest reforms without being overthrown. This is no doubt a big part of why they are doing crackdowns on activists, and enraged at Trudeau.

    Bottom line, Eastern Canada is looking at higher gas prices before the next election, I just don’t know which of these will be the reason:
    a) KSA decides to cut oil shipments to hurt Trudeau prior to the election as we have to scramble to find alternate supplies and all the Liberals look like a disaster for opposing the pipeline,
    or
    b) in keeping with the spirit of the headline, Trudeau has already demonstrated he is dumb enough to try and go tit for tat with Dolly Parton.

    It takes someone like Trump with a combination of balls, actual influence, power, and a plan to be able to make diplomatic progress over twitter, for the rest it is a graveyard for political careers.

  24. The most important thing to keep in mind here is that the Liberals DO NOT CARE if Canada goes bankrupt, so long as they still rule the roost.

    Because there’s money in bankruptcy.

    1. Nah. Tell the Saudis that Little Mosque on the Prairie isn’t a documentary. That’ll shock them into submission.

  26. insult the people of India showing up in a halloween type wedding suit,
    utterly scaREW up the kinder morgan thing,
    scaREW up the nafta revisit.
    now this, PUBLICLY engage in some sort of grade school recess ‘dare ya double dare ya, triple dog dare ya’ thing with the saudis. jeezuz murphy, do it quietly, do NOT shove it in their face for the whole WORLD to see.
    like I said in a rather caustic voice msg to the local LIEberal mp (seems they arent answering the phone at this time heh-heh), is it *possible* the saudis planned to let the woebegotten ‘human rights advocate’ a ‘short sharp’ cooling off period in gaol? but, BUT, THAT plan is toast because there is N-O W-A-Y the saudis will allow even the slightest chance doing so would be interpreted as caving in to the *&$U$I$*($! BLABBERMOUTH freeland.

    see how dat woiks dere LIEberals? hmmmmm? do ya get it yet?

    and as far as the LAV contract with general dynamics, is it possible that IN FUTURE blabbermouthland aka Canadistan will NOT be considered for similar contracts for now *indefinitely*??

    hmmmm minister blabbermouth???? HMMMM ???

    msg to the TURDoo cabinet: SHUT YER GODDAMN PIEHOLE about e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g.

  27. Don’t be so stupid… A stock run on your Market doesn’t stop until it reaches bottom. The Saudi’s are the snow ball that MAY become an HUGE issue unless you deal promptly & honestly.. The UN are the wrong folks…..Money follows money in & out without a sound moral reason

  28. If PM Phuckstain and his crew had shit for brains they’d at least have something between their ears to muffle the sounds of their own self-righteous bleating.
    You can’t change a sociopathic society overnight especially one as mega- controlled as the KSA especially if you are a powerless country like Canadistan. Freemouth should be fired. Her Twatterings will help 0 people in Saudi Arabia. Moroneau, our minister of Over-spending, should keep his fat pie hole shut as well as he needs to unzip if he has to count past ten.
    PM Hug A Tranny is about as under control as a Lac Megantic train and if that gets him and this group of post-national Globalists re-elected next fall well look for the beginning of the end.
    Diversity isn’t a strength and neither is being a dumb-ass.

  29. Oh for goodness sakes. You are all anti-Islamist until Trudeau’s government tweets a statement against an Islamist barbarian state. Then, it must be Trudeau’s fault. Raif Badawi — google him. You might learn something about real courage.

    1. If Raif is a Canadian citizen why did he go to Saudi Arabia and blog comments that would land his arse in jail?

    2. Do you really think Raif Badawi would welcome the idea of Chrystia Freeland tweeting demands to the Saudis?
      The only thing she has accomplished is a guarantee of no mercy. He will get the full 1,000 lashes thanks to the Truduh the champion of fools.

    3. @Peter Jay Of course we are anti-Islamist. We also recognize a serious diplomatic incident and think it could have been avoided with a more experienced team. It is not that standing up for human rights is wrong, but the government needs to understand that Islamic Sharia law and human rights are not compatible. Trying to force human rights on an Islamic state insults Islam. We may not agree with that, but that is what leaders in Islamic states think. By ignoring that, Trudeau and Freeland have created a messy diplomatic incident. There will be unpleasant consequences for Canada, and the silly tweets were never going to address the issue of human rights under Sharia anyway, so it was a foolish mistake, and the Trudeau Liberals are to blame.

      1. No doubt Shiny Pony will tweet the Sharia proponents here in Canada as soon as he gets around to it.

    4. Careful…Badawi and his wife may not be who you think they are (and what they promote themselves to be). I noticed that they’re in real cozy with Obama and Clinton…and that usually means nothing good.
      I think we might find out.

      The key thing to remember is the power struggle between Iran and KSA…and that KSA has a sizeable Shia minority in the area of their oilfields plus the Houthis to the south…and that’s what this is likely about.

        1. Next time you’re locked together in the rubber room for a weekend, you can beat each other off.

      2. I don’t think so, Allan. A “derangement syndrome” occurs when no matter what is done the person is vilified (sort of like Trump derangement when his economy is booming, or Harper for that matter when he lead a stable and relatively effective government, but was still criticized for every last decision as well as for things he did not do.) In Trudeau’s case we are looking at real screw-ups. Refusing to give him a pass on his obvious ineptitude is not appropriately labeled a “derangement syndrome”.

    6. Screw you! The Badawis came here to use this country as a base for their own petty Saudi revolt. What makes that our business? They want to fight the House of Saud….DO IT OVER THERE & LEAVE CANADA OUT OF IT!!! These people are Canadians of convenience & I for one am NOT paying for their crap, or for Sh*t for Brains activities using these folks for his own political purposes.

      If that puke we call a PM had any real balls, he’d shut down Saudi oil imports, yesterday! Energy East would be built & Gateway under construction. He would have shut down that General Dynamics plant in London, Ontario last year!

      We would not be having this discussion at all, if the above was in play.

    7. Real courage would have been converting to Christianity, and informing his fellow Amalekites that the kingdom of the God of Israel was very near—and that the fate of Sodom will be like a day at the beach compared to what is in store for Amalek when the Anointed One returns to redeem Israel and the world.

      But no. Badawi still prattles about “Zionist” occupation of Arab land, when everyone knows it’s the Amalekites who are squatting on Jewish land. His like are a dime a dozen—dimes all too often supplied by Canadian taxpayers.

      Badawi’s tribe is the only one so wicked and irredeemable that God explicitly commanded its utter annihilation, and the sooner this is done the better.

      Allowed to choose their rulers, it is obvious who the Amalekites will choose—the man who promises to make war in the Israelites. “Liberal democracy” in Arabia is only a good idea if you want a nuclear war in the Middle East.

      The House of Saud are monsters because they are Amalekites. Removing them will only succeed in their replacement by bigger monsters. You want peace, freedom and democracy in the Middle East? Return Amalek to his father in hell, and soon.

    2. Whoa! Whoa! … NEO!!! Wrong Narrative!!!
      THOSE SA whites are the test case for throwing white “settlers” off native peoples lands. Why would PM Sockstuffedinhispants accept MORE white “settlers” … just before the Canadian purge of white “settlers” occupying native lands? Starting with Sask. … the white settlers will be systematically removed from the land … although the French speaking cities will need to remain to administrate the land return.

    3. Not likely. PM Dummkopf said that all white South Africans are racists, remember?

  31. The solution: Canada must apologize and Freeland must resign (or be fired). It reminds me of the time Trudeau (before he was PM) was saying we need to get to the “root cause” for terrorism. He really does not get it.

    1. The irony…the ineptitude…

      Saudi Arabia’s government IS THE ROOT CAUSE OF TERRORISM-at least Islamist terror. They were completely right in their critique. Now if only they’d respect rights like free speech over here in Canada.

      1. “They were completely right in their critique. ” I suppose you mean the Liberal government was completely right — if so, you are very wrong. The ROOT cause of terrorism is the religious teachings of Islam. We are the infidel and it is perfectly ok to kill infidels. Sure — the Saudis practice that, but they are not the only ones. The problem with Justin’s earlier reference was that he was referring to things like poverty, being left out socially — that was the context and it was very, very stupid . . . even at the time. In this case, Justin has really been stupid not to realize that Sharia dictates how the Saudis treat people. They do not believe in human rights. It is not part of their religious teaching. Thinking you can make the Saudi’s comply to your view of how the world should work is very foolish. The Saudis are not the same as all those groups hoping to get summer student funding. Justin may have been able to impose his view there, but he will not be imposing his views on the Saudis.

  32. There’s more to this than meets the eye. I mean does anyone really believe this was over a tweet? I guess it’s possible but I doubt it. This just doesn’t pass the smell test here.

      1. Or saying transexsual or pansexual concerns had anything to do with NAFTA.

        (I’ve always been confused by “panhandler” and “pansexual”. Did I use the words correctly this time?)

  34. “SAUDI ARABIA IS SAID TO BEGIN SELLING OFF CANADIAN ASSETS”
    Oh Oh Those shiny G3 grain terminals that were built fairly recently will be needing a new partner. I wonder if they’ll sell their share of the operation at a reduced price.

    1. Trudeau could seize KSA assets on behalf of the many victims of Wahabbi-inspired terror the world over. The proceeds of those assets go to the trauma and medical costs as well as enhanced security. And how about a sprcial mosque tax? Like jizya, but aimed at Wahabbis?

  37. Better yet, start charging some of the security costs back to the source? The mosques must pay their fair share.

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