Ottawa: Enormous sinkhole opens in enormous sinkhole.
h/t Jamie
Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss, if a lot less thrift with our money.
Neil Macdonald, with a cynical view of the Liberals. What’s interesting isn’t that the Liberal policies mirror the Conservatives, it’s that he admits that the Conservatives are the same as the Liberals.
Course, that’s something that anyone arguing with a Harper hater could have told you two years ago.
The Libranos: A Quarter Million Brown Envelopes
Blessed are the non-partisan, for they shall share in the the spoils;
Treasury Board President Scott Brison tabled legislation in the House of Commons today to repeal controversial Conservative changes to the sick leave program for federal public servants, a move that will add $900 million to the government’s mounting budget deficit.
Now, prepare to be really sickened.
Tax Flash Bulletin
Raymond James LTD: Federal Post Election Tax Changes for 2016. (pdf)
I’m so old…
I remember when Blackwater was a company that liberals reviled.
Wynneing!
Or Wynnescam?
Wynne was reduced to insisting “I’m not tone deaf” Monday as more revelations about self-serving relations between her government and the unions continued to spill out. “We have to remember that for years and years there were 72 school boards making these decisions,” in place of the centralized process put in place by her Liberals, she said. The fact the new process has proven slower, clunkier and far more expensive than anyone expected is just something voters are supposed to swallow. Unfortunately for Wynne, the size of the meal keeps growing: from $2.5 million paid to three unions when the news broke a week ago, the figure quickly grew to $3.7 million, and on Tuesday was reported to be as high as $7.1 million.
[…] According to one calculation, teachers and affiliated unions have spent $6.5 million supporting the Liberals in the past three elections, on top of direct donations to the party approaching $1 million. In return the Liberal governments of Wynne and predecessor Dalton McGuinty have rewarded union members with rich increases in benefits and salaries. Though McGuinty eventually came into conflict with union bosses as he tried to reduce Ontario’s swollen deficit, Wynne quickly mended relations by granting public school teachers $468 million in concessions in advance of the 2014 election. The unions repaid the favour with a fierce advertising campaign against Tory leader Tim Hudak.
Now Is The Time At SDA When We Juxtapose!
Apologies to all SDA readers for this posting being prematurely published. Personal events got in the way of it being properly completed. Those issues are now resolved and here is the full posting, as intended.
2011: Stephen Harper’s Tories win majority government with 39.62% of popular vote –
The reaction to this victory was a resounding refrain that 60% of Canadians don’t support Harper and what an unfair & undemocratic process the current Canadian voting system is:
2015: Justin Trudeau’s Liberals win majority government with 39.47% of popular vote – The reaction to this victory “mysteriously” was absent of the fact that 60% of Canadians didn’t vote for Trudeau and the Liberals:
- Justin Trudeau and Liberal Party Prevail With Stunning Rout in Canada
- Justin Trudeau’s emphasis on evidence-based policies paved the way to Liberal victory
- Canada to return to its honest broker role under Trudeau
It is quite astounding how the so-called principles and convictions of some people change depending on which team loses.
Now that the bogeyman of Stephen Harper is gone, Rex Murphy asks some important questions about who the Left in Canada will now focus their barbs of hate on. While Leftists across the nation insist that they don’t want “American style” politics in Canada, the rampant HDS evidence of the past 9 years strongly suggests that they LOVE, and even NEED, a figurehead to hate upon. Here’s what Murphy had to say:
Speaking of Mr. Harper — now that he is, effectively, no longer prime minister, who or what shall fill the void? He was the lightning rod of our every discontent. He was a monster bent on destroying our democracy, a fascist who worked on a secret agenda for a full nine years in office and of which even now, with his leaving office, we remain still in darkness, innocent of its terrors. For you see it was far more important to keep it secret than to execute it.
He was, variously Machiavelli, Mussolini, Mao and Hitler. Harper Canada’s image in the forums of the world, and purged all our “Canadian values” here at home. He was the Sauron of Mount Doom-on-the-Rideau waving his terrible arms from the towers of fear and hate. He was tepid on global warming and down on selfies. He liked hockey.
Well, who can fill that vital role? Who can be the magnet of our great discontent now that he is going and soon to be gone? Can we abide a country that is now all sunshine and butterflies, all summer holidays and hootenanys? I predict a Canada invective-deprived, all honey and harmony. Post-Harper, all is calm, all is bright. Can we live with that? Can Twitter survive? Will Raffi hang up the mandolin?
A Glimpse into How PET Jr. Got Elected
The secret ingredient: Low Information Voters!
It’s Probably Nothing
Lynda Haverstock just cited Marc Lalonde as example of how Trudeau Jr. will find capable people. @JohnGormleyShow #NEP
— Katewerk (@katewerk) October 20, 2015
Breaking News: Conservative Supporters Riot on Parliament Hill
I Amuse Myself
UPDATE:
Happy faces on Canadian TV screens tonight, as #MediaParty returns to government. #elxn42 #cdnpoli
— Katewerk (@katewerk) October 20, 2015
#TrudeauPromises Proportional representation, here we come! Six #CPC seats in Atlantic Canada. #elxn42 #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/kQDyKjqkmy
— Katewerk (@katewerk) October 20, 2015
An SDA Nation Scientific Poll
(Accurate to plus/minus 5 points, 19 times out of 20. This could be the 20.)
Related.
Your Pre-Election Vent Thread
Regardless of the outcome at tomorrow’s polls, in an environment in which a lie about a Conservative gets halfway round the world before the Liberals and their media bedpartners can finish their cigarettes — whose idea was it to put the pooping puffin crew back on the campaign payroll?
Open thread.
I Amuse Myself
Can @CBC confirm no similar "letters" sent between #CBC execs and #LPC campaign? Asking for a taxpayer. #Gagnier https://t.co/hZ1R4GfStm
— Katewerk (@katewerk) October 15, 2015
Wynneing!
Elections Canada Confirms Kathleen Wynne Expenses Must Be Paid And Claimed By Trudeau Liberals
Winston Churchill’s Wisdom
WW2 British PM Winston Churchill once made this humorous quip:
While neither he, nor any modern, freedom loving Canadian, would actually be in favour of eliminating democracy, one can’t stop from thinking of Churchill’s quote when reading through tweets with the hashtag #elxn42. Here are some “gems”:
A Glimpse Behind the Curtain of the #HateHarper SJWs
A tour around the Internet today uncovered some interesting finds:
- Red Star: Why Stephen Harper has no fear of strategic voting
- National Observer: How to vote Harper out
Both are “interesting” reads on their own, if only to see how deranged some Leftist Canadians have become, being out of national power for so long.
While the views of the Red Star are well known to all SDA regulars, those of the National Observer are likely not. A quick search revealed that the editor is one Linda Solomon Wood, who turns out to be the sister of Joel Solomon, the “brains” behind Vancouver’s repugnant mayor, Gregor “Aren’t I fabulous” Robertson. Both Solomon siblings are Americans who transplanted themselves to Canada to inject their version of “progressive” politics into our country. One wonders how many Canadians realize how deeply they’re being manipulated by these foreign propagandists?
Robo-calls
Totally unethical, right? Wasn’t that the narrative?
French Debate
Open thread watch on CPAC.
Harper has to win some, Trudeau has to fend off Mulcair and Mulcair has to hit it out of the park.
We’ll see.
What he said.
On Niqab, 85% of Cdns agree on limits at citizenship ceremonies. Can't get 85% of Cdns to agree on just about anything. 1/3
— Darrell Bricker (@darrellbricker) October 1, 2015
Saying niqab irrelevant implies public doesn't know it's own mind and that what it thinks shouldn't be considered by political leaders. 2/3
— Darrell Bricker (@darrellbricker) October 1, 2015
Tolerance is the defining Cdn value of the 21st century. But, it has it's limits. Niqab a serious test. NOT trivial or irrelevant. 3/3
— Darrell Bricker (@darrellbricker) October 1, 2015

