Showing posts with label Conservative Party of Canada. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Conservative Party of Canada. Show all posts

Saturday, October 31, 2009

Women's Dress Codes

It looks that Cons are too much obsessed with this burqa thing these days. They are not missing any opportunity to demonize a culture which does not fit their values. Keep in mind Cons are known to be secretive in every facet of their lives and camouflage every aspect of their lives. Then you have people like Sanford of South Carolina and Ensign of Nevada who promote moral and family values, yet when it comes to their personal lives...

We of course have those kinds aplenty in Canada – holier than though types.

Now let us look at the Muslim burqa thing. In the picture above we see mini, mini skirt and skimpy dress which our fashion shows promote. Quite frankly that cheapens women as sex objects and also motivates men with lust; some carry out that lust with disastrous results including rape and other crimes. Nuns are close to burqa, that is a religious thing and Cons do not object to that. Then you have Muslim dress which, with the exception of fundamentalists like in Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia where they go overboard, encourage covering the body and use headgear in the interests of modesty. Now what is wrong with that? If the women are coerced to wear that dress then it is wrong but if that is their belief then leave them alone – a belief like nuns in Catholicism which encourages covering the body and also headgear.

On the other extreme look at Hooters. Aren't these women obligated to wear very revealing dresses? If they don't they lose their jobs. Is that not coercion? Is that not demeaning and exploiting of women? Should the Cons not concentrate on that? It looks hypocrisy is the religion of Cons.

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Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Stephen Harper: Issues to be considered

Stephen Harper is NOT a Prime Minister, or rather he SHOULD NOT be. A minimum requisite for any Prime Minister is that they should be proud of the country they're governing. That shouldn't be too much to ask. Yet Stephen Harper has referred to Canada as a "second-tier socialistic country" and called for a "firewall" to be built around Alberta. He wants to destroy everything Canada stands for, from hollowing out medicare, to circumventing the Charter of Rights, to establishing a militaristic and Bushian foreign policy. Stephen Harper hates Canada and everything this country stands for. Is this the kind of person we want governing Canada? Should he be our Prime Minister? The answer is No.

This alone would be enough reason to vote against Harper, but there is more. Alot more. It is hard to name everything, but I will try to provide a few examples.

To begin with, Stephen Harper is an ideologue. He subscribes to the small government, free market ideology that was responsible for the Wall Street collapse south of the border. A collapse that arose through excessive deregulation at the behest of the Republican neo-CONS. Stephen Harper is not someone we want managing our economy nor someone we can trust to safeguard our social programs. Furthermore, an extreme ideologue like Harper will not want to accept reality when it contradicts his theories, no matter the consequences for Canadians.

This is dangerous.

Then there is the corruption. Cadmangate, Schreibergate, Couillardgate, the list of Conservative corruption scandals is endless (and they have only been in power for two and a half years). This is especially ironic as the Conservatives campaigned in 2006 to "clean up government." I guess Stephen Harper is a "Maverick Reformer" like Sarah Palin who was recently reprimanded in her own state for corrupt exercise of power in firing the Alaska Public Safety Commissioner.

There is also the mean-spirited nature of the Harper government, from his control freakery, to his aloofness from the Canadian people (for instance his refusal to take questions from the public on Peter Mansbridge's Your Turn segment) to his "pooping puffin" ads at the beginning of the campaign. Harper and his cronies are hardly any better than a gang of schoolyard bullies. Furthermore, this bullying attitude extends to the Conservatives' attitude towards those in poverty, and those at risk. This includes refusing to honour the Kelowna Accord which would have helped impoverished Aboriginal communities, to axing daycare, to an overall hostile attitude towards social programs and social justice in general.

Around the World, neo-CONS are on their way out. John Howard of Australia was resoundingly defeated in his bid for re-election. Bush himself is on his way out and the Democrats look poised to take control of the Whitehouse and gain increased majorities in both the House and the Senate. As well, in Britain the Conservative Party has rejected the neo-CON legacy of Margaret Thatcher.

So why do we still have that anachronism of a Prime Minister that is Stephen Harper? Today, we have a chance to put this right and defeat Harper. Please, I urge you all to get out and vote, and take our country back.

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Sunday, June 15, 2008

Pierre Poilievre - The Jerk

The Newest Production by the CPC.

It's time to ask: Is Poilievre fit to hold public office?
The MP's statements about native residential schools were appalling and horrendous in their timing. But it's not the first time the member for Nepean-Carleton has put his foot in his mouth.
Click here to read more.

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Tuesday, May 06, 2008

Harper gov't stinks ;)

Water woes raise stink on Parliament Hill
The disruption prompted some MPs to quip about "things piling up," and odours began circulating in the centre block. Click here for the original story.

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Monday, April 21, 2008

Tuesday, April 08, 2008

Stephen Harper has the beef!

Yes, around his waist and under his skull, voters should be watchful because Wendy's may snatch him away for their commercials (I hope so).

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Thursday, April 03, 2008

New Immigration policy: Minorities Need Not Apply

How far will the Harper Government go to implement its Reform Party agenda? What are Dion and company going to do... "we disagree but will let it pass."?

Harper wants to take us back half a century. Are Canadians going to just sit back and watch? We are in a global community. Even Bush has a more liberal immigration policy because the checks and balances in the United States are stronger. Harper is being a control-freak, he wants all the control which, in this case, means giving all the power in immigration policy to the Minister of Immigration.

Harper will stop at nothing and knows how to go for the Opposition's jugular and get away with it.

Tories trying to reform immigration by stealth, Liberals say
Changes in budget bill reintroduce discrimination in system, contends legal community.
Click here to read more.

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Friday, February 29, 2008

Conservative Party's new membership drive ;)

Cadman's daughter backs up mom's bribe story
The daughter of Chuck Cadman has backed up her mother's story that the Conservatives offered the Independent MP a bribe of a million-dollar life insurance policy to vote against the Liberals in May 2005 and bring the government down. Click here to read more

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Friday, October 26, 2007

Stephen Harper: Your future NHL coach ;)


Seizing the chance to gloat about Monday night's defeat of a team of federal Conservative MPs, Brockville Mayor David Henderson entered Tuesday's council meeting sporting the jersey of the United Way All-Stars...

...Even the presence of Prime Minister Stephen Harper as coach wasn't enough to whip his bench - featuring several cabinet ministers along with Leeds-Grenville MP Gord Brown - into shape. Click here to read more.

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Friday, August 10, 2007

Friday, August 03, 2007

Mr. Harper parachuted into P.E.I seeking political support but was he successful?



Harper makes Atlantic trip to heal wounds
...the Conservatives won nine of 32 seats in Atlantic Canada in the January 2006 federal election -- partly on the strength of Harper's assurance that he would honour the accords by letting Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland and Labrador, keep 100 per cent of their offshore petroleum revenues without federal clawbacks.

His last budget effectively gutted the accords, and Harper's handling of the resulting fallout, threatening to sue Atlantic premiers who challenged him, only fed the fires of anti-Conservative sentiment. Click here to read more.

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