A Couple Of Suggestions To Help Kickstart The New Minority Government

Making this Parliament work will require the Liberals will need to find common ground with the Bloc, NDP and Greens.  This will require the development of trust among all of the parties as they look to find common ground.

Baby steps.  Baby steps.  What can they all agree on.

I propose they announce their intention to reinstate the per vote subsidy to political parties and eliminate the fixed election date law.  Both of these anti-democratic measures were instituted by the greatest anti-democrat Canada has ever suffered through.  Reverse these measures because they are bad and do it right away so the anger raised by the Conservative Perpetual Outrage Machine will dissipate before the next election.Recommend this Post

Winners and Losers From The Election

Greens?  NDP? Liberals?  Pshaw.  That low hanging fruit I will leave for the paid pundits to harvest.  Here is the Constant Vigilance list of Winners and Losers.

Winners:

• Canada: We did not elect a bigoted homophobic anti-LGBTQ2 government with a ridiculous and unworkable platform
• Jason Kenney: His plan to replace Scheer and run for PM is unfolding as he hoped.  I expect Canada will reject him and the last of the Harperites will be gone.
• Alberta:  Although the UCP has plenty of tools in its box to take over, seeing Kenney take his act to Ottawa will be a win.
• Andrew Scheer: He doesn't have to pretend to be a leader anymore.  He can step down and collect his pension.  Perhaps he can ask Trudeau to appoint him as ambassador to the Vatican.

Losers:

• Misinformation and fake news:  This page from the Republican playbook didn't deliver.  A couple more failures and they will have to consider policies that people like.
• Jody Wilson-Raybould: As someone who craves to be at the centre of attention, the life of an independent MP will be lonely.  She will probably be inclined to vote with the Liberals most of the time.  As a final indignity, she might very well ask to rejoin the Liberals in exchange for a Cabinet seat.  That is, of course, if details about the fake SNC-Lavalin scandals leak out that put her in a bad light.
• Alberta: The Cons take Alberta for granted.  The other parties give it a low priority because of the slim odds of making gains.  Alberta could have tried something different by electing Liberals and being a power broker in the new government.  But the victimization syndrome is strong in Alberta so we prefer to whine about separating.
• The Underminer: His client lost.  The Liberals have already shown him the back door.  The Greens found him toxic.  Details about the failed SNC-Lavalin play might tarnish him as much or more as St J.

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Anyone Else Want To Start An Aggregator Of Progressive Minded Bloggers?

I know that there is an eponymous version of this but it happily includes an know Conservative operative on its blog roll so perhaps it has lost its way.Recommend this Post

It Is Easy To Diagnose The Provenance Of The Poison

I am listening to the Sunday Edition whereon Michael Enright was wondering how it came to be that Trudeau needed to wear a bullet proof vest at a rally.  Once again, people who cover current events as a profession have a hard time understanding things.

The decay in our politics can be laid directly at the feet of one party.  The Harper Party is the only party to have been convicted of election fraud.  And beyond the In and Out Scandal they avoided prosecution for Poutinegate by throwing Michael Sona under the big blue bus.  Only the Harper Party hired a consultant to perform a hit job on a rival party.

Only the Harper Party had an ad where a Puffin pooped on Dion.  Only the Harper Party had bullet holes surrounding the Opposition Leaders.

All parties spin the facts.  Only the Harper Party has been shown to be promulgating false stories about Justin Trudeau.  Only the Harper Party leader has been shown to be a serial liar.

This morning's news included a story about  Harper Party supporters chanting "Lock Him Up".

The tactics used by these creeps will continue to expand and get worse until they lose elections as a result and they realize a new approach is needed.

But in the meantime, please don't pretend that you can't see what the Harper Party is doing.  Or that both sides do it.Recommend this Post

"The Operative"

The operative was terminated for being a lousy tactician, and for self-promotion. That’s who the Greens and the Cons relied on: a self-promoting lousy operative. What an election.

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The Point about Pointing Out Scheer's Lies

It has been shown ad nauseum that Scheer is a serial liar.  His party has been exposed as operating dirty tricks against another party.  And will it be any surprise if the Buffalo Chronicles hit pieces were paid for by the Cons?

This odious behaviour can be explained in the context of whipping up their base.  Perhaps their private polling shows a less close race than do the public ones.  I don't know and that isn't the point.

The point is: If he will be so blithe with the truth in an effort to get elected, what will he do to stay in power?  What lies will he tell to move forward with anti-abortion and anti-abortion legislation and policies.

The public polls are close.  Backers of the purity parties, who have never had to leaven their policies with reality are reveling in the chance for their preferred party to hold the balance of power in Parliament.

Trudeau and the Liberals are far from perfect but have overall done a good job.  From an article I highlighted yesterday:

But the cross-party consensus that Trudeau is slight and phony doesn’t survive even a cursory examination of his record. An independent assessment by two dozen Canadian academics found that Trudeau has kept 92 percent of his campaign promises, fully or partially, the most by any Canadian government in 35 years. He is measurably, demonstrably the most sincere and effective prime minister in living memory. He is the rare case of a man whose virtue-signaling has distracted from his real virtues.

I'm not overly stressed by what the purity party people decide to do.  I will be away and voted weeks ago.  The PPP will do what they do.  And the people will have spoken.  I just hope they don't sow bad seeds.Recommend this Post

File This Under "Well d'uh"

So it turns I was correct that one of The Underminer's clients is the Conservative Party  Definitely vindicates my stand that by defending his position on it's blogroll, Progressive Bloggers lost the legitimacy to refer to itself as Progressive.  And my decision to leave that site.

The article is behind a paywall but my trusty old BlackBerry seems to be able to access the article so I can confirm that:

• The Dizzy Group began working for the decidedly non-progressive Cons no later than March of this year
• The Underminer was not asked so he did not have to neither confirm or deny that he has worked on other projects for the decidedly non-progressive Cons
• The Underminer (a self-styled Canadian version of Karl Rove/Donald Segretti) is lousy at his job.  The Twitter account set up to destroy the (just as despicable as the Cons) People's Party has a total of 69 followers.  Looks like his campaign caught a virus rather than going viral

It will be interesting to see how Progressive Bloggers handles this news.  Perhaps it is time for a new aggregator for progressive blogs.Recommend this Post

A Further Compendium of Why Scheer Is Unqualified to be PM

Here is a listing of recent headlines in which a series of exports slam The Underminer's BFF:

• Mayors Hate Him
• John Tory sees ‘shortcomings’ in Andrew Scheer’s policies for cities
• Vancouver mayor says Scheer government would be ‘worse than Stephen Harper’

• His deficit plan sucks
• Eliminating the Deficit Won’t be so Easy Mr. Scheer
• Conservative platform gets a failing grade, Liberal’s barely passes on poverty and health: report
• History suggests Andrew Scheer’s interprovincial free-trade promise is destined to fail

A Conservative friendly media has hidden just how big a loser this guy is.  If he were to squueze out a minority, he will be exposed as a fraud pretty quickly.Recommend this Post

The Woke WIll Always Break Your Heart

An interesting article by Stephen Manche in The Atlantic on Trudeau and his lessened sheen.  It ties in somewhat with the Aaron Wherry article on the Obama endorsement.


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Andrew Scheer: Just as advertized

This bozo proved himself to be a useless tool when he was unjustifiably made Speaker my Harper.  He demonstrated then that he knew and cared little for Parliamentary tradition and rules.  He is showing the the stripes on this skunk haven't changed with this statement: Scheer says party with most seats should have 'right' to form government

How can this joker attract the votes of any but the most vehement racists and anti-abortionists?

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What Cath From Can said

Why I am voting voted for Trudeau Recommend this Post

An Optimistic Explanation For All of the Conservative Hate

To be clear, this only refers to the recent spate of hate that I enumerated in yesterday's post.

It all ties into the Conservative Get Out The Vote strategy.  And perhaps they are concerned about the final week.

The polls might suggest the Conservatives are running neck-and-neck with the Liberals, but it’s hard to know for sure without the numbers, said a longtime Conservative organizer in Ontario, also given anonymity to speak about internal matters.
“My gut feeling is that the polls are giving us a false sense that we are more competitive than we are,” the organizer said.

There is more in the article and the subtext is clear.  The Conservatives be worried that they won't get the turn out they need and are looking to motivate their base.

And how do you motivate the Conservative base?  Turn up the hate.  It might turn off the humans among us but it sure gets their base motivated.

The 7 day forecast is calling for elevated hate storms.  With the frequent risk of Underminer screeds showers.

Best to run to the cover of the only progressive party capable of forming government.Recommend this Post

A Sampling of Today's National Newswatch Headlines

These are currently on National Newswatch:

• Trudeau wears bulletproof vest after security threat delays campaign rally
• Truth Tracker: Conservative ads falsely say Liberals will legalize all drugs

Scheer defended the ads on Saturday

•  Corporation fined $18K for funnelling money into ‘kamikaze’ UCP leadership campaign
• CBC sues the Conservative party over copyright, ‘moral rights’ of journalists
• Conservative plan would cut $35.4B to balance books
• The ‘excessively violent’ election ad, paid for by the Manning Centre

But he acknowledged the ads do not reflect the personal style of founder Preston Manning, the former Reform Party leader.
“Preston Manning’s more deliberative approach to politics, I think that died 20, 30 years ago in this country,” Lanigan said. “The nature of where we’re headed now is far removed from the more deliberative discussions we were having in the 1990s. How we move policy in this country and other western countries has changed dramatically over the last 20 years. I’m not saying I like it.”

In other words, winning is more important than any kind of ethics.  Preston Manning is someone who I once respected for his apparent integrity although I disagreed with him on policy.  His silence on the recent stories is very telling.

And so it goes.  The people in aggregate have a certain wisdom when elections come around.  I ma concerned that the collective wisdom is being oveerun this time by a party willing people with no integrity and are willing to tell any lie to serve their masters.Recommend this Post

What if Trump were impeached..

And Pence wasn't chased out of town at the same time?  And although opposed by ~65% Scheer is elected PM because half of those opposed to Scheer couldn't bring themselves to vote for the only realistic alternative because they are too pure of thought.Recommend this Post

The Underminer won't read or reference this

ANd it is likely that you or most others won't either.  But for those who are hard of thinking, here is an explanation of St. Jody d'Narcissia's taped conversation.Recommend this Post