Harper’s shadowy appointments cast dark pall over Trudeau’s sunny ways
The big blue meanies just won’t let go of Justin Trudeau’s Yellow Submarine.
Stephen Harper is now long gone from office, but there may not be a damn thing the new government can do about most of the damage he’s done to Canada. By handcuffing the new government’s ability to implement its agenda of change, Harper continues to exert his influence despite being massacred at the polls.
Towards the end of Harper’s reign of error, it was painfully obvious that his political pedigree was Northern Tea Party through and through. The mantra was identical at the ideological level — deregulate, privatize, and bust the unions.
He also brought in police-state security legislation that the current government must not so much amend as expunge.
Just like the National Security Agency in the U.S., our electronic spy agency, the Canadian Security Establishment, was spying, and continues to spy illegally on Canadians — whatever euphemism they come up with to describe their clandestine and unconstitutional activities.
As for CSIS, it will remain beyond Parliamentary oversight and, as such, above the Charter of Rights and the rule of law, until Bill C-51 and the rest of its corrupted mandate is overhauled.
Harper purposely conflated patriotism to belligerence. Like Donald Trump to the south, Harper carried wedge politics very close to the politics of hate. The country moved from championing disarmament to selling vastly increased quantities of weapons to oppressive civil rights abusing regimes like that of Saudi Arabia.
Harper purposely conflated patriotism to belligerence. Like Donald Trump to the south, Harper carried wedge politics very close to the politics of hate. The country moved from championing disarmament to selling vastly increased quantities of weapons to oppressive civil rights abusing regimes like that of Saudi Arabia.
The Conservative Party under his leadership became the anything-for-a buck/yuan/euro party. They even tried to keep selling asbestos abroad long after it was taken off the domestic market as a known carcinogen. Canada became a shabby huckster led by the huckster-in-chief, Stephen Harper.
But the damage goes much deeper than a tattered global reputation.
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