Not Your Father’s Conservative Party
Harper’s Conservatives have always, with loud voices, trumpeted that they represent Canada, that they have strong and wide spread grass roots support, that Canada gave them a mandate to do whatever they want because what they want and what Canada wants are inseperable.
Yet, all this talk seems somewhat hallow and overblown. It makes one want to look a little closer at who they are representing.
Is it Canadians?
Doesn’t seem to be. I mean, we get left in Mexican prisons, we are told to leave our homes and go work on the oil patch. We are told that we don’t need infrastructure, or nuclear safety, or rights, or freedom of expression, or to know what the government is up to. They have also made it nearly impossible for any MP that is not Conservative to get anything done through a newly constructed maze of permissions and bureaucracy.
Is it Conservatives?
Doesn’t seem to be that either. As this whole ‘in-out’ scandal comes to light, small time Conservative candidates are being approached by Elections Canada. They seem to be a little pissed to find this was going on, giving what they know freely to the Elections Canada. The story is that they were told money was coming into their accounts and then coming out again. When some of these cash strapped campaigns asked if they could use any of the money, the national office told them to go fuck themselves.
Unlike the Conservatives I don’t blame these small, local campaigns for this mess. They were struggling campaigns not inside the Conservative power base and who can really expect them to have sorted out all the legal trickery and doublespeek that this scandel involves. The fact that these candidates (or the people they seek to represent) do not matter to the Conservative Party is apparent in the vitriol flung at them by Conservative Party Spokesman Ryan Sparrow.
“These are people who wanted to run for the Conservative Party. They knew the program was legal. They are speaking out now - a full two years later because they lost.”
What the fuck!?!
First of all, “These are people who wanted to run for the Conservative Party of Canada.” Yeah, not the Douche-Bag Party of Canada. Not their fault really, improper labeling.
Secondly, “They knew the program was legal.” Yeah right! We all know these small campaigns are renowned for the vast legal research teams that they have on hand in case the National Office calls up and asks them to do something and they need to look up whether it’s legal or not. It seems far more likely that they assumed that the very rich and well equipped Conservative headquarters would have sorted that out already. Which i bet they did, and had probably also sorted out a defense strategy for when they got caught. Although, their standby tactic of Be An Obstructive, Litigating Asshole is starting to wear a little thin.
Thirdly, “They are speaking out now - a full two years later because they lost.”
What the fuck!?! You’re accusing your own Party’s candidate of sour grapes because they didn’t win? On top of that, you’re saying that they are taking it out on the Conservative Party of Canada? What strange Delusional Asshole drug are you on? (Sounds like a mix of cocain and acid to me, let’s call it a Tory Popper.)
So, if the non-Conservative power base candidates are nothing more then a tool for funneling money to the Alberta dominated Party Headquarters, and the plight of average Canadians really has little pull with the Conservative Government ,who does that point to as being the ones represented at the levers of power?
Either
a) Hockey fans
b) Rich Albertans
c) Rich Albertans being told what to do by Rich Americans
My pick is a)
Oh wait, part of Harper’s Law and Order crack down was to arrest Guy Lafleur for trying to help his son through a crises. Oh, and their staunch supporter Don Cherry has turned Coaches Corner into a grandstand for the Conservatives Afghanistan policy.
I’m still sticking with a) though, the other two are just too depressing.
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