An open thread for some much anticipated reader comments and maybe even some tips.
Happy Saturday night. For my old friend, Nadine, who was taken way too soon. God rest her beautiful soul.
An open thread for some much anticipated reader comments and maybe even some tips.
Happy Saturday night. For my old friend, Nadine, who was taken way too soon. God rest her beautiful soul.
An open thread for reader tips and comments.
Liberals will do anything to stay in power, sinking to the lowest depths, acutely unaware of their own blatant hypocrisy. Kathleen Wynne is a dead horse, a self-flagellating one.
For anyone who hasn’t figured out Kathleen Wynne’s campaign strategy, it’s this simple – fear and smear.
Whip up fear Ford doesn’t care about average people. That he’ll give “polluters a free pass.” Misrepresent his campaign promises. Heck, makes things up out of whole cloth. Say he’ll cut 40,000 nurses and teachers, base that ridiculous speculation from a university professor, but put that in your attack ad anyway.
Compare him to Donald Trump. Call him a “bully.” Say he “traffics in smears and lies.”
Even call him a “dick.”
Doug Ford responds:
PC Leader Doug Ford responds to Liberal Campaign Co-Chair David Herle calling him a d*ck on television today. #onpoli pic.twitter.com/thXHWucl6O
— NEWSTALK1010 (@NEWSTALK1010) April 20, 2018
The always insightful Mark Steyn:
Half-a-century ago today, Enoch Powell gave the speech that ended his political ambitions within the British Conservative Party, but ensured that he would be a more consequential figure than any of the hack timeservers who prospered in the Tory cabinets of Edward Heath. It’s known to history as “the ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech”, which is a slight misrendering of a characteristically Powellite classical allusion – even then, in the pre-soundbite era, a risky business for a politician seeking to curry favor with the media, especially as Enoch quoted it in the original Latin. To mark the anniversary, BBC Radio, controversially, aired a re-enactment of the speech, read by Ian McDiarmid, best known for playing Emperor Palpatine in the Star Wars movies. Notwithstanding the casting, the absurdly named “Lord Adonis”, who sounds like a minor character in Waugh’s Vile Bodies, demanded the broadcast be canceled.
Quebec is like the millennial living in its parent’s basement, demanding all the rights of an adult, but accepting none of the responsibilities, all the while whining incessantly about how hard done by it is. Quebec pretends it’s a country—note the pretentious ministerial title below—while living off the rest of Canada. Quebec takes much more than it gives (see Equalization) and is given all sorts of perks; for example, hydro electricity, one of its biggest resources, does not play into equalization. And Quebec refuses to develop the huge natural gas reserves they are sitting on, preferring instead to take money from Alberta oil revenues, all the while complaining that it’s environmentally unsound. Forever threatening separation, Quebec is a perennial thorn in Canada’s side, while Laurentian elites, including Sock Boy, dictate to the rest of the country and continue to suck it dry. See Bombardier. Quebec’s license plate reads Je me souviens, which means I remember. Presumably they remember 1759, when the British whipped their arses on the Plains of Abraham. They still haven’t gotten over it, mind you. Indeed, the province refused to acknowledge the 250th anniversary of the battle in 2009. Quebecers are tribal. They speak a form of French that has devolved over 400+ years. Even the French have trouble understanding them. They should really leave Canada to make their own way in the world. Indeed, the rest of Canada should have a referendum on whether it wants Quebec to stay. Allez, Quebec. Allez.
For a good read, see Mordecai Richler’s Oh Canada! Oh Quebec!
End of rant.
Quebec politicians are speaking out against Ottawa’s intention to override British Columbia in its opposition to the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline extension, and are calling for more collaboration with provincial governments when it comes to environmental legislation.
In an open letter published with CBC, Jean-Marc Fournier, the Quebec minister responsible for Canadian relations, called on the federal government to acknowledge and work with provincial legislation with regards to projects that touch both provincial and federal jurisdiction.