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August 8th, 2010Canada’s Tories seem to have seriously lost their way, judging by the news.
Start with the ill-timed but presumably well-intentioned Census flap. Support the libertarian wing of the Tory heartland in a way so inept that it is guaranteed to do them more harm than good.
Follow this by Stockwell Day’s comical insistence on new prisons for undefined “unreported crime”.
Now add the laughable new “measures” to criminalise anyone who is having any non-Calvinist fun. The keystone cops could not have handled it all less ably.
Adults who engage in sex for pay, people who sell any quantity of marijuana (which of course a large proportion of Canadians have used), people who gamble for money: all these are looking at five-year jail sentences. More, any three or more people engaging in these types of fun can be classified as an “organized crime” group. Three poker buddies are the mob, according to Preacher Stockwell.
These laughable efforts at imposing prairie Calvinism on the rest of us will of course fail. The “War on Drugs” has utterly failed in the USA, and it will of course fail just as miserably here. Adding a War On Sex and a War On Poker will of course not help.
Except in filling our new prisons. Yeah! Let’s put as many Canadians in jail as the Americans do (which is more than any other civilised nation). Great moral values, Tories.
And how do we pay for this all? That’s where the Tories do well, right? The economy?
Oh. Maybe not. The litany continues.
Not only did we have the “stimulus” for select industries (cars; but not photographers. Why reward those who failed?), but now our Tory masters have announced, according to The Post, that in spite of the resulting $54bn deficit, there will be no cuts to the civil service. In addition, says House Leader John Baird, quoted in today’ Post, there will be more money for… “defence, airport security and law and order”.
So now we have ever-increasing and unintelligent nannying by socially backward yahoos, an utter lack of economic sense, and a Bush-style War On Everything. Send in the clowns!
Incredibly, this makes me wish for the Lieberals back. They were corrupt and unprincipled, but at least they were neither unintelligent nor a joke. Canada deserves better than this lot: they are insane.
