I know I know. Some have themselves totally convinced that the Harpercons in Canada are moderate-democrat like creatures from the Great white north, even with the "Conservative" tag.
Despite all the scandals, secretiveness, despite the environmental destruction and muzzling of scientists, the authoritarian like stuff etc. This link tells a story of the connections that the HarperCons have to the "Ethical Oil Echo Chamber".
I guess we look too boring next to the GOP race to the bottom.....But incrementally, it is happening. And since that last election and the fact that they have a majority and a rubber stamp senate, it is speeding up.
We were just in the midst of a current hoopla about Vic Toews statement saying anyone who thinks his spying on Canadians bill is really bad for Canadians is standing with child pornographers and then the revelations that he doesn't even know what is in the gawddamned thing...... (Problems with Bill C-30 explained here. )
Public Safety Minister Vic Toews says he is surprised to learn that a section of the government's online surveillance bill provides for "exceptional circumstances" under which "any police officer" can request customer information from a telecommunications service provider.
In an interview airing Saturday on CBC Radio's The House, Toews said his understanding of the bill is that police can only request information from the ISPs where they are conducting "a specific criminal investigation."
This BTW, was the same Government who killed the long form census because they said it was an invasion of privacy to list how many bathrooms one has, and the long gun registry because they said it was too personal. But again, it is OK to spy on us, and have us pay for it.
Vic has been the object of the attention of many twitter-ers recently, I love this explanation here of how this all happened.
But this week we now have a full blown brouhaha about robocalls during the last election that misdirected voters to the wrong polling stations, and also harassed people at all hours with more calls that were pretending to be from the Liberal party.
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