Legislative Committee on C-30 - Certainly Not an Exchange of Ideas
The media keep saying that the Liberals created the spin on Harper of a hidden agenda, but they're wrong on two counts: the agenda's not really hidden and the everyday citizen doesn't need it spun, they can see it.
It's ironic that Harper is trying to create fear of a 'world without Harper', when he and his gang are a source of legitimate and genuine fear. I just caught a glimpse of the Legislative Committee on C-30 Canada's Clear Air Act on CPAC and watched Brian Jean's McCarthy-like attack questions on his rather astonished victims.
Brian Jean is a Conservative Parliamentary Secretary and he was supposedly asking questions of a number of representatives from interested parties. Instead he came out like an attack dog and put words in their mouths and then demanded yes or no answers. I didn't catch the names of the witnesses but one was a man from Quebec and the other a woman from the Federation of Canadian Municipalities. He accused the man of being part of a group that marched for Kyoto and wanted to give North America's riches to the south American poor, echoes of Harper's socialist plot theory. He tried to force the woman to admit that the Clean Air Act fulfilled everything her group wanted and that they were salivating over the money promised for transit.
It would seem that this government does not really believe in democracy - they are utterly lacking in the concepts of respect and responsibility. Just watch Mr. Jean in action and tell me, you're not dismayed.
It's ironic that Harper is trying to create fear of a 'world without Harper', when he and his gang are a source of legitimate and genuine fear. I just caught a glimpse of the Legislative Committee on C-30 Canada's Clear Air Act on CPAC and watched Brian Jean's McCarthy-like attack questions on his rather astonished victims.
Brian Jean is a Conservative Parliamentary Secretary and he was supposedly asking questions of a number of representatives from interested parties. Instead he came out like an attack dog and put words in their mouths and then demanded yes or no answers. I didn't catch the names of the witnesses but one was a man from Quebec and the other a woman from the Federation of Canadian Municipalities. He accused the man of being part of a group that marched for Kyoto and wanted to give North America's riches to the south American poor, echoes of Harper's socialist plot theory. He tried to force the woman to admit that the Clean Air Act fulfilled everything her group wanted and that they were salivating over the money promised for transit.
It would seem that this government does not really believe in democracy - they are utterly lacking in the concepts of respect and responsibility. Just watch Mr. Jean in action and tell me, you're not dismayed.
posted by Susan at 1:29 PM
1 Comments:
I have had the great displeasure of working with Brian Jean, many years ago. He was a family lawyer and he was bragging about how much he made - suggesting I had no right to question him on any matter because he was making a lot of money. Everything you say here is absolutely typical of this man. He is a blowhard an a bully. No doubt he saw how far being a blowhard and a bully took Baird, and he decided to follow suit.
He was elected in Fort Mac, so there is little doubt he will be re-elected.
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