We're Watching, Mr. Ignatieff

It was a whipped vote, and Mr. Ignatieff, we are all watching what you are going to do about John McKay, Paul Szabo, and Dan McTeague. Albina Guarnieri and Gurbax Malhi. I sure don't want to ever vote again for a party that wants to put women back into the dark ages.

Another Incremental Step Toward "Dictatorship" Courtesy the Treasury Board?

Remember when you read this: "paranoia" is the word people use when their strategies are unmasked.

So let's put together the "incremental" steps to eliminating all those pesky institutions and voices that cramp Harper's lust for power:
1. Create a deficit by using all surpluses to pay down the national debt, and pass a law making this mandatory;
2. Cut the GST to ensure that there will be a deficit;
3. Spend to ensure that there will be a deficit;
4. Start the propoganda war that cuts are coming to reduce the deficit;
5. Appoint Stockwell Day to the Treasury Board to engineer the cuts.

Day's step 1: Move toward eliminating the public voice on boards to institutions you are planning to dismantle. Check out the full list at http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/media/nr-cp/2010/0308a-eng.asp and be sure to note some of Mr. H's pet peeves: the arts, the environment, institutions that keep Canada Canadian, checks on the exploitation of our resources, transportation, all scientific and humanities research funded at a national level, and our old age safety net!

And don't forget how many watchdogs he has dumped already.

Thanks to "Soxaphone player" who commented today on the brief CBC on this topic. In a nutshell:

"Boards aren't necessary in a dictatorship. The money saved can help towards the cost of flying the Fuhrer and his cabinet monkeys to various assorted photo ops. Maybe even spring for a new Sea-doo for Doris Day."

Incremental - Flanagan & Harper's Favorite Word

That insidious little p.... Flanagan was pontificating on CBC about how he believes in the incremental approach in politics. In 2003 at the seventh annual Civitas conference in Toronto, Harper said movement towards their goal of moving Canada to the right must be "incremental," so the public won’t be spooked. So where is our erudite media and opposition in charting out Harper's apparently innocuous little baby steps toward his vision of a Stalinesque Canada? And if not them, where are the academics?

In December 2006 I blogged on Dismantling Canada's Institutions. If it was so obvious then to a mere part time blogger why is no one noticing? Can you imagine the list you could make now of Day's quiet and sometimes secret machinatons, the dismantling of any critical voice within government institutions, the selling off of canada's coporate strength, the propoganda war (did you notice the "blue" theme at the Olympics?) - surely there's a best seller in all of this. Did you catch the words "foreign investment" in the speech from the throne, can you translate that?

(Thanks to Dukeboy commenting on Don Newman's CBC website article today, where he says "Civitas is the secretive organization of 300 neoconservative and libertarian academics, politicians, journalists and think-tank functionaries who meet annually to plot strategies to move Canada to the right. Harper is a member and Jason Kenney a founder."