Quebec: Not Giving Up on Canada ...

... yet:

The dispute over federal crime legislation has, in the Quebec legislature, become a proxy battle for whether the province really belongs in Canada.

Premier Jean Charest found himself forced to defend the merits of Canadian federalism Wednesday from opponents eager to make political hay over Bill C-10.

His opposition, the pro-independence Parti Quebecois, has been citing disputes lately with the new Conservative majority government as evidence Quebec and Canada don't really belong in the same country.

First off, I'm surprised the piggies lift their heads from the Canada provided trough long enough to snort out a comment ... least of all frame the debate into an anti-Canada rant.

Second ... please oh please give up on Canada ... the cost of pig feed is killing us. Quebec offers Canada little but angst, debt, and the surliest bunch of whining wankers this side of the Middle East.

The Great Canadian Farce

... brought to you by decades of "progressive" influence on the national psyche ...

Peace Keeping Mission:

Canadian military history essentially revolves around fighting or preparing to fight. Peacekeeping is largely a footnote. That's why Professor Granatstein had the third floor of the Canadian War Museum ripped out. Had the Warsaw Pact's militaries made a dash through the Fulda Gap, it's unlikely that peacekeeping would have been an effective counter-strategy.

Yet as the article notes the myth of Canadians as peacekeepers, though somewhat diminished by the Afghanistan campaign, remains in the national psyche. Its origins lie in the twining of those two great forces of modern Canada: Leftist utopianism and our national inferiority complex relative the Americans.

Quebec Based NDP Undermines the West

Out of touch ... out of their mind:

A senior minister in the Harper government has accused the opposition NDP of "denigrating" and "undermining" Canada by sending two of its MPs to Washington to voice concerns about the controversial Keystone XL pipeline.

The message came Tuesday from Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver, who blasted the New Democrats in the House of Commons and then left the chamber to repeat his criticism to reporters.

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Shameful Harper Record

... your apparently-con government at work:

"There were 22,674 employees receiving more than five figures in the year prior to the economic crisis that began in September 2008. That number had reached 42,050 by 2010"

Morning in Saskatchewan

The Saskatchewan Party captured a huge majority government Monday evening, pushing the NDP out of many long-held urban ridings.

Glorious

Killing Them Softly

... good move Steve:

The Conservatives have pledged themselves to another campaign finance reform which just happens, by sheer coincidence, to mainly hurt the Liberal party.

The Tories are planning to close a loophole that allowed candidates in leadership races to take out loans to finance their bids.

“The current rules on political loans do not meet the high standards of accountability, integrity and transparency that Canadians expect in their political process,” Tim Uppal, the minister of state for democratic reform, declared ponderously. “The Political Loans Accountability Act builds on our flagship Federal Accountability Act by closing a loophole allowing corporations and unions to make political loans.”