Marci Macdonald's book

Have a read of this review by Naomi Lakritz of the Calgary Herald on Marci Macdonald's crappy book "Armageddon Factor", which assumes every policy of the Harper gov't is based on Christian-fundy influence.  "Shrill nonsense" she says.  I agree, but let's go further and just say liberal bullshit nonsense.

The following bit from the article defines where I believe Canadians are at in their ideological beliefs and why this made-up "culture war" by Ekos pollster Frank Graves, the Liberal Party, the CBC, and others is already failing.

"Ordinary Canadians, regardless of faith, were equally outraged that their tax dollars had been frittered away on such garbage; and clearly, the government's response showed it was listening to public sentiment, not that its strings were being pulled by a small group of evangelicals."

Exactly.  Common sense is prevailin.

It's interesting, you know.  The Liberal Party used to defend these same common sense ideas as it's where the majority of Canadians were.  They've lost it and are scraping to get back by any means necessary.  Thing is, Canadians just don't believe their tripe anymore.  I'm not saying they believe everything from the Conservatives, it's just that the Liberals under Ignatieff have really lost the middle ground and it's going to take a bigger scandal that the Guergis-Jaffer affair and worrying about Ignatieff ,of all people, talking about torturing terrorists (a.k.a. 'Afghan detainee transfer issue').  

 

Nothing has stuck. In fact, it's only made the Liberals look like they are trying everything to scrape back and Canadians haven't seen anything in this Conservative government they could really vote against.  The economy is picking up, better than most countries in fact and Canada is asserting itself globally with good old common sense.

So back to the book.  I'm not going to read it, for obvious reasons.  But I ask you to take particular notice of the continued barrage of a made up culture war tactics by lefties in the opposition parties and the mainstream media, and then watch how much Canadians actually give a shit.

Iggy and the West

And if you still don't think Iggy and the Grits have already started the culture war... here's what the Count had to say in Saskatchewan recently (link dead for some reason) about an NDP private member's bill C-232 requiring all Supreme Court justices to be fully bilingual. This bill will hopefully die in the Senate, especially when 7 of 9 current justices are NOT bilingual and the top judge is from Alberta.

"First of all, there's a French fact in Saskatchewan, which is important. It's not the case that French isn't a part of the cultural heritage of the West, just look at the place names. The West wants in . . . to these great national institutions, but we are a bilingual country. And this is not a minor matter because a quarter of the cases come from Quebec. This isn't me creating a new obstacle that the West has to overcome. This is our country and I want the West to participate and I want our law schools to be sending out the message: "You want to get on the Supreme Court? You might want to study a little French."

"Look at the place names"?  What the hell does that mean?

He wants the West to participate! Well goody! Our Prime Minister is from Calgary. And did I mention that the top judge on the Supreme Court is from Alberta? Oh yes, I did.  The West is in dumbass. 

"..a new obstacle that the West has to overcome"?  We've overcome quite a bit out here in the West over the years there Iggy, especially the continued transfer of wealth from Alberta to Quebec.

"..study a little French"?  Well I know a little French, Iggy, and a little Ukrainian too, so read this..

Ігнатьєв, повернутися до Гарварду!

Begun, the Culture War, has

Where it all began... Kory Tenycke, former Conservative communications director vs. Ekos president Frank Graves himself...



I think you can easily say that Kory won that one.

Now, Ezra Levant, publisher, Western Standard vs. Paul Wells, journalist from Macleans and some Liberal weenie...



I'd say that Ezra won that one--especially when that Liberal weenie has to go back 13 years into the Reform Party days when Harper had already left the party. Good one weenie boy. And note how much both weenie boy and Paul Wells stumble and don't even look into the camera.