Libranos Tell Lies about Tory Plan

So the Liberals are claiming that the Conservatives' plans for the future will lead to a deficit? Does it surprise anyone that the Liberals would say something like that? After all, the Liberals always underestimate the annual budget surplus by billions, all the while ratcheting up overall government spending by many billions of dollars each year. Surely the Tories wouldn't be as irresponsible as the Liberals, who simply toss money around without any real plan as to how exactly it shall be spent. And there's the billions upon billions of tax dollars we know they waste with reckless abandon.

The Tories' plans are reasonable and realistic while reflecting the concerns and needs of the average Canadian. In fact, the Conference Board of Canada says there wouldn't be any deficit with the Tories' plan.

The Conservatives will release their complete platform later this week. This begs the question: how can Paul Martin possibly, credibly claim he knows exactly what the financial details are? Did he have someone steal a copy of a document and pass it on to him? Hopefully not, for he already gets compared to former US president Richard Nixon of Watergate fame. But one never knows with this bunch we dub the "Libranos" (with plenty of good reason!)

The Liberals have been causing overall budget expenditures to break the previous years' spending records each year for a while now. Yet the surpluses continue to roll in. Either they're cooking the books or they're taxing Canadians far, far, far too much while giving back precious little. So, what good is it to pay too much tax if we don't see any positive, concrete results stemming therefrom? Why do they need to take so much and toss out so much? Why don't they just focus on the important stuff, can the stuff we don't need and don't want and return the surpluses via tax relief and debt repayment?

What we want is for government to reinvest in what's important to the average Canadian, for example, ensuring timely, world-leading medical care for all regardless of income, rebuilding the Armed Forces to prepare Canada for the unthinkable which we know has and probably will happen again, rebuild the RCMP into a very effective, quick-acting law-enforcement and investigative force, invest in the restoration of federal accountability and integrity, reinvest in infrastructure (not the Liberals' ludicrous ideas thereof, but actual infrastructure, for heaven's sake!).

We've had more than enough of the waste, arrogance, crime, corruption and unmitigated greed of the unscrupulous, scary-as-hell, scoundrels who claim to be "Liberals".

We cannot afford continued Liberal rule.

Stand up for Canada. Vote Conservative!

UPDATE: SEE HERE

Five Weird Things About Me

In a fun little bloggers' game, I've been tagged by Aizlynne of Exposed Agenda and Rebekah of Eye of the Storm to post five weird things about myself. After a while of thinking, I've come up with the following:

• I've always been a serious intellectual, but I also enjoy brainless slapstick, spoofy and satirical comedy which makes me laugh uncontrollably.
• There's a big spider under my bed, yet I'm too lazy to bother to find it and squish it as long as it leaves me alone.
• I grew up to be a pampered city dweller in Eastern Canada but now I really want to be a "redneck" living in Western Canada. I'm convinced it'll be way more fun.
• I'm a fiscal conservative, but I owe far too much money, half of which is in the form of student loans. Maybe that's not so weird, as I'm certain there're many other conservatives with student loans. But in principle, it feels weird to me.
• I'm the only conservative, politically-speaking, in my family and in my workplace.

Martin Promises Great Lakes Cleanup? Never Happen.

So Liberal leader Paul Martin is promising a billion of our tax dollars spread out over ten years to "clean up the Great Lakes"? Hmm... think about that... can a hundred million bucks a year actually clean up all the accumulated (and continuing) pollution of the Great Lakes? Does Paulie even have an inlking as to how it would be done (if it could)? Those bodies of water are, after all, massive and landlocked (no tides to carry pollutants out to the ocean, etc.), so that would be a monumental undertaking, similar to Paulie's promise to greatly reduce greenhouse gas emissions, which he actually increased.

Further, the fact is that his former business (now in the hands of family), Canada Steamship Lines, has been deliberately polluting the Great Lakes for years.

Think about all of this. Do you think it's possible, considering all the dithering for which Paulie's so infamous and the gross incompetence and wastefulness for which his regime's always responsible, to clean the massive Great Lakes of pollutants with a billion bucks spread out over ten years? I personally don't see it happening. It's, after all, a Liberal election promise, which we all know is worth absolutely nothing.

If Paulie can't cleanse the government of its extremely ingrained culture of entitlement and corruption, could he ever be believed in his claim that he'll clean up the Great Lakes? Hell, no!

Conservatives Up to 20% in Quebec

Since the 1993 election, Quebec has federally been almost exclusively the province of a fight between the Bloc Quebecois and the federal Liberals.

No longer. The Conservatives are now back on the radar screen in La Belle Province with the support of one in five Quebeckers. In fact, they're now tied with the Liberals, who have slumped to 21% themselves.

Read more about the poll and analysis here.

The significance of this poll for the Conservatives? Whether it would translate into seats is debatable, but it does demonstrate that many more Quebeckers are listening to and are taking the Conservatives seriously and would consider voting for them. No longer can the Tories' political rivals claim that they're not ready for running the country due to nearly no support in Quebec.

The poll is also significant as it signals a strong shift in the perceptions and preferences of Canadian voters in terms of which parties they will support. We've already seen the shift in Ontario and Atlantic Canada along with bolstered strength in the traditional stronghold in the West, and now we see it beginning in Quebec. And it may also hopefully usher in a great new era in Canadian politics which could spell very good things and good times ahead for the federation should the Conservatives win and implement their excellent, sensible, workable policies as well as cleaning up the massive corruption wrought by the crooked old "Liberal" party, which itself has lost the respect and support of four in five Quebeckers.

A Conservative minority is the most likely outcome according to current polling, but I personally am certain that the best thing for Canada and Canadians would be a Conservative majority, as, among other things, it will end political instability and uncertainty and also, due to its superior economic and fiscal policies, will lead to economic expansion all over the federation. It would also strengthen national unity, something the Liberals actually weakened with their cavalier show of disrespect towards not only Quebec but towards Western Canada as well, particularly Alberta.

Granted, the Bloc Quebecois continues to enjoy massive support which will indubitably lead to them winning probably more seats than they had as they entered the election.

But that will change eventually once Quebeckers see for themselves the good government and respect they will definitely receive from the Conservatives led by Stephen Harper.

A Conservative government, particularly a majority one, will be very good for Canada and Canadians. Of this I am absolutely certain.

Stand up for Canada. Vote Conservative.

Cocaine Found on Martin's CSL Ship

Thanks to astute, sharp-eyed commentor Bruce Randall, who provided me with links I requested of him, I provide them for you to read for yourself. As when Bruce mentioned it the other day in the comments of another blog, it was the very first time I became aware of the fact of cocaine having been smuggled aboard a ship belonging to Liberal leader Paul Martin's now-in-the-hands-of-his-sons Canada Steamship Lines, I thought it might also be the first many others heard of it. The people have a right to know of such things, so here we go:

Drug smugglers hitch rides on Canada Steamship Lines

CANADA'S PM SHIPS COCAINE

You judge for yourself. Ask yourself: "Why did the police so astonishingly quickly tell the MSM that the owner of the ship, Paul Martin, had nothing to do with the smuggling of the drug on board his ship? How could the police be so certain? After all, if someone had planted illegal drugs into your boat or car and they were discovered by drug-sniffing dogs, would the police immediately assume, without any apparent investigation, that you knew nothing of it? Hmmm...

Multibilliondollar Liberal National Security Scam?

Kate McMillan of Small Dead Animals has posted "Lives on the line" on the CBC's Election Roundtable about the Liberals' having spent $9 billion on "national security" since 9/11. Read it for yourself.

Then ask yourself: what evidence is there that there have been any improvements in national security since 9/11? You learned for yourself from Kate's posting that some border crossings are even worse off than they used to be-- they're being shut down so as to enable all sorts of folks, some of whom can mean catastrophic harm to either side of the border, to enter or exit without breaking a sweat.

Of course the Liberals and Paul Martin must understand the dangers of unmanned border crossings. Obviously, however, they don't care worth a shrew's hiney.

What evidence have the Liberals produced that the billions of dollars have been wisely invested in national security upgrades? We know that the incredibly brave but inadequately-equipped Canadian Armed Forces have received very little reinvestment and continue to struggle just to make ends meet (and even to keep equipment fuelled), the RCMP still hasn't the funding and staff numbers it needs to do its many important jobs, the CSIS doesn't seem to be given any real new priority or investment by the Liberals, etc., etc.

The question must therefore be asked:

What did the Paul Martin Liberals do with that nine billion dollars they took off of our paychecks? Has the money been stolen? Is it yet again being used for the purpose of enrichment of Liberal cronies?

If the money wasn't used for national security, then what, if anything, was it used for?

I hereby demand of Paul Martin: prove we're more secure and safer from terrorist attacks and from acts of war coming from evil empires, or show us the money.

Don't hold your breath. He'll brush off this demand like he brushes off every other demand from us, the people whose hard-earned money he's been taking from us and with which he's been playing fast and loose, footloose and fancy-free, etc., etc.

And remember, the Liberals do NOT deserve our vote. They deserve consequences.

Globe & Mail Exposes Own Bias: Goes Nasty on Harper, Helps Martin

I knew that it would happen. The MSM is already getting into the campaign in a partisan way. Here we have the Globe and Mail itself starting that the long-awaited "nasty" phase of the election campaign and publishing an illogical, unfair and boldly biased spin article slamming Conservative leader Stephen Harper while favoring Liberal leader Paul Martin.

The paper claims Harper has gone negative, simply for pointing out a very well-known fact:

The election campaign's veneer of civility dissolved a little more today as Conservative Leader Stephen Harper accused Liberal rival Paul Martin of trying to reduce the Canadian taxes paid by his private sector company when he still headed the firm.

Note the article claims the "...veneer of civility dissolved..." and blamed Harper for it. Come on, Globe and Mail, what do you think you're doing, with this blatant opinion-editorial slickly, stealthily interspersed within a supposed factual "news" article? Very cleverly manipulative, obviously designed to unfairly influence the reader's perception as to what's going on and to paint Harper in an unjustly negative light while acting as an apologist for Martin's own already-begun actual nasty campaign.

To its credit, the Globe properly points out that:

Mr. Harper was responding to questions about his own love of Canada that were raised Tuesday in a speech by the Liberal leader.

"Mr. Martin has questioned my patriotism," said Mr. Harper, whose frustration was evident.

For some reason, the Globe believed it absolutely necessary to add its opinion as to Harper's state of mind as being "frustrated". So much for simply reporting what was said without opining as to what people are feeling. What qualifies the writer of the article to deem anyone's demeanor?

The Globe goes on to quote Harper:

"The fact is Mr. Martin lived a good deal of his professional life under the flags of other countries and Mr. Martin constantly tried — and was successful, I gather — at avoiding paying taxes in Canada. That's the record."

And doesn't argue against the facts as stated by Harper.

The rest of the article goes on to report Harper's correct explanation that he's only responding with facts to Martin's nasty implication that Harper's supposedly less patriotic than he (and without basis in fact).

The article also quotes Martin's defense of his behavior while head of Canada Steamship Lines:

"I am very proud of having started with a small Canadian company which today builds most of its ships in Canada . . . has the majority of its employees who are Canadian and has its head office in Canada, yet operates around the world," he said.

"In fact, I think that that's what we want to see Canadian companies do from a Canadian base, a Canadian head office, employing Canadians, operating around the world."

Notice how many times Martin said "Canada" and "Canadian"? Why didn't the Globe rightfully raise the question as to why Martin would describe his company as "Canadian" while the ships flew the flags of foreign nations? And why didn't it point out that Martin refused to address his clever avoidance of paying Canadian taxes on his profits, like most Canadians have to do by law or else face prosecution? Why only paint Harper with the brush of editorial opinion and not Martin? Isn't that consistent with bias? One would expect a true professional news organization to scrupulously avoid even the appearance of bias. But as is often the case, this hasn't happened here.

The Globe stealthily lets Martin off the hook while leaving the average reader with the impression that Harper has gone negative and nasty, which is untrue as far as the astute, critical news consumer can see for oneself.

So... I accuse the Globe and Mail of biased reporting against Harper.

And this is a bad thing, as it may improperly influence the thinking of some voters. Interesting, as we have a "gag law" restricting election-campaign free speech by individuals and groups, supposedly to prevent this very "influence" on the thinking of voters during an election. Why would the Liberals bring in such a law (and why did the Supreme Court of Canada uphold it) while allowing the famously Liberal-leaning MSM to either deliberately or negligently manipulate the perceptions of the electorate?

Paulie Shopping for an Upgrade?

Betcha they'll decline his trade-in...

Paulie Takes a Much-Needed Break

We probably paid for that, too!

If Paul Martin Gets Re-elected

If Paul Martin gets re-elected...

Your 1040 form will look like this...

And he will invade Tim Hortons...

Send Paul Martin this message on January 23rd: