One’s a liar and one’s complicit

Bev Oda and Stephen Harper.

She’s a liar and he lacks integrity.

When you’re caught flat footed in lying and the whole country knows it, if you have any shred of decency, if you have even the ghost of a glimmer that would help you distinguish right from wrong, then you resign. As fast as possible so that the rot and the stain on the nation’s honor is staunched as soon as possible.

But this tawdry Tory twosome has no shame. She refuses to face the House of Commons and sits mute in her place except when she is sneaking out for a cigarette while the House sits and debates. He stands with a sneer on his face while his minister lies by saying she made no change to a document.

First she tries to blame a civil servant for changing the document. The she grudgingly agrees the document has been altered but insists “it’s not my signature, I didn’t do it.” Finally, ignominiously, she stops trying to blame the civil service when that clearly is not going to fly and she goes silent.  He refuses to acknowledge any problem and stonewalls at every turn.

The wedge issue in the upcoming election? There’s only one issue, period, full stop. When you can no longer trust the government, when the prime minister is a liar, when some of the cabinet ministers are liars, then there is no choice. There can only be a regurgitating of the whole foul mess of people currently in office for what is clear is that we can never again trust anything they tell us.

The truth about the $5 billion needed for new prisons and the war on crime? Economists and experts in the criminal justice system say we don’t need anything like it. Who do you trust?

Changes in the security of our common border with the US. Why are we being kept in the dark? Why are we not trusted with information about changes or agreement we may be stuck with? You think the prime minister’s word amounts to a row of tin balloons?

Do you believe the budget for the G20 c0nference? You think $2 billion was the result of a well-managed, well-thought out process that made sure there was no waste of the people’s resources? Do you think we’ll ever get a full accounting of that sink hole down which we pored billions?

How can you spend $2 billion in 4 days without there being a lot  – A LOT – of questions about who paid what and when. At a conservative guess, how many Tory pigs were at the public trough schlepping up contracts to build fake lakes and fixing up Tony Clements’ back yard which, by the by, was never needed or used?

YOU THINK WE CAN TRUST THESE HACKS AGAIN? EVER?

How would you do that? Why would you do that?

There is no economic or financial leadership that is worth this kind of corruption and sleaze.

The sooner they are gone from our sight the better. And it really doesn’t matter who is elected to take their place.  There is no one who wouldn’t be a 1000% improvement. The village idiot? You bet. Leaders of other political parties? Absolutely?   So long as the Harperites have access to power, to impact the lives of the people of Canada, so long will we exist with corruption and venality.

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