I always understood how vulnerable our system was to this kind of abuse if we ever allowed someone with true fascist tendencies to hold the PMO, and as bad as prior governments and PMs have been in centralizing power to the PMO what we have seen from the Harper regime since it came to power makes what all of his predecessors did appear trivial by comparison. Not only is this no small feat it is utterly terrifying! What really kills me personally though is knowing how much of this was built on the disinterest of most voters in understanding even the most basic of civics regarding how our system of governing actually works, and the ability of the Harperites (with aid from the Layton NDP, something I will *NOT* pretend didn’t happen and worse played a major role in enabling the rise of Harper to the PMO and majority) to play most voters for stupid on process as well as policy issues, not to mention how different they were on these points from the PCPC that they murdered to become the sole party of the right. Mind you the national political media didn’t help much either, especially after Harper came to power in 2006, they bowed quickly to the new master and have allowed the worst abuse of power scandals ever in our history to go largely unnoticed outside of the political classes like us until recently (the Duffy thing seems to have finally woken them up, though I’m not holding my breath on it lasting).

This is a very scary time to be a Canadian, especially a politically aware one (especially if you aren’t a party/leader partisan but someone that believes in the old values about peace order and good government being more than a mere slogan). We have a sitting PM willing, able and from all indications actively using the tools of government to not only advance his political agenda but to track and silence dissent just short of the use of physical violence wherever he can, and not just in the media either. Citizens in a nation based on the rule of law are not supposed to be facing such intrusive and invasive political monitoring from their own leaders whatever their political flavour is, and it is this in no small part that makes the Harper Government(tm) so incredibly dangerous as well as truly anti-Canadian in every sense of the word.

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Canadians can count on Harper, to give Canada to Communist China. Harper’s FIPA deal with Red China, means exactly that. China will take Canada over, for 31 years.

Nixon’s corpse is spinning it its grave as our current crop of politicians, having learned from his mistakes get away with crap Nixon couldn’t have imagined. For example, where Nixon helped cook his own goose with the tapes made under his orders, in spite of Rose Mary’s attempts to redact them, our modern paranoid dictators not only don’t record on tape, but as much as possible use “paperless” communications and not to save trees!