felis_ultharus | (no subject)

In case Canadians were wondering what their government was up to lately when they're not removing pay equity legislation or trying to put an end to environmental assessments, I can tell you. Well, the answer is Stephen Harper has been making appointments.

This year, he made Darryl Reid, ex-head of Focus on the Family -- one of Canada's nastiest anti-gay and anti-feminist organizations -- his top advisor in the PMO.

Last October he appointed Gary Goodyear as the country's Minister of Science and Technology. This year, rumours started circulating that he was, in fact, a creationist. When the question was put to him directly, Goodyear dodged it, and instead talked how he was a Christian and sceptical of some areas of mainstream science.

Goodyear's appointment comes with a round of cutbacks to the sciences, at a time when we're desperately trying to get the information we need to fight global warming. Not surprising from a man who probably thinks the earth is only 6000 years old.

At the same time, over at the Immigration and Refugee Board -- the one-person show notorious for its treatment of gays and lesbians seeking refugee status -- Harper has just appointed one of the country's leading homophobes, Mr. "The Church's Free Speech is Under Attack From Gay Activists" Doug Cryer.

Meanwhile, Stockwell Day -- the government's loudest fundamentalist and vocal creationist -- has been moved from his Public Security portfolio to Minister for International Trade. I guess his plan to protect Canada in the event of a dinosaur attack is fully in place, as well as measures to prevent any terrorist interference in the Rapture.

He now has the authority to cut off trade relations with Malbolgia and Caina, and work toward establishing them with the Primum Mobile and Empyrean.

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So much I want to say, but I'll just leave it at.... *SIGH* :(

I know. Our country's regressing at a dizzying speed, thanks to the Cons and their helper-elves in the Liberal Party.

I think if Dick Cheney had gotten elected instead of W, we'd have been in the same boat you are now.

Edited 2009-03-19 18:01 (UTC)

I thought he was pretty much running things behind the scenes, wasn't he...?

Yes and no, but I think things would have been far more blatant if he'd been in charge, like what you're going through now.

Now explain to me again how the NDP is a crackpot party full of radicals and extremists and should not be allowed to become part of Government....

Well, sanity is becoming rapidly become radical and extreme, as the centre of our politics drifts into the crackpot zones :/

Man, Harper is good at sinister developments.

I know -- as fanatical as Bush, as mean as Cheney, and as crafty as Rove. Just when you think you've figured out the extent of his schemes, he's slipped another evil in through the back door.