Lies – the Conservative Lifeline
Slanderous lies are the only way a party like the Conservatives can even hope to have a hope in hell of staying in power in Canada. They take facts and distort them to appear as the truth. They live under the guise of lies; lies protect them until the day the Canadian public decides it’s time to take out the trash, and in the next election, the trash will have the reputation of the Conservatives in it; a pile of steaming, festering rancid crap.
The Conservatives have no morals, no scruples and no idea how to run a democratic nation and listen to the will of the people.
They squander tax payer money on Republic-style mudsling ads that seek to defame the Liberals, dragging the Liberals through a muddy quagmire of twisted lies and deceit. The Liberals have been caught in the web of lies woven by the woefully dishonest Harper administration that can’t stand on its own two feet without kicking its opponant in the legs and using it to prop up its amoral agenda.
Ralph Goodale of the Liberals, the former Finance Minister was originally indicted by the House of Commons as being involved in an Income Trust Tax row, wherein he and/or his department had leaked information to the press, which effected the market. The RCMP had been called in on a criminal matter to investigate.
14 months and millions of tax payer dollars later, the Liberals; former Prime Minister Paul Martin and Finance Minister Ralph Goodale were cleared of any direct or indirect involvement. It was also found that there was no political motivation involved and that there was only personal gain. The person responsible had no direct or indirect ties to the minority Liberals at the time.
Under the Conservative minority government, there was an income trust tax introduced, which created a fury amongst namely senior citizens, who relied heavily upon those trusts to pay their income in their retirement years. Under the previous Liberal administration, the income trust tax law had been contemplated, but in the end, it was decided that they would not go ahead with such plans and scrapped the idea all together.
Now, under this corrupt, immoral administration, we have income trust tax and Republican-style attack ads.
And while the tax on the income trusts may have been unavoidable and perhaps inevitable, the attack ads are not.
They are in violation of a person’s right to not be defamed or slandered in any way. They have chosen to sink to the level of primary school children whose capacity is limited to finger pointing and name calling.
But does a conservative really have enough guts to apologise and admit fault?
It seems that the Liberal Leadership is overly optimistic about that…
Liberal leader Stephane Dion said in a statement today: “The Prime Minister should immediately ask that his party withdraw their French attack ad that smears the reputation of the Hon. Ralph Goodale.”
But, Mr Dion, these are not your average Canadians we’re talking about here. These are people who would lie and cheat their way into office and have failed to live up to their standards of accountability and transparency.
“On the contrary, I actually believe Mr. Goodale owes Canadians an apology. You will recall that he told Canadians that no one in his office or his department was involved in any kind of activity. It was the position of the Liberal party prior to the last election that this should be swept under the carpet,” Harper told reporters during a visit to Mississauga.
And it seems that the Liberals indeed did not mislead the Canadian public. If anything, the Conservatives have spent more tax payer dollars misleading the public than the Liberals could ever dream of.
The Conservatives have released a series of attack ads, questioning whether or not Dion is fit to be a leader, using footage from the debates leading up to the leadership convention and the subsequent voting. This was deemed acceptable and was aired, despite that the Liberals obviously objected to it. This is a blatant 180 degree turn from when an independant source wanted to make an ad for TV, using public footage from the debates during the last election to call on Harper to act on the environment and accountability. It was never aired because the PMO prevented it from being aired… you can dish it but can’t take it, can you?
A real Prime Minister can take the heat, but when it gets too warm, you bail, don’t you?
It’s easy to keep up the attacks until the other side retaliates, then it just gets dirty, but we won’t know until that happens because some people like to let their opponent bury themselves alive first…
The Prime Minister said his party has no intentions of pulling TV ads in Quebec attacking the federal Liberals on the income trust scandal and other matters.
The Liberals have the balls to do the same thing, but will they? This blog is betting Dion is too classy for that, or that he has something much worse planned, and that it will be the Conservatives’ undoing. They will be returned back to where they were after Mulroney left them high and dry in the 90s, a nothing party with blow-hard ideas and a legacy of a shadow cast over their existence.
Income trust woes Liberals’ Fault: PM
Liberals cleared in trust case
Stumble It!
