The Difference is:

Harper is secure in his dictatorship and can cut back on the smoke 'n' mirrors. Not that he will eschew them entirely. After all, he enjoys looking down his nose at we gullible peons.

REVOLuTION?

Can anyone see protests and revolutionary-type activities looming as the 1%'s pipelines start abuildin' soon?

The 99% are fed

The 99% are fed up.
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I wish that were true as 99% of the 99% are still asleep and more concerned with driving their portly selves through the drive thru in their SUV and get home to watch the game on the big screen tv they could not afford..

Amazing how people know all the sport stats yet when it comes to our country they could care less. So many do not even know the OAS is now 67 but as long as they can fill their faces with cheap junk, drive their gas guzzler and watch the game all is well and the lamestream so called mainstream media is never going to tell them anything anyway...

Still can't believe it

This is so damn scarey.Does anyone besides me have trouble believing they are reading this article in Canada?What the hell has happened?
Are there any lawyers out there reading this?
This man is insane,no question.There has to be something we can do.What about citizens arrest for him or his mp's that are supporting him with their silence.This article should be printed and placed in every mailbox and schoolroom in the country.
I feel The Tyee to be a great read and enjoy all tha natter we get to share-----it just is not enough to get the real news at our end of the country----howe do we inform all Canadians of truth?How do we inform our school children.Do they even have a clue of what sort of future Harper is carving out for them?
I am sadly believing along the lines of Screwgordo that we need to fight----how do we get past these pages and actually do something-----Please Please don't say we can fix this at the next election---toooooo late.

I think ...

...Harper is deluding himself that there will be no backlash to this. Either that or he is trying to feather his nest for when he gets turfed in three years. It will all come back on him.

3years eh?

Can anyone even begin to imagine what will be left of "OUR" country if we wait 3 years?
Oh Chinada,our home and native land.

Harpers promise

This is what Harper promised us when he said give me a majority and you will not recognize Canada.Sadly,we voted for this. This is the cost of ignorance amungst the voters. Apathy caused this once again.

Very distressing

This isn't good news.

Ms. May, it is also important to provide legal avenues and strategies in which citizens and provincial governments can fight back.

What do you plan on doing in the House? Is civil disobedience by a Member of Parliament in the House chambers in order? It took one person with one feather to stop the Charletown Accord. Perhaps even without a feather Ms. May you can do your best to prevent this terrible group of laws from passing or at least give the issues an international stage.

Playing by Harper's rules or by his subversion of parliamentary democracy will not prevent this omnibus bill from passing.

You have a much greater stage to play on then this one letter writer who gains nothing by sending letters to his Conservative MP.

Do the provinces have any say on what Harper and his Dominionists are doing? Perhaps in BC our best bet is to pressure the extremely vulnerable Socred-Liberal government.

Some solutions please.

decades of work down the drain

I feel for the many who have worked hard protecting habitat in BC. In the early 70's I spent 7 years working on stream rehabilitation on the central coast.

I saw what a few dollars and lots of labour could do to restore habitat and renew the life cycle of a great many streams and their inhabitants.

This legacy must be protected.

Provincial governments must stand up to this bully Harper! He wants to download social costs to the provinces while continuing to dole out more corporate tax breaks and oil industry subsidies. Canada's corporate tax rate is now below Mexico's.

Harper is no leader. He is a destroyer, a dominionist and a defeatist.

I have 6 friends...

You have 6 friends. Pass this article on to those friends. Write letters to the editors of your local news papers. Don't forget all of the free papers that most communities have. A number of papers may also have a site on which you can express opinions, similar to the TYEE. Our local papers here in the Okanagan have a number of writers on the opinion page who don't have much use for Harper, send this to them, perhaps they can also put this in front of the public. We also need to spread this across Canada, so if you have friends out of the province (particularly Alberta and Saskatchewan), let them know what is happening. We also have to get this into the hands of the people you know who voted Conservative last election. And it probably wouldn't hurt to send this to your Conservative MP just to let him know that you know what is happening.

Harper is without conscience

Stephen Harper has young children. He also believes in the word of God, and this planet is His creation. I do not have children nor do I believe in God, but I care more about what we are doing to this planet than Harper does.

He will bequeath to his children a hotter, more polluted and more barren planet - and a country raped of its resources.

Harper is without a moral conscience. He can't see what we are leaving to future generations, he can't see what we are doing to this planet.

pwlg spot on

Thankyou for your very important question to Ms.May "is civil disobedienceby a member of pariament in the house in order?"
Ms. May you have written an informative and important letter.Now is your chance to shine.You are in a great position to be a catalyst for thisgreat cause.You start it my dear and I think you would be amazed at the following you would recieve.
I keep wondering why we hear so little from the opposition and then--there you are.Please follow up and follow through.We just need someone to start----then watch the shit storm we can rain on this treasonous bastard

Harper is a very sick man,

Harper is a very sick man, with mental illness written all over him.

The communists have left incredible environmental destruction behind in every country they've set foot in and operated as governments.

Therefore it is no wonder that their idiot twins, the capitalists, are doing the same, with their tongues still dripping from the licking of communist asses in China.

As I've predicted, Harper is going to go crazy with his power this year, and he's right on track.

His bosses will pull him next year, after he's done their dirty work, and install somebody with human features to pacify the electorate for the next 2 years.

All this has been in planning for many years and right on track. After all we're now a "conservative country", with communist politbureaus and capitalist boards of directors giving us the orders.

But then, there always have been the "plans of men and mice....."

Ed Deak.

Greens

The problem is that unless the greens the liberals and ndp do not quit fighting and splitting the vote we are stuck with Harper for ever. Time to roll up the welcome mat Elizabeth and join one left party.

The Bitumen Boys don't confuse me!

The liquidation of Canada continues at the expense of our common future!

Green Party - The Fasicst farm team.

Lizzy May and her odious band of irresponsible malcontents knew full well the enormous damage they were causing when they sighed up to the Fascist farm team in 2010.

Anybody who had the wit to read a newspaper,knew that Canada's and Big Oil's Dear Supreme Fascist and Spiritual Leader for Life - Stephen the Pious would do exactly what he is doing. Yet Gaia's black tar enemy the Green Party decided to role the dice, and suck up as many low information progressive votes as they could.

Just like Ralph Nader whose US Green Party destroyed the election hopes of the Greenist president there ever would have been Al Gore, and electing in his place George Bush, Lizzie May and gang rolled the dice and we all lost big time. The world will never recover from George Bush and his election courtesy of the Green Party may eventually lead to the world's destruction in a global warming holocaust.

Last federal election, exit polls showed that people who thought the environment was most important issue voted overwhelmingly Green ensuring that Supreme's Fascists got to spend a few more years destroying Canada's environment.

Are Greens Canada's dumbest voters?

Fascists love the Greens's, thinking of them as "useful idiots" who elect them over and over.

The GP's existence rides on the brand name of the Euro Green movement who with their MMP electoral systems can actually get elected. Somehow some puerile Canadian's who don't play well with others, got a hold of the Green brand and now get a large contingent of brand conscious low information uninformed voters to vote their ticket These unfortunate voters give with their vote these irresponsible malcontents a huge pile of money magnifying their power enormously.

Had the Green movement not been so successful at stopping new nuclear power, global warming and peak oil would be unheard of. Hundreds of millions of air pollution deaths would have been prevented.

Now by driving us right over that as little as ten years civilization ending Climate/Peak oil crisis with their silly "renewable" religion, support of the Fascist political movement and support of Big Coal/Oil's fight against nuclear power killing millions more every year, the GP seems bound and determined to kill lots more folks in very big ways.

Lots of Green politicians ran for the NDP and Liberals and have made enormous progress in turning those parties towards sustainable policies. They could have signed up Green supporters by the thousands to these parties, taking over entire constituency associations, sending green delegates to policy conventions, nominating green candidates and making sure the parties went Green. Supreme even showed them how to do it with his Christian fundamentalist takeover of the Progressive Conservative party.

They have caused enormous damage to my county, my province and my planet.

Lizzie May and useful idiots in the Green Party are the dark side enemy of the environmental movement and Gaia herself.

hijacked

The Legislative agenda has been hijacked by the corporate agenda - Harper and his cabinet are their proxies. For many years I have said we have a seriously dysfunctional authoritarian democracy in canada that concentrates excessive, unchecked power in the PM/Premier's office and the Executive Branch of government. Our democratic institutions are as deficient as windows 3.1 operating systems for computers. As global climate change accelerates and the 'train of civilization' is careening off the rails along with multitudes of species - Harper and his corporate cronies want to dig up and export more carbon intensive tar sands oil. Blogging and being aware is not enough.

Peter .....You're right...as

Peter .....You're right...as usual.

The Harper gang represents a criminal system , taught in our captive universities as a "science", but their crime wave can only be realized through dictatorial powers.

What we now have may be called democracy through elections by the public, but, regardless which party, the system gives them dictatorial powers for their term.

In other words, it is not democracy, but autocracy.

Ed Deak.

"May threatens budget

"May threatens budget delay"

Let's hope the other parties will also go for it.

http://www.timescolonist.com/technology/Green+party+leader+threatens+b
udget+delay/6605103/story.html

Green party leader May threatens budget delay

MP wants wide-ranging bill split into separate, related items

By Cindy E. Harnett, Times Colonist May 11, 2012 5:56 AM

Saanich-Gulf Islands Green MP Elizabeth May is threatening to hold up
a vote on the Conservatives' sweeping budget bill for days if the
prime minister won't consider breaking it up into related items.

May said the federal government's sweeping budget bill - which
includes changes affecting everything from Old Age Pensions to
oversight of the Canadian Security Intelligence Agency - would change
Canada's environmental regulations, laws and policies for the worse.

I feel sick...

This is more than disgusting, it's terrifying. Thank you to Elizabeth May for giving us the details. Time to take to the streets yet?

Going forward

Dan is correct, too many of the 99% are still asleep and it's time to try and wake them up, as best we can.

Too bad that unemployment is decreasing country wide, not because I want people to have no jobs and live destitute, but because the Harperites will take credit for getting people back to work. Seems Adolph got quasi-legitimately elected on that exact issue in the mid 30s. Didn't happen overnight.

Most Canadians are not ready for violence and vandalism. Total blowback.

Peaceful demonstration has some value, but just like petitions, these guys ignore such for the most part, unless overwhelming.

The PMO, and to a lesser extent, the cabinet have too much power in their hands. Harper gagged his other MPs except for a few social dillberries who distract away from the real issues, and now they've been trained to obey.

The corporate-mainstream media-Harperite coalition will be a tough nut to crack. It will require united opposition MPs-union-student-progressive church groups-GLT (and others) as a coalition to go up against it. Fragmented groups cannot hope to succeed against this steamroller.

If Harper can ruthlessly replace or eliminate existing laws, then those replacements can also be repealed after being ousted. Of course the corporations that will benefit from the current changes will try to litigate the government for lost profits and opportunities (recall the NAFTA challenges).

Also curious to see how these new acts may affect the private sale and export of bulk water.

"And the people bowed and prayed, to the Neocons they made, and..."

The employment figures mean

The employment figures mean very little, because they don`t say what kind of employment, what are the wages , etc.?

Meanwhile the foodbank lines also grow daily in the richest country on Earth. Stats Can reports a "job" at something like 20 hours/wk and nothing about wages.

The economy was also booming the day before the `29 crash.

Which brings up the question, why should the profitability of stock market games, playing with the lives of billions, while filling the pockets of a few, be a deciding factor in economics ?

What are the plans to save lives if and when a crash comes ?

Ed Deak.

FACTORING IN

Canada as the richest country in the world is only there because of factoring in our environment as well as our "salable resources".
Let's hope that Ms. May has the intestinal fortitude to stand up in parliament and force all of Canada to recognize the real "Heir Harper" and his [OFFENSIVE COMMENT REMOVED. -MODERATOR.] lackey Neo-con members of parliament.

The only thing the political parties can do is launch a court

case against all of these breaches and they cannot afford to do it. They should also appeal the the Speaker of the House who should rule that these omnibus budgets are unparliamentary ( under the unwritten aspects of our parlimentary system that depends on precedent and tradition-this is the second time Bush I was actually thinking Bush Freudian slip and preventing the opposition from doing it's work.
RR

AND IT WORKS LIKE A CHARM!

Harper knows how to misdirect people perfectly and show us again with C-38, how a master liar he is while showing us how stupid we are!

While we ALL jump on the environment portion of the C-38....all of the other parts goes unnoticed! No one even really challenge the fact that it is rammed as a "block" or rushed in before "vacations" without proper analysis (forget challenge as democracy and opposition is dead in Canada)

kudos to The Right Honourable Elizabeth May

You make me proud that I voted Green. A bright light shining down on all the repulsive fungal growths infesting those chambers.

Seth, people like you are wildly successful at totally alienating people like me. Take a nice hearty pat on the back from your adoring fan Stephen Harper. He really appreciates the work people like you are doing here.

If I say people like you instead of you personally, is that how you get a pass from the moderators? Nevermind, very tempting but I'll try not to push it.

I have been berated for not holding my nose and voting for someone other than who I feel best represents my interests. A blatant and brazen (and over the top rude) scolding attempt to subvert democratic principles.

I didn't get thousands of people together to take over a stale old dinosaur of a political party. Your coldly strategic electioneering calculations notwithstadning, without so much as a minor bit of statistical probability figuring, I went ahead and simply voted for the candidate and party that I would like to see in the driver's seat. I should feel guilty somehow? Look at her go! You should be eating crow.

I did support BC-STV. That's the best way to stop the split IMHO. If you don't support it, like just a little bit too many people did in our historic referendum, then we could hurl insults at each other until the cows come home for all the good that would do.

Strategic voting smells retchingly rank to me and if Elections Canada were ever to start coming down on pushers of that sort of thing I wouldn't be able to find much motivation to oppose it. The list on the ballot is longer than the list of people that have a chance to win. Hands up everyone who is overly impressed with the list of people who have a chance to win? I'm not going to vote for anyone but the best no matter how many charts and figures and predictions you've got, so give it a rest. If it's time for a change then let's bring it on already.

Have a day.

Harper's Dictum

Harper's Dictum: 'When the cameras are rolling, smile, as you shove in the knife'.

The Green Party

The individual who is attacking the Green Party and Elizabeth May doesn't know what he is talking about. He is talking utter nonsense by claiming that should they have joined the other parties Harper would have been stopped. True, Harper is doing an irreparable harm to this country, but this is the fault of all those who were stupid enough to vote for him. Canadians are among the most unsophisticated voters in the West. Why did they vote for Harper? I am a former Progressive Conservative, but I would never, never have voted for an individual with this kind of harmful and extremist agenda and biography.