{"id":9682,"date":"2015-07-03T09:05:37","date_gmt":"2015-07-03T14:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=9682"},"modified":"2015-07-03T09:05:37","modified_gmt":"2015-07-03T14:05:37","slug":"the-tragedy-of-harpers-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=9682","title":{"rendered":"The Tragedy of Harper\u2019s Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Tragedy of Harper\u2019s Canada<\/a><\/h3>\n
Tilting Toward Totalitarianism<\/div>\n
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\u201cThis abuse of executive power is tilting toward totalitarian government and away from the foundations of democracy and the rule of law on which this country was founded.\u201d<\/p>\n

-Errol Mendes, Professor of constitutional and international law (University of Ottawa)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The current Conservative government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper looks like a tattered and ragged old stuffed animal these days. You know\u2013the ones with one button-eye missing and the other hanging by a single thread. Although he has survived endless scandals and sleazy acts over the past decade, Harper\u2019s musical tune is now screeching and discordant.<\/p>\n

Two of his top ministers (the obedient Peter McKay and the attack-dog, know-nothing John Baird) have decided to abandon politics. A third (Jim Prentice) left to run Alberta, but was soundly defeated by a resurgent New Democratic Party. Harper\u2019s possible successor, Jason Kenney, now Minister of Defence, looks bewildered as he repeats NATO\u2019s lies about Russian aggression and fumbles along in a totally incoherent foreign policy.<\/p>\n

On the international scene, this mean autocrat has had the gall\u2014if you can believe this\u2014to point his finger at Vladimir Putin and tell him to get out of the Ukraine. This moronic demand bespoke of his ignorance of the Ukraine\u2019s common history and culture with Russia. Harper has murky ties with right-wing Canadian Ukrainians and has adopted the fantastical narrative pushed by the US and its pliant allies in the EU and NATO. He thinks this may get him some votes. He sent 200 troops (disguised as trainers) into the Ukraine to help quell the rebellion in Eastern Ukraine.<\/p>\n

The opposition parties are demanding that Stephen the Sneaky come clean regarding his support for the neo-Nazi gangs of thugs in the Ukraine armed forces (like the Azov battalion). He appears to love vilifying Putin. Recently Russian MP Aleksey Puskov (United Russia) stated that Russia is the \u201cmost anti-Russian state in the western alliance as a whole and definitely also in the G7 group.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Tragedy of Harper\u2019s Canada Tilting Toward Totalitarianism \u201cThis abuse of executive power is tilting toward totalitarian government and away from the foundations of democracy and the rule of law on which this country was founded.\u201d -Errol Mendes, Professor of constitutional and international law (University of Ottawa) The current Conservative government of Prime Minister Stephen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[103,106,5493,694,749,1213,821],"class_list":["post-9682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-canada","tag-canadian-government","tag-counterpunch","tag-russia","tag-stephen-harper","tag-totalitarianism","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9683,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9682\/revisions\/9683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}