"Perfect PP" is back and in fine form

Pierre "Perfect PP" Poilievre, the mighty mouse MP for Nepean Carleton has resurfaced in the news after a long absence. Rumour has it that he went back to his native Alberta to recharge his batteries and to ask his Mama for permission to continue his mission to spew invectives in the East.

Permission was granted so PP flew back to his temporary office on Parliament Hill and got back to work. Earlier this week the RCMP raided the Cons Ottawa HQ, looking for evidence with respect to the 2006 election In and Out financing tactics of the Cons. The press was in attendance, as was a liberal worker with a camera.

Perfect PP went ballistic. "Somebody should ask who in Elections Canada invited the Liberal party to make a home video out of the visit to our headquarters," he said.

I know you are just a young pup with only 5 years toward your gold plated pension so I will let you in on a little secret about political Ottawa. THERE ARE NO SECRETS IN OTTAWA. There are only some people who try to keep secrets. If you want to know how people knew in advance about the raid, just watch the dreaded CBC once in a while, not just those days you star on Don Newman's Politics show. Tear your focus away from the spiritual channel just long enough to know what is really happening around you.

While we are on the case of petty politicians, let's hear what the Minister of Impending Deficits, Jim Flaherty, has to say on this scandalous behaviour. "I do find it odd, when I look at a photograph this morning and I see someone knocking on the door with cameras, with news cameras present." I listened to what Jimmy said and I waited with bated breath for him to blame this on the corporate tax policies of the Ontario government. No mention. I guess that scandal is over... for now.

When you promote yourselves as a squeaky clean government, any bit of dirt will show. PM Harper, Minister Flaherty and Perfect PP... you are all past your best-before date.

Poilievre, The New Screamer, screws up another attack

Pierre Poilievre, the MP for Nepean-Carleton, is getting to be more and more of an embarrassment for Canada and Canadians. He skips in the Commons and cusses like a sailor; but he does it in a tailored suit so that no-one will possibly notice.

He acts like a jack-ass with an IQ of a dung-beetle.

On the day that the Ontario government released its latest budget, the "Perfect PP" travelled to Toronto to be the mouthpiece of Harpers latest slagging of the Ontario government. I guess that "Pretty-boy" Flaherty, the federal Minister of Money, who got the ball started on this slag-fest, decided that maybe he was hurting his image in Ontario (as he tries to wrest the provincial Tory leadership from John Tory) so Harper assigned a disposable Ontario MP, Perfect PP, to carry on the attacks.

So Perfect PP gets to Toronto and offers to be 12 lines above the fold to any journalist he could find.

McGuinty is a dope, Perfect PP yells. Ontario is the last place in Canada anyone would want to invest, he screams. God will smite the non-Conservatives in this province of heathens. He finishes with, That's just my personal opinion, of course.

He then strays a bit from the PMO-prepared script and, boy, is he in trouble now!

In a post-budget press conference McGuinty was asked about the Federal Immigration proposal currently being force-fed in Ottawa. A descendant of Irish famine-era immigrants, his response was that, "...we were [unskilled but] looking for opportunity and we brought with us a solid work ethic."

The door was open for Perfect PP to pounce and he jumped in with all five appendages but... unfortunately his brain was not in sync with his mouth.

"The Premier had no business commenting on immigration," blurts Perfect PP. He went on to describe immigration as an exclusively federal jurisdiction. Guess he didn't fully read his illustrated copy of the Constitution Act of 1867 that states that immigration is a federal responsibility but also states that provinces can set immigration policy. In fact Quebec has a major say in immigration and other provinces are trying to get the same concession from Ottawa.

What was his come-back to this mis-speak... Aahhh, what time does my government jet leave for Ottawa?

Where, you might ask, was the other major CON from Ottawa and why was he not volunteered to go to Toronto instead of the PP? Well, it seems that John "the Screamer" Baird was busy setting up a date to a dog show or something with the PM's missus.

Resolution for PM Harper

I have a New Year's resolution for Canada's Greatest Government (TM: PM Harper). If you see an injustice to victims in the implementation of Canada's Young Offenders Act and that injustice is deemed to be an infringement of the Constitution, then amend the Constitution so that the infringement goes away! Don't blame the Supreme Court for striking your changes down!

At issue is that the pundits expect that the Supremos will rule unconstitutional an amendment that CGG is trying to float. The change to the Young Offenders Act is focused on making violent youth, doing premeditated violent crimes, more easily made subject to adult laws. The changes also want to change the parole and bail provisions for violent youth.

I have no problem with either changes. I would suggest that the majority of Canadians, save a few lawyers and special interest groups, have no problems with the changes either.

I might also suggest that the Supremos have no moral problem with the change. They have a legal objection. The role of the Supremos is to weigh the changes you propose in light of the Constitution, and, according to them, the proposed laws are contrary to the Rights and Freedoms of youth.

So the Supremos are doing their job. Now it is time for CCG to do their job and amend the Constitution!

The Canada Act of 1982 and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms were never meant to be cast in tempered steel. They are subject to change over time with an amending formula designed to protect the rights of Canadians. In other words, if you wanted to amend the Constitution to allow one party rule and goose-stepping, then the rules under the amending formula probably would stop you.

But if you want to make amendments to make Canadians, especially victims of crime and potential crime, safer, I think that you could make a compelling case to the provinces and the population.

Canadians are growing tired of the grandstanding by CGG. We grow weary of having our government blame everybody else for everything that they, the government, perceive as wrong with the country.

Note to PM Harper: Canadians want and need leaders not whiners. You want to go up in the polls and win a majority government? Then act like a leader!