Did Prime Minister Stephen Harper fly to Vladivostock without his hairdresser? Is she sick? Has she left him? That woman has become more important to Harper than wife Laureen. A wife is just to show the voters he is not gay. His hairdresser keeps him young.
Did you see in the news clips from the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit? Poor Stephen was having a bad hair day. His toupee was out of kilter. It looked like it was glued in place about 2.5 centimetres to the left of its normal position. It was not the effect Stephen likes. He could never accept his recent award as statesman of the year with hair like that.
Did you hear about Stephen Harper being named Statesman of the Year? The award is from a Jewish organization in New York City. They want to remind President Obama that he will not even get their votes unless he gets in line with Mr. Harper’s denunciation of the regime in Iran. It does seem a bit perverse though to be named Statesman of the Year for cutting off relations with a country on the other side of the world.
Closer to home, there is a meeting in Montreal this week where people can vent about the growing control of television programming by the largest telecommunications company in Canada. Stephen’s friends at Bell Canada already own CTV, its sports channels and radio stations and are currently in the process of taking over Astral Media for a bit more than $3 billion. This is all in aid of Bell being able to screw a much broader range of consumers. Did we mention that Bell Canada is a major contributor to anything Stephen wants? Did we also mention that complaining to Stephen’s appointees at the Canadian Radio-Television Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) is a terrible waste of effort?
It is a good thing that Stephen got back in time to help destroy the lists of people in Canada who have registered their long guns. The Quebec Supreme Court has decided that the federal government had gone beyond its mandate to destroy the records in Quebec. That decision will now be fought out at the Supreme Court of Canada. Stephen needs to realize that there is something profoundly pathetic about watching someone like Public Safety (sic) Minister Vic Toews railing against what he calls the wasteful and ineffective long-gun registry. His problem is that by far the majority of police chiefs in Canada disagree with that view.
Oh, and did we mention that Stephen has appointed more Conservatives to the Senate that is already dominated by Conservatives. Stephen sure knows how to convince us that the Senate is useless.
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