How Many Scandals Will It Take …

To Finally Bring Down the Harper House of Cards?

The Helena Guergis affair is just the last of an incredibly loooooooooong line of scandals that keep flying in the face of our federal leaders.

And yet, somehow, they manage to weasel their way out of issues and back into talking about the insanity of ‘more crime bills’ or ‘economy economy economy’.

The list is far too long, but here’s a quick stab:

• Guergis
• Jaffer and his various ‘business interviews’ and promises to connect people with the PMO
• Lisa Raitt’s mishandling of the world’s limited isotopes
• Maxime Bernier’s ‘forgotten’ documents and the links with the mob
• Let’s not forget ‘Diamond’ Jim Flaherty’s surprise reversal on Income Trusts, literally dissolving billions in retirement assets for seniors and others overnight
• Thousands of political appointments to various public offices, poisoning the public well for decades
• Promises to reform the Senate while stacking it conveniently with inexperienced celebrities
• Fake cheques promoting the CPC using Canadian taxpayer dollars
• Endless 10-percenters as junk mail, costing Canadians tens of millions of dollars per year (mainly to pick childish fights with other leaders)
• The links with the mob of almost all infrastructure spending, particularly in Montreal
• Breaking one’s own law to have a forced election on a fixed date
• Massive investigations into spending irregularities with the last election
• The Chuck Cadman bribery scandal
• Maple Leaf deaths, potentially a result of attempts to deregulate the industry
• Voted repeatedly as the world’s worst environmental destroyer
• Issues related to people in Stephen Harper’s inner circle releasing details about Obama before the US election
• Crimes against humanity with the Afghan detainee issue
• Complete mismanagement of the country’s economy (largest deficit ever created in Canada – ever) and creation of a permanent structural fiscal deficit.

How many scandals constitute ‘enough’?

All it took was an inflated marketing scam with the Liberals to have them turfed.  I know … it was enough to show our disgust with the Liberals.

And yet how many more people have to die / get ripped off / be booted from Cabinet or just plain f*** up in order for Canadians to finally stand up and demand an election so we can dump these clowns?

Have we all lost our minds?  When people promise accountability and economic action and yet deliver the complete opposite, why are we not going to the polls?