Vancouver Secrets

When Defeat Is Certain - Sue

photo credit: LordKhan

Democracy Watch, which said it’s a non-profit, non-partisan
group that advocates government accountability, filed suit today
in federal court in Ottawa. A hearing is scheduled for tomorrow
on the group’s request that a federal judge rule the Sept. 7
dissolution of parliament illegal.

According to most recent opinion polls, the Conservatives
are close to winning a majority of the seats in the Oct. 14 vote.

“Democracy Watch is filing this case not only to challenge
the calling of the current election, but also to win a ruling
that will prohibit future prime ministers from calling
elections” without having been forced to by a vote of non-
confidence in the legislature, the group said in a statement.

Too little, too late.

Why is it that there is no information on this group on the web, other than links to its site on a very far left web directory?

The suit sounds very suspicious - and comes when the Conservatives probably have a majority in the making.

You’d think with all the scandals the Liberal party has given Canada, they would have been more active in the past.

They may be for actual democracy - but their website makes me question their motives…

Any insight?

When 9/11 Truthers Attack

I just about peed my pants… Stephane Dion’s logic escapes me and common sense.

He uses the Jewish congress as a defense to a Liberal candidate’s anti-semitic views and 9/11.

The Liberal party at its worst. And he lost this one again - got rid of the candidate.

A hat tip to Lepolitico

Cool Way To Spend NDP Money

photo credit: brooklyn tyger

I’ve read the NDP needs campaign funds fast.

If I wanted to be mischievous, I’d tell you how to play a game to see how much they have remaining…

1. Search Jack Layton (Google or Yahoo)

2. Click on the Sponsored Links on the right.

3. Spend a few moments on the site. Enjoy.

3. You’ve just cost the NDP campaign budget 50-80 cents.

Once the ad below is gone, you know they spent their daily budget.

Sample ads:

Layton takes on Big Oil

Finally, a prime minister who’ll
put your family first. Donate now.
NDP.ca

or

Join Jack Layton’s Team

Finally, a PM who’ll put you and your family first. Donate now.
JackLayton.ca

The Liberal party doesn’t seem to be buying Google ads - hmmm.

Rick Mercer Creates The New Liberal Theme

Who would have known that Mercer would have defined the Liberal campaign with this song. The video was made on February 27, 2008

Here’s the story behind the video:

Hey Guys what a crazy last 2 days.

So I get a call from Rick Mercer’s people Tuesday afternoon saying they just wrote a skit about the Liberal party backing down to the Tories.

The whole joke is that the Liberals are loving it cause if they fight the Tories they have to call an election and they are in no position to win an election so they are happy to back down. It’s an over the top party scene.

They say they want the works, full 24pc choir, break-dancers, jugglers, acrobats, pyro a total circus!! They want to know if I can compose, arrange and record a choir to the lyrics they wrote and have it ready to be shot in 48hrs.

Well I immediately got on the phone to Faith Chorale and booked them for a session the next day. I called up Luther Brown at Do Dat for some breakers and got to work banging out a track. Everything got together just in time for the shoot. As I go to deliver the music masters, Rick decides that he wants me in the skit leading the choir. They rush me into wardrobe, I’m a little fuller than most guys so no suits fit. They take my measurements and in an hour a suit arrives and I’m on set shooting the scene for the next 4 hours.

I love this business!!!

Little did they know…

OMG: The Liberals Hidden Agenda

photo credit: Guacamole Goalie

Now that he’s found out that the sun is behind global warming, Dion has walked away from the Liberal party’s only platform this election - The Green Shift Shaft. He’s even denying it was part of his campaign.

I had to laugh when the guardian of the left, the Globe & mail published this today..

When launching his carbon-tax scheme on June 19, Mr. Dion mentioned the term “Green Shift” 14 times. When Mr. Dion delivered a keynote speech to his caucus on Sept. 3, the number of Green Shift references had dropped to 10. By Sept. 11, Mr. Dion only mentioned Green Shift once during his main speech of the day. And by Sept. 18, the term “green shift” had disappeared completely from Mr. Dion’s only speech of the day.

Earlier today when quizzed about whether or not the carbon tax was a major part of his election platform, Mr. Dion replied, “You have said it was but never me.”

… So what has happened to Mr. Dion, defined by Liberals as a man of vision and courage for bringing the carbon tax forward? Was this a bit like Kyoto for him, not his dog but the treaty – when the hard work had to be done he gave up on it and it began to dwindle? Was the green shift luggage lost when the plane broke down earlier in the week?

Time to jump off the Rainbow warrior…

Now there’s a real hidden agenda to talk about.

What a gift to Harper.