Pop Quiz!

[sabotabby]

What did Stephen Harper do this time?

a) Admit that he believed in evolution.
b) Pledge a full military presence in Canadian cities.
c) Eat a kitten during the live televised debate.



It's actually both a) and b), although the evolution thing was probably accidental. Alas, if this creepy son-of-a-bitch becomes PM, get ready for a load of police-state fun!

As far as I can tell, he has so far restricted his kitten-eating to private venues. Look for that to change if he wins, too.

EDIT: OMG! Rick Mercer did a spoof ad for CPC-ML! Go here, then click on the Communist Party graphic for comedy gold.

Comments

[sabotabby]

I doubt most Canadians know that we're occupying Haïti.

Of course, if the Conservatives win and use the entire Canadian military to occupy Toronto, maybe the Haïtians can catch a break.

[jhfurnish.livejournal.com]

This reminds me of the horrible scandal with East Timor. I suspect most Canadians didn't know about that, or how nasty it really was. It's one of Canada's few true sins.

I didn't know you guy were in on the occupation of Haiti, either.

[dobrovolets.livejournal.com]

The Brazilians are doing most of the dirty work in Port-au-Prince.

Ain't Lula grand?

[corvus.livejournal.com]

socialism 4 eva!

[corvus.livejournal.com]

Though I have to admit, I kinda like Red Ken.

[sabotabby]

I suspect the main reason Canadians know about East Timor is because there was a high profile case where protesters sued after they were pepper-sprayed. It was back when our government was friendly with Suharto and the PM didn't want to "embarrass" him when he showed up at the APEC conference.

Canada's done its share of nasty things; we're just not as obvious about it. The bullets that Americans are using to shoot Iraqis come from here.

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

We don't have much troops on the ground (if at all), but we have volunteer (!) police officers training the new police there, and of course we gave political legitimacy to the whole thing by welcoming it.

[ltmurnau.livejournal.com]

Right now there are five Canadian soldiers in Haiti: staff officers serving with the UN "stabilization mission" there.

Operation HALO, which saw about 500 Canadian soldiers and six helicopters sent to Haiti, lasted from March to August 2004. They probably found someplace nastier to send them.

[violachic.livejournal.com]

-I- didn't know you were occupying Haiti....

[sabotabby]

Apparently our army isn't anymore (see above). But we did, and we're now contributing to the occupation.

[violachic.livejournal.com]

I actually know very little of the sins of Canada in general....

[sabotabby]

Ah, we butchered us some First Nations, had our railroads built by indentured Chinese and Sikh workers, then slapped a head-tax on Chinese immigrants after we didn't need them anymore, abducted First Nations kids and put them in residential schools where they weren't allowed to speak their own languages and were sexually abused, purged the major Black settlement in Halifax, refused Jewish refugees asylum during the Holocaust, tortured and murdered Somali kids, supported Suharto's dictatorship, unleashed Celine Dion on an unsuspecting planet, and, as mentioned earlier, did despicable things in Haïti.

I missed a bunch of things. That's just off the top of my head.

[human-loser.livejournal.com]

Ooooooooooooooooooo, Caaaaanadaaaaaaa.....

[see-my-glock.livejournal.com]

D: who hasnt occupied haiti?