Our favourite Liz May is in the news again. She says Canada is breaking the law by cancelling the Kyoto Accord.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/12/13/pol-may-kyoto.html

To which I have one thing to say: what does a delegate from Papua New Guinea have to do with Canadian policy?

So what is there to say today? We’re back with Premier Dad, who lied to us, and cheated us, but you know, we didn’t know the other guy, so, you know, we went with him. Great. Get ready for some more taxes, folks!

I do not want to come off as a sore loser, because I hate that, I hated that the last federal election when all the lefties were sore losers, and are still talking about the “60% that didn’t vote for them”. I do not want to do that. The people of Ontario voted for the Liberals, they won fair and square according to the system we have, and we have to accept that. What I am wondering, though, read more

I never heard so much negativity regarding the Federal Government as this session, both from Global TV and CTV. I do not watch the CBC (even though I AM paying for it!).

Every evening it’s “Flexing their majority muscle”, “ramming through Parliament”, “push through with their new found majority”, “Now they have a majority, Harper can basically do what he wants”, and so on..

The “controversial” Omnibus Crime Bill is being “pushed through parliament” this week. The “cracking down on ordinary Canadians” Copyright Bill is being “steamrolled through Parliament”. The “nothing more than a media-op” Flag Bill is going through Parliament, “ensuring its passing with Harper’s new found majority”.

1) Why is the Omnibus Crime Bill dubbed “controversial”? Harper clearly said he would read more

So, Elizabeth May *finally* got herself elected. It didn’t come easy, or cheap: first, she had to pick the most hippie-like riding in the country (I’ve been to the Gulf Islands) and then she had to spend the entire campaign in her own riding, and blow more than half  of her entire national budget on buying herself some votes.

In the mean time, all her other 307 candidates were out there, unsupported, with no money to spend.

Then you go on TV stating there was a “growing green movement”, while in fact, your party’s support fell by 360,000 votes, or 39%. You were just talking about yourself, weren’t you?

Seriously, I don’t know why those 307 green candidates keep putting their names on read more

It all started with this innocent looking Tweet by @BradDuguid:

New #energy rates today show average home bill this May compared to last May remained the same http://bit.ly/cdpKw

There is so much wrong with this tweet, I barely know where to start.

OK, first off, unless Mr. Brad NoGood Duguid has a friend named Doc, and access to a DeLorean Time Machine, there is NO WAY he can know what his MAY Hydro bill will be like, since it is April 20.

Secondly, Hydro JUST announced another 8% increase taking effect May 1st. That is on top of another 9% that was implemented in August 2010, and another 8% of HST on top of all that. There are also numerous smaller increases throughout May read more

All of a sudden, Iggy pulls out the Coalition Option. Layton said last week he’s willing to jump into bed with anybody (my words, not his). Seems like Harper was the only one telling the truth all along. Surprise, surprise.

Iggy now says he’s ruling out any form of coalition, unless there’s a Harper minority. Wait, what? If there was a Harper majority, there’s obviously no reason to form a coalition. And the Harper minority is the only reason you could form a coalition. So what you’re really saying is, is that you’re going to form a coalition. Period.

If this isn’t reason enough to elect a majority Harper government, I don’t know what is.

My thoughts on last nights debate:

The three amigos tried to come out swinging on contempt charges and G8/G20 reports, eventhough this had nothing to do with the taped quations, but after about 20 minutes, they seemed kind of puzzled that that hadn’t gotten them anywhere, credit to Harper, and seemed kind of lost on what to do next. Fortunately, some questions came along and steered the debate away from so called “scandals” and into some serious topics.

Iggy was angry. I am not sure why his handlers made him behave like that, or why that strategy was picked. For a party trying to portray Harper as the scary guy, they sure made their own leader look read more

So, the campaign promises have started. Already the collective Opposition leaders have promised about $1B per day. Where this money comes from no one knows, but hey, it’s a campaign, and Canadians have been known to believe a promise or two (remember the GST?).

After attaching the government on the so called “in and out” scheme, both Iggy and Jackie themselves are offering a sort of in-and-out scheme to the taxpayers. Yesterday Iggy came up with the most complicated, convoluted scheme to “help” students with some sort of $4000 (or something) grant in some sort of program (if I am being vague, well, it’s because no-one understands the damn thing). One university professor (didn’t catch his name) said on the read more

So McGuinty quietly takes another $18 million out of our pockets. This time because we didn’t want something, we took a stand, and these are the penalties for that little victory we scored last year. It’s like we can’t win for losing. This, of course, comes right on the heels of another $18 million we have to pay to reimburse Hydro One’s legal fees after losing a court case vs us, the taxpayers, for overcharging us.

And you’re thinking: that’s only $36 million. That’s nothing. That’s like a $1 a person in Ontario. Yes, $1 a person. TODAY. Tomorrow there’ll be another $1 for some other inept policy, and another the day after that. And at the end of the month read more

In response to last year’s popular effort, here it is: