The Americans have discovered the “hidden” Harper agenda. In one word, God.
The New York Times this week told the world that Harper has been ending his speeches with the words “God bless Canada.” Code? What else can it be?
That’s right. Harper is going to be pulling on our collective G-string, from the moment he puts his hand on the Good Book and is sworn in by the Hottie from Haiti.
Why couldn’t Canadian journalists have figured this out? My inner beaver weeps. Once again the Yanks have beaten us at our own game. In the dying days of the Martin government, one wonders why couldn’t a Canadian journalist figure out what Stephen Harper’s hidden agenda really is. Are you ready, beavers?
Canada will be renamed Jesusland North. Today on anti-Bush blogs the term is often used to describe George W. Bush’s vision for his country. This week, the Times reported on the Canadian election campaign. Clifford Krauss wrote, ” ‘God bless all of you. God bless Canada!’ is the way Stephen Harper finishes every campaign stump speech as he appears to be heading toward a landslide victory to become prime minister. It is an unusual line in a country where politicians do not customarily talk about God or their religious beliefs, where church attendance is plummeting and same-sex marriage has become legal.”
The Stephen Harper “God bless Canada” tour is perfect fodder for the New York Times and its central core belief. George Bush is dangerous to America because he does not feel he answers to the U.S. Constitution. Bush only answers to the Lord, Jesus Christ. And that’s “all the news that’s fit to print.”
Some of us shouldn’t have waited for the New York Times to reveal the “G-String Agenda.” We should have gotten a clue when Belinda Stronach, Canada’s best known political suicide bomber, showed up on CTV’s Countdown with Mike Duffy.
In a crossfire on the show, she coughed up some phlegm about an e-mail she saw from Conservative president Don Plett, saying that after the election, abortion would be back on the table. The Conservatives have dismissed the e-mail, which was part of an exchange between Plett and a party member in Quebec. Plett told him that an MP would likely bring up the issue as a private member’s bill. But Harper has said a Conservative government would not create new abortion legislation.
There was also a recent e-mail circulated that pretended to be from a Conservative official, suggesting that abortion legislation was coming with a Harper-led government. My Corus Radio talk show colleague Peter Warren revealed that this was indeed a bogus e-mail from a Liberal-friendly in Canada, routed through a Russian server.
A question for Belinda. Didn’t the PM appoint you to go across the country to find out how we can reform democracy? Or was that appointment about as genuine as these “smoking gun” e-mails?
Now the New York Times needs to know that while it is true that Canada’s government has legalized same-sex marriage, the average Canadian does not enthusiastically support the concept. I am in the minority. I think it’s great that two men or two women who want to commit to each other for life can now call it marriage.
But you will never hear Paul Martin say, “I enthusiastically support gay and lesbian marriage.” On most issues the real Paul Martin is no different than the average American. The New York Times may not want to print that. But we just did.
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