Ladies Our Sexy Prime Minister Needs An Upgrade
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As long as we get rid of the Reform Party of Canada it's all good. Although I'd like to see Justin come right out and claim he will do away with Bill 36 as his MP Sean Casey claimed.
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Peter MacKay’s $175, 000 Prostitution Poll: Paid with Public Funds
POSTED ON JULY 18, 2014 | NO COMMENTS
Many Canadians may not know this, but prostitution is legal in Canada and has been since 1892 when the Criminal Code was first enacted. It was actually activities surrounding the act of prostitution that were illegal, specifically three sections of the Criminal Code that outlawed communicating in public for the purpose of prostitution, living on the avails of prostitution and lastly, operating a brothel.
In the now famous Bedford case, a group of sex workers brought a Charter challenge arguing that those three provisions put their safety and security at risk, thereby violating their Charter rights.
In its landmark decision last December, the Supreme Court of Canada agreed with the sex workers, striking down the three Criminal Code provisions as being in violation of their Charter rights under Section 7 – the security of the person provision. The Supreme Court suspended its ruling for one year in order to give Parliament the opportunity to enact new legislation, if they chose to do so. This past June, Justice Minister Peter MacKay introduced Bill C-36 – a legislative response to the Supreme Court ruling.
I strongly believe that Bill C-36 is unconstitutional. I do not believe the legislation complies with the Supreme Court ruling, or with the Charter. Furthermore, it may very well put sex workers at greater risk of harm, or worse. This is exactly at odds with the Supreme Court ruling in the Bedford case.
The Conservatives claim that they consulted widely about this bill, without providing the evidence of those consultations. They further claim to have checked that Bill C-36 was Charter compliant, again without producing the evidence. They also argued that an online survey “proved” Canadians oppose prostitution, while failing to mention how amazingly unscientific an online survey is when crafting public policy, particularly with such a contentious issue, when there is huge potential for organized interest groups to skew the results.
Then there is the $175,000 poll the Harper government commissioned seeking the actual views of Canadians about prostitution. Peter MacKay has steadfastly opposed releasing the contents of that poll, despite the fact that the information contained might have been helpful to the Justice Committee’s deliberations. A Department of Justice Official testified that the poll contained “useful information” in crafting the bill. At the parliamentary hearings last week, I once again asked Minister MacKay about this poll. Here is the official parliamentary record of that exchange:
Monday July 7, 2014
Mr. Sean Casey:
I want to come back to Madam Boivin’s question with respect to the $175,000 survey or poll that was done by Ipsos Reid. You have indicated that we’re going to be able to see it once these hearings are over.
Mr. Minister, you have the power to allow us to see that sooner, do you not?
Hon. Peter MacKay:
The survey itself was not particular to this question of prostitution only, and so there is a normal six-month time period that is invoked for when that polling information will be released.
I should note for the record, Mr. Casey, that you’re aware there have been other surveys done and other polling information available that has been released or is in the public domain.
I also want to provide a correction. I said there will be a technical bill presented to the committee. There will be a technical paper that was produced by the department, and that technical paper is available in French and English. I’m informed that it will be tabled with this committee by leave, and it will be provided to you so that you will have it for your deliberations this week.
Mr. Sean Casey:
Mr. Minister, do you have the power to abridge the time in which we see this $175,000 Ipsos Reid survey? Do you have the power to give that to us before we examine all these witnesses?
Hon. Peter MacKay:
There is a six-month timeframe that we will respect.
Mr. Sean Casey:
So you have the power, but you’re deciding not to exercise it?
Hon. Peter MacKay:
I didn’t say that. I said we’ll respect the six-month timeframe.
Mr. Sean Casey:
Do you have the power to abridge it?
Hon. Peter MacKay:
We’ll release it when the six-month timeframe is up.
Mr. Sean Casey:
Is that a yes or a no?
Hon. Peter MacKay:
We’ll release it when the six-month timeframe is up, Mr. Casey.
Mr. Sean Casey:
You won’t tell me whether or not you have the power to abridge it, but if you do, you’re not going to exercise it.
Hon. Peter MacKay:
What I’m telling you is that you’ll have the information when the six-month period is up.
Mr. Sean Casey:
Mr. Minister, I requested that Ipsos Reid appear as a witness before this committee, but they’re not on the witness list. Did your office have anything to do with that?
Hon. Peter MacKay: Absolutely not. We don’t control the witness list. That’s entirely within the purview of the committee.
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As it turns out, that poll the Conservatives refused to release was leaked yesterday. The Toronto Star article wherein the details of the poll are exposed help shed some light on MacKay’s reluctance to share his findings with the committee.
It is very clear why the Conservatives didn’t want the Ipsos Reid survey made public before the Committee hearings concluded last week. They suggested that Canadians were overwhelming opposed to prostitution, when in fact, people were very much split on the subject.
The Harper Conservatives are entitled to their own ideology and their own opinions. They are not, however, entitled to their own facts. Deliberately, almost gleefully, withholding key evidence from the Committee should trouble Canadians who value honesty and integrity – regardless of what side of the prostitution debate they may fall on.
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Peter MacKay’s $175, 000 Prostitution Poll: Paid with Public Funds
POSTED ON JULY 18, 2014 | NO COMMENTS
Many Canadians may not know this, but prostitution is legal in Canada and has been since 1892 when the Criminal Code was first enacted. It was actually activities surrounding the act of prostitution that were illegal, specifically three sections of the Criminal Code that outlawed communicating in public for the purpose of prostitution, living on the avails of prostitution and lastly, operating a brothel.
In the now famous Bedford case, a group of sex workers brought a Charter challenge arguing that those three provisions put their safety and security at risk, thereby violating their Charter rights.
In its landmark decision last December, the Supreme Court of Canada agreed with the sex workers, striking down the three Criminal Code provisions as being in violation of their Charter rights under Section 7 – the security of the person provision. The Supreme Court suspended its ruling for one year in order to give Parliament the opportunity to enact new legislation, if they chose to do so. This past June, Justice Minister Peter MacKay introduced Bill C-36 – a legislative response to the Supreme Court ruling.
I strongly believe that Bill C-36 is unconstitutional. I do not believe the legislation complies with the Supreme Court ruling, or with the Charter. Furthermore, it may very well put sex workers at greater risk of harm, or worse. This is exactly at odds with the Supreme Court ruling in the Bedford case.
The Conservatives claim that they consulted widely about this bill, without providing the evidence of those consultations. They further claim to have checked that Bill C-36 was Charter compliant, again without producing the evidence. They also argued that an online survey “proved” Canadians oppose prostitution, while failing to mention how amazingly unscientific an online survey is when crafting public policy, particularly with such a contentious issue, when there is huge potential for organized interest groups to skew the results.
Then there is the $175,000 poll the Harper government commissioned seeking the actual views of Canadians about prostitution. Peter MacKay has steadfastly opposed releasing the contents of that poll, despite the fact that the information contained might have been helpful to the Justice Committee’s deliberations. A Department of Justice Official testified that the poll contained “useful information” in crafting the bill. At the parliamentary hearings last week, I once again asked Minister MacKay about this poll. Here is the official parliamentary record of that exchange:
Monday July 7, 2014
Mr. Sean Casey:
I want to come back to Madam Boivin’s question with respect to the $175,000 survey or poll that was done by Ipsos Reid. You have indicated that we’re going to be able to see it once these hearings are over.
Mr. Minister, you have the power to allow us to see that sooner, do you not?
Hon. Peter MacKay:
The survey itself was not particular to this question of prostitution only, and so there is a normal six-month time period that is invoked for when that polling information will be released.
I should note for the record, Mr. Casey, that you’re aware there have been other surveys done and other polling information available that has been released or is in the public domain.
I also want to provide a correction. I said there will be a technical bill presented to the committee. There will be a technical paper that was produced by the department, and that technical paper is available in French and English. I’m informed that it will be tabled with this committee by leave, and it will be provided to you so that you will have it for your deliberations this week.
Mr. Sean Casey:
Mr. Minister, do you have the power to abridge the time in which we see this $175,000 Ipsos Reid survey? Do you have the power to give that to us before we examine all these witnesses?
Hon. Peter MacKay:
There is a six-month timeframe that we will respect.
Mr. Sean Casey:
So you have the power, but you’re deciding not to exercise it?
Hon. Peter MacKay:
I didn’t say that. I said we’ll respect the six-month timeframe.
Mr. Sean Casey:
Do you have the power to abridge it?
Hon. Peter MacKay:
We’ll release it when the six-month timeframe is up.
Mr. Sean Casey:
Is that a yes or a no?
Hon. Peter MacKay:
We’ll release it when the six-month timeframe is up, Mr. Casey.
Mr. Sean Casey:
You won’t tell me whether or not you have the power to abridge it, but if you do, you’re not going to exercise it.
Hon. Peter MacKay:
What I’m telling you is that you’ll have the information when the six-month period is up.
Mr. Sean Casey:
Mr. Minister, I requested that Ipsos Reid appear as a witness before this committee, but they’re not on the witness list. Did your office have anything to do with that?
Hon. Peter MacKay: Absolutely not. We don’t control the witness list. That’s entirely within the purview of the committee.
**********************
As it turns out, that poll the Conservatives refused to release was leaked yesterday. The Toronto Star article wherein the details of the poll are exposed help shed some light on MacKay’s reluctance to share his findings with the committee.
It is very clear why the Conservatives didn’t want the Ipsos Reid survey made public before the Committee hearings concluded last week. They suggested that Canadians were overwhelming opposed to prostitution, when in fact, people were very much split on the subject.
The Harper Conservatives are entitled to their own ideology and their own opinions. They are not, however, entitled to their own facts. Deliberately, almost gleefully, withholding key evidence from the Committee should trouble Canadians who value honesty and integrity – regardless of what side of the prostitution debate they may fall on.
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OK, let's get it started, Prime Minister Harper is about as sexy as?
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Justin is a pretty boy who is and never will be up for the job of PM--he is a fucking failure in life,barely survived as a substitute teacher & you fucking liberals/elitists want this fucktard as a PM(head of canada),maggie should swallowed him 40 years ago,even avalanche boy sasha was a better offspring from ************'s balls that this dipshit.
i'm sure Justin has done more coke,than your liberal target (rob ford) has done
i'm sure Justin has done more coke,than your liberal target (rob ford) has done
I have to agree with this. I sure don't want to see him be PM. If Justin wants to follow in his fathers footsteps then he should fucking die and they can bury him with his father.
The point is we rather have Justin than Harpo, door knob Mackay and dried up prune Joy Smith. Albeit we may have to hold our noses as we vote but getting rid of the Reform Party of Canada is exactly the cure for freedom and the safety of women in Canada, not too mention us the clients.
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2014/07/23/full-pundit-everything-stephen-harpers-done-wrong/
Full Pundit: Everything Stephen Harper’s done wrong
Life under Stephen Harper
The Conservatives love the temporary foreign worker program and hate Filipino nannies, the Toronto Star‘s Heather Mallick explains, because … well because it’s obvious, isn’t it? Everyone knows conservatives would prefer the Filipinos they hire in droves just stayed home, and everyone knows watching foreign workers “steal local jobs” is Jason Kenney’s ultimate idea of a good time. It’s a hot load of mostly nonsense, as usual, but it remains fascinating to watch Canadian lefties rant about foreign job-stealers. It’s like Kenney’s mere presence can turn them into Arizona Republicans.
In The Globe and Mail, Thomas Hodd proceeds from the premise that artists are essentially owed both a living and a marketplace for their work from the Canadian taxpayer, and complains that tough times have seen artists reduced to justifying why their work deserves sponsorship, and in so doing “conform[ing] to the language and approach of corporatism.” And it gets worse: “Many artists have been told by their government, their agents, and their arts councils that they need to become more ‘entrepreneurial’ with the selling of their album, play, or novel,” Hodd reports. “No longer good enough to be the creator of a work of art, artists now have to be their own marketing department.” Can you imagine?
Andrew Cohen, writing in the Ottawa Citizen, sniffs disdainfully at Canada’s “absolutist” brand of “megaphone diplomacy,” which is both “utterly confident” and, if you can believe it, “remarkably free of tentativeness.” Of course, he says, the government happens to be dead right about Russia and Ukraine. So that’s good. It might well be right that negotiations with Iran will come to naught, he concedes. And we stand with “the rest of the civilized world … against a ruinous Hamas, which appears quite ready to destroy it’s own people.” So that’s also good. Ah, but as “Israel’s best friend,” Cohen says we could use our “influence” to convince the country to lay off on civilians in Gaza.
Well, he can go on believing that if he wants. But Washington isn’t known for naked hostility towards Israel, is it? If the Americans can’t change Israeli tactics, it strikes us as utterly fanciful that Ottawa could. Don’t get us wrong: We don’t think the Conservatives’ brand of diplomacy does much good in the world. We just don’t think the other kind did either.
Karen Selick, writing for Huffington Post, reminds Stephen Harper of his days advocating on behalf of citizens whose rights have been abused by the government, and politely suggests he do whatever he can to “call off” the Canada Revenue Agency’s “infernal attack dogs” in the matter of Irvin Leroux, who sued the CRA in hopes of a quick settlement in 2005 — on the advice of his Conservative MP, no less — and has been living in hell ever since.
If Mike Duffy’s trial goes as badly as it could go for senior Conservatives such as Harper, and if defeat for the Conservatives in 2015 “were … to become a foregone conclusion” as a result, then Postmedia’s Michael Den Tandt thinks “Harper would have to be a fool not to consider stepping aside.” As such, he briefs us on the contenders for the throne: Jason Kenney, Lisa Raitt, John Baird, Peter MacKay, James Moore and Michelle Rempel. The thing is, it strikes us as very unlikely that Conservative defeat would ever become a foregone conclusion at any point where it would be practical for Harper to step down. Marilla Stephenson, writing in the Halifax Chronicle-Herald, notes that Harper could always engineer a spring election as a sort of insurance policy in that regard.
Provincial affairs
In Le Devoir, Antoine Robitaille deplores the tendency in Quebec to regard language hawks such as him as somehow intolerant. Quebec spent too much time and energy expunging the national lexicon of such abominations as les winshields and les bumpers to backslide now, he argues. You say English was a greater enemy back in the day? Nonsense! The enemy is stronger than ever, he says, thanks to the Internet beaming English into tablets and phones all over the world. Thus “many Germans also fear the denglish, Hispanics the spanglish, and anglophones the globish.” (For the record, we’re not afraid of globish.) It’s gotten so bad, says Robitaille, that a francophone politician was recently heard to shout “shame on you” in the National Assembly! In English!
Sid Ryan, writing for Huffington Post, takes credit on behalf of the labour movement for denying Tim Hudak the premiership of Ontario, and he explains how it happened: “16 filled-to-capacity interactive workshops across the province for 10,000 local labour leaders from 52 unions,” designed to help them “drive down the number of union members who vote Conservative”; “a ‘war room’ at the [Ontario Federation of Labour], where we received reports from field organizers and tracked polling results from 55 key ridings, which narrowed to a few dozen swing ridings”; and OFL activists “deployed to assist with key NDP campaigns.” Blimey. Sounds expensive. Sure glad we weren’t forced to pay to subsidize it.
National Post
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2014/07/23/full-pundit-everything-stephen-harpers-done-wrong/
Full Pundit: Everything Stephen Harper’s done wrong
Life under Stephen Harper
The Conservatives love the temporary foreign worker program and hate Filipino nannies, the Toronto Star‘s Heather Mallick explains, because … well because it’s obvious, isn’t it? Everyone knows conservatives would prefer the Filipinos they hire in droves just stayed home, and everyone knows watching foreign workers “steal local jobs” is Jason Kenney’s ultimate idea of a good time. It’s a hot load of mostly nonsense, as usual, but it remains fascinating to watch Canadian lefties rant about foreign job-stealers. It’s like Kenney’s mere presence can turn them into Arizona Republicans.
In The Globe and Mail, Thomas Hodd proceeds from the premise that artists are essentially owed both a living and a marketplace for their work from the Canadian taxpayer, and complains that tough times have seen artists reduced to justifying why their work deserves sponsorship, and in so doing “conform[ing] to the language and approach of corporatism.” And it gets worse: “Many artists have been told by their government, their agents, and their arts councils that they need to become more ‘entrepreneurial’ with the selling of their album, play, or novel,” Hodd reports. “No longer good enough to be the creator of a work of art, artists now have to be their own marketing department.” Can you imagine?
Andrew Cohen, writing in the Ottawa Citizen, sniffs disdainfully at Canada’s “absolutist” brand of “megaphone diplomacy,” which is both “utterly confident” and, if you can believe it, “remarkably free of tentativeness.” Of course, he says, the government happens to be dead right about Russia and Ukraine. So that’s good. It might well be right that negotiations with Iran will come to naught, he concedes. And we stand with “the rest of the civilized world … against a ruinous Hamas, which appears quite ready to destroy it’s own people.” So that’s also good. Ah, but as “Israel’s best friend,” Cohen says we could use our “influence” to convince the country to lay off on civilians in Gaza.
Well, he can go on believing that if he wants. But Washington isn’t known for naked hostility towards Israel, is it? If the Americans can’t change Israeli tactics, it strikes us as utterly fanciful that Ottawa could. Don’t get us wrong: We don’t think the Conservatives’ brand of diplomacy does much good in the world. We just don’t think the other kind did either.
Karen Selick, writing for Huffington Post, reminds Stephen Harper of his days advocating on behalf of citizens whose rights have been abused by the government, and politely suggests he do whatever he can to “call off” the Canada Revenue Agency’s “infernal attack dogs” in the matter of Irvin Leroux, who sued the CRA in hopes of a quick settlement in 2005 — on the advice of his Conservative MP, no less — and has been living in hell ever since.
If Mike Duffy’s trial goes as badly as it could go for senior Conservatives such as Harper, and if defeat for the Conservatives in 2015 “were … to become a foregone conclusion” as a result, then Postmedia’s Michael Den Tandt thinks “Harper would have to be a fool not to consider stepping aside.” As such, he briefs us on the contenders for the throne: Jason Kenney, Lisa Raitt, John Baird, Peter MacKay, James Moore and Michelle Rempel. The thing is, it strikes us as very unlikely that Conservative defeat would ever become a foregone conclusion at any point where it would be practical for Harper to step down. Marilla Stephenson, writing in the Halifax Chronicle-Herald, notes that Harper could always engineer a spring election as a sort of insurance policy in that regard.
Provincial affairs
In Le Devoir, Antoine Robitaille deplores the tendency in Quebec to regard language hawks such as him as somehow intolerant. Quebec spent too much time and energy expunging the national lexicon of such abominations as les winshields and les bumpers to backslide now, he argues. You say English was a greater enemy back in the day? Nonsense! The enemy is stronger than ever, he says, thanks to the Internet beaming English into tablets and phones all over the world. Thus “many Germans also fear the denglish, Hispanics the spanglish, and anglophones the globish.” (For the record, we’re not afraid of globish.) It’s gotten so bad, says Robitaille, that a francophone politician was recently heard to shout “shame on you” in the National Assembly! In English!
Sid Ryan, writing for Huffington Post, takes credit on behalf of the labour movement for denying Tim Hudak the premiership of Ontario, and he explains how it happened: “16 filled-to-capacity interactive workshops across the province for 10,000 local labour leaders from 52 unions,” designed to help them “drive down the number of union members who vote Conservative”; “a ‘war room’ at the [Ontario Federation of Labour], where we received reports from field organizers and tracked polling results from 55 key ridings, which narrowed to a few dozen swing ridings”; and OFL activists “deployed to assist with key NDP campaigns.” Blimey. Sounds expensive. Sure glad we weren’t forced to pay to subsidize it.
National Post
While as should be obvious to anyone who reads my posts I'm quite upset about Bill C-36. That doesn't mean I think in the greater scheme of things Justin Trudeau would be a good Prime Minister or that a Liberal Majority would be good for Canada.
As you I'm not thrilled about Justin, I personally think he's an idiot but the Reformers have got to go. A strong message has to be sent that we do not tolerate invasion of privacy and entering into our bedrooms. The ladies have a right to do with their bodies what they please without being stigmatized and we have a right to purchase their offerings without having to worry about being carted away.
I once supported and even donated to the Reform Party but that has all stopped! I made a mistake but it will never happen again.
I was a at a huge 300 member stag this past Friday. As the hostesses were coming around selling tickets and hugs I mentioned to my table "enjoy it now boys. Go to your friendly neighborhood rub n tug before Harpo shuts it all down in the fall." If you could see the outcry started among everyone as the news went around the room because most had no idea of what was coming. Most of these blue collar boys just go in , blow their load, get out and aren't on Terb. I can tell you anyone in that room is NOT voting Harper anymore.
Thanx for the Mussolini like reply thailover - and you wonder why Conservatives can't be taken seriously? Sir, it was Michael who was killed in an avalanche.
I'm willing to give Justin a chance, he can't be any worse than Harper and his gold digging failure MacKay.
