The Blossomng Of Justin Trudeau

We see things around us change, arise and pass away; they or their condition, must therefore have a cause.
Immanuel Kant, Critique Of Pure Reason, First Edition-1781, p. 330

Politics is a lot like pure bred horse racing or world class track and field. You can pretty much tell the outcome of the event by the mysterious quality of what horse handicappers call form. And the election that was kicked off yesterday for Canada's 42 Parliament is and will be further truth and confirmation of the mystery of form.

Justin Trudeau - Hits The Ground Running.

It was while watching the At Issue Panel on Sunday night that the Oracle of Ottawa heard the best news of the year so far. The word has gotten out that the young Justin had a drag out, no holds barred,
flat out brawl with the spin doctors and the fart catchers. Justin won. The fart catchers and spin doctors are locked up in a room, in a basement, somewhere in Ottawa, until the end of the election. The Oracle of Ottawa has been convinced that spread among the little bastards in short pants were several planted spies from the PMO of the evil 'Harper Government'.

The end results are included in the above news footage, just as the Oracle of Ottawa saw it in his secure bunker, somewhere in Ottawa South. Gone was the girlish choirboy vocal fry. Justin Trudeau's balls have finally dropped! Everything is possible now, anything can be won, everything will be done. And he took questions, not just five questions, with no supplementals, Justin answered all their questions until there were no more questions... The Oracle of Ottawa can't help but observe that the young Justin has the natural stump knack, he just really loves it, Thoughts of Obama and Clinton could not be escaped.

Meanwhile, several hours earlier, Angry Tom Mulcair held the weirdest campaign launch that the Oracle of Ottawa has ever witnessed in his life so far. There is no video of it on You Tube 24 hours latter. There were no questions at all, even worse than Harper!! Everyone in Ottawa was scratching their heads and asking "What the fuck was that?".  The more I watch this opportunistic actor the more I am beginning to worry about the actual future of the NDP at the Federal level. It was the most Stalinist political event the Oracle of Ottawa has ever observed in his life.

Last and least is a video clip from the evil ole Steve Harper of the soon to be defunct ' Harper Government'. It was all so creepy and eerie that the Oracle of Ottawa was convinced that Darth Vader himself would appear through the doors at any moment. There were five pre vented questions allowed, with no supplementals. What kind of democracy do you call that? You can tell from the body language that Harper just hates campaigning. You should look at his first appearance in Mount Royal latter in the day. He is afraid of the people. He is thinking and greatly afraid that someone will actually know what he has truly in store for the ordinary Canadians and that they will suddenly turn on him and string him up while the security helps with the noose! He apparently has that dream a lot...  

At the time of this writing it is only Day 2 of the great marathon. Justin Trudeau was really kicking up the excitement in Steve Harper's Calgary riding! Angry Tom Mulcair was no where to be found. NDP officials stated that he was preparing for the Thursday debate. The Oracle of Ottawa has heard the rumor that he is actually at Stornaway in an induced coma, under going a Geritol drip to get him on his feet for Thursday....The campaign continues.

What Is Thomas Mulcair On?

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
Sir Francis Bacon, Essays, Essay L - Of Studies

Thomas Mulcair is the second son of a huge family of ten kids! He was born in Ottawa, Ontario. He rose way up in Canadian society, it is a hell of a story. From essentially the wrong side of the tracks, in all truth and honesty, he has risen to become the Leader of the NDP, which is now the Royal Opposition in the present Parliament. The whole story makes Horatio Alger look like a slacker.

Thomas Mulcair - Give yourself a shake!!

 It has been a pleasure to watch ole Tom roll on and over Steve Harper of the 'Harper Government'. As far as the Oracle of Ottawa can tell he is one of the very few that has made Harper squirm at will and with much pleasure. You know that Mulcair is getting to Harper by the unfailing thumb tell that Harper exhibits every time Mulcair starts to get a little too close to the truth. Just watch early videos from Question Period when the 'Harper Government' was young and cocky, and then compare them to recent videos of Question Period since the onset of the Senate scandal. Do you see it? Pretty wild or what? The 'Harper' thumbs are literally twisting.

Don't fuck with the Senate!!

The Oracle of Ottawa has gone on at length in earlier postings about how much he utterly despises the 'Harper Government', or anyone else for that matter, that starts to talk about the dinking or any serious changes to any of Canada's constitutional institutions. And that includes the Senate of Canada. The Senate of Canada has existed since 1867 and is enshrined in the Constitution Act, 1867. The person that was behind its creation and the expression 'House of second sober thought' was ironically a Conservative Prime Minister, the first Prime Minister of Canada, Sir John A. MacDonald! The creation of Canada is a hell of a story, it was in the end a grand compromise, and the older the Oracle of Ottawa gets he is becoming more convinced that the creation of Canada, out of all its opposing forces, could only have been Divinely inspired.

The Canadian Senate will continue, unchanged...

Senates go back in history over two thousand years. Why even the first and earliest Senate of the world, located in Rome (Curia Julia) still stands! And wherever and whenever a Senate is abolished there usually the results of dire consequences and endless troubles. Again I direct the reader to research the history of the Weimar Republic  of Germany in the time from 1919 -1933. There was another guy, Adolf whats his name, who was as hot to be rid of the Senate as Steve Harper is today in Canada. Why do you think that is? The Germany that rose out of the ashes of World War II and the division of Communism certainly included a Senate (Bundesrat) and even after re-unification Germany still has a second "upper" (appointed) house.

Is the Oracle of Ottawa the last old man in Ottawa to read that far back in history? The system we have works and has worked for as long as Canada has existed as a nation state. Yes there have been bumps on the road, and there will continue to be, that is human nature. If the powers of the day want to bring in some minor rules to protect the petty cash as times and technology changes that will be acceptable. But the Oracle of Ottawa does not want an elected Senate. The Oracle of Ottawa does not want the United States in Canada. All this has been dealt with over a century ago. It is surely shocking that the powers that be today do not know that, save and except that young Justin Trudeau. The Oracle of Ottawa totally agrees with the Justin Trudeau model of Senate Reform; If you want a good Senate start by putting good people into the Senate, just like his father did! And the Oracle of Ottawa must be honest and tell the truth. Someday he expects to get that call, and yes, for that Library of Parliament card, the Oracle of Ottawa will come out of retirement for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and serve in the House of sober second thought....

Jonathan 'Jethro' Genest-Jourdain - Scrub Up!

If you love to listen you will gain knowledge,
and if you pay attention you will become wise.
Sirach, 6:33,

The NDP is so close to power that even the Oracle of Ottawa can taste it! Now the Oracle of Ottawa knows a few things, having lived for over half a century so far. The Oracle of Ottawa knows that young Members of Parliament make a decent wage. They also always get a media "boot camp" when they first enter the House. But should the NDP handlers be cutting corners by not running a "media image camp"?

Jonathan prepares for Question Period....

 A very good example of this has caught the Oracle of Ottawa's eye lately in the form and visage of one Jonathon Genest-Jourdain. Now that suit that he has been wearing (see video clip) of late was once in fashion. I believe the last time was that wedding in Matane, Quebec on that long weekend in 1989! God! And those sideburns were all the rage back in the 1970's! But it seems that the young member has discovered another MP perk, all that good grub in the MP's Cafeteria... Ole Jonathan seems to have been really helping himself. That favorite suit of his now fits like Jethro Bodines graduation suit from the sixth grade!

And could some one from his office inform the young member that he can also get a subsidized haircut right near where he goes to stuff his face? The Oracle of Ottawa suspects that the little pretty boy doesn't let anyone but his Mom cut his hair at the communal Igloo back in his riding. So it may require the assistance of Yvon Godin and Charlie Angus to go with him for his first haircut in the big City! Yvon could comfort the young Member while Charlie installs the baby seat in the barber chair. The crying and screaming will no doubt be pretty loud, so the Oracle of Ottawa suggests that the barber be told to be fully stocked with lots of lollipops...

Scrub up buddy! We will work on your "coming out" latter...

NDP Convention - Damn Near Killed Me!

Were lost, but were making good time!
Yogi Berra, The Yogi Book, p. 51

Oh my! The Oracle of Ottawa has been so busy as of late. He has been so deeply into the ever ongoing "Thinking About Thinking Project" that the usual amount of missives to this humble blog have been missing as of late. All the Oracle of Ottawa can say is that the vein in progress has been very rich indeed. But the events of and at the recent NDP Leadership Convention so moved the Oracle that he just felt that Hunter S. Thompson obsession to share all his thoughts and other mental gibberish.

The Next One?

To tell the truth, the Oracle of Ottawa was expecting the worst from the recent NDP hoe-down, truth be told. And although I felt the urge to write about it often, I was afraid that I would jinx it. It was late Saturday afternoon on the way back to the secure bunker in Ottawa-South from the highly coveted Saturday routine that the Oracle of Ottawa heard on the radio station of the "state broadcaster" the CBC, that the third ballot was being jammed by unknown dark, evil and nefarious forces. No doubt originating from somewhere in Monotonous, Montana and / or the China Telegraph and Telephone Company at the behest of the "dark forces" presently being investigated by Elections Canada...

Seated in front of the Sony EX620-40HD in all the splendor of the HD broadcasting from the CBC, the Oracle was catching from the end of the third ballot. The Oracle of Ottawa was very happy with four of the last five candidates. All the Oracle of Ottawa knew is who he did not want to win! And The opinions of Ed Broadbent and whats her name be damned! That short, or rather vertically challenged  little weasel, you know who, really creeped the Oracle of Ottawa out! And the Oracle is very well versed in his Old Testament stories of death bed blessings, don't ya know!! And he was having none of it!

Nathan Cullen's bed time reading....

 But, not to worry, that young Nathan Cullen saved the day! In a move right out of  The Prince, Nathan released his delegates to their own wishes and desires. This was the equivalent of cutting one second place candidates throat ear from ear! And the way he smiled as he did it, well the Oracle of Ottawa was mightily impressed! It has been decades since the Oracle has witnessed politics played so ruthlessly and perfect...Now that nice Tom whats his name is head of the NDP. What a relief! Now ask yourself this dear reader; Tom and Steve meet in a back alley in the wrong end of Montreal.. Who do you think is the one who is going to walk out? Yeah... Me too! It is going to be impossible to "attack ad" a guy whose nick name is "Tom The Bomb" ! And can you imagine how Question Period is going to go from now on? It is just going to be total heaven!

President Barack Obama....

Now this Nathan Cullen lad doesn't fool the Oracle of Ottawa for a moment. It's simply because I know about such things. Old Nathan has had a most privileged education. You don't learn to speak like that at an Ontario Public school, no sir. This guy is a Catholic? And he went to a Jesuit High School. How is the Oracle of Ottawa doing?  He has more than one university degree. Am I right. Really... He is really trying to keep the beacons under the bushel, just like that upstart from Old Montreal did back in the 1960's... But of course it will all come out at just the right time won't it?

Who knew? Barack Obama comes in white!

Letter To Charlie Angus

He call'd so loud, that all the hollow Deep
Of Hell resounded.
John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book I, Lines 314-315

Dear Charlie:

Only in Canada; one day your rocking and then the next day your talking, in the House of Commons! The Oracle of Ottawa thought he lead an "interesting" life, but I got nothing on you Charlie. I hoped you got some time to relax on the mid fall break.Ya, I know, fat chance on that...

Charlie Angus

 The real reason I'm writing, is about that committee meeting I watched on CPAC. Wherein a certain big, bad, Canadian press lord want'a be graced you with his presence. Between you and me Charlie I have never seen anything so utterly crazy in recent times. And the way you and the young lads dismantled him was wonderous to behold. That part where you reminded him that he received  an amount not un-adjacent to 600 million dollars of subsidy from the Canadian tax payer was really funny. But you missed the fact that could have really rocked the whole appearance even more!

Contemporary Canadian Press Lord
confers with counsel...

And that was the little known fact of the two tier share structure. You see if you look up the stock symbol of the said press lords company as publicly traded, you will discover that there is the .A stock and then there is the .B stock. Now usually the A stock contains all the votes or voting power. The B stock is essentially for the "chumps" i.e. the Caissse de Depot. Who do yo think owns the A stock? You guys in the NDP have got to start learning about this sneaky stuff. You should bring in some disaffected young corporate security lawyers to help you out. But there will be another day to bring this up I am sure. And it is a great comfort to the Oracle of Ottawa that you will be there to look out for the best interests of all Canadians.

                                                                                                       All the best;
                                                                                              The Oracle of Ottawa

Baird - Lebel Tells: There Goes The Majority!!

'Tis impossible for the mind to preserve any notion of difference betwixt two bodies of the same nature existing in the same place at the same time.
David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, p. 41

When Olivia Chow stands to her seat in Question Period and all but losses her still strong Chinese accent and sounds like a matron that was born and raised Rosedale, you know the NDP smell blood! They smell the weakness and the fear like a pack of wolves which can tell which moose in the herd will be dinner tonight! Now group this with the blatant and oh so transparent tells of the front bench Conservative sock-puppet mental midgets and it is very easy indeed for most any blogger, even those that are not as intelligent as the Oracle of Ottawa, to immediately start writing about the future in advance of a minimum of two weeks!

Conservative Minister...

You know that the opposition has touched the royal blue g-spot when the old tells start to show. This was very apparent in the question period of September 27, 2011. All that stuff that the NDP and the Liberals are saying about "Two Tier" Tony Clement must be true! When ever they ask "Two Tier" a question in the House, the Minister fails to stand to his seat and be forthright with the people of Canada! Charlie Angus is feeding like Jaws at an orphanage beach day! It is the great man John Baird that takes the questions for old Tony. And during the Tuesday Question Period Minister Baird was talking very slowly and his voice has dropped two and a half octaves! All us old hands of watching Question Period knows what this means! The answer forthcoming is an answer, just not the truth...And it seems to be spreading! It seems that Minister Denis Lebel, in utter panic, has forgotten how to speak English under certain question topics about major infrastructure! This  blog writer surmises that it is the Ministers conflict with his inner PQ...Selling out can extract a large price bonhomme!!

Charlie Angus - Ready for Question Period...

It is hard to believe, but it all gets better! It seems the real right wing wacko's are stirring in their usual pathological frustration. One Brad Trost has unloosed Steve Harpers favorite ghost from the Tory hope chest. Yes that, "no abortion for any reason", hell cat has been re-loosed! Complete with the "resurrection" of one Charles McVety, I told the party whip that they should have used two stones to keep him from rising from the dead, but noooo...Sometimes a savings is no bargain. The majority should start to shrink any day now, just like I told you months ago.

And now Let Us Pray, my fellow Canadians, really, I am not joking...

Charlie Angus Decides to Stay Free Range

When history moves - really moves, that is - it does so in great convulsive jolts.
David McNally, Another World Is Possible, p. 13

One of the greatest pleasures of watching Question Period in recent times is to see the faces of all the Conservatives turn to a sickening ashen gray when Charlie Angus rises in his place and kicks off another scandalous session of close and often embarrassing, but always entertaining grilling. Why if it wasn't always so wild and raucous I am sure you would be able to hear all one hundred and sixty six Tory assholes snapping shut, all at the same time .. Well okay, one hundred and sixty five, there is one minister on the front bench who's asshole would snap open and wink at the handsome Charlie... But of course that is another blog post for the future..(or not...)

Charlie Angus - Staying Free Range...

It would have been an absolute shame if Charlie Angus would have decided to run for the NDP party leadership job. And it was with great relief that the Oracle of Ottawa heard the news that Charlie has put any such speculations to rest. Now Question Period will never be boring! While the rest of the leadership hopefuls pull back as to protect themselves from making any gaffs. The front liners such as Charlie Angus, Yvon Godin  and all the rest of the gang will, I am sure, pick up the slack. The new crop of youngsters are coming along very well and several great talents will no doubt emerge.

Go With The Buick!!

The NDP has a big decision to make in the near future. It is starting to look like a classic purchase decision. It is a lot like the guy that wins a little money at the Lottery. He has enough to lease the Porsche or to buy the Buick. Now in this case the Porsche  is being represented by Brian Topp, The Buick is being represented by Paul Dewar. Now a Porsche is really cool and all and it goes like snot done a frozen razor blade! But, alas, the engine will come out of the car for the first time usually around 60,000km... The Oracle has seen Buicks with nearly 500,000km on them and the engine has never been gone into for any reason...You can drive them until the body rusts through...What the Oracle of Ottawa is saying is that the the rank and file of the NDP have got to do their homework!! And by that I mean that you must check out the health condition and  health histories of your leadership candidates!

Can you say; Aus Motor??

A guy that at the age of 51 years or there abouts that is already a cancer survivor is and should be out of the running. Investigate family trees, does the candidate come from long lived genetic stock? i.e. How long did the candidates parents live? And their parents? Hence my liking for Paul Dewar.. Did you know that there is a Commanders medical in the Royal Canadian Navy? To get your third ring and your own command of a Canadian warship all the Executive officers must pass the Commanders medical. It consists of mostly a very detailed heart check. One weird looking pattern and or beat and your future Naval career is over. That is hard but that is life at the level of the "show"... Choose carefully, I just can't go through what I went through this summer ever again in this lifetime... Go with the freaking Buick!!!

Classic Charlie Angus; shit kicking the be'jesus out of the barely there Conservatives...

CPAC: "I just couldn't stop watching.."!

Universal labour is all scientific labour, all discovery and all invention.
Karl Marx, Das Kapital, Volume III,  Chapter V, p. 104

It is not often that the Oracle of Ottawa finds his local beer store empty on a Friday afternoon, at 4:00pm! I think that only happened twice before. The Great Ice Storm of 1998 and the Summit Hockey Series in 1972! But no one was watching the great debate on CPAC! Well that is what everybody said... But I would die to find out what CPAC's ratings were for the last couple of days! It was the greatest filibuster in Canadian history! Fifty eight hours straight on. The last minute wilder than the first minute! This great debate was also a landmark in Canadian history. For the first time in history anywhere in the world all the people watching the debate either on television or streaming feed on the inter-net could contact their favorite or un-favorite member in the House of Commons in real time! There were constant E-mails and Twitters of encouragement to all members in real time. The Oracle of Ottawa couldn't help remembering that night back in 1969 sitting in front of a black and white TV in Pembroke, Ontario a twelve year old kid watching in awe as a man walked on the moon for the first time! This great debate to me was as important and as historic!

The Conservatives got their fat lard arsed butts kicked and good! I am sure that the Labour Minister Lisa Raitt was warned by her civil servants that the original bill as written would start a firestorm. But, alas, to benefit from your Civil Servants, you must listen to them! Playing in the "big's" in Ottawa is a lot different than politics in the smoke of a Legion Branch somewhere in Cape Breton! The Oracle of Ottawa expects that she will be shuffled out of cabinet at the first opportunity...with the set up to be left under the bus, Conservative style!     

Lisa Raitt, Shaky, Scorched and Incompetent

Little Lisa thought that the NDP were a bunch of pink pussy's that would fold in an hour! Besides every one wants to go home right? The Conservatives all wanted to get their lard arses home. But the NDP caucus was full of labour lawyers, union bosses, social activists and other assorted "misfits" that have been dreaming of breaking the House of Commons debate record all their lives! I swear dear reader that each one of them, prayed to his/her God every night for years, nay decades, that they would be the one like Jimmy Stewart, in Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, that would pass out while having the floor! It was a grand event that the Oracle of Ottawa had the honor to witness!

All of the rural and ignorant hicks of the  Conservative Party have just been through the most intense three day seminar of Labour Law and History in modern times! Why by the end of it on Saturday evening Lisa Raitt was more withered and scorched then Elizabeth May! Who by the way, got in some mighty fine jabs and deadly one-liners! The people in Saanich - Gulf Islands have great reason to be proud of their member! A party of one who took it all the way! You Go Girl!!

Elizabeth May, A Moving and Noble Performance..

The most memorable performance, that will stay with the Oracle of Ottawa for ever was that of Yvon Godin!
This is the passion and commitment that the Oracle of Ottawa dreams of in his member of parliament! He flamed the Minister of Labour! He owned her! He schooled her, like she has never been schooled before! It was the finest most impassioned political oratory that the Oracle of Ottawa has ever witnessed! It was moving and correct! Mr. Godin is the veteran of 37 negotiated contracts! Damn! Fifty eight hours in the House of Commons is a piss in the park! Isn't anyone in the PMO's office doing their homework??

All in all it was a fine performance by the whole NDP caucus. They had the Tory's enraged, reeling and rocking backwards on their heels! Contrary to the Liberals, it is not hard to see where the real juice is!

Yvon "Jimmy" Godin, what the Oracle of Ottawa dreams of! The Tory's cringe in fear!

The Increasing Baseness Of the Canadian Electorate

Every nation gets the government it deserves.
Joseph de Maistre, Letter 76, on the topic of Russia's new constitutional laws (27 August 1811); published in ''Lettres et Opuscules

How far gone is a society that will elect a single unwed mother that allows herself to stand in a Canadian Federal Election while presently employed as a serving wench at a University pub in Ottawa, that lives in the Province of Quebec? (And can't even speak French....) And even worse, does not even show her face in the riding she signed up to run in? And even worse, goes to skanky Las Vegas for a holiday during the campaign? And even worse, actually freak'in wins the seat!! Well check out Ruth Ellen "Vegas" Brosseau....

First we take Ottawa...

Do we even deserve to be a sovereign nation?  Do you realize the the Americans could take over this "country" in less than 90 minutes? It would only require three operations carried out at the same time... An Airborne drop on the City of Ottawa, 101st Airborne Division natch...with a Seal Team 6  pop out from the United States Embassy to secure the head(s) on Sussex Drive and various locations in Rockliffe Park... (i.e. the central bank governor....) A heavy armor attack across the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel, with another Airborne drop at the Tar Sands Up-graders somewhere around Edmonton Alberta. All over, all gone, forever. We will be like Peurto-Rico. Who would stop them? Who would blame them? We have demonstrated we are not up for it....

101st Airborne -Major's Hill Park, after the invasion...

What sort of political party would allow such a fiasco to happen? What sort of people are so brainless and dick-less to fall for a scam such as this? I have it down to the screwed-up social safety net. With universal health-care every one can get all the pills they want. Especially the welfare skidmarks and the rag ass whining seniors that can no longer afford to eat properly, so they eat pills and stay high 24/7! Oxyconton, prozac, and Kraft Dinner! This in no way will affect your judgement!!

Jack Layton should do the right thing and damn quick! Within twenty four hours he should appear on the CBC with a statement that he has accepted the resignation of Ms. Vegas effective yesterday! There will be a by-election in the riding of Berthier-Maskinonge as soon as possible as per the regulations of Elections Canada. And an apology to the Canadian people would be a touch of class and gravely in order. (MORON!!)

This is the commercial that got the NDP 103 seats... How low do you have to go?