Canada - Recent Scandals Simply Explained

In the sinister human world one individual pole is the tyrant-leader, inscrutable, ruthless, melancholy, and with an insatiable will, who commands loyalty only if he is egocentric enough to represent the collective ego of his followers. The other pole is represented by the pharmakos or sacrificed victim, who has to be killed to strengthen the others.
Northrop Frye, Anatomy Of Criticism, p. 148

If you think that people all around the world are shocked by the recent events in Canada, it is but nothing, compared to the shock of the majority of people that are presently living in Canada. We are stuck with an obese, alcoholic, crack smoking mayor of Toronto, our largest city,  who seems to be able to do anything he desires, without any fear of being removed from office. Meanwhile in Ottawa, three Senators were destroyed with out the usual due process that once was the right of any and all Canadians.

The Scapegoat

 The irony was that these Senators were destroyed, banished, without pay for a period of two years for the so called crime of "false" expense claims, which all in did not even add up to a crummy million dollars! And which the 'Harper Government' accepted, and paid for at the time they were submitted. These three Senators were 'Harper government' appointments. These three Senators raised millions of dollars for the Conservative party Of Canada, with the full approval of Steve Harper of the 'Harper Government'! What is the real meaning of all this?

It is all about the fact that Canada is living under the administration of a budding tyrant. It is all about "under the bus". It is all about the fears of intelligent Canadians being realized. The present Prime Minister of Canada is simply stark raving nuts. Many of us raised the alarms years ago about the dangers of this actor and the coming hidden agenda that he has been working for the last decade.Many prominent people such as Rex Murphy stated in the media that we were under tinfoil hats and that there was nothing to worry about. One can only wonder what will be the ultimate price this actor will pay.

It has been normal practice in Canada to always attempt to salvage wayward individuals. For example, if a Liberal Minister screwed up big time, he was transferred to the back benches, the kinks were hammered out, the ship righted, and then returned to his/her formal position of dignity, or a reasonable facsimile there of.  But upon the advent of the 'Harper Government' right wing revolution, every thing started to take a much more darker and sinister aspect. Failure of any degree was no longer redeemable. It was under the bus. Total destruction, with no chance of any redemption, which is totally out of character for a Judeau- Christian democratic Country.
 

  
 At first these "under the bus" virtual executions were few and far between. Then they started to happen in single cases, but now, much closer together and frequently. Of course there is a grave price for these one off executions. Soon there are so many bodies under the ideological bus that the wheels of said bus will no longer touch the ground, even though it is full, someone is at the wheel steering and the wheels are spinning with the pedal to the floor. How pathological is this? And what is the future to hold? The Oracle of Ottawa will now look out ahead and tell you Dear Reader.

The present 'Harper Government' is very much like a seriously dangerous serial criminal, that is never satisfied for long at the demise of its latest victim. The thrill must be reenacted at ever closer intervals, and at some point one victim at a time will no longer be enough. We are presently at the time of this writing past that point. The next executions will consist of an even larger group of Senators and members of the House that spoke out against the earlier "criminal acts". This will continue until it is stopped....

Rob Ford Correctly Predicts Bloodbath

Some systems have no equilibrium states, while others have many. These matters depend upon the nature of the system.
John Rawls, A Theory Of Justice, p. 457

Unfortunately though, it appears that it is all going to be Rob Ford's blood! Some days  you just can't prepare yourself for the events that are fated to unfold. It was all just breaking on the old vulgar media of television around lunchtime. The Oracle of Ottawa was needless to say, totally floored. The Oracle of Ottawa was sure that the powerful friends of Rob Ford had made that embarrassing tape vanish forever. To find a deleted file on a hard drive is somewhat akin to finding a needle in a haystack, especially if you know anything about file allocation tables and such like. Someone must have really wanted the mayors hide very badly.

Rob Ford - Starting to feel the heat?

The timing of the announcement proves that there is a God, and he has a very long and pointy finger, attached to a very long arm. The irony of the timing of the event is just too much for the Oracle of Ottawa to enjoy at all once. What with the Senate expense scandal here in Ottawa and the start of the Conservative Party convention out in Calgary today, it was just too much irony for the Oracle to absorb all at once. And the real strangeness is that all the events are connected in many more ways than one, if you ponder it all in the big picture.

 
It appears to the Oracle of Ottawa that the conservative trifecta will never be achieved. It will be very fortunate indeed if the present conservative forces in power at the time of this writing make it to their next election dates. It was only two years ago that they all but seemed invincible to gods and mere men...brace yourself Dear Reader, this is just the beginning, there is so much more to come.

Rob Ford - Rehab, No, No, No?

I am not so old and cowardly as not to be young in reason on behalf of piety.
4 Maccabees, 5:31, NRSV

Well dear reader, I am sure you have seen tonight's video of his eminence Rob Ford on the CBC National News, yet again. Today's outburst concerned the density challenged mayor of Toronto's reaction to a rather not too flattering story in today's Toronto Star newspaper. A rather scurrilous article that reported that one said mayor was asked to leave a certain military social function. Due to the apparent condition that the said mayor allegedly appeared to be in at the time.

Rob Ford - Time running out?

 It struck the Oracle of Ottawa that the mayor was sweating rather more profusely than usual, which is a whole lot, if you check out the video carefully. Now any one with even the most basic analytical skills, can guesstimate the present mayors weight at over 300lbs, easy. Now any other chemical effort combined with breathing is and would be most dangerous for a person in the shape that the eminent  mayor now appears to be in. And did you see the pictures in the said article? Oy!

Now the Oracle of Ottawa will tell you from experience that alcoholism is very easy to hide, if you have the smallest amount of discipline. But other stuff can be damn near impossible to hide once it gets a hold on you. And from the look of the pictures that the that terrible article printed and the ones you can see on Google Images, well dear reader, you can come to your own conclusions. Now the only question is; will the rotund asset of the Conservative revolution just survive to the next election, let alone win it?

It appears to the Oracle of Ottawa that someone had better intervene here and soon. Seriously, if all my favorite Conservatives start dropping, the Oracle of Ottawa is going to be severely challenged for future copy after the funerals. Now Rob Ford should attack this problem in a cold rational Conservative fashion. He should find out if he can get a discount if he brings a certain federal finance minister with him at the same time...

Mayor Rob Ford Goes Bagless?

Consensus is built, sometimes very rapidly, by cutting in many and diverse interests.
John W. Kingdon,  Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policy, p. 161

The Oracle of Ottawa can certainly understand the position of the great mayor of Toronto. No man likes to have a tax on his bag. But as we all know, those damn leftie pink-o's are every where! They are the ones that ruined the great Conservative hat trick! They are the ones, backed by the big union bosses that screwed up what would no doubt have been a knuckle draggers utopia! Damn them, one and all! It is the People's fault. Any and all sundry people that don't agree with the mayors office are leftie pink-o's, it is all as simple as that.

His Bagless - Rob Ford

It was all going so well in chambers last week. The density challenged august mayor of Toronto had engineered the vote to rid Toronto the good of that pesky nickel tax on shopping bags...All went splendidly, and upon the seeming ease of it all one of the august mayors "inner circle", one Dave Shiner, off the top of his rather limited mental faculties, thought; Hell, lets go whole hog and ban the bag all together! Well sure as your born, the "leftie" councillors took this as a miracle similar in magnitude of Moses parting the Red Sea! And any one of them will tell you that Moses had no problem at all getting through life with only one bag. So there! 

So the truth of the matter is that Mayor Ford was done in by one of his own neuronally challenged underlings. Now you know why dear reader, that all Conservatives rely so heavily on spin doctored, fart catcher polished "speaking points". Most Conservatives, and especially the elected ones, are just not smart enough to go it alone like a really cool Liberal or NDP type.

Mayor Ford should discuss the problem with Hurricane Hazel or Margaret Atwood. Great Canadians, that at various points of their lives, went bag less for extremely long periods. They would most certainly inform the challenged mayor, that it is not the bag you want, but rather the bag you hold! And all that really matters is that that bag has lots of the desired "stuff" in it....

 
His Bagless, searches for a new full bag.....

Conservative Ontario Hat Trick Jammed!

I believe it will not be very necessary to prove, that these qualities produce an association among ideas, and upon the appearance of one idea naturally introduce another.
David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, Book I, Sec.IV, p. 11

What does the wee blue leprechaun Jimmy Flaherty have in common with Mayor Rob Ford? Okay your right on that one, the height deficiency disorder. What else? Well okay I will have to give that one also. The near megalomaniacal desire for power that they aren't intelligent enough  to wield on their own. But now you are getting really close! Earlier on in this blog the Oracle of Ottawa was referring to the Bilderberg Group a lot of times in jest. Tongue firmly in check, it seemed to make the words flow better and for some weird reason it gave the writing something I was trying to achieve... But the Oracle of Ottawa had a weird hunch to check something out, and in requirement  to the Thinking About Thinking Project, which is still ongoing, I follow all hunch's as procedure... Well the Oracle of Ottawa has truly frightened himself this time!

David Hume says; "I told you so..."

As you have no doubt heard in the old media, Dear Reader, the details of the incredible fees being earned in Ottawa by one Deloitte-Touche at the peasant rate of only $90,000 per day! All to help and aid the wee little bantam rooster Jimmy Flaherty in gutting the Civil Service...The whole contract tops out at a mere 20 million dollars. I am sure many extensions will surely be granted... Now at roughly the same time His Imperial Highness of Hog Town, Rob Ford, has the firm KPMG in for the kitten drowning exercise at the City of Toronto! I haven't heard what this is costing the beleaguered Toronto tax payer, but you can count on it being very rich...

The Oracle of Ottawa remembers when we once had competent governments in Canada. The last big clean up in Ottawa occurred under the administration of Jean Chretien. Why the guy wouldn't even think of contracting out such a task! They were Liberals, for crying out loud and  smart as hell too! They had more than enough brilliance in house, it was a total doddle!! And they did what they had to do, but they did it nicely and respectfully! Why people lined up for early retirement just to get their retirement plaque signed by a Great Prime Minister! It all went swimmingly.

So why is it that two levels of government, of the right wing wacko variety, have to bring in foreign contractors to do stuff that any civil servant staffer is more than competent to attend to on his own? Well the Oracle of Ottawa will let you discover this all by yourself...
Enter the following searches into Google... I have already done so to save you the time.... So just click on the link and it will take you there....

Deloitte-Touche Bilderberg Group.....(engage the high lighter...)

KPMG Bilderberg Group......(engage the high lighter...)

Now do you understand? These foreign "contractors" seem to be certified ideologically pure by the Bilderberg Group!! Why isn't the old style media running with this? Why isn't someone standing up in the House of Commons and asking this question? They will, and still do, have much more protection in the House than this poor blogger does out naked in the open....

The Oracle of Ottawa could go on and on... But I am not Hunter S. Thompson, and this is not the Rolling Stone magazine... Gods speed you poor fools....

Note wee Jimmy in the bottom right of the frame...making Lovey eyes with old Rob....
(This post was created with the help of Genesis - Wind and Wuthering, it worked in Christmas of 1976 and it still works.)

Rob 'Creosote' Ford - Done Like Dinner?

If you make things sound inoffensively obvious, than it is likely that no one will listen closely. 
B. W. Powe, Towards A Canada Of Light, p. 92

It seems to the Oracle of Ottawa, the one certain way to sign up for a 24/7 colonoscopy , is to be the newbie mayor of the largest city in Canada and then sneak out a 1000 man police force layoff notice to the press in the dog days of summer so that the Chief of Police will hear second hand on the six o'clock news! Now the Oracle of Ottawa has never had the pleasure of elected office, but if he did, this is one thing that he would certainly not risk! And by the look of the picture of the Toronto Police Chief in today's Globe and Mail the Oracle of Ottawa is more right than wrong yet again!

"Robina"  rocks the Casba...

I am sure that the people of Toronto will be very pleased with the 2,500 new ex "mall cops" who will no doubt replace the thousand sworn members, now soon to be unemployed! Don't you wish you could see the method here? Oh! There is no method? Well...

Video I

All that is left to wonder about I guess is who is going to get the tax farm concession for the municipal property taxes? Maybe that nice Swiss accounting firm, that seems to know everything about Toronto...Maybe Rob will pay another visit to Dalton and try to get the Province of Ontario to do it for nothing? It is always worth a try, especially if a lot of the press show up and take pictures and all. One shudders in the realization that Jane Jacobs was probably right after all, and we are all doomed.

Video II

Forgive this 'umble blogger, but I just couldn't help but notice the incredible similarities of the two "actors" in Video I and Video II.

Margaret Atwood For Mayor? - Sign Me Up!

From the mode of goodness, real knowledge develops; from the mode of passion, greed develops; and from the mode of ignorance develop foolishness, madness and illusion.
Bhagavad Gita As It Is, 14.17, Text 17, p. 580

It has become painfully aware to the Oracle of Ottawa that in Canada at all levels of government we are suffering a severe shortage of Wise Men. Hopefully this is cyclical, but one has to start worrying after a period now exceeding ten years! It soon appears obvious that we must turn to one of Canada's least tapped resources, aside from the all the presently unrealized potential of its citizens in general,and that is the great pool in Canada of its Wise Women!

Her Worship Margaret Atwood?

Being mayor of Toronto would be great for Margaret Atwood. Being a belle of global letters is all fine and good, but the poor woman has won everything at least once already. What else is left to win? The Nobel Prize for Literature? All the Oracle of Ottawa can say is; Wait for it!  Being of Welsh heritage and only 71 years old, she is still, nearly, a mere teenager! And Canada is due, and who else alive right now is worthy? Yeah, that was an easy one...

What? Me worry?

Having Margaret Atwood as mayor of Toronto would really lift the cities profile all over the world. It would send a tremendous message that Canada has not degenerated into a  right wing shit hole after all! Imagine the council meetings as Maggy corrected the grammar of the thick but driven Councilor Ford! It would be a local cable channel ratings avalanche! Why the Oracle of Ottawa has even heard rumblings of a rumor that the longest serving mayor in Canadian history, Hurricane Hazel is secretly on board...

But the Great Woman needs another project that will fill in her time as she waits for the certain to come opportunity. It was the great American writer Hunters S. Thompson that had the great gift of sensing what the public wanted next. And we all know that he delivered large and left no one disappointed. Using the same algorithm the Oracle of Ottawa has come to the conclusion that Maggy should try her hand at her first "graphic novel", called The Brothers Ford... 

If Margaret Atwood was mayor of Toronto she would not be afraid to march at the head of the Gay Pride parade..... (God! She was so totally hot back then wasn't she?)

Mayor Rob Ford Versus Margaret Atwood

Politics is a game of friends.
Jean Chretein, Straight From the Heart, p. 23

It is a great comfort to the Oracle of Ottawa that there exists in the province of Ontario dumber municipal voters than the pathetic rubes in Ottawa. Never in my wildest dreams did I think that there would be a Mayor of Toronto that would make His Worship Larry O'Brien look like Cardinal Richelieu! But not only did that come true, Rob Ford brought his brother Doug Ford Jr! Who by chance or circumstance is an elected councilor!

All the red meat righties of Toronto are still convinced that this combination would be unbeatable. Well not so fast...

His Worship - Rob Ford....

The Oracle of Ottawa has learned from his daily scan of the Globe and Mail web page that the Brothers Ford  may have picked up a challenging force in the form of one Margaret Atwood, a great Canadian and  not failing to mention, one of Ottawas most famous daughters. Perhaps it would be wise for the staff of Mayor Ford and/or Councilor Ford to have a little sit down with Krista Erickson on the subject and fallout of mouthing off in a disrespectful manner to and or about Canadian icons. The fact that Maggy has over 85,000 Twitter followers is something that can not be lightly disregarded.

Margaret Atwood - A Great Canadian

This KPMG study is something that council in the future should erect some rules against. I wonder what a Swiss Cooperative knows about Toronto? Surely there recommendations have the best and most honourable  interests of all Torontonians at heart. One must ponder the future fallout of all these recent events. To all the right-wingers that thought a vote for Mr. Ford was like sticking it in a Liberals eye, do you realize that the costs for this will far outweigh all the miserable nickels and dimes that the Brothers Ford are going to "save" you and the cost of the damage to the image of Toronto to the world? Soon the tourist traffic will start to fall off. Then your world city rankings will be soon to follow. Why, look at all the money you saved!

It is great to have a good coach, isn't it?