Justin Trudeau Has Harper By The Balls!

In all things balance is better.
Homer, The Odyssey,  Book 15.71, Richmond Lattimore Translation

It was only the third day back from the world vagrant tour for the 'Harper Government' and that young Odysseus of the Liberal party of Canada otherwise known as Justin Trudeau has reached across the floor of the House of Commons and directly and firmly grabbed Stephen Harper of the 'Harper Government' firmly by the balls and in turn has gained control of the whole total agenda. Not too bad for the leader of the present Third party! And of course that is true as I have related it to you Dear Reader. Otherwise, why is today's Question Period not posted on the CPAC site as it is supposed to be? Yes, indeed, the prime Ministers Office has many friends among the corporate whores of the media companies that own CPAC. And when it all goes really wrong on any given day, you the tax paying public will just have to wait awhile to see the actual proceedings.

Justin 'Odysseus' Trudeau

It seems that they still teach Homer at that posh Jesuit high school that Justin no doubt attended, as has his great father before him, and it was also the school that Jean Chretien also attended many many years ago. And it just so happened that the young Justin was in attendance at the great Jean Chretien's 80th birthday party ever so recently. That Dear Reader is the difference between Justin Trudeau and the conservative scum. The conservative scum waits for the spin doctors and fart catchers to write their speaking points, while Justin Trudeau surrounds himself with the best and the brightest, just as his father did, and after taking the guidance of all the great men, stands up and simply acts. This quality is fully and totally beyond the mental horizon of Stephen Harper of the 'Harper Government'.

 One might ask how it all flew with the Canadian public at first glance. Well the Oracle of Ottawa found it all surprising that on a poll of Canadian viewers of Power and Politics in real time, natch, that over 97% of people polled agreed strongly with the young Justin's idea!  Now for all of us that know such things, the 'Harper Hapless Government' has never had one act in all their years in office that ever even came close to that level of approval. The only thing that they ever came close to achieving 97% in is fucking up! And of course in politics you can only usually do that just one time....

In Defense Of Senator Pamela Wallin

And money is like muck, not good except it be spread.
Sir Francis Bacon, Essays, Essay XV, Of Seditions And Troubles

You know that we are living in the Slavoj Zizek "End Times" when the Oracle of Ottawa has to come to the defense of a Conservative Senator! Now the Oracle of Ottawa is Left of the Lefties, and therefore is no close friend of the vertically challenged Senator Pamela Wallin.The Oracle of Ottawa will freely admit that he has never liked Pamela Wallin, but fair is fair, and the Oracle of Ottawa has had enough of this bullshit Canadian Senate witch hunt.

The (Still) Honourable Pamela Wallin

Lets get this all straight shall we? The Scum of the Prime Ministers office is ready to destroy this essentially decent woman and several of her peers in the vain attempt to drum up a wall of public revulsion against the "unelected" Senate of Canada. Mark the words of the Oracle of Ottawa Dear Reader, the only thing that is going to soon vanish is the insane scum of the 'Harper Government'!!

The Oracle has your back Pammy...

At the time of this writing, the scum of the 'Harper Government' Prime Ministers Office is ready to feed this woman to possible criminal charges and jail time for a crummy hundred grand, more or less, over a period of several years. Did you know Dear Reader that the last known GDP of Canada was 1.844 TRILLION dollars?  One of the richest nation states on Earth can't afford to have an appointed Senator of the Upper House of Sober Second Thought have a stay over in Toronto? Really? Fuck this insane SHIT!!!

Senator Wallin is not lying when she says that it is all but impossible to fly from Ottawa, Ontario to anywhere in Saskatchewan! But to fly from Ottawa, Ontario to Wadena, Saskatchewan, population 1306, is like recreating Homers Odyssey by air, quiet an undertaking at any time, believe the Oracle. And while we are talking air travel, why the Hell should an appointed Senator of Canada have to fly coach on Air Canada like a fuck'in Prole? An appointed Senator of the Canadian Senate should be able to go anywhere in Canada at no charge, no paperwork, at any time, and as often as they Goddamned want!!! There should be a very large fleet of executive aircraft for members of Parliament, Senators, Civil Servants, and if any seats are left over, members active and retired, of the Canadian Forces. Its Canada!! Distance is no object. (A good first thing job for the next Justin Trudeau government!!!)

One of the things that really gets the Oracle of Ottawa super Hot is the fact that the scum of the 'Harper Government' accepted all these Senators chump change expenses with out question, and then to fulfill a political objective come back on there most valuable people for repayment, Christ it is just like working for the City of Ottawa! And while the Oracle is at it, he is not too pleased at all the other Senators for getting on the Prime Ministers Office bandwagon. Not one Senator of any Party has had the guts to stand up and tell the PMO punks to piss off. But they have all no doubt been threatened with the same treatment or worse...

And another thing that also gets the Oracle of Ottawa very hot is the failure of the old style vulgar media to enquire to the cost of getting a Bilderberger Big Four Accounting firm into "audit" the chump change expenses. How many of this taxpayers dollars did the minion scum of the 'Harper Government' spend of this taxpayers money to get back one dollar of chump change expenses? Ten? A hundred? More? Why does this leftie taxpayer have to subsidize that??

Recently the Oracle of Ottawa has been having a recurring nightmare. Every time the Oracle of Ottawa enters a MacDonalds or a Harveys burger joint, in Ottawa, he can't find a seat, because the place is packed with 'Harper Government' cabinet members, diplomats, Senators and Deputy Ministers all doing government business with various world leaders, over meals from the value menu. God it is just terrible! It is high time to put the scum and the minions of the lowlife 'Harper Government' far behind us, and the sooner, the better.

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....

On Canadian Senate Reform - (Again)

There would be no use of an upper house if it did not exercise, when it thought proper, the right of opposing or amending or postponing the legislation of the lower house.
Sir John A. MacDonald, Legislative Assembly, February 6, 1865 

A Senate or Upper House is only as strong as the people appointed to it. There has been no empire or hegemon in the history of the common era that has not had a Senate! The Senate performs the purpose of the house of second sober thought. The Oracle of Ottawa truly believes in this. John Kenneth Galbraith referred to this power as countervailing power. And the Oracle of Ottawa truly believes this to be true also.

Ceiling of the Canadian Senate Chamber

There have been nation states in recent modern history that had all the earmarks and makings of an empire, yet they did not survive intact for more than seventy years. The first example that comes to mind is the former Wiemar Republic, represented by the Weimar National Assembly. The powers that were at the time thought it be a great time to do away with old, ancient, and stupid things like a senate, while redesigning the system that would replace the imperial Prussian Empire. The Wiemar Republic lasted from 1919 to 1933. Most of you smarter readers don't need the Oracle of Ottawa to tell you what happened next in the absence of a House of Sober Second Thought!!

Roman Senate (Curia Julia) built 44BCE and still standing...

Since the inception of the 'Harper Government' many ancient and revered Canadian Institutions have been put under stress and some even have vanished. The Oracle of Ottawa is now going penniless and truly does not welcome the opportunity of having the "free choice" to buy a Mickey Mouse hat the next time that he visits a National Canadian Museum! (Take it, or else, is not a choice...) Only the likes of the hapless 'Harper Government' could save a crummy eleven million dollars while incurring damages of over one hundred million dollars and go on to brag about all the money that has been saved!

There have been many sneak communication (i.e. fart catcher) gambits to convince the people of Canada that the Senate should be abolished. Well good luck with that. The Founding Fathers of Canada built the system bulletproof. The abolishment of the Senate would require Constitutional Reform which would all but be impossible. The present system is the way it is for very good reasons. This system was, Thank God, even further protected and locked down and in by Prime Minister Trudeau, with the Repatriation of the Constitution in the 1980's. Perhaps he had a nightmare of something like the 'Harper Government' somehow coming to power in Canada.

Let us look at the facts, as they are, at present. Who is the leader of the Senate? Answer: Marjory LeBreton, if any one knows which high school she graduated from in the Peoples Republic of Nepean they should update her Wikipedia article.  Again, you only get the Senate that you appoint. Who has made all the appointments of the majority of those now in trouble? Steve Harper of the 'Harper Government'. What does this tell you? It tells the Oracle of Ottawa that the Conservative Party of Canada knows very few posh people. The proof of this is the wave of the utter shit quality of most all of the 'Harper Government' Senate appointments.

How the 'Harper Government' elected senate would work....

Again, the Senate of Canada as it is composed has been a very powerful body of good. There is a reason for an appointed senate. This was discussed long and hard by the Canadian Founding Fathers way back in 1865. The transcripts were recorded and are still extant. Perhaps the brain trust of the right wing of Canada should read them!

 The Senate of Canada as it has run in the past, and will no doubt continue long into the future...

Sun News TV - Senator Runciman - The Supreme Court

I affect not reserves, which I do not feel. 
The Federalist Papers, Alexander Hamilton, No. 1

Poor Mark Bonokoski, a seasoned scribe of many scrolls, a pulsing Pole with now leaking pontoons, a once heretical hack in search of his hatchet... How low does a man have to go to keep a crummy job in this country? It all seems a dream now, I still can't believe all that I thought I heard, on the Ezra Levant space of the Wednesday last. It was the section containing the utter and absolutely mad ravings of  Senator Bob Runciman. As he waxed wise and sober of his opinions of what a Supreme Court of Justice should be. All I could think of is the best way to reform the Canadian Senate is to start putting better people into it.

Truth - Hangs in the balance...

There is nothing that chokes the Oracle of Ottawas chicken worse then when a low life moron attacks great Canadian Institutions. Especially a low life moron, that has some how managed to infest a great Canadian Institution! That is really galling. The Canadian People's patience has been sorely tested by Sun News TV. I admit that watching Sun News TV (so that you don't have to) has raised my resistance to disgust to unimagined levels. I was coping really well until, the great senator started on about something to the effect that Supreme Court Justices in Canada shouldn't be required to have perfect working fluency  in both of Canada's official languages. Did I hear this right?

What kind of person would the Oracle of Ottawa appoint to the highest court in the land? Well dear reader, as you know from earlier posts to this blog, the Oracle loves the posh, best and the brightest. As a result I do not have any Conservative friends at all! The Supreme Court of Canada enjoys a world famous reputation. The calibre of the justices are also world renowned. Candidates for the Supreme court do not grow on stupid trees in Winnipeg!        

The darkness of the Tory Bund descends...

The Oracle of Ottawa knows that the profession of the Law is all about language! So my candidate would for certain be able to speak both French and English. But the Law has been practiced by humans for thousands of years. The Oracle of Ottawa likes depth in his candidates! So, therefore, the Oracle of Ottawa language requirement for Supreme Court Justice is: (1) Hebrew (2) Greek (3) Latin (4) French (5) Middle English (6) English. For a minimum $300,000 per year gig, I do not think the above language requirement unduly rigorous. Even more is required. A deep grounding in Philosophy, Logic, Rhetoric, and the Classics would do a lot for that warm furry feeling of the safety and security of my Canada as I lay me down to rest...

Even now The Oracle of Ottawa hears the protests of the Conservative philistines. There has never been any body in history that even comes close to this outlandish demand! And what difference would it make if you could find someone like this? All the Oracle of Ottawa can do is answer: Bora Laskin. 

The only footage I could find of Senator Runciman NOT in over his head! Contains a cameo appearance of Tim -Chain Gang - Hudak... Also note the symbolism at the very end of the footage....Hmmmm....