Do they know it's Lupercalia?

[metawidget]

It's been a pretty revealing day for news.

The CBSA thinks victims don't matter if they're in a women's shelter.

Bev Oda caught trying to sacrifice CIDA minions for her bad decision, delivers non-apology, Cons insist bygones be bygones.

Jason Kenney's family values: we always knew gay people had an exclusion, now we know elderly family of immigrants do, too.

Comments

[felis_ultharus]

Sadly things like this never seem to make a dent in their support. Canada seems to calicified along the lines of people who know the Cons are pure evil, and those who may never believe it.

I'm holding out for compromising photos that will be enough to dislodge his ultra-evangelical base. If they stay home, maybe we can get him out.

[metawidget]

You'd think Vic Toews being an unaddressed threat to his own "traditional" heterosexual marriage would be enough to dislodge his personal base, at least, but I kind of hope they implode on issues (deficits? mass detentions without charges? land wars in Asia? a conspicuous absence of actual Russian bombers to shoot down?) so that it's not so easy to just get a different dark horse in a sweater vest and try again.

[ilanikhan.livejournal.com]

Sad, all of these.
The Oda one is particularly annoying. There are other ways to have handled that situation, like, oh I don't know 'not' signing the damn memo?

[metawidget]

The attitude in Cabinet seems to be "what else are public servants for than for blaming stuff on?"

This same government wants to get rid of severance pay on resignation, which would make pushing back against minion sacrificing that much harder. Not to mention the virtual cardboard cutout that was our first Integrity Commissioner. This round of public sector bargaining could benefit from some contractual prevention of cruelty to minions.