— Feature, Musings —03.25.2025 11:41 AM
My latest: you’re a traitor!
Traitor.
The Cambridge dictionary folks define it thusly: “A person who is not loyal or stops being loyal to their own country.”
Anyone who commits high treason is considered a traitor – and it’s a serious charge. It’s still there in section 46 of our Criminal Code, in fact: anyone who kills or tries to kill the King, anyone who “levies war against Canada,” anyone who assists an enemy at war with Canada? That’s treason.
The penalty for high treason is life in prison. Up until 1998, high treason could be punishable by death. Louis Riel, the leader of the Metis people, was wrongly executed for treason in 1885. Thomas Scott, a white opponent of Riel, was executed by firing squad in 1870. So was a Canadian citizen, Kanao Inouye, who was born in Kamloops, B.C., and hanged for treason in 1947, in Hong Kong while in British custody. His last words were: “Banzai!”
No one has gone fully “banzai” on their opponent in Election 2025, yet, but you can tell they’re getting close. The winged monkeys who support Pierre Poilievre and Mark Carney have been firing “treason” broadsides at each other for weeks. You know: Carney is a traitor because he worked abroad and allegedly sent Canadian jobs to the United States – while Poilievre is a traitor because he won’t get his security clearance and India (alleged the Globe on Tuesday) meddled to help him win his party’s leadership.
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Ahhh Kanao Inouye, grew up around HK veterans who enjoyed his Patriotic hatred. My grandfathers best friend stayed in Hong Kong while my other relative went to Japan for some light labour. In the wise words of Hanover Fiste: He’s nothing but a low-down, double-dealing, backstabbing, larcenous perverted worm! Hanging’s too good for him. Burning’s too good for him! He should be torn into little bitsy pieces and buried alive!
Good lord, a Heavy Metal reference!
This word could become the new “racist”. Insofar as people throw it around when they have no actual cogent argument.
Warren,
And speaking of traitors, which Liberal is the one who leaked the CSIS dossier To the Globe? Hope that person gets found out and eventually sent to jail. It’s clear that CSIS did not leak it — someone who has national security access within Liberal ranks did the job in a cowardly fashion, you know, their usual Liberal way.
Ok if this is the case, ignore my question below, I thought this was CSIS itself doing this and if that’s incorrect I don’t want to besmirch them.
Warren,
Oh look, Ron, Martin, Douglas, Doc and others still not advising Pierre on political strategy…no kidding!
Nanos: CPC +3 = oldest poll;
Mainstreet: LPC +5;
Léger: LPC +6;
Research: LPC +4.
I hope the Carney Liberals will buy Pierre presents if this strategic trend continues because it’ll be just great for THEM…
Libs, playing the Security Clearance card, makes no sense.
Is that the best they can do, to discredit Poilièvre?
Meanwhile, tonight in Stoney Creek, next door to Hamilton, Poilièvre draws a crowd of 4,000.
Yes, that’s right, 4,000. Possibly more. Four-kilometre line to get in.
Carney doesn’t get 4,000 people in a week.
Thirty-four days to go, and I’m not sensing any momentum for Gramps
Douglas,
Well, it either has to be Liberal momentum or the polls are full of shit. Can’t be both.
Ronald,
It’s the latter.
As an aside, another rough day for Gramps, yesterday:
—Irritated & rude when peppered with questions from reporters in Halifax
—Got the name of his own N.S. candidate wrong
—Said the 1989 Montreal mass shooting took place at Concordia. It was École Polytechnique. Ouch
Douglas,
I guess Liberals will take anything with a pulse as leader. Our guy looks pretty good next to that out-of-water fish—some specimen.
I thought it was just wishful thinking on my part so I dismissed it. But is it just me or do Liberals seem to be flailing despite soaring in the polls? It’s strange.
– Shrieking about security clearance conspiracies that nobody cares about
– Carney hilariously claiming that he ditched the TVA debate because Elizabeth May wasn’t included (that literally made me howl with laughter)
– Totally outflanked by the Conservatives on income tax cuts
– Liberal Party planted an obvious hit job in the Globe rehashing already-known information; so obviously a partisan hit job that non-Liberals are just rolling their eyes
– Over-exposure on Mike Myers with a bunch of out-dated clichés totally irrelevant to anyone under 40 (how many ads is it now?), constant references to Carney plying hockey as a teenager, the lameness of the substance-free “elbows-up” tagline
– the odious TruAnons have become downright insane lately
I’m tempted to think the Liberal peak is in.
The peak sure looks pretty frightening though. My left brain never believed the polls when they peaked in the last two years and doesn’t now. But my right brain is worried. The left brain then jumps back in and reminds me, as it does regularly, that I am young enough that if the NDP(and anyone under 40) is foolish enough to fall for this shite, I and the rest of the 1%(particularly baby boomers) are lgoing to experience more of the massive disproportionate wealth shift we enjoyed the last 10 years unfortunately at their expense. So there’s that.
1) is this highly partisan of CSIS to release this at this point or no? (The RCMP did the same kind of thing in the 05/06 election and weren’t scolded for it).
2) Poilievre looks like a willful idiot defending his leadership from foreign interference while REFUSING to get a security clearance. The electorate cannot abide that level of disingenuousness. This is a black swan for the Tories and they’re not handling it well.
3)advantage Liberals but can it be sustained?
Nobody outside TruAnon and the CBC (an offshoot of TruAnon) gives a shit about the security clearance.
On the other hand, Carney is proving again to be an absolutely garbage retail politician JFC.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/carney-apologizes-montreal-massacre-survivor-1.7493167
Mark Carney mispronounced the name of survivor Nathalie Provost and got the name of her school wrong. Also bad is that he didn’t know the areas of his Nepean riding. Some might say these are minor points, but imagine the reaction if Pierre Poilievre had done that. Is he too nervous or just not well-prepared?
Occam’s razor? Perhaps he has early onset mad cow.
Graham Murray has lots of questions.
“”We probably spent half an hour on the phone discussing the assurances that we could create a family-friendly environment that would allow me to serve my community without compromising my ability to be a present husband and father,” he said.”
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/sean-fraser-reelection-1.7492503
Do the Carney supporters actually believe this shite?
Gilbert,
He’s already way in over his head.
Ronald,
Agreed. Way over his head.
Retail politics is not his thing.
Still a long ways to go before the finish line.
Pedant,
Carney is coming off serially as a political bumpkin. If that sticks with loosely committed Liberal-inclined voters, then yes, they may have very well peaked. Only God knows for sure if they have.