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The switch in recent days from the Conservatives traditional subtle racist position to overtly racist has caught the attention of the mainstream British media:
If Stephen Harper is serious about criminalising 'barbaric cultural practices', then he should arrest himself for even suggesting it - And while he's at it, he can lock up all the other Western leaders who have savaged the Muslim world too
Barbaric cultural practices ... what a bizarre concept. Someone should ask the Conservatives if a Conservative Prime Minister's male orgy involving a dead pigs head is a barbaric cultural practice. The British media is correct to ask that if this announcement is about crime and justice, why then is it being announced by the Minister of Immigration.
This has the fingerprints of Lynton Crosby all over it. However, I think this time he may have misjudged his audience. His trademark is making racism a wedge issue in countries that are traditionally more racist than Canada (Australia and UK). It might well have worked for pushing member of the fascist British National Party (called by some the British Nazi Party) and the more mainstream but extremely right-wing UK Independence Party to vote Conservative ... but I'm not seeing how this strategy works in Canada. We also know the Conservatives do get significant support from ethnic communities here ... and I don't see how this, or the recent announcement that the Conservatives will seek the deportation of 100% Canadians born in Canada to countries they've never even visited before. Even upping the ante on the religious headdress issue would seem to potentially alienate communities where some members have supported the Conservatives - such as Sikhs.
I'd also think that the recent barrage of such stuff, would make the non-hard core Conservative support uncomfortable. And perhaps we are starting to see it in the polling. NDP support has been steadily slipping (and I don't see how that will change in the rest of Canada with the recent announcement by Mulcair that he is going to give special accommodation and cash to Quebec, and force social programmes on the other provinces), but the long term Liberal trend has been nothing but up - with the most most recent polls showing a separation and the Liberals breaking away from the pack and pushing towards majority territory.
Certainly shapes up to be an interesting last couple of weeks. I'd expect the Tories to start panicking now. Now things will start to get ugly. I wonder what invented crisis we will have next.
If Stephen Harper is serious about criminalising 'barbaric cultural practices', then he should arrest himself for even suggesting it - And while he's at it, he can lock up all the other Western leaders who have savaged the Muslim world too
Barbaric cultural practices ... what a bizarre concept. Someone should ask the Conservatives if a Conservative Prime Minister's male orgy involving a dead pigs head is a barbaric cultural practice. The British media is correct to ask that if this announcement is about crime and justice, why then is it being announced by the Minister of Immigration.
This has the fingerprints of Lynton Crosby all over it. However, I think this time he may have misjudged his audience. His trademark is making racism a wedge issue in countries that are traditionally more racist than Canada (Australia and UK). It might well have worked for pushing member of the fascist British National Party (called by some the British Nazi Party) and the more mainstream but extremely right-wing UK Independence Party to vote Conservative ... but I'm not seeing how this strategy works in Canada. We also know the Conservatives do get significant support from ethnic communities here ... and I don't see how this, or the recent announcement that the Conservatives will seek the deportation of 100% Canadians born in Canada to countries they've never even visited before. Even upping the ante on the religious headdress issue would seem to potentially alienate communities where some members have supported the Conservatives - such as Sikhs.
I'd also think that the recent barrage of such stuff, would make the non-hard core Conservative support uncomfortable. And perhaps we are starting to see it in the polling. NDP support has been steadily slipping (and I don't see how that will change in the rest of Canada with the recent announcement by Mulcair that he is going to give special accommodation and cash to Quebec, and force social programmes on the other provinces), but the long term Liberal trend has been nothing but up - with the most most recent polls showing a separation and the Liberals breaking away from the pack and pushing towards majority territory.
Certainly shapes up to be an interesting last couple of weeks. I'd expect the Tories to start panicking now. Now things will start to get ugly. I wonder what invented crisis we will have next.
