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Harper’s Perps with Perks #14 & 15

03/31/2015 by the editor Leave a Comment

By Alisom@Creekside Welcome Vic Toews to Stephen Harper’s Perps with Perks for “giving patronage a bad name,” as Dan Lett wrote in the Winnipeg Free Press. Appointed to the Queens Court by Justice Minister Peter MacKay in March last year, eight months after leaving the Cons cabinet, Toews — a former Justice Minister, Public Safety Minister, and […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Bill C-30, Canada, Chaim Mendelsohn, Conservatives, Dept of Justice and Public Safety, Diane Finley, John Baird, Manitoba, Markham, Mary Dawson, Nigel Wright, Ontario, Ottawa, Peter Kent, PeterMacKay, Phil Harwood, Queens Court, Rachel Curran, Ray Novak, Stephen Harper, Supreme Court of Canada, Toronto, Treasury Board, Vic Toews

A Modest Opinion – You’re going to jail . . . because maybe you might do something, possibly

05/05/2013 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Nathaniel Moher In “This isn’t news” news, the Conservatives recently pushed through a bill that nobody else wanted. That’s the beauty of our system — a Prime Minister can be held in contempt of Parliament, for the first time in the history of Canada, and not only be re-elected but given a majority. Yay, […]

Filed Under: Modest Opinion Tagged With: alleged terrorism, Canada, Conservatives, law, Stephen Harper, terrorism, Vic Toews

Changing the channel on Justin

04/23/2013 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Alison@Creekside On Thursday, three days after the Boston Marathon bombings, the Cons still had an opposition day scheduled for Monday — a day on which the opposition parties set the day’s agenda. But then on Friday, an hour after learning that Justin Trudeau would spend it introducing his “Backbenchers’ Spring” motion, Government House Leader […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Boston Marathon bombing, Canada, Canadian politics, Candice Bergen, Conservatives, Francis Scarpaleggia, G20, G8, Justin Trudeau, law, Liberals, NDP, Peter Van Loan, police, S-7, Stephen Harper, terrorism, U.S., Vic Toews

Penashue: Vice is virtue

04/17/2013 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By David@Sixthestate.net Well, at least we have it confirmed for us. The reason that Vic Toews is a Cabinet minister despite being convicted of election fraud, the reason that Peter Penashue is allowed to stand as a Conservative candidate despite being responsible for similar violations of the law, the reason Peter Van Loan is still […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Canada, Gary Goodyear, Intergovernmental Affairs, Labrador, Newfoundland, Peter Penashue, Peter Van Loan, robocall scandal, robocalls, Stephen Harper, Tony Clement, Vic Toews

Omar Khadr: A Child Soldier Comes Home

09/30/2012 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Montreal Simon It has been a seemingly endless nightmare, a horror story not only for Omar Khadr, but also for the country that let him down so shamefully. But at least he is finally home. From cbc.ca: “Omar Khadr has been returned to Canada and is being held at a maximum-security prison in eastern […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Canada, Guantanamo, Omar Khadr, Ontario, U.S., U.S. military, Vic Toews

Quebec ducks Ottawa’s long guns

09/11/2012 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Montreal Simon The Long-Gun Registry Lives!!!!! At least in Québec. From The Globe and Mail: “The federal government’s plan to destroy all data from its long-gun registry is unconstitutional, a judge has ruled, giving Ottawa 30 days to hand to Quebec records collected from the province’s gun owners. “‘Quebec didn’t embark in the project […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Canada, gun violence, law, Quebec, Vic Toews

Toew’s Internet surveillance bill walks again

07/12/2012 by backofthebook.ca 2 Comments

By Montreal Simon About a month ago I made this little photoshop, because I was sure that Vic Toews would try to use the Luka Magnotta case to peddle his internet snooping bill. For a Con zombie is a Con zombie, and there is nothing Toews wouldn’t do to stumble through our computers without a […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Bill C-30, Canada, Canadian politics, internet, privacy, Vic Toews

Don’t just thank Jason Kenney — thank them all

07/10/2012 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Frank Moher Jason Kenney, or perhaps someone on his ace staff, has come up with a brilliant idea: hosting a petition on his own website allowing the public to thank him for being such a fine minister. Specifically, the petition invites you to thank Jason for “his efforts to streamline benefits afforded to refugees […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Bev Oda, Bill C-30, Bill C-38, Canada, Canadian politics, Conservatives, Dean Del Mastro, G20, G8, immigration, Jason Kenney, Stephen Harper, Tony Clement, Vic Toews, Vikileaks

Life In Canada’s Small Government Dystopia

06/30/2012 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By David@Sixthestate.net The following post is deliberately alarmist. Orwellian, you might say. I’m not trying to paint a picture of what things are like in Canada right now, or even what I think they’ll be like in the near future. I’m not an idiot. But I do want to paint a picture of the sort […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: access-to-information, Bill C-38, Bill C-43, Bruce Carson, Canada, Canadian Border Services Agency, Canadian politics, CBC, censorship, Charter of Rights, Conservatives, Constituent Management Information System, Constitution of Canada, crime, CSIS, Elections Canada, Employment Insurance, environment, First Nations, free speech, government surveillance, hacking, Harper, immigration, Jason Kenney, John Baird, Kevin Page, labour, Liberals, National Roundtable on the Environment, NDP, Parks Canada, parliament, public service, Radio-Canada, RCMP, robocall scandal, robocalls, Statistics Canada, unions, Vic Toews

Toews plays Gitmo jailer

06/25/2012 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Montreal Simon It’s a Canadian horror story. A young boy is taken from his Toronto home by his Jihadi father to a place he never should have been. He is riddled with shrapnel, shot twice in the back. The bullets exploding out of his chest and exposing his beating heart. He is taken to […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: 9/11, Afghanistan, Canada, Conservatives, Guantanamo, Omar Khadr, U.S., U.S. military, Vic Toews

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