You know, if I posted every time Harper’s government took and action, or announced a policy direction, that I disagreed with or found repugnant, this blog would be one long bile-laden rant. So I mostly take the “ignore them and hope they go away” strategy, coupled with the occasional rant when something particularly ludicrous or vile happens.
Here’s a couple of those:
Apparently Citizenship and Immigration Canada, and minister Kenney, think that the government of Canada should be excluding people from visiting this country based on whether or not they publicly agree with Harper government policy. Yes, publicly disagreeing with Harper policy is apparently enough to get you banned from entering Canada. Even if you’re an elected member of British parliament.
I wonder if I’ll be allowed back in after my next Boston trip.
Meanwhile, our science minister (who, incidentally is known to people in Edmonton as an avowed creationist, and whose campaign was endorsed by ultra-conservative groups) when asked if he believed in evolution, refused to answer, saying his religion was no one’s business. This somewhat misses the point, since A) the answer presumes the question is one that religion has any bearing on, and B) assumes that if he thinks the question is religious that this isn’t relevant to the Canadian people in their science minister.
It just gets better, of course, since he later flip-flopped and came out strong saying he believed in evolution, but in the same statement indicated that he is utterly ignorant of what the idea of evolution is:
“We are evolving every year, every decade. That’s a fact, whether it is to the intensity of the sun, whether it is to, as a chiropractor, walking on cement versus anything else, whether it is running shoes or high heels, of course we are evolving to our environment. But that’s not relevant and that is why I refused to answer the question. The interview was about our science and tech strategy, which is strong.”
This stuff isn’t just enraging… it’s embarrassing.
