It's funny, isn't it, that the Harper regime can use our tax dollars to monitor us, manipulate us, and promulgate all kinds of propaganda, but somehow it's not right, indeed downright unholy, according to the National Post's John Ivison, when unions fight back.
Said journalist suggests Mr. Harper should consider calling an early election, not because of the dirt that will inevitably emerge from the Mike Duffy trial that could hurt the prime minster, but rather to disrupt the massive anti-Conservative advertising blitz planned by Canada’s largest private sector union.
There’s a new breed of highly politicized union in town – and they’re intent on doing to Mr. Harper what they recently did to Tim Hudak in Ontario.Apparently, the rout of the Ontario Tories this past June was largely due, not to widespread rejection of their right-wing message, but union power.
Unifor was created last year from the merger of the Canadian Auto Workers and the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers unions, to lead the fight-back against the Harper government, according to Jerry Dias, the national president.
In the Senate Thursday, Senator Bob Runciman said unions spent $10-million in the recent Ontario election – all on a campaign to “Stop Hudak.”Like fifth columnists, in
the Ontario election, the Workers’ Rights Campaign operated more like a shadow political party than a union, with its own war-room, field organizers and campaign strategy.With that straw man firmly in place, Ivison implies that Canadians are incapable of independent thought and decision-making and will fall under the Svengali-like influence of Dias and his anti-Harper agenda. A veritable tsunami of democratic subversion is heading our way.
The peril has been recognized in federal Tory circles:
Voices inside the Conservative caucus have urged Mr. Harper to call an early election to disrupt Unifor’s pre-writ advertising buys.Harper is said to be wary of breaking the fixed election date once more, as such a decision would appear opportunistic.
Warns the ever-prescient Ivsion,
But in sticking with that timing, he is gifting his union opponents the chance to influence a federal election in a way we have not seen in a very long time.May God bless and protect all of us, and keep us safe from the bogeyman.
He is just earning his moniker "Con" Ivison. This was the guy who had tweeted what appeared to many to be a masqueraded attack on Justin Trudeau when the latter had named his son Hadrian (later turned out that it was actually spelt Hadrien, I think).
ReplyDeleteShould the Conservatives survive another term, perhaps they have one of the now-vacant Senate seats awaiting Ivison, Anon.
DeleteBecause of the Duffy and Wallin experiences, it’s likely that both Ivison and Mansbridge have already been as close to achieving those envied Senate appointments as they are ever going to be. I like to think that they will be remembered as “former future-Senators”.
DeletePerhaps that helps explain Mansbridge's perpetually dour countenance these days, John, as well as his reluctance to yield the anchor chair to one of his younger colleagues.
DeleteThe Right has never believed that its opposition is legitimate, Lorne. Only those who think as they do are capable of righteousness.
ReplyDeleteAnd the fact is, Owen, that their 'truth' will not set us free.
DeleteWhy doesn't John Ivison come out of the closet and declare openly that he is a Harper bitch? He could easily get a job with the PMO communications division, and not have to change his thinking one little bit. Jason and John are probably drooling at the thought of Ivison being in Ottawa.
ReplyDeletePerhaps Ivison is hedging his bets, Anon. After all, the Harper regime faces a clear and present danger thanks to the nefarious machinations of Unifor. Until that peril is quashed, Ivison will likely remain in his current position.
DeleteIvison doesn't know the half of Unifor's power. I was anti-Harper before there was a Unifor. ;-)
ReplyDeleteOTOH, "NatPoo columist is anti-union" is hardly a true bit of news.
One hopes, Anon, that Mr. ivison will not spend too many sleepless nights with his various talismans concealed under his pillow to ward off the pervasive evil power of unions. At least he can feel at ease during his waking hours, working as he does with so many fellow travellers.
DeleteThe funny thing about people like Ivison and Hudak is that they think (or at least pretend to think) that unions and environmentalists have more money and power than the big corporations that financially support the Conservative Party and other right-wing groups.
ReplyDeleteTo paraphrase Queen Gertrude from Hamlet, Anon, "They doth protest too much, methinks."
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