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Apparently Canada isn't immune from idiocy at the government level.
First, the Conservative candidate for a downtown Toronto riding has stepped down amid controversy over comments he posted on his blog.
Chris Reid, who was challenging Liberal foreign affairs critic Bob Rae in Toronto Centre, resigned after blog postings emerged in which he criticized passengers on a Greyhound bus this summer who "stood by and watched" as a man beheaded a fellow passenger, "and couldn't muster up any courage or self-sacrifice to intervene."
"This is where socialism as (sic) gotten us folks, a castrated effeminate population," he wrote on Aug. 10, more than a week after the killing of Tim McLean, 22.
Reid also called for debate on the right to carry a concealed weapon, an end to abortion and official multiculturalism, an elected Senate, and closing the CBC because of its "far left-wing bias." He said gay advocates in the Toronto Centre riding, which includes the city's gay village, tolerate the promotion of "promiscuity, drug usage and prostitution."
If this is the kind of person the Conservatives attract, I'm doubly determined to vote Liberal this time around.
Also, a company that supplies knives, flashlights and other equipment to the Canadian armed forces referred to Muslims as "rag-headed, heathen bastards" on its website as recently as Sunday when the federal government complained.
Gear Up Motors' website was replete with other jabs at women and Liberals and mocked official bilingualism and concerns about global warming.
"Jihad? I'll give you a jihad you miserable, rag-headed, heathen bastard!" said a caption posted over a photograph of a rifle-toting John Wayne.
Until Sunday, jokes and sarcastic broadsides were sprinkled throughout the website. "Gear Up Motors is proud to be a fluently bilingual organization. We speak English and American," the company declared at one point.
A disclaimer intended to be humourous included: "Not tested on animals -- we use Liberals."
Ye Gods... where DO you find people this stupid? I mean, seriously -- they thought that this kind of behavior would win them points? It boggles the mind.
First, the Conservative candidate for a downtown Toronto riding has stepped down amid controversy over comments he posted on his blog.
Chris Reid, who was challenging Liberal foreign affairs critic Bob Rae in Toronto Centre, resigned after blog postings emerged in which he criticized passengers on a Greyhound bus this summer who "stood by and watched" as a man beheaded a fellow passenger, "and couldn't muster up any courage or self-sacrifice to intervene."
"This is where socialism as (sic) gotten us folks, a castrated effeminate population," he wrote on Aug. 10, more than a week after the killing of Tim McLean, 22.
Reid also called for debate on the right to carry a concealed weapon, an end to abortion and official multiculturalism, an elected Senate, and closing the CBC because of its "far left-wing bias." He said gay advocates in the Toronto Centre riding, which includes the city's gay village, tolerate the promotion of "promiscuity, drug usage and prostitution."
If this is the kind of person the Conservatives attract, I'm doubly determined to vote Liberal this time around.
Also, a company that supplies knives, flashlights and other equipment to the Canadian armed forces referred to Muslims as "rag-headed, heathen bastards" on its website as recently as Sunday when the federal government complained.
Gear Up Motors' website was replete with other jabs at women and Liberals and mocked official bilingualism and concerns about global warming.
"Jihad? I'll give you a jihad you miserable, rag-headed, heathen bastard!" said a caption posted over a photograph of a rifle-toting John Wayne.
Until Sunday, jokes and sarcastic broadsides were sprinkled throughout the website. "Gear Up Motors is proud to be a fluently bilingual organization. We speak English and American," the company declared at one point.
A disclaimer intended to be humourous included: "Not tested on animals -- we use Liberals."
Ye Gods... where DO you find people this stupid? I mean, seriously -- they thought that this kind of behavior would win them points? It boggles the mind.
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