The Conservatives have launched a new website detailing Stephane Dion's weakness as a leader. The website can be found at www.NotALeader.ca (h/t Stephen Taylor).

The site has a few more attack ads on it, along with some eCards that can be sent to friends. But the best part of the site is Kyoto the dog's blog. Thats right, the Conservatives have put up a blog for Stephane Dion's dog.

Kyoto's Dog Blog:

May 29, 2007

On days like today, I wish we were in France!

Spent the morning lying on the couch in Stéphane’s office listening to him pleading with Liberal Senators to pass the Government’s term limits. He said the Tory ads were making him look weak and powerless. Again. "Eight years and out? No way!" they said. He moped around all day muttering about how unfair life is.

Yesterday I was taking the master for a walk when I spotted the Prime Minister’s cat strutting down Sussex like she owned the place. Can you imagine? She’s not even purebred. I gave chase, dragging Stéphane down the street. He kept shouting "No Kyoto! Stop it!" Madame Elizabeth May happened by and almost had a coronary. She thought he was talking about the Accord.

Ignatieff came by the other day. He grimaced at me and told Stéphane he preferred big bald eagles to dogs. When I barked in protest he lectured me about the appropriateness of torture in "certain" situations. So I showed him my fangs. "Yikes," he said, "when are you going to get this dog trained?" Stéphane barked back: "You don't know what you speak about!" and asked Ignatieff: "Do you think it’s easy to make priorities?"

Tonight Stéphane tried to get me to listen to that stupid joke he told on TV last year about the world’s shortest bedtime story. "You know Bam the dog?" he said. "The car goes by, and bam, the dog. Now go to sleep." Then he laughs, like it’s funny. Gives me nightmares. I whined and cowered until he apologized. It’s a trick I learned from him. Now that’s funny.

Time for bed. I'll dream about France. Stéphane tells me we will move back one day but I've heard him flip flop too many times before so I'll just keep dreaming for now.

Thats one funny dog!

Labels: Canadian Senate, Conservative Party, France, Liberal Party, Michael Ignatieff, Stephane Dion, Y2Kyoto

There has been one issue this year where the Liberal's actually scored some points at the hands of the Conservative's, and that would be Income Trusts. Apparently it really is hard to teach an old dog new tricks...

The public debate over the Conservative income trust tax is poised to reignite as the Liberals and Bloc Quebecois try this week to force special parliamentary hearings to probe the controversial levy. [...]

Heading into this week's vote on whether to call witnesses, the Liberals and Bloc together have six votes on the 12-member committee while the NDP has one and the Tories have four, not including the Conservative chair, who only votes in the case of a tie.

NDP finance critic Judy Wasylycia-Leis said she's not decided whether to back the Liberal bid. If she agreed to, she said, she'd want to examine the former Liberal government's role in letting trusts grow unchecked for so many years.

Which is all very interesting, considering what Judy Alphabet had to say back in November:

Judy Wasylycia-Leis, the NDP's finance critic, praised the Conservatives' move, noting her party had called last week for an income trust moratorium.

She rejected the idea these changes were an attack on seniors.

"Not every senior has a stockbroker, and some of these provisions will help all seniors. Also, many seniors were losing their savings because in fact income trusts were not reporting their true value," she said.

"Some will lose, yes, but in the long run, Canadians will win."

At the time Liberal Finance critic John McCallum also said, "We agree with the long-term destination ... what object to is the dishonesty and the process. It was not necessary to have a $25-billion meltdown to get to that destination." Even the Finance Minister of Quebec supported the levy.

The Liberals are even threatening to enlist their secret weapon, the Senate:

The Liberals and the Bloc appear to have enough combined seats on the finance committee to force it to call witnesses. But Liberal finance critic John McCallum says the Liberal-dominated Senate would very likely commence its own hearings on the tax if the Commons bid fails.

"I'm virtually certain we'd move for Senate hearings," he said.

The Liberals are just beating the same dead horse. They're hoping that this will remind people that Stephen Harper "lied" about Income Trusts. But I'm thinking it'll backfire on them.

Aside from the obvious flip-flop, it should also be noted that the investigation into Liberal insider trading is still continuing, and could very well shed light as to why the Liberals have been holding these income trusts so near and dear to their hearts.

It's no wonder Harper can get so much done in a minority government, when the opposition is still dealing with the issues of three-months-ago.

Labels: Canadian Senate, Dirty Liberals, politics

Finally, the promise I've been waiting for!

"Imagine that, after a century and a half, democracy will finally come to the Senate of Canada."

That sound you hear is the boiling blood of Liberals everywhere.

Labels: Canadian Senate, democracy, politics, Stephen Harper