Well said, stevesmith @ # 25. I agree with your assessment.

I’m a C/conservative Canadian, who’s delighted with the Harper government’s pushback at the lefty loons who’ve run our country—very badly—for decades. Considering that our MSM—except for a few bright lights, like SUN News and, on occasion, the National Post—treat C/conservatives the way the American MSM treats Republicans and Tea Partiers, it’s no wonder that the perception of our country, even among Canadians, is so skewed. (As Steve notes, it has a lot to do with our “progressive”, propaganda-filled public school systems.)

Our Obama was Pierre Elliot Trudeau, another Marxist—his kids call Castro “Uncle Fidel”—and Canada’s still weighed down by the socialist baggage he left behind. E.g., His “Charter of Rights [sic] and Freedoms [sic]” has removed all kinds of rights and freedoms from traditionalist (often Christian), independent-thinking, law abiding citizens and transferred them to left-wing and other upstarts, e.g., radical feminist/gay activists, environmentalists, immigrants who use our multicultural laws against us, etc.

The Charter has also transferred power to the courts, which have “end runned” our elected Parliaments over and over to confer special rights on preferred groups. Trudeau was last in power in 1984, but his Charter, like a giant octopus, spread its tentacles far and wide into the future—and is still with us. (There is a way to deal with unjust, undemocratic court decisions: it’s embedded in the Charter, Section 33, the “Notwithstanding Clause”, whereby a legislature may negate a Charter court decision. But our duplicitous MSM have blacklisted this section of the Charter and our spineless politicians have fallen in, in lock step. I fervently hope that the Harper Conservatives will use their majority to educate Canadians about Section 33—and then use it when another court overreaches.)

I’m very pleased to see the Conservatives calling Obama’s and the Greenies’ bluff. It only takes one to say, “The Emperor has no clothes” to unleash a wave of truth telling. It’s about time!