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Something else in this CSIS/Fife story, doesn’t pass the smell test & once again, demonstrates #CdnMediaFailed. Who keeps being interviewed by @globalnews & others? None other than Richard Fadden. The former Harper appointee of @csiscanada, later Harper NatSec advisor. #cdnpoli 
Richard Fadden was also Harper’s Deputy Minister of National Defence from 2013 to 2015. He was also Harper’s Associate Secretary to the Cabinet.
Fadden was also Harper’s Deputy Minister of Citizenship & Immigration Canada from 2006 to 2009. #cdnpoli #CdnNatSec
Fadden was also Harper’s Deputy Minister of Citizenship & Immigration Canada from 2006 to 2009. #cdnpoli #CdnNatSec
As we all know, there is zero chance that Harper would have anyone in his tight inner circle appointed to multiple positions without being a #Conservative partisan, which Fadden is. He worked closely with Jason Kenney (particularly), Vic Toews & Peter Van Loan also. #cdnpoli
Remember who #RobertFife is. He published false information leaked from anonymous sources demonstrating that Maher Arar was a terrorist (he wasn’t). Fife’s reporting was instrumental in not only the false smearing of Arar, but also Arar’s torture in Syria. thewalrus.ca/hear-no-evil-w…
But worse than that. It wasn’t only a glaring #CdnMediaFail. It was an attempt to smear the Chrétien/Martin gov’t, working on securing Canadian citizen, Arar’s, release from a Syrian prison. Top RCMP & CSIS officials were implicated in the leak. The smear of Arar was political.
So I can’t help but find the timing of Fife being the vessel for re-releasing an old report re 🇨🇳’s interference in 🇨🇦’s affairs (on many fronts, for years) to be more than a tad suspect. Especially given the failure on the part of intelligence agencies & policing re the Convoy.
PJ O'Rourke once quipped that "The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it." But conservative parties have unlikely allies in the project to discredit public service: neoliberal "centrist" parties, like @liberal_party. 1/
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The Liberals have become embroiled in a series of scandals over the explosion of lucrative, secretive private contracts awarded to high-flying #consultancy firms who charge hundreds of times more than public sector employees to do laughably bad work. 3/
#PierrePolyester is fake...
@ElectionsCan_E don't ya know eh
That hosier & his anti-canadian values isn't doin' this on his on own eh.
[DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THE BEES]
Why so many fake accts?
#PierrePoilievreIsLyingToYou
#NevrePoilievre @csiscanada
#PierreKushner @Policy
@ElectionsCan_E don't ya know eh
That hosier & his anti-canadian values isn't doin' this on his on own eh.
[DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THE BEES]
Why so many fake accts?
#PierrePoilievreIsLyingToYou
#NevrePoilievre @csiscanada
#PierreKushner @Policy
This is the fastest way to lose 40% of your followers
it doesnt matter who he hired to manage his growth.
After elimination of the "botflies"... he's left w/ 77,974
But we're not done, his wife's acct has enjoyed significant bot growth as well. If any1 wants to do the honours
it doesnt matter who he hired to manage his growth.
After elimination of the "botflies"... he's left w/ 77,974
But we're not done, his wife's acct has enjoyed significant bot growth as well. If any1 wants to do the honours
🐝 never piss on a hornet's nest...
Good sir, @TheoMoudakis ✍️⤴️ ... inspiration for next cartoon mon ami ☕️
Looks like poilievre has been enlisting the help of some bootleg "wen mao" & the rest of the decepticons. Its aboot time... policy on maligned use be reviewed @Policy
Good sir, @TheoMoudakis ✍️⤴️ ... inspiration for next cartoon mon ami ☕️
Looks like poilievre has been enlisting the help of some bootleg "wen mao" & the rest of the decepticons. Its aboot time... policy on maligned use be reviewed @Policy
#TheAlliance #Elxn44
#StephenHarper is a member of the Christian and Missionary Alliance, part of Alliance World Fellowship based in Brazil. C&MA is a cult of Keswickianism - Christian Perfection
Michele Austin, Head of Gov & Public Policy for Twitter, was part of #HarperPAC
#StephenHarper is a member of the Christian and Missionary Alliance, part of Alliance World Fellowship based in Brazil. C&MA is a cult of Keswickianism - Christian Perfection
Michele Austin, Head of Gov & Public Policy for Twitter, was part of #HarperPAC
#TheAlliance #Elxn44 #HarperPAC
Austin worked for Kate Harrison at Summa Strategies
Michele Austin was chief of staff to ministers Rona Ambrose and Maxime Bernier
Kate Harrison asked the costing question of O'Toole that Austin labeled "Manipulated".
Austin worked for Kate Harrison at Summa Strategies
Michele Austin was chief of staff to ministers Rona Ambrose and Maxime Bernier
Kate Harrison asked the costing question of O'Toole that Austin labeled "Manipulated".
#TheAlliance #Elxn44 #HarperPAC
Michele Austin does not believe there is major manipulation of Twitter regarding the election
t.ly/EweR
Michele Austin does not believe there is major manipulation of Twitter regarding the election
t.ly/EweR
This needs to be restated again & again. If an MP is on this list, it is because they were helped into power by far right radicals, “Campaign Life Coalition”. #CLC supports Christian candidates who oppose abortion in ALL circumstances, including rape & incest. #cdnpoli #CPC
More on this here: . This list includes #PierrePoilievre #MichaelBarrett, #MichaelCooper, deputy CPC leader, #CandiceBergen, conversion “therapy” cheerleader, #GarnettGenuis, anti-refugee zealot, Kelly Block, among others. #cdnpoli #NeverVoteConservative
There’s another little talked about subset of these RW religious cults. It’s called “Christian Domestic Discipline”, where the wife must submit or face routine spankings (JFC!). Here’s one of their websites. …ndomesticdisciplinelife.wordpress.com. CDD Is part of Dominionist ideology. #cdnpoli
At least 1/2 (or more) of the #CPC is made up of extremists. Christo-fascist Dominionists, #ClimateCrisis deniers, anti-LGBTQ, anti-Muslim bigots, white nationalist sympathizers, anti-choice. This is not where the majority of 🇨🇦 is. But the Right wants power by any means #cdnpoli
The number of anti-choice far-right “Christian” coalition members in the #CPC increased sharply during & after #StephenHarper’s reign.
That influence has increased, not decreased. The #CPC has moved sharply to the right in lockstep with the #GOP. #cdnpoli #NeverVoteConservative
That influence has increased, not decreased. The #CPC has moved sharply to the right in lockstep with the #GOP. #cdnpoli #NeverVoteConservative
Since #Harper is trending, let me take this opportunity to remind everyone that 🇨🇦 is still paying a heavy price for the decade of darkness from his #CPC.
#Conservatives self-servingly claim he’s long gone from office & it’s ridiculous to invoke him. Wrong. #cdnpoli
#Conservatives self-servingly claim he’s long gone from office & it’s ridiculous to invoke him. Wrong. #cdnpoli
There are too many acts of corruption, malice, subterfuge, fraud & blind ideology to possibly list in a Twitter thread. So I’ll just bring up some highlights.
1st. Harper’s secret #FIPA with China, where he sold 🇨🇦 out & tied the hands of all future Cdn governments for 31 years.
1st. Harper’s secret #FIPA with China, where he sold 🇨🇦 out & tied the hands of all future Cdn governments for 31 years.
Be on the lookout for accounts like these & accounts using this symbol. Report & block. They are toxic. #cdnpoli
There are multiple accounts that have sprung up in the past year or so using “Canada First” &/or “Groyper”. (Goypers usually use some version of Pepe the Frog in the profile). These are far right extremists profiles, peddling RW propaganda & disinformation. #cdnpoli
1. WHEN THE CONSERVATIVES LOST ME.
I have to confess that in my early days, I was a "conservative voter".
In the first election in which I ever voted, I cast mine for @AKimCampbell.
I found her to be refreshingly honest.
#CdnPoli
I have to confess that in my early days, I was a "conservative voter".
In the first election in which I ever voted, I cast mine for @AKimCampbell.
I found her to be refreshingly honest.
#CdnPoli
2. Then, when the very first edition of the Reform Party surfaced, I liked a lot of its basic entry-level populist plans (boy, did that party ever lose its way quickly, but I digress).
In the second election in which I ever voted, that party got my vote.
#CdnPoli
In the second election in which I ever voted, that party got my vote.
#CdnPoli
3. By the early 2000s, the duo of Jean Chrétien and Paul Martin impressed me enough that I would consider voting Liberal.
Then the 2004 election came around and suddenly IT HAPPENED.
#CdnPoli
Then the 2004 election came around and suddenly IT HAPPENED.
#CdnPoli
On Election night, October 21, 2019 @FarahNasser asked me about my come to the centre moment.Despite feeling asphyxiated from the grapefruit growing in my throat, I managed to offer a long suppressed personal truth. It was in the dying days of the 2015 #StephenHarper campaign.
#Conservatives announced the creation of the "Barbaric Cultural Practices Hotline" I am not a Muslim. But when I saw the government I voted for launching this assault on Canada's Muslim community, it felt personal.These were my neighbors, my Canadian brothers & sisters.
7 decades earlier the JEWS of Hungary, the land of my birth were on the receiving end of gov't generated racial venom. So I did not have to be a Muslim in the fall of 2015 to smell stench & feel fear. I also felt betrayed by political family, the Conservative Party of Canada.
(THREAD) There are ties between former PM @stephenharper and @HouseGOP mega-donor #SheldonAdelson. 1/9
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#cdnpoli
#SheldonAdelson was a driving force behind Donald Trump’s decision to move the US embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv and the decision to withdraw from the #IranNuclearDeal. @kenvogel says Adelson is very close to Trump2/9
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The billionaire Casino magnate is a top donor to the Republicans. He pledged an additional $30 million to the GOP last week, just as the embassy was being moved and Trump bailed on the Iran Nuclear deal. 3/9
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