A star like Jason Kenney should avoid the gutter – Martin
2014/12/03 1 Comment
Every now and then, it happens.
But a sharp contrast when he was the only Cabinet Minister to state that Rob Ford should resign (Rob Ford should ‘step aside,’ Conservative Jason Kenney says):
What was particularly noteworthy this time was the involvement of Employment Minister Jason Kenney. He’s the party’s star. He’s touted as the inside favourite to succeed Mr. Harper. He gets a lot of votes, including mine, for most effective cabinet minister. He has more mental equipment one envious Tory calls him “Smarty Pants” than anyone on the Tory front benches.
On the question of ethics, you might think he would want to nurture an upright and honourable image in contrast to many in his party. Unlike other Tories, he’s got enough clout to tell the toadies in the Prime Minister’s Office what they can do with their talking points.
So what did he do last week? He jumped into the gutter with both feet. He showed himself to be all-in with the bottom-feeders.
My earlier tweet brought a flurry of tweets of those suffering from the “Harper/Kenney derangement syndrome” rather than more measured criticism.
A star like Jason Kenney should avoid the gutter – The Globe and Mail.
And the earlier Globe editorial:
Conservatives’ dirty tricks have no place in Canadian politics
About Andrew
Multicultural Meanderings 
Since losing my Canadian citizenship in 2003, I have seen several Ministers of Citizenship come and go: it has been very difficult to persuade any of them that Lost Canadians was indeed a big problem for many people (they all said there was “a small number” or “very few” despite restoring it to thousand of them in the Amendments of 2009 under Diane Finley).
Over the years since, the reasons emphasized for stripping our citizenship seemed to change. Documents at first recognized as proof for citizenship suddenly were no longer acceptable (in 2010, in my case). At first, it seemed to be the issue of illegitimacy, as my parents could not marry until the end of WWII as per Canadian government orders to the military. However, under it was not until Jason Kenney’s regime that I and others were told by CIC that our fathers could not have been citizens, that there was no citizenship until 1947 and that therefore we, as children of War Brides, should not have been given it either. I was told my father would not have qualified in 1947 as he did not meet residency requirements, having been out of the country (with the Royal Canadian Artillery in Europe) for more than the time needed to qualify.
If none of the military in WWII and other wars were not Canadian citizens, that would mean that none of our War Dead were citizens. My father was a very proud Canadian, other countries recognized our soldiers as Canadians and to say that they were not Canadian citizens is, I think, disgraceful. Never in my life here since 1946 did I ever hear that said, and so adamantly, as by our present government, especially Mr. Kenney.