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The Vladivostok give-away
Kootenay Crust
Is our Conservative Prime Minister being secretly shagged by the Communist Party of China?
Sadly, I do believe Chairman Harper is being bent over a shuānɡ rén xiǎo shā fāas surely as he has been sold out by the oleaginous cretins who initially shackled him to their whims. Politics, you know.
When young and smug economist Stephen Harper first began his journey into the heart of darkness, in William Aberhart Alberta, he would have been incapable of imagining the sordidness that lay ahead – the duplicity and reversals, baits and switches and zigzags (lower case) that would bring sight to the blind.
Poor young Stephen would have never dreamed in a million big oil blowjob nightmares that he’d end up becoming a sell-out stooge to an out-of-control nation run by murderous thugs with polar opposite political principles.
So with that in mind, I say I vaguely forgive him his trespasses. I might even argue sparing him the hanging he’d be risking a hundred braver and more ethical years ago for selling his country down the river. And Conservative Alberta screams blue bloody murder and falls swooning, in unison, to their servant mopped floors whenever you bring up Pierre Trudeau!
Trudeau and pals sold out the west for Canada, to stave off a beating from their particular masters at that time, with the National Energy Program (NEP). That very move transitioned young Stephen from traversing a dead-end road as an Alberta Liberal into the Conservatives. Dissatisfied with Brian Mulroney’s delayed response to the NEP, young Stephen eventually crossed paths with Preston Manning and rapidly became one of the Reform Party’s young chuffed smarty-pants.
But Harper’s recent Vladivostok give-away, also known as the Canada-China Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Act (FIPPA), has got to make us all stop dead still and grunt almost apathetically, “wait a minute.”
The Vladivostok give-away is a term I have stolen (sort of) from The Tyee columnist Andrew Nikiforuk, who recently wrote a captivating and ultimately disturbing take on FIPPA (http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2012/10/11/Chairman-Harper/).
Signed in Vladivostok, Russia, “the treaty would give Sinopec, one of the big Chinese backers of the Northern Gateway pipeline, the right to sue the government of British Columbia if it blocks the project. Sinopec could also demand that only Chinese labour and materials be used on the pipeline. Moreover the treaty gives Chinese state owned companies ‘the right to full protection and security from public opposition,’” Nikiforuk wrote.
Now again, let those words roll over your tongues and slosh into the back of your throat and then swallow. Are you tasting bile, as well?
More Nikiforuk: “The Chinese state, of course, can count on Natural Resource Minister Joe Oliver for extraordinary assistance in this oil game. (When not delivering Mao-like rants against so-called foreign funded radicals, Oliver has said, last year, “Our government believes that the free market is the most efficient and cost-effective means to ensure the proper allocation of resources for the development and supply of energy.”)
“The investment banker never explained how a highly subsidized industry whose leaders are appointed by a secretive human resource division of the Communist Party of China qualify as free market agents. But investment bankers don’t live in the same world we do.”
Imagine our government being fleeced in secretive court sessions by the Chinese because they want to execute a pipeline work gang toiling in central northern B.C. for crimes that are not crimes in our nation? That may be a radical example, I concede, but it’s emblematic of bed fellows Harper and company are rolling with in what I have always viewed as a shameful exercise in greedy pig puppeteer-driven representation – the far cry from when young Stephen looked adoringly up to Preston Manning and dreamed of the day when he’d be the king of the castle.
Brian Mulroney, Pierre Trudeau and Preston Manning would have never sold Canada out, in such a way. They had the brains and the stones to keep some distance from the eye of the big oil tempest. But not the much-older and wiser and deeply wounded from soul-scratching humiliations brought on from sellouts and bend-overs-Stephen.
Young Stephen, shaking and raging at the NEP, would surely just die from the shame.
What a sad, sad story.