No time like the present: I could write about your batshit-conservative prime minister, Stephen Harper, who’s always proroguing the shit out of your parliament. (I don’t know what proroguing is exactly, but like the shit in French on breakfast-cereal boxes, it sounds pretty fucking filthy.) But a better example of conservative batshittery would be Vic Toews. Canada’s unofficial “Minister of Family Values,” Member of Parliament Toews – surprise! – doesn’t like the gays because we’re a threat to the family and the institution of marriage. Toews has described gay marriage ceremonies as satanic “black masses” and insisted that adding gays and lesbians to existing Canadian civil rights statutes would bring the “jackboot of fascism [down] on the necks of our people.”
You know where this is going, right?
It turned out that Toews – who once warned that gay marriage could lead to polygamy – was cheating on his wife of 25 years. After getting a much younger woman pregnant, Toews wound up getting divorced. Another marriage destroyed not by gays stomping around in fabulous jackboots, but by another straight “Christian” shitfuck politician slamming his dick into someone who isn’t his wife.
Toews’s affair became public two years ago, but the scandal didn’t destroy him – he became minister of public safety this January – because the Canadian press sniffed that Toews’s affair and divorce were private. Excuse me, Canadian-press pansies, but a politician who scares up votes attacking the private lives of others, a politician who insists that other people are out to destroy his marriage, can’t be allowed to hide behind “my private business!” when it turns out that the only threat to the politician’s marriage was the politician’s own greasy cock.
Montreal Simon in Montreal writes in his blog....
Of all the nasty homophobes in Stephen Harper's sinister SoCon government, Vic Toews has to be one of the worst.
He opposed protecting gay people from hate crimes. He compared gay marriage to a Black Mass. And over and over again he foamed into his fascist sheriff's mustache ....claiming it would lead to polygamy.
Well wouldn't you know it ? It turns out this champion of so-called family values has a little poly problem of his own.
The 55-year-old Toews' public face of self-righteous morality is now clashing with his troubled private life. An MP dubbed the "minister of family values" by Liberals is embroiled in a messy divorce after fathering a child last fall with a much younger woman.
Can you believe that? The Minister of Family Values impaled on his own quivering petard. Viva Viagra !!!
Of course, I always knew that this wretched bigot was a hypocrite.
He posed as a crime fighter. But was CON-VIC-TED of exceeding his personal campaign expense limits in the 1999 Manitoba provincial election.
But this sordid affair really is the last straw. I mean aren't these religious fanatics supposed to at least get MARRIED..... before they breed with much younger women?
Talk about hypocrisy. So much for the sanctity of marriage. So much for his fake family values.
Lordy. Jebesus save us. First we had Maxime and his biker chick. Now we've got Vicky, his mistress, and his love child. It's like the Fall of Rome on the Rideau. Or Gomorrah in Manitoba.
Look I know I'm a prude. But I really think it's time to put some real family values back on the national agenda. Before these shameless Cons turn our Parliament into a Swinger's Club.
And Vic Toews is someone who claimed that gay marriage would lead to polygamy.... well according to his own practice, straight marriage is already headed in that direction!!!
Even the Calgary Herald has a problem with Mr. Toews and his double standards:
Toews as judge would be galling
To become Otta-washed is to acquire a sense of inflated self-importance, warped parliamentary perspectives and tax-funded entitlement.
To become Otta-washed is to acquire a sense of inflated self-importance, warped parliamentary perspectives and tax-funded entitlement.
It invariably contaminates even politicians who initially swear to humbly serve their voters and act on real priorities.
The Liberals perfected it and readers accuse some journalists of having it (including me), but symptoms suggesting the Conservatives have caught it went epidemic this week.
There are little signs here -- and a billboard-sized indicator there.
That second bout of runaway travel costs, specifically her $1,300 one-day limo rental in Toronto, suggests that Heritage Minister Bev Oda believes in hosing taxpayers.
The outrageous record-high $22,573 airline ticket for Foreign Affairs Minister Maxime Bernier to attend a two-day conference in Laos with three staff last November was a signal he's willing to take taxpayers for a ride.
Sticking with Bernier, news that his former gal pal was dating shady characters with biker gang connections as recently as 2005 -- not 1999 as originally reported -- sheds a harsh new light on this as a potential security risk and, as such, rates a serious government investigation instead of a shrug.
And the government's stalling over the promised inquiry into the Mulroney affair and the PMO's slow release of an investigation into a diplomatic leak are troubling signs their political conscience has gone missing.
But nothing -- NOTHING -- will bolster voter cynicism about the Conservatives more than if Prime Minister Stephen Harper elevates former justice minister and current Treasury Board president Vic Toews to a Court of Queen's Bench judge's job.
Winnipeg Free Press reporter Mia Rabson has discovered that a federal selection committee is checking out Toews for an imminent appointment.
The mind reels. If the Conservatives under Harper stood for anything while in Official Opposition with Toews as the justice critic, it was a clean bench kept clear of patronage deadwood.
Whenever a loyal Liberal was rewarded with a courtroom to call their own, nobody screamed louder than MP Vic Toews.
"It's just one more illustration of how who you know gets you to the bench," Toews fumed after former justice minister Irwin Cotler appointed his chief of staff to the Federal Court.
Toews demanded judicial appointments derive from provincial recommendation lists because, he sniffed, "the evidence is overwhelming that politics plays a significant consideration" in judicial appointments.
For the Conservatives with law and order as their policy signature, tainting a senior bench with a sitting cabinet minister would represent a betrayal of political ethics.
It's difficult to fathom why the Conservatives would risk so much political karma on such a move. While the former Crown prosecutor is arguably qualified for the job, there are plenty of card-carrying Manitoba Conservatives with untainted credentials salivating for a bench seat.
About the only decent theory for Mr. Harper's apparent desire to rid himself of Mr. Toews is, frankly, an area I'm loath to tread.
But the 55-year-old Toews' public face of self-righteous morality is now clashing with his troubled private life. An MP dubbed the "minister of family values" by Liberals is embroiled in a messy divorce after fathering a child last fall with a much younger woman.
That's his business, frankly, yet it might explain why Mr. Toews was demoted to the Treasury Board and immediately cloaked by invisibility, stewing in question period silence while his junior parliamentary secretary juggles tough questions on election financing irregularities.
But if a judicial appointment is being used to ease a problem minister out of government, it only increases the galling patronage of the appointment.
And if they brazenly go ahead and hand him the $232,000-plus job and announce it in the dead of summer when nobody's looking, it will underline the optics of this government behaving no differently than any other. Justice Vic Toews would be a huge sign this government, even having become thoroughly Ottawashed, is still dirty.
dmartin@canwest.com
It invariably contaminates even politicians who initially swear to humbly serve their voters and act on real priorities.
The Liberals perfected it and readers accuse some journalists of having it (including me), but symptoms suggesting the Conservatives have caught it went epidemic this week.
There are little signs here -- and a billboard-sized indicator there.
That second bout of runaway travel costs, specifically her $1,300 one-day limo rental in Toronto, suggests that Heritage Minister Bev Oda believes in hosing taxpayers.
The outrageous record-high $22,573 airline ticket for Foreign Affairs Minister Maxime Bernier to attend a two-day conference in Laos with three staff last November was a signal he's willing to take taxpayers for a ride.
Sticking with Bernier, news that his former gal pal was dating shady characters with biker gang connections as recently as 2005 -- not 1999 as originally reported -- sheds a harsh new light on this as a potential security risk and, as such, rates a serious government investigation instead of a shrug.
And the government's stalling over the promised inquiry into the Mulroney affair and the PMO's slow release of an investigation into a diplomatic leak are troubling signs their political conscience has gone missing.
But nothing -- NOTHING -- will bolster voter cynicism about the Conservatives more than if Prime Minister Stephen Harper elevates former justice minister and current Treasury Board president Vic Toews to a Court of Queen's Bench judge's job.
Winnipeg Free Press reporter Mia Rabson has discovered that a federal selection committee is checking out Toews for an imminent appointment.
The mind reels. If the Conservatives under Harper stood for anything while in Official Opposition with Toews as the justice critic, it was a clean bench kept clear of patronage deadwood.
Whenever a loyal Liberal was rewarded with a courtroom to call their own, nobody screamed louder than MP Vic Toews.
"It's just one more illustration of how who you know gets you to the bench," Toews fumed after former justice minister Irwin Cotler appointed his chief of staff to the Federal Court.
Toews demanded judicial appointments derive from provincial recommendation lists because, he sniffed, "the evidence is overwhelming that politics plays a significant consideration" in judicial appointments.
For the Conservatives with law and order as their policy signature, tainting a senior bench with a sitting cabinet minister would represent a betrayal of political ethics.
It's difficult to fathom why the Conservatives would risk so much political karma on such a move. While the former Crown prosecutor is arguably qualified for the job, there are plenty of card-carrying Manitoba Conservatives with untainted credentials salivating for a bench seat.
About the only decent theory for Mr. Harper's apparent desire to rid himself of Mr. Toews is, frankly, an area I'm loath to tread.
That's his business, frankly, yet it might explain why Mr. Toews was demoted to the Treasury Board and immediately cloaked by invisibility, stewing in question period silence while his junior parliamentary secretary juggles tough questions on election financing irregularities.
But if a judicial appointment is being used to ease a problem minister out of government, it only increases the galling patronage of the appointment.
And if they brazenly go ahead and hand him the $232,000-plus job and announce it in the dead of summer when nobody's looking, it will underline the optics of this government behaving no differently than any other. Justice Vic Toews would be a huge sign this government, even having become thoroughly Ottawashed, is still dirty.
dmartin@canwest.com
© (c) CanWest MediaWorks Publications Inc.
And lastly, there is a news story that has Vic Toews and his mistress patronizing a gay bathhouse....
This news story is from "The Wicked Club" based in Toronto:
Vic Toews , Mr. Hypocrisy visits Gay Bathhouse.
In political circles, attacking someone for their private life is off limits......except when it comes to Vic Toews. Toews, who is from Steinbach Manitoba , the most Christian city in Canada , is one of the biggest homophobes on the hill.
In 1999 , Toews , Mr. Crime Fighter himself, was charged and convicted of exceeding his campaign expense limits in the Manitoba provincial election.
In 2009 scandal hit Mr. Toews.
In political circles, attacking someone for their private life is off limits......except when it comes to Vic Toews. Toews, who is from Steinbach Manitoba , the most Christian city in Canada , is one of the biggest homophobes on the hill.
In 1999 , Toews , Mr. Crime Fighter himself, was charged and convicted of exceeding his campaign expense limits in the Manitoba provincial election.
In 2009 scandal hit Mr. Toews.
www.canada.com/calgaryherald/columnists/...71e38a84163e&p=1
The Minister of Family Values had an affair with a young lady who worked for Conservative MP Joy Smith. Toews, still married to his wife and being the good Steinbach Christian that he is, impregnated the woman, who was rewarded by being turfed by Joy Smith and the Conservative Party.
Now the Minister of Family Values has struck again, this time making an appearance a couple weeks ago on "Co-ed night" with another young lady at a Winnipeg Gay Bathhouse called "Aquarius" . Toews arrived with the woman while wearing a hat and sunglasses and the couple rented a room where Toews stayed in the entire evening while his young lady friend cruised the bathhouse looking for playmates. We are told a husband and wife couple joined Vic and his friend in their room for over an hour before Toews left on his own a couple hours later. We don't know the details of what went on in that room......we will leave that to your imagination.
Normally, the private life of politicians is off limits. But when a man who is so opposed to gay people attends a gay bathhouse, it just has to be exposed. What do his loyal church-going followers have to say about this ? We hope Vic had fun anyway. Now only if he would stop being such a bigot we wouldn't have to spill out more of his private life.
In political circles, attacking someone for their private life is off limits......except when it comes to Vic Toews. Toews, who is from Steinbach Manitoba , the most Christian city in Canada , is one of the biggest homophobes on the hill.
In 1999 , Toews , Mr. Crime Fighter himself, was charged and convicted of exceeding his campaign expense limits in the Manitoba provincial election.
In 2009 scandal hit Mr. Toews.
In political circles, attacking someone for their private life is off limits......except when it comes to Vic Toews. Toews, who is from Steinbach Manitoba , the most Christian city in Canada , is one of the biggest homophobes on the hill.
In 1999 , Toews , Mr. Crime Fighter himself, was charged and convicted of exceeding his campaign expense limits in the Manitoba provincial election.
In 2009 scandal hit Mr. Toews.
www.canada.com/calgaryherald/columnists/...71e38a84163e&p=1
The Minister of Family Values had an affair with a young lady who worked for Conservative MP Joy Smith. Toews, still married to his wife and being the good Steinbach Christian that he is, impregnated the woman, who was rewarded by being turfed by Joy Smith and the Conservative Party.
Now the Minister of Family Values has struck again, this time making an appearance a couple weeks ago on "Co-ed night" with another young lady at a Winnipeg Gay Bathhouse called "Aquarius" . Toews arrived with the woman while wearing a hat and sunglasses and the couple rented a room where Toews stayed in the entire evening while his young lady friend cruised the bathhouse looking for playmates. We are told a husband and wife couple joined Vic and his friend in their room for over an hour before Toews left on his own a couple hours later. We don't know the details of what went on in that room......we will leave that to your imagination.
Normally, the private life of politicians is off limits. But when a man who is so opposed to gay people attends a gay bathhouse, it just has to be exposed. What do his loyal church-going followers have to say about this ? We hope Vic had fun anyway. Now only if he would stop being such a bigot we wouldn't have to spill out more of his private life.
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