Neanderthals

Well there's no surprise here. The Conservative (Reform/Canadian Alliance) Party showing its true colours once more: an array of sexist neanderthal yahoos. The latest round of idiotic comments come from Nova Scotia MP Gerald Keddy, and Saskatchewan MP Maurice Vellacott. Keddy said that the unemployed in Nova Scotia were "those no-good bastards sitting on the sidewalk in Halifax that can't get work." Vellacott meanwhile derided women by saying in a November 20 anti-aboriton press release:

Pro-life feminists have...come to see abortion as part of a male agenda to have women more sexually available.

While Keddy made a decent gesture and apologized for his stupid comments, Vellacott hs thus far refused to apologize. He did though apologize this week for a political flyer which incorrectly accused Nova Scotia MP Peter Scoffer of backing the gun registry (and what exactly is wrong with registering guns?).

Keddy's comments are Canadians expect from a backward and mean-spirited party like the Conservatives, Nova Scotia MP Scott Brison said:

Nova Scotia Liberal MP Scott Brison said Keddy's remarks reflect the kind of mean-spirited attitude that Canadians have come to expect from the Conservative government.

This is from a Conservative party under Stephen Harper that has referred to Atlantic Canadians as being defeatist. This Conservative party has a deep vein of meanness to it. It's a party that kicks people when they are down.

Meanwhile, Winnipeg Liberal MP Anita Neville was spot on regarding Vellacott, saying that he has a:

...very right-wing, somewhat Neanderthal agenda. It's an insult to women in this country. It gives me great fear should they ever have a majority government.

And with a proportional representation electoral system, these clowns would never acheive a majority government. Yet we endure these jackasses with the first-past-the-post, winner takes all electoral system, which predates electricity.