Apparently the Harper Conservatives are going to unveil a platform – in the final week before the election. They’re the government. They called the election, it wasn’t triggered by the opposition. And they’ve dummied up until they were safely past the debates. It’s just plain creepy.

Stephen Harper is shrewd. He’s undemocratic, authoritarian, hyper secretive, cynical, manipulative, and more than a tad creepy himself – but he’s shrewd.

Last time around Harpo fed Canadians a bagful of lies about how he’d govern on principles. Why he’d turn things around. There’d be accountability and transparency and a bunch of little trinkets like fixed election dates – and anyone who believed him must wonder what’s that taste in their mouths today. Here’s the answer – he fed you a load of shit and you swallowed it. And he’s getting fixed to feed you another load of the same this time.

The fundamentals of the economy are strong. That’s crap straight from the prime ministerial horses ass himself. Here, help yourself to a shovelful if you can get another one down.

In that grotesque parody of a newspaper we call the National Post, Don Martin writes that it makes sense for Harper not to release his platform because, after all, that would only give the other parties the opportunity to attack it. And, yeah, it also gives Harpo the chance to tweak it up (as in make it up) at the last minute. Yes, Don, and it also gives Canadians next to zero chance to evaluate it and look through it and figure out they’re being hoodwinked by the same Con artist who got’em last time.

The height of Don Martin’s cynical apologia for Harper came in this final line of his piece: “If voters really knew what a government was planning, they would never vote for them, confessed one candid politician whose identity I cannot find in Google (although I’m thinking former finance minister John Crosbie).” Right Don, thanks.