Crooked in Canada

Don’t be fooled by the title of today’s blog article. The pot activist claims to have made a deal, but he didn’t supply Jack Layton with drugs, though I wouldn’t be surprised to hear such a claim later on down the track.

As much as I hate to admit it, I believe dope-smoker Marc Emery when he says that he and a few other stoners with the same political views brokered a deal with NDP leader Jack Layton to provide his NDP party with candidates from that dope-smoking fringe party in British Columbia, the Marijuana Party. It boils down to Emery’s word against Layton’s, but I don’t trust Canadian politicians much these days, especially those politicians who were once cops or lawyers.

I believe Emery when he says in exchange for providing Layton with candidates that could bring thousands of new people to the NDP, Layton agreed to continue his party’s efforts to decriminalize pot.

Jack Layton is of course denying that such a deal ever existed, but I wouldn’t expect him to state otherwise after two BC NDP candidates were caught on tape toking it up with some of the best bud ever to be grown in Canada. Of course Layton is going to deny any such deal existed in light of the circumstances surrounding Kirk Tousaw and Dana Larsen.

NDP campaign spokesman Brad Lavigne has said that what Emery told CTV.ca in a telephone interview is pure fantasy that it was nonsense, absolute nonsense for anybody to believe that such a deal existed. I don’t know about that, but Lavigne is going to say whatever his boss (Layton) tells him to say and it is pure fantasy for him to say otherwise.

Now Larsen and Tousaw many not have been the sharpest tools in the NDP shed, the fact that they were stupid enough to filmed on tape smoking dope while attempting to become legitimate politicians proof of that, but for the NDP to say that they resigned because they were a distraction from the NDP’s focus on issues like the economy is pure fantasy. They were forced to resign by the NDP because they would be a distraction on the campaign trail, kind of like a sideshow in a circus, and that would have been the distraction for the NDP. Then of course theirs the obvious reason, that Layton knew that Canadian voters as stupid as they may be sometimes, wouldn’t vote for dope-smoking candidates who are nonchalantly going about breaking laws to make to their point, i.e., deliberately breaking laws by growing, selling, purchasing and selling pot.

I’m not saying that Larsen and Tousaw are anything more than dope smokers, but the pot has to come from somewhere and a marijuana producer, dealer or dope smoker does not an MP make.

All bullshit aside, I think Jack Layton did strike up a deal with Marc Emery 5 years ago, and that the deal was to remain hush-hush as one of Layton’s conditions of the deal he struck with Emery.

I think the NDP forced Larsen and Tousaw to resign because they were afraid that if they kicked them out of the party, that action would have been an even bigger distraction for the NDP on the campaign trail, and that the media would have spent more time focusing on pot smoking candidates within the party then on party’s election platform.

Now that Emery has gone on the attack against the NDP with his “deal” he had with Layton, the party strategy to force Tousaw and Larsen to resign to limit damage and/or distractions on the campaign trail has backfired and now the biggest distraction for Layton and company during this election is whether or not such a deal was ever brokered, and of course whether or not there are a lot of pot smokers running in this election under the NDP banner.

It really doesn’t matter to me whether there are more dope-smokers in the NDP or whether on not they had a deal with Emery however, given that for quite sometime now I have always felt that the NDP were going to be worse off than they were after the last federal election whenever the next federal election was going to be called.

For a party leader pledging more police for Canada during this election campaign, having dope smoking candidates running in BC ridings isn’t going to do him any favours at the ballot box, and at the end of the day whether he forced Larsen and Tousaw to resign or not, the fact that the former Marijuana Party members are no longer on the ballot is a good thing for Layton, even if I do think they are going to be worse off after this election than they were in 2006 when the last vote was counted.

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