Tories: Locker-Room Lamebrains

By Zamboni

Baxter wanted to write this post but it is I, Zamboni, who comments on Canadian politics. And it seems that Stephen Harper’s Conservative government has its very own “Bitter-gate” on its hands.

What should we call it? In the interest of good taste, let’s refer to it as “Lukiwski-gate.”

Tom Lukiwski is a Conservative member of Parliament from the western province of Saskatchewan. In 1991, drinking beer in his party’s campaign office, he allowed himself to be videotaped making a revolting anti-gay slur.

The — shall we say, vintage? — tape was found by members of the National Democratic Party when they moved into their provincial legislative offices. No word on who had been careless enough to leave it there, but as the NDP has released the tape to the world, you can see it on YouTube.

(Warning: We don’t approve the language Mr. Lukiwski uses on this tape. It's offensive to humans, cats and all other species that inhabit this planet.)

Well, now that the tape is out, Mr. Lukiwski has just fallen all over himself to apologize, and said he wishes he could take his terrible homophobic words back. George Bush’s good friend, Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper, has called the comments “unacceptable” but refuses to discipline his wayward MP.

Despite the disgusting nature of Mr. Lukiwski’s remarks, what offends us most is his immaturity. We don’t care that this little beer party happened 17 years ago. Mr. Lukiwski and his fellow Conservatives, clearly adults, are behaving like a bunch of 13-year-old morons who just discovered how much fun it is to videotape themselves saying dirty, bigoted things.

These are the people running Canada these days?

A giant HISS — and a swipe of the unsheathed claws — to the wildly unappealing Tom Lukiwski and to Stephen Harper, his tone-deaf PM.