PMs smear machine in top gear

The PM and Conservatives continue to rely on smears and attacks to try and win over Canadians to their position.

First, the PM's press secretary Dimitri Soudas, a well known attack dog, circulated an email accusing NDP MP Deputy Leader of organizing a needle exchange protest rally which threw a wrench in the PM's scheduled visit to woo over the Chinese-Canadian community.

in the horrible event of fire of emergency, all those goodwilled people would be prevented from exit

Sure. Why not sow fear and hint that the Davies and the NDP are prepared to see people die to further their agenda (trying to prevent people from dying from unsafe needles. Here's an account from rabble.ca.

Woof, snarl, bite

Then the PM, through the party machinery and Parliamentary email system, attacked one of Canada's top bankers, Ed Clark from TD Bank, for having the temerity to suggest that Canadians were prepared to see some of the tax cuts rolled back in order to reduce the deficit and pay down the debt.

A member of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives, Clark recounted a recent meeting of the high-powered, 150-company group.

"We had a meeting two weeks ago, and almost every single person said raise my taxes. Get this deficit done," Clark said during a question-and-answer session at the TD Ameritrade Inc. conference...

Fear of reprisals from the Harper government has made some people reluctant to take part in Liberal hearings on Parliament Hill these past few weeks, Ignatieff said Wednesday.

Harper's response? Liberal shilling. Note that this was a round table of very wealthy executives who have undoubtedly stashed away a lot of money due to tax cuts from previous governments of both stripes.