# Canadope 2015: Battlestar Canadica **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 1, 2015, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadope-2015-battlestar-canadica/708655 "2015-01-01T01:49:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 425
**Author:** ![orcenio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orcenio/32/1036_2.png) [@orcenio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orcenio)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2015, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadope-2015-battlestar-canadica/708655/425 "2015-10-28T20:31:11Z")
Election time has come and Harper is gone. Defeated Tories are giving final interviews to show that they are normal humans and not cold/incompetent, talking-point spewing automatons (ala [what John Baird did in Feb](http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/john-baird-tells-peter-mansbridge-he-didn-t-want-to-be-political-lifer-1.2945385)). And I tells ya, surprisingly, Paul Calandra [actually seems like a fully function human being](http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/paul-calandra-niqab-c24-conservative-mistakes-1.3291271), quite the shock considering how awfully bad he conducted himself in Parliament (his public apology was forgotten in a month). However… > [@The "Longest Election Campaign in Modern Canada" Thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-longest-election-campaign-in-modern-canada-thread/726807/143): > > I just listened to the CBC interview with Chris Alexander from last year. in a nutshell, Alexander refused to answer Carol Off’s questions about the exact number of refugees that were realistically helped into Canada (this is after avoiding the CBC for over 6 months). > > This came to be because the government was criticized as clamping down on refugee entry, secret/quiet denial/refusal of service, and lack of transparency. Alexander replied that none of that was true and that this administration was doing a lot of help. Off then asks him to quantify the number of Government sponsored refugees have arrived in Canada. Everything breaks down after that request. > > [Please listen to the interview yourselves](http://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/wednesday-federal-immigration-minister-chris-alexander-shrimp-slave-ship-authentic-rembrandt-and-more-1.2903509/immigration-minister-chris-alexander-on-bill-c-24-syrian-refugees-and-his-hanging-up-on-us-1.2903514) it really highlights the Tory media/parliament operating procedure of 1) Avoidance 2) Misdirection 3) Obfuscation 4) Reluctance address concerns 5) Contempt Chris Alexander does not come off well, [he takes no responsibility](http://globalnews.ca/news/2301750/watch-out-of-parliament-but-unrepentant-chris-alexander-slams-hippy-trippy-liberals/) for his role in slow/no rolling non-Christian Syrian refugee sponsorship applications and even doubles down on his “this whole thing was a media witch hunt against me” shtick he’s been peddling for close to two years now. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadope-2015-battlestar-canadica/708655)._