Phil McColeman: Soft on Hate Crime

Phil McColeman's views on gender and sexual identity rights are clear: he has publicly stated that he opposes same-sex marriage, and was at one point associated with a coalition lobbying to make same-sex marriage illegal.

Phil McColeman's views on crime are also clear: he supports getting "tough on crime".

So how does Phil feel about hate crime against transgendered people? Answer: he doesn't oppose it.

A reader of this blog forwarded us an email exchange that he had with Phil McColeman regarding Bill C-389. That Bill would have strengthened the rights of transgendered individuals, including amending the Criminal Code to include the terms "Gender Identity" and "Gender Expression" to the hate crime offences. Getting tough on crime – Phil should love this, right? Wrong.

Phil McColeman opposed Bill C-389, arguing that "Gender Identity" and "Gender Expression" were not "clearly defined".

Well a lot of Criminal Code provisions are not clearly defined, but that doesn't stop the police and courts from enforcing them. For example, "sexual assault" is simply an assault that is "sexual". When the sexual assault provisions were enacted in 1983 nobody had any idea what they meant, but the lawyers and police figured it out anyway. Does Phil think that we should make rape legal just because "sexual assault" is not clearly defined? No way. Phil, as a "tough on crime" nut, understands how the Criminal Code works.

So according to Phil, men who wear a kilt have full protection of the law but men-cum-women who wear dresses don't. It's pathetic, but you know what there are still racist people out there too.

[for the entire text of the reader forwarded email, click here]

Phil Shirks Responsibility… Again

Phil McColeman has insulted Brantford's hard-working city councillors by blaming them entirely for the cost overruns at the Gretzky Centre renovation.

As this blog has repeatedly stated, the cost overruns are almost entirely due to an unreasonably tight deadline on stimulus spending – a deadline implemented by the Conservative government. (For DumpPhil's past coverage of this issue, see "Phil's Pointless Promise",  "Gretzky Centre Over Cost Because of Phil!",  and "Conservative government costs Brantford millions in wastePHIL spending")

When will Phil man up and take responsibility??

Dump Phil Reaches 100!

This post marks the 100th entry since DumpPhil started reporting on the poor performance of Phil McColeman. It's quite an achievement. In a little over two years literally thousands of unique readers have visited the blog – on which we have spent $0. We are proud to have raised the level of political awareness and discourse in Brant.

Some of our greatest hits have included "Phil McColeman: Soft on Crime pt 1" and "pt 2", "Phil decorates the Canadian flag...", and "Phili Vanilli", each of which garnered hundreds or thousands of page loads.

During this final week before the election we'll have some really hard-hitting posts so check back often and keep leaving lots of comments. In the meantime, here's a rundown of our posts since we started:

99 Phil Makes the List

98 Phil Does the Time Warp

97 Did Lazy Phil bother to read his party's platform ...

96 Phil Has No Compassion

95 Why…

94 Phil McHypocrite

93 Who's telling the truth?

92 Vote For Your Local Fire Hydrant

91 Hey Phil Where are the Jobs?

90 Gretzky Centre Over Cost Because of Phil!

89 Stay Anonymous Or Get Kicked Out

88 $3.1 million > $1.2 billion: Phil McColeman

87 Harper to Visit Hamilton Behind Closed Doors

86 Would You Accept a Bribe for Your Vote?

85 Attention Laurier Brant Students: Don't Vote for Phil

84 Phil Respects Taxpayers… APRIL FOOL'S!!

83 McColeman Speaks for Harper, Not You

82 Partisan Posturing and Trickle-Down Economics

81 Understatement Of The Year

80 Hulk Hogan Coming to Brantford

79 Phil McColeman: CBC Never Heard of Him

78 Phil Phakes Phamily Tax Cuts

77 Phil Finally Decides to Communicate with Constituents

76 "Who is this guy and why is he standing behind me?"

75 Phil Pretends to Care About Seniors

74 Phil Abuses His Position Once Again

73 New Look, New Address, New MP!

72 Nonsense Non-sequitur

71 Poll: Phil's Priorities

70 Don't Trust Phil's Claims on Land Claims

69 Do Phil McColeman and his staff know how the Google machine works?

68 Who would make a better Conservative MP: Phil or the fire hydrant outside his office?

67 Phil McColeman: Cheapshot Artist

66 Why did Phil choose guns over our local baseball team?

65 McColeman Supports Patronage Senate Appointments

64 Phil to Host Roundtable

63 Phil's Partisan Puerile Penal Preposterousness

62 Phil McColeman on the recent Cabinet $huffle

61 Phil McColeman embarasses himself again...

60 Quotable Quotes: Finance Critic

59 Phil Makes a Complete Phool of Himself

58 SNAP!

57 Phil on Immigration

56 What exactly are Canada's foreign policy principles?

55 Phil Blames the Liberals… again

54 Phil's Cronies Get Great Perks

53 Phil McColeman: Missing in action AGAIN

52 Phil's Silly Stats

51 Conservative government costs Brantford millions in wastePHIL spending

50 Phil's Pointless Promise

49 One Mouth, Two Tongues

48 Phil with an Automatic Weapon

47 Philnocchio lied about the gun registry!

46 Phil's Gun Crazy

45 Phil the Barbarian gets clubbed by Heritage Canada Official!

44 Phil McColeman's unFLAGging disrespect for Canada....

43 Phil calls Brantford "small-town Ontario"

42 Phil McColeman: Soft on Crime, pt. 2

41 Phil Investigated by Ethics Commissioner

40 Lazy Phil Worked One Day in 1½ Months

39 Dissatisfied Citizens

38 Phil's spending money like a "drunken sailor"

37 Demolishing Democracy

36 Lazy Phil Takes a Vacation

35 Gold-digga

34 Everybody to the YMCA – oh wait, we can't

33 Phil McColeman: Soft On Crime

32 Cheque it out!

31 Making the List

30 Cheques and Balances

29 Phil's Flag Flap Comes to an End

28 Phil Gets a Reality Cheque

27 Green Hope for Brant

26 Huffy Duffy Comes to Brant

25 Phil's Funds Fall Flat

24 Phil McColeman: Not with a strong voice but a whimper

23 Visas on Demand; Phil cubre su culo!

22 Food for thought: what does Phil stand for? Besides pork...

21 Footage of how Phil really scratched his face!!!

20 Phil does the darnedest things...

19 While Phil was busy sending "sexy" flags out...

18 Phil puts the FLAG in flagrant disrespect!

17 Phil decorates the Canadian flag...     

16 This must be what Phil's promised funding is being...

15 Phil McColeman, most spoonfed MP in the history of...

14 If you're happy to be sitting in the front row CLAP YOUR HANDS!

13 Phil McColeman, Ghostwriter

12 Phili Vanilli

11 Witness: Phil's Committee Meeting

10 A couple of MPs who also need to be replaced...

9 EMAIL, we know how to use it!

8 Dr. Phil’s Formula for Economic Recovery

7 Tased and ConPHused...

6 Phil's "Visit With Agriculture"

5 This blog got served!!!

4 New Post - Phil's Office Season 1

3 Phil's Boring Website

2 Phil McColeman sends Generic Holiday Mailout

1 Greetings!

Phil Makes the List

Phil made the list of Conservative candidates who chickened out of an all-candidates debate!

Brantfordians should be proud. Not only do we have an MP who takes his job for granted, we also have a Prime Minister who is chicken-scared wholesale of talking to the public and the media.

Phil Does the Time Warp

The other day Phil was talking to his boss. He asked his boss to give him credit for doing a good job on a project. The boss responded that the project had been completed before Phil was even hired.

That's basically how the Chamber of Commerce all-candidates debate went down on Wednesday. Phil tried to take credit for funding a new water treatment facility in Ohsweken. Well we here at DumpPhil.ca were naturally suspicious of this claim, so we did a little digging and found this press release:

The funding was ANNOUNCED IN 2005, THREE MONTHS before Stephen Harper became Prime Minister, and a solid THREE YEARS before Phil even came into office. Lyin' Phil is tryin' to take credit for other people's work!

So unless Phil has a time machine in his office, there is no way that he or his government were responsible for the treatment plant.



The worst part is that Phil has been telling this lie for years, even though people called him on it long ago.

Did Lazy Phil bother to read his party's platform this time?

Sadly this is a REAL question that needs to be asked:



"I HAVE NOT READ THE PLATFORM, IT'S SOOO NEW" - Phil McColeman, 2008 election debate

Phil also promised to e-mail the platform to someone who asked for a hard copy, not only did Lazy Phil not read his party's platform but he also does not know how to use a printer!



A reader spotted this image from yesterday's debate on the Brant News website, Phil with a giant debate binder full of notes in block letters:


Potential rebuttal from Lazy Phil: "I still haven't read the platform from the last election, so what do you expect?"

Phil Has No Compassion

The Burford United Church held a different kind of "debate" last Sunday – one that "had an emphasis on compassion, creativity and a positive vision for Canada." What a wonderful idea in an age of increasingly negative campaigning.

Nora Feuten talked about how to mend the increasing gap between the rich and the poor.

Mark Laferriere talked about a community garden project that contributed to the food bank.

Lloyd St-Amand talked about land claims and duties owed to Aboriginal peoples by non-Aboriginals.

Phil McColeman didn't say anything because he didn't attend.