“Don’t vote for Harper:” John Oliver slams prime minister in monologue

After mentioning a few of the candidates running for the seat of Canadian Prime Minister in this year’s elections, Oliver spent a majority of the show bashing the current Prime Minister, Stephen Harper.

“Okay, for a start, if Stephen Harper’s daughter is covering her face it’s probably because she understandably does not want to be seen in public with Stephen f-ing Harper”, Oliver said, the crowd applauding.

Ibbitson does give Harper credit for what he refers to as his “five big things”, but seriously, by the time I’d finished the book I’d forgotten what they were – they’d been overshadowed by the rest of his failings as a leader for all Canadians.

While none of the candidates are palatable – Mulcair for his lack of public speaking skills, Trudeau for his poor fashion choices and inexperience – Oliver saves most of his vitriol for Harper.

On Sunday, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver was on the case.

Oliver then rolled a clip of Harper saying that there was “overwhelming and growing scientific evidence” that marijuana “is infinitely worse” than tobacco. So, Oliver made a decision to use that $5,000 in the best way possible: by bringing a beaver into the studio to play “Sweet Caroline” on the keyboard while a moose received a colonoscopy thanks to Canada’s single-payer health care system. “Don’t be deceived by his bland exterior; where there is banality, there is evil”, Oliver warns, highlighting Harper’s efforts to scale back environmental protections and health care, as well as a series of Islamophobic laws including one that briefly banned the wearing of burkas.

The good news, for Oliver: he need not fear being sent to the slammer.

As a typical USA citizen, it’s hard enough to keep up with my own local politics and insane presidential races.

Happy election day, Canada!

“This also applies to Mr. Oliver”. “A personal view is not inducement”, he added. “The country you think about so little, that’s it. End of sentence”.

“Thinking 78 days is a long campaign is absolutely adorable”, he says. “There couldn’t possibly be one longer than that'”.

If that didn’t convince the audience, Oliver showed video of Stephen Harper’s freakish old man cover band, the Van Cats, tragically crucifying Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline”.