Propagandhi Slam Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper

Todd Kowalski, bassist of political-punk outfit Propagandhi has spoken out and criticised Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper's leadership.

In a recent interview with TheMusic, Kowalski was quick to respond when asked whether he was frustrated with Prime Minister Harper.

“Yeah, the guy is a complete fool. Just to be here it's so frustrating. To watch him cut ... all he cares about is big business and stupid things. Where my girlfriend works, she surveys whales and stuff up north and the departments and stuff that she works in... yeah, they've cut like hundreds of jobs and the people who do tests for crazy things in the water – they've just cut it all.

“It's so frustrating and so terrible to watch. It's reasoning that doesn't even make sense. It seems like it's just to be negative and hateful. I just don't get it – it's more expensive to put a lot of people in jails than to have youth centres and stuff. The only reason you'd want to have the jails as opposed to the youth centres is because you have a negative, hateful streak in you, it doesn't make any statistical sense.” 

Renowned for the band's left-wing social and political beliefs, Kowalski also discusses the growth of conservatism around the globe and therefore the importance of the their message.

"It's kind of a depressing thing [the growth of conservatism] but I guess it keeps the tunes alive in some way in people's hearts. Whether it's real or not it's just a spark to keep people going through a crazy world where people aren't even trying to make sense. That's what I find now; people don't even want to make sense, like 'people rode dinosaurs' and stuff.  It's not based in science; it's not based in anything. I guess people are just happy to see someone else has something in common with them, who knows. Who knows what the future holds but maybe someone will get some inspiration from it, I've seen it happen a lot of times.”