At a loss for words
I don't think I've ever been ashamed to be Canadian. But that's quickly changing, and it's all due to a few opposition parties bitter that they lost an election.
I've made comments in my life that Bush stole the 2000 election. The fate of a country decided by a handful of judges instead of a proper and full recount. Though costly, a recount would have been the morally correct and proper.
But what the NDP, Bloq and Liberal parties of Canada want to do? That's stealing an entire government, let alone an election. The election happened and they lost, yet they're brokering backroom deals to steal parliament! What the FUCK!
The gist is this: the Conservative party tabled an outline for their financial plan, which included cutting the public funding to all parties. That funding was the child of Jean Chretien, a former Liberal Prime Minister. The public funding has been critized as being biased to the party in power, because it sees that party losing the largest amount of money.
The Conservative party stood to lose around 10 million dollars, far more than any of the parties. That isn't a problem for them, however, because they receive most of their funding from grassroots fundraising. The Liberals, bloated after almost 15 years in power, would run the distinct possibility of being bankrupt, along with the fledgling Green Party.
So the Conservatives, seeing the writing on the wall, decided to remove that little tidbit. Still, the opposition parties march forward with their idea of stealing the government. They claim that anything less than a stimulus package for the economy will send Canada into a depression. Really? We'll go from having one of the stronger economies in this world wide mess to being what, a third world country? I don't think so.
Yeah, the auto industry might be crumbled and thousands of people will be out of work, but how in the fuck is that any different than when Alcan closed their doors in Canada, or any of the other logging or steel mills? Where were the opposition parties then, crying about the plight of the working Canadian? Oh yeah, they weren't scheming back then.
I'm livid. The opposition wants to put the Liberals in power, with Stephan Dion as the Prime Minister. This man lead the Liberals to the worst showing of support for the Liberal party since Confederation. Even Martin (whom I supported and voted for) fared better after dealing with the Liberal Sponsorship Scandal. A scandal which came from a funding program started by Jean Chretien. And who was one of the first people to start brokering talks between the Liberals and the NDP last week? You guessed it; Jean Chretien.
That man's meddling ruined the Liberal Party. I was a Liberal supporter for most of my life, and I would have described myself as a 'Paul Martin'-liberal. I was disappointed at the partisanship and ego displayed by Chretien because he didn't want to leave power. And now Chretien is trying to help broker a deal to steal the government voted in by the people?
I'm all for the idea of party coalitions to oust an abusive government. Or even a government that is trying to repeal innate human-rights from sects of individuals. But no one is clamouring in the streets. No one but the profesional politicians themselves have been crying foul about the Conservative government. Where is the support of the people for this action? There is none.
I'm becoming convinced that this is why liberal parties want stricter gun control; it's not to keep the people safe, but to safeguard themselves.
The timing of this action is absurd. We've just gone to the polls. We gave the Conservative party a slightly larger minority government than they had going into this election. We, the people, don't have confidence in the Liberals or the NDP. Who are they to assume we want them?
I've never been this ashamed at my government, which is saying a lot considering how deplorable I found its treatment of our citizens being held and tortured in foreign countries.
Source:
http://news.sympatico.msn.ctv.ca/abc/home/contentposting.aspx?isfa=1&feedname=CTV-TOPSTORIES_V3&showbyline=True&date=true&newsitemid=CTVNews%2f20081130%2fconservative_budget_081201
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