So another $290-million wasted: http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/story.html?id=febe82ad-403d-47e8-b8ba-c5e6115f996b
Harper’s Third Mandate is the same as his first and second mandate. Canadian’s don’t trust him with a majority government. Last time we let the Tories have a majority government was Brian Mulroney. Enough said. Does Harper really wonder why we don’t want them to have a majority government again?
Will he listen this time? Not likely. He was lucky the Liberals shot themselves in the foot by picking an idiot for a leader who preached Campbell’s carbon tax is good. That was worse than the sponsorship is good mantra. Raising the tax on fuel raises the price of everything we buy in stores that is transported there. Next time Harper might not be so lucky when Trudeau’s son steps up to the plate: http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5ikzT5E9cMSjbJce6b9F4adGITrGg
Harper coverts a majority government so he can govern. Why does that sound so frighteningly like a monarchy the way he says it? Maybe because that is exactly how majority governments act when they are in power. They don’t give a rat’s ass what the other parties have to say. They let them ramble and speak on the motion as they yawn and look at their watch. Then they steam roll ahead with their own agenda without listening to what anyone else has to say.
A minority government is good because it prevents them from steam rolling ahead with stupid things. Like following the US into Iraq, continuing the closed door NAU or getting hard on crime not by imposing minimum sentences on violent crime, not by dealing with organized crime but by imposing minimum sentences on the possession of marijuana. Someone is clearly not listening.
Speaking of Brian Mulrony, you remember him don’t you? He was the most hated Prime minister in recorded history for wasting all that money to stack the senate and railroad the GST through: http://archives.cbc.ca/on_this_day/09/27/
Mulroney used the same term. He stacked the senate so he could govern regardless of what the rest of Canada wanted.
Brian Mulroney was the reason the Reform Party formed. They wanted to oppose pork barrel politics. They wanted to balance the budget to save social programs not abolish them. Preston Manning challenged us to look beyond the left and the right.
Instead, they acted on a typo and instead of unite the bright they decided to unite the right and merge with the very conservatives they were created to oppose. Was all the Reform and Canadian Alliance drama just to get an Albertan elected as Prime Minister? Evidently so. Now I have no problem with an Albertan Prime Minister any more than I have a problem with a Quebecer as Prime Minister. Both has it’s pros and cons.
The advantage of an Albertan Prime Minister is that they’d likely be better with money. The down side is that they’d likely blindly follow the states into a whole range of bizarre extremes like privatizing everything just to remove public accountability not to save money. That is not a democracy and is not in the public’s best interest.
The advantage of a Quebecer as a Prime minister is that they would be strong enough to stand apart from crazy extremes coming from the US. The downside is given the long history of the Liberals in Canada they are completely fiscally irresponsible and rack up massive national debt. Maybe we should elect someone from the Bloc?
Will we ever find a balance between fiscal responsibility and social justice? It’s really not that difficult to understand what Canadians want. It is however, very difficult to find a politician who will truly listen. All we see are used car salesmen pimping the country.
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