Monday, May 2nd was a great day here, the sun was shining in a brilliant blue sky on the warmest day we've had this year, almost 21 C! Osama Bin Laden had been assassinated the night before and the excitement from American media was palpable. Too bad a bunch of ignorant and lazy Canadians had to ruin a perfectly great day by electing Stephen Harper a majority government. It was as disappointing as the cloud that drifted in from the West that blocked the sun and turned the evening a dull grey.
So now what? Well my fellow Canadians, you will soon be reminded how much power a Prime Minister has in this country. Now that the threat of an election at any time is off the table, Harper can do pretty much anything he likes, the Senate is stacked with Conservatives and soon the Supreme Court will see openings as judges retire. Do I trust a bunch of right wing and religious idealogues to preserve my rights as a gay man? Probably not, and I would not put past further petty attacks like the defunding of the Toronto Gay Pride Parade to escalate in the future. SUN Media is having multiple orgasms over the destruction of the Liberal Party today. Everyone loves a sore winner! They seem to think Liberals were pretty much Osama Bin Laden and are now dancing naked eating pork sandwiches on both their graves today!
Trying to look at the up side to all this. Now Conservatives will have to take responsibility and blame when things go wrong. Electing Harper does not change the high cost of gasoline or the increasing inflation rate due mainly to food prices. It doesn't change the unemployment rate or end the war in Afghanistan and increasing National Debt. I remember the last time we had a majority Conservative government under Brian Mulroney, he left us with Free Trade that moved jobs out of the country, GST, crippling National Debt while saying "the Conservative Party has never been richer" and later turned around and sued the Government of Canada. I should apologize a little here for accusing Americans of having short memories! Sorry y'all!
Many Calgarians seem to think that with these Conservatives "the West is in", I'm not sure what that means exactly, special rights for Alberta? I've yet to hear or see a benefit Calgary gets for being loyal lapdogs to Stephen Harper. I think the Conservatives focused all their energy on winning seats in Ontario and I'll bet you dollars to doughnuts that focus will continue for the next four years. Canada seems to change even slower than the US, so lets just see how much attention the West gets, Ontario will always have the most people and thus most power, you stupid Calgarians, the West will never be "in"! Everyone here seems to think they are an oil company and the Federal Government has always been out to get them, well, my dears, you are not, local media may trump up the oil companies concerns and coerce you into thinking their interests are yours, but they're not. One day, maybe, you'll all realize you've been duped. Hopefully I won't be living here anymore, it's hard to say how oppressive a bunch of empowered Conservatives are going to act.
Earlier I called Canadians ignorant and lazy, and I stand by this. The elderly people, like the 100 year old lady in a walker I held the door open for at my local school/voting booth, probably do not understand the world anymore. People still talk about Trudeau and the National Energy Program here, and they are so mad they are going to use a rotary dial telephone to call their MP about it. So, I've been waiting for everyone over 70 to die off for some time now, maybe there is too much access to free Health Care? Lets see if/when the radical-right will dismantle Health Care, and what that fallout is going to be. The rest of Canadians are apparently too lazy or stupid to care, and I'm looking at a lot of 20 somethings here. They grew up in and take for granted our fantastic socially Liberal, pluralistic society, gun control, soft on marijuana laws, gay marriage world. I guess they weren't around for a lot of these fights from previous decades? You will find out how everything you've taken for granted in this country will change. Maybe one day you'll pull your heads out of your collective asses and take the 15 minutes to vote? Sadly it is going to take four years or more for Canadians to know what the radical-right will do. They've been doing it in the US for decades now, since the days of Bush I, maybe flip on a television once in a while? Maybe it will get so egregious here we'll elect our own Obama? It's a big maybe, Canada would have to produce an interesting engaging politician, I think the ice caps might melt before then!
Well, my fellow Canadians, you deserve everything that's coming to you over the next four years.
Myself, I've already learned Spanish,
Adios Amigos!
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