Canada is at the Polls
Today all over our country Canadians will have to make a choice and more than which beer is best for Canada Day. Today we have to decide, as my friend Mike Sugimoto puts it, between evil, stupid, evil and stupid, and hippies. While I assign different parties to each of the headings than he does the point is the same; there is no GOOD choice. The Liberals who has spent money on things that now no-one takes responsibility for or they forgot that they said “Yes”; they have no comment on what we should do with our friends south of the border; and hey they are supported by U2’s Bono. The NDP that party has some of the best ideas I have ever heard: increase spending on social programs and health care; reduce student fees; say “no” to us being part of the US-Missile defence system; and while Jack Layton seems to be a tad more irritating than Paul Martin (see the English Debate) he hasn’t said anything really stupid...yet. We could pick the Conservatives who will give tax breaks (to the wealthy), drop gun registry while signing us up for the U.S. air missile defence program, and spend our tax money on guys who will figure out how tax money should be spent. I’m not from Quebec so I know very little about the Bloc – sorry. And finally the Green Party who, as studies in B.C. found out, were not even as green as the NDP.
So what do you do? Vote for the devil you know or the devil you don’t? Or do as I am vote for the NDP because the Globe and Mail said Jack Layton’s wife is the best dressed of the significant others of the four major parties; that and they seem to care about the “regular-working” people. Bottom Line: Please God don’t let the Conservatives win.
So Canadians need to get out there and exercise there right to vote, even if it means spoiling the ballot, because it is a right we are fortunate enough to have.
posted by Angela @ 1:27 p.m.
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