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snowywolfowlNo, not THAT election down south. The one I get to vote in. :-)
The NY Times has a pretty good article outlining the effects Stephen Harper and the Conservatives have had on the Canadian political landscape. If anyone wants to know why in twenty years of voting I've never voted for the Conservatives at any level of government, here it is. At the risk of sounding boastful or depressing I was predicting this stuff in a high school paper I wrote when Mike Harris was running for Premier of Ontario and Preston Manning was trying to get Ontario to buy into the Reform Party. Those ancestors of current Conservative thought presented an unimpressive package in the mid 90's and its only gone down hill since.
Mind you my issues with this strand of political thought have nothing to do with whether taxes should go up or down, or if we should spend money here or there because those arguments are as important or unimportant as any individual voter wants to make them. The problem is that you you can't have a vibrant and healthy democracy without those debates and those debate require facts to argue over. It's one thing for a party, any party, to aggressively debate facts. Its quite another altogether to prevent your citizenry to be able to have them at all. That's what the Conservatives are all about and that is why the rascals need to be turfed out of the House of Commons on election day.
There is more stuff than just what's listed in the article but it shows agood bad list of our Dear Leader's actions and achievements. Enjoy.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/opinion/sunday/the-closing-of-the-canadian-mind.html?WT.mc_id=2015-AUGUST-OTB-INTL_AUD_DEV-0801-0831&WT.mc_ev=click&ad-keywords=IntlAudDev&_r=0
The NY Times has a pretty good article outlining the effects Stephen Harper and the Conservatives have had on the Canadian political landscape. If anyone wants to know why in twenty years of voting I've never voted for the Conservatives at any level of government, here it is. At the risk of sounding boastful or depressing I was predicting this stuff in a high school paper I wrote when Mike Harris was running for Premier of Ontario and Preston Manning was trying to get Ontario to buy into the Reform Party. Those ancestors of current Conservative thought presented an unimpressive package in the mid 90's and its only gone down hill since.
Mind you my issues with this strand of political thought have nothing to do with whether taxes should go up or down, or if we should spend money here or there because those arguments are as important or unimportant as any individual voter wants to make them. The problem is that you you can't have a vibrant and healthy democracy without those debates and those debate require facts to argue over. It's one thing for a party, any party, to aggressively debate facts. Its quite another altogether to prevent your citizenry to be able to have them at all. That's what the Conservatives are all about and that is why the rascals need to be turfed out of the House of Commons on election day.
There is more stuff than just what's listed in the article but it shows a
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/opinion/sunday/the-closing-of-the-canadian-mind.html?WT.mc_id=2015-AUGUST-OTB-INTL_AUD_DEV-0801-0831&WT.mc_ev=click&ad-keywords=IntlAudDev&_r=0
