I Hate Harper
I can’t stand Harper and the Conservative Party. I am going to have “I Hate Harper” buttons made and hand them out to everyone I know, everyone I see on the street.
After the last election- which changed absolutely nothing (thanks for wasting taxpayer money to maintain the status quo when the money could have been used to mitigate the extent of the damage to the country from a deep and potentially protracted recession, read depression)- Harper claimed that we will see a more conciliatory Conservative Party since the looming financial crisis will require all MPs to work together to get things done.
I choked on my own spit laughed when I heard this.
What do you take us for? Idiots?
Did you really think you were pulling the wool over our eyes with the jumpers you wore in those photo ops with small children, puppy dogs and butterflies flitting in the background? The only people you convinced were the people who wanted to be convinced- god help us all. And let me take this opportunity to thank everyone who chose not to vote because “Dancing with the Stars” was on before the election coverage.
I was waiting for the other shoe to drop and it did today. His henchman Flaherty drop the axe today with the Conservative proposal to do away with the $1.95-per-vote subsidy, claiming that since the Conservatives received the most votes, they would be the most hurt by this proposal.
The fact that the Conservative Party is the best privately funded party and doesn’t need the subsidy in the first place doesn’t play into the decision. Nor does the fact that the Liberal Party is practically bankrupt figure into this measure. But it is not just the Liberals who would be hurt by this measure. This subsidy represents 65% of the Green Party’s revenue, 85% of the Bloc’s. More details can be found here: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/11/26/update-subsidy.html
Many of my friends voted not because they thought the person they wanted to represent them would win but to get that $1.95 to the party.
To rub salt into the wound, this will be put forth as a confidence motion. That is EXACTLY what this country needs- another election- just five weeks after the last one.
The schoolyard bully rears his ugly head once again. His way or no way.
Yes, a kinder, gentler Conservative Party indeed.
