Again on Mr. Harper

So, another day and another post dedicated to Mr. Harper. Today I will challenge the supposed benefits of Mr. Harper suspending loan repayments so that GM can finance aspects of its production in Canada, with one of its goals being to “boost research work on electric vehicles at its Oshawa engineering centre” (CanWest News Service, Sept. 6, 2008). What a bunch of hogwash! Doesn’t Mr. Harper remember that GM was the company that already had a viable EV1, which was introduced in 1996, and leased vehicles to people (who were mostly wealthy and influential) in California, Arizona and Georgia? The result of all this? That GM eventually gathered up all the vehicles and crushed most of them, with a few being disabled to sit in storage at places like the Smithsonian. Nice, real nice. And Mr. Harper thinks that this is going to buy him votes with the unions? Buzz Hargrove has called it what it is; a blatant vote-getting scheme for southern Ontarioans, announced just days before a federal election call. Bah again!

You know what gets me the most here? That Canadians sometimes don’t see how they’re being manipulated into believing the lies. C’mon Canada!! Wake up!!

Our upcoming federal election

In exactly one month Canadians will vote for a federal government, and I for one have much to say about the candidates which have thrown their hats in the ring.

Nothing (and my husband can attest to this) can distract me more than listening to the rhetoric that falls so easily from the mouths of politicians, and I am very distracted these days. On one hand we have Stephen Harper, a man who quite possibly has the best handle on the image he attempts to portray to the Canadian public, but who in my estimation is one of the biggest fakes around. For two and a half years he has denied the press access to himself (and his cabinet) and now … well now he plays the piano for them and has pleasant conversations. He is nothing if not bold! And on the other hand we have a man who not too long ago promised an “open and honest” government, one that would boldly “do things differently” than the previous one had done. Bah! Just four and half months ago the PC’s “killed off a database called the Co-ordination of Access to Information Requests System” (Globe and Mail, May 5, 2008), thereby showing his true colors to all Canadians. All excuses set aside, Stephen Harper may be a “true politician”, one who tells big lies and tells them all the time.

I do hope that the average Canadian can see through his ruse and denies his party a ruling majority government. As for my vote, it will be going to someone else. Not that I think anyone else is better, but I will not be party to placing him in any form of leadership role in my home and nation. Were I to do that, I would vomit until the cows came home.