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.