- "It's the People, Stupid!"

Here is something I wrote today on the G&M article, yesterday, "A well-shaped package would be worth the wait", Jack Mintz …"The real reason for their consternation is that the opposition could be kneecapped by the Conservative proposal to eliminate federal taxpayers' subsidies to political parties by April 1. "

I posted an abridged version to the G&M this morning.

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To all those that think that this is all about the Conservatives eliminating the subsidies to the political parties . . .

"It's the People, Stupid!"

I can only suggest that you meet all our fellow Canadians who lose their jobs, or otherwise suffer sever economic injury, between now and the Conservatives decide to implement a meaningful and effective stimulus package and explain why it was right for Canadians to wait.

Every economy based major political entity in the world is acting immediately to attempt to reduce the damage caused not only to their economy but, much more importantly, to the people in their countries. These actions are all being taken since the Federal election. They are based on current and currently projected economic forecasts, not on something based on the situation a year ago.

To tell people to wait until sometime next year for their budget is something like saying to the people of New Orleans to wait until after Katrina hits to see where the weaknesses are in the restraining walls in order to decide what to do. What about all those people that suffer because of the delay in action when the dam bursts.

Harper and Flaherty ought to have introduced a meaningful and effective stimulus package last week in their update. It was worse than negligent to do otherwise.

That Harper and Flaherty would abstain from performing their duty and instead attack public servants and the Opposition parties, is bizarre, indicative, not of a Prime Minster seriously addressing one of the worse crisis in Canada's history, but of a politician and party trying to take advantage of the serious situation to undermine the opposition parties.

This was not a miscalculation by some advisor.

This was a well thought out scheme based on the Harper and Conservative extreme right wing ideology to take advantage of the serious economic crisis to further their extreme right wing agenda. One need only listen to the very well prepared “Harper Black Friday Promulgation” and his blunt and ominous statement that the Opposition Parties do not have the right (despite having the support of almost 2/3rd of the Canadian voters) to join together to run this country without an election, but that only he, Harper, and the Conservatives, are the only ones (with only 36% support of the Canadian votes) that have right to run the country. One must ask them self just what is it, the underlying “hidden” message Harper is asserting.


Lloyd MacIlquham