- Let's All Get Tough on Con's - Give the Harper Gang the Boot!

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In the next election, it's flu versus crime, Rick Salutin, Nov. 06, 2009
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/in-the-next-election-its-flu-versus-crime/article1352927/
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Harper and the Con's "Tough on Crime" is no more than an emotional appeal to the Con's right wing voter base. Harper's approach is deliberately devoid of logic, rationality and fact based policy development. That is why the Harper approach is to lengthen the jail terms of offenders rather than do something that will actually reduce crime - a G.W. Bush agenda, manifestly demonstrated to be a complete disaster. The disaster Bush made of the US is a prime example of just how much damage can be done when the wrong person is leading the country, something every Canadian ought to think seriously about in the next election.

As it turns out Harper and the Con's have nothing to support their position to say that it is in the best interest of all Canadians. In fact, all the evidence points to the exact opposite. This is illustrated by the Report released by Graham Stewart, Prof Michael Jackson, et al, in late September, "A Flawed Compass".

The response by the Con’s: “The professor has a different philosophy than us,” Public Safety Minister Peter Van Loan (to CBC).

In other words, Harper and the Cons are totally disregarding the facts and basing their position on shear Ideology, extreme right wing at that.

That is, they are not basing it on what is best for Canadians, but on irrational fear mongering and self-righteous hypocrisy, dragging us back to the Dark Ages with hints of the Inquisition, and Canada be Damned. Is burning at the stake "cruel and unusual" for witches???

Harper and the Con's 'agenda' is no more than a hodgepodge of 'one-off's' that do not actually 'get tough' on anything but the tax-payers pocketbooks. It is interesting that they refer to it as an 'agenda' and not a 'policy' - it's so revealing of Harper's underlying approach - it's so Fraudian, it's spooky.

Lloyd MacIlquham cicblog.com/comments.html