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October 6th 2008 - The Lilith eZine Sunday Edition
The Lilith eZine Sunday Edition
Letter from the Editor
This is a belated Sunday Edition, not only because its Monday, but because its been 2 months since our last Sunday Edition.
For me personally its a busy time of the year teaching. There's also stress, not just from work, but from society and politics.
I
have yet to decide whom I shall vote for the August 14th Canadian
election for example. Its bothering me because usually I know a month
or two in advance whom I intend to vote for. Its also bothering me
because Stephen Harper actually has a serious chance of winning a
majority government.
And as a teacher working in Canada... that scares me.
Stephen
Harper has worked hard to change his public image over the past several
years, trying not to appear like the penny-pinching, don't care about
the common person, privatize health care, sell out Canada to the USA,
censor movies and television, sell the CBC, cut funding to the arts,
cut funding to literacy, cut funding to women's shelters and women's
programs, puppet for the American Republicans, oil industry pawn,
bribery monger, fraud artist, lying, cheating and overall general
scumbag that he is.
Instead his minority government has pushed the idea of Stephen
Harper as the family man, the hockey lover, the guy who believes in
laissez-faire economics... To me laissez-faire doesn't mean hands off.
It means lazy. Harper doesn't like to mess around in economics and as a
result does nothing about the economy. If the economy goes bad he
blames problems in the USA.
Remember the glory days of Jean Chretien? An endless stream of
trade missions to Asia, Europe, Africa and South America? He promoted
Canadian products and exports overseas so that Canada didn't become so
dependent on the American economy. Harper has been too busy trying to
get rid of gay marriages and keep Kyoto and environmental change off
the table that he has totally ignored promoting Canada overseas.
So in deciding whom to vote for I will be weighing multiple issues:
Who will promote Canada overseas? Who will make environmental change
for the better? Who will protect the integrity of Canada's health care,
education and social programs?
I will tell you it won't be the Green Party. I'm sorry, but the
Greens are just contributing to vote splitting and could hand Harper a
majority. Canadians afraid of a Harper majority should seriously
consider voting strategically this election. I'd rather see a Liberal
and NDP coalition than see Harper get a majority.
One last scary thing: Harper still hasn't announced his party's
platform for this election. Its a huge secret what his party intends to
do... but I can guarantee it will include doing nothing about the
environment and further eroding Canada's social programs.
Sincerely,
Suzanne MacNevin
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