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January 23, 2006
citizens of Canada, I am not above begging
Please, please don't give Stephen Harper a majority government today. Please. I know the Liberals are corrupt, but Harper is against everything that Canada stands for. He will take away your right to marry. He will take away your reproductive rights. He has said in this election campaign that he will not privatize our health care, but he lies. He has also said that he would not send Canadian troops to Iraq, yet he was fully in support of the US invasion. He has shown contempt for Canada's ethnic minorities. He will scrap our Kyoto objectives. He is against women being paid an equal wage to men. (In fact, go dig around that site a little bit, and also this one and this one, to hear just what Harper stands for in his own words). You might have thought that Rick Mercer's proposed Conservative cabinet was a funny joke, but it could be horrible, horrible reality.
Please don't give him the power to make these sweeping changes to our country simply as a knee-jerk reaction to the Liberal government's current scandal. I want to come back home to the same Canada I left, not to a Canada that looks just like the United States.
Why not try this instead?
Posted by jodi at January 23, 2006 10:28 AM | categories: assholes : true patriot love
Comments
Hmm hopefully out votes got there in time to be counted. Voting NDP is a nice theory but I think in order to keep them from getting the majority people have to suck it up and vote liberal, as bad as they are they aren't Harper. I guess we'll know tomorrow what happens.
Posted by: Krista at January 23, 2006 12:10 PM
I love Canada. They think they're their own country! They're so cute...printing their own money and everything!
(I'm kidding...I'm a kidder.)
:-)
(see the smile?)
Posted by: NWJR at January 23, 2006 01:00 PM
If the Americans were thinking about moving here after Dub'ya got voted back in the last time... WHERE THE HELL ARE WE GOING TO MOVE IF STEPHEN HARPER GETS VOTED IN?
Amsterdam is going to be soooooo crowded.
Posted by: Steph VW at January 23, 2006 05:27 PM
Hear, hear, sister. I did my part. Tomorrow morning I expect I'll be pissed off and no doubt hungover...
Posted by: alison at January 23, 2006 05:42 PM
NWJR:
Wait, isn't George Bush the president of Canada anyway? I mean he's the acting PM of England and Australia...
(Just kidding too...trying to take your mind off the butthole and onto a bigger one...)
Posted by: lunastrixae at January 23, 2006 06:20 PM