Tuesday, June 19, 2012

The Late Spring Political Follies.

Whether we wanted it or not, this is turning out to be a busy time in Canadian politics, both on the provincial and federal levels.

We have Harper's Omnibus budget bill passing and the country will be experiencing its fiscal vandalism in short order, especially with the elements that were less obvious like killing the Fair Wages Law and the gutting of environmental research budgets, which are likely breaking the law for keeping them so quiet..  This going far beyond cost cutting to a level of injustice guided by blind ideology we're going to have to endure for years.

On the provincial level, we have this relatively petty political stare down with the Liberals and the NDP that could result in a unwanted snap summer general election that is not likely to change anything significantly, or worse put Hudak and his Harrisites in the driver's seat.  Considering they are still clinging to moronic policies like privatizing our public electric system, they are still as much a danger to this province as under Harris. At least I know the upcoming by-election will be a real scrap now with a Liberal majority government being the prize.

At least my party leader, Thomas Mulcair, is proving himself to some real bite on the political scene.  He's able to get real support about his warnings about Canada's dutch disease and he's got the NDP in a polling tie with the Tories.  However, with Justin Trudeau mulling over running for the federal Liberal leadership, there will be a divided opposition that may regretfully require a political merger after all.  As much as that would be the death of Tommy Douglas' dream, the soul of the nation is in the balance and difficult choices may need to be made short of getting proportional representation by some miracle.

Oh well, less than a week to go and likely on to the silly season.

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