Limes with Orange

Has Stephen Harper been feeding us bald faced lies or simply breaking promises left, right and centre? Proposed senate reforms from Harper included electing senators and fixing terms to eight years. On the day after the federal election, Harper revealed he might appoint senators if the Liberal-dominated chamber tried to block any bills passed in the House. Now he's decided to stuff the senate before Christmas in case there's a coalition government.

After calling an early election when he had campaigned on fixed term elections, trying to eliminate public campaign financing, covertly eavesdropping on opposition parties, then proroguing Parliament to avoid a vote of non-confidence, does anybody actually find him credible anymore? Anybody? In particular, I'm asking the 36% of voters who made the conscious decision to vote for this dishonest politician if they still think they made the right choice. Do you? If so, tell me why. Because I truly can't see the merit in this man.

There have been plenty of politicians that I don't agree with or dislike, but few that I distrust as much as Harper. I'm pretty comfortable lumping him in with the likes of George W. Bush (though Harper is smarter than Dubya, which makes him more dangerous) and Richard Nixon (though I think I might be doing Nixon a disservice with that comparison).

If our political situation doesn't improve, I'm seriously tempted to move down to the States with Obama at the helm. I have dual citizenship so it's a real possibility. Many Canadian artists end up in the States anyway, so with Harper set on destroying the arts that he thinks "ordinary Canadians" don't support on top of messing up the whole country, why not move?

Ignatieff... it's all up to you now. You've been handed the Liberal party on a platter. Don't frack it up.

Labels: harper bashing, politics