Conservatives Fail to Care

When Prime Minister Harper broke his fixed election date law to put us to the polls, no one who voted Conservative cared.

He saw that the economy was headed downward faster than anyone had anticipated, or at least someone around him did. Instead of taking a firm step forward and addressing the issue, he terminated parliament to try and win a majority before things got ugly. At least with a majority, he must have thought, he would have a job despite what happened to the rest of us. No one who voted Conservative cared.

We heard from his Finance Minister that we wouldn’t be going into a recession. We heard that our economy was strong. Well, the Bank of Canada today said that Canadians face losing their homes at unheard of levels if something doesn’t get better. Does that sound like we are just fine Mr. Harper? In reading comments all over the web, no one that voted Conservative cares.

Handed another majority for his efforts, he was clearly confused when he went back to work. We can tell he was confused because he came out like he was handed his desired majority. He didn’t produce any significant economic plans to help us deal with the crisis we are facing. Instead, he played partisan politics and wanted to slash financing that would cripple Her Majesty’s Opposition. We really know that no one who voted Conservative cared!

Then, trying to cling to power, the Prime Minister has parliament prorogued. The rest of us sit here on a ship who’s captained has abandoned them for one and a half months during a financial hurricane. Conservatives don’t even care.

Now, in the news today, Harper is going to go back on his promise to reform the senate in order to appoint 18 new members of the upper chamber. Why would the Conservatives care? It is only eighteen of their own being appointed against their party’s policy that will be getting paid on the public bill?

What a joke this is all turning out to be and apparently only those that Harper vilifies care.

J.