The economic engine of this country is oil. Love it or hate it, it is a fact. We need it to heat our homes (especially in this country of never ending winters), to run our vehicles, to make plastics of which so much of our every day lives depend on (including our beloved I-Phones). During these times of economic difficulties, oil supports the whole country, including Quebec (actually, especially Quebec) and yet Thomas Mulcair--who was elected primarily by Quebec, but is the leader of our federal government's official opposition, the man who wants to be Prime Minister, is trying to destroy Canada's oil sands industry. He is pitting the East against the West, and all for political gain, NOT for the benefit of this country. He is cutting off his nose to spite his face (I know that saying is old and tired, but it still works).
Mr. Mulcair was in Calgary recently telling people there that "the NDP will be a partner with the development of energy resources". But then he goes to Washington and talks out of the other side of his mouth by disparaging our oil industry and our government. The oil industry in Canada has made enormous gains on protecting the environment and/or restoring what they have disturbed, and yet politicians and the mainstream media continually omit that information and greatly exaggerate the harm being done. The oil was in the water up there long before anyone started developing the oil sands. It seeps right out of the ground.
Anyway, enough about Mr. Mulcair. The party he leads though, the NDP, used to represent hard-working Canadians. Now, I'm not sure what they stand for other than encouraging people to rely on the government for everything instead of taking any personal responsibility--oh, and they stand for unions. Unions also used to stand up for hard-working people, but now they seem to be more about politics than standing up for the little guy and use the money of their hard-working members to fund their own political causes without their members' consent.
Then there is our young Mr. Trudeau, soon to be leader of the federal Liberal party. I fear the young people of this country--encouraged (brainwashed, really) by the mainstream media using whatever tactics and lies it deems necessary--will want this man to be Prime Minister in 2016. If any of you are reading this, please do some research. If you are well informed on the issues and still want to vote for him, them so be it. But if you vote for him just because everyone else is, or because you like the way he looks, please think again.
I used to be one of those people that voted without knowing what I was voting for. Once I started paying attention, I was amazed at the hypocracy out there, especially by the mainstream media and Hollywood. These people have so much influence over our lives, much more than we even realize. The rich and famous like to preach to us without practicing what they preach. David Suzuki is one of those rich and famous who does very little practicing what he preaches, who flies all over the world to his various homes (Toronto, Australia, and three in BC). What kind or carbon footprint is he leaving? Then he tells us to conserve--conserve you little peons.
Environmental conservatism--which, without the lies and hypocracy, is a good thing--is definitley on the rise while political and/or fiscal conservatism seems to be going by the wayside these days. When I talk to people and find out what they agree with and what they disagree with, their views are usually much more conservative then they even realize. The media hates conservatism, they portray anyone with "old fashioned" moral values as mean, greedy and bad. It simply isn't true.
Please, please inform yourselves. Our way of life depends on it. I cannot stress that enough.
Saturday, March 16, 2013
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Double Standards of Thomas Mulcair
The double standards of Thomas Mulcair are astounding. He is condemning an evangelical Christian group called Crossroads Relief and Development because they received $389,000 from the Canadian government to help them build wells and provide clean water for people in Uganda. He says they shouldn't be receiving any funds from the government because they are "completely against" Canadian values and law by calling homosexuality a sin. Crossroads Relief doesn't condemn the people, they condemn the act. They also condemn the "activities of those who are violent towards gays".
Funny, because in Canada we are growing our very own Muslim extremists. They grow up here taking full advantage of Canadian generosity and then they go around the world killing people because of their beliefs and/or life styles (i.e. being gay or a woman with her own mind) and Mr. Mulcair says nothing against them. Aren't the actions of these extremists "completely against" Canadian values and law? But he says nothing. Instead, he picks on a group of Christians that go around the world helping people instead of killing people. Where is the logic?
Christianity is on the chopping block. People like Mr. Mulcair and so many others want it completely iradicated from our lives. The Muslims are helping them do that. Maybe that's why they are so tolerant of the extremists.
If Mr. Mulcair and the "so many others" (i.e. women's groups, mainstream media, gay activists, NDP and Liberal politicians) continue to say nothing against Muslim extremism, this extremism will get stronger and stronger. Do they really want to live in a world where sharia law is the law of the land?
All these leftist groups keep saying that living or thinking in a "conservative" way or a "Christian" way will send us back to living in the 1950's. If Muslim extremists get their way--and they are getting stronger all the time--they will send us back to living in the stone ages.
And this man wants to be Prime Minister.
Funny, because in Canada we are growing our very own Muslim extremists. They grow up here taking full advantage of Canadian generosity and then they go around the world killing people because of their beliefs and/or life styles (i.e. being gay or a woman with her own mind) and Mr. Mulcair says nothing against them. Aren't the actions of these extremists "completely against" Canadian values and law? But he says nothing. Instead, he picks on a group of Christians that go around the world helping people instead of killing people. Where is the logic?
Christianity is on the chopping block. People like Mr. Mulcair and so many others want it completely iradicated from our lives. The Muslims are helping them do that. Maybe that's why they are so tolerant of the extremists.
If Mr. Mulcair and the "so many others" (i.e. women's groups, mainstream media, gay activists, NDP and Liberal politicians) continue to say nothing against Muslim extremism, this extremism will get stronger and stronger. Do they really want to live in a world where sharia law is the law of the land?
All these leftist groups keep saying that living or thinking in a "conservative" way or a "Christian" way will send us back to living in the 1950's. If Muslim extremists get their way--and they are getting stronger all the time--they will send us back to living in the stone ages.
And this man wants to be Prime Minister.
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Blackmail By Hunger Strike
Has anyone seen Chief Theresa Spence lately? Has she lost any weight? Not very much I'm betting. She is the Chief of the Attawaspikat Indian Band in Ontario who is supposedly on a hunger strike until Prime Minister Harper meets with her. I say supposedly because she is actually on a liquid diet (fish broth, medicinal tea, and lemon water). Fish broth is very nutritious and so is lemon. This is not a hunger strike, it's a diet. When you see her on the news, they say she is weak, but she doesn't look any thinner. Anyone on a real hunger strike for three to four weeks would be a hell of a lot thinner than she is.
I'm not being sympathetic at all because it is all a sham--an attention getter to distract everyone from the fact that she has been mismanaging the funds provided to her band for years. An audit had been done by Deloitte, an independent auditor, and she has seen the results of that audit. She knew the truth was coming out and she wanted to have sympathy of the people on her side. The mainstream media, of course, is helping her do that.
After all her squandering of funds which left her people living in deplorable conditions, she still has the media writing things about her like the following paragraph from David Moscrop's column in Friday's The Globe and Mail:
"When a commitment to liberalism is mixed with a failure to empathize, we really get into trouble. We become unable to connect with a leader pushed to the brink by the systematically induced tragedy of her people, even as she puts her life on the line to remedy persistent historical injustices."
He's talking about Canadians' failure to empathize. I have no trouble empathizing with her people, they have very little choice in their circumstances. However, to keep insisting to the general public that Chief Spence is such a victim and forced to "put her life on the line" is absolutely appalling and misleading. Judging by her record, she is far to self indulgent to put her life on the line for anyone.
She is looking out for her own interests and doesn't seem to give a damn about her people, and the way some of the other chiefs and the mainstream media is helping her along by pushing her "hunger strike" story means that they also don't care about the poor people living in Attawapiskat or any other reserve.
There are definite concerns about conditions on some reserves across this country, but before any of that can change, there needs to be changes to Indian Affairs. They are letting this lack of accountability continue. Anyone receiving funds from the government should be accountable for those funds.
There also needs to be changes to the Indian Act. People living on reserve should be able to own their houses and their land. Anyone living under this Act, no matter what the colour of his skin, would likely end up the same way. If there no ownership, there is no pride.
It's a tall order to make these changes and it will take a strong person to do it. With the Chiefs fighting against it and the people on reserve afraid to speak up, and with the media who seize on any opportunity to make the Harper Government look bad, I don't have much hope that anything will change.
This blackmail by hunger strike is certainly bringing attention to Chief Spence, however, it is starting to look like the kind of attention she didn't want. The old saying still applies "Be careful what you wish for".
I'm not being sympathetic at all because it is all a sham--an attention getter to distract everyone from the fact that she has been mismanaging the funds provided to her band for years. An audit had been done by Deloitte, an independent auditor, and she has seen the results of that audit. She knew the truth was coming out and she wanted to have sympathy of the people on her side. The mainstream media, of course, is helping her do that.
After all her squandering of funds which left her people living in deplorable conditions, she still has the media writing things about her like the following paragraph from David Moscrop's column in Friday's The Globe and Mail:
"When a commitment to liberalism is mixed with a failure to empathize, we really get into trouble. We become unable to connect with a leader pushed to the brink by the systematically induced tragedy of her people, even as she puts her life on the line to remedy persistent historical injustices."
He's talking about Canadians' failure to empathize. I have no trouble empathizing with her people, they have very little choice in their circumstances. However, to keep insisting to the general public that Chief Spence is such a victim and forced to "put her life on the line" is absolutely appalling and misleading. Judging by her record, she is far to self indulgent to put her life on the line for anyone.
She is looking out for her own interests and doesn't seem to give a damn about her people, and the way some of the other chiefs and the mainstream media is helping her along by pushing her "hunger strike" story means that they also don't care about the poor people living in Attawapiskat or any other reserve.
There are definite concerns about conditions on some reserves across this country, but before any of that can change, there needs to be changes to Indian Affairs. They are letting this lack of accountability continue. Anyone receiving funds from the government should be accountable for those funds.
There also needs to be changes to the Indian Act. People living on reserve should be able to own their houses and their land. Anyone living under this Act, no matter what the colour of his skin, would likely end up the same way. If there no ownership, there is no pride.
It's a tall order to make these changes and it will take a strong person to do it. With the Chiefs fighting against it and the people on reserve afraid to speak up, and with the media who seize on any opportunity to make the Harper Government look bad, I don't have much hope that anything will change.
This blackmail by hunger strike is certainly bringing attention to Chief Spence, however, it is starting to look like the kind of attention she didn't want. The old saying still applies "Be careful what you wish for".
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