18 April 2011
The Right Hon. Stephen Joseph Harper, P.C., M.P.
Prime Minister of Canada
Langevin Building
80 Wellington Street
Ottawa ON K1A 0A6
Dear Prime Minister,
I am writing today, in the midst of what is quickly developing into the most exciting federal election this country has seen in months, to commend you for your own excellent campaign and to apologize for any slights that I or any of my fellow fiction writers might have directed against you in the past. Many of us fictionists had initially assumed that Mr. Ignatieff, as a novelist in his own right, would be our man in this election, but what your campaign has amply shown is that where fiction is concerned, the Harper Conservatives are without rivals.
Nowhere is your mastery of fiction more evident than in your decision to run on your economic record when you don’t actually have one. Smart of you to take credit for Canada’s financial stability in the current global recession when it was exactly neoconservative policies like yours that unraveled the economy south of the border, and shamefacedly socialist ones, put in place before your party even existed, that protected our own. (I don’t know if you remember, for instance, a certain Liberal decision back in 1998 to pull the plug on some major bank mergers.) Then, instead of decrying the blatantly Keynesian stimulus package your minority government was forced into passing, one that has racked up deficits not seen since the days of that notorious closet Trotskyite Brian Mulroney, you have brilliantly managed to embrace this left-wing travesty, one that betrayed every principle for which your party stands, as a triumph of neo-conservatism.
Perhaps I misspeak myself, however, when I talk about a betrayal of principle. That is to imply the existence of an actual principle to betray, and hence to overlook how deeply fiction informs every aspect of your political project. Your Keynesian flip on deficit spending, for instance—and this from a finance minister who once swore he would rather spend a month on a desert island with Jack Layton than run a deficit—takes on a Proustian elegance when seen in the light of the fiction of policy that has marked your party since its inception. We all remember your boldness in throwing out years of work on setting up a national childcare program of the sort they have in developed countries and instead offering families cash for their kiddies to let the grandparents look after them or the unlicensed pedophile down the street. “Family values,” you said, with your smile (okay, the smile still needs work), cleverly suggesting the fiction of social policy for what was actually vote-buying on a scale even Sir John A. Macdonald would have envied. And of course the great beauty of a fictional policy as opposed to a real one—a point the other parties do not seem to have cottoned onto—is that it requires absolutely no effort on the government’s part, and entails absolutely no risk. Instead, every year families send money into the government in the form of taxes, and every month the government sends a tiny bit of it back, the only cost being the massive bureaucracy required to keep all this machinery in motion.
Over the past five years you have employed strategies of this sort on every front. For vote-buying-masquerading-as-policy, nothing has beaten your GST reduction—why don’t the other parties think of these things? why are they always going on boring rants about health care and the environment and education as if these mattered more than extra cash for a new flat screen TV?—while your law and order campaign has taken fiction to heights even Dan Brown has not dreamed of, employing tax dollars you don’t have in amounts you don’t know to achieve results that are unproven against a threat that doesn’t exist.
A recent study into corporate tax cuts showed that, contrary to your party’s view, corporations tend to hoard tax savings rather than create jobs with them. Confronted with these facts, your finance minister, Mr. Flaherty, admitted they made your tax policy a “tough sell,” but said he would stick with it because corporations and the experts liked it, and, “most importantly, because it’s a confidence builder in Canada, and a way of branding Canada.” Clearly, Mr. Flaherty has studied the art of fiction at the feet of a master, showing, here, how even logic is no obstacle to the expert fictionist. Branding, indeed: I can almost feel the pleasant burn of those cuts in my flesh, along with the pride of knowing that in Canada, at least, fiction reigns, and what matters is not whether a policy works but only if people believe in it, or at least believe that they can make others believe.
Politics is nothing if not the art of making others believe. So kudos to you, Mr. Harper for sparing us in this campaign any view of the real Stephen Harper, in all his nakedness—and the mind balks at such a notion even as mere metaphor—and giving us the fictional one, infinitely more complex and convincing. In so doing you have given inspiration to all of us for whom fiction is a way of life. Let me end, then, with my own fiction, namely my hope that on May 2nd you get the majority we all believe you believe you deserve, and we can look forward to the spectacle of five more glorious years of the Harper Government (formerly known as the Government of Canada).
Sincerely,
Nino Ricci
What did you learn in school today? Sharing.
My kudos go to trish for her “learn the CPA” etc, -back in 2011 I wasn’t even the slightest bit awake about all this – tho I did know about the system Mary Croft described, who contrived it, who runs it, etc. At this point I want to tell M. Ricci that he’s not yet cottoned onto the “2 wolves and sheep…” scenario. In Canada because we also have NDP, Green, BQ etc there’s not 2 wolves there’s at least 5.
Politics is a charade for the benefit of the dumbed down electorate who actuallly think their vote makes a difference / means something / effects change, or whatever. The fact remains they’re still sheep and the wolves continue to devour them.
The election is over. and the conservatives have their majority, we will now see the real Harper’s agenda. Within 5 years we will have a bigger deficit and you will wonder what ever happened to our country.
All voting is crap. Please do not allow your vote to speak for me as I am the sheep in the “2 wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for supper “Thereore, learn the bank act and CANADIAN PAYMENTS ASSOCIATION
Rule H6 which states that any bill or statement with a “96” code on it, usually on the bottom, means that your utility bills and credit bills are all PRE-PAID because it is an “on-us: account which i will post at the end. learn about the fictional judicial system and the fictional taxation system with its “voluntary compliance” what an oxy moron. Read real stories like HOW I CLOBBERED EVERY BEURAUCRATIC CASH-CONFISCATORY AGENCY KNOWN TO MAN. then check out http://www.the7thfire.com explaining the phony banking system. Anyway, here is the act about code 96 the “on-us” account. please read it and look for the words “on-us”
RULE H6
RULES PERTAINING TO THE INTER FINANCIAL
INSTITUTION EXCHANGE OF BILL PAYMENT REMITTANCES
FOR THE PURPOSE OF CLEARING AND SETTLEMENT
2.2 MICR ENCODING ON REMITTANCES
Detailed diagrams of the placement of information to appear in the MICR reserved area appear in
Appendices I and II of Part II of this Rule. All specifications contained in CPA Standard 006
remain applicable; however layout changes are as follows:
(a) Amount Field: Character positions 11-2 inclusive shall be reserved for
the Remittance Amount.
(b) On-Us Field:
i) Transaction Code Section: Code 96, to indicate it is a Remittance, shall be
located anywhere within the four positions of the
Transaction Code Section. The remaining two
positions shall be blank.
I really loved your letter and wish that every Canadian had a chance to read it. I believe Stephen Harper is a spin doctor and he is unwilling to honestly answer any question put to him. I am disappointed that the Liberals and NDP’s have not pushed him on the point of contempt of Parliament – the first ever to occur in our country. Harper keeps saying that the opposition brought about this election yet we all know that the “CONTEMPT OF PARLIAMENT” by Harper is what brought the house down. The most outrageous moment was when Harper and his conservatives were shown to be cheering, clapping and shouting in happiness when the government was brought down. I was ashamed to be a Canadian when the world was seeing our disgrace being celebrated by Harper and his cohorts. I truly do not understand how Harper can show his face in public, let along running for a majority. He should we ashamed of his behaviour – instead he refuses to answer to the people of Canada. I believe that if he gets in power again the distance between the rich and the poor will be even worse that it is now. Under him the corporations keep getting richer and the average Canadian gets more sunk in poverty. Please, please vote, don’t spoil your ballot to send a message as all that happens is a nonvote counted for Harper.
Harper is twin to dumb Bush. Remember Harper wanted to deregulate the Banking system in Canada. Why has Flaherty hired Goldman Sachs employees to work in a Government of Canada Department?
Your purpose is to…….show a smug, intellectual superiority to those who actually do something instead of pontificate and criticize ?
why is nobody talking about the fact that anyone that the Illuminati wants voted in, will be voted in. You can all vote, but it’s a mute point. Of course Harper sucks and doesn’t have our best interests in mind, and neither will the next prime minister. Voting is a guise.
Absolutely Nino … so why can’t the majority of Canadians realize this.
the most telling indictment, for me, of the past 5 years of how the rest of the world views the ‘harper government’ is the choice of portugal, a failing state, over canada for a place on the security council of the u.n. shame on us on how far we have fallen in world stature in such a short period of time.
EXCELLENT … RIGHT ON … I WISH I HAD WRITTEN IT MYSELF
Loki:
Someone doesn’t hold the same opinion as you, so it’s drivel? And they’re a paid poly flake? This is your idea of a healthy debate?
For your information, I work in the non-profit industry, raising money for charitable groups underfunded by various governments, provincial and federal, for decades.
And I pay attention to the world around me, not just the parts I agree with.
Mr. Ricci,
Thank you for this brilliant letter!
We as Canadians need to rise up and make a stand.
This letter highlights the years of nonsense that we continually put up with and unfortunately have learned to tolerate.
As Canadian, we need to make politicians accountable for their actions…Mr. Harper is a prime example of someone a “leader” for himself and NOT for the people.
Thank you again.
D
Well put and well done. Where politically astute fictionists are concerned, you are without rival.
Brilliant analysis and satire! Maybe a political novel in the making?…
By the way Jess – based on your post I would hazard a guess that you are a paid poly flake. Go ahead and deny – but I don’t think anyone will believe you.
I fear that such literary metaphor is lost on a man who admits that his favorite book is The Guiness Book of Word Records.
And you know what – before you whiners from Quebec can chime in, get lost! I say it is time for the rest of Canada to have a vote and decide if we actually want you in this country any longer. I say that if we can have a say (and we should absolutely have the right) – most of us would say goodbye to your divisive politics and your constant “me, me, me” crap. We need people who want to build a great country – not people who hold the rest of the country up for ransom to see what they can get for themselves. If Canada has treated you so badly, and your future is so much better without us (see how you do with French Language protection without a country of 34 million to assist you) – get the hell out. But to be certain – we will take back all the lands that were given to Quebec as part of joining the Confederation. My vote is “Be gone”. And take the party of treason (the Blockheads) with you.
Jess – boo hoo hoo. What the hell is your point? Talk about drivel.
Sean and TACP – excellent comments.
Let’s face it Canada – this is all about big government that takes care of you cradle to grave and will ultimately take more than 50 cents of every dollar you earn or bankrupt the country if they don’t – or governement that tries to live within our means and take care of the carefully selected things that are most necessary in which to have government involved. It’s time for Canadians to make a choice and I say less government is better. Get out of charity – get out of my pocket as much as possible. Let me as an individual decide the most worthwhile places to spend my hard-earned dollars. As far as I am concerned – the Liberals and NDP would rather make those choices for me. And the Bloq? Screw off and separate if that is what will finally make you all shut up. We need only willing participants in Canada who want to make this a great country – not those who only care about their province and some silly sense of another nation outside of Canada.
We were governed for most of the last 111 years by Liberal administrations, with CCFers and New Democrats showing the way forward. And we have become, according to Mr. Harper, one of the most admired nations of the world. Why haven’t the media connected the dots? Almost one hundred years of Liberal administrations should surely have driven us into bankruptcy long, long ago.
Now I know why I have liked reading Nino’s novels. Clearly he recognizes fiction, whether it is put on the page, read from it, or issues from the directives of political ‘leaders’. Voting anything but Conservative is a way to guarantee you will never have to say you’re sorry. Or Tory. I talked personally to the late Martin Esslin (‘Theater Of The Absurd’) shortly after he published a book about (the also late) Harold Pinter (‘The Many-Peopled Wound’). I liked the title of the latter, but not the book itself. It seems to me that what we take for political process is frequently just a machine for creating ‘many-people wounds’. Thanks for the open letter, Mr. Ricci.
Dear Mr. Ricci,
Thank you for your brilliant letter. I beg to differ with several of the previous people who reduce this election to a fight between left and right. Robert Stanfield or Joe Clark never treated Parliament with such contempt as Harper did. He schemes, lies and dissimulates and, unfortunately, Canadians let him get away with it!
All of you who are saying “we raised kids for years without a national childcare program” are forgetting one important fact: The current generation raising children is the most mobile IN HISTORY. Your generation may have raised your kids within arm’s reach of your parents, but a majority of the current young people with kids don’t live near their parents.
I’m an Anglo from Montreal. Based on the Facebook polls of where we all ended up, more than 60 per cent of my high school graduating class moved to Toronto or further west (with only a handful in the U.S.) Our parents are still in Montreal. That’s 120 people in their 30s, most of whom with kids, who are between 600 and 3,000km away from these grandparents you think should be raising their kids.
We’re not the only ones who’ve moved around. Take a poll in Vancouver, Toronto or even cities like Edmonton and Calgary, which have seen 20 per cent population growth in the last 10 years. The number of working parents with no relatives in the same time-zone is a lot higher than you realize.
Outstanding letter Nino, once again the elite Toronto Liberals have shown us, the Neanderthal common folks, the way forward. Nice to see that between laities and aroma therapy you had time to squeeze us in.
Yes, the Conservatives have racked up some bills I agree, but after years of Liberal neglect and mismanagement, not to mention outright theft of tax payer’s money with the ad scandal, some spending needed to be done. The Conservatives will get the money back thanks to their economic policies that will generate billions in tax revenues in years to come.
Betrayal of principle, at least the Conservatives stand for something, choose a side and stick to it, unlike our Liberal friends (yes friends, because after all we are all Canadian are we not?) whose values and priorities change with the winds.
The Conservatives seem to trust the rank and file Canadians; they want to lower taxes and allow us to decide our own childcare needs. Boldness in throwing out a national childcare program, yes, because more socialism, just what our wallets need. You see Nino, grandma can be an excellent babysitter and entrepreneurs can take the initiative and open daycare businesses and fill a need where it arises, that is the pioneer sprit that built this country. Offering to take care of everyone’s children at tax expense is not vote buying, no not at all. As for the “pedophile down the street”, well if it were not for lenient get out of jail free laws adopted but past Liberal governments they would be in prison for life where they belong. Remember, the prisons that the downtown Vancouver, Montreal and Toronto espresso and mocha laities crowd have determined we do not need!
Cash for a new flat screen TV? What you and other “we know what’s best for everyone Liberals” do not seem to understand is that it is NOT your money. You did not earn it, you did not work for it, but you seem to think it’s your omnipotent right to take it from those of us who have earned it and spend it on social programs designed to make the public dependant on the Liberal Party.
The Harper Government? I remember in the nineties it was the Chretien Government, then the Martin Government, before that the Mulroney Government and in the happy days or yore, the Trudeau Government.
I am a pickup truck driving, Tim Horton’s coffee drinking man with a career that has put his life on the line for this country. I do not mind paying some taxes for things this country needs, healthcare, police, fire, the military, courts, roads and infrastructure. A Harper majority will not be that bad, the Americans survived Bush, Steve is not in his league.
TACP, we are low income small farmers living in Alberta adn yes, we were once Conservatives. But as a rank and file Canadian I don’t feel the least bit trusted by the Conservatives. People who trust me don’t rely on misinformation to get my vote. I am genuinely, deeply upset by the new, low level reached by this government. The Prime Minister’s Office has been slowly growing in power ever since the days of Trudeau. Under harper the growth has been phenomenal. He has given himself more power than the president of the United States. If he wants a certain person on cabinet he assigns that person, and the individual doesn’t neceassarily have to have been elected by the people. (Is that trusting us?) He appinted Bruce Carson, a convicted fraudster, to work in the PMO claiming that he didn’t know about his record. Come on! People aren’t screened before working in the highest office of the land? After insisting that he would only appoint elected sentors he appointed a ecord number of his own people, with, once again, two of them facing fraud charges. He has encouraged his people to present reports to make the government look good no matter what that takes. Hence in a dissenting report on the G8/G20 they include a laudatory statement about their spending from the auditor general Sheila Fraser. Except, as she pointed out in her very blistering letter to the committee, it was a quote from an interview in 2010 in which she had praised the Liberal government for their spending on security following the 9/11 attacks. It was sleazy and dishonest. What about Bev Oda slipping one little three-letter word into the report she handed to Parliament – the word “not?” Rather dramatically changes the meaning.
All of this fits with the worst crime of all. It took hundred of years for us to achieve solid parliamentary democracy, beginning way back in 1215. Never has a government been found in contempt of parliament. This isn’t just opposition squabbling. It had to start with an investigation by Peter Milliken, the Speaker of the House. It was a multi-step process and the finding, the result is one of the most frightening things that could happen in a democracy. What’s even more frightening to me is that so large a number of Canadians are prepared to ignore this assault on our democracy and the horrifying lack of ethics to which we have been subjected. Does someone who ies to me trust me? Not really. and I certainly don’t trust him!
TACP. Many jurisdictions are known by a monicker. When they issue an edict that official correspondence must indicate that it comes from the emperor’s pen, it becomes official and it is wrong. See my website http://www.theharpergovernment.com.
Yes, every government has malfeasance. This one hides it despite the vow to be the most transparent. In an odd way, that is the most evil lie of them all. From a reformer dedicated to minimizing spending, he spends on things the country (you and I) don’t believe in and then hides it.
White cats/black cats yes. But my cat crusher is trained and so can they. This election is a turning point. Don’t give this amoral chess master a majority. We will cease to be Canadians at that moment.
A little over the top in one or two points but otherwise this letter is an absolutely accurate description of the unfit PM of canada and his poor leadership. There is nothing Harper has done that shows me he can manage the economy or help ordinary canadians in any way. No vote from me.
Thank you, Nino. Well said.
Edward Fenner
Publisher
Existere
All we have here, as we do in every election, is a fight of ideas between the left and the right. Both sides have some good ideas, and both sides have their nut cases. The left hates the right and the right can’t stand the left. You never heard a left winger saying anything positive about the right or the right about the left. This is the same tired crap that goes on in every democracy around the world, nothing new here. As for the whole fiction thing, I guess that depends on what side of the political spectrum your on.
I like Harper, actually met him and spent some time talking with him. Even with a majority government, and I hope he gets one, he is not king. He has no interest in destroying healthcare, going after gays or abortion. The left is using those issues to scare people just as the Tories use other issues to do the same. He’s not going to round people up and send them off to camps, get real!
I like his policies, I like his leadership. The PM is supposed to be incharge, supposed to make the hard decisions, that’s what they do! He is not my pal or my fishing and beer buddy. I like the fact he is thinking big! For far to long Canadians have been told to think small, have low expectations. Canada is a great country and I believe he wants us to be a world power, to be a great nation, not just a socialist nanny state “also ran”.
I like the fact he wants to stay out of provincial affairs, stop funding the arts, and get rid of these Liberal programs that suck money out of our wallets. We have been a nation since 1867, raised millions of children over the years and now we suddenly need National Childcare Plan? Just another reason to raise taxes, create another federal government department with a big fancy building in Ottawa full of overpaid unionized federal employees that produce nothing! How about we reduce taxes, give people their money back in order to afford their own daycare, or even better, one parent can stay home and raise the kids like we used to because the other parent is working and not being robbed on payday by the government? Then maybe mom and dad could even afford a night out at the ballet and the arts could sustain themselves! Why does everything in the country have to be solved by some governmet program?
As for corporations, they don’t pay taxes folks, they never have. They pass that cost onto you and I everytime we buy their products, you know the ones we all have and can’t live without! We pay their taxes!
This is as good as Margaret Attwood’s piece on Harper as vacuum cleaner salesman; but what can be expected from a person with his name but harping
Eloquent? Yes, I will grant you that. Full of fiction? Also yes. “…to the unlicensed pedophiles down the street” is beneath even the most crass Liberal party member. And that study you quote about corporations not creating jobs, but rather hoarding tax cuts. Care to discuss the acknowledged flaws in that study including the blatant ignoring of companies that choose to locate here (including Head Offices) because of those tax reductions? Careful – your bias is showing and it looks a bit like an ass.
This “letter” is indulgent and full of comma splices. Vote Conservative :))
Not sure what you mean… There are no comma splices in this letter.
I feel this “letter” is incredibly indulgent and filled with comma splices. Vote Conservative 🙂
Well put Nino Ricci! We need more eloquent truth tellers. The child care boondoggle was especially egregious. I find it ironic that so many evangelical Christians apparently support right wing politics. Jesus would not be amused.
In the kingdom of the blind, the one brain celled politician is king.
Whilst I agree with you I feel you’re missing the point Nino. Are there any other politicians in Canada that you’d buy a used car/fiscal policy from? No. Are there any leaders? No. Is there anyone prepared to do what is necessary to improve the country despite the fact that some people (business in particular) may not like it? No.
Is there any real point in voting in Canada right now? Not really, no.
Out with the bland, the mundane, the reserved and the safe. Out with those who deem Canada as currently being perfect and in no need of change. “Working to keep Canada the same”? I nearly puked on my shoes when I saw the tory commercial on TV. If you want better leaders, then you need a nationwide cultural change that begins to champion those prepared to do what needs to be done, rather than those who champion doing their best not to upset anyone.
Yes, there is one such leader: Elizabeth May. Get to know her and her views. Well worth it! Ex. plz see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xbeInYhi8Y&feature=youtu.be
The real travesty, in my view, in this as in almost every Canadian election in the past 20 years since I immigrated to this country is that all political parties present on Parliament Hill seem to have successfully put in huge efforts and improved on their capabilities as fictionists !! The only choices we are left with is which decision amounts to the lesser of the evils set before us. And it’s and it’s a crap shoot as to who best represents that choice.
If it weren’t loaded with such serious implications, the whole thing would be comical. I happened to arrive in Ottawa on business when the news broke that a no confidence motion and consequently a spring election was virtually inevitable. And needing to have dinner somewhere I stepped into a pub around 6.00 pm. There were several big screen TV’s showing a variety of hockey games…not one had any news broadcasts on – and the clincher was the name of the pub: Sir John A. McDonald.
This, I believe, is indicative of the credibility the general population attaches to the monkeys on Parliament Hill, of what the voter turnout will be like and why the monkey business will continue…
– Harald Seidler
Harald – I hear you; but there is a growing voice in the wilderness, and last election, 941,000 Canadians raised their voice and placed their vote: for the Green Party of Canada – fiscally conservative, socially progressive and focused on bringing a new tone to Parliament Hill. Example from a debate a few days ago – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xbeInYhi8Y&feature=youtu.be (& turn up the volume).
The problem with elections being a ‘crap shoot’ is that there seems to be an excess of ‘crap’ and very little powder to shoot with.
I believe that there ARE people in Canada that care about this country and its directions, and who would be capable of leading it into the future we deserve. In my way, I am trying to do that on a local scale.
However, perhaps I am only selling myself fiction, by believing that Canadians WANT a future…
I’m so sick of Stephen Harper. What does the Conservative Party have to do to lose voters? The fact is, they could get away with just about anything because conservative supporters know that the Conservative Party is the only one that will actively remove rights of women through criminalizing abortion and removing the rights and freedoms of the LGBT community by opening up the marriage debate. Why else does Harper have to tell us those aren’t “priorities”? To grab anyone on the fence that’s why. Read the comment by Stephen MacLeod above, how long until HE (YA a MAN) mentioned abortion?! Full disclosure, I’m a man, and NO abortion is not a decision I’ll ever be directly confronted with but I fully understand it should forever remain a right for a WOMAN to choose. I also happen to be straight and believe my gay and lesbian friends should forever have the right to marry. These issues do not effect my daily life but those around me. Certainly no conservative supporting (presumably straight) man should have any say about abortion or LGBT rights. Stephen Harper and MacLeod, get a life! (one that doesn’t harm mine or my friends)
I’m glad you are keeping with the theme of this post regarding fiction.
And if you want to know why you beloved Liberals are stagnant in the polls take a gander at this:
http://www.primetimecrime.com/Recent/Investigative/Sponsorship%20Scandal.htm
WHen they finally come clean and pay back the 40 million or so that is still missing and purge themselves of everyone that was connected to this, then maybe Canadians will give them another chance.
I am a conservative supporting straight man and I do have a say, this is a democracy! I also have a say if I am the man who got her pregnant, or she is my daughter! I have no issues with abortion, a womans right to make an informed decision and choose, but when used it in excess, I know girl whose had 9, we are off the rails!!
Brilliant, just brilliant, Mr. Ricci!
You’re right on the money Nino. Can’t believe people can be misled so completely.
Dear Sir
I was sent your letter. It certainly is barbed with a some kind of poison. I am not sure where the bitterness comes from but it made me draw back from your conclusions.
The only party I can vote for is Mr. Harpers’ Even though I do not embrace every thing he does and would question some of his views yet I have met him a few times. Is his ideaology as offensive as some people found Pierre Trudeau. My parents always voted Liberal yet in 1968 they changed and never went back. The voted conservative and then even Reform yet some of those liberal ideals that I was raised with still shape my life.
I still remember Jean Chretien bragging about stopping pregnancy in the 9th month. It chills me to the bone. Even Morgentaler had more care with his words.
Politics is strange bedmate. I say this to point out it’s fickle nature. It can be for you or against you but it does not care. It can claim to be a brother or sister of your faith then commit an astonishing sin. Politics can lead us to power but power is like that invisible blanket that can smother all our good intentions and if we could see how the change occurs we might try to say stop but usually we do not.
I hope you find some peace in your life. I hope you are also very wrong about a Harper majority. Perhaps he will be overruled and we will once again have a house of commons that seems do little but fight with bitterness and slander it’s way forward.
Let’s hope the Harper Government is fiction! We should all read The High Road by Terry Fallis as well as this brilliant piece by Nino Ricci, who obviously deserves accolades from all Canadians for his insightful works of fiction and biography.
PLEASE do whatever you can to get this letter to the media and out to everyone!