Not one single farmer or hunter ever crossed their mind, except to solicit funds or votes. NRA! NRA! NRA!
The neocons turned down an NDP amendment to at least force registration of sniper rifles, but the heartless SOBs said NO! It didn't help that the NDP put the wrong gun on their advertising leading up to the motion.
I think this will hurt them in Quebec, especially since one of those presenting the amendment, NDP MP Nathan Cullen, had voted in the past to end the registry. The Bloc are already regaining ground (NDP 37, Bloc 27) and Quebecers are very passionate about this issue.
In other news, it would appear that Harper lied about directing public servants to remove 'Canada' from government parlance and replace it with 'Harper'.
And the Liberals are rising in the polls.
Several recent polls have suggested the Liberals have rebounded as much as 10 points since their election drubbing, pulling even or even slightly ahead of the NDP, which supplanted the Liberals as official Opposition.That last election was a fluke, but a fluke that we're all paying for.
Our only hope for the next four years is the "Occupy" movement and we need to get behind it.
You're right, the only hope is the occupy movement. I've heard some say that we don't have things economically bad enough as the US so the movement makes no sense. But they completely miss the boat on what the big picture is about. It's not just job losses and foreclosures, it's the fact that 99% of the people are not being represented AT ALL.
ReplyDeleteExactly. Besides, our economy is not as rosy as we are being led to believe nor are Canadians living so well. We are the country with the highest personal debt to income ratio, with the average being 150%
ReplyDeleteMany families are barely scraping by, living paycheque to paycheque, working to pay off that debt.