Re: RE: Why you hate the Conservatives and what is it about
LeftCoast said:
If Stephen Harpo had been Prime Minister for the last 4 years:
1. Canadian Troops would be deployed right now in Iraq fighting George Bush's stupid war or Islam.
Kind of. The "coalition of the willing" didn't actually fight in the war. The coalition sent troops after the war to maintain the peace in the nation.
2. Canada would have never reatified the Kyoto Protocol, rather right wing nut jobs from Alberta who continue to deny the fact of global warming (and that the earth is older than 6000 years) would be formulating Canada's climate change policies.
Global warming is not what Kyoto Protocal and David Suzuki think it is. The old idea was that pollution created global warming. Then a bunch of scientists had a new line of thought, hrm... how do we explain the ice age and the heating of the earth at that time?
Global warming is a natural process and has been going on for the last 6,000 years. What the Conservatives set instead of the Kyoto Accord is emissions reductions as a part of "Millennium Goals."
3. We would now be spending billions of dollars to assist the Americans in deployment of their Balistic Missile Defense system. Considering that the last big attack on the continent of North America was carried out with box cutters and flight manuals this seems at best a waste and at worst a destabilizing escallation in the militarization of space.
NORAD Missile Defence is a land based missile program. The program is based on the PATRIOT missile which was designed to knock nuclear weapons out of the sky, but is currently used to knock SCUD missiles out of the sky... they work.
Secondly, the Americans offered to pay ALL of the expenses of this defence program.
4. Stephen Harpo would have passed a civil union act to deny gays the right to marry but allow civil unions (an area of provincial jurisdiction BTW). This new law would be unconstitutional and would be sure to be struck down by the Supreme Court - putting Harpo and the CPC on the path to passing an equivalent to the current bill C-38 definition of marriage act.
What the hell are you talking about? MARRIAGE is provincial jurisdiction. The big controversy now is that gays get married in New Brunswick and when they head to Alberta they're suddenly not married. Marriage is provincial, just like civil unions. The Federal Government has NEVER had any obligation to EVER pass any legislation on ANY kind of gay marriage legislation, that has ALWAYS been in the hands of the provinces. Now 9/10 provinces have legislated it and 1/3 territories has legislated it. Harper would have had in no way to legislate marriage into federal politics.
And another thing, even if Federal Government legislated gay marriage, because it IS provincial jurisdiction Alberta only has to perform gay marriages, they do not have to recognize them.
The reason why most people hate Conservatives is because of a lot of hate literatures and demonizing. The second-man in the new Conservative Party is a Blue Tory, the front runner is a Reformer. IF the religious right was ruling this party there would be no civil unions. If the Reformers truly took over the party they would be vouching for Albertan separation (they haven't even mentioned the word "separation" unless it was in regard to the Bloc).
The thing I hate most about Canadians today is that they hate the Conservatives because they are bigots and they only choose the Liberals because they're not Conservatives. I mean they could have gone to the NDP if they really cared. But they would rather have a government that secretly steals from them every day than any kind of responsible different government.
