There's Your Election

So, as usual, Canadians don't want an election right now. They apparently would rather just let Harper govern for the rest of his life, dragging the country further and further right as he goes.

What if the Liberals were to, oh, I don't know, stand up for themselves? Even just a wee bit?

I for one am sick unto death of these damned attack ads. They really should be illegal, especially since we are NOT in an election campaign right now. But that's not to say I wouldn't welcome a nice gutter punch from Ignatieff and crew.

Since the Conservatives are so gung-ho on attacking Ignatieff on patriotic grounds, he should perhaps start there. He could mention how Harper has expressed profound admiration for America under George W. Bush...in no less august a forum than the

spend half an hour or more outlining all the nasty things Stephen Harper has said about Canada over the years. Especially trenchant:

"Canada is a northern European welfare state in the worst sense of the term." It's a "second-tier socialist country, boasting ever more loudly about its economy and social services to mask its second world status, led by a second-world strongman appropriately suited to the task." At one point, Harper urged that "Westerners, but Albertans in particular, need to think hard about their future in this country." And, of course, "You won't recognize Canada when I get through with it."

Sure we will, Steve-O. It'll look just like the worst parts of America. We'll have America's failed policies on crime (and incidentally, they're keeping how much it'll cost us a secret.)

We'll have a country increasingly polarized and fragmented, increasingly concerned with narrower and narrower definitions of "the common good". We'll have SUN TV News (aka FOX News North) to tell us how filthy and evil the Liberals are, not to mention the commie NDP. Our social programs will slowly be starved of funding on the grounds that they're, well, socialist.

Is this your vision of Canada? It sure as hell isn't mine.

Oddly enough for an Alberta separatist, Harper is now warning of the perils of a Quebec separatist movement that is all but dead.