Canadian Politics: Not a Love Story

[muccamukk]

So I just got this e-mail from one of my action groups, and I felt my heart clench in my chest. I'm just feeling like there's too many things going wrong all at once.

I guess it's just the budget coming up, with all the cuts in all the places, but even with out that there's all that awful new crime legislation with minimum sentencing and more prisons, and the anti-net privacy laws (because the RCMP needs more power), attacks on unions (provincially and federally), and the attacks against funding environmental groups. They even want to change our national animal from the majestic beaver to the fucking polar bear, which won't even be a species very long if this environmental policy (or constant stripping down there of) continues as it is.

So, fish ecosystems. Okay, I can do fish ecosystems, and protesting the fucking pipeline to poison our water and ship tar sands to China. I can do writing letters in defence of the CBC (I don't think I am actually capable of imagining Canada without CBC Radio One).

I just... they're a majority government, and they don't listen. I pray and pray that they'll listen, but they're killing my country around me, and they're not listening, and for what?

I get so tired of this shit sometimes.

I know I should just pick a few topics (and the above list is a very limited one) and focus on them, though not pin my hopes on them because majority government that doesn't listen, but man, it's just so depressing.

Noting that the news from south of the border is frequently worse doesn't help.

Comments

[derryderrydown]

I swear, every country is just swinging further and further to the right. In Britain, we've got the Conservatives privatising the National Health Service - and talking about privatising the police. And, as you say, they just don't listen.

Quite

[jazzypom]

In Britain, we've got the Conservatives privatising the National Health Service - and talking about privatising the police. And, as you say, they just don't listen.

I just can't see how any good will come out of those ideas - and the Lib Dems just rolling over and playing dead, yet saying things along the lines of, "If it weren't for us, the Tories would be worse."

Jeez.

Soon they'll be bearing down on birth control, next.

[nenya_kanadka]

D: D: D:

I don't know which is the worst, honestly, and that's probably the point. We shouldn't have to be fighting on all these fronts at once, dammit. Harper, stop fucking up the country I came home to because the US was too Tea Party, okay? My country, stop fucking with it.

(And I know it's not just the one guy in charge, it's the zeitgeist and enough other people agreeing with him to make the changes happen, but argh.)

*cuddles you in a big ol' gay way*

[surexit]

I feel the same about my country. ♥