ssflamingo

falling leaf. you say these are all political lies about harper. i hate to be blunt but, can you prove this? i would genuinely like to know. i would like these things to be disproven because if they are true and he gets elected then i am terrified of what canada's future might be.

First of all, anything that is not my own original content is in quotations. Second, i have never in my life heard of nor been to blogcanada.com. Third, the content which IS quoted was taken from a university graduate department list-serv and was credited to a Jillian Skeet, whoever that may be.

I received the following email from a graduate school list serv. The text is attributed to Jillian Skeet. Anyway, it reads as follows: "On June 28, 2004, Canadians face a starker choice than in any election in our lifetimes. Dissatisfaction with the years of Liberal government is driving voters toward the "Conservative Party" and its new and telegenic leader, Stephen Harper. With only weeks to go until election day, we fear many members of the public will not have time to adequately assess the sharp and clear differences between the major parties. In fact, the "Conservative Party" is not a known and trusted alternative. The Right Honourable Joe Clark, former Prime Minister and a life-long member of the Progressive Conservative Party, made this clear when he urged the Canadian public to choose Paul Martin over Harper. The Harper agenda scares him. Many leading former Progressive Conservatives feel the same. The party Harper leads has little in common with the former Progressive Conservative Party. But there is a way that Canadians can learn more about Harper's mysterious party: We can look South, to George Bush and the U.S. Republican Party. Like the Bush Republicans, the Harper Conservatives would take Canada into dangerous territory: - Bush and Harper favour Canadian involvement in the illegal U.S. attack on Iraq. - Bush and Harper would take Canada to deficits in order to pour billions into the military. Bush has already taken the U.S. into trillions of dollars of debt to fund militarism. - Bush and Harper deny the reality of climate change and the threat to the whole planet, and especially Canada, from our continued reliance on fossil fuels. - Bush and Harper reject the Kyoto Protocol. Harper has said he would not implement this international treaty which Canada has already ratified. - Bush and Harper would change the protection of human rights enshrined in our respective Bill of Rights and Charter of Rights. Harper has said he would use the notwithstanding clause to prevent the equal application of the marriage laws as they effect single-sex couples. - Bush and Harper would challenge a woman's right to choose. Harper has said he would allow the issue of access to legal abortions to be re-opened through an open vote in the House of Commons. - Bush was responsible for more executions than any other U.S. Governor of recent times. Harper has suggested the prohibition of capital punishment would be re-opened in Canada. We must not sleep walk into electing a Canadian version of George W. Bush. Challenge Stephen Harper on these positions. Harper tells Canadians we should "Demand Better." First, Canadians must "Demand the truth" about the new Canadian Republican Party, masquerading as the Conservative Party of Canada. We do not have much time." i feel the need to add some thoughts on this. i find that the comparisson between bush and harper is a bit condescending/insulting. yes, i understand why it is done. yes, in understand that bush is the most visible symbol of political evil. fine. however, i think that in drawing the comparissons, which smacks of dick and jane book rhetoric to me, there is the (perhaps) unconscious implication that we (the voters) aren't smart enough to realize that these things harper has said are bad and are reasons we shouldn't vote for him. we need to be told that bush has also said them to ensure that we understand their gravity. personally, i'd still be opposed to someone who was pro-death penalty, anti-abortion, pro-iraq, and anti-gay rights regardless of bush's position on these issues.