The concerned in America gather against Wall Street. The anarchists in Canada eye Bay Street. People are wary of all brands of politicians. And across Canada, families gather to be thankful.
The Canadian Thanksgiving is in the warmth of Indian Summer here in Ontario. For what we can be thankful, let us be. We are the Grinches who stole the Thanksgiving turkey from Ontario’s politicians. We are the Grinches of distrust. Yet we have little direction for our anguish.
We should be thankful that Canadians contribute so generously to food banks. In the United States they have to use food stamps and there are now over 45 million Americans receiving them.
Bet you feel all warm and fuzzy for Prime Minister Harper’s friends who he appointed to the Senate. These people are being paid a guaranteed $132,000 per year for a part-time job until they are 75 to do what Mr. Harper tells them to do. Would you like to sit one of those turkeys down at your dinner table?
It must be nice to have a guaranteed job until you are 75. If you aspire to be a supreme court judge, just have your right-wing bonafides ready for Mr. Harper to vet. By the way, he needs a new chair of the Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission who will do as told.
Just be thankful that you are not a steel worker from Hamilton. Harper let U.S. Steel buy Stelco and the steel workers got screwed. The City of Hamilton used to be in the steel business. Saskatchewan voted Conservative, so Mr. Harper refused to sell PotashCorp.
Just be thankful that you are not in the way of that huge pipeline being rammed through the heart of America to take our oil sands output down to the Texas refineries. How much do you think that oil will cost when it gets back to our gas stations?
This Thanksgiving we are thankful that we live in this beautiful country called Canada. We can only hope that over the next four years, Mr. Harper does not screw things up to the point that they are beyond repair.
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Copyright 2011 © Peter Lowry
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